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I currently have an EIDE hard drive installed with XP on it. I just bought an an xtra hd for more storage and was told I could get a serial Ata. I didnt realize there were differences and now I noticed when going to install it the xtra connector off …

[i]Questions merged into single thread - [b]Daniweb Mods[/b][/i] 1. I have the amd 64 2800+ with a gigabyte GA-K8NS pro mobod. CPU overclockin MHz. Should I leave this alone? Or can I increase it slightly without any ill effects? AGP overclock goes from 66-100 mhz. What is your opion there? …

Well, I bought a used presario 700 laptop about 2 months ago. The owner is a friend who told me that it was not the best computer but I wasn't really thinking of using it for much more than taking notes. Anyway- i realized that the battery didn't hold much …

hello everybody I am thinking of building a pc and have some silly questions. On some of the better mother boards, there are jacks for an eight channel speaker system. I can't find anyone on the internet who seems to sell the speakers for these boards. there are six audio …

Hey. Just got a artic freezer 7 and i am very confused about a few things. this is my first time with a custom CPU cooling system. plz bare with me as i do have a far bit of info. When i start my system and check temp in BIOS …

Hi all wonder if anyone can tell me if my 512mb ddr400 pc3200 ram (elixir) is compatable with my infinity 865pe mobo. Many thanks Pike

Hi everyone, My laptop (a Compaq Presario 700) is about to die, i think it only has a few weeks of life left in it, apparently due to bad clusters on the hard drive. Anyway, I love a project, so I hope somebody can help me. I would like to …

I have a ze4430us laptop I purchased last year that doesn't work anymore, and was wondering how I go about converting the monitor to a basic desktop monitor. I've read that I need a controller or something to that matter, but have no idea which to get or what I'm …

Hello Guys and Gals .I trying to install a new never used 52x CDRW in a older P166 with 64 megs of Simm ram and a Asus Motherboard ,Problem begins when i put a cd in the Drive ,it sees all files as Audio files .Nero ,doesent see it as …

I'm currently looking into buying an AMD processor and i want it to be equivalent to a P4 Intel 3.2GHz-3.4Ghz. What AMD Athlon 64 processor would be equivalent ? Price doesn't matter... preferably a Socket 939 + 1MB L2 CPU Thanks in Advance Rob

I am wanting to put a 512mb pc133 sdram stick in my comp. When i look them up to buy online, they have high density and low density. I need to know which i need, i will give you some specifications of my computer. Its and asus model, series CUW-AM. …

I have purchased a mitsumi floppy and 7/1 reader combo. It takes the normal floppy cable but it also requires an internal usb connection which my board has two but I need one for two front usbs and two back usbs besides the built in ones I have. I hate …

I bought a case with a system fan already in place. It has the power connector but my motherboard has a system fan connector. My fan has a large connector and my mobod has a small one. This connector allows you to link with the cooling fan on the system …

On the hdd led, reset swith, soft power connector, is the white or the colored wire negative?

[FONT=Arial]Won't connect to internet[/FONT][FONT=Arial]undefined[/FONT] Screen says, "trying to retrieve Yahoo buttons". Cable connectors ok. Is this an internal fault in computer? Thanks.

I came across through memory clock,cpu clock ,gpu clock,warp clock in the computer . Who could elaborate for me about this clocks,what is their main work ,or where in the web can I can I get good material about this? thanx in advance.

I finally decided to build my own computer but have a question. I thought you just put in a new hard drive and installed the os. The seagate hdd that I want to buy has a discwizard starter edition disc. Do I really need this to get started or can …

Anyone know where I can find a Pentium 3.0 GHz 800 FSB 1MB Cache socket 478 processor for a reasonable price, I have been trying ebay with no luck so far.

Its crazy, my cdrw/dvd will not read burned cd's. It will read originals but if I burn a cd with it or any other burner it will not read it. Cds burned with this burner can be read by other CD-Roms but when I put the disk back into the …

I am thinking about purchasing a new hard drive, I have a HP pavilion with an ASUS CUW-AM mobo. Now im not sure what the difference is between SATA, IDE, RAID etc. which one should I choose? and is there any thing else I should take into consideration before buying …

Friends 120gb hdd had 229 viruses. was running Win Xp. AVG finally removed all but left WinXP unusable. Formatted hdd. But now cannot get win Xp reinstalled. Message on several attempts was "missing or corrupt file "\windows\system32\config\system" when trying to boot on new install. Formated the c: partition after each …

as the title says i recently purchased a new motherboard, an Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe infact. the instlation went without a problem, but before windows loads i get a blue screen of death. I dont know what is causing this and i dont think i can even reformat because i dont think …

Hi All. For my new motherboard I was looking to buy a Pentium 2.8-3.2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache. I was just wondering if I would notice a big difference if I went with a processor that only had a 512KB cache instead of 1MB? Also, I will …

well i posted up a thread before about the cables well ill post one up again except ill try to reword it because i was tired when it was posted. I was wondering if its safe to connect pieces of hardware to any 4 pin connector. Because it seems that …

well guys I finally have my pc finished, it is an extreme gamer pc IMO. amd 64 3400+ 2048Mb PC3200 Ram 200Gb SATA/150 HDD 160 ATA/133 HDD (stores my random stuff) 6800GT BFG OCed (comes oced) 520watt Aspire Turbo P/S DFI LANPARTY Nforce 3 250Gb mobo. Lite-On 8x dvd burner …

Heres my question, I have an emachines w2646 with 256 ram in it, and I want to upgrade to 512 or better. The local Staples doesnt carry the type I need, but do I have to go thru Emachines.com to buy it or can I buy some from Tigerdirect or …

I have a thinkpad 600e that I use for travel. I need to have constant power to it so I tried to keep the power switch engaged (this works on older laptops) so that when power goes out the system automatically reboots when power returns. However, on the 600e and …

ok i currently have a: P4 2.8Ghz HT processor p4s800 mobo 120gb hd 512mb ram samsung dvd writer my power supply is an omni 400w 256mb ati 9600 video card. now im planning to add 512mb more memory and another 200gb hd. do i need to upgrade power supply or …

I have an old compaq deskpro Short Form Factor. I don't know if anyone is familiar with this model or not. Anyways it contains a Pentium III SECC2 processor. This is the model of the Pentium processsor that is built on the card and it slides into a slot on …

I have recieved all the components to my computer. Is there amything i need to know before i jump into this project.:?:

Hi folks! I'm a techie amatuer who needs help! :rolleyes: Upon booting, CHKDSK comes on, staing HD needs to be checked for consistency. However, CHKDSK freezes in the middle of fixing disk errors. (It finishes checking security descriptors, then states its adding "data attributes" to a number of specific files …

I need some technical help... I have attempted to build a pc and finally got the last parts ready for it's first boot up. I have salvaged the HD from my old PC, and connected it to my new motherboard, CPU, ram, PSU etc. All went well, (PSU, CPU fan, …

Good day to you... I am looking into a newer video card but unfortunately my pc only has pci slots so I am looking at the Gforce 5200 256 meg pci. There are not a lot of choices when it comes to pci slots. I am a recent grad with …

Hi all, One of the problems we face when trying to assist people with their hardware problems is the matter of identifying what hardware they actually have in their systems. I've just come across yet another reporting tool, and it seems to me to be rather a good one. I've …

Alright well i recently bought all the parts i needed to build my own comp. Mobo=Asus P4s800 CPU= Intel 2.8 Ghz 80gig HD Well anyways i installed windows this morning and everything was working fine. I shut it down then came back about an hour later but the computer would …

I have a new Asus A7VT Terminator barebones system and 2 identical sticks of TwinMOS 128MB PC2700 DDR-DIMM. The CPU is an AMD Sempron 2400+. The PC will POST fine with 1 DIMM installed. It doesn't matter which DIMM or socket used. The Award BIOS recognizes it as DDR333 and …

Hello. My HP start, monitor Ok, it work all tha way to when the icon are to came, but then it stop responding, mouse still moving. Did check up and it say I have a Memory problem. Sorry, Iam a beginer. Any idea. Thank

Location: Lab OS: 2K Here is the deal. This computer is old, I mean OLD! but, it runs like a champ. Today it started messing up; it was beeping. I mean, like, fast beeping. I have no idea what the beeping means, but I know that when the screen comes …

I didn't know where to put this so I just am gonna put it here and if an Admin wants to move it, cool :) Anyways. I got a watercooler about 2 months ago adns ince that time the cooling block that sits over the CPU sprung a leak. It …

Is there a place that i can buy a HP socket 370 motherboard, and if so where? I know HP's have proprietary motherboards so there is no point in trying to replace it with a different brand.

i have a dell 4100 computer on which i just tried installing 2 256 mb ram. When i try to power up I hear the normal hum and power supply start up but my green power Led which normally turns on at boot up does not. also the green led …

I replaced my ati 9600pro with a Nvidia 6800oc 128mb card...i can barley tell a difference when playing games. Should i be able to tell a big difference? Is there a program that tells you how many frames per second you are running? Any suggestions or comments would be helpfull …

I want to build my own PC that will work for DV Capture, ether through a TV Card or a Video Capture Card (don't mine ether way). The problem I have is that I don't have much money, I have a PC but it is now so old I really …

Hi, I have two questions 1) Why did my dvd burner burn two 8x dvds and now does not want to burn the anymore 8x dvds out of the same exact spindle? I use dvd x copy and it reads the dvd then when it goes to burn it, it …

I am having random restarts in addition to random program crashes (usually IE, Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Dreamweaver MX). The programs tend to crash without warning – they just disappear! This is getting worse recently since I added 512 RAM. But it was happening when I had 512 RAM. One …

jus wondering if any1 from sydney australia area know of any good computer shops to buy good cheap parts. or if any1 knows a trusty internet site that sells parts and delivers to australia.

This computer is going to be for general purpose use. Emails, web browsing, music, pictures, word processing and maybe some games. Is xp 64 necessary or not?

Hi all my name is Paul.. I just built a new computer with a intel approved 450watt power supply.I have a dvd rw drive... 2 case fans... cpu fan... and thermal lcd display.. 120 gb hdd with all this in it I wanted to get eVGA nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra …

Hey, Can anyone tell me what is the correct PC Card for transferring my parallel printer to an USB Printer, so I do not have to have two printers to print documents with? Thanks...

Ok i just bought a new 200 gig maxtor hard drive ata 133 how do i get it to be recognized when i boot up my comp i want to put my operating system on there