It seems that today there's no big differences beween this two, as the
regular MBOs bacame very equipped and strong. What's than purpose of
server motherboards as you can put 32GB on a AM2 board and more...
Could someone more experienced explain do server boards have any

I am trying to upgrade the processor and RAM on an old Micron Millenia
S1854.  I put in a PIII 933mhz Slot 1 and 2 256MB PC133 DIMMS in slot 1 and
2.  I set the Bus speed multiplier to 133mhz as directed by the manual.
When I attempt to boot, I received this error:

My desktop computer (HP pavilion home PC, intel4), during summer gets
pretty noisy (as if an extra fan kiks in, and for a minute the noise
in just too much)...
since I use the computer to record songs , the noise just spoils my

I recently acquired a Dell Poweredge 2400 servers, which I have been playing
with setting up.
Everything seems to work fine except the server originally kept powering
itself on at 22:40 each day.

I have four hard drives (3  old, one new); the three old ones, all
formatted NTFS, had worked OK in my previous XP system. The XP box went
down in flames and, as time was critical, I had to replace it with an
off-the-shelf VISTA machine. I can get only one of these drives to be

I have a front panel for a PC that has broken.  It's normally secured to
the metal chassis by driving screws from within the chassis into 3/4"
plastic posts that attach to the very front face of the front panel.
Two of those posts have been sheared off at their base.

Just curious.
I had a Seagate Barracuda 300GB Ver. 7200.8 drive die on me.  No
receipt so I took it apart.  The platters (three of them) are made of
a fairly soft but rigid metal.  Anyone out there know what they're

    I just found out that my external 500GB USB hard drive is FAT32 which has
max size limited to 4GB, and I am dealing with lot of >4.xGB.  I have 2
external 500GB SATA one I bought hard drive and enclosure separately and I
formatted it NTFS, the new one is WD 500GB USB2 which ...

I have a MSI KN1 extreme lite motherboard with a nvidia chipset. The
northbridge chipset has begun to climb to 180 degrees Fahrenheit  (82
degrees Celsius) The temperature will stay there for a very short (one
minute) time and drop back to 60 degrees Celsius. This is at idle. There ...

I have only been on this site a matter of days, and already I have bee
helped with my son's computer, but now I have a question for me.  
noticed an ad for Driver Genius, and thnking it might be time to updat
drivers or whatever, I downloaded this software, and installed it.  I

I've got a used APC 650 UPS. I got it cheap, with 2 dead batts.
I'd like to use this to back up simple home PC set-up, and am wondering if
there is a way to get the APC 650 to work with just 1 batt, so it will cost
$20 versus $40, to get it online.

A friend gave my sister a used hard-drive without the power supply.
The case  says the voltage, millamperage, and the fact it is dc but
fails to say whether it is center positive or center negative. I have
looked pretty hard on the internet and not found the info yet. Any

I just noticed a fan on the bottom of my HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop an
thought how nice it would be if i could replace it with an LED fan.  Th
problem is I've never opened a laptop before!  I know the first thing
to come off are the screen and the keyboard but I see no way of gettin

I ordered a Seagate external hard drive from them.  It took an
inordinate amount of time to get to me, and what's worse, the Seagate
box inside Circuit City's box WAS EMPTY!  How about that.
A call to them resulted in their saying their 'legal department' would

Hi, I have an HP pavilion 7970 P4 PC about 7 years old. I went to turn
it on this morning, and the power wouldn't go on. I did notice that
when I pull/put the AC power cord in the PC, a little green LED on the
back of the PC to the right of the AC plug-in flashes once very