I'm building a HTPC with a Pentium 4 3.2ghz Northwood CPU, two 512meg
sticks of Mushkin PC3200 ram, Zalman CNPS 7000-A AlCu heatsink, Arctic
Silver Ceramique thermal compound, and a Intel 865 PERL motherboard. The
power supply I'm using is a 400w Seasonic Super Silencer. When I 1st

on my old motherboard i have 768MBytes of RAM which is of the pc2100 type, i
am looking at a motherboard which says
DDR400
DDR400 (PC3200), the latest and fastest DDR memory standard, supports

I have an older server machine with an Adaptec AHA-2940 UW card.  Does
anyone know what capacity hard drive this card will support.  I
currently have 9 GB drives hooked to it, but was thinking about geting a
larger one or two.

I'm thinking about building a new PC, and want a nice, functional case
with 4-5  5-1/4 bays, no-tools opening, and no frills like windows,
doors, chrome, and, last but not least, front interface connectors
(USB, etc) near the top of the tower, where I can reach them, not at

I'm having alittle computer trouble and I was hoping this forum could
help me out, anywho here it goes;
Yesterday when I turned on my computer I heard something of a poping
sound and then smelled smoke. So I turned off my computer, waited a

Just wondering if it is possible to setup a connection between 2 comps
using 56k modems.  
I am trying to hook up my sis's laptop to my computer so she can use
it as a proxy sevrer, unfortunately having spent the best part of a

I have an old Abit KT7 that I would love to replace but I just don't
have the money to do it the way I want to.
Well, my hard drive is suffering from the click of death so it's only a
matter of time before I need to buy a new one.  I could get a large

on my old motherboard i have 768MBytes of RAM which is of the pc2100 type, i
am looking at a motherboard which says
DDR400
DDR400 (PC3200), the latest and fastest DDR memory standard, supports

I don't have the problem myself but I have read several threads about
it and unfortunately not found a consistent solution to it. Therefore
I would like to know more about it.
When/why is the "verifying dmi pool data" message displayed?

I've built 3 PCs at home with no problem, but now I'm stumped.
I wanted to put together a fourth box - so I got a new motherboard and a
new case.  Bottom line: when I first tried to power up - the CPU fan
would spin but I'd get no video, no post beeps, or anything to indicate

Not looking for anything fancy. Just a budget PC ,but one that uses
relatively good components.
I was thinking of using an Athlon XP3200 . My present PC is using an Athlon
XP1700.

I am building a server using i.a. an A7V600 ASUS mainboard. I don't intend
to
have a keyboard, mouse nor screen on it; besides the server box is to be
mounted in a fairly unaccesible place of my house.

My new Asus K8S-MX would not work with either of my keyboards.  One is
an old Northgate, the other a possibly old design very like the
original IBM PC keyboard made by "pckey".  The symptoms were
different, what was common was they both didn't work.

hey there i recently set up my new comp with a seagate 160gig HD.
Anyways, after formatting it and everything, i only appear to have a
total of 132gigs according to windows and partition magic 7.
Any help? thanks

In preparation for my first build-it-yourself computer, I have been reading
up on SATA devices.  I intend to use a ASUS P5AD2-E Premium and some SATA
Drives, (looking at (2)WD 250's).  In going to the Asus site, and looking at
the manual, I come by the instruction: "You must install ...