I am building a computer right now that I am taking to my nephew tomorow in
Tennessee (At least I will be if I can get it cranking). Here are the stats.
Computer I bought is a bare bones Tiger Direct kit.
Just4PC ATX Mid Tower Case w/425 Watt Power Supply

I need help with my computer crashing.
I've an AMD Athalon XP w/504MB RAM running Win98 Second Edition.
The computer often crashes (no mouse response, no cntrl-alt-del) after
startup finished.  Even pressing the reset button sometimes does not

I have a small computer network in my home.
My kids have a networked computer in their roooms.
I also have an X-Box on the network.
I want to be able to get on to their HDs from the net work,

Is there a windows xp-utility that displays the temperature of the cpu? And,
if possible, other measures like the fan rate etc.
I've got an ASRock P4VT8 motherboard, 3.4 Ghz, OS is windows xp sp2
I took a look at the website of manufacturer, but to no avail.

Can ATX power supply work when mounted upside down? Its 300W
(Chaintech) but with small load (Amiga 2000).

One day, after a very brief brownout, I turned on my computer to
discover that several programs hung halfway through loading or
apparently loaded, but didn't respond to any commands, mouse click, etc.
I had a recent Ghost 9 image.  I restored.  The same programs didn't

I am building my first pc,I want to install a 7 in 1 memory card reader
with floppy drive, but I have no onboard 4 pin usb hub for it. Can I
use one of the MANY 9 pin internal usb ports by lining up the volt,
ground , pos. etc. pins on the 4 pin with the correct pins on half of

I was called yesterday to look at a Celeron 1.1 GHz computer I had
built several years ago.  It wouldn't power on.
I took an extra power supply along and my external HD enclosure.  First
I swapped out the power supply, but no change.  I noticed that there

I have a pc that crashed and am trying to reinstall Windows XP Pro.  It is a
1.3 Duron in an MSI mobo with 256mb of ram.  When trying to reinstall the os
it is like slow motion.  The partitioning and formatting are ok but from
there on it is slow.  It takes at least an hour to copy ...

I'm building a new system with the following:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium MB
AMD Ath-64 3800+
1 Gig Corsair XMS DDR 3200 memory

I'm building a new system with the following:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium MB
AMD Ath-64 3800+
1 Gig Corsair XMS DDR 3200 memory

Purchasing all my components.  Have a motherboard that required DDR2 533.
Listed the memory modules and the only real difference I see in specs is
that they show different CAS Latency 3,4 or 5.  Which is better (smile!)....

Presently I'm using win XP but would like to install old Win 98 OS.
How could I install it without erasing the data?
Anyone with experience, please advise
Thanks a lot

I've got maybe 10 of these transformers that have the plug built into them.
They take up two slots or more on a standard power strip.  I've got a bad
thing going here, daisy chaining one power strip to another.  A real mess.
any recommendations for a power "strip" that would take ...

When/what/who would one need dual 12V rails from a PSU?