I recently purchased a game that exceeds the resources on my system.
I was wondering about doing the upgrade.
I have a Pentium 4 CPU 2.66 GHz with 256 MB RAM and a Video card:
GeForce FX 5200.

is there an easy way to flash you bios?
i mean for novices and without any danger of loosing your computer?
have an ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard.
can i check my current bios setting, so i make sure not to install

I am attemtping to set up a RAID 1 array using a Gigabyte GA7ZXR MB with an
onboard Promise 20265  Raid controller. I used to have a striped array
working fine with this machine but after I lost a disk about a year ago I
ditched it. I am now attemtping  to use 2x160gb Maxtor ...

Hi, I bought this upgrade kit
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=314944&cks=PRL with a club3d radeon
550
graphics card.

Hello.  I installed a new motherboard, processor, and RAM into my
computer tonight.  The motherboard is an ASUS P4S800D-X and the
processor is a 2.8 ghz intel celeron something or another.  After much
struggle i finally got it to work, reinstalled windows, and it was

I just got my Lian-Li Black pc-6077 case. Its everything I thought it
might be. Sweet!
Im waiting for a Antec TP-II 550 and a stick of Crucial 512 MB memory.
The board I have mounted is a Intel D865GBF (socket 478)- comes with

Is there a low-cost way of mounting a standard hard drive in a remote
box for the purpose of backing up data? I expect there are ready-made
boxes with a built-in power supply for this purpose, are there? Can
anyone recommend one?

Here is my system:
* Athlon XP 2000+ cpu (no overclocking)
* MSI K7N2G-ILSR mobo (all mainboard drivers are current)
** 1GB RAM

On my previous (Win98) PC, I had a short list of useful freeware or
shareware utilities to keep the system healthy: Spyware Blaster,
System Mechanic, Regclean, Ad-Aware, and AVG antivirus (no longer with
fee updates, it sems) and Kerio firewall which I now use on my XP

Hello group!
I was in Europe for two years, and left an old Abit-BP6 based desktop
system behind in the U.S.  When I built it in 2001, it was a good(not
great) performer with 512 mb and dual celeron 500s.

I have two pieces of equipment I would like to connect asynchronously. One
is an AI Badger router access module with async ports on the back. These are
available for pass thru connections to a Kentrox Crosspath cross connect/csu
device.

I need some understanding about LCD monitors and "Out of Range" in low video
mode.
My 19" Viewsonic LCD monitor shows me a vertical rolling "Out of Range" box
with H.Frequency 64 kHz and V.Frequency 60.2 Hz when I first boot up, but

I am about to build a PC. I have three hard drives:
40gb
80gb
120gb

I'm trying to install another video card into this motherboard:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=504&MenuID=21
&LanID=9
The integrated SiS 'Ultra256' card doesn't have any power to it at all
for OpenGL/DirectX applications and I'd like to replace it ...

I run my one-man business from a PC. Until now I have been using a Win
98 system with about 40gb of drive space in total. This has been just
sufficient - but only just.
Now I am building a new PC with Win XP. I'm not anticipating using