Hey all,
I recently had a power supply die on my system. I replaced the power
supply, and am now getting some funny behavior out of my motherboard.
I was wondering whether there was a rational reason for the behavior,

It seems like, if I want exactly what I want in a PC, I'm going to have
to build it myself.  I've never done this before and I'm looking at it
as a daunting task (I want a very fast PC, upgradable, with the best
components).  Guess a good place to start is with this newsgroup. Could

I've got an HP Pavilion 4535 that I've pulled all of the innards out of.
Motherboard is a "MEW-VM rev 1.02".  My research shows that this is likely
an Asus OEM board made specifically for HP to use in a number of their small
tower configurations.  There are a number of hookups ...

I have just got an old super socket 7 AT motherboard. The AT keyboard
is not longer working. I find out that the fuse for the keyboard is
open.
The rating on the fuse is 3A.

I am trying to get a NEC NL10276BC28-05D panel working with a Commell
LV-677 motherboard.  I know the panel is in working condition, but no
matter what I try, I can seem to get any video to show up on the
panel.  The system itself is running fine.  I can see that on my

Hi bought used motherboard it had no I/O Shield .Do you really need
one? will my computer get damage if i dont use it?

I've got a 16-bit ISA card (part of a specialty piece of data
acquisition equipment) that I know works in several different
mainstream motherboards (Soyo, Tyan, Gigabyte, etc).
It doesn't function correctly in a computer that I've been asked to

Hi: Well...I use to use Monarch Computer Systems for barebones builds,
but they are RIP. I use to watch this board all of the time & there
was a guy that posted a lot in here that is a system builder. I forget
his company name. He wasn't the cheapest, but people seemed to like

I recently built a media centre PC running Vista and have connected to
my Hi-Fi (top end separates). The sound quality from the mobo (Realtek
ALC882M High Definition Audio 8-channel CODEC) is better than I
expected. I was originally planning to buy a Creative Labs X-Fi

I have an old 166Mhz Pentium with 128 MB or RAM which I was using as a
Linux server and general play around box. I bought it while I was
living in the USA. I have now moved to South Africa. I finally got
around to getting all my computers set up and connected. On this box,

I suspect my desktop PC at work has bad memory chip(s).  Our Dell warranty
just ran out.  The DELL boot or utility partition only has a diagnostic mode
for the IDE drives not RAM.  I would like to run a floppy or USB Thumb Drive
based RAM diagnostic checker for it. Can anyone ...

I once read that cleaning inside the PC case with a vacuum cleaner creates a
hazard of electrostatic discharge (ESD).  I have never done it.  I have
always found other ways to accomplish the cleaning I wanted to do, however
I'm thinking a vacuum cleaner might be OK depending on ...

Tonight at 2:30am my wife's UPS started beeping. I went into the office
and found that the "on battery" LED from the APC Back-UPS CS 350 was on.
Power was on, and my UPS had not tripped. So, I turned it off and tried
to turn it back on again. It beeped once, but no LEDs lit up.  ...

I have dead pixels on my LCD 19inch desktop monitor.  Many! but
because they are not the
size of a thumbprint I can not get it replaced.  Can someone please
tell my how to put my moniter over the edge and break it or make a few

I am looking into building a pc for the first time and I am looking at
some dual core CPUs.
The speed some CPUs are described as 2x something, e.g.2x2.6 GHz.
Does this mean the CPU speed is actually 3.2GHz or is it just a