I am working on a laptop for a friend.  I have the hard drive
out and connected to my system via adapter.  I can see the
folder that she wants to save.  But when I try to open the
folder, I get a message, "F:\Documentsand Settings\angelique

Seems the issue is related to the motherboard.  As I've tried 3
different types of memory.  I'll be rebuilding my system with an Asus
board instead of this ECS junk.

What is known about stray electricity in (computer related) circuits ?
Is there a special electronics term for this phenomenon ? Leakage
maybe ?
When one turns on the power is there a risk of stray electricity going

On 30th May I ordered one stick of memory from Crucial in East
Kilbride which is local to me in Glasgow and opted for the "free"
delivery .It shipped on the 31st and today Monday 4th June it still
hasn't arrived . The webpage shows it was sent Special Delivery (?)

I have to get some files off of an old Maxtor IDE hard drive. I have
my primary hard drive (SATA) as the primary boot source, with the old
hard drive (IDE) as slave to my CD burner. My Windows XP Media Center
Edition is installed on the SATA drive, with the needed files on the

I am working on a laptop for a friend.  I have the hard drive
out and connected to my system via adapter.  I can see the
folder that she wants to save.  But when I try to open the
folder, I get a message, "F:\Documentsand Settings\angelique

Wow,
I was playing Battlefield 2 full version, when I suddenly smelled this
really bad burn smell.
Maybe the smell came from outside... but I decided to check my computer...

I am trying to put together from parts a biostar MB and AMD 3400.  I cant
get any beeps or post trying it with the ram I have now which is DDR PC266.
Will that keep the board from posting?  Also when I take the ram out then I
get beeps from the speaker. When the ram is seated ...

re:>I'm trying to install XP on a new build. (I've used this CD

I currently have a AMd Althon XP 2500+ computer with a Gigabyte
GA-7VT600 motherboard with KT600 Chipset.
I am considering updating the hard disk in this unit but I cannot find
what is the largest Hard size that this will recognise.

I have recently built a PC.  It worked fine for around 2-3 weeks.
After this it sometimes locks up (i.e. no mouse/keyboard response &
cannot ping it from another PC).  This happens at seemingly random
intervals and sometimes happens when the PC is not doing much.

Neither of these work at critical stages of booting pc, eg. I've just
installed a second os, and the keyboard fails at the point where I need to
hit a couple of keys to select which os. I have to connect a wired KB just
to do this.

I am trying to put together from parts a biostar MB and AMD 3400.  I cant
get any beeps or post trying it with the ram I have now which is DDR PC266.
Will that keep the board from posting?  Also when I take the ram out then I
get beeps from the speaker. When the ram is seated ...

I just found out the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe has a removable BIOS chip !
N32P9
0903
B83E

I have a problem with my motherboard and procesor. I can't overclock
it.
When I switch on motherboard fsb from 200MHz to 266MHz system won't
start. Bios was reseted by removing battery and short jumper when I