I am looking for good quality core 2 duo motherboard for my new
computer. Because Nvidia has better graphics product atm(ATI has some
driver issues again), I am thinking of buying Nvidia SLI board.
Now I need good suggestions for good motherboard. I have been thinkin

Is a motherboard/bios Battery reading of "4.08 Volts" normal, low,
high??
It reads this in BIOS screen and in various xp-based software.
thanks

The BIOS chip could be dead.
Possible evidence:
When turning on the power the cpu fan spins slowly ?!
(Some have said the cpu fan is controlled by motherboard and spins up

I bought a recertified 160 gigabyte PATA drive a couple of years ago.  I
guess recertified means used.  Anyway it was working fine until
yesterday afternoon when I decided to reformat it and reinstall Ubuntu
7.04.  The operating system seemed to install OK, but when I did the

On my overclocked system my NB temp can be as high as 50 - 53C when playing
games.  I have run stress tests several times and it seems stable enough
but I am worried temps this high might be dangerous... What do you think?
Thanks

im looking for a usb flash drive a 2 gig but I know that the actual 2 gig
isnt what I would be getting instead Ide get less.
but as there are 1024 kb in a megabyte how dose it turn out to be less then
2 gig?

I just installed my new Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Mobo, AMD 64 X2 5600+ CPU,
4GB Corsair memory...
Clean installed Windows 2000 Pro.  I'm still installing updates, but
it's at SP4 now.

There was low response on my case requirements, maybe the requirements
to high.
I am willing to compromise the requirements somewhat.
My main concern is the power button and power cabling and anything

A friend has an HP desktop system that had a pair of cheap speakers that
stopped working. I checked all of the settings and could find nothing wrong.
She had a headphone set so I plugged that into the same receptacle and the
headphones worked fine. I suggested she buy another ...

I just picked up a used ATI Rage video card.  AGP
It says ATI Rage 128 Pro.  Dated 2000.
There are numbers all over this card, but which one is the model#?
The card has standard 15pin monitor cable plug, plus two phono jacks

Please help me. I bought a new PC with Intel Core 2 E6420 2.13 GHz
Processor and Intel 946-GZ motherboard, Ram 667MHz 2x1GB, And PCI-E
ATI Sapphire X550 128MB Graphics Card. (O/S Windows XP SP-2). I tried
to play Rise of the Nations: Thrones and Patriot, Sims 2: Nightlife,

I'm setting up a PC for video editing that not only requires many hard
drives bays but also frequent swapping of hard drives.
Are there ATX cases that do not require screws to add/remove hard drives?
I tried to find one myself on newegg, but there is no way to tell how easy

I'm about to buy a Canon MP600R wireless printer. My current
modem/router is  *not* wireless.
So I have probably have to purchase another wireless component as
well. The question is: do I have to replace the modem/router by a

Can I change the cooler/ fan on my graphics card?
I have a GeForce 7950 GT and 2 free PCI-E slots on my mobo. I recently
replaced by near-silent PSU, and now the noise that bugs me is the
graphics card fan.

Tomorrow, which is sunday, actually it is already sunday, I will
photograph every centimeter of the damaged motherboard ? (Assuming
it's damaged for now) and post it on my webdrive for you to take a
look at and examine.