Hey all, I have a new internal WD Caviar 80gb ide hd. It is in a
Vantec Nextstar 3 inclosure connected via usb 2.0. I have tried to
format the drive a few times and I keep getting " the drive is not
formatted" everytime I try to open it. I used the WD software and

If you had $200 which CPU is better for building a $1200 PC with
standard operations and typical use (light gaming, Internet, some
spreadsheet and multimedia use)?   I thought AMD has been a better
value in the past and cooler running but has Intel taken the lead? Or,

Hello. I'm looking at a Corsair CMPSU-520HX PSU
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA24129
My motherboard has a 20-pin power connector, the PSU has a 24-pin
connector. In the Corsair manual it says:

My eyes aren't that great, so this is the resolution I currently use on my
17" LCD.
Does anyone know if this resolution will stretch or squish text and images
on a 19"?

its great

This P4/Asus P4P800 DELUXE system works fine for a while. It's my
secondary system so I don't use it often. Lately it has the following
message when booting cold:
CMOS setting wrong

Just installed an ECS nforce3-a board.  2x512 micron pc3200 ram i get
beeeeeep, pause, beeeeeep pause, etc.
Took out one stick...boots fine
switched sticks, boots fine

I use Avg its free and works well. find at www.grisoft.com
                   pcwiznot

Turned on my basement computer today (only use it about 3 times/week), the
screen said "no video signal" or something like that and I heard alternate
high/low sounds from the computer (almost like the sirens on foreign police
cars.)  Disconnected and reconnect both ends of the video ...

I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally.  Now I want to upgrade to
something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo.  I like to stick to ATA though as

Hi Experts,
Over the past few days I have been building up my Win2K upgraded box with an
Intel D845GEBV2 board, Pentium 4 cpu and 1 GB of Kingston chips. I had most
of my progs installed and had applied SP4 and the Rollup. I had two tasks

I have a strange one.  My boss' PC is re-booting at startup.  It tries to
boot into WinXP, then the hard-drive slows down slightly, and the PC goes
back through the mem-test and bootup.  If you try to go into safe mode, it
starts to boot into WinXP (shows the long series of drivers ...

For a backup system: Will Wiin 98 SE run on a board with a 64 bit processor
(AMD Sempron)?

I have an Enlight 350W power supply that has been doing a fine job for
several years. In fact, it is still doing a good job but has recently
developed a high-pitched whining noise. It is not the cooling fan. I opened
up the supply, and the noise seems to eminate from a section ...

I just bought Foxconn P35A-S motherboard. It suppose to have RAID
capabilities but manual is so poorly written that it only mentions it
once briefly and I don't really know how to set it up. I'm planning to
install Windows XP Pro in RAID 0 on two drives (bootable of course).