An older PC of mine recently started to display the following symptoms
after working flawlessly for many years:
- PC stopped responding to the spacebar startup despite it being
configured in the BIOS, having done so for years, and us not changing

pc system never tells me info what about my power supply unit, how can
i get this info as I like to know the watt of my psu.
I have used software like test my hardware and cpuz which never tells
me anything about my psu.

I picked up a 20 gig IDE hard drive out of an old pc that will be used for
my main C drive because my other 40 gig drive is toast at the moment and I
dont know anything about it in stability wise so I need to know what the
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My motherboard is an Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe and I have two matched
1-gig memory modules (Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4).  The memory is set
at 4-4-4-12-2T Cas 4,  running at 2.1v, and posts at 800mhz.
The motherboard has four DIMM slots, A1 and A2 are grouped into

  I have a "generic" laptop (no brand name except "laptop") that I
have used to run Windows XP or Fedora (3,4 or 5) Linux for about 4
years. About a month ago the DVD/CD (samsung cdrw/dvd sn-324f) just
stopped working. Prior to that I never had problems with the device

Planning an upgrade of the home pc.
I have collected this nice combo,any suggestions on a better package
within the budget?
(Prices are in Danish kroner, about 7.5 to the €, 5,4 to the US$)

Hi.  I'm assembling a home built PC (standard stuff, athlon 64 x2, msi
atx motherboard, etc).  When I push the power button, the fans spin
(including the cpu fan which attaches to the motherboard) and the dvd
drive works (opens up anyway), but nothing comes on the monitor and

I've got my new rig up and going. Asus P5K Deluxe,4 gb Kingston RAM, Nvidia
GTS 8800, WD SATA 2 HDD, SATA 2 RW DVD, SATA 2 DVD, Intel core 2 duo E6850.
Win xp sp2 / Vista 32 dual boot
Got things up and running fine.  But I started getting random CTDs in some

i had lost my mother bord cd
i had formattedmy system then i found audio outputfrom yhe cpu .my
motherbord is
intel (R)pentium D 945 .so plz giv me advice whati s'd do now if u

I've searched the web.
I don't want to make a fashion statement,  all I want is a plain old
full tower beige box I can throw a ATX mb into.
Any suggestions?

To all readers,
I'm curious as to what type of monitor set up everyone has.
how many monitors do you have on your desk and in what configuration?  
what application are you using it with.

Hello everyone, couple months back I posted some threads about my
computer that seems to crash and reboot only when I ran computer
games. Well I assumed it was a bad video card and had it returned to
newegg.com for a replacement. 2 weeks later I installed the same but

Another piece of information:  this weird sounds, which sounds like a
spinning roulette wheel, sounds like it's coming from the HD bays, but
at the same time it could be the CPU fan--because when I power down,
just as the electricity stops, and everthing is dead, I hear the last

I have just installed windows 64 and all of the drivers (motherboard, sound
card, directx, windows updates, graphics card, keyboard utility) however when
i try to play any 3d game, the frame rate keeps dropping every 10 seconds,
for example, when I was in the main menu of the TF2 ...