Recent content by Barny

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    Older AMD Socket A MB's still available? - 900Mhz Thunderbird

    Does anyone know of a site that still sells the older Socket A motherboards? Have a neighbor that needs to replace his. He doesn't want to have to replace the CPU and memory. - Socket A (462-pin) - PC133 168-pin Memory - AMD 900 MHz Thunderbird Thanks!
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    Replacement Mother Board needed

    Looking to replace this mother board. Has a 900 MHz Thunderbird on it. Anyone know where online this board or an equivalent might be available?
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    Heat damage? What's your best guess between MB and CPU?

    After thinking about this over the last day I agree with DimZie and am leaning toward the MB. The only conclusion I can come to is that there is a cracked land pattern somewhere on the board. This might explain why it won't boot when cold but runs flawelessly after it heats up which could...
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    Determining if a hard drive is defective

    The clicking and scratching and absense of hearing the drive spin up all indicate a bad drive. The inability of the BIOS to get information off the drive is another. It sounds like you definitely ought to go the RMA route. Make sure you tell them these symptoms when you initiate the...
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    Determining if a hard drive is defective

    Is it safe to assume you are running just fine with the old drive in the machine then? It looks like the Hitachi 7K250 250 is parallel model - HDS722525VLAT80 As far as the jumper settings you've attempted. There seems to be additional choices besides Master/Slave. Which of the...
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    Heat damage? What's your best guess between MB and CPU?

    Hi All, I'm trying to fix a neighbors PC that I'm pretty sure has heat damage. What's really really strange is the fact that it won't boot at all when it is cool. Only after the BIOS says it has heated up to over 110 degrees will it actually boot. Once it actually does boot, it'll run...
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    can only dial out to dsl line in safe mode

    If you can ping www. yahoo.com in safe mode then you don't have any hardware issues and you are successfully doing name resolution through your DSL provider. Did you also open command prompt and try ping yahoo in regular windows? The first thing I'd do is go to Device Manager and...
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    Need a How-To: Boot off a CD onto a laptop that has not CD-Rom or Floppy

    Not all systems support booting off of USB. You'll have to boot your laptop to the setup menus to find out. Look for something like hitting DEL key or F1 at the prompt while booting to enter setup. When you get into the setup menu, find the boot options. If you don't see your USB...
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    everything went black

    I agree with Fern, except before I'd take those drastic measures I'd go 'minimum config' inside the box. Unplug everything you don't actually need to boot. adapters, cd drives, floppy, etc. Get down to just the PS, MB, CPU, minimum memory, hard drive, keyboard, mouse and display. Hell...
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    Random Reboots

    Did you search for this file (Sausb.sys) as mentioned on the support site? Curious as to whether it is on your system even though you've never had a USB reader attached. RESOLUTION To resolve this problem, obtain and install the latest driver from Lexar Media, Inc. STATUS Lexar Media...
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    What is this?? n3monap23.exe keeps reappearing!

    Your antivirus ought to take care of it now. I'm cleaning up a neighbors computer that has the same problem and pulling the latest virus definition file resulted in Norton Antivirus putting this file in quarantine.
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    Why do graphics cards cost so much?

    So, I've upgraded my sons system. Motherboard (abit ks7-s) ~ $100 CPU ( AMD Barton 2500) ~$100 1 Gig Memory (Buffalo Winbond) ~$150 Graphics 9600XT $172 Why? I'd think a Motherboard or a CPU would be the high cost item. Why is it that a stinking graphics card is the high cost item...
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    Help Please - DHCP requested but not received - Win XP

    Update Tried all of Boscoh's suggestions - no change. I didn't mention in the first post that this system has an ATI Rage Fury MAXX AGP graphics adapter. But after searching through the archives here and on the internet I found several hits stating this graphics adapter is not a good mix...
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    Help Please - DHCP requested but not received - Win XP

    Just this XP install. Have installed XP several times (other systems) with no problems. Ran the 3 ipconfig commands - no change. Still getting the timeout with a 169.254.x.x address. Also, no errors being logged into the Event Viewer - System log.
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    Help Please - DHCP requested but not received - Win XP

    Just installed Windows XP Pro. Was running Win98 SE and network worked just fine. System: ASUS K7V motherboard latest bios 1007 AMD Athlon 650MHz Nic cards tried - Dlink DFE-530TX+, Linksys 10/100, USB Netline. The cards appear to configure OK (recognized and 'working properly' in Device...