Recent content by BigDog1

Hey, thanks for the followup post. It was pretty much sounding like either an overheating problem or a memory problem. Glad you got it figured out. Yup, can't beat Artic Silver 3 and a good HSF combo! Starting with that and high quality memory eliminates many problems.

Athlon XPs are multiplier locked at the factory to prevent people from buying, for example, a 1.0 ghz CPU to run on a 100mhz front side bus, and running it at 1.2 ghz on that same bus by changing the multiplier from 10x to 12x (ie, overclocking it). Do a google search on "Athlon XP Unlocking"...

You are certainly having the classic symdoms of bios settings that are too aggressive and/or overheating. Overheating always triggers problems if your machine is running on the edge. You didn't mention if you have unlocked your 2100 -- I assume the 2100 is factory multiplier locked? If they...

I tried to do direct cable connects at various times over the years with little (actually zero) success. From reading the web I found many other folks had the same problems. That, plus a serial connection being very slow compared to a LAN, would make me look to a LAN method to connect the two...

You didn't mention what kind of noise your drive is making -- so it's hard to say if it's failing, or just trying to seek the boot sector. You also didn't say if it's a relatively new drive or an oldie. Are you overclocking at all? I've had that exact problem occasionally, and after backing...

Man, that is a tough problem. Sounds like you have done everything right. All I can think of is to try all the components on a different motherboard and see if they work. I have an Abit KR7A-raid that is rock solid, and I am using it to write this message. It has an Athlon XP 1700. I've had...

I agree with about everything Lord Evermore said. I have 2 each 19" monitors on my WinXP platform, being driven from a Matrox G450 dual head video card. As soon as I put the card in and booted, Windows XP recognized that I had two monitors and correctly identified them. It let me drag icons...

Hi, After reading some posts about updating the firmware on Samsung DVD/CDRW combo drives, I downloaded the Samsung auto-updater. It found my drive (SM-348) and said there was an update available (T505, up from T501). I let it run and the updater program appeared to lock up (task manager said...

Hi, Kreggo said: Yeah, one of the refurbs I got was like that, while the other one had the cooler and fan shroud attached to the case by one screw. Both are running fine now for about a week (left on continuously and doing various things). Hope your luck is as good as mine Kreggo. But if it...

Hi, Ebony1 said: There are a bunch of sites out there that will walk you through putting together a system -- do a google.com search on words like "buiding a PC" and other similar phrases. However, the best way is to find an accquaintance who has built several PC's, and prevail on him or her...

Hi, Optical said: Yeah Optical, I can see your point there. What a guy is buying for the extra $50 is perhaps one year warrenty on the M/B and P/S (I don't actually know for sure what Shuttle's warranty is). Although I have built more 2 dozen systems for myself (and many more for friends)...

Hi, Optical said: Where have you seen these for $275 (that is a good price) shipped? Anyway, NewEgg is really good about returns, and they give you 15 days, so probably all you are really at risk for is return shipping. Best wishes, BigDog1

Hi, NewEgg again (just today) has the Shuttle SS51G XPC refurbs for $219 shipped. That is really cheap. I bought 2 of these (one for a friend and a 2nd one for me) when they had this same deal just before Christmas, and they arrived yesterday. All parts were there (screws, manuals, CD...