Recent content by Burtomat

I work for a major repair computer retail chain and we have contracts with some local companies for PC repair. In my personal opinion, you are limiting yourself by sticking with an Intel chipset. You can get a SiS735 board (i.e. K7S5A) with integrated LAN for around 60 bucks online. Pair that...

Just a suggestion for online shopping in the future to avoid RMAs... I use www.resellerratings.com to check on vendors before I buy stuff. Just a suggestion.

Piracy funding terrorism? Isn't the point of pirating software to save money and not give it to anybody else? The only way for this to be valid if is all software pirates are terrorists themselves and saving money for themselves. I'm not condoning piracy, but use a little common sense, would ya?

Currently my father has an Intel SE440BX-2 mainboard with a Slot 1 Pentium III 500 MHz and I was thinking of buying a Celeron 800-1000 MHz in a Socket 370 version and mounting it in the board with a Slocket-type converter. Since the Celeron recently made the switch from a 66 MHz to a 100 MHz...

I work as a repair tech at a major national computer retail chain. We only sell Maxtor and Western Digital hard drives. I would like to carry more of a selection, but of course that decision is made by bigwigs way above my head. We have a smaller return ratio with the Maxtor drives. We...

I dunno if you've tried this, but... Goto Start -> Run and type "msconfig". This neat little program lets you choose which programs load at startup, as well as which WinXP services load on startup as well. Hope that works.

I have AT&T Broadband in Denver, Colorado. It seems AT&T is having quite a few DNS problems, at least on their servers in my areas. Also, the downstream speed slows noticably from the promised 1.5 Mbps to around 128 Kbps during peak usage times (early evening). When I'm on early in the...

Your cable modem is set up for DHCP, which means that the server can assign any IP which it has the rights to. I am one of those unfortunately souls who was with Excite@Home and is now with AT&T Broadband, and my IP went from 24.4.229.174 to a constantly changing one. One reason for this is...