Recent content by chiron

Hi I have an Atrend ATC-6220 mobo, with a S3 Trio 3D/2X 4MB AGP card. I'd like to install a PCI gfx card as well, to get dual-monitor support going (we are testing monitors at work, so getting dual-monitor support would be good). Has anyone tried doing this, with [old] non-nVidia cards before...

Using the AOpen AX45-533 board, with a P4 1.8/512, going into the 'System Health' right after a cold cold boot (hasn't been on for a few hours), the sensors would crash cos the cpu's too cold, and the entire system would hang. Now, I'm always impressed when you can crash a computer from the...

Trust me ;) I work for an IT distributor for Panasonic. Go read the DVD hacker sites (none come to mind atm) ;) The Panasonic ones are the ones needed to read the sub-code text :D

I agree; go for Apacer No point in paying for Kingston, when Apacer is more than capable of doing exactly the same job. Apacer is the brand of RAM that AOpen use to test their boards with.

MSI MS-6378 (or is it 6368?) *nods* good boards; I sell them every time to my OEM customers who need/want an all-in-one board, AthlonXP capable, with PC133 SDRAM.

Personally, I'd recommend Panasonic DVD-RAM/R drives - they're the only ones that'll *cough*copy*cough* i mean, back up, Playstation, Playstation2, and XBox cds, cos it'll read the sub-code text ;) .....Not that I'm into that kinda thing, of course :) Just my knowledge on the subject

um, to my knowledge, the 2.0GHz isn't 533-compatible :P

Yes, you can. I work for an IT distributor for Panasonic, and I'll let you know it works ;)

I've had this kinda problem a while ago, when diagnosing a computer for one of my customers. MSI KT3Ultra mobo, with an XP1800 in it. No boot. I work for an IT supplier, so parts weren't a problem. Eventually worked out to something as below: Fried chip. It then fried the board (unbeknown to...

Go either LG, or the UK brand Vibrant

Yeah, I've built a 2.4GHz with the Gigabyte GA-8IHXP board. The first 2x 256MB PC1066 RAM I got was shite, so it went back to my suppliers, who informed me of a 4-week wait! Gah! The RAM I got was part of the faulty batch, I think - the offending model# has "036.A01" on the chips. Just...

I"ve got a 2.4B, runs at 47°C at idle, and 52° under load (eg, winxp installation). ....Then again, the higher temps are probably due to the fact I'm running 1x Maxtor 40/7200, 2x Maxtor 60/7200 in RAID1, RDRAM and a GF3 Ti500! :P

There seems to be problems with a new batch of this 256MB RAM from Kingston - in particular, those with the model # of "036.A01" printed on the chips. Sometimes over/underclocking will fix the problem, but sometimes not (as in my case). My RAM is currently on it's way back to my suppliers - I'm...

I have a very similar setup, ssmithBH - P4 2.4B, GA-8IHXP, Lian-Li PC61, Hercules GF3 Ti500, etc etc, and 2x Kingston 256MB PC1066 RDRAM, and, lo and behold, i was getting WinXP Pro installation errors all over the place!! :disgust: I work for an IT distributor, so I'm trying to sort this out...

RAID is still popular - perhaps not so much as far as the performance aspects go, but definately for the redundancy. TheCorm, by that, I mean RAID1 uses 2 drives, with mirrored data. So if drive(x) fails, drive(y) will be an exact copy, will boot/use data from that drive instead, and inform you...