Recent content by GaryF

I have an ECS (Elite Computer Systems) K7VTA3, v6.0, in which I've been running an ATI Radeon 7200 All-in-wonder successfully. I wanted to upgrade, and picked up an ATI Radeon 9550. Upon installing, I can't get any display, nor even the beep that usually sounds on POST. The motherboard is...

Thanks for the responses. I look forward (not) to working on getting the levels adjusted reasonably. I don't need great quality, so I ought to get by. If necessary, I'll spend time with SoundStream and/or SpinDoctor to do what I can with it. Gary

This is sort of a dumb question about audio connections, but I've never been into serious audio. I need to convert some personal casettes into CDs. I can handle all the software mechanics, but I just want to make sure there aren't any gotchas with regard to connecting the casette deck to the...

Thanks for your suggestions (all good), but as you can see from my previous note, I found the problem. Your point about the SCSI drives does remind me of an interesting phenomenon. The first time I booted after the install, my Adaptec 2930 board did not recognize the new Pioneer DVD. It came...

I assume you've checked the obvious - the "Show Pictures" setting in the Advanced Options? Gary

Close, but not quite. I wasn't doing enough to need to swap. The problem was much, much dumber, but thankfully, also not a hardware problem. For some reason, the IBM S.M.A.R.T. drive monintoring utility had set the interval for the short self test on the new Fireball drive to be 2 minutes...

Sorry for my poor wording. I ran the scandisk on the new hard drive, not the DVD drive. Certainly trying to isolate the source of the sound is the obvious first step, and disconnecting drives here and there is the obvious second step. It's just that the periodicity of this behavior is so...

The POP3 protocol supports this, but that doesn't mean that every email client will support it. I do not believe that Outlook supports it, for example. I'm unsure about Outlook Express. I'm pretty sure that Forte Agent and Free Agent do support it, but they have very little market...

Over the weekend, I installed an Athlon 1.3GHz, retail kit, (upgrade from Duron 850MHz), a Pioneer 305S (SCSI) DVD-ROM (replacing a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM), and a Quantum 60GB Fireball Plus AS IDE (in addition to existing IBM 20GB and 10GB drives, all 7200RPM). I also removed my one stick of 128MB...

A couple of weeks ago I was installing network cards into a couple of PCs at my synagogue. I happened to look at what it would take to replace or add hard drives, and was disturbed by what I saw. One of these systems was a Packard Bell, and I'm unsure about the other. Basically, it seemed...

Check out the Asus web site to be sure. My previous board was a P5A, and I'm quite sure that there was some remark on the Asus site that said that older P5A board (or perhaps all) would not work with certain newer AMD chips. Gary

I can't answer specifically the question about whether the "8.5x multiplier" issue would allow or prevent 8.0, etc. However, I do know that newegg specifies that they're shipping rev 1.2 boards, and I strongly suspect that those are boards that have the 8.5x multiplier problem fixed...

I saw brief mention of this buried in another note, but since I'm curious too, I thought I'd call it out separately. What is the purpose and function of the ACPI led? In my case, it's on an Iwill KK266, but I gather there are other boards with it. I have mine connected to my otherwise unused...

While I hope this problem will become irrelevant in a couple of weeks when I upgrade, it bugs me enough that I need to ask: If I set my system power settings to go into standby mode after some time, it seems to successfully get into standby mode (LED flashing, system seems quiet). However...