Recent content by mathfield

This turns out to be another instant of not RTFM. The mobo manual insist that I installed the two memory sticks I have into certain slot. Oddly, I suspected this was a problem and removed one of them--only to remove the wrong ONE! Here's the deal: This mobo has 4 slots for memory, one...

How is the motherboard grounded? Does it ground thru the metal screw connected to the metal case? Because I put some plastic ring between the screw top and the board (they came with my case, which had no manual, I figure that's what they are for...)...Pardon my ignorance.

I have purchased the following hardware: Asus A8N-E AMD Atholon 64 3200+ Abit RX700 Pro-256 PCIE 1GB Corsair PC3200 DDR memory I put them in without any other hardware. Booting up the computer, everything seems well powered, but there is no display. How can I figure which part is...

May not be the most commonly used program around, but I use CYGWIN alot! It's a suite of many free (speech and beer sense) ported UNIX utility, making my life much easier with bash, awk, sed, etc...Although I am not quite sure which catagory of software it falls under. Since now it also come...