Recent content by mikestjames

My secondary monitor is starting to randomly display vertical green bars, which "breathe", or fade in and out to black. Nothing gets rid of them except for a 10-20 minute shutdown. Immediate restart doesn't help. Would you guess it's the monitor failing, or the nVidia GTX660 card? The card is...

Here is the 2gb Crucial item that worked fine in my wife's Acer D255e-1428 (Costco-$299-$20=$279). Atom N570/1.66mhz - 250gb CT1596442 2GB, 204-pin SODIMM - $25 Strange that this model number isn't to be found on the Acer website. Anyway, on this model, no need to remove any but the four...

I put the big 120mm Zalman on my CPU, cut a 120mm hole in the top of the case, and installed a 120v AC rack fan there with it's own AC pigtail. Then I bough a rotary AC fan controller from Home Depot for $8 and mounted it through the top of the case next to the fan. Just for fun, I added a...

I have two SATA drives on the MB controller (that's all it supports) and I am adding a PCI SATA controller card to support two additional drives. Q: Can I split the HD activity LED by splicing additional leads so that it will show activity from all four drives? The SATA card I bought has HD...

Thanks, Tarrant64. I have an old Enlight server case, tall, tough, and tons of bays. I put HD casters on it (it's HEAVY!) I cut a 120mm hole in the side panel near the bottom rear, and put a 12v fan there to stuff air in at the bottom. I cut another 120mm hole in the top of the case near the...

Thanks everyone, for the good advice. I posted this in one other forum as well, and got several replies indicating that the P4640 runs mighty HOT. Is that a worry? Everyone has pushed me toward the P4 for better performance in photo and video, and because I'm not a gamer. I REALLY don't want to...

I am forced to replace a two or three year old A7V333/Athlon XP 2400+ combination. I think the RAID controller on my MB has died. I am not a gamer. If I were, I would go Athlon 64. I do photo and video editing and use mainstream productivity apps several hours per day, so I decided that a P4...