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Been noticing my computer crashing during 3D Gameplay. Motherboard Monitor complains that the 5 volt rail has reached 4.58v, which is outside of the 8 percent tolerance from 5 volts. I know it goes out of tolerance because I can hear an alarm coming through the PC speaker after a few minutes of...

I saw an article on a hardware page that was kind of neat. Someone had taken a 80mm to 60mm fan adapter, placed a 60mm fan between the h.s.f and the adapter and then put a 80mm fan ontop and got even cooler temps than normal. I was thinking of doing this: 120mm fan -> 120mm to 80mm Adapter ->...

Heyas. I'm running Windows 98 First Edition. I went from Dual 15 GB Western Digital HDD's with a Promise Ultra100 "Lite" RAID Controller to Dual 40 GB but found that I needed to expand the partition size in order to use the entire drive, so here's what I did.. 1. Break the RAID 1 array. 2...

8088/8086: Air Cooling, no heatsink, barely warm to the touch. 80286: Air Cooling, no heatsink, warm to the touch. 80386 (16 to 33 Mhz) : Air Cooling, no heatsink, hot to the touch. 80386 (33 to 50 Mhz) : Air Cooling, no heatsink, I'm not touching that. 80486 (33 Mhz) : Same as 386 running at 50...

I've never really had any issues mixing and matching memory. The only problems I ever remember having was mixing memory within a memory bank. (IE. 4 in 30 pin or 2 in 72 pin.) Since all DIMM's these days have their own memory bank, it's a non-issue now. :) If I decided to overclock, I...

AMD T-Bird 1.4 Ghz are selling for $299 here in Canada. Back in 1997 I paid $250 for my AMD K6-2/350. If I had gone to 400 Mhz, it would have been nearly $100 extra. Yes, I have to admit that purchasing the highest end hardware, only to end up having it be next to worthless in under three...

So, I purchase a Fabled Swiftech MC-462A heatsink and a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard that everyone keeps raving about and find, oops.. They don't fit together, there's a capacitor blocking the lower left corner of the heatsink where the notch is. I guess apparently Gigabyte didn't adhere to...

Could someone provide me a step by step procedure as to how to modify my GA-5AA to work with these CPU's? The BIOS updates do not mention anything about AMD K6-2+ CPU's but would it work anyway assuming that I could modify the voltage regulator to work with this CPU properly? Thanks!

Been reading the BIOS tweaking guides on the net but three BIOS settings still elude me as to what they do: 1. Concurrent PCI/Host 2. Top Preformance (Motherboard seems to fail POST when this is on and needs CMOS reset.) 3. Primary INTR If anyone can tell me what these BIOS settings do and...

Oh yeah, before I forget.. I'm not using any programs to "heat" the CPU per say.. I'm just running it at idle. I shudder to think what the CPU temp is fully loaded.

Well, the case is just a simple Super-Mid Tower with a fan in the front sucking air into the case and then just a standard power supply out the back. Ambient temp I believe is 26 C (About 90 F) according to the motherboard. I expect the temps to be higher than if one cut holes in the case, I...

Heyas. I am running a AMD Athlon 1.33 Ghz CPU with a Swiftech MC370-OA on a MSI K7Master motherboard. I have the bus at 133 Mhz and the multiplier set to 10x in the BIOS and voltage set to default. When I applied the heatsink, I put the thermal goo that came with the cooler onto the core...

Hi, I have a wierd problem. I have a Asus P2B-F Motherboard that I recently installed a 60 GB Maxtor HDD into, however the motherboard only recognizes the first 32 GB of the drive. I have flashed the motherboard with the most recent BIOS on Asus's website, (Version 1013a) but it still only...