Recent content by Random73421

He thought a socket-473 to 478 P4 adapter actually converted a socket-A motherboard to socket-478. He is stupid because he completely made up everything on the sale page to get a sale. I'd hate to see someone actually buy it and try to use it that way.

I was looking around eBay today and I found this little gem. http://tinyurl.com/7rl8z "It's that easy!"

Do you happen to have a wireless router or access point? If I put mine on channel 11, it interferes with the modem and it works like you describe.

I recently got some eMachines parts from a friend. Among them was a motherboard/CPU pair. The motherboard was the standard HP/Emachines/Compaq TriGem "Imperial Rev. G" model. The CPU is a Celeron-A 2.3GHz. (Old, but great for my grandparents who want an upgrade from their Pentium II laptop.)...

Get your chipset's latest IDE controller drivers. I recently got a Seagate 160GB and it took NVIDIA's newest Nforce drivers to recognize all of it.

An old early-ATX system I have did this by default (P2 266). Under Power Management in Control panel, enable Advanced Power Management (APM). It's on one of the tabs there. If it's not, it's AT.

I only own one PC without a floppy. All others I have built, for myself or others, include a floppy. They can't hurt at all, if anything, they help in emergency situations. Hell, one of my old Linux machines has a 5.25" drive to read C64 disks. :) Edit: I have that Supermicro board...

Checked this same problem elsewhere. All the startup options for ATI are enabled in msconfig, which sometimes causes this. Also, I do have a TV connected to the S-video output, but it is disabled. The card runs at 41 idle, 45 in-game with Far Cry. Silencer at full speed. Anything?!

Title pretty much sums it up. I recently installed an Arctic Cooling VGA Sikencer Rev3 on it. Although I only noticed it being gone today. It used to be there. Anything?

Check the BIOS on the board. Some boards with an integrated GP have a "disabled/enabled" setting for it. Usually under "Integrated Peripherals". Good luck. -Random

I'm thinking about getting the Arctic Cooling "VGA Silencer" for 2 reasons: it's cheaper than most, and is built quieter than the "ATI Silencer 2" from them. Before I buy this: will it fit on the ATI "brand" 9600XT? AC's site has barely any info on it, and neither does anyone else. Thanks...

I was given 2 old machines. Each had a formatted hard drive, and Windows 2000 Pro would not install on either. They had 64MB (P2 266Mhz) and 256MB (P3 1GHz) of PC100 SDRAM. I got lots of "corrupt CD or file" errors while trying to install. if it did complete, even after those errors, Windows...

Thanks a ton man. I plan on buying the 19160. I'll keep the drive for now since I only use it to back up my music, and it's faster than the old ATA-33 Maxtor in my backup "server" now. -Random

I bought a Seagate Cheetah ST39102LW surplus for $7. I plugged it into a molex and no spinning-up vibrations or noise. I notice that there is a jumper for 'remot motor start enable" that turns on the spindle motor when the controller is present. This jumper, however, is not shorted. It should...

Yeah. I just took a good look under a magnifying glass. 2 MOSFETs are completely burnt and cracked. Looks like he didn't fully insert the stick of RAM (you cant lock it in all the way with a video card in the AGP slot) and it killed the board. Just ordered a new one. Thanks, Random