Recent content by silvater

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    Screen Vibration

    A friend told to look for EMF problems. I live in college dormitory, so the space as you can imagine is not the biggest. In the same desk I had my monitor and my pc next to each other. So I had to take the tv out. It seem to help. thanks anyway
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    Floppy disk failure (40).... please help

    when the cable is backwards if I remeber well, the floppy light will stay on.
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    Screen Vibration

    Lately, I was getting headeches easily by reading text on the web. today I finally took a close look to my screen. U can see the screen is shaking a little bit constantly. I went thru the menu of the monitor but nothing really work. My monitor is Samsung SyncMaster 950b. I bought it on 2001, so...
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    lookin at boards for 1800XP.. any sug??

    For AMD I think that the best chipset right now are the VIA. If you are looking for the last chipset which is the KT333: Toms hardware review for 18 MOBOS with the KT333 If you are looking for the one before the KT333 which is the KT266A I will choose the Epox 8kha+ go to...
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    Asus P4s533 @ Newegg

    I have a P4S533 and an Antec SX840 with a PSU of 400W, and it has been running 24/7 since day one with any problem.
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    Case/PS for P4 1.8A or XP2000+?

    I would recommend to take a look to the Antec cases they are very good. I have the Antec SX840 (which has a 400W PS) with a P4 system and works just great!!! Take a look into the antec web page because I know that they released a new line of cases not long ago that are very cool:P:cool:
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    Frequency

    In computers frequency is a term that is very common. but not many of us understand what it really means. We just memorized the numbers(133Mhz, etc) and repeated like robots. I want to understand what do the frequencies show us, It sounds very general Im going to try to break it down. What I...
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    Cooling a P4

    What are some solutions that you can give me to cool it down. I will be happy if I can take it to the low 30's Celcius. This week Im going to buy the Artic Silver and applied. Is there any other advice to bring down that temperature. How exactly do I remove the old thermal compound that I have...
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    Cooling a P4

    I just build my first computer:); however, my CPU is running at 40Celcius. I think that is pretty high because I have seen posts of people with P4's 1.6 Overclocked to almost 2.5Ghz and they have it running at 40/45 Celcius. When I installed my CPU, I went to a small computer shop and got a...
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    P4S533 Setup Question

    I didnt change nothing on my board. I left all the defaults values that it had and I coneect the three power connectors and it worked just fine.:cool:
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    Monitors

    I have $200 budget for my monitor. I would like to get a 17" or better. I do not have a monitor right now
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    Monitors

    confused;Im looking to buy a monitor. I'm planning to play some games and watch DVD movies What are some features that I have to look for and what monitor brands are good. If it matters I'll be using a Geforce TI 3 200. Thanks:
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    POLL: what linux distro are you using?

    I use Mandrake 7.2 in my laptop and Mandrake 8.1 in my server.
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    Tv-Output

    What if I want to watch TV on my PC, Do I have to buy an especial adapter or what?
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    Tv-Output

    Im very new to the Video cards world. I'am planning to buy a Geforce TI 3 200. My question is: What is the Tv-Output of the card for, which are some common uses for it. Thanx :o