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Visioneer One Touch 8100. A kick-ass scanner for less then $100(w/rebate)

Most of my stories are the exact opposite. Doing everything right, and it just gets worse.

A slot A Athlon, TBird or not, will fit on any slot A motherboard. At the very worst, you might have to do a BIOS update.

Its been awhile since I installed 4.0, but I had to start out with 1 CPU, install, add Service pack 3, and then add the second CPU. There is probably an easier way to do it, but I didn't find it. At the time, I thought it was a result of a motherboard flaw.

the philips Accoustic Edge has S/PDIF cables and connections, and the manual has a section on connections for digital speakers. I have the card, but not the digital speakers, so I can't say I've done this from experience

Had an RMA'ed mobo stuck at a branch office for 3 weeks. Can sometimes be a large pain in the butt. However, your stuff seems much more likely to arrive undamaged, as opposed to UPS.

If you have put them on separate partitions, there should be an uninstall for WinME. That should solve your problem.

You get to Effects, Change Icon, then you can use your custom icons by typing in their path and filename, or search for them using the Browse button. Thus, if you extract your Whistler icons into a folder, simply point there from Change Icon, and they are available to use. Also, to change your...

On bootup, you have to choose which you are going to boot into. Usually, you would select one as your default boot OS. You must also remember, install WIN98SE first, and WIN2K afterward. As both programs are on different partitions, you can have each with the native drivers for that OS, and...

If you happen to be building an Athlon setup, you really have to be careful about the quality of the RAM you use. Athlons are not really fond of cheapo generic RAM

I have read on other sites that upgrading to the new 2.2 BIOS has solved a lot of incompatibilty problems with the board. Might be worth your while to try it.

Because I have two somewhat noisy drives, I used styrofoam insulation and enclosed the side of the drive cage. My case is large enough to allow this. It did cut down the noise of the drives and the drive cooling fans to a noticable degree.

MaximumPC mag did an article in the December issue with benchmarks which indicate that win98SE performance seems to max out between 128 and 192mb RAM, and WIN2000 loves 256.

I am running 10k SCSI drives(U2W), and they throw off a lot of heat. Complete drive coolers are, in my opinion, a must for really fast drives, not only to leep your system cooler, but to prolong the life of your drives.

Try here They have a front USB fixture that will fit into a 5.25" drive bay. I think it runs about $35.00.