Recent content by srsanborn

It was a DOA mobo. Returned and now I'm up and running.

Just got finished building a new rig - Gigabyte GA-965P-S3, Core2duo e6300, 2x1GB Patriot DDR2-800, evga 7900gs, 500w antec - and it won't POST. No beeps, no nothing. I've reduced the setup to just cpu and mobo cables (24pin and 4pin), still the same result What I see happening is this: Hit...

Regarding the PSU issue - my current PSU is 20pin, most of the mobos I've been looking at are 24. But, good to know that 500w will still suit me. And about Media Center, I'm ultimately looking at ability to upgrade to Vista - newegg's oems include an upgrade path, and Media Center upgrades...

I'm building up a new rig and am looking for suggestions on the wattage and general brand/model recommendation of a power supply unit. The system will be used almost entirely for gaming, so I don't expect to add additional HDD/optical drives - the only thing I can forsee upgrading would be...

I have a bunch of IDE cables I've collected over the years of upgrading hard drives, cdroms, motherboards, etc. I know some are super old (5 years) and some are relatively new (3 months), so I'm assuming they range from 33 on up. Is there any way to identify these cables... either visually or...

This is a "wiring theory" question dealing with how power gets pulled from the PSU down each chain of power connectors. OK, so here's my scenario: I'm using a 480W to power 4 HDDs, 2 CDroms, a memory card reader, 5 fans, and a UV cathode (not to mention mobo and misc. PCI cards but that's...

Can anyone give some stats, or links to comparisons, between MS Access and MySQL hosted databases? I know the general answer is MySQL is better, but I'm wondering in what ways, and at what point, performace/traffic wise. I'm involved in a small site that is currently running off Access just...

Anyone know offhand where I might find a manufacturer or two who make cases large enough to hold an ATX mobo and two power supply units? I've been out of the case mfgr loop for some time now and wouldn't know where to start searching. I'd imagine someone makes a case that's just stretched up...

This is an odd question, but... I'm throwing together some parts to build a rig for a friend who's not too into computers.. I've collected a mishmash of parts from my many years of upgrades, and am basically pulling the "best of the best" (using the term "best" loosely..) into his rig. The...

What are the repurcussions of installing 2700 DDR into a motherboard that only officially supports up-to DDR 2100? My thinking is that if the 2100/2700 are simply theoretical bandwidth numbers, it shouldn't matter - the 2700 would just max at 2100 speed, but no negative effects would occur...

lobadobadingdong: Sites aren't cached - I can also connect to a particular POP server as well to retrieve mail, so I know there's *some* life to the connection. In re: uninstalling/reinstalling TCP/IP, is this done some other way than going to the LAN connection properties page? When I go to...

i have a small home network setup, three computers sharing DSL through a netgear router. one workstation is connected directly to the router, while the other 2 connect thru a hub which goes to the router. my problem is this: the computer that is direct to router works fine. one of the hub...

I have a 40GB Maxtor drive that cannot be seen by Windows Explorer or the Logical Disk Manager, but BIOS and the Device Manager in Windows can see it. As a data only drive, it was working fine yesterday and while my computer was on overnight, but disappeared from my system after a restart this...

how will windows react (long term) if i have installed windows on 1 hardware rig, and want to swap the HD, complete with windows/software installations, over to a new rig incl. a new mobo/processor. besides flipping out after booting and searching for drivers to update its hardware profiles ...

Ignore this thread.. case has been solved