Recent content by svadas

I'm trying to upgrade my old pc into today's technology. I have bought an Asrock 4coredual-vtsa MB and one of those FAR Ultra cases (wizard?). The problem I am having is the labeling on the front panel power 1 plugs on the mb. there are 2 rows of pins, 4 on top and 5 on bottom. there is a...

i'm not looking to overclock or anything just want to rejuvenate my pc since those core 2 duo chips are dropping in price. what do you recommend. also i notice the ones on newegg seem to only handle slower ram, would they work with faster ram? i'm just asking cause i see plenty of good deals...

Nvidia Geoforce 4 MX 420

Which one would be a good replacement for my card? Since my computer is so old, I'm worried about overspending since I am stuck with AGP.

Looking for a video replacement for my older PC. Have seen some reasonable buys on both 9700Pro (which doesn't seem to be listed on ATI's site) and 9800 regular model. Which is the better card? Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I only seem to follow this stuff when a component goes in my...

I just replaced the power supply and still have the identical problem with the video card once I enable hardware acceleration. On a side note, what is the proper way to plug in the power to the floppy drive. I didn't take note unplugging it and it's hard to figure out which way to reinstall...

Is there some way to test the power supply? Is there one that is recommended as a replacement? Should I not worry about the video card then?

I have been the content owner of an older ABS computer. The main specs are as follows: Athlon (T-Bird) 1.2 Gig Motherboard FIC AD11 512 MB DDR PC-2100 300 watt power supply (not sure of type) GeForce 4 MX 420 The problem that I have been experiencing is frequent screen going blank for...

I had a Leadtek GeForce 2 Pro in my pc which went bad. The computer company sent me a GeForce 4MX A170 (Leadtek) in return. Is this a comparable video card or did they pass me off with something cheaper? I'm concerned cause I thought the MX series wasn't as good.

I have both of those cards installed.

I've got a problem with my video crashing on my pc. It's a Geoforce 2 Pro (Leadtek) running XP Pro. I could send the card back to the pc people and they can check it for being defective, but that leaves me with no pc. I don't think the card is defective as I didn't have such problems prior to...

40 gig, I'm going to dual boot it with windows2000.

I'm going put linux on my new pc. I currently have Caldera running on an old mac. I had Caldera only because it's the only thing that would run. What is considered the best flavor of linux currently? I've heard a lot of praise for mandrake and red hat, but I thought I'd check with you guys...