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I bought a Linksys WRT-150N version 1.0 earlier tonight, and immediately upgraded to the ddwrt firmware without any problems. It was old stock from my local Meijer store. (Meijer is a midwest grocery + retail superstore chain. They don't promote their computer peripherals like Wal-Mart...

For a while I ran my Xeon 3210 quad core with XP Home, and it recognized all four cores. The main issue is that the power users who demand quad core performance will want to use more than 3GB of RAM, which is all that XP and 32 bit Vista support.

I'm the former head tech and current web designer for a national computer reseller. (We aren't huge, but 300 - 400 orders a day isn't too shabby in this market.) We almost exclusively use MSI and Biostar mainboards in our systems and barebone kits, and very rarely have RMAs even though we...

Do you have a USB thumb drive or mp3 player plugged in? I used to have a mainboard that would try to boot from my FAT32 formatted mp3 player for a minute or so before giving up and going to my hard disk, regardless of how the boot order in the BIOS was set.

Is this on a laptop? Some of the cheaper PCMCIA USB 2.0 controller cards require an external power adapter, or have a pass-through cable that hooks up to a PS2 or USB 1.1 port for power. I used to have one that gave that exact error message if that cable was not installed.

I was in a similar situation a few years back and spent over a grand on a Sharp Aquos 26" LCD TV. I haven't regretted it at all. Picture quality on HDTV and DVDs are significantly better than on your budget LCD panels, and computer (through DVI) is good at 1280x768 resolution. Now days you...

Actually, Vista has a newly written TCP/IP stack that certain routers can't handle. If your router has Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) enabled, you might be able to ping the outside world but get "404 Page Not Found" from your web browser, or have random disconnects. For some users, disabling...