Hi group I have a Yamaha MIDI daughterboard that connects to the Waveblaster slot on my old Sound Blaster 16. The SB16 is an ISA card, and on modern motherboards there usually are no ISA slots. So...

Hello everyone, I was wondering what you all thought about AMD Athlon 64 (probably just a 3000+). I am in the process of upgrading my motherboard/processor and am considering this combo (with ABit...

Hi...I could use some help... Pins 1 and 2 broke off on my Hard Drive (Maxtor Plus 8) One is the ground, the other is Reset IDE... I assume I s/b Ok regarding the ground as there are others... if...

I've just bought one of these. For the first 2 days it was completely quiet, and then sporadically it makes loud clicking noises - hard enough to make the case vibrate. I don't know if this is a bad...

Hi all, I have a Microsoft Standard Wirless Optical Desktop (ie. wireless kb/mouse combo), which frequently stops responding properly (ie. a lot of keys won't work) and/or starts repeating...

Hello everyone... Happy Easter :o) Last couple days Ive been considering adding a dvdr as prices for drives and media seem to be very good these days. But I wonder about the power requirements. P3...

Is it possible to use two APC Battery backup units connect through USB? I have one for my system and one that I am using to monitor cable box and TV but not connected to computer. Is it possible to...

I have two machines, one Intel, the other AMD. I ran Everest Home Edition against both, to see if they are running as they should. I am afraid they might not be. The resulting numbers confuse...

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http://tinyurl.com/5pv5l the above url links to a monitor B-Grade or box damanged, what is meant by box damaged, as in there is a crack, or it doesnt work? any info on this would be greatly...

Hi I just bought a very cheap (it is not latest model now) but brand new Soltek Qbic (3000W ) barebones I know what and where to get for memory and HD but not for Intel CPU's ..... Any pointers in...

First wireless/usb keyboard and mouse started to act up, replaced batteries but still flaky. Bought new wireless KB and mouse and all was fine for a few days then both would just stop working....

Hello, I have recently purchased a new 160Gb 7200rpm 8mb cache HDD, and have a question concerning performance when used in conjunction with another 40Gb 7200 2mb cache drive. I intended to use the...

I do quite a fair bit of amatuer audio work. I've been wanting a new motherboard for a while now to "unlesh" the overclocking potental of my cpu. I got about £50-60 to spend, so a cpu upgrade is...

Hi I have two SATA 160GB drives and i want to Stripe (RAID) 300GB the remainder i want as a separate partition 20GB. Is this possible? How is it done, is it via the bios or Win XP hard disk...

Fellow Emachines Users: Most computers I have owned were set up so they would come back on right away after a power failure. If the power went off and on 50 times while you were away, the system...

Hi, I am trying enable the USB ports Packard Bell PB 9533, Windows 98SE with all the updates USB is enabled in the BIOS. I have installed the drivers for 2 USB devices. The "Intel 82801AA USB...

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Medion Titanium MD 8386 W XP. 512 mb RAM 250 Gb HD When I first bought this PC in December, I was horrified when it revved up like a hoover when I started it up. Fortunately this disappeared...

Gigabyte website doesnt say there is no USB and the manual has references to USB in the BIOS but i would like to know if anyone can confirm if this board has any USB on it? cheers ps - its the...