Hello. I have been trying to add memory to my IBM thinkpad T20 2647-95G with no success. When i byued this laptop it had (or still has) 128mb,...

Tuomas Paasiala

02-25-2005 11:26 AM
Tuomas Paasiala

This has to be the best PC ever built! Alienware Area51 PC :) very nice,, check out this site,, http://alienware.everywebhost.com

Fritz Wuehler

02-22-2005 02:22 AM
Fritz Wuehler

Hi Does anybody know whether the motherboard in an IBM Aptiva 2178-840 is ATX form factor or LPX form factor? Kjeld Olesen

Kjeld Olesen

02-19-2005 03:39 PM
Tom Goodman

I'm building a new system for my wife, looking for some help. I've built lots of Intel systems but never an AMD, thought I'd try it out since I...

Greg Sumner

02-16-2005 11:11 PM
Greg Sumner

At what CASE temperature would you start to worry that the system was getting TOO hot? Or would you not care provided your CPU temp was OK? On a...

Re_endian_miss@yahoo.com

02-15-2005 08:37 PM
Re_endian_miss@yahoo.com

Does anyone know how to use the Motorola i710 as a fax modem? I bought the USB datacable for it and I installed the the device driver for the set for...

knowledgeforeveryone@yahoo.com

02-15-2005 08:02 PM
knowledgeforeveryone@yahoo.com

I currently have a P4 - 2ghz and I want to upgrade to an AMD FX-55. The big catch is that I want to take over my existing hard drive with my Windows...

Toe Jam

02-14-2005 06:30 AM
Maximus Minimus minibus

Have an IBM PIII running Win98SE. I took out a second hard drive that I used for storage to temporarily put in another system. When I reinstalled it...

Doc

02-08-2005 12:48 PM
L David Matheny

I recently purchased an eMachine T3256. My other computer is a Mac G4. I've burned many CDs and DVDs using the G4 which I'd like to be able to use...

velivolus@gmail.com

02-08-2005 04:05 AM
velivolus@gmail.com

I was recently given a nonworking Compaq presario 5000 series 5wv280 by a friend, complete with a win98 recovery disk. It has an AMD athlon 900 with...

newstartz

02-07-2005 11:17 PM
K Doty

I have a couple pc's that I am considering upgrading the hard drive on. Both have motherboards that can handle the newer SATA hard drives. As well,...

MarkW

02-07-2005 11:13 PM
K Doty

I used Nero to make a backup of my 18-gig system drive, running WinXP Home. Took 5 DVD-R's. So, if the time ever came when I had to restore the...

Doc

02-07-2005 11:11 PM
K Doty

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:10:39 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems, tomek <tomek (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote: You don't mention any jumper...

Peter Emanuelsson

02-07-2005 11:10 PM
GFree

Hi, I recently assembled a P4 3.0 GHZ computer and it has been making excessive amounts of noise. I replaced the faulty video card fan with a new...

Falcon1209

02-07-2005 11:09 PM
K Doty

Hi All, I've just assembled this beauty, but unfortunately it won't boot up. I hope you can help This is the set up Asus PC-DL rev 1.05 (Bios rev...

GIPI

02-07-2005 11:07 PM
K Doty

I have a Windows ME system on a network which has recently suffered oine or two odd problems: 1. All of my aplications AND document (but not folder)...

Mike Schneider

02-07-2005 11:04 PM
K Doty

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Scott en Aztlán <slothkills (AT) noyahoospam (DOT) com> wrote: If it works, it does not matter. The only problem is...

Arno Wagner

02-07-2005 11:01 PM
K Doty

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:39:32 -0800, "Chris Hafner" <hafner (AT) peoplepc (DOT) com> wrote: <parts list snipped> Rosewill 300W is not suited for the...

kony

02-05-2005 07:10 AM
Thomas Wendell

Afternoon folks! I've got a year old P4 running 128mb PC133 SDRAM. I purchased a 256mb PC133 SDRAM stick of memory to upgrade with, but when it's...

02-04-2005 04:34 PM
daytripper

Hope there's a resident Dell Dimension 4500 expert around to help me out. I went to Powerleap.com which has a nice little interactive utility which...

Chandler Bing

02-03-2005 02:19 PM
Chandler Bing

Hi, I'm looking for some decent software to soak-test new Intel (and AMD) based kit. QA+FE came to mind as did Microscope from Micro2000. Heard...

Tim

02-03-2005 10:27 AM
Tim

Hi everybody i've just put my hands on a netfinity 5000 mainboard which has two power connectors on it: a standard atx one and a secondary one ,...

attilio

01-31-2005 05:30 PM
attilio

I recently got an old dual PIII 500 computer working. I have Windows XP SP2 installed on it. The motherboard is an SBC8176. I can't get any USB...

bigjohnnyc_03@hotmail.com

01-31-2005 11:33 AM
bigjohnnyc_03@hotmail.com

I did try a new graphics card..no luck...so I decided to take out all cards, unplug connectors from MB and even remove the CPU and put them all back...

Brian

01-31-2005 08:48 AM
Brian

Hello, I bought a PIII Mobo from IBM. Does any one know how to connect the power switch, reset button, HDD led & power LED? The board is used in the...

Paul Barth

01-29-2005 08:57 AM
Paul Barth

Hello, Could anybody help me to find IBM RSP Price Lists from 1998 to 2001? I am interested in PC products (IBM CENTRAL EUROPE & RUSSIA...

sima@sezampro.yu

01-28-2005 09:48 AM
sima@sezampro.yu

Hiya everyone... I have a Netfinity 5100 which was at BIOS rev level 6. I went to update the BIOS this afternoon, to Rev 11 and the procedure hung...

William

01-27-2005 09:45 PM
William

Full Name: wrote: With memory errors, all bets are off. That's why parity/ECC memory is used in systems impacting important information. ...

CJT

01-27-2005 04:59 PM
CJT

I did not try another keyboard yet. If the Print Screen key is stuck, wouldn't the printer run constantly? It does not! The printer is idle and...

xby

01-27-2005 01:06 AM
Franc Zabkar

January 25th, 2005 GeekTech: 64-Bit PCs Coming Soon Sr. Assoc. Ed. Tom Mainelli The dawn of 64-bit Windows desktop computing is upon us. So say...

Ablang

01-25-2005 08:32 PM
Ablang

Thank you very much, Pete, for drawing my attention to the byte at 500H, and for your brilliant idea of setting it to 1 in order to make INT 5...

xby

01-25-2005 12:36 AM
pete@nospam.demon.co.uk

Does anyone know of any PCI cards that have LVDS ports? I have a requirment to communicate between 2 PC's over a point to point connection at 33Mbps....

Larry Martell

01-24-2005 10:20 PM
TC

After replacing a PS2 mouse with a USB mouse the latter does not register in safe mode. Is there a way of having the usb mouse operate in safe mode?

J. P. Willis

01-23-2005 08:23 AM
J. P. Willis

Hi, I want to boot a pc (PIII) but it doesn't give a sigh. When I probe the voltage on a random psu-wire, it gives 0.29V (red) and 0.12V...

Huub

01-23-2005 12:48 AM
Huub

Normally I use this PC with Win 98, but on occasions I boot it up using plain MS-DOS. On these occassions it is quite common for the printer to...

xby

01-22-2005 03:32 PM
Franc Zabkar

I recently purchased a Shuttle XPC SS51G v2.0 barebones kit, which includes a Shuttle brand motherboard with SiS 651 N.B. and SiS962L S.B. chips. I...

kevin.cormier@gmail.com

01-22-2005 01:41 PM
kevin.cormier@gmail.com

Thank you, but, NO! Thank you. The printer is supposed to print if, and only if, the user requests a...

xby

01-21-2005 10:33 AM
Peter Emanuelsson

Hi everyone! I have a system that has basically 3 POST messages: SERVPROC A5030300 SERVPROC A30101010000 POSTBIOS I9990650 What do these mean...?

Evert Meulie esq.

01-21-2005 06:31 AM
meulie@gmail.com

Anyone seen any write ups on an effort to build the most stable Windows XP system on earth? As in a desktop machine that would run months and months...

kevinshi

01-21-2005 06:23 AM
Bob Willard

Hello all. The problem: Use the mouse, hard drive cycles (sounds like its writing, but dont think it is) for one minute and then stops cycling. It...

tpburton@cal.net

01-18-2005 01:28 PM
tpburton@cal.net

I am wondering just how widespread the bad capacitor problem is for boards around three years old. It is hard to get data on the prevalence of the...

J. P. Willis

01-14-2005 11:36 AM
CJT

I want to replace a mobo that now had bad capacitors with a new Pent 4 board. I would like to slavage and keep the CPU . Is is cinpatible with the...

J. P. Willis

01-14-2005 10:06 AM
Rolf Blom

getting a new system 2600+ sempron 512 DDR400 9600 pro 128mb gigabyte mobo 20GB 5200 15GB 5200 dvd cdrw

Veritech

01-13-2005 05:49 PM
Veritech

It's been awhile since I've worked on computers much, I'm looking for ideas...(maybe there's something about these newer Motherboards that I don't...

dougb110

01-12-2005 09:55 AM
Peter Emanuelsson

I have a HP DL380 "G4" i assume it's Generation4 In this machine I'd like to get my Digium 4 port E1 card up and running. I have allready had it...

Johannes Lauesen

01-12-2005 09:42 AM
daytripper

i've got a computer that upon starting it up i get a message saying "no operating system found" ... and no harddrive shows up in my computer.. yet...

sixkiller

01-12-2005 09:31 AM
Peter Emanuelsson

Hello, A friend of mine brought two of their PC's over last night for me to fix and reinstall their operating systems. I unplugged the power cord,...

Brian

01-12-2005 07:11 AM
Brian

I am planning to install Win2000 Pro with WD 120Geg HD on to my 2 Ghz PC. What is the allowed maximum partition size for Win2000 Pro? And,...

Emilio

01-11-2005 03:14 PM
Emilio

I have permission from Lattice Press to distribute an excerpt from the extraordinary new book, "Microchip Manufacturing," by Stanley Wolf, Ph.D....

Keith Reeves

01-11-2005 10:11 AM
Keith Reeves

Hello, All! Got a call from son-in-law in a panic. He has WinXP and a RAID hard drive arrangement (I'm not a RAID person so don't know which type...

Colonel Blip

01-10-2005 10:05 AM
Colonel Blip