alt.comp.hardware - Week 13, 2005

Using 2 battery backups

Jimmy - 26 Mar 2005 10:58 PM - 8 messages

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 monitor both units in any ...

emachines power behavior

chemliftbake - 26 Mar 2005 7:33 PM - 4 messages

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 would go off and on 50 times, ...

Where can I get?

ultra_classic - 26 Mar 2005 7:20 PM - 4 messages

I have an eMachines model Eview 17f2 CRT monitor. Currently I am experiencing difficulty with the power button. Mostly it sticks, or just won’t work. I have been through the eMachines parts and upgrade department, tech support (they can’t even ...

help, please- broken pin on HD...

Uncle Vinnie - 26 Mar 2005 4:45 PM - 5 messages

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 not, please let me know.. ...

place to buy good value Intel processors in uk?

Sooty - 26 Mar 2005 4:36 PM - 3 messages

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 UK? ...

Gigabyte GA-K8NS (socket 754) USB?

Christo - 26 Mar 2005 1:07 PM - 4 messages

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 socket 754 version of the board ...

Wireless keyboard and mouse woes, XP Pro SP2.

GBH - 26 Mar 2005 12:54 PM - 3 messages

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. Rebooting the machine sometimes fixed the problem. Finally got fed up and put back the original wired KB and ...

skt 754 semprons

Christo - 26 Mar 2005 11:37 AM - 3 messages

do skt 754 semprons work on all skt 754 boards? or will they require a bios flash or something to get them to work? likewise with all old socket A boards, will semprons work on them without a bios flash? ...

Motherboard Reccommendations

Veritech - 26 Mar 2005 11:30 AM - 4 messages

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 pretty much out of the ...

Great News Blog!

GooglePro1000 - 26 Mar 2005 6:31 AM - 2 messages

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power requirements

Kev - 26 Mar 2005 5:38 AM - 9 messages

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 w/ 2 HDs, CDRW, zip, & the usual PCI cards. Not alot ...

Problem with my Epox 8RDA3+ motherboard

Christoph - 26 Mar 2005 4:16 AM - 2 messages

So I got home this afternoon and noticed that my system had locked up. I thought it might have had something to do with an overheating issue had had resolved about a month ago. Perhaps that issue was ...

Hard drive setup

Ian D. Weatherall - 26 Mar 2005 3:46 AM - 9 messages

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 smaller drive as the system drive and the larger drive ...

SATA nightmare

Bobby - 25 Mar 2005 11:20 PM - 17 messages

I bought a new SATA hard drive a couple of weeks ago -- and I've been trying to install it since. It's a Maxtor 250Gb SATA drive (the one with a 16Mb buffer). It works fine as a slave drive to my old (PATA) drive but whenever I ...

Best desktop to buy now?

vg403mkd8 - 25 Mar 2005 9:36 PM - 6 messages

under 1000$ ordinary home use where to buy it? thanks ...

Gigabyte GA-8IEML-T and 200 GB hard drive

mrlg - 25 Mar 2005 9:13 PM - 8 messages

I'm trying to help someone with a Gigabyte GA-8IEML-T motherboard. He bought a new 200 GB hard drive and can only get the computer to detect 137 GB of it. Does anyone know how to tell if the Gigabyte GA-8IEML-T ...

can you partition a stripe hard drive?

Mystical - 25 Mar 2005 8:43 PM - 6 messages

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 manager? ...

USB - IDE adapter

Luap - 25 Mar 2005 8:12 PM - 4 messages

Bought one of these and having trouble. Tried two disks and neither works. The 80GB (set as Master) is recognized by Windows (XP) in "device manager" but I can't get it to show up in Windows Explorer with a drive ...

AMD Athlon 64 (and Pentium)

jab3 - 25 Mar 2005 8:09 PM - 23 messages

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 AV8 Pro). One of my friends is trying to ...

Configure MX900 mouse buttons w/o using Logitech bluetooth hub?

Martijn - 25 Mar 2005 6:14 PM - 5 messages

I have a Logitech MX900 mouse, up and running on my Dell Inspiron 9300 notebook, through the 'Dell wireless 350 Bluetooth internal card', managed by the 'Bluetooth Toshiba Stack 3.03.02'. Problem is that I cannot configure all the mouse buttons; this can only ...

ps/2 serial adapter

Steve - 25 Mar 2005 6:14 PM - 5 messages

I have a problem where the ps/2 port for my keyboard no longer functions. I tried different keyboards, with the same result (no response at all in XP.) So I picked up a USB keyboard, and no problems in XP. However; I need to ...

An Odd Question - Re: processors

BP - 25 Mar 2005 5:37 PM - 3 messages

Hello all. If there is a better group to post this to, please let me know. Whilst dump picking at my local transfer station I have developed a nice little collection of processors. I like to "pop the top" of the processor to ...

Enabling bluetooth on an Acer Travelmate 6000

Matthieu Gaillet - 25 Mar 2005 3:36 PM - 3 messages

Hi all, Little hacking question : My Notebook, an Acer TravelMate 6000, isn't supposed to have a Bluetooth built in device. However, I think that the hardware is effectively installed but simply disabled (and invisible) by software. Two things makes me believe that : ...

Take a look at these cheesy cases

John@Smith.com - 25 Mar 2005 11:03 AM - 6 messages

I love flame and quilt maple but done this way it just looks cheesy. It looks like phony wood print glued onto a plastic/metal case. Theyve got to come up with a whole new frame for it made of polished ...

AMD 1800 to 3000 upgrade

Chuk - 25 Mar 2005 4:40 AM - 9 messages

I recently upgraded my AMD 1800 to a 3000xp processor. I really didn't notice any appreciable inmprovent in performance, so added another 512 memory and saw an immediate improvement, however I am not convinced that I am getting full performance from the 3000 ...

Computer Set Up Question

Skip - 25 Mar 2005 12:43 AM - 5 messages

Is there anyone that is experienced in building computers who might be able to tell me if the following set up has any potential problems in being able to run DAOC or other online type games. I have high-speed internet access with roadrunner ...

Wi fi Newbie

Geezer - 24 Mar 2005 8:26 PM - 2 messages

Hi Ive just bought a new pc that comes with a wfif card. Could someone tell me what i need to get a wireless network going between my pc and my laptop. Id like to share a modem connection and rpinter ...

hardware scanning

luc - 24 Mar 2005 9:32 AM - 7 messages

I have on board sound but cannot find which brand. Therefor I don't have sound on my puter. Is there any free program that will tell you what kind of sound you have on your motherboard so I know what driver to look for? ...

usb

luc - 24 Mar 2005 7:35 AM - 3 messages

I am running xp pro. USB is supposed to recognize a device being plugged in immediately. However, not one of my two usb ports on my motherboard react to a device being plugged in. Is it possible that the usb on a motherboard ...

STOP BEING SUCH A PRICK KEN MALTBY

Lionel - 24 Mar 2005 3:33 AM - 6 messages

Your demeaning and pissy comments to regular posters is becoming tiresome. Go suck a dick you wanker! ...

Creative Labs Settlement re: 24bit/96Hz Deceptive Marketing

kony - 24 Mar 2005 12:52 AM - 5 messages

Creative Labs Settlement re: 24bit/96Hz "... Litigation concerns the first Audigy and Extigy lines of sound cards manufactured by Creative Labs, Inc. (“Creative”) which plaintiff claims were falsely advertised in that they did not process sound at 24 bit/96kHz for all functions: Audigy ...

asus p48533

Irlan agous - 23 Mar 2005 9:11 PM - 4 messages

Hello there, what kind of processor socket doesn this motherboard have? i cant find it on the asus site Thanks ...

quick cooling question

Skeleton Man - 23 Mar 2005 6:55 PM - 5 messages

Are Prescott coolers backwards compatible with Norwood P4's ? (ie. will they physically fit ?) I figure if it's designed for the hotter running Prescott, I can run it on the lowest setting for my humble 2.4Ghz Northwood.. (stock cooler sounds like a ...

AMD Sempron

JF - 23 Mar 2005 6:47 PM - 4 messages

I am thinking of upgrading my computer and like the price of the AMD Sempron 2500. Can someone tell me, if the Sempron is an advancement of the Athlon XP or the Duron. The only reason I ask is that I still see Athlon 2800+ ...

I'M trying to install W2k but my bios can't find the harddrive.

Orion - 23 Mar 2005 12:29 PM - 4 messages

Hi all, motherboard: Asus P5/A cpu: AMD K2 450mhz bios: latest version: 1.007 harddrive: WesternDigital 80Gb I'm trying to install W2k but my bios can't find the harddrive. ...

UT2004 crashes Gigabyte X800XT with with dynamic lights

Mika Hirvonen - 23 Mar 2005 10:52 AM - 13 messages

My fully patched UT2004 crashes whenever there's too many dynamic-light-generating objects around. Whenever it crashes, the screen cycles a while between grey and blue, then turns to black and returns to BIOS POST. There's no BSOD, just plain blue. Whatever sounds were ...

AOpen XC Cube EZ65-II (sff)

johnp - 23 Mar 2005 9:02 AM - 5 messages

Anyone have any experience with them? [link] ...

Where can I get...

Mike - 23 Mar 2005 7:58 AM - 6 messages

....connectors to attach to my motherboard? I am rebuilding an old Gateway PC with an Intel D875PBZ motherboard. The front-panel connectors from the Gateway case don't exactly fit the new motherboard. Does anyone know where I can get new connectors that I can attach to ...

Compatible Memory

Smith - 23 Mar 2005 12:05 AM - 3 messages

I have an old Gateway Athlon Select K7-950 (well 900 now, the 950 fried and I bought a combo with same board and a 900mhz processor). ([link]). Was ...

Plextor 712 A Trouble

geezer - 22 Mar 2005 9:50 PM - 2 messages

I have a Plextor 712 A DVDRW drive that I have been using and I thought it was working fine. Now I find that I can't write usable videos on a DVD+RW disk even though I can write the same videos on the same drive on a DVD-R disk. ...

can i run my server upside down?...

mythras11 - 22 Mar 2005 5:57 PM - 5 messages

well i have an intel server that i use an my home pc its the se7500wv2 in sr1300 chasis the problem is the internal video card realy sucks ...alot. but i only have 1 available pci slot that is elbowed so the card will fit in the 1u ...

advice please:bios flash failure on msi 875p neo board

terry larman - 22 Mar 2005 5:37 PM - 3 messages

hi all! i recently attempted to flash the bios to the latest version on the above board,unfortunately even though i thought id disabled antivirus & firewall,the process was halted halfway through & i got a norton antivirus warning screen appear. ...

USB2?

Christo - 22 Mar 2005 2:32 PM - 5 messages

how can i tell if the USB ports on my system are USB2? i am using a MSI KT6V Motherboard and have used the headers on the board to connect up some bracket type things that slot into pci slots on back of case ...

Buffalo LPV2-USB Print Server - help required

Harry - 22 Mar 2005 1:30 PM - 8 messages

Hi there. Does anyone out there have a Buffalo LPV2-USB-TX1 print server. I have just bought one of these and am trying to use it in the UK with a Windows XP Home based PC and laptop and a Netgear DG834G Wireless ...

boot failure

Wanabe - 22 Mar 2005 12:42 PM - 5 messages

Hi, My computer won't boot. I've tried reseating the ram, cpu and clearing the cmos. When i press the power button the leds on the front panel light and there is one beep. The hard drive led stays on but their is ...

On this subject of refurbished bits...

Dan - 22 Mar 2005 4:01 AM - 6 messages

I recently saw an ad for a retailer w/a local store (no shipping) for a Refurbished 21" IBM P260 Flat Trinitron Monitor for $149 after $50 rebate. Seems like a pretty good deal to replace my ~10 yo 17" NEC ...

A 'Ghost-like' tool that backs up individual folders and files?

the messenjah - 22 Mar 2005 1:02 AM - 5 messages

Ghost has the unfortunate limitation of forcing you to mirror entire partitions or drives. Is there any software tool that allows one to hotswap in a burner or usb drive and rip individual files and folders straight off the hard drive onto your media of choice? ...

MSI GeForce 6600GT just blew up!

Max - 22 Mar 2005 12:49 AM - 5 messages

The computer was in idle not doing anything and the monitor shuts off and I smell burning! I looked inside and found the fan on the video card stopped. Sure enough, after I replaced the video card with a spare, the computer ...

mercury mainboard problem

terry larman - 21 Mar 2005 11:20 PM - 2 messages

hi all! (background) i recently had an unfortunate experience with my msi 875p neo mobo,when i corrupted the bios trying to update it. for a quick,cheap fix i bought a mercury via pt800 mainboard on ebay. system is: intel p4 2600 800fsb cpu ...

new network: best wireless options?

James - 21 Mar 2005 10:31 PM - 6 messages

Apologies for this... its pretty basic questions but I cant get any satisfaction on the NTL web site. Just wondered if anyone could give me some tips on setting up a simple home network for use with NTL cable supply. I have the cable coming into an ...

Raid 1 [Set-up?] Problem

David Watkinson - 21 Mar 2005 7:33 PM - 4 messages

Just experimenting with RAID 1 on my machine but I'm encountering a slight, but rather fundamental, problem. I'm using the GB7VAXP-U mobo and I've got a Seagate 6.4 and 10Gb (IDE) set in mirror in the BIOS (Promise 'Lite'?) which built the array OK (via create ...

Hardware raid

Veritech - 21 Mar 2005 6:13 PM - 13 messages

Whats the cheapest way of using raid 5. all the pci cards i've seen so far are scsi, and those drives cost a mint, i would prefer sata. Are there any motherboard that support it onboard? thanks ...

Re: Beware of Radio Shack

~ - 21 Mar 2005 5:34 PM - 14 messages

give them a fake address. In article <MeqdnfY6cZ_ZjmrdRVn***@gbronline.com>, Wes Groleau <groleau+n***@freeshell.org> wrote: ...

s-ata RAID temperature monitoring.

Bishop - 21 Mar 2005 2:22 PM - 3 messages

Hi everybody, Is there a way for s-ata RAID HDD temperature monitoring? The mobo is Asus P4C800 deluxe RAID chip: Promise PDC20378 HDD: Samsung SP1614C (sata 160GB) in RAID-0 I tried HDDTemp, Everest and some others, but only IDE drives are ...

What if a RAID-1 HDD fails?

Unknown User - 21 Mar 2005 1:02 PM - 5 messages

I want to use 2 HDD in a RAID-1 configuration for redundancy, so that I don't loose any data. I have a question: One day, one of the 2 HDD will fail, then as soon as I ...

Fan wont stop in Stand by mode!

rom1l - 21 Mar 2005 6:49 AM - 9 messages

Hi people, I just got a new PC: AMD64 3500+, ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard and when i put the computer into stand by mode the CPU and Case fans still remain on! How can i stop this as the point of putting the PC into stand by is to ...

processor help - pentium m or pentium 4

dustin.mcbride - 21 Mar 2005 3:28 AM - 14 messages

im looking to buy a new laptop, and i was wondering about the differences in the 2 processors (pentium m vs pentium 4). this computer will be used as a desktop replacement. i am looking for a computer that will let me play my ...

Graphics card failing?

S.Boardman - 20 Mar 2005 10:16 PM - 12 messages

Hello. I bought a ATi Radeon 9800 Pro. It has worked fine until just recently. The alarm that signals no power connection (message on screen, boot halted) went off a couple of times, and then it seemed to work OK. ...

1394 not seeing HDD

Jimmy - 20 Mar 2005 9:00 PM - 5 messages

I installed another 1394 PCI card to supplement the jack on my sound card but I can not see my HDD with this installation. It appears in DM as installed in slot 4 while the one that works is shown in slot 1. Why can't ...

Linksys Router BEFSX41

oldgrey - 20 Mar 2005 7:46 PM - 4 messages

I have the above Linksys router. At various times I get the message "unplugged network connection". After up to about ten seconds I get the message "connected at 100.0 mbs". To determine if the problem if the problem was with my router or my ...

windows 98SE doesn't see USB devices

code_wrong - 20 Mar 2005 5:57 PM - 13 messages

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 Universal Host Controller" is listed in device ...

NETWORK ADAPTERS WON'T INSTALL

Joanne Bailey - 20 Mar 2005 5:53 PM - 10 messages

Dell 4600 Running WinXP-Pro My Network Adapter "disappeared" (no idea how except possibly a virus) Plug N Play finds the hardware, goes through the install routine but the end result after re-boot is the same: The network adapter is listed as an ...

Refurbished Desktops: Good or Bad?

Anonymous - 20 Mar 2005 5:09 PM - 9 messages

I've seen refurbished desktops with amazing specs for really cheap prices (I am certain this retailer is legitimate and reliable), but my question is: are refurbs good or bad? The specs are: 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, 512 KB cache ...

Re: difference between DDRAM and SDRAM

General Schvantzkoph - 20 Mar 2005 3:24 PM - 2 messages

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:39:21 -0400, Pen wrote: This is what you said, you said that DDR RAM is the same as SDRAM. Here is your quote exactly. It's not the same, it's a different architecture. I've been designing ...

Burn speed?

bwesley8 - 20 Mar 2005 2:41 PM - 19 messages

My home system (PIII 800-MHz, WinXP Home, WD 120-Gb HDD, 384-Mb RAM) has a recently-installed Sony DVD RW DRU-710A burner. I just burned a backup of ~3.9-Gb of general data files (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access files, lots ...

(",) Do You Want To Know For Sure You Are Going To Heaven?

Ron038548 - 20 Mar 2005 2:32 PM - 2 messages

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noisy Coolermaster Hyper 48 ??

Jeroen - 20 Mar 2005 1:46 PM - 3 messages

Question ? I recently purchased a new motherboard: ASUS P5P800 with a 3.0 GHz PIV processor and a Coolermaster Hyper 48 CPU cooler. This cooler, according to the box and several reviews on the internet is supposed to be very quit ...

bad capacitors?

Zdenek Sojka - 20 Mar 2005 1:01 PM - 18 messages

Hello, can be these caps reason for my PC instability? Even on 1.85V is my Duron 1300 producing faults at Prime95... [link] MB is Abit KT7, VIA KT133. Thanks Zdenek Sojka ...

Problem running two sticks of RAM

Xizor - 20 Mar 2005 5:58 AM - 7 messages

Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could help me with this problem. I recently built a new computer: P4 3.0GHz Asus P5P800 Motherboard 80GB Seagate SATA HDD Win XP Home NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 The problem is, when I first started using the computer, programs would shut ...

Dell PowerEdge 2400 drivers

LightLady110 - 20 Mar 2005 12:42 AM - 5 messages

Hi. I just bought a Dell PowerEdge 2400 for $150 in a bankruptcy sale here in the U.S. The bankruptcy trustee told me that it was a "stock" server w/no add-ons. The server has one 533 MHz PIII CPU w/room for ...