Hardware

DSL Modem Woes
I friend has broadband internet provided by Frontier, in the form of a Speedstream 5200 modem. It is connected to his single PC via an Ethernet cable, but we have cause to switch to using an USB cable. That's were the problem comes in. When we run the Frontier setup disc, it will wait forever to spot the de... 27 Feb 2006 14:28

No Sound
hi i have a dell dimension 2350 and the sound does not work anymore. its not the speakers cause ive tested them out on other computers. the little speaker that is usually on the bottom right is not there anymore. can anyone telll me how to fix this. thank you ... 1 Mar 2006 22:17

137 Gbyte hard drive capacity barrier
I'm installing a new 200 Gbyte Seagate hard drive in a Windows XP SP2 PC with an MSI K8T Neo series MB. The guide from Seagate warns about the 137 Gbyte addressing limitation of some Operating Systems and of some Mother Boards. The OS should be OK but I can't seem to find anything in the motherboard documenta... 6 Mar 2006 10:25

Need help with Emachines T2542
(I posted this separately over at alt.computer) Been working on a T2542. I did a clean install of XP Home, couldn't get the onboard AC97 sound to work. Got the drivers from the Emachines website for the T2542. Made sure onboard sound was enabled in BIOS. Drivers show to be there, device says working properly,... 22 Feb 2006 04:44

Whether SATA or UATA to go for??
I am getting into assembling of a new PC for my own purpose and I found that the latest SATA drive is better than the usual PATA or ATAPI UATA. But how come a SATA (serial architecture) is having more data access speed than that of a Parallel ATA bus architecture? Can anyone give me a idea of the basics of this q... 17 Feb 2006 04:24

Boot Device Change
Hi everyone! I have a Shuttle SK43G and I have recently purchased a Shuttle 802.11b Wireless Adapter to connect to my home wireless network. Having installed the adapter (and attached it to an onboard USB connector as advised in the manual) I now receive the following message on boot up: Warning: The boot dev... 28 Feb 2006 03:27

p5rd1-v AAFP connector
Hello, I'm trying to put an Asus P5RD1-V Deluxe into an AeroCool Masstige case. All is good except I'm confused on the front access ports. Maybe someone can help me map the pins. On the 1394 port, I get these pins from case: TPA+, TPA-, TPB+, TPB-, VP, GND, VG Motherboard shows loc for the TPAs and TPBs, 3 GN... 15 Feb 2006 09:45

How to tell DDR from DDR2
Hello! I recently purchased an HP desktop which comes with 2 of 512MB 1Rx8 PC2-3200U-333-12. So the total RAM is 1GB. I ordered 2 of 1G DDR2 3200 from newegg.com. But the delivered memories don't fit in the slot. I compared them with the original memories and the shape is different. How do you tell DDR from DD... 13 Feb 2006 17:02

L2 cache question
Hi, I buried my cpu, just tinkering to raise temp to my custom cooling. My 512kb l2 cahe p4 died at same spot as an intel p2 i had..(close to it). Multithreading better than ever? Anyhow, my friend had the 1mb l2 cache p4 on same 533 bus, it did alot of work more before same choking. Prioritizing didn't see... 13 Feb 2006 03:52

No display
Hi I've inherited a Advent 3408A PC http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc/3408a.htm Everything sounds as though it is powering up ok. There is also a red light on the motherboard. I can see the fans working too. The monitor is definitely in working order as I have tested it on another machine. The green l... 17 Feb 2006 04:54