Home Built PC

ASUS mobo beep codes?
Hi I'd be very grateful if someone has any info on the meaning of POST beep codes for an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. The manual says "see POST beep code table below" and I thumb through all the pages until I reach the last page looking for it - its not there! My ASUS mobo has a very neat feature called "ASUS POS... 31 Aug 2006 21:57

Determining the bottleneck in my PC
My computer has a strange problem which i can't seem to be able to diagnose. Some of the symptoms are: 1. Trouble listing folders with a lot of files--this takes a long, long time. 2. Deleting multiple items in the folder or in a specific app such as ACDSee 3. Marking items as read or catching up in Outlook Expre... 25 Aug 2006 18:13

How about this?
"Dave" <never(a)not.invalid> wrote in message news:44e883f8$0$17943$892e7fe2(a)authen.yellow.readfreenews.net... Core 2 Duo. Definitely. Oh, and if the 800 system included the mainboard, then you can probably build Core 2 Duo system right now for about 900, if you shop carefully. Probably less than 90... 20 Aug 2006 13:38

Coincidence? Samsung HD failure
Mike T. wrote: <jfroche(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1155229294.742549.249470(a)q16g2000cwq.googlegroups.com... I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS K7S5A MB, 1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error warnings from the BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is backe... 19 Aug 2006 00:02

Memory
I was given a old computer without a memory sticks (r.a.m) I would like to know how to find what type of memory the computer requires, from using the Motherboard (Mainboard) as there are many different type of R.A.M. out there. ... 6 Aug 2006 23:15

CPU socket question
Howdy: I'm gearing up to build another computer and was just wondering. What are the differences or advantages/dis-advantages to all the differenct socket types out there? Is one better than another? Faster? Stabler? If there is no one socket with an advantage why wouldn't they standardize them? Would make life ... 2 Aug 2006 16:17

BIOS Question
In a Windows Crash Report, it says to disable BIOS Caching or Shadowing... So I did. What is the downside of doing that? I don't know what these features do. Will impact performance? Thanks, mac ... 1 Aug 2006 22:42

DVD Capacity
Purchased movie DVDs can contain over one and a half hours of a movie. Why can't I put more than a half hour of video on a DVD from my Digital 8 camcorder? ... 29 Jul 2006 23:07

Removing Heatsink
Hi guys. Just ordered a water cooling kit from Danger Den. To prep for this, I tried to remove the heatsink/fan from the CPU (Intel 478). I bought the complete PC system as a custom build from Monarch Computers about 3 1/2 years ago. I've uploaded some pictures here: http://www.leinss.com/files/vanity/... 29 Jul 2006 00:54

AMD
Dear all: AMD Athlon 64 3300+ 2.40GHz / 256KB Cache / 1600MHz FSB / OEM / Socket 754 / Processor, $19.97 after rebate Intel Pentium D 840 3.2GHz / 2MB Cache / 800 FSB / OEM / Socket 775 / Dual-Core / $99.99 after rebate from tigerdirect.com Which CPU would have better price/performance ratio? Is there an... 31 Jul 2006 17:17