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Also, if you are using Arctic Silver or another kind of potentially electrically conductive thermal paste, make sure some of it has not gotten on other parts of the cpu. The only place it should be is on the core. If it is touching anything else on the cpu package, it needs to be cleaned off.

Every keyboard has a limit to how many keys it can read at once. Some keyboards are able to read more when attached to USB rather than PS/2. Most of the time most keyboards don't read more than 3 keys at once regardless of connection. The beep you hear is your computer telling you that you...

What do you mean play thorough this computer? Is it acting as a gateway/router for the other computers using vpn or something? What exactly is your network setup?

Well, assuming Microsoft can get Longhorn out by 2010, we should be seeing fully 64 bit native applications and maybe 6-7 GHz processors on the top end, and 4 GHz will probably be affordable for the average user. I think more than anything we will probably see a revolution in motherboard...

You are getting no video signal. That is why your monitor says that. Make sure your video card is completely and properly seated and that the monitor is hooked up to it. Also make sure you have external power attached to your video card if it requires it.

Powering up and then off abruptly could be a ground out. Check all your motherboard standoffs and make sure that they are in the right places. Green light and no power on. Could be the power switch is not hooked up properly. Check the connection.

Can't be that bad, you are still posting. :) And its called antivirus software. Try installing some. Works wonders. ;)

First, why is this in Operating Systems? Anyhow.... Tell your friend to lay off the crack and stop believing the Oprah hype. Sheesh. Oprah can't even begin to touch Gates. Oprah is #514 on the list of the Forbe's list with a paltry $1.1 billion net worth. Gates is still #1 with $46.6...

WHAT? 802.11g is 54 Mbps. How fast exactly do you think your cable internet is? I have built in 802.11g in my laptop, but I haven't even bothered to upgrade my router from 802.11b since I am able to do all I need from my laptop with my measly 11 Mbps. Seriously, what do you expect from...

It all has to do with being a corporation. As a corporation, you have much more responsibility for documenting than communications than most businesses, especially between officers of the corporation (CEO, COO, CIO, etc). Generally corporations archive all emails, computerized records, and...

I would have to concur also. If someone doesn't need maximum performance or other special needs, an OEM system from HP, IBM, or Dell is definitely a good choice. You will note that I left Gateway out of the list. In my experience Gateway's tend to be a little on the dodgy side when it comes...

Right. As I said previously that BIOS recognized the SATA drive as IDE by default. So it doesn't NEED a driver, but with the driver you will probably see better performance. And some BIOS do not recoginize SATA drives by default. You either have to alias them to IDE or load a driver. Have...

Sorry I forgot HP. Wasn't intentional. I have used a few HP servers over the years, and they have been very reliable. I was just throwing some names out. Sorry to have left you out. :( I even edited my post to include HP now. :D If it makes you feel any better, I own an HP laptop and an HP...

Chances are you have a nice blue paperweight. :eek: You might try contacting Linksys Tech support and tell them that you had a failed firmware upgade. I wouldn't mention the wrong version thingy. ;) I doubt there is anything they can do for you, but if it is still under warranty, then you...

And the other one is an audio connector for the cd-rom/dvd. :) This assumes you have onboard audio.

Here is a link to the Gigabyte site for the SATA drivers. Hope that this helps. Sorry for the delay in the reply. I didn't get back to the forums last night. Got busy at work.

If he is doing this for a business, he may want to consider leasing the server rather than buying one. He should take a look at HP, IBM and Dell for leasing. He could get a server and lease it for a couple of years then upgrade. And with a lease typically goes service and support. Most leasing...

With most newer routers, all you have to do is plug in and go because they use DHCP. There is usually a little wizard that you run that lets you set the admin password and name the network. There are some other configurations that can be set in the wizard, but most of the time you can go with...

You should load the drivers that came with the motherboard or go out and download the latest one. You will get better performance. As for Windows working fine without you installing it, there are two possibilities. First, when you installed the mobo drivers the first time, it loaded the SATA...

Your schools IS department may be the answer. Read the TOS or Usage Policy or whatever your school calls their internet use policy. If it does not expressly forbid playing games, then I would go to the IS department and complain about your connection. They may not realize that you have a faulty...

The more walls you go through, the more signal loss you will have. I would probably locate the router on the 1st floor of the house so it is in a central location. Remember, you don't need anything but an ethernet connection and an AC outlet where ever you locate the router. You may also have...

SiSoft Sandra is a good choice.

You can find expanded polystyrene insulation board at Lowes and just about every major home improvement place. Here is a link to Lowes website http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=productList&function=search&categoryId=INSULATION.CATEGORY&topic=goShopping . I know that they carry a 1" thick also. The...

Sounds like you have a big project ahead of you. I have done a lot of home remodeling (last project was gutting and redoing an 1875 house), so if you have any questions, shoot them my way. A few suggestions: 1. No carpet in the desk area. It creates dust and static. I would suggest putting...

Thanks for the quick reply. So the way I understand this, the wu it is working on now is 140/1000 so I could safely kill and redo this boxen without any real problem since it is less than 20%? I really would like to get this box moved to Linux over this long weekend while I am off for 4...

I will apologize in advance because I am sure this has been covered, but I can't find it. Ok, here is the deal. One of my boxen is still running Win98SE, which frankly is pissing me off. I would really like to blast the drive and install a Linux distro, but I don't want to lose my work unit...

I can't wait to see your finished mod. Looks like it has great potential as a project. I do have two possible suggestions involving the keyboard. You could keep the stock keyboard the way it is just for a cover for the LCD, and install a wireless keyboard, and mount the wireless reciever...

Sorry. I missed that in your orignal post. Well, you may very well have a bad motherboard. Probably a flaky northbridge.

In IE go into Tools | Internet Options and under Temporary Internet Files, click on Settings. This should be set to 100 MB or less on a high speed connection. Personally I use 50 MB for my setting with good success. Everytime you load a page, IE checks those temporary internet files to see...

My bad on the prices of the socket 754 Athlon64's. I didn't realize that the prices had dropped so significantly on them. It appears the ECC RAM has also gotten somewhat cheaper which was the other killer of the Athlon64 systems. Now it looks like it is a bit more of a toss up between the socket...

Cheap coax and cheap splitters are not a good idea for cable internet use. The coax should always be RG6 and the splitters have to support at least 1000 MHz. Cheap doesn't work well with cable internet. And as someone else said, use as few splitters as possible between where the cable comes...

Go into Control Panel under Accessibility Options. You can turn off Sticky Keys, Filter Keys, and Toggle Keys there and disable the shortcuts to turn them on. I go there and turn off the shortcuts the first time I sit down at any strange computer. Whoever decided that the shortcuts for...

In Safe Mode, many things don't work right. Safe Mode is for system recovery, not normal operation. If you are able to print when you boot normally, then everything is working fine.

Well, I am surprised no one else has posted this, but one of the common problems that causes random reboots with inconsistent errors is bad RAM. Go into your BIOs and turn off the fast RAM test. All fast RAM test does is verify the quantity of RAM, it does no checking for functionality. The...

What the hell that is an alpha version of Longhorn. It is very unstable and missing many features. They may be doing progressive upgrades to it or they may not. No guarantees. The license is only good for one year unless they choose to extend it. If you are willing to put up with buggy alpha...

You might want to try pulling everything off (including RAM) the motherboard but the cpu and cpu hsf. Make sure you have a speaker hooked up to the pc speaker jack (assuming your mobo doesn't have an onboard error speaker). If you power it with the cpu and cpu fan only and you get beeps...

If you aren't running Linux, no reason to get an Athlon64. For the extra cash an Athlon64 would cost you, you can put together a killer P4 or AthlonXP gaming rig and get comparable performance. Linux is the only 64-bit OS available for a PC platform. Windows Longhorn will supposedly be...

What kind of noise are you hearing? Vibration? Whining? Rattling? Whirring? They all mean different things. If you are hearing vibration or whirring, the first thing to do is isolate the hard drive from metal to metal contact. Best way to do that cheaply is with some rubber washers you can...

Even though all you changed was the cables for the side panel fans, I would check to make sure that all the cables are secured in place. It does sound very much like a short rather than a loose cable. Also could be a dead PSU. Did the fan damage the wiring or just hit it? Also, some...

You are probably right that it is your monitor. If you are seeing the same sort of color problems with the monitor disconnected and just its OSD on, I would say it is time for a new monitor.