Thanks everyone for your replies. I decided to return the video card purchased even though I found that it would work on a AGP X4 motherboard. I...
I have an older PC which supports video AGP X4 maximum. I have just purchased a new video card however the sellet sent me the wrong video card....
Thanks Pete for the very quick reply - the phosphur burn had hardly disappeared off my screen (from my post) when your reply came in - excellent!...
Does anyone have some specs or links to web sites which explain the differences in BURST and CONSTANT data throughput between IDE and SATA?...
I have noticed HEAPS of text files residing in the WINDOWS folder named KB followed by 9 numerics. I believe that they are the left overs from...
Just to put another of my "2 bob's worth in ". Many years ago we had a very near lightning strike (think it hit the local transformer which would...
Do you have a USB or PS2 keyboard connected? I am just wondering if you are using a USB keyboard and somehow USB has been disabled in the bios....
Do any leds on the tower light up when you turn it on? Do you hear any fans running? If not it's more likely to be the power supply. If the leds...
Thanks mattman I have learned more again as I had completely forgot that usb hubs exist. I might take your suggestion of using a smaller...
Thanks Mattman, I certainly have learned a LOT from replies here and research on the internet some of that from prompts given in replies. Yes I...
Thanks Rockster. I am now tossing up between the following motherboards all Gigabyte with FSB 1333/1066/800 GA-EG41MF-S2 max 4gb DDR2 800/667...
Thanks Christer. I must say that after checking what my favourite PC component store has in the range for AMD I became a bit excited with a...
Thanks Rockster The more I read (of the replies) the more I learn but also the more I ponder. In the past people have often said that AMD...
Thanks everyone for your good feedback. It seems that I have lost touch a bit with hardware and in fact now have found that most mobo's do in...
Hi I will be building a new PC soon (to replace my aging P4 2.4Ghz sstem) and after doing a lot of (internet) research on suitable motherboard,...
My question is (hopefully) simple. Will a Pentium 4 chip with FSB 800 run on a motherboard which only supports FSB 533? Most components are...
I'm sure the dimm modules are in the correct slots. The manual says that slot 0 can take double or single sided ram (that is where I have the...
Recently I purchased a 1Gb dimm module for my PC. I REPLACED the existing TWO simm modules of 256MB each with the 1Gb ram. The PVC operated ok....
Thanks Arie, Will that leave entries in my registry for the old username (Patricia) or will they be removed (I hate junk in the registry)? I...
Thanks for the link however I don't think that is the answer. Let me elaborate When Windows starts up (normal mode) it displays the following...
Separate names with a comma.