Recent content by forthill

Hello. I have an Acer Aspire 5810TZ-4657 with 320 GB hard drive. The bios no longer recognizes that the hard drive is there. In the bios the IDE0 Model Name is 'None' and the S/N is blank. I've tried unplugging the hard drive and plugging it back in again (checking the contacts, etc) but it...

I bought an Acer Extesa 5620 which has Vista pre-loaded. My plans are to downgrade (upgrade?) to XP Pro. As Acer laptops do not come with a Windows CD for OS recovery they have an eRecovery Management function to burn the default factory image onto CD/DVD. If after upgrading (reformatting and...

My son had his Dell laptop at college and was using their wireless network successfully. He came home last week and tried using his laptop on our home wireless network (w/Linksys router). He said he was not able to always connect so he tried to set up (configure, repair) the wireless...

Even the Omega drivers are 23 MB. What's in the d/l more than just the plain card drivers (ATI d/l is only 10 MB)? I'd prefer to not deal with the extra bloat. forthill

I am rebuilding my daughter's pc and giving her my 9550 card. I always had the CCC installed but never made much use of it as I don't do much overclocking. I am wondering if rather than downloading and installing the 30 MB catalyst control center from ATI I could/should just down load the 9550...

Well, it really doesn't much matter for me as I don't have that many apps to re-install. And it seems there is a way to use the upgrade to do a full install. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932

I'm getting the Vista Home Premium upgrade dvd. Looks like I have to have an already installed/loaded XP OS, which I do. Question: When the Vista upgrade lays down the OS image does it effectively overlay (remove) "all" of the previous XP OS? I ask because I'd prefer to do the upgrade on my...

This one? http://www.amdmb.com/ forthill

I have a new, unopened Biostar TFORCE 6100-939 paired with an AMD X2 3800+ processor. I'm thinking of leaping into Vista when I build with the TForce. However, I'd like to make use of Vista 64-bit rather than 32-bit but am concerned with the driver issues I might encounter (as well as...

Hi. I want to purchase this motherboard and pair it up with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ cpu. Issue is that I have an Antec True Power PSU (430W) with a 20-pin power connector. I'd prefer to not purchase a new 24-pin (or 20+4-pin) PSU just yet as I will be using the boards integrated graphics for...

Right, if I go on the extra safe side and I go for a PSU with a 20+4 then I would be ok because the newer PSU’s I’ve seen have 20+4 plus they also have the extra +4. I looked at the board layout from the Biostar manual and the extra 4 (of the 20+4) have pinouts of +5v, +5v, +5, ground. The...

Ok everyone, thanks for your replies. As it appears the 20+4-pin power supplies seem to be equivalent to those with a single 24-pin connector then I'll go with one of those. forthill

Hi. I have a (ashamed to say...) Albatron KX18D Pro motherboard that I'm still using. I am planning on purchasing a new socket 939 mobo (probably a Biostar TForce6100) as well as an AMD X3800+ cpu. The PSU in my current case is an Antec True Power 430W but it has a 20 pin connector. I don't...

I purchased a new battery and while replacing it, I had a look at all the barrel capacitors on the mobo. They all look good - not bulging or leaking. Interesting though - after replacing the battery and rebooting I immediately was put into the bios to enter/verify new settings as the old...

Well, when I was having the problem auto-detect in the bios did not work at all. It said [AUTO] but the typical config information that gets pre-filled was not even there. Now that it has come back to life the auto-detect functions as it should - filling in all of the config info for the...