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Hello One of the nurses at my dialysis center just gave me her older computer after the hard drive died--I have a new HD to put into it. It's a Gateway with a 1.2 GHz Athlon in it. The video is integrated into the motherboard, but it does have an 4X AGP slot. I'm thinking about putting a video...

Hi guys, apologize if this has been asked already, but I'm in a rush and haven't had a chance to search the boards yet. Some friends want to set up a wireless network at their home. They have wireless broadband internet service, and their son wants to access it from his room. They purchased a...

Hello Well, I messed up good. Was buying pieces off ebay, the listing said it was an Intel board from Gateway. Silly me didn't figure it out that what the seller didn't realize is that it's a Gateway board with an Intel chipset (440bx). I'm trying to hook up the front panel, but the only pins...

I have a friend that recently bought a computer with XP Home on it. She lives out in the country, so has to use a dial-up connection for the internet. She says she's only getting speeds of about 24k. I'm going to go out and take a look at her machine, but haven't had a chance to play around...

That's what I was hoping was wrong. Bought two 'rounded' cables off ebay really cheap, so thought that might be the problem. Bought two new flat cables, didn't make any difference. Brought my brother's old hard drive home with me to check on my computer, seems to be working fine. I found a...

Okay, 700 miles later and my brother's computer still isn't working. My guess is, I fried the motherboard. Primary IDE connection doesn't recognize any drives attached, and the hard drive light on the case is constantly on. I'm trying to use the Promise controller card, and the Western Digital...

Please forgive me if I don't make much sense, drove 230 miles today to work on my brothers computer, and have to go back today in 7 hours. Have gotten him a new Western Digital WD800JB hard drive for his computer. Went down today to install it, he's got a DFI computer/motherboard that's a few...

Thanks Shadus Usually I search through the posts to make sure I don't repost a topic already covered, but I was on my way to bed and didn't bother to check. Thanks everyone for all the help. Lymponus "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom...

Hello Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I have a question about ESD protection that nobody seems to know the correct answer to. In fact, the universal answer is "just clip the ESD strap to the computer case". Well, that's almost correct in most instances, as long as the...

Thanks poorboy for answering. Actually, I'm not sure my BIOS does, it's an old system with a 440LX MB. I did however, get a Promise controller card so maybe that will work just as well. Guess the only way to find out is to dive right in. :) Lymponus "All the great things are simple, and many...

I like www.allstarshop.com. Usually very close to being the cheapest, and a lot of their stuff has free shipping. Lymponus "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope." - Sir Winston Churchill

Hi all I finally got a new hard drive, and had hoped to put Win98, Linux, and FreeBSD on it. So I've been searching the Linux How-Tos to try to determine the best way to do this. The large disk how-to was evidently written quite some time ago, as they consider an 8Gb HD to be a large disk. My...

Hey there Can't remember reading if anyone knew whether or not the Western Digital WD1200JB Hard Drives needed to be cooled. I was thinking that with the fluid bearings they might run a lot cooler then most. Thanks. Lymponus "Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never give in!"...

First, thanks for replying to my previous post "Old computer new HD". With a promise ata controller card, do you disable the on-board ide so that the computer will boot up off a HD attached to the card? Or does the card automatically take over control of the ide connections? Thanks again...

New question--how can you install Linux on an old laptop that doesn't have a CD-ROM drive? Can you use a NIC PCMCIA card and install it over a network? Do you by chance know if there may be a HOW-TO for this? Thanks guys. "Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never give in!"...