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Hey Everyone, its been a long time since I built a new PC. August of 2007 to be exact. My current PC has been great, but is starting to show its age. I am having trouble with a flaky motherboard that is having trouble posting and waking up. As part of my lively hood requires me to use my PC to...

Last August i built a pretty good computer and it was working great until i upped the ram for 4 to 8 gigs. I reformatted and now it is soooooo slow. I have d/led all of the updates and installed all the drivers. I just cant for the life of me figure out why adding an extra 4 gigs of ram would...

So i have a Q6600 and 4 gigs of RAM and today i was using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS3, Bridge, and Itunes and i locked up my computer by filling all available RAM and maxing out 2 of four cores. It ran like crap for like 10 minutes till it could clear all the processes. Oh well looks like ill...

Problem: Vista Home Premium 64bit can see network, but not internet. Background: I have had Home premium installed for about a month and not had a single issue. I was playing 2142 last till about 2am and then when i woke up this morning at 6:30 i couldnt log on to the internet. First...

Ok title says most everything. Not looking for the uber server, just something toserver files, some DNS, run apache, and PHP/MySql for local web development. Im looking to pull my curret raid array out of my dell server as the case is way to small. Im actaully gonna pull 5 of the 6 harddrives in...

Quick question about what video cards will support the widescreen formatt and which ones will not. Is there a website with a list of cards that will support the formatt. I only ask is im upgrading my 2 crappy crts with two dell 2407wfp's and im wondering if my card will be able to drive them. I...

im trying to unpack modules.cgz. it has a driver i want. but the instructions for unpacking it are not all that clear to me. they say to # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt (this being a floppy drive) # cd /tmp # gzip -dc /mnt/ modules.cgz | cpio -idumv ok so i dont have a floppy drive. instead i...

where do i find my kernel directory. Im trying to install a driver and i need to know KERNELDIR and i have no idea what that means. Im using Fedora Core 3 Cheers Ryan

Im trying to install a promise tx4200 into my linux file server(fedora core 3). i have the array built, raid 1, and ready to be installed in linux. I am a sort of noob linux so my question my seem dumb. But here goes. I downloaded the drivers from the pormise site. I unpacked the tarball and...

im looking for a new mouse to go with my new laptop. not really concerned with size, just needs to have USB and perhaps have the ability to map a click wheel as a third button so i can do some 3d on it. any suggestions welcome, would like to keep it under 50

Im looking at a Dell inspiron 6400/E1505. I have never bought a laptop so I was just wondering if you all had some insight on a few questions i had. Im looking at the Duo Core lineup because i will be doing a lot of photoshoping on this lappy. One of my questions though, revolves around the...

My setup has a Lynksys wireless router and a dell 2216. I kinda wanna increase my geek factor by adding a dedicated hardware firewall ( i have read where the lynksys are ok but not all that great, which i take with a grain of salt). I would use another comuter but im just not sure if thats what...

whats the maximum number of harddrives anyone has put in one of these little machines. I would look in mine for the connectors but its gonna be another month till i can actually get to a place where i can open it up and look at it. I would ideally like to have 5 total hd's (80 OS, 2x 160 and 2x...

ok im gonna say that i im gonna sound really dumb when you hear it but for some reason i cant get it to work. Ok i have Samba installed and running smoothly. This is a personal server for myself at school and currently im the only one with access to it (seperate network). I run 4 folders on...

Hey guys, i just got a copy, totally legit, of AutoCAD 2006, and i was wondering if there are any places on the web that has good tutorials. i need to start learning it for an internship this summer. the more i learn before i go the more i can learn when im there. Cheers

as the title say im having a problem getting my layout to display properly. im certain that an easy fix is out there, but i for the life of me cannot figure out what it is. this is what i want the layout to look like and this is actually taken from goLive the problem is when i go to...

got the strangest phone call from my folks tonight. when they tried to boot win xp pro they get a msg that NTLDR is missing please reboot. well i took them into the recovery console to try and replace the missing file like webtree says to try and do. but the strangest thing is that the windows...

as the title states im having a problem getting my new Gigabyte mobo to recognize my processor. The motherboard is a 7n400s with a barton 2800 in it. it showing my cpu speed at 1.24 and im not sure why. i have gone into bios and tried to look at what is in there but im not getting any luck...

so my college says no wireless routers becuase they are afraid of people not hooking them up right. so understanding that and the fact that i was making a small network for my servers away from the schools network i bought one. my music and some render computers are on it as well as an xbox and...

okay so i have an intelli mouse 3.0 and i just bought maya 7.0. well i need to upgrade to at least a three button mouse and i was wondering if any of you had recomendations. im looking for usb, and laser ideally with a scroll wheel. thanks

my copy of Maya just came in the mail today. im so excited, its a shame i have federal income tax homework to do before i can use. damn for being a senior business major. oh well just thoughti would let you all know

im trying to have my xp box interface between two networks. im having some problems though. i installed my extra NIC and got it working after i switched PCI slots. i was able to access the internet which is the onboard NIC and access the router setup utility through the secondary NIC. now i...

ok i have such a n00b question. i just goit my linksys Wireless router and i have set a bunch of them up, but i cant, for the life of me remember what the ip address is for the router. its 192.168.1.???. arggg cant remember

ok so i think i did something stupid. i bought a sata harddrive, only problem is i cant seem to power the unit. i have only 4 pin molex connectors in my case and the harddrive doesnt have any of those connectors. is there an adapter or do i need to buy a new psu

i need some basic info on configuring a print server with CUPS. i just got my network printer in the mail and i have it setup to run off my XP but i would rather it be controlled from the linux Server that i have. any ideas on where to start looking for info on the. things i need to do...

how much horse power and RAM are really needed. i have a feeling that i will be getting a ASUS socket A motherboard and 2 120 gig IDE harddrives in a few days. i already aquired a used 350 watt anec PSU and i was wondering how fast of a proc do i really need. i want to record TV and play music...

i have just received the control code from Harmon Kardon and im looking to write a program to control the receiver from the computer. if anyone has an HK 635, im not sure if this will work with other receivers, let me know and ill keep you updated on whats happening with my program and let you...

ok so heres teh quick dirty story. i bought a new home AVR(audio visual receiver) for my stereo, a Harmon Kardon 635 to be exact. About a month ago i wrote to the company and asked how i control the receiver from the computer, if there were any programs or any code blocks they could send me...

as you can see in my sig i have a snailish 1800xp. im running it on a soyo KT333 Platinum edition board. my question is, i saw a athlon 3000xp that runs on 333 bus and im wondering if anyone knows if my board will support that proc. or if you dont know, is there a compatibility website that i...

im looking into an HTPC and im wondering if i should roll my current system, with a few mods into an HTPC or build a new one. i dont need massive storage as im not going to store the files on the HTPC but on my server. Im looking for this to strictly record shows and movies, rip dvds, burn dvds...

ok so im obviously in college because of the title. i want to setup a dorm room network beccuase i have a desktop, laptop and 2 servers, an xbox, soon to have an xbox 360 and a HTPC. now my school states specifically no dorm lans, but i say f them and im going to do it anyway, they also said no...

ok so im new to BF2. i thought it would kill my system but it didnt and i can play with medium settings. now that im not afraid to play, i need some advice to get my global score up so i can unlock some new stuff. i would say im a quasi noob only for the fact that i havent played an online game...

ok heres the deal. i built a comp for ym folks like two or three summers ago whenever 2500xp was all the rage. well it just randomly reboots at will. youll be surfing the net and all of a sudden the asus boot screen comes up. it doesnt happen at regular intervals at all, nor do i think its a...

anyone know if its possible to control an HK receiver from a computer using the (and this is a guess cuz im at work) rs232 port on the back. specifically the HK 635. and if not, does anyone know of an IR device that i put into say my USB port and program a computer program to control my...

i have fedora installed. all is good or so i thought. i am trying to get samba working so i can backup my files and reformat my xp machine. easy i was told. i have a small working knowledge of programming and a great understnading of the Dos style interface. ok so here we go. samba is...

i need some guidence as to where i need to look next. i have fedora 3 kernal installed on my server and i have it fully updated. (dont ask how i got it updated). what i need to know is where cani go to find out all the basic and more advanced features of linux. what i need linus to do is serve...

ok i have my cable going into my linksys wireless router. ironically i cant get wireless into my room, so that defeats the purpose of the wireless router, but i can run cat 5. so i did. well i am actaully. but my question is will the two play together well. i only ask because there is a computer...

okay i bought my dell sc420 now i need an operating system cuz im cheap wasnt about to pay dell for an os. heres how i want my setup to go, i have a switch and that will eventually interface with 7-10 servers/firewalls and my main rig. what i would like is an linux os that is easy to install...

having five different email accounts, can i have each account in my outlook have its own inbox instead of just having one massive one. and with that is there an easy way to control what account i send the messages from. i have searched the help feature and the net and havent found anything...