Recent content by stumpinator3

> Possibly brown power (<120 volts). Yeah, I debated mentioning it -- and didn't -- but that seems to be the case. During the outage I was sitting in the kitchen, and there was a faint humming. Took me a while to realize that shouldn't be. Came from a portable cassette player that runs off...

Yesterday morning there was a blackout while I was using the computer. The UPS kept the machine going while I saved the file I was working on, then shut the machine down normally, no problem. I turned off the UPS and unplugged everything from the wall. The power was on by then, but around here...

I just got a new motherboard, an ECS 865PE-A. (Hope I won't regret not getting something more expensive.) There is a heatsink over the northbridge, and a connection for a northbridge cooling fan. Which was new to me, because my old board didn't have either. I'll never use the 800 mhz FSB...

Thanks, I was thinking the same thing, and ordered the arctic silver Friday. Now I'm wondering whether to replace the fan/heatsink. - Dave

A couple of days ago I asked a question here about a problem I was having with a machine I was building. (I've reposted the question below, in case anyone wants to check the parts.) People suggested that I strip it to the bare minimum, and see if the problem was still there. It is, even with...

Three years ago I put together a machine, as carefully as I could. (Everything was double-checked, static precautions observed, all connections secure.) I didn’t get to the point of installing an OS, because the computer had intermittent problems. Right at that time my girlfriend ripped me...