Search results for query: *

Thanks 2ffat, that was helpful! You know, that fan that I thought was "bad" and caused all that noise the other day, I just decided to try it with a very old '98 Intel Celeron machine. The fan sounded fine, maybe a little "clicky" when started, but basically like a normal fan. I wonder if the...

Hi 2ffat. No, it wasn't heat, because I took both fans out now. In fact, I only had them in a few months (put them in during summer, and even then it didn't over heat, I just like to be safe and keep it cool). I use motherboard monitor and my processor temps were fine when it had rebooted too...

***UPDATE*** Thanks for the replies everyone, I read them all but nothing came of finding out what exactly happened, so I shrugged it off. Today I disassembled my computer and gave it a quick dust-cleaning. When I turned it back on, I heard a funny "bzzzzzt" spinning noise. I quickly turned it...

2ffat, I think I made a mistake there. The event viewer showed a few other errors earlier in the day and I don't think there is one for the time my reboot occured. I probably should've posted this in hardware instead. Anyways, I'll back up to be safe. This probably does indicate I have a...

Hi, TheLad. Thanks, I just checked event viewer. I had to look up a tutorial of how to find it, I did, but I'm not sure what to look for specifically. I see a few "error" tags, and one around the time it happened, but there were also some of the same earlier today. I did run a virus scan and it...

I'll try to make this quick and to the point. Could any software problem cause the computer to reboot XP Pro without shutting down? About 30 minutes ago I got a black screen and what looked to me like a normal reboot. I did not hear any unusual beeps. At the time I had about 4 firefox windows...

Ok, much thanks to everyone! Maxthedork, that site is bookmarked now. I suppose I could've used the search feature here or spent a little more time with some search engines, but I had trouble. I spent about an hour looking for info on temperature ranges at AMD's webpage. Anyhow, I apprecaite all...

Hi paparazi, No, I was talking about the Socket "A" Athlon XP 2800+. Ooops, sorry, should have specified. The highest it's read so far has been 45 C. So, is that pushing the limit?

Thanks to both of you. Especially your paparazi for all your info. It's just about 80 degrees F outside right now, and about the same in the room. Just enough to be almost too warm for me to hack it and have to turn the air on. It seems my computer will be ok on these warm days though, with the...

With summer almost here, there are those in-between days (like today) where I don't need to run the air conditioning, but it's still rather warm. I have 4 case fans in my computer now and the stock heatsink and fan for my AMD Athlon XP 2800+ processor. I use my computer for pretty light stuff...

Oh also, if anybody else wants to elaborate on using a case fan next to a hard drive, I'd appreciate it. My fan blows both under and over the drive. Am I going to have problems with dust buildup on the circuit board/base side of my HDD? Should I move the HDD to a higher or lower bay? Thanks!

Wow, thanks paparazi! Yeah, I know some of my questions were a bit silly, specifically the first one. You see, I had a HDD literally catch on fire on startup a few months ago (it's useless now, of course). At the time, I had a case fan in the front and I've read that for my Dreamer II case, the...

My Aspire Dreamer II case had an 80mm intake fan on the window side, and an 80mm exhaust on the top. I needed more airflow (and especially cooling to my hard drive), so to balance it out I added two; one 80mm intake fan in front and one 80mm exhaust in back. My questions are really simple, I'm...

freestone: It's a 40 wire cable. I have a couple more 80 wire IDE cables laying around, but they're all dual connection and I'm only hooking one hard drive up. Is it ok to use an 80, yet leave one connector unhooked? Also, besides performance is there any difference in 40 and 80 (i.e. safety for...

Thanks for the replies guys. Sorry that my update is late, but I've been setting up my new hard drive (250GB Seagate) and recovering from this problem from hell. BadBigBen: thank you VERY much for supplying your opinions and info. You opinion that it doesn't sound like my PSU gave me a little...

I see the thread has disloged into a little discussion. Anyways, thanks a ton for the info guys and I appologise for not getting back to post earlier. I came to realize how SIMPLE using Windows XP was to set up partitions and that I just needed to do some trial and error. My first mistake (as...

By the way, I do have Windows SP1 downloaded and installed, the full version. The remaining space is recognized, but not formatted yet. I've been neglecting it mainly because I do not want my "C" drive to be 127GB (such a large partition). The Seagate still reads wrong in BIOS, not just...

Thanks electronicsfreak. I went to the Asus site and found that the newest BIOS update for my board is version 1010 (with updated processor support), while I have version 1009. Here is the link: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A7N8X-X I hope somebody can...

I'll try to make this question thread easy to follow and short, since I've had a lot of problems today. My new Seagate 250GB hard drive is stuck at 127GB of actual readable, free space. I've read that I may need a BIOS update (I have an Asus A7N8X-X board) and that Windows XP must have SP1...

I just ordered myself a new hard drive today, a 250GB Seagate Baracudda. I'm still using the backup computer and am running it with the SkyHawk power supply that was previously in my main machine. So far, it is running just fine. I opened the PSU up earlier and airdusted it. I did NOT notice...