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  1. johnbullas

    Socket 478 Motherboards that will take PC3200 ECC RAM

    Finding Socket 478 Motherboards that will take PC3200 DDR400 ECC RAM???........ This may be looked on as the tail wagging the dog by some however I am looking for a suitable Socket 478 motherboard capable of accepting the 4x512MB of Samsung and HP PC3200 DDR400 ECC RAM I recently acquired in...
  2. johnbullas

    MSI K7t266 pro 2u into Dell Case?

    A mate of mine arrived on the doorstep with a complete Dell P3 PC with motherboard PSU, HDD, FDD and DVDROM wanting me to fit an MSI K7t266 pro 2u MB into the box (for some reason) ... after swapping the PSU for an ATX one, revelling in the "unclip and slide out" Dell MB technology, getting rid...
  3. johnbullas

    Artic Coolers: What is the coolant in the pipes?

    Good Afternoon! I use Arctic Coolers' Freezer 4s http://images.google.co.uk/images?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=arctic%20cooler%20freezer%204 and Silencer 64s http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=arctic+cooler+silencer+64 on a number of...
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    Choice of Socket 578 Intel processors and why?

    Hi! My ABit IC7-G will accept Intel® Socket 478 CPUs as follows Intel® Pentium® 4 http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/intel-p4.php Intel® Pentium® 4 EE http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/intel-p4-ee.php Intel® Celeron® D http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/intel-celeron-d.php How do I...
  5. johnbullas

    Creating Aftermarket Case Badges

    I source my PC peripherals, cards, processors, coolers and cases from Ebay and very infrequently do these come along with the associated case badges.... I searched for a long time for a way to get hold of these and (surprisingly) only ANTEC appeared happy to provide me with some, MSI's website...
  6. johnbullas

    Testing bare bones ABit Motherboard IC-7-G

    Is there a way to roughly test a motherboard without installing it in a case? With a PSU attached I guess you will get little to no response until the power switch pins are blipped? Without a processor on board and no ram or cards would such a basic check damage a MB? I am looking to...
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    Antec True380SP PSU fuese/repairs?

    Hi! I run four PCs all installed within Antec Sonata Cases (very quiet)... testing a board today I got a christmas cracker stylee "pop!" and a wee puff of smoke out of a suddenly silent PSU... like a fusible link had blown Any fusible links inside these babies? Mains power to PSU still 100%...
  8. johnbullas

    PowerEdge ECC RAM in ABit Motherboard?

    HP part numbers 373028-851 / 376638-B21 My ABit Motherboard (IC7-G DDR400 PC3200 184pin RAM) can be configured to accept ECC Ram, so will this 184 pin DDR400 PC3200 ECC ram operate with it? Any HP Prolient Server fiends who go home with full pockets reading this who have tried it???? or even...
  9. johnbullas

    Why does Memory Fail?

    XP generic system (Neo Platinum Something MB with Athlon 64 3200+) with 1 x 1gb and 1 x 512Mb DDR400 184 pin ram wafers XP started hanging today (locking up not blue screening) and after doing a system restore (to before a recent driver update) it still left XP hanging after a random few...
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    HP 4033A & MX4000 / Inno 3d conflict

    Seasons's Greetings As a result of peolple getting TFT/LCDs as gifts I have inherited a nice HP 4033A 19" monitor (uses BNC outputs vi an adaptor cable to a 15 pin VGA... The monitor works via a MX4000 (-84?) 64MB 32Bit AGP card without problems UNTIL the device is installed using the XP plug...
  11. johnbullas

    Netgear SC101 SAN Issues!!!

    I have one of these infernal devices and sadly the fact it is appearing on my "My Computer" window as a system device is as good a thing as it is bad... When I launch the add/remove programs window in control panel, XP searches the SC101 for installed programs too ( this basically stalls the...
  12. johnbullas

    Can't delete Zip file and linked Temp File

    Good morning I have A zip file and what appears to be an asssociated temp file: _Za01868 (no extension) 555908 kb Eudora_Active_Folder.zip 555908 kb (last modfied date is 4 minutes later, created date seconds after the lastmod date for _Za01868 above)) trying to delete either or both comes...
  13. johnbullas

    Fastest Processor in an Asus P4S533-E motherboard

    What is the fastest socket 478 pentium 4 processor that will be happy in an ASUS P4 S 533-E motherboard? Would the PSU ned to be of a given minumum wattage? Bought the ASUS P4 S 533-E cheap to be able to use my weird NCP 1GB high density wafers and wondered if you can upsize from the 2.0 GHZ...
  14. johnbullas

    Solve Nero DVD Power Calibration Error (was thread602-1101002)

    I have a USB2 Sony DVD +/- everything DVD CD burner running Nero (Win XP SP2) and on odd past occasions have recieved a "power calibration" error after several minutes of the drive frustratingly spinning up the DVD and sticking at 5% writing the lead in .... reboots and power off/on etc etc...
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    NCP 1GB Memory NCP00044 DDR.. Compatible MBs?

    Good Evening I have two 1GB DDR Ram chips in my possession, marked NCP00044 on a gold label http://www.hexon.com.sg/hexon%5Ftech/products/DDR_ncp.htm Using the Everest Diagnostics package the chips tell me: Module Size 1024 MB (1 rows, 4 banks) Module Type Unbuffered Memory Type DDR SDRAM...
  16. johnbullas

    Spam Filter Evasion text attachment is 'undeletable'!!

    Ok, doing some housekeeping, I wanted to move the active directory for Eudora from one drive to another I have discovered there are TWO files in the directory that totally refuse to be moved or deleted...they don't appear to have a filename only VAST dialogues(?).... have tired to delete then...
  17. johnbullas

    Change MB/Processor "under" existing HDDs?

    Hi! A maybe strange question I have a fully functional updated and "ghosted" Win XP SP2 Office SP3 system and have just invested in a "New" motherboard setup... 'Old' Mb: Mercury KOB KT266a FDSX AMD K7 (Socket A) Mainboard w/ VIA KT266A http://tinyurl.com/oxd69 with AMD Athlon XP, 1533 MHz...
  18. johnbullas

    Motive Chorus & BT Openworld Broadband

    A colleague of mine is getting an error message on Windows XP startup relating to "Motive Chorus" failing to run/ fatal error (NOT a B.S.O.D)..... could/would this result in an partial failure of: webmail attachment button functionality on BT Yahoo greying out of a number of MS Office icons...
  19. johnbullas

    NetGear Storage Central SC101: Feedback

    Following the complete failure of a 20GB WD IDE HDD that sneaked through my backup procedures, I went out and bought a NetGear Storage Central SC101 along with two Hitachi 250GB IDE HDDs and now have a 250GB network shared storage device and what seems to be a pretty simple interface to...
  20. johnbullas

    APC Smart-UPS 700 - fault tracing & cell testing

    I think one or both of the cells has failed through old age! They are BB Battery BP7-12 (12v 7AH/20hr) standard UPS calles I guess...The question?... how can I check these batteries for correct function.. the UPS squeaks alarmingly when I try to power it on and a red light shows on the front...

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