3.3v. :) Thanks for the idea, I would never have thought of that. If it were dead, what would have happened? I dealt with a situation similar to yours the other day. A friend gave me an old (but new to me) computer that, one day, refused to boot for him. After several years, he gave it to me in a f...

One more thing. If you have a multimeter handy, check the BIOS battery. It should measure at something close to 3 volts. If it is significantly less than that, obtain a replacement battery at a local drugstore.

These things *do* go bad. It's worth checking just in case...

I have a 910 T and as far as I can tell, it's totally silent in its operation. I'd need to verify this on an evening where there's no breeze, no birds and no rain but it seems to contribute no noise at all to my office.

Anyone with specific experience in passive cooling of P3s in the 700-1000Mhz range? I got several of these , o-filed the fans and used one with the CPU located directly in front of the power supply intake fan - great "passive" cooling. The other, I placed a L1A fan close by directed on the heatsink...

peteamer wrote:Biggest thing is though, ... keep image sizes DOWN !!!.

Second that. Large images are a serious problem to 56k and under connections.

Bump. What SPRC review? Is there a review in the works or what? I'd like to know what your playing around with the AOpen and DFI boards has produced in the way of observations and sugestions for the rest of us. Can you give us a hint? This thread is 30 days old at this point and I've seen no "moveme...

Ralph wrote:What SPRC review?

He's taunting us...

The Silentia PCya Reviewaba review of course. Would very much like to see a write-up but don't wish to joggle elbows and all that. It can wait...

MoJo-chan:

Take your heatercore to a radiator shop (along with the other thing) and tell them about your concerns. Auto radiator shops have heard it all - they will be ablr to flush your core and repair it if it needs repair. They are the professionals with your salvaged part.

Hey, Compddd: His name is Ralf Hutter, not Hunter. Please make an attempt to get it right, OK? Using other members name in a thread, even if they are Reviewers or Staff of any kind, is really not the best approach as far as I can tell. No disrespect, but this kind of thing can be pretty irritating, ...

How did you know that everything was still within safe operating temperatures? My wife picked up a baby thermometer that evdently works off of infrared. Normal use is to put this thing in the child's ear and click a switch - the reading (either F. or C.) appears on the read-out. I pointed it at var...

Why glue heatsinks together when you can buy heatsinks at reasonable prices from outfits like All Electronics? No matter what the thermal properties of artic silver are, it is bound to be inferior to an aluminum weld or a single massive heatsink. Do you have some special condition in your case dan? ...

I live at the base of a redwood forest with ferns and mossy stumps and a nearby seasonal brook. I awaken to bird life chattering away each morning. Ambient noise is quite low. The loudest thing in my office is the clicking of the wall mounted clock. The Dimension 8250 used to compete with the clock....

I've replaced 80mm fans on two Dells that I have, an old 4100 and a newer 8250. The 8250 fan was mounted in the detachable plastic frame with rubber EAR like devices so it was easy to replace. The 4100 was somewhat more difficult because the fan was (IIRC) firmly locked into place in some manner. It...

Files will work. Get a half-round file with a medium or heavy grain and file those jagged edges away.

Try here to search on either of these hard drives (and other Seagate HDs). It appears that the ST360021A is dual platter while the ST360015A is single platter.

Fingernail polish can be reduced or cut or weakened or even removed by using acetone - usually. The label might tell you which type of solvent the nail polish or pigment was "floating" in. If I'd face4d the same challenge, I'd have coated that teeninesy pin with several coats of the nailpolish. Then...

Actually, a good USB mouse can have a higher sample rate than a PS/2 mouse. WinME thinks that this Logi USB Marblemouse is a PS2 device. I stuck an old hard drive in and haven't reconfigured WinME yet. Thanks for the help though. Everytime I remove a mouse from WinME, I have to go through the devic...

i know you can buy a cable that 'converts' a LPT printer to a USB one, but i have no experience with them so i don't know if its a headache or not. I found something that *looks* good at NewEgg. This looks like it'll do the job. What a relief. Although this Gateway is still going to be passed to on...

Originally, i tried fingernail polish but that didn't disable the BSEL1 pin!

Perhaps using the fingernail polish on the socket would work. Alternatively, have you thought about using heat shrink on the pin? Something extremely thin mind you. Good luck dan.

The mobo is described as a "Gateway Brookings MS-6312" Flex ATX built by MSI and, yes, it is 9.0" long by 7.5" wide. At motherboard.org, the flex AT style was described only as being smaller than Micro ATX. So I found that I was in a "standardization" loop. Its funnier this morning than it was yeste...

BTW, I'll tip my hat to anyone who can tell me the meaning of an N.F.G. knot.

No "effing" good?

:oops: Oops! I see a problem. MicroATX boards are 9.6" x 7.5". FlexAT boards are 9" x 7.5". It looks like I'd have to get another case to use the PIII with any other type of board - all of them being larger than the Flex style. I better start planning on living (temporarily) with just USB ports. May...

The Gateway seems to be a flexAT but how would I know? The model on the back says "FLEXATXSTC BRO Essential" so I took this to mean it has a flex AT board. And that a micro board would fit. Well, lets take a look. I just pried the case off this thing, popped up the CD and floppy drive bay and measur...

PCChips is generally considered the lowest of the low in mobo-land. It's hard to find a worse board. Your experience looking for a board is exactly what I was referring to in my post above Dang! I knew it was too good to be true. Your advice is to go Intel, right? How about an Intel 440 board? I wi...

While the Soyo Sy-Tisu may be a good board for a Pentium II, I think that it'd be overkill as a Gateway mobo replacement. Besides, I don't think an ATX motherboard would fit in this small case. Knowing zilch about motherboards, and I mean absolutely nada, I went searching using Pricewatch and Google...

I bought a cheap Nvidia geforce2 card that has 32MB DDR on it and it seems to do quite nicely apart from the miniscule fan that cools the memory and adds its noise to the PSU fan. It was a good thing that I had this box handy as my VIA ME6000 went toes up in the graphics department a day later. Axio...

Still, it apparently doesn't work well with your display. A PCI card makes the most sense. What resoluton is your LCD screen? I've got a spare Ati Rage64, or I might trade a Matrox MGA Millenium for 128megs of PC100. I was hoping you'd reply to this Isaac. The business of *having* to use USB connec...

Is it a good idea (economically) to renovate one of these PIII systems? A friend of mine just bought a new computer and bequeathed me his small form Gateway box. It has a socket 370 board, a 90 watt PSU, a huge heatsink sits on the 800 mhz (Coppermine I think) CPU and the whole thing is cooled by th...

That's pretty interesting fancontrol . I used a low tech method to find the potentiometer resistance that I needed in a small project involving an AOpen H340 case and a VIA ME6000 muthaboard. I went to Radio Shack and obtained a 25K pot generally sold for volume control (I think). I put this pot in ...

On the other hand...