Hello again, my old CPU died a few weeks ago and I recently bought a new Motherboard, PSU and CPU. After I installed those, I had to reinstall the operating system. I upgraded from Window XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional Edition. I think that may have caused conflict because ...
Yes, that is because the OS' you have installed are setup in Legacy and not UEFI, your new computer is UEFI, you will need to see if your board supports Legacy or CSM or you will need to do a UEFI conversion of Windows in order to get it to work on the new computer. It can be...
It consists of three pieces: The motherboard that also includes a 16MHz accelerator and offers sockets for up to 4MB of RAM, an ACSI-SCSI converter and a breakout box for more interfaces. This is the only machine of this type I have ever heard of and the information on the Internet ab...
I wouldn't say "old", but I have an E8400 and a GA-EP45-UD3P sitting underneath my bed and I think I will be rebuilding the beast once again. I'm still going to need an operating system and a case for it though. Status update, I just built a system with a Pentium D Extreme E...
I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection. When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the new har...
any other motherboard chipset heatsinks and cooling arrangements for expansion cards, will be totally unaffected. So, in conclusion, an aluminium case is probably no more effective at cooling a PC than any other type — it's primarily the combination of heatsinks, vents, airflow, and cooling...
The new computer has a Vista OS. I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection. When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the ...
6If you need a new network card While gigabit Ethernet is fine, some NICs are better than others While it's hard to find a PC motherboard released in the last decade that doesn't have at least gigabit Ethernet, not every Ethernet NIC is created equal. Some manufacturers have issues with...
If that is the case, looking at the motherboard's age might be better. Doing this is not that difficult. Like the first way, first, go to the Start Menu and then type and click System Information. Once there, look for the BIOS Version/Date. Count the days, months, and years ...
Reverse engineered the IBM PC motherboard. Meesed with the BIOS. Made ISA Addon cards. Learnt AT&T Unix System 5 Rel 4 by reading man commands. Wrote C code and shell scripts. Build 68020 and VME bus based system with advanced X11 graphics. And all this was done in India during mid ...