Im using a biostar MCP6P-M2 motherboard. On the panel, only one of the 2 usb ports work and neither the mic in or headphone slot work. Obviously the usb and audio leads are connected to their relevant ports on the board. Ive checked in the realtek audio manager and detect front audio is on. The [...]
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What CPUs will my motherboard support?
I have an IBM Thinkcentre M50 (8188-NGF), which has a socket 478 Pentium 4 3.06ghz Hyper Threading Northwood D1 CPU. 533mhz FSB 512kb l2 cache. The motherboard is IBM rev 2.8. I've been looking to upgrade to a core 2 duo, probably about 2 ghz. would any socket 478 core 2 duo work? IF YOUR [...]
Will a Pentium 4 CPU ( Socket 478, 800FSB, 512KB Cache, 1 core ) bottleneck an AGP Nvidia 7950GT?
Will a Pentium 4 CPU ( Socket 478, 800FSB, 512KB Cache ) bottleneck an AGP Nvidia 7950GT? I've also got 2GB of PC-3200(400MHz RAM). I dont want to upgrade to PCI Express mobo i've thought about it and this computer does everything i want it to, just wonderign the CPU will bottleneck the AGP 7950GT [...]
Via ide ata controller?
I was updating my motherboard, and installed ide controller by accident. Now when I restart it says floppy disk failed, press f1 to hardware. But i dont have a floppy disk. How do I remove this? go to device manager and try uninstalling it, if that doesnt work try a system restore
Everytime i conect my pci/usb card, I can't turn on my computer it just remains on power saving mode. help!!??
my motherboard doesnot have any usb ports so I bought a usb/pci card.. More than likely the card has some kind of short in it causing excessive current drain and the computer power supply has detected that and refuses to come on. If the board is new it probably has some type of manufacturing defect [...]
Are laptop video cards upgradeable?
I have a qosmio F25 with geforce 6600 video card x16 pci express 64mb ram. I was wondering if i can upgrade it into something better. If i can, could I use graphics card from other branded laptops like dell? Some laptops can, like the Dell fancy ones. That one cannot. u can on some [...]
Will my Heatsink work with a AMD Athlon Duel Core Processor?
I have an AMD 3200+ Sempron Single Core 1 GHz and it sucks. I'm going to upgrade to an AMD Athlon 3800+ Duel Core 2 GHz Processor. Problem is, it doesn't come with a Heatsink. No, I will not buy Quad Cores or anything better. my Motherboard is really old and I don't care about [...]
How to flash my BIOS?
Hi, I just got a new processor but it is too new for my motherboard's BIOS version. So I tried to flash it using the instruction they gave me if I don't have a floppy drive (CD), and then I used the UltraISO and Dr-DOS function as mentioned in bootdisk.com, but when I got to [...]
Does it matter which end of the SATA cable I use?
I have a SATA III cable (one end has an angle, the other is flat) to connect my hard drive to my motherboard and due to space limitations I can't fit the flat side into the port on the motherboard. Can I use the end with the angle to plug into the motherboard, and the [...]
Whats the a good motherboard to get for a Athlon 64 3200+ and Corsair XMS Platinum ram?
I have a standard size case. My MSI K8N Neo-FSR died on me. Im using it for internet browsing and casual gaming. Im looking to spend no more than 60 dollars. If I do get a micro motherboard, will the inputs on it fit the slots where my standard size mobo used to be?
