BIOS - All but keyboard
Any reason for some bios motherboards to have as default stopping at
errors "ALL BUT KEYBOARD"?
Actually,
there is a purpose for this.
It is not uncommon for someone to want a server or
workstation set up to be able to boot without a keyboard. In
most cases it's a server that you do not want to dedicate a
monitor, keyboard, and mouse to.
You boot it without these and all works fine. However, if
the BIOS is set to stop on the error of no keyboard, there is no
way to completely boot the machine without having one attached.
-
Kyle Elmblade
BIOS - Beeps on POST
If a PC repeatedly beeps that is a sign of the BIOS there is a
hardware problem you can even figure out by the "sort"
of beeping which hardware problem for more information go to
this site:
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/index.htm
- Kees Kouwen
BIOS - Entering BIOS in Compaq Prolinea 575
Hi,
When the computer starts to boot up, there is a point
where a small white box blinks in the upper right hand corner.
Hit F10 when you see the box.
- Donald Gaither
BIOS - Tweaking and Reference
For those who may be interested in finding out more about
"Bios Tweaks", I have these sites book marked for use
when building or repairing computers.
http://www.ping.be/bios/
http://www.sysopt.com/bios.html
http://www.chaintech.dk/QUESTION/biosq.HTM#What
CAUTION!
As with anything you do to a computer you must use caution.
Changing certain settings may cause your system to balk on start
up or not start at all. If you need to change the settings, make
a log of what the settings are at the present time so you will
have a backup in case something doesn't work. When you do change
something, write down what you changed. <smile> In a panic
you will probably not remember what you changed or why.
- Frank Suszka
CD-ROM - Audio CD - D/A Output
The 2 pin connector that you refer to is for Digital audio (SPDIF)
from your cd rom.
If you have a sound card that supports digital audio, you can
connect your cd rom to the sound card digitally, which according
to SB is supposed to keep the digital sound signal pure until it
is converted to analog for your speakers.
If you also have digital speakers then the sound is never
converted to analog.
The sound Blaster Live series supports Digital audio, but not
all cd roms that have the SPDIF Digital connection truly support
the SPDIF connection. SB
used to have a place on their site where they had tested
different cd roms and told you which ones did support SPDIF
connections.
- Mary Wolden
CD-ROM - Cleaning
I was able to resurrect a dead cd rom using this cd rom cleaning
fact. It explains
exactly how to clean the inside of your cd rom drive.
I figured I had nothing to lose by trying.
http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_cdfaq4.html#CDFAQ_027
- Mary Wolden
There are several sites you might want to try. I use this one when
I'm in need.
http://www.alldata.com/pro/customerservices/questions/cdmaint.htm
The other two,
http://www.computerhope.com/help/cdrom.htm
http://www.techadvice.com/help/Products/C/cdRomDrives.htm
are very helpful if you are a tech. I hope that one of these sites
will answer your question and get your son back on the road...
As far as computing goes.
You didn't mention how old the system or CD-ROM was. If it is
an older version, it may not be worth trying to fix.
- Frank Suszka
CD-ROM - Not recognized on cold boot
Try
setting your Bios for the IDE CDROMs, to None, or CDROM, instead
of using Autodetect! I have found this option to work with
problem ATAPI devices.
-
Steve Wolfe
CD-ROM - Troubleshooting - Read Errors
> I have mounted the drive above my CD-RW drive. Could this cause
a heat problem as I notice that drive was quit warm when it
crashed? There is no room between the drives for air
circulation.
You will see heat problem. There should be at least an empty bay
between your CD-RW and CD drive, and possible extra fan should
be used to avoid heat problem. If you can feel the heat from CD
drive when it crash, it is heat problem. I have seen a true
story about how a CD-RW burned itself because the user mounted
CD-RW and CD drive next each other. About two years ago, I had
heat problem (when play games, very similar to your situation -
I ran a game for 4 hours, I almost burned the CD), now I have
left a 5" bay open (I removed the cover), and have an extra
case fan.
- Jun Qian
CD-ROM - Vertical switch
I just noticed on my CD drive that I have a vertical switch, which
is currently in the off position. What is this?
The switch, when turned on, is to allow you to use the drive in a
vertical position, or turned side ways.
Although most people use the drive horizontally...
if you were to turn the tower on it's side, (assuming it
is in a tower case and not a desktop), this would allow you to
slide the CDs in to the drive and have them function. These drives and other build specifically and tested
specifically to be mounted vertically are often also used in
Rackmount cases where nearly all drives are mounted vertically
in the front.
- Bob Wright
CD-RW - Installing
I just ordered an Internal CD-RW. I have never installed or used a
CD-RW but I have installed other hardware such as hard drives,
CD-ROM, video, and sound cards. I would like to know of any
caveats that I should be aware of with the installation and/or
use of this new hardware.
When
first plugged in, the CD drive will "look like" a
normal CD drive to the system.
To burn anything, you will have to install at least one
program. Your drive will no doubt come with at least two
programs. They may (or may not be) "stripped down"
versions of full
retail products.
One
"type" of program allows you to burn Audio and Data
CDs of both the write once and the erasable type. Another
program will allow you to use the CD-RW drive as a hard drive
with removable media. It
is important to understand the difference. After that, it is a
virtual "minefield" filled with lots of new and
sometimes difficult questions. One thing people forget is that
cheap media is just that, in some cases. Get a few name brand
CD-RW disks and play with the software for awhile and get used
to it before you start turning out "write once" CD-R
disks. Note that if you want to play music in a normal CD player
it must be recorded in Audio CD format, and
"generally" (for compatibility reasons) will work
better if a CD-R disk is used. You can put music on a CD as data, but almost nothing other
than a computer will be able to play it.
When
buying CD disks, 74 minute disks will work with all drives. To
use 80 minute disks, you must have a drive and burning software
that will support them.
-
Rick Glazier
For
the hardware, nothing special than a normal CDROM, however I did
see some CDRW/DVD don't like to be slave drive (may caused by
software however).
You
may have problem running the software. I have a sence that you
are going to use Adaptec software. In my exp, it is buggy
(unless you have the latest version with lastet patch), and I
don't like its DirectCD, I would recommand to use Nero or some
thing else rather than Adaptec. If you have no other option than
Adaptec, for your own good, when you do the installation, do a
custom install - install Easy CD Creator only! Avoid DirectCD as
possible as you can.
-
Jun Qian
CPU - Cooling - Fans, connectors w/ 2 or 3 pins
The extra wire is for the RPM sensor. Your motherboard probaby
doesn't support it. You can plug it in just fine. If you ever
get a motherboard that has the monitoring chip, you will be able
to read the fan RPM, either through the BIOS, or through one of
the Windows based hardware monitoring programs available.
- Russ Poffenberger
CPU - Intel - 80486 - L2 cache performance
> Does anybody remember any hard data as to performance with or
without a L2 cache on a 486 ?
From
what I have experienced L2 cache does not supply as huge a
performance boost as people tend to believe. At higher clock
speeds where the core runs 4 or 5 times the speed of the memory
bus L2 certainly becomes more important (in cases where the L2
runs at either core or close to core speeds) but in 486 class
machines L2 cache has never in my experience supplied more than
about a 5 to 10% boost. L1 cache is much more important. Now
again, it does depend, some tasks benefit from L2 more than
others. A lack of L2 cache will not impede the additional
performance of additional RAM and processing speed. I myself ran
a 486DX4/120 (overclocked from 100) with 16MB and it
"managed" win95 OK, not stellar but usable as a backup
system. I have found that Linux is very good at getting every
last bit of performance out of a machine. While X might be a
little sluggish on that machine I am sure that it will run quite
well. If you forgo X it will fly pretty well.
- Herbert Graf
CPU - Intel - Difference between PPGA / FCPGA
The FC-PGA package is used on PentiumŪ III processors, and is
referred to as the Flip Chip Pin Grid Array package. The PPGA
package is used on IntelŪ Celeron™ processors, and is
referred to as the Plastic Pin Grid Array package.
The PPGA package used on the IntelŪ Celeron™ processors has the
actual silicon core facing down towards the motherboard. The
silicon core is covered by a heat slug helping to dissipate heat
from the core. The heat
slug transfers heat from the core to the heatsink. As processors
get smaller and faster, the ability to dissipate heat from the
processor core is become more and more critical. The FC-PGA
package, flips the silicon core over
facing up. The core sits on top of the actual package and is
exposed. The silicon die is exposed and makes direct contact
with the heatsink.
They are all in the Socket 370 style of sockets, just how the die
is possitioned is the difference in PPGA vs. FC-PGA.
- Patrick Black
CPU - Intel - Pentium II - Verifying authenticity
Visit the Intel site below to find a utility to give information on
CPU family, model and stepping.
Look under the heading "Processor
Authentication" and subheading "Verifying a processor
purchase and current operating speed".
http://www.intel.com/newsgroups/processors/pent2help.htm#sixteen
- Joe Baire
CPU - Intel - Pentium III - E, B, and EB explained
http://www.intel.com/design/PentiumIII/prodbref/
Look at figure 1...half way down the page.
Basically, there are the "E" and the "B" and
the "EB", and there are the "no letter after the
speed" Pentium III processors.
The "no letter" 600 and below are fabricated using .25
Micron technology. (The smaller the number, the better. Because
the transistors are smaller, a die can hold more of them and the
processor will use less power when running). These .25 micron
processors have 512 KB of off die (half speed) L2 cache....just
like Pentium II processors.
The "E" versions are the ones that are .18 Micron and
have 256 KB of on-die L2 cache that runs at full processor
speed. If the processor is faster than 600, they don't bother
adding the "E". In other words, they're all
"E" after 600 MHz. so they stopped specifying it.
The "B" versions run with a 133 MHz. FSB systems. In
other words, the Pentium III "B" processors are half
integer devisable by 133. (If dividing by 66 or 133 gives
approximately an integer, it *may* be a "B".)
The "EB" versions are .18 Micron, have the 256 KB of L2
cache, and run at 133 MHz front side bus. If faster than 600,
they don't bother adding the "E" to the name.
An example: 800 MHz divided by 133 MHz. is 6.01 (close enough to 6)
and there are both 800 and 800B. (I'd say 800E and 800EB, but
everything over 600 is an E.) There are both 800 = 8 X 100 and
800B = 6 X 133. (6 and 8 are the multipliers, 100 and 133 are
the FSB frequencies.)
Finally, there are both slot one and 370 pin versions of many
Pentium III processors. (Check the link above to see what
versions come in slot one and which are socketed.)
There is a slot one 800, and a 370 pin 800, and a slot one 800B,
and a 370 pin 800B.
The place where it really gets confusing is with 600 MHz processor
because there are so many versions of the 600 MHz Pentium III:
600, 600E, 600B, 600EB...all in both slot one and 370 pin
versions. There are eight different versions of the 600 MHz.
Pentium III.
- Bill Cohane
CPU - Intel - Slot 1 to PPGA connector
> I have a Soyo socket 370 MB 7WI/L or something like this, can't
remember, but I would like to install a celeron 300a slot 1 cpu
I have on hand in it. Is there an adaptor made to do this? I know there is the 370 to slot 1
AFAIK, no. It would be too expensive, too physically unstable, and
the adapter probably wouldn't be electrically stable either
(because of the lengthy path runs on some traces and not on
others).
- Herbert Graf
CPU - Intel vs. Athlon
from the CPU side: athlon 700 is much much faster than P3-550. If
you use some programs that specify to ONLY use P-3 SSE
instruction set, the programs gain performance increase from P3,
but AMD will be still faster. However, when you talk about whole
system, there are lot of other issues. I can list some here, you
may need to give more details on these components:
1) which mobo is used (in both system)
2) if graphics performance is important to you (for graphics, games
...), which video card in used (in both system)
3) which operation system you are going to use, windows 2000 may
have hardware related issues.
4) what programs are you going to use. "bad" designed
software can make good system looks bad, eg. some video driver
could work better under Intel than AMD system (this kind of
problem should be fixed when there are update available).
Personally, I would go for AMD.
- Jun Qian
I can tell you that I was at a presentation a few weeks ago
demonstrating the speed of the new Athlon CPU's. We were shown 2
identical system, (not quite identical, as the Athlon uses the
AMD and Via Chipset, and the PIII uses intel.) But, these 2
machines were sitting side by side, both running 600mhz CPU's,
one PIII- 600 the other the Athlon 600.
The two machines were started with a mouse click to run the Latest
version of WinBench. All I can say is the Athlon Blew Away the
PIII, as it finished the test almost 3-minutes faster than the
PIII. I was impressed enough, that I now am the proud new owner
of an Athlon 700, and love it. It is fast, and runs solid as a
rock! Not a single crash or lockup in over 2 weeks.
Hope this answers your question, and doesn't seem too Biased
:-)
- Steve Wolfe
While several factors affect the performance of a system, assuming
that the two systems are as close to identical except for
processor, an AMD700 with BLOW AWAY a PIII500, chances are an
AMD700 is faster than a PIII 700. AMD really has something with
the Athlon, I hope that more MB manufacturers
start producing high quality boards.
- Herbert Graf
CPU - Multiprocessor System
We
have at least three dual processor systems in the Network
Operations Center here at The NOSPIN Group.
I know that we definitely did not realize a 100% increase
in processing over a single chip system of the same speed,
although the systems are certainly faster.
One
significant issue is with the programs that you run. For an application to take advantage of multiple processors,
it has to be "multithreaded", that is, it has to have
the capability to be "split" into multiple parts that
can run simultaneously or almost simultaneously.
You'll probably find that most programs that you use
aren't multithreaded, although a lot of new graphically
challenging games (like Quake III and others like it) are.
All
is not lost, though, because most multiprocessor operating
systems (including Windows 2000) can use multiple processors
efficiently by assigning different tasks to different
processors, in effect "balancing" the processing load
between processors. In
our situation in the NOC, that's generally where we see the most
improvement in performance.
Without
knowing exactly what applications you'll be using, if they are
non-multithreaded, you could see as much as a 50% increase in
performance. If the applications are multithreaded, then you
might see something approaching a 100% increase, depending upon
what other areas of your system those applications impact.
As a seat of the pants estimate, I'd say that our web
server runs about 50% faster and the mail server is around 75%
faster than before. But
those are systems that perform no graphical operations and have
relatively slow processors (366MHz and 233MHz respectively), so
they are not bound by video or disk bottlenecks.
If your applications are video or disk intensive, you may
see lower performance increases.
-
Drew Dunn
Floppy drive - Troubleshooting
A
floppy drive is not all that sturdy a device. If you open one up
and take a look at the heads you will see that they are on a
pretty flimsy mount that can easily become misaliged if you
insert a floppy with a bent metal slider. The heads can also
become dirty.There are <cleaning > floppies that can be
used to clean the heads. If the heads have been moved out of
position you might be able to realign them but you could never
really trust them to work without errors.
It
has been my experience that once a floppy starts to give you
problems and if you can not immediately rectify it with a
cleaning floppy or by re-seating the cableing then it is
time to replace it. A new Teac 3.5 inch floppy drive can be
purchased from Buy.com for as little as 15 dollars.
-
Mark Rode
General - Backup - The Best Way
Can anyone tell me what is the easiest way to set up automatic or
almost-automatic backups of data.
Zip drive, Cd-R, tape?
We're looking for the easiest solution.
Depends on what you want your backup system to do for you.
The three major contenders are removable drives like the
Zip drive, CD-RW and tape.
With the larger size of hard drives these days, Zip disks, even at
250MB are too small, medium expense per disk ($8-10) but many
needed - too many disk swaps to backup a lot of data and they
are not very fast. Can
only transport disks to another system with a Zip drive
($80-160) or requires moving the drive with you.
On the positive side, it is usually quite fast to recover
a small number of files. Backups
can be done in background.
Most backup programs will use removable drives.
CD-RWs are bigger and faster and cheaper ($1-3)
but still may require backing up chunks that fit on a CD
(640MB) or swapping a few disks. Usually quite fast to recover a
small number of files due to the speed and size of the disk.
Most systems these days have CD-ROM drives but many older
CD-ROMs will not read CD-RWs.
Backups usually require dedicated time due to chance of
causing problems with writing disk caused by multi-tasking.
CD-RWs are more versitile and can be used for many other
purposes besides backups. Backup
programs that will use CD-RW are not common.
Tape is expensive ($20 per tape and $100 and up for drive) but you
may only need one tape because they will hold several gigabyte
each. Cheaper tape drives are very slow - faster drives are very
expensive. Tape drives are like Zip drives in that not many
people have them and you would need to move the drive with you
to move files to another system. Backups are easily and usually done in background or can be
scheduled to run at night.
Almost all backup programs will use tape of one kind or
another.
I use tape because of the amount of data that can be written
without swapping and because of scheduled night-time backups.
- Earl Truss
I have a contender for a fourth type backup that I use all the
time. I use an
external parallel port hard drive with Ghost software.
It has the advantage of being portable, can fit the
entire hard drive contents, can restore my entire hard drive, or
file by file with Symantec's Ghost Explorer, and is cheap.
I use one of the DataTank external hard drive boxes that
has a DOS driver. My 3 gig hard drive takes about 45 minutes to make a complete
copy in the Fast Compression mode. I use a DOS boot disk with
the hard drive driver and can then use the hard drive as if it
were installed in my machine. Something else to consider.
- Doug Simmons
For automatic backups? Tape by a LARGE margin. While ZIP drives and
CDR are great, they are just too small for backing up hard
drives. If on the other hand you are just backing up a few MBs
then ZIP drives are a nice choice. CDR and CDRW are OK but a
little too error prone for me to consider them a automatic
backup solutions. For manual backing up they are great though.
TTYL
- Herbert Graf
General - Cleaning your PC
First of all be careful of using a standard vaccuum cleaner as it
could cause an electrical arc and damage some of the components,
becase they are usually not shielded. Sometimes you can buy mini
attachments which are
plastic and then you're a bit safer in terms of using a regular
vaccuum.
Second, a cheap investment is a can of compressed air. Turn your
computer off and blast away (carefully).
Third, a small brush to dust away the inards is always a safe bet.
Hope these suggestions find you well.
- Guido Piraino
I have used a bicycle pump before, the kind with a flexible hose,
although it takes to people (one to pump and one to point).
Also, "canned air" is available from many
stores (make sure you keep canned air upright while
spraying, though).
- Martin Kurr
General - Finding a free IRQ
If you are running win98/95:
Right click on "my computer", click "device
manager", double click "computer", there you go,
you can see if there is an IRQ free.
I think you will see there is no free IRQ left, but as you can see,
IRQ is able to be shared (some devices don't like to share IRQ
with others, some do). Even you don't have free IRQ left, there
should be no problem to add an exteral modem (it uses IRQ for
com port which it attached to), just be careful with internal
modem, you should not go for a "soft modem" or
"Win Modem" in this configuration. Hardware based
modem does not mess up your system and they can be removed
easily.
- Jun Qian
At a DOS prompt, enter MSD (then Q) on Windows 3-plus systems. This
should show you what you want, and more - without risk.
- Boyd Ramsay
General - Lightning strike
A good friend just called me this morning saying his computer (an HP
Pavilion Pentium III) won't start. There was a whopper of a
lightning storm last night. You've heard the story before,
right?
Start
by checking the power supply fuse. And any other fuse elsewhere.
You may get lucky; most likely not, but try the cheap stuff
first. If the modem was plugged into the phone, you may get
"lucky" that the phone was an expensive fuse for the
modem. Try another power supply if replacing the fuse doesn't
work. Go to a basic system: power supply, mobo, CPU, ram. Add
the other stuff in the obvious order. Do the cheap fixes first.
You're
right that lightning is strange stuff when it comes to what was
spared and what was fried. Truly an act of God. The weirdest
lightning strike I had was a friend's Compaq Presario. Came in
via phone line. Fried internal modem and all, count 'em all,
user usable expansion slots -- the compaq video card and such
are on the mobo. The rest of the computer worked fine. Put an
external modem on a serial port and the computer runs just
dandy, still, about six months later. Go figure.
-
Jim Griffin
You
are asking us to speculate without any symptoms beyond it will
not start. That is
difficult to do in this case.
But, with that said, the odds are very great that it is a
complete waste. A
small spark of static electricity is enough to fry most parts
inside a PC, including the CPU, motherboard, ram, hard drives
and so forth... the modem is probably the least of his worries
if the lightning passed through the PC.
Most
home owner insurance policies will cover lightning damage to a
PC, at least that is what I have found here in the US.
You might have him check to see if they have insurance.
-
Bob Wright
There
have been a lot of good comments on this topic but one recurring
comment that concerns me is that people keep equating surge
protection with lightening protection.
Comparing
electrical surges to lightening is like comparing a drip in the
kitchen sink to a full blown, Mississippi River flood. Surge
protectors and lightening arrestors are not the same thing.
Do
not rely on a UPS or a surge protector to save you from
lightening. If you
value the equipment, unplug it.
-
Jim Meagher
General - Overclocking - 75/83 MHz bus problem
I have an LX chipset Soyo MB with bus speeds of 66,68,75 and 83.
CPU is celeron 300a which runs fine in a BH6 board @ 100
b us. In the lx
board it will only run properly at 68 bus.
At 75 it will boot up and run ok except for graphic
programs, like PhotoDeluxe, etc, or internet pages, and will
lock up...
Well as you guess, your problem is your other devices. When you
overclock to anything above 66 on that board, you also overclock
the PCI bus. Some cards don't mind, other's do. The fact that it
is crashing in graphics
programs leads me to believe that your video card is the cause. It
could be a heat problem, try throwing a cooling fan on the main
chip of the video card and see if that helps.
- Herbert Graf
General - Overclocking - Why can't?
> Using Softmenu, I have not been able to overclock this setup at
all. Not even 400Mhz. It should clock upto 550 easily with the
big cooling fan.
While it is possible that the memory is PC66, the most likely thing
is that the CPU just won't work at 100 MHz FSB. In
overclocking there are no guarantees.
While virtually all Celeron 300A's will work at 100 MHz,
there are some that won't.
I got lucky, mine works flawlessly at default core
voltage. All other
Celeron processors have a higher element of "risk."
I have a 366 that will only function at 550 with core
voltage raised to the max, until CPU usage gets heavy, then it
collapses. I know
others that have no problem at all running at default core
voltage and FSB's exceeding 120MHz.
For a slight premium, you can purchase CPU's that have
been tested at higher speed, but that really takes the
"fun" out of overclocking.
Give it a shot at 75 and then 83MHz and see what happens.
It may be that you're going to have to settle for that.
BTW, did you make sure that your PCI was set to 2/3 on
SoftMenu?
- Art Cassel
General - Overheating
I have a AMD 233 mounted on a super 7 motherboard and a decent
cooling fan and a layer of thermal paste in between. However,
the 233 heats close to 61c and higher and then the system stops.
What else, if anything, can I do to reduce this heat? The power
supply fan works fine.
Well
the easiest way is to install another fan. I have 4 fans in my
system, one in the power supply, one mounted on the CPU and two
in the case, one at the front of the case and one in the middle.
An alternative is to install and better heat sink/fan combo on
the CPU, but my wind tunnel cools the whole system, not just the
CPU.
-
Herbert Graf
You
should first verify the voltage is properly set for your AMD 233
on this motherboard.
CPU
cooling fans are rather deceptive. It really is not the fan
itself that's most important, but the cooling fins on the fan.
You need maximum air exposure (surface area to mass ratio), in a
design that will dissipate heat synergistically with the cooling
fan.
You
can also add an intake fan in front of the case, which would
blow external air over the CPU.
Check
your case airflow, since you have an older system. Blow the dust
off your motherboard, the components and the power supply (and
its exhaust fan) with a can of air. Re-work the cabling so your
airflow is improved. Sometimes taping closed some of the holes
in the case will improve your airflow (increase the draft) over
vital components.
I
would also remove the thermal paste and either (1) leave it
paste-free; or (2) reapply new thermal paste. Some thermal paste
applications may harden or lose conductivity with age, and
sometimes are not properly applied (non-ceramic top AMD CPUs are
difficult applications) . I quit using thermal paste myself.
Most
hard core computer enthusiasts leave part of the case off to
access devices, but they also do this to keep the system cool.
Some even point a external fan into the case to lower
temperatures further.
Even
if a computer is running properly, within operational
temperatures, reducing the heat by a few degrees will increase
the life span of your electronic components.
-
John Chin
General - PC/Motherboard Form Factors
Last
time I cared about motherboard form factors I knew about
Baby-AT, Full-size AT, LPX, ATX, Micro-ATX, Flex-ATX, NLX, WTX
and Backplane Systems. There are also many proprietary designs,
of course.
The
NLX
specification was developed by Intel as a low-profile
case and motherboard. NLX systems are designed to use ATX power
supplies, even though
the
case and motherboard dimensions may be different. NLX computers
use a riser board and the motherboard plugs into the riser
(unlike LPX where the riser plugs into the motherboard). The
power supply connects to the riser, as do the disk drives, front
panel lights and switch connectors, etc. So the motherboard in
an NLX system has no internal cables, cards or connectors
attached to it. If you want to take out the motherboard, no
boards or cables have to be removed. Simply slide it out the
left side on rails. You can find more information about some
motherboard form factors in http://www.teleport.com/~ffsupport/
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Oscar Viסas
General - Purchasing - Places to Shop
I
buy all my components from either www.buycomp.com
(buy.com)
or www.mwave.com
(MultiWave Direct).
They both have killer prices and very courteous sales
reps. My only
complaint is that MultiWave sometimes cannot ship my orders the
same day I make them...
