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Well, I made a stupid mistake. I was measuring the voltages on the ATX connector. Everything looked ok, and I was going through them again to make sure. Got distracted and accidentally shorted two of the connectors together with my voltmeter probe. Spark, pop, slight smell. One of the connectors was...

OK, so I'll focus on the power supply. Can I just take a voltmeter and measure the output? Which colors are supposed to correspond to which voltages? Thanks for all the good suggestions. I did fiddle around with the RAM configurations a bit, to no avail, so I finally took everything out, hoping for ...

I blew most of the dust off with compressed air, but there are still some grungy areas. I will clean those up and see if it helps. Is there a way I can test the power supply output to see if it's faulty? It's a pretty new unit... Nate

Thanks for the comments. To answer your questions: No, there was no funny smell. None of the capacitors are visibly leaking or bulging. As I mentioned, I did take everything out except video card (including CPU and RAM), hoping to get at least a beep code, but there was no sign of life except the po...

A few days ago I went to minimize Photoshop, and my screen just went blank. Reset wouldn't work. Had to power off by holding power button. Went to bed. Next day, tried to boot, and nothing! No beep codes, no video signal sent to monitor. Only sign of life was CPU fan running (also, HDD and CD drives...

Purrkur, I should have mentioned that I did that. Sandra reports no conflicts. SB is using 19 and Promise is using 17. Is it possible that the SB is using more than this? Maybe I will trying changing slots anyway. Thanks for your comment.

I need some help! I upgraded to a new hard drive (Seagate 160), and I figured that would be a good time to try out the Promise hard drive controller that everyone raves about. I got the new setup running ok, but there's a problem: my audio playback now stutters quite often when I perform other tasks...

Hello,

I just purchased a watch with IRDA capability, and I would like to be able to upload and download information to my BP6-based computer. I know that the BP6 has some kind of IRDA header. What does this mean, and what else do I need to make the connection? Thanks in advance!

Natrin

Does anyone know how much the Neo adapter will throw off CPU temperature readings? I am running a 1.1 GHz celeron with a Neo and am using MBM, and my cpu temp ranges from about 30 C at idle up to 45 C with 100% cpu usage. Are these temps ok, considering that the Neo might be making them artificially...

Using RU bios and 1.25 hpt.

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows how to get hard drives attached to the HPT366 to turn off using power management in XP. I go to control panel -> power options, and I set "Turn off hard disks" to 30 minutes (same as my standby time), but it doesn't work. My system goes to standby ok, but the...

Hello! I have a question about getting USB to work. I am running the NJ bios and Windows XP device manager says: "Your computer's system firmware does not include enough information to properly configure and use this device. To use this device, contact your computer manufacturer to obtain a firmware...