In a similar vain to what automatic is saying you may be getting some noise from the video card. My gaming system was having a similar problem when the ati card was being taxed. You may try moving the sound card to the slot furthest from the processor, video card, memory, etc. if at all...
A long time ago I had an old keyboard that I would just unplug and soak in warm water. Never did die on me. In fact, I still have it. Don't know that I would try that any more with one, though!
WOW!!! Thank you all!!! I have been looking at the links you gave me. I would have to say that the boards IRStuff and nbucska pointed out are not only much smaller but are much (and I mean MUCH!!!) more efficient. The power consumption is far less than that of a conventional mobo. As for the...
Hi I was just wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to make a pc boot from a bootable rom. I am planning on using the motherboard in a small robot and would prefer to not have the added power drain of a seperate harddrive. I was hoping to use MS-DOS or some variation there of (i.e...
If the movement is in a fixed location you may try using something other than wire for the connection. I had a similar problem in one bot that kept breaking the wires in the "knee" joints. I got around this by using a couple of the devices usually used to keep the phone cables from...
If you haven't already solved your problem, you can also use the free Tweak UI utiliy from the MS Power Toys collection to add the admin screen name to the login screen.
If the system is already built, you could figure out the average use with one of several commercially available products. These usually fit between the item in question (in this case the computer) and the outlet and have a display on them to monitor activity. We have several around the...
