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I can install Windows server 2019 or 2022 on some of my older motherboards, but my Asus Prime H610M-A D4 CSM is not compatible with Windows server 2019 or 2022. Can someone make a recommendation?

I am returning a Samsung 840 SSD to mfg because it consistently fails as a boot drive. However, when I hook it to another computer as a secondary drive, it's completely readable and I need to remove all my personal information. The drive worked fine for about 8 months as the boot drive, but now...

My computers don't have cases, so for the on/off switch I just use a regular front panel type switch and leave it hanging loose. Works fine, but I'd like to have switch that would mount directly on the mobo pins without having the loose wire. Anyone know of such a thing?

I have a TV in my office which is an old fashion CRT type. It gets it's signal indirectly from my satellite receiver through an RF modulator box. The sat receiver primarily serves a HD TV in another room about 50 feet away. I would like to replace the TV in my office with a pci tuner card...

I have a number of homemade computers which are fairly low end machines. I wondered about how much power they actually consume, so I recently purchased a meter which I can hook them up to. One of them is an Intel E5200 with 2 Gb of ram and 2 hard drives, and no video card. It's power consumption...

I have a 3+ year old computer; Intel E6700/winXP. Yesterday it began to act strange in that it stopped recognizing keystrokes. I determined that it was not the keyboard. I restarted it with some difficulty because momentarily, it would not power on. I finally got it started and they keyboard...

I have a computer with on board graphics which has been connected to a 17" CRT. I want to move it to another desk where I have other monitors so in order to save space and weight I bought a HANNS-G 20" LCD. It's a wide screen with max res of 1600x900 which is where I'm running it. It's not...

My computer suddenly decided it would no longer boot. At first I was getting the "windows had a problem" with options for safe, etc. and it would allow me to enter the BIOS, but now it just halts part way through startup unless I put a floppy in the A drive. I no longer see the enter BIOS...

I have just installed the CPU and cooler on a new motherboard. It's an Intel E5200 with stock cooler. I have done this several times before, and it never seems to go according to the book. I've also watched internet videos and read all directions over and over and I still cannot seem to do it...

I am in the process of cannibalizing a Dell Precision 220 and I've run into something that has me stumped. It as two hard drives a 10 GB (logical drive C) and a 250 Gb drive (logical drive E). I have removed the partitions from the 10 Gb drive and erased it. The OS (XP) is on the E drive...

I'm considering a build from scratch just to have a backup desktop. If I buy a used cpu what are the risks, and if I buy one how can I check it to make sure it isn't damaged? What questions might I ask the seller to avoid buy something that has been abused?

I was advised against this somewhere else, but I thought I'd ask in case someone here has done it. Anyway, I have a fairly old Precision 220 that it still works as good as ever, but it is no longer adequate for the task for which I purchased it. I would do a rebuild using the case, but with...

I have a work at home computer which I had custom built a couple of years ago. It consists of coolermaster mid tower case Gigabyte 945p-s3 motherboard NVDIA GeForce 7300 LE Graphics card NVDIA GeForce FX 5200 Graphics card intel E6700 2.7 ghz process 4 gb pc5300 ddr2-667 ram 2 250gb sata...

I posted this on another forum and got one suggestion, to consider using a cd based os which would be impervious to attack. I think bootup from cd would be slow and updates would be a pain so I'm reposting my question here to see what other ideas to consider. Here it is: I have a home...