Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks or RAID is used mostly in servers for their fault tolerance and performance. Unless you run a home-office where the data you keep in your computer is invaluable or irreplacable, you don’t need to use RAID. But this option is becoming more popular with the consumer because of […]
Award is the another popular BIOS developer and they use the fewest beep codes by far.
Procedures - The normal procedure is to power up the PC system, watch for error message on the monitor screen and listen to the PC beep tone. A single beep during boot-up process is normal and does not indicate a […]
More correctly would be to state that it can currently hold 4.7Billion bytes, or 4.38Gigabytes per layer, per side.Currently, most DVD-R’s and +R’s are single sided single layered. But there are some double sided media’s on the market
Maybe, Depends if your motherboard supports this. Look in the manual that came with your motherboard. I would recomend to use just Dimms if you can as the memory will run at a faster speed.
Yes. Hard drives usually come in either 2 mb or 8 mb caches. The drives with larger caches will perform better since they can temporarily store more and larger files in their memory for repeated access. While transfering large files, such as when editing large video files, the cache size will make almost no difference. […]
Yes. DDR transfers data twice as fast as SDRAM modules. This doesn’t mean your system will run twice as fast, but your memory will. And the faster memory will improve your PC’s performance.
If you have more than 512MB RAM and are running Windows 95, 98, 98SE, or ME, you may not have enough cache to handle all of your memory. Solutions to this problem can be found at Microsoft’s Web site, http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.asp
The answer really depends on how much and for what your system is used. Upgrading is easy and cost effective. RAM is used every time you open an application, download, play a game or simply turn on your computer. Additionally if you work with or plan to work with digital audio and video more ram […]
There are several signs indicating it may be time to upgrade your memory. If you see your mouse pointer turn into an hourglass for significant periods of time, if you hear your hard drive working, or if your computer seems to work more slowly than you expect, the reason is probably insufficient memory. When physical […]
No - In most cases your cache cannot be easily upgraded. In order to upgrade your cache, you will probably need to upgrade your motherboard or purchase a new system.