if the board was shipped without the ATA connector installed, you can bet that they left off a bunch of other components that are required for that port to work. <BR><BR>In short, the chances of you ...

I built a 133mhz machine out of spare parts for satellite emulation, problem is that there is only 1 serial port on the board.<P>So i went to the store and bought a 25pin serial card with 9pin adapter ...

Now we've got a product that looks somewhat akin to what you receive in the box. The larger components have been machine-fed on to the mainboard and been inserted ready for wave soldering. Optical ...

During Computex, I was offered a chance to go see how a motherboard is actually produced. GIGABYTE invited me and other media on a trip to see one of their three factories. We were bused off to the ...

Once the motherboards have been moved to the factory's manual insertion floor, they're unpacked and placed on a conveyor belt that forms the next stage of the production line. It’s here that lines of ...

Heat up that iron, you’re going to want to try this one: [Hugatry] is adding hardware to his laptop by tapping into the i2c lines on the memory module. We love this because the penalty for borking ...

There are two things that disturb me about the impending launch of the third-generation MacBook Air. The first is that it could ship without a backlit keyboard (a deal breaker for me), the second is a ...

What happens when you drop your laptop in the pool? Well, yes, you buy a new laptop. But what about your data. You do have backups, right? No, of course, you don’t ...