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OK...guess I'll have to go back and open it up and see what's there like I should have done in the first place.

I need help identifying a single-gang white plastic wallplate that has two horizontal side-by-side insert holes and each vertical edge (side) of the plate has about a 1/2 inch wide convex curve to it. The jacks (inserts) looked like ortronics but I didn't get a chance to take it apart to look...

Another idea - check your machine for spyware and use the task manager to see what processes are using lots of resources. You may be getting locked up by some insidious program taking your CPU for a 100% ride.

I am running a typical home XP ICS networking two PCs. Firewall 4.02.6 is installed on the gateway machine connecting via local area connection NIC to cable modem and connecting to client PC via local area connection 2. All works well except when Firewall is filtering, IE in client is blocked...

Best thing is to use a small channel lock plier set to fit the right thickness. Grasp the c4-c5 firmly at the left (blue) side; while pulling out and to the right, move the c4-c5 up and down to release the pins. It should pop out fairly easily and after checking for bent or clogged pins, can...

Update - thanks again for the hints...I took TomCologne's advice and picked up a barebone on eBay and added parts locally and from other online sources. I kept the old Athlon 800 basically intact and I now also have a new Athlon XP 2100+ (Thoroughbred), lots of cooling, SiS746FX chipset, radeon...

Static Cling Spark?? or perhaps Structured Cabling System

I'm with Bobg1 except instead of cutting it shorter, just keep pulling it back until it works.

SrTechCon: "As an industry, cable folks should strive for the highest common denominator rather than the lowest. This is a real serious issue!" I stand corrected on my earlier post where I said I like to scan 10-20%. I do that just to check on the work of my installers. For a...

Thanks for the tips. With MSCONFIG I was able to disble several likely processes, but still had the problem. Event viewer didn't show me anything suspicious, so I went back and disabled the entire list of Startup items, rebooted and voila - problem was gone. So I started enabling items on the...

I think the 26th pair was a spare. That's about the only thing that would make sense to me...

I have an annoying quirk that occurs intermittently in XP home: an audio track (actually one xmas tune I played from a CD last december) plays randomly with no player application running (when it's playing I look in Windows Task Manager where it shows no applications running). I have searched...

If you do not test your installation beyond wiremapping, you never get a quality check of your work, and you have no way of knowing if there are faulty components (bad jacks and bad cable don't always show up with a wiremap). Even of the manufacturer warranties the install with only a wiremap...

As for the floor penetrations, I recently did 20 floors of new construction where to achieve the 2-hour T rating requirement, there could be no sleeves. Go figure...

My cable pulling crews use pull-strings and/or gopher pole, including a follow string for successive pulls. Be sure to free the follow string from the bundle and much as possible to avoid braiding. One favorite method: Loosely tie a roll of tape to a 20-foot piece of string secured to the...

Great stuff - thanks to all for rapid replies. Now I can go shopping! Rich

He's also my boss :-o

I have a socket A package on the current Thunderbird. Here is my existing system which I would like to upgrade: CPU INFORMATION ================ Number of CPU ------------------ 1 Manufacturer ------------------- AuthenticAMD Processor ---------------------- AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) Code Name...

I have a Gateway desktop with an Athlon K7 Thunderbird 800 Socket A and I'd like to upgrade to a 1.3 or 1.4 gig. Can I just remove the existing and replace it with a new boxed CPU using the existing heat-sink/fan? Or is there more involved than this. Would I be better off getting a new...

Does anybody know a good way to sharpen snips? ;(especially after my buddy borrows them to cut the aramid when doing fiber)