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    Upgrade advice: mobo, cpu

    I am considering upgrading my computer, and would like any advice others here can give. Current configuration: Celeron 1.3 GHz Shuttle motherboard, Apollo Pro 133 chipset with VT82C686 south bridge A few parallel ata hard drives 1 broken DVD burner (reads, won't write DVD's anymore, writes CDs)...
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    Laptop hard drive bad?

    I have a 40 GB hard drive on a Dell Latitude 400. While attempting to write to a large file I got an I/O error. An fsck of the reiserfs and a reboot later, I still get the same error on the write. The following message appeared in my system log: [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady...
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