I'm starting a foray into a basic Media Storage PC. I'm building it from spare and decommissioned parts, and the budget is virtually nonexistant. Fortunately, I think I've got just about everything I ...

As my father's first and last system administrator, I've been looking at his old Creative Labs front panel for a long time. Though it presents several useful ports to him on the outside, on the inside ...

Q: Who do I have to buy lunch for so that somebody standardizes front-panel pins? A: Heh, this one’s a perennial annoyance, isn’t it? The front-panel pin layout on a motherboard varies a lot. Most DIY ...

If you’ve ever opened a PC case and stared inside, or looked at a bare motherboard, you may be taken aback by the number and variety of connectors, pins, and slots that exist on a modern PC ...