If your 10-year-old motherboard doesn't have Wi-Fi, and you are unsatisfied with the performance of Wi-Fi dongles or add-in cards, it might be yet another sign that you need an upgrade.

First, remove the old motherboard. You need to be careful when removing the CPU cooler and, in particular, the tiny connectors that run to the status LEDs, as well as the power and reset buttons.

Cool! I love to see ancient things ro be restored. In this case, I’d replace the poor 8088 by a real CPU however, an V20. ;) I mean, if we’re at replacing/fixing the EPROM, anyway..

Woah. I haven't posted at Ars in a little while. Anyway...My parents recently came to the realization that they no longer use their desktop computer at ...

My Uncle called me the other day and he's got a problem with his system. The hard drive has a bunch of bad sectors. He's a rich bastard so I'm just gonna have him buy a new drive. What I need to ...