Shopping for just the right gear you need to build your own PC takes time and care. The trick is to figure out the best sources for parts—whether local or mail-order. You also have to decide whether to buy all equipment from the same dealer. Here are a few pointers on this important phase of the project.
Use the Web. You can almost always find lower prices through careful Web shopping.
Let me tell you, it's great having all that desktop real estate to play with. Your mouse moves from screen to screen and you can move open windows from one screen to the other just as if you were using a single large monitor.
Some usb dsl/cable modems may get disconnected after a little while. A possible reason that could cause this problem is that in windows xp there is an option that allows the computer to turn off a usb device to save power. To disable this option:
1) click start, highlight my computer, right click and select properties and a window will pop up with the system properties