Bought a 160GB PATA Western Digital drive (WD1600JB) from Misco this week. Their site lists this drive as being covered by a 3-year warranty, but WD's warranty checker says it's actually a 2-year warranty. Has anyone who's bought one of these lately checked the warranty? I'd love to know if Misco...

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I want to get a new hard drive but don't know if the adapters to convert between PATA and SATA could limit performance. -------- Am in the UK. My home PC has an AMD 2200+ and runs XP Pro. The motherboard has 2 IDE sockets for HDD. The PC also has an IDE extender card.

Other than DIY, any suggestions for where to find an "off the shelf" machine with 3 ISA slots? Nothing too special is needed, but it does need to have a Celeron-D/P4 level of CPU. The main thing putting me off of the DIY route is that these won't be based at the same place as me so some sort of...

Not really a complaint as such, I have ordered from Ebuyer.com numerous times with no real problems, but I can`t understand why they take so long to despatch when I can order from Dabs.com and have it next day. Anyone know why they do this?

http://www.techfever.co.uk/ Thanks Mikey

I have just had dealings with Ebuyer and to say the least I would not under any circumstances reccommend them when things go wrong they are unhelpfull they promise the earth and give nothing.

Hi, Got a mate who wants a reliable external HDD to share between Mac and PC. Can anyone recommend one that doesn't have crappy cooling that's going to kill the internal drive eventually? Odie, if you're around, are there any that you don't hate? Ric

My new Philips monitor has a resolution of 1680X1050. My existing cheap and nasty graphics cards handle this at analogue, but not digital. And trying to track down the resolutions that various cards deliver seems impossible. That is one of the specs they seem to bury. Anyone got any...

Spend the extra few quid and get a 'branded' screen somewhere else. My first Digimate (bought this time last year) was excellent. Since then , in trying to get a dual screen set-up, I've been through 4. 1st From SVP - Dead Pixels all over the place. Returned. 2nd Aria - Dead Pixels -...

Anyone know who else stocks these: http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.asp?Category=37&SubCat=&Name=&Page=2&SortBy= or knows a manufacturers website?

Maplin is currently selling its own brand rechargeable batteries at half price: four 2000mAh NiMH AA cells at an offer price of £3.99 Is this a good price? What sort of quality is Maplin's own brand NiMH batteries?

Has anyone had any experience buying from www.ewest.co.uk? One thing I noted there was that the model numbers on almost all motherboards I saw were missing when I last checked about 2-3 days ago? Thanks CDTECH

Can anyone recommend a card? maplin had a KWORLD card on sale, but this is now sold out.

I've just placed an order for some computer hardware with an online retailer. I tried to use one of my credit cards to pay for it; once I had entered my card details, it took me to a Verified by VISA page, and refused to let me do anything - either authorise or cancel the transaction - without...

We had a power cut this afternoon, so I switched the power switch off to the study when my PC equipment is and only powered on the ring main after the power was restored. But just my luck that my iiyama 4637 18" TFT packed up over the power outage, so I am using a standby monitor. Anyway, Dell...

To adjust the positive/ negative balance: My CD/DVD drive started chewing disks yesterday, so I ordered a replacement from Tekheads late afternoon. Came 9:30am this morning - almost quicker than if I'd said "hey this is urgent" and gone up the road to PC World, to get half the quality for...

Could someone please explain to me why online retailers demand information which is wholly irrelevant to the purchase in question? I was going to order a hard drive from www.kikatek.com, but they demand to know my date of birth, my gender, and my landline telephone number! Why on earth should...

Aaargggh!! Is there any particular reason that when I unpack and set up three brand new Dell dual-xeon boxen, I have to wait $BIGNUM hours for them to pull security updates from MS04-041 (December 14th *_2004_*) forwards? (Compounded by the fact that I have to do them one at a time due to highly...

I'll try and keep this short but please ask if more info is required. In August I bought a digital camera from InternetDirect (a trading name of Nomatica). It has an intermittent fault that renders it unusable for upto 48 hours at a time. I simply couldn't put up with it and needed a new camera...