Hey all, I have a Gateway 2100 ( FPD2185W) monitor thats not going beyond the Gateway splash screen.It powers on and begins to flash the word "Gateway" in the middle of the screen . This is as far as it goes. It will not let me turn it off with the power button. The power on\off just flashes blue....

I used WinDAS to adjust G2 on an overbright Sony F500R monitor, and want to learn about a few of the other registers (full data set is copied below). Google has been useless. In general are CRT monitor registers standard across manufacturers? From the names I'm thinking a few of mine may be way...

I have a 8G Flash drive. When I do the disk properties, it says Fat32. When I try to change fat32 there is no other option. Suggestions?

I want to figure out how eSATA/USB is used. Does the technology allow me to plug in an eSATA drive without a power cord to the drive? By comparison, Is it faster than an external USB 3.0 portable drive? Which doesn't require extra power cable either.

If I have cell phone usb stick for wireless data connection can I use Magic Jack phone service on my notebook? -- LSMFT Simple job, assist the assistant of the physicist.

When I change screen resolution in Supreme Commander 2, and then take a screenshot, the different screen captures always come out in a per-pixel resolution. Items on the screen look much larger when the resolution is smaller, and vice versa... But the screen capture turns out larger when the...

I'm switching to Windows 7 on my new laptop and I wonder if there are WiFi issues I should be aware of. I normally have this machine wired to a hub on a wired modem/router and so I don't use WiFi, but I'm thinking if I do, there should be some gotchas. Yes this is an anti- virus question, don't...

Could a dead fan cause loss of BIOS settings in the CMOS? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.36.2 ^ ^ 16:12:01 up 4 days 22:17 2 users load average: 1.07 1.04...

In article , "Patrick" a.b@invalid wrote: Virgil2U wrote: I have a gateway GT5244E desktop computer and I have tried to install a new sata dvd burner into it and it will recognize it in CMOS but will not go past the cmos stage, It just stops there and...

Has any one used this video card and if so how did it perform? -- Rick Holbrook Fargo, ND N 46°53'15.097" W 96°48'18.284"

I buy everything from Newegg and Amazon, but I have Internet access. I have an aunt that doesn't even have a computer. I think she would love buying a WDTV, but it would have to be over the phone. We have talked about me ordering it for her, but it would be simpler if she could just do it...

Looking for a cheap (less than $35.00) switch from Asus, D-LINK, TP- LINK etc. that doesn't interfere with wake on LAN (S3 standby and shutdown). Four or five ports is sufficient. Any recommendations? Seems like these new cheap switches feature green ethernet technology that may prevent WOL from...

Can you identify this track taken from a video clip ........ or is there a site I can upload MP3s to and get it automatically identified? http://notknown.mysites.com/get_file/not-known.mp3 (1.28 MB) Gen heavy metal

Does anyone else wonder why taskbar buttons cannot be clicked and dragged to another location on the taskbar? In Windows 7? Or maybe by 2025...

How can I find out the bios setting for a computer that someone basically home built? I can’t even install windows 98SE without getting blue error screens during installation. I think the problem might be that the CPU speed is set wrong. Is there any way in DOS to read the type of Pentium III that...

Would anyone not buy this cable? It seems to inexpensive. Cheap = Crap. If this one is bad, where would you buy a 3' HDMI cable?

Hi I am looking to by a 22" TV/Monitor, not every expensive around £200 as latest as it could be. Thanks.

Just bought a Lenovo laptop, and though it's new, I'm wondering if years from now I can do my own repairs on the laptop. Is there a lively aftermarket? Or do people just send them in to be repaired in shops? Or just trash them after the 7 to 12 years it takes before a well-built laptop will...

What device out there can plug into a eSATA/USB combo port?

This is more a privacy question but I could not figure out a forum for it. Given that one can track IP addresses of people that visit a website, and given that IP addresses of all mail, including Usenet posts, is in the header, is there an automated way of checking all Usenet posts by IP address? ...