I have a common SoundBlaster card on a linux machine. For no apparent reason, it died with a loud screech. My first thought was to buy a cheap replacement on eBay. But I am wondering if it could be the speakers? Any suggestions on troubleshooting,, preventing this from happening in the future,...

Hello, I am not sure if this pertains to you or not, but I saw your web site and I have a need to emulate an 8 inch floppy drive. I have an old machine tool that saves its information to an 8 inch floppy drive, but the drive is failing. What I want to do is "remove the floppy drive and connect my...

"Shep©" wrote: You shouldn't have a problem but if your present drive is set to Master just set the old drive to Slave and put it on the same cable or on the 2nd IDE port. If the old drive is put on the other IDE channel, and it's the only device on that channel, it doesn't matter whether...

I have an HP printer on my desk that has both parallel and USB connections. It is a 970cxi. I am out of room on my desktop and would like to relocate the printer. Is there a device I can plug in to the printer's USB and have it made available on a wireless 802.11b...

I'm going to be picking up an external hard drive, which uses a USB 2.0 interface. First, what is the difference between a regular USB and USB 2.0 interface? Also, currently I have two USB ports on my computer and both are in use by other equipment (digital camera and game controller). Is there...

Hi all... I have many problems with TWAIN devices (an Agfa and an Epson scanners and a digital camera): -With the Agfa I should put on the scanner just after the pc, otherwise I'm unable to run its manager application. -With the camera I should reinstall the drivers pretty every time I use...

In my vast knowledge,(HAHA), I attempted to add SDRAM Memory to my computer, only thing was what I didn't understand was the computer that I removed the memory from is a different PCvalue. I have here a PC133U 64 SDRAM board but it is not the same as what I put in the other computer, I...

Hi, I have crackly sound when running a soundblaster 16 ISA, so I decided to replace it with a Yamaha 724 sound card, which I found lying about. The card is a PCI sound card. I unplugged the old sound blaster, and put the yamaha in the PCI slot next to the slot where the old ISA card used to...

Hello all, I am trying to get a defective proliant 1200 server power supply running. Does anybody have a pinout for this power supply ? Thanx in advance, Jurgen

I have a real strange situation here. I bought a new case for and old mobo a soyo SY-K7VIA. When assembled the power does not come on. I get nothing.When I lay the mother board out on a static mat and hook up the power supply with the vid card and the floopy and the HD it boots up no problem!Very...

I'm trying to reuse a USB port I've been given. The wires are orange, brown, red and black - everywhere I've looked on google for info on USB wire colours I see white, red, black and green wire configurations. Is there anyone here who can tell me which of these colours correspond to which power...

I must admit that I'm a little confused.... I bought a brand new motherboard yesterday (DFI PS83BL) and along with it, PC3200/DDR400 RAM. I specified to the vendor that I wanted upgradealbility. The processor is a pentium 4 1.80a "northwood". On the processor box, it says, 400mhz FSB. I taught...

Hi. I would like some opinions on the following system (prices are in Canadian dollars). I know that the video card is weak but I have to go with nVidia because I need better OpenGL compatibility, I have been hearing that MSI's are quieter and the next better card that this vendor carries (5900) is...

I have a Microsoft Wireless Optical Keyboard Desktop and want to get a KVM to share it between 2 computers. Does anyone have any experience with this combination? If so, can you recommend a good switch? CW

What do people think of the Asus GFX 5600 256 MB, is it a reliable card for high end gaming and or will it work reliably with the rest of my hardwa The Asus A7V8x 512 MB Ram AMD XP 2200 Windows XP Home I think thats all the releven info, if you need more then let me know. Thanks

Athlon 1700XP+ on this mainboard, Will be WORK ? -- pozdr. xEM~

I want to connect two 120 Gb harddisks and two 80 Gb harddisks on IDE3 and IDE4. I would like to know if I should connect the 120 Gb harddisks as master on IDE3 and IDE4 and the 80 Gb's as slave. Or both 120 Gb harddisks on IDE3 as master and slave and the 80 Gb's on IDE4 as master and slave?

I have a motherboard (LX BN790E) with on-board sound (Avance AC97). I also have a Creative Sound Blaster PCI card. I would like to make use of and have both sound devices installed on my machine simultaneously. My problem is that whenever my SB PCI card is installed Windows XP doesn't recognise my...

Hi Group Looking to buy one of these USB - FM Transmitters that transmit sound from your PC by modulating it to FM for local transmission which allows it to be picked up on a radio. I need it to get a signal from my PC in one bedroom to the living room. Any recommendations or warnings?

I want to use a Compaq 14-pin ATX power supply from a Deskpro 4000EN on a normal 20-pin ATX motherboard (I know this sounds silly, but I have two other 4000en's running Linux and Solaris, and this 90W PSU is extremely quiet, so this case/PSU would make i nice home for my mini-ITX allways-on system,...