We're getting a hurricane through here. It is probably too late to buy a UPS, but I am curious if a moderately priced UPS could power a laptop,cable modem, and router for any period of time, or would I need a generator? Thanks!

hi all... so, i have a new gateway 700x. want to totally silence this thing. has a fan on the power supply, another on the cpu. looking at silentmaxx and thermaltake product replacements. do i need a systems monitor? comments, suggestions? thanks as always...

What's the name of that jazz tune that creative used for the speaker calibrator setup software in Audigy 2? Sounds great, thanks guys Jason

Will a Northwood 533FSB CPU and an 4X AGP video card and Samsung DDR 333 ram work in Aopen AX4C Motherboard? I have chance to get a board at a good price, and won't change over my other items until later if these will work together. Thanks

I want to change the PS/2 plug on my mouse to a USB plug Is there anybody who can tell me how to connect the 4 pins of the USB plug with the 6 pin PS/2 mouse plug? I have already 4 at +5V (=1 at USB) and 3 at GND (=4 at USB) but I am puzzled as to pin 1 and 5. Any help is appreciated.

I am considering purchasing a laptop hard drive with a one year warranty in Thailand. The dealers here also sell what I think is the same hard drive (Hitachi) with a three year warranty. I'm wondering whether there might be a difference in quality between the drives based on their warranty length....

Has anyone seen this before? My computer (running WinXP) goes through the shutdown cycle but will not self-power off ... it comes up with the "Now Safe to Power Down" message. Not big deal really. However, when it was running Windows ME (when I bought it 2 years ago) it *would* power-off...

i get this error when i try to boot up a computer that i just swapped mobos on. what does it mean, the os wont boot up at all

I am having trouble with my SONY gdm400ps display.Picture on display is like i set it to rotate counter clockwise about 1 degre.When i press reset button on display picture is still the same. I pluged the display in different computer but it is still the same! Is there any utility to fix my...

Hello Everyone, I recently graduated from high school about 3 months ago and during that time I have been having a rather challenging time finding work in the I.T. field. Just to let you know, before I go any further, I'm currently living in Calgary, AB (in Canada). Throughout high school I took...

Does anyone know if the hard-drive in the Pavilion 7920 is easily upgradeable? I wish to upgrade the HDD to something larger, say an 80GB. I checked HP's site and all it said, was it's a 3.5" unit. Thanks. @drian.

Hi I have some peoblems with my mouse suddenly changes position on the screen. Also my midi-keyboard crashes sometimes, when i'm playing midifiles on my PC, via a USB midi interface. My system is: Dell Inspiron8100, with a Logitech optical mouse on 1 USB port, and a Logitech USB Hub on the...

Been lurking in newsgroups and have just realised its a good idea to have additional partitions on hard drives. Glad to have opinion/ideas on how best to manage this. I have two hard drives installed, neither of which have more than one partition...and both only about 5% used at the mo:- C:...

"flasher" wrote in message ... hello I was wondering. I have bought a new system to assemble by myself, but now I see that there is no pc speaker. I mean the standard bieb bieb speaker you hear at startup. Is...

I'm looking into getting a new drive. Is their a real advantage in getting a drive with 8MB cache rather than 2MB cache? I recently had a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB drive with 8MB cache, which I found dealt with intense operations very quickly but would take a long time to open folders on the...

Hi, I have a WD 80MB hard drive that is capable of UDMA mode 5 - I also have a MSI mboard capable of mode 5. For some odd reason though, the drive is stuck in mode 2. Initial bootup (bios display) shows mode 2 as does winXP. Any ideas on how to get the HD into mode 5? Thanks, Bob

Hello all: I just won a compaq POS on ebay for $19 that I am turning into a mp-3 server. Nothing fancy. However, it does not have a cd-rom drive. Do I change the bios to boot from network to get it going? This one is new to me and I always up for a challenge....Thanks. J.

I have just got a heatsink and fan with a 3 lead power supply. However, my PC only has a 4 pin power lead spare from the PSU which the current fan is plugged into. That fan only uses 2 leads and is somehow wired into 2 of the connectors, see diagram. My question is where can I get a lead to...

I have 2 UPS that have problem. They do a continuing noise and don't have any light. Does it have a way to test them to know what is the problem? how to know if it is the battery??? how to test the battery to be sure it is death? Dan

If the monitor is switched off and there is no screensaver working, am I correct in thinking that the graphics card is still generating roughly the same image over and over again, despite it not being displayed by the monitor, and therefore subjecting it to gradual damage in the same sense that a...