Does anyone know anyone who can custom-build a high-spec PC for me (in the area of Edmonton, AB, Canada) ?

I have an e-machine with XP home edition. I am having a problem with the dial connection window popping up without a request by me. It is a steady problem from the time I boot up until I shut down. I have run uninstall, spyware, and anti-virus programs to no avail. I had a similar problem a few...

Has anyone figured out a way to fix the 800 and 1200 series philips CDRW Drives? I have one of each that just up and died for no apparent reason. Running Win 98SE on a Dell PIII 500. Optiplex GX1 for the 1200. The 800 series was in an AMD 800 Home Built. The drives look new they are just dead. I...

My system will not read more than 196 MB of RAM even though I have 256 MB installed. Each stick will read the full 128 MB if I put them in by themselves. But if I have both installed together, system only reads 196 MB. This happened with several different brands of RAM. I made sure that they...

Hello all: How does one change a cmos battery on a mother board? The ones that are flat and round. I tried to change one in my wifes older computer but broke off the clip that holds down the battery in the circular holder. I am afraid to tackle this project now...why don't they make changing a...

Hi can any tell us how to find the device serial nos which is global unique no - like ethernet MAC add. Device - means any H/W device (Hard disk, BIOS , Motherboard , processor etc ) that is installed in the system ( Unix / Windows ) . Where this nos are stored in the system ? Or how it can be...

Hi guys, I have two questions. I plan on building a new computer and using the Sapphire Radeon 9700 Ultimate Pro as a graphics card, but I would probably get it OEM. It would come with the card only, so how would I know what cables and things I need to get it working? The website selling it...

If you can, email me the driver or a link to its location

I have problems with configuration of my PC under Windows XP. I have Kg7 mainboard with Athlon 1200 and Hercules 3D Prophet 4500. With Windows 98 everything was all right (AGP 4x)but with Win Xp I can't turn on AGP 4x. :-( I have no idea what to do. I installed 4in1 VIA 4.51 drivers, upgraded BIOS,...

I have a Western Dig 10G hard disk on my system. I just bought a Western 20G hard disk. The 10 is installed as Drive C, the 20 as Drive D I want to copy a mirror image of my 10 onto the 20, then make the 20 Drive C (in this way increase the capacity of my C Drive from 10 to 20). I understand I...

Im about to buy parts for a new computer but im not sure if the motherboard fits in the case. The case sais that it will work with ATX motherboards, and it is, but their is some stuff on the Mobo that is not on the back pannel of the case, like 3 sound connectors and 4 USB ports. Are there ways to...

I have a bit of a puzzle concerning a stick of memory. My Toshiba Satellite 3005 Laptop came with 256MB RAM. 1x 128MB Kingston PC100 SDRAM 1x 128MB Mitsubishi? (I'm presuming PC100 and SDRAM to match other stick as it was upgraded by retailer before I bought it) Recently the Mitsubishi stick...

My Soyo Dragon+ with AMD 1900+ has died and I need a new MB. My main consideration is that I'm using 6 hard-drives (doing video editing) plus 2 optical units, utilizing the Soyo Dragon's RAID capabilities (I'm not actually running RAID.) My first inclination is to get the Soyo Dragon-2 Platinum,...

Hello! i have a laptop from the almost unknown "iterno" corporation. i would like to upgrade my ram from 64Mb to 265 Mb (SO-Dimm). doing so, i can only access 152Mb. i suppose this is a bios problem and therefore would like to make an bios update. the problem is that i can't find anything about...

Dear all, My Maxtor 6y120m0 drive won't format into NTFS while it will format into fat32. I get the error "The format didn't complete" It's an 120Gb drive. It works in windows XP without problems (also in NTFS), but in windows 2003 (different system) it won't.

I have a DWL510 PCI card that has losts it's MAC address for no apparent reason any thoughts ?

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Hi, I need a 5, and +/- 12v power supply for something I am building. I grabbed an old Dell power supply from a PC I previously had scrapped. Its a 200w Model NPS-200PB unit. My problem is that I do not know which of the wires in the output harness(es) turn on the power. Is there any...

I bought Active-Partition-Recovery v2.1.1 yesterday and tried to use it to recover my partially erased laptop HD. But my HD is still down. BOOTABLE OS: Windows XP home HDD: Toshiba 20 GB, ATA100, IDE containing only 1 Primary NTFS partition. LOSS SEQUENCE: -I accidentally formatted the wrong HD...

Hi all, Where can I find pictures (jpg,...any format) for the different international keyboards in use ? (UK-English, US-English, German, French, ...) What I'm looking for is NOT the keyscan map, but the the physical disposition of the keys. TIA, http://5.d.free.fr/dow.htm