Nittaku wrote: Is there an easy way to send tv programs over a network. Something like TV -------- PC1 with TV-tuner-card (hardware encoding?) ------LAN-------other PC2 Is this possible? Any ideas or things to pay attention to? System requirements of PC1? Etc...

After formatting a 40 gig (39 something) Western Digital HDD I have in my computer it lost about 6 gigs of space and now only reads that it is a 33.01 gig drive. I have formatted, reformatted, written zeros to the entire drive and used western digitals' own formatting tools to no avail. Thinking...

Hello, I am going to purchase a Motherboard and CPU for my HP system. I need a motherboard with integrated Video and NIC ( I do not care about the sound). I will be installing Redhat/Suse Linux on this system. Could you recommend a motherboard+cpu. This is going to be my test machine so I do not...

I have 2 40 gig WD HDDs and I am running WinXP on one. I have it partioned three ways, 31 gigs for o/s, apps, and games, 5 gigs for backup, and 1.2 gigs for another o/s. The other o/s I would like to put on is Win98, but the trouble is, as this is my first time attempting a dual boot, I can't...

I want to upgrade my bios because I bought a Hard disk 60 GB and my motherboard do not detect it. my bios is : : : BIOS Date: 05/07/1999 : : BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS : : BIOS ID: 05/07/1999-i440BX-ITE867-2A69KV3IC-00 : : BIOS Eval: BIOS-I-2M (90507A) Please contact me urgently

Hi! A 40G Western Digital, having once been used with Linux , was partitioned and formatted. Now it only reads 38.2G. I went back to the Linux disk, and with their partition and format setup, I deleted every partition except the one, main, large one. Back into WIN XP HOME, it still only shows...

I am looking into building a new PC for myself and I'm debating between getting a smaller (and cooler) Shuttle-type cube case or a regular ATX case with a dual CPU motherboard. (To my knowledge, the Shuttle cases do not support dual CPUs. Correct me if I am wrong.) I like the theory behind load...

I have an HP Pavilion running pc2100 memory. Can I use pc 2700 in the machine with the pc 2100?

Hello to all of you nice PPL! I want to copy big files from my PC(Win 98) to my laptop XP Home Ed. Is anyway I can connect laptop and PC, so my laptop sees PC's harddrive? Thank you!

Hi. Problem with a Dell Optiplex GX260. I need to install a second serial port on this motherboard. On a normal system, I would plug a standard DB-9 ribbon cable on the adaptor. But not here. The connector is on the mobo but no cable was delivered with it.

First things first. I am running a Abit IS 7 board with dual harddrives (seagate barracuda 7200.7 - 40 gigs each). P4 - 2.4 ghz, 1024 Pc3200 DDR400 RAM, ATI 9700 pro 128 mg. SB Audigy. I will start from the beginning. All my computer problems started from one of my fans began to not work. I...

Thats just about the problem: the computer keeps restarting. I'm quite sure its because of the wireless network card, but this is not confirmed. The spec wil be listed below. Its random, although its more often when it has just started up and immediately I try to run something. It doesn't seem like...

This past summer, I build my own new system with the following hardwa Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard AMD Athlon XP 2700+ 2x Kingston 512MB DDR333 PC2700 ram Asus V9280 128MB 8x video card Antec case w/ SmartPower supply Samsung SW-252 CDRW Sony DDU1621/DDU1611 DVD

I put together a computer with the help of my friend this summer so its not that old. Recently it wouldn't start up, I would press the start button but there would be no BEEP and no video signal. I would have to keep restarting my computer about 10 times then I would hear the BEEP and it would...

I am having problems installing a Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adaptor Card. I am following the installation guide included. System card is being installed in: Motherboard: AOpen AK72 (Award bios ver. 1.11 – 10/27/2000) CPU: AMD Athlon K7 - 800Mhz. OS: Windows 2000 Server Video card: PNY GeForce 2...

I'm looking to connect 3 internal hard drives up inside mt PC. I've already got 2 CD drives installed. Is there a special IDE cable needed, as the only ones I've seen so far are dual connectors. Or Is it that the motherboard needs to be able to support the amount of drives I'm trying to install....

A while ago I got a HP Pavilion 762.uk computer, which came bundled with an athlon 2200+ processor. I have recently changed alot of my hardware including the motherboard. I now have a Gigabyte K7 Triton GA-7N400V-L motherboard, and now when i check the stats of my CPU anywhere (even on startup with...

I have a very unusual problem with my power supply that I or noone else can figure out. here goes; My wife's computer-motherboard and power supply and cdrom stopped working I assume some type of surge. I replaced her motherboard and used a power supply from my computer and got her up and running....

I have an old Dell Dimension XPS 300. That's right, with a Pentium II at 300 MHz. How retro can I one be? The motherboard appears to have croaked and I want to know if there are any after market boards that I can replace it with. Does anyone know the form factor for the m/b? I'm going to put...

I have a PCI video card that I am trying to use as my primary (or possibly only) video card and my computer doesn't want me to do that. In my BIOS I have the option of setting the primary video controller to AGP or to Auto which uses PCI first or AGP if a PCI video card isn't found. So I set it to...