Several years ago, against my better judgement, I upgraded the memory on my computer. I knew about the problem of ESD but was just careful upon what I touched. Within a couple of days, I plan to add a video card to a computer. What is the best way, short of a wrist strap, to minimize the...

I am getting a new PC and would like to leave it on all my waking hours, so I am concerned about power consumption when it's just sitting there not doing anything. AMD XP processors seems to have standby power usage of only about 5 watts, but what about Intel processors? Can they also be put into...

Hi, My printer can't manage to print a text with grpahics within 1 hour. What is happening? Thanks, p.y jo

Can anyone help please ? recognition problem: scanner Plustek Optic Pro 9636P Recently had to re-format hard disk so have reinstalled all software and hardware, no problems until I got to the scanner. Lost CD so Driver has been downloaded from Plustek website and appears to have...

Hello everyone, I have an Ericsson PipeRider HM200c cable modem and while it is plugged in, my computer won't shut down. Here's what happens: If I tell Windows to shut down, the computer goes all the way until it has to shut down, but at the final step, it just restarts. Ok, but if I try it...

Got this error need help Compaq Drive Array Accelerator Battery Failed. The array accelerator board attached to the array controller in slot 3 is reporting a battery failure.

Shuttle Mobo P4 1.9ghz processor 784 DDRam Lian-Li Case 4 case fans CPU Fan Windows 2003 I want to use this computer for storage - but with HD's so hot I do not think it is 'safe'. What would cause the 'heat'?

There are several companies making pen drive, also called flash memory drives, or EEPROM's. Some are Sony, SanDisk, and Lexnor. Does anyone have any experience using these? Are there any brands or types to avoid? sarp

In a couple of days, my son will turn 20 years old. Also, within a couple of weeks, he will start his sophomore year in college. Combined events, I'd like to get him a laptop computer. With all the expertise in this forum, I would hope to get some great ideas. The price range I'm thinking about...

This is a point of interest that I thought would be interesting to post. The described problem can be very frustrating, and sometimes very difficult to resolve. Many users would first start by uninstalling and reinstalling their software, when the software is not at fault. A very frustrating...

Greetings all Today when I removed my ASUS V9280 Geforce 4 Ti to adjust the memiry coolers a component from the card just fell away. The part in question has a duplicate shown by 1 and the one that fell away is supposed to be at 2. Photo at:...

I have an old FIC SD-11 with PCB 1.7 running a 550 mhz processor. I would like to put the fastest processor I can run in it, so I checked the processor compatibility chart on the board's website. It was somewhat confusing. There is support for the AMD Athlon 800 but the box for the 800...

I just built a nice gaming rig and I got done installing windows and all my drivers and everything. I loaded up Star Wars knights of the old repbulic and started playing and then it just randomly cuts off. When the comp restarts it tells me that the hard drive has a problem and then it starts up...

I am going to build my own PC but am still very new to all the hardware really. I am buying a athlon xp2500+ OEM and am going to buy a coolermaster fan to go with it. What is a heatsink and does the fan come with one attached. Also will i need any of the thermal paste i keep hearing...

(Yogol) wrote in message ... Here's my problem : when I test my 5.1 speaker configuration with the "Creative Speakers Setting" tool all five work but only the two front speakers work when I play songs with the "Creative...

Hi, I have an older Dell Optiplex computer that occasionally makes a single click noise. It appears to be coming from the hard-drive as the drive LED stays on for a brief moment at the same time. Īs this an indication of imminent drive failure? A friend said it might be the "click of...

Hi all...A little about myself...I am taking Networking classes at school and have successfully built 12 puters thus far. But this one is a downer. I am having unstable operation in many programs. OK the details... amd 3200 Barton chip on a 400 spd. front side bus along with 400 spd 512ddr ram...

I'm trying at the moment to read and write to an SD memory card formatted by the Pontis SP503 MP3 player using a USB generic 10 in 1 media card reader on Windows XP. Trouble is that their software refuses to recognise my reader as a valid device. After Pontis ignored both my emails, I was just...

Okay, I hope I am posting in the right folder. I am trying to trouble shoot my computer. I am trying to add a HP 600 printer and I get a error message that says that my computer can Not located " LPT 1 Parallel Port for the printer" I check in my device manager and the printer port in there and...

Bij het opstarten van programma's begint mijn diskdrive erg te rammelen en te doen. kan iemand mij helpen om dit op te lossen.!!!!