Has anyone noticed that CompUSA has 500 GB drives for a reasonable price in today's paper? They say it is an exclusive. Why buy a 300 gb drive when you can make that a 500 GB upgrade for the same price?

I have a Compaq PC, winXP home, that runs very well. My problem is that when I connect up my external USB harddrives prior to boot-up, the OS will not load, and I get a "cannot load OS" message. After boot-up, I can plug in the hd's and the computer sees them and all is ok. I had this problem...

Is it ok to have a hard drive and DVD burner sharing the secondary IDE cable? Should I put the burner as the master and the hard drive as the slave? I only plan to use the hard drive as storage.

I have recently started back to college for my fall semester. One of the things I have been told I need is either a flash drive or cd-rws (^^p not gonna get the cdrws). I was wondering, while I was searching on ebay, for a flash drive, I noticed an external hard drive that could be connected via...

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:22:40 +0100, Sarah Kenilworth wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if one of these exists? I've been looking around but can't seem to find anything. TIA

Hi I have two hard drives, only one of which works. One is a Maxtor 160gb DaimondMax Plus 9 One is a Maxtor 80gb DiamondMax 10. My MB is an Asus K8v. The problem is, that the 80 gb drive works and the 160gb one doesn't (although it used to). Both are pretty new. I think the 160 must be...

I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB monitor and over the past couple of days I've noticed a sort of ghost line appears at the bottom of the screen. It moves up and down a bit and I noticed that, for a split second, the picture contracts a tiny bit and then returns to normal. I should point...

Tal Fuchs writes: Any idea ? Any suggestion ? An undersized power supply? If it is overloaded, it might overheat and shut down, and voltages might drop at the output as the overload develops. --

Is it possible to take apart a laptop hard drive and see if it can be repaired? Are there any details on this type of thing on the web that anyone knows of? I would like to try this but have not been able to find any information. Right now when the laptop is booted all you hear is the HDD...

Hi, I'm trying to build a PVR machine that I can watch/record TV with. I was thinking of using the Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350 card for a tv tuner. However, the tv-out ports in those and similar cards seems to be either of the composite type or S-Video type. Unfortunately, my TV only has a 75...

I think the BIOS Chip on my Shuttle MV43 Board was compromised by a Virus. Anyone know how I can tell for sure if the Flash part has been rewritten? Anyone know how I Flashed BIOS part for a Shuttle MV43?

Hello there My PC has died & I'd like to hear some opinions as to whether to replace the Athlon 1300 CPU or the Gigabyte GA-7ZXE motherboard. It was working OK, then I shut it down & when I tried to start it again a couple of days later. it wouldn't. I'll describe the symptoms: The PSU & CPU...

Hi Group Am try to record Playback Sounds (using Audacity) which I am lead to believe the HP Pavilion won't do, hence buying a Soundblaster Live 24bit card. Card won't install, in 1st slot - nothing - no screen - no computer - nothing. 2nd slot got computer OK but no installation. Windows XP...

I just got a new Dell 9100 system that came with XP Media Center OS. Few questions: 1. Can I Ghost the system image to another (home built) non-Dell system with similar CPU parameters. 2. I noticed that they included I386 binaries on the HDD. Can I somehow copy this to another PC and run XP setup...

Hello all, i custom built a computer for my girlfriend a couple of years back, and have received a lot of criticism because the computer has some abnormal behavior. I suspect that the MOBO i used is a POS. It does not seem to tolerate wireless keyboards/mouses. Initially plugged in 1 logitech...

Hello all, I have a laptop harddrive that went bad and on the harddrive it says ATA/IDE. When looking up the laptop online (HP Pavilion ze5170) it says it accepts ATA 2/3/4/5 I see an ATA6 that I want to buy. Will it work in the machine? What do you think? And whats the differance? Since the...

This is the first time I am looking for a UPS for a small server room. We need a UPS for our phone system. We do not have a generator, so we'd like to use a UPS as batter backup for a couple hours. I know this isn't going to be cheap, but it's our only solution in the suite we're at. I opened...

Hi All, I've just built a pc with 1 RAM stick, nominally 1 gigabyte. Evry measure of the RAM size, by every sort of utility, including memtest, shows a size of 960 M. It seems to me I should be seeing the advertised 1024 M.

Today, it takes 19 minutes to go from the "pci device listings" screen and the xp splash screen. (Before the "welcome" screen.) Usually this is the place where the "operating system not found" happens. Not today. I've tried Tune up 2006. Norton. Reg clean. All seem to fix problems, but not...

Kathy wrote: My son spilled water in his monitor. Thought it neede a new monitor, so I bought one. The monitor seems to work -- it shows video and shows "no signal" when turned on while disconnected from cpu -- as it should. When hooked up to the cpu, it shows nothing. What should I look...