I have a PC with Win2K that is having several problems - it reboots randomly, it freezes up frequently, and every now and then it says that the network cable has been disconnected even when it hasn't. Is this the sign of a bad hard drive, or something else? I don't want to replace just the hard...

i bought a pocket viewer with a serial port. i upgraded a pc to notebook and lost the serial port. is the serial to usb converter casio sells basically the same thing as the one i see on ebay? it would save me quite a few dollars if it is. i'm trying to take it easy on the credit card. if i...

Here is my problem whenever i start up my computer it freezes at startup all it says is GRUB in the upper left hand corner. My computer was working fine. I had it setup for a dual boot for linux and windows xp. Everything worked ok now for 3 months and all of a sudden this happened. If anyone...

I am having a problem with keeping the temperature of my CPU down. The CPU runs at a temperature between 57C and 60C when idle. The case temp is a steady 25C. These measurements taken with Mother Board Monitor and confirmed with the bios'. A friend with a similarly configured system and physical...

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On 16 Oct 2003 00:52:33 -0700, (Ann) wrote in posted to comp.hardwa My computer became infected with the W32.Pinfi virus. There were hundreds of files infected, and I had Norton detecting them but I deleted some files,...

I just got a new Dell with an 80 GB hard drive. Considering my old computer had 13 GB, 80 is a lot; at least for me. Anyway, I have Partition Magic 8 already installed. I have Windows XP with 1GB of ram and a 2.8Ghz P4 processor. I also have Microsoft Office 2003 Basic Edtion. I need to know how...

I just bought a Pacific Digital 52X24X52 external USB2.0 CD-RW, along with a CompUSA generic 2-port USB2.0 card. I installed them last night, and it seemed to work out - the drive is recognized appropriately, and reads and writes to CD-R. SiSoft Sandra 2004 reports a drive index of ~8000 - a little...

We have Windows XP and the sound has suddenly stopped working. The cord is attatched, the mute is not on and the volume is up. Can I check anything else or does someone know how to fix this?

I'm looking for a central data corp (now digi) motherboard P/N CD21/8086-512 I believe this is an 8086 based, 512K motherboard from the early eighties. Is it possible to find this out there? Please reply to me directly.

Hi, We are thinking of purchasing the EMC Clariion CX 600. We are going to store our databases on it. We are told that its easy to make a clone of a database. We have a 200 GB database that we want to clone very hour. The cloned database will be used as read-only database for clients. Has...

yes u might... ur safest bet would be to install norton on ur new drive with latest deffs then scan ur old hdd with it

On 13 Oct 2003 02:25:18 -0700, (Mark) wrote in posted to comp.hardwa What does it mean when my computer beeps three times? It could be caused by many different items but the most common seems to be related to the video...

I purchased about six Micron X1000 Transports with the associated replicator (Model PR 100A). I've noticed that when any of my customers who have this combination try to play video from any source that it shows up on the laptop screen but it does not display on the monitor that is attached to the...

Hello, We're soon starting a datawarehouse project with a source sourcesystem installed on a AS/400; What's the best beginners guide for AS/400 ?? Regards, Jeroen

I bought one of HP/Compaq's glorious S5000J computers - the video card that came with it died, and I replaced it with a near-identical video card, same issue, within 24 hours. I've asked about this particular issue online, elsewhere, but the answer I got was "replace the motherboard" - something I...

My hard drive has begun to screech and groan. It is in a five year NEC desktop running Windows 98 on a 300 Mhz Pentium processor. Compuserve suggested a 20 GIG replacement. It is their own brand, made by Maxtor. They did not have anything smaller. My questions: A) Are there stores that still...

"Ben" wrote in message ... I'm studying an Advanced course in Computing. I'm trying to learn how to write programs on the computer in Visual Basic. Good for you, Ben. Do you have any questions or did you just want to...

On 14 Oct 2003 07:19:28 -0700, (Elisabeth Eitzinger) wrote in posted to comp.hardwa betriebsanleitung originalhandbuch oder kopie gg. unkostenbeitrag hp laserjet 4 pcl 5e paper jam Elisabeth, this may be of some help:

What computer hardware is required to set up a Local Area Network?