My dad was attaching some of those motion sensetive lights to the outside of the house and managed to drop one I decided to rip the little motion sensetive conpartment appart to see what was inside. Noticing the little sensor I had an idea. Is there anyway that it could be linked up to my computer...

ATI recommends uninstalling COMPLETELY the old driver before installing the updated driver. But how will I be able to see anything with nothing driving the monitor? I'm a little confused. David Azose

I've been installing CD/DVD reader/writer units in the PCs of friends and family for a while now (easy once I'd sussed "master" and "slave" ha ha) but I'm intrigued as to why sometimes they come with a tiny "audio cable". It looks like one end goes in the unit and the other in either the sound...

I have 2 Maxtor drives connected to a Belkin ATA-133 controller card. Since hooking up a Seagate 400 gig USB drive the first of these drives is not seen by Windows. Both of these drives on ATA card are seen by BIOS when system starts. I am running XP-Professional SP-2. The second drive is seen. I...

I have the Gigabeat from Toshiba, ModelMEGF10, but windows XP and the Media Player 10 do not see the Gigabeat. I called their tech. support but they were of no help. They just ask me to install the ORIGINAL Gigabeat CD (which I did) and it still did not find the gigabeat, not under My Computer...

When I want to adjust the volume control on this new notebook, it always slides back to the top, maximum. Wave, SW Sync and CD Audio I can adjust and it stays, but not the overall Volume Control. Any ideas? It is using windowsXP, Dual Core, 1 GB Memory Model V6137US

I have a Seagate model STD224000N 24 Gb DDS3 4mm DAT Tape drive. It used to work find under windows xp. Now windows is not fully recognizing it. In the device manager it shows the drive but it has an exclamation mark on it. Under properties it says Windows successfully loaded the device...

Approximately how low could voltage go on a household current before a machine decides to turn itself off (go dead). A client of mine is having random turn-off issues and I cannot find any hardware or software reason of this. Their entire house is on two 20A breakers and I'm wondering if this is...

So for mouse I am thinking Razer Copperhead with Razer Mantis Pad. Any recommendations on keyboard, and why? I used to game on old keyboard from 486 days. I tried new ones and I found keys to be mushy, and not very responsive.

Need a seagate hard drive 160 Gig ATA version 7200.7( Internal)I have a unit that has a bad board even a used one might help to get the circuit board from.

Any suggestions as to the likely cause of these symptoms? - switch on UPS (or wall socket) - press power-on switch on front of PC case - nothing happens - total silence - open case: there is a light on a diode on the motherboard, so some juice must be getting that far - switch off PC by holding...

If I have 2gb of RAM, do I really need a swap file? David A.

Hi! I have one of these joysticks that I need the power supply for it. If someone could tell me what the power requirements are for it I might be able to get an aftermarket supply for it and make it work. Thanks! John Van Winkle

Unfortunately I forgot the password, but the reset doesn't seem to work. What else can I do? The reset switch works.

I'm thinking of getting a second SATA hard drive for my computer. Other than connecting the SATA ribbon connector to the computer's SATA header on one end and the hard drive on the other, connecting the power connector and screwing the drive into the proper bay, is there anything else I need to...

I've heard different stories about AGP and PCI-E...some say AGP is better and faster...others say that PCI-E is better... The question is: what is the truth? How much, if any, performance increase would you see over identical cards, one being AGP and the other being PCI-E?

Greetings! I have a single screw, within a black "plastic" configuration, that holds the metal left panel of my Sun Ultra 30 computer system. The screw went in too tight. And, in trying to remove it, I have really seriously "messed up" the phillips head of the screw. (Stripped didn't...

I have had an NEC 4550 DVD writer for 6 months or so that's never given me any problems until recently. It won't recognize some of the disks I insert and I can't pin down what's causing it. I get a monthly magazine which has a dual sided DVD Cover Disk and on the A side -which is mostly...

I'm trying to find a driver for an NVIDIA Vanta video adapter for Win98. Can anyone suggest a place to start? nvidia's web site isn't one of them!

For some reason my mom's computer keeps resetting randomly, even when it's idle. I don't know what, and I even removed a second hard drive that I had put in it hoping that it would give more power to the rest of the hardware, but that didn't change a thing, it still resets. Any suggestions? I'm...