To Whom it may concern: In April, 2002 I purchased a Maxtor Personal Storage disk 3000LE primarily for backups. For years I've been reading articles in the Mags and by knowledgeable columnists. One must back up his important files. Now, I actually never had a problem with the computer crashing,...

Can anyone think of a reason a 'healthy' dell 8200 would boot to xp pro just fine one minute, then fail to even get to bios? the moniter is fine, and there is power to the tower... i dont think its the video card, even if i leave it alone for long enough to go thorough the boot sequence, the...

I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea...

Hi. I built a computer for myself back in november being an advanced PC user. It runs on a network with another computer which I use as a game server. Recently, my client has been giving me A LOT of problems. The one i can't seem to figure out is in the subject.

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...

The Linksys WSB54G Wireless Signal booster seems to be taken off the market. Does anyone know where I could still but one ?

Hi, all In my computer I have 3 HDDs (6.4, 13.6 and 120GB) one on top of the other in a mid tower case. Out of nowhere I got a blue screen with a caption saying the computer could not access c:\ drive. It could not be a bad cable, because I installed the 120GB a few days earlier with a new...

Currently I am seeing visible transparent shades of grey next to lines of black text that gradually fade away after about an inch or two on my monitor. They are the same height as the line of text. The resulting effect is that on a text heavy document, like an essay on Word, will have like a...

In the near future I am planning to purchase a new system. Right now I have a XP2000, 256MB ddr333,& 40Gb HD. I am always running ACAD, & video editing programs at the same time and I feel I need more power somewhere. My question is: Which would be a better route to go in? Dual processor or Raid,...

Hi, I don't know where to begin since I have tried too many things. So I will just describe briefly. I have two partitions, one with Win 2000 server and one with Win XP Pro. And I have a slave drive (E:) with NTFS format. Win 2000 could see everything on E: fine. Win XP could not even access...

Hi, I don't know where to begin since I have tried too many things. So I will just describe briefly. I have two partitions, one with Win 2000 server and one with Win XP Pro. And I have a slave drive (E:) with NTFS format. Win 2000 could see everything on E: fine. Win XP could not even access...

Hi, I'm planning on building my own system, and I've pretty much decided on everything except for the hard drive. I'm looking into 120GB SATA drives - is there any major difference between Maxtor, Seagate, WD, Hitachi, etc? Does anyboby recommend a specific drive? Thanks - Eddie.

Can anyone tell in basic terms the difference between Intel and AMD CPUs?

Hi, Iam currently doing a course at college in copmuters and computer networking, and I'm looking for a place to talk to like minded people. This is my first port of call, but can anyone tell of any chatrooms that might be of use? any help anyone can offer is much appreciated.

I doing some research into which processor would be better for a multi-media system used by a graphics design company does anyone have any thoughts on the matter? If so any opinions on processor/motherboard combinations would also be greatfully recieved.

Hi, does anybody know if the MSI 6368 V2.1 works with the VIA C3 Ezra processors? The board is on the "VIA C3? Verified Motherboard List". But I've heard that some of these boards nevertheless have problems with the newer VIA C3 cores. The support pages of MSI are not very helpful. The German ones...

why dont computer keyboards have hands this would safe trouble and difficulty in the future.send your views

Hi all I have a HP Pavilion ze5600 laptop and emprex external dvd writer, and for some reason when I copy data to dvd it will not play the disc at all in my laptop?? the disc's are standard datawrite x8 dvd-r the disc are fine and play on my dvd player, desktop and any other computer???? any...

On one of three computer connected thru my cable modem I am experiencing very slow downloads and connection speeds. I did a test and found that the incomming speed was 30kbps and the upload speed was 300kbps. I use Netgear FA311 NIC's in all three computers. The othertwo machines are much faster....

I'm having some problems with my Averatec 5110P RAM modules, I tested them with memtest-86 and several errors were found in both modules (I tested them separately). I'm about to test with other module. I'd like to know if it's posible that a laptop's mother board can cause damages to the RAM...