Hello I know that if you connect a cd-rom and a hd on the same IDE slot, then you get the "Timing Delay Error". Why does this error occur? -Øystein Sund

Scholars, If I connect to the Internet using IBM laptop with builtin Lucent winmodem, connection and downloading of data are ok. But when I dialup with Hayes Accura 56K external modem using Athlon desktop, I can connect but downloading is poor and erratic. most of the time, I can't...

Scholars, If I connect to the Internet using IBM laptop with builtin Lucent winmodem, connection and downloading of data are ok. But when I dialup with Hayes Accura 56K external modem using Athlon desktop, I can connect but downloading is poor and erratic. most of the time, I can't...

Just bought a new Case: V-TECH 8877K http://www.vtech.com.tw/Products/case/case-k.asp?number=58 Motherboard: ASUS P4S800 http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4s800/overview.htm CPU: INTEL SL6WG

I have a couple of questions about the board - or more accurately the BIOS. When I boot up (homebuilt PC) I egt hardware errors. I had to 'ignore' VCORE and '+12V Voltage' to get past that point. Obviously I would rather fix the problem than turn a blind eye and tell it to 'shut up'.

My PC lost its video, the monitor shows nothing at all, but the PC seems running normally, since I can not see the screen, I am not 100% sure, but all the signs show normal. The monitor is checked ok with another PC, and the video card in the problematic PC is switched, same result. I have built...

Ben C spilled the beans: I'm having an unanticipated problem with a new Vista Ultimate 64-bit installation. I built a new PC using an ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo MoBo, a Q9650 CPU, 8GB DDR2 RAM & a GeForce 8600GT video card. I installed Vista from the original DVD, I then installed the MoBo & ...

"Gregory Hall" clouded the waters of pure thought with : I don't often disagree with the brilliant HJ Your credibility thus ruined, you continued... but in this case he is obviously mistaken. In Wolfus's case there is nothing to...

I have this strange USB port problem, here are the symptoms: 1. I tried to use Skype with a headset (with microphone) connected to the sound card (mother board built-in), for some reason the microphone port did not work from the beginning, this was September of 2005. 2. Instead of adding a new...

"Adrian" wrote in message ... Is there a significant difference between: "400MHz settings: 2-2-2-6-1 (CAS Latency 2)" ...and... "400MHz settings: 2-3-2-6-1 (CAS Latency 2)" ?

Piotr Makley wrote: Asrock and Asus motherboards are both made by Asustek. So what is the main difference between them? I am told that Asrock is a cheaper range so is one range positoned to be cheap and the other to be more expensive but with more features? Or do both ranges aim at...

Hi, I was given an old armada laptop, P2 200 Mhz, with 32 megs on-board memory, win98se and it was working fine, although s l o w l y. So, i bought a 32 meg sodimm at a computer show last week for $5 (PC100) and put it in, and viola! now I have 64 megs and all's well. In the meantime I had...

Hi, Fn+F4 switches displays on this laptop. Well, it once did, and it doesn't anymore. All of the other function keys work. Just F4 is on the fritz. Spybot and AVG report system is clean. Any ideas on how to proceed much appriciated. Thanks, Mike

Hi, Can you download U3 launch software, and then install it on any USB key thus making a U3 enabled key, or does the key itself have to support U3 for it to work? Thanks, Mike

Hi, A neighbor's Seagate Baracuda 7900.9, 180 GB, drive with part number ST31608125AS died. He took it to Best Buy, and when the tech there hooked it up, it smoked. He showed it to me a while ago, and there is some mild carbon traces near where the power port is connected. The board, I don't...

HI, This is driving me nuts. It's just a regular pc running xp, 256 mb ram, used only for storing and viewing jpegs, internet browsing, and email. 20 gb hard drive, onboard sound and ethernet adapter. agp video card. 56k modem (which I removed) Here's what it does, loads to the point where...

xp pro, 80 gig drive, 4 partitoins,: os, programs, data, and a spare of 10gigs, all ntfs older duron AMD system: ecs mobo circa 2000 with bios same age. 1.6 g cpu speed. fsb is 100 mb/sec i think. 256 mb pc100 ram (2X128), burner, cd, etc. so i got a linux ubunto disk, and before I do anything...

Hi, My buddy bought a 250GB drive and put it in as a slave in an older athlon 1G system. Windows only sees 130 GB. Is a eide controller card the answer? Thanks, Mike

Hi, I got this from this group the other day: cipher /w:D:\ You run it from a dos shell, and it zeros out the empty space on the drive. I was going to try it on an ME system, but I couldn't launch a dos window. I searched on cmd.exe, and came up with nothing. So, either ME doesn't support it, or...

Hi, I'm going to set up a wifi system at a friend's house using a D-Link 614T ver A router. D-Link's web site says it's no longer supported, but it still has manuals, and firmware updates for it. It will be used in an XP Home system. I thought updating the driver would be a good idea because...