hey i'm intrested in buying a pen drive. I never really had a lot of experince with them so i don't really know what to look for when buying one. Please tell me anything you know about them. These are some that i found on the web and...

Hi, I am looking to buy a new PC, I have a Gateway P3 866 at the moment and I have always had Intel processors, I am now looking at two Pc's with identical spec apart from the processor, one has the Intel® Pentium 4 3.4GHz HT and the other has the AMD Athlon 64 3400 Processor. Can anyone give me...

Which flatbed scanner in A4 size and at least 1200x1200 dpi resolution is the best one in point of view quality and speed of scan?

Hey, does anyone know which soundcards are the best right now? I do a lot of gaming so I want to hear some clean explosions!

I love my new IBM Thinkpad and like the fact I can use either a trackpad or the pointer/erase type cursor but still I find these hard to use most of the time. I did buy a optical mouse blue which is the same as what I use at home. I find this makes my laptop very easy to use (except for the...

Recently I opened my Thinkpad 755CX, and sometime later a white band appeared in the middle of the screen. It looks like only every other pixel is affected. Also the band does not appear with an external CRT. An image can be found at www.crystalbox.org/pics/lcd.jpg . If anyone has any advice it...

Hi group!, My name is Ray and I have a question about a particular computer product. For those who go to CompUSA a lot, this question is for you. I was there about 3 weeks and say this product who's name I can't seem to recall. I believe it was a hard drive, it was gray or transparent (I forgot)...

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...

I have two pcs : one is an NT Server SP6, connected to a Win2k Server SP4, using a crossover cable. If I need to restart one of the pcs, for one reason or another, I have found that I need to shut down the other pc as well and wait 12-15 minutes before I restart both pcs or else I will not be able...

Duh, finally I can now see them!!!!

Hi! Could someone please explain why in the case of *mechanical* failure HD becomes sometimes undetected by BIOS and/or the operating system (e.g. win xp or linux)? If it was an electronic failure then such behaviour would be obious, but why the same happens with some mechanical failures? When...

I have an Asus notebook with a Toshiba SD-C2505 dvdrom drive in it. It will play DVD's everytime, no problem but I cannot get it to see a CD of any type at all! Why? Does anyone know where I can get updated firmware for it? The Toshiba website sucks in this respect.

MemTest86 and it showed: Intel Core-i5 750 2.67 Ghz (quad core) 32K L1 88,893 MB/Sec 256K L2 37,560 MB/Sec 8 MB L3 26,145 MB/Sec 8.0 GB RAM 11,852 MB/Sec The resulting memory access speed is substantially slower than worst case cache hit ratio should provide.

Laptop keyboards usually don't have a mouse, they have a trackball or other pointing device integrated into the keyboard. So why don't wireless keyboards do the same? I want to put my computer in my TV stand and use a monitor to both watch TV and do computer work, so the keyboard will be in my...

Why flick a pixel in a LCD monitor or it doesn´t work? In concrete at the last line, 2 inches left and right at the down (more at right). Even sometimes dissapear and move just at the closer pixel and change the frequenzy at random, more if i give little hits at the area. Sometimes disapear for...

Hi, I've been buying PC's since they only had floppies. Each time I've agonised to get the best price/speed. Each time I've been disappointed that hardly was the PC out of the box and it was already outdated. I bought a new Dell Pc last May, and would today buy exactly the same (only cheaper). I...

My home computer (PII 333 MHz 128MB SDram, run on Win98SE) using standalone 6 MBps ADSL for internet access. It works fine for all web browsing, with the exception of Internet Banking & other e-business site. On the other hand, my company's computer is an even older machine (PII 233 MHz, 64MB...

Possibly the most irritating PC fault is when some of the keyboard keys become intermittent (I suspect a drink was knocked over it a while ago). Easily solved though....or that's what I thought. I simply bought a replacement (PS2 standard 102 key qwerty). However, when installed, it produces a...

Some of our keyboard keys have become intermittent (its like typing with boxing gloves on). Easily solved though....or that's what I thought. I simply bought a replacement (PS2 standard 102 key qwerty). However, when installed, it produces a boot up error 'Keyboard error Press F1 to continue',...

Some of our keyboard keys have become intermittent (its like typing with boxing gloves on). Easily solved though....or that's what I thought. I simply bought a replacement (PS2 standard 102 key qwerty). However, when installed, it produces a boot up error 'Keyboard error Press F1 to continue',...