Greetings, I have read that if I buy an external 5.25" firewire enclosure, it is important that the enclosure uses the Oxford 911 chipset. Can somebody tell me why the that chipset is more important? Is that the only one that Linux knows about? Or are there benchmarks that show it is faster under...

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...

Our PC keyboard has become difficult to use. 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 boot up error 'Keyboard error Press F1 to continue',...

So, I was at the local sandwich shop last night, and I noticed I was able to pick up a signal from a local T-Mobile hotspot, which I have an account with. It was only one bar out of five. But I was able to connect to it and surf the web without any problems. I then looked up the hotspots in the...

Stupid question, perhaps: I'm trying to cut down on the clutter here, and having a separate computer and TV monitor is taking up too much space. But to get an LCD monitor as big as my TV would be way out of my budget. Now, I'm looking at this 30" 16:9 HDTV (a Samsung Dynaflat TXM3097WHF to be...

It seems fairly normal at first: When booting up the PC I get the message "Primary Hard Disk fail...", and sometimes it freezes when it says "Detecting IDE devices". The wierd thing is that when I leave the computer turned off for a few hours, the problem corrects itself and the computer boots up...

Hello, I have been browsing through various user manuals of WiFi ADSL routers, but haven't found a WiFi broadband router that is capable of the following things simultaneously (with an emphasis on simultaneously): - Supporting PPTP; - Forwarding all traffic from the access point bit to a single...

I'm considering connecting to Boingo or At&T's wireless network. However neither company has an access IN the spot that I need to be. They both have hotels near where I'm going to be. How close do I have to be in order to be able to use their services? If anyone out there knows of something in...

Hi I have a device with a 9-pin serial port, and the warning 'Never connect anything to the serial port'. Rather tempting... The device is showing -5.65V on pins 3 and 7 (TX and RTS). My laptop (which I would connect with) shows -7.4V on pins 3, 4 and 7 (TX, DTR and RTS). These voltages are...

need to know if i am able to fit the following card into standard size pc case (not low profile) http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=329522 it says that it comes with LT bracket. Does it mean i can use pliers to take it off and then put new one on it. Also will i be able to connect it...

Does anyone know if the motherboard will support an 8X AGP video card. P4 1.7 Mhz. Thanks

Hello, I have an Iogear 3.5" COMBO (usb 2.0/firewire) ION 250GB external HD. The machine I use to format and write data to the external usb drive is a Dell PowerEdge 650 with a Belkin 3-port USB 2.0 PCI Card (model F5U219 PCI Rev 4) running RedHat Linux 9 (kernel 2.4). The machine I try to read...

I have a new box with AMD 64 2800+ on ASUS K8V M/B and Radeon 9600 Video Card. I run WIN XP PRO and games WIN 95/98 do not load and I receive message : C:/Windows/System32/AutoExec.NT the system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows Application.Chose Close to terminate the...

Win 98 SE: Toggle Caps Lock off if shift key pressed like on typewriter. So when the letter pressed while the shift key is down is in Capital letters.

To recognize small businesses that use innovation to improve a business process, IBM recently announced the Small Business Innovation Contest; open to businesses in the U.S. with 1 - 500 employees. Entrants will be asked to submit an essay of up to 1,000 words by August 16, describing how they used...

To recognize small businesses that use innovation to improve a business process, IBM recently announced the Small Business Innovation Contest; open to businesses in the U.S. with 1 - 500 employees. Entrants will be asked to submit an essay of up to 1,000 words by August 16, describing how they used...

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Windows XP Pro is not recognizing my hard drive when booting. The bios can see the drive and if I use the recovery console, I get a clean run with chkdsk. I've done a format and clean install of XP but to no success. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Why does Win XP take hours to re-install on my (second) PC system? I have opened the machine, checked everything is undamaged. When XP was running on it, there were no speed problems with either the CD drives or the processor. I have tried installing from each CD drive, even changed the IDE cable,...

I could have sworn I turned off auto everything, but when I put a music CD in my (DVD) drive it auto runs. And Task Manager shows no applications running. What's playing the CD and how the hell do I stop it??? It's very annoying when this happens at 2AM- neighbors aren't to happy...