I swapped an MX440 (64 mb) video card for an Evga GeForce 6200 (256 mb) video card because VLC can't really play large h.264 video files smoothly on my system. I updated VLC to the latest version (2.0.1 I think). This chart: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/CP/11036/PureVideo_Product_Comparison.pdf

"In other words, Google is taking the intimate personal data in your Gmail account, using it to spy more effectively on you, and also using it for its own (hoped for) gain. That sounds pretty evil. Although the company doubtless has a canned response for why it took this step without asking...

I mistakenly plugged the wrong power cord into my Creative Gigaworks T40 speakers. One with 120v 60hz input and 12v 1.2A output. The speakers made a humming noise for a few seconds and then went dead. The speakers are almost brand new. No one in town seems to fix computer speakers. Are they...

If we're talking about video-card performance only in terms of video playback (playing hi-def MKV files using VLC for example) and if we're NOT talking at all about anything to do with video games, then what sort of hardware acceleration or processing is done for video decoding / playback on the...

Hi all I have a mouse (A4tech X-710F), it works, but the scroller works bad. (When I try to scroll, it trembles.) Can anyone help me, how can I repair it? I tried to clean it, but it still works bad. Thanks!

Sam Adams of IBM, he http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/massive-parallelism-object-oriented-programming/ .. . . talks about how the physical barriers have been reached for computing and either new technology is needed or a new way to use current technology, such as...

I was given a PC because it "crashed after a while". When I peeked in the BIOS settings, I noticed the CPU temperature was too low, e.g. 19 degrees. The fan seemed to be going pretty slow, so I guess it just overheated. I set the fan speed to full on, and replaced the CPU (in case it was toasted),...

I recently cracked open an old dead 80GB HDD. There is a small black box about the size of a die. Inside of this little box there are small black balls, a bit smaller than a BB. What are they, and what is their function? Just curious. Thanks -J

My present system is Intel Core2 Duo with a GTX 275 GT video card. It's pretty good, but aging. So I'm starting to collect parts. What do you recommend for a high-end gaming video card? I'm looking at the 560s. Some have 2 fans. I suspect they are noisy. My 275 is whisper quiet always. johns

I am getting screen artifacts on AMD 6790 HD on a 16 GB windows 7 x64 pc. I tried the latest AMD driver and things got way worse. Anything to try here ? I am running dual screens with a 27.5" and a 19" samsung LCD. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD5 with a Intel I7-2600 cpu and 160GB Intel...

Hello, I have one of those barebone/mini PCs that takes 204 pin DDR3 memory. The specs specify 800 megahertz DDR3 memory. DDR3 800 is getting harder to find. Can I substitute 1066 megahertz memory instead? Or is the faster memory incompatible?

Just like the title says, has anybody tried the fanless (no fans) graphics card, which are used at the low end (saw one at FRY's) I guess because the power consumption is not high enough to justify a fan? Are you a FAN of these cards? Second question: why do you even need a graphics card if you...

Are there any tablet PC's that can run Windows XP? And I mean can they *run* XP. I'm not asking if or which ones come with XP installed (obviously none do any more). I would guess that the list would include any tablets that are being sold today with Windows 7 - because I don't think that any...

Eternal September allows reconstructing a thread. I wonder why AstraWeb doesn't.

how does hotel wi-fi work,and why does it need a browser to log in? It's strange--just like the title says, hotel Wi-fi and a lot of private business wi-fi needs a browser to activate your internet connection, with a password, but when you flush the cache and close the browser, when you reopen...

HONDA ZOOMS PAST `HAMARA BAJAJ` NEW DELHI: It is one of the biggest upsets in the Indian two-wheeler industry. Within just over a year of going solo in India, Japanese giant Honda has beaten 'Hamara Bajaj' with a comprehensive lead to emerge as the second-biggest two-wheeler maker, behind Hero...

If it's real... Quite cool IMO. It resembles the reunion of the guys with their former pet lion "Christian". But this guy apparently made friends with some wild lions (probably on a preserve). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okTecIZBn4&feature=colike

Anyone know how this thing gets turned on? I now have two pc's which are hiding the ordinary network management menu and ipconfig says they are running Teredo, which is supposed to be a Microsoft ipv6 workaround tool. The hiding of a menu seems unnecessary and suspicious to me. One computer has XP...

I am using an older and very stable Linksys WRT54G router and have DHCP enabled for the clients. One of my router's current DHCP clients is a video server which gets a fresh IP address occasionally when the router or video server is re-booted. This creates a problem, since the 8 video clients...

As header states, I'm looking for an AMD Phenom X4 9600 processor please. Reply here and I'll get back to you, thanks. Jacquie.