Hi, I have a Dell laptop ,but from a week ago i have beenn suffering the problem of blacking out the monitor screen in every 10 to 5 minutes.But when i connect my laptop with external monitor it works fine. I know it means the problem is not with vedio card. The laptop is nearlly 3 years old ,...

I work in food service and have a card reader on the computer as a way to keep a count of students that come through the door. About every 6 months or so, I have to send it in to get refurbished and cleaned. This is normal, considering there are about 1,000 students running cards each day. I have...

To any one who reads this, Thank you for any input you can give. I just recently was hired as the IT manager at a small company. (12 network devices) I have figured out pretty much everything except the RAID system in our SCO UNIX box. I am a fresh grad with a decent amount of Linux knowledge. ...

I have a 98ME machine with a 4x CD Write CD Rom drive. I have a 2000XP machine with a 16x CD Write CD Rom drive. I can transfer from the the Mex4 machine TO the XPx16 machine with no problem. When I try to transfer files from the XPx16 machine to an x4 CD ROM that was formatted on the MEx4...

Hi, I have a ST3120022A in a master slave (second Hard Disk) on Windows XP (Pentium III 730 MHz , 256 Mb RAM ) It works very, very slow (formatting, de-fragmenting, program installing, etc. ) Has it physical defects ? Thanks in advance.

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Hi, My computer just died on me yesterday..the monitor went blank (it went to standby mode) but the hdd and cd-rw busy light were on. I could not do a reset..had to forcibly switch the pc off (held the power switch for 5 secs). I then tried booting again, but it fails to POST on most occasions. If...

My son's Lexmark printer blew. Then xp would not start and a blue error screen kept appearing. I stated among other things that a hardware device was in a loop. Tried safe mode. Could not delete driver. Tried rre-installing xp-same blue screen appeared. Used win 98 startup disc to delete...

My question is will my MSI KT4VL motherboard handle the AMD Atholon XP 2800 Barton processor ? I looked on MSI's web site and it did not specify.

I just upgraded the memory in my 4-year-old Windows 98 Dell, going from the 128 meg it came with to 512 meg. Part of this was to reduce the small number of times the computer locks up when playing a game, or when many applications are running, but I also understood that this would cause a...

I just purchased an external USB floppy drive since my laptop didn't come with one. I want to boot from this drive to run a utility that tests my RAM and requires that it be run from a booted floppy. The drive hasn't arrived in the mail yet, but it had me thinking. In my CMOS, I have the choice...

ive been puzzled for the past couple of days on how to transfer the video/sound from my pc to my tv, any suggestions? Ive heard getting a tv card for my system will work, but don't know where to start looking, any suggestions?

just lost my board, any suggestions on the latest and greatest on the market?

im in the market for a new burning device, i want to jump on the dvd burning wagon, but a little bit in the dark with this new technology. So, my question is...which brand should i be looking for? I want to purchase one that will stand throught the test of time and usage.

im in the market to find a new notebook, any suggestions on what would be best for me? Im in the music making business.

I recently acquired an old 486 DX-33 machine with 20MB RAM. I put windows 95 on it, installed an ISA network card and connected it to my home network, which has a cable internet connection. I can get really good download speeds, 200KB/s, which is the max for my cable. But web pages load very slow....

The ps/2 keyboard connection on my motherboard does not work. I have tried multiple ps/2 keyboards with the same result. The keyboard will function during the post and lets me get into the BIOS setup. I set the BIOS to halt on all errors and it does not detech a missing keyboard. Once I get into...

Let me preface this message by saying I know very little about computer hardware. I recently got a new computer game (Age of Mythology, I highly recommend it for anyone who's looking). I can't play it for more than 10 or 20 minutes without this awful loud steady beep coming from my computer. ...

i have a daytek 17" monitor, and it keeps flickering back and forth from the normal looking screen to a dull yellowish color. has anybody else had this problem, and is it worth getting fixed or should i just buy a new monitor? thank you.

I've been in the market for a new video card and am looking to get a Radeon 9800 XT 256. I tried looking online for reviews on which maker to get but all i could turn up are reviews on the 9800 itself v.s. say the GeForce models. I wanted to know, for instance, should i get the sapphire, asus,...