I bought item #190519936850 on eBay Item description was: 512MB LOW DENSITY Memory ram 184 PIN DDR PC3200 400Mhz What I got was... http://mewnlite.com/Kingston.jpg\ Which is half a 1Gb kit. Aren't those supposed to be installed in pairs? Or doesn't it make any difference? -- ...

Hi all, I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 (dv6910ea) with a noisy fan. Sounds like is might fail sometime soon, so I need to find a replacement before that happens. The Manual gives me three Spare part numbers: 450933-001 - Equipped with discrete graphics subsystem memory and 8.1...

Saints Unnamed say, "There are Three of Us here because We find a pleasure when We can speak to all of you, due to the fact that What We like delivered is a Gift for the Soul of those present, and those who are being prayed for. It is a Gift of Love Greater than It is seen to be, the Gift of giving...

I have a 4 or 5 year old Gateway (with Vista) here that a guy brought in because it wouldn't turn on. Power supply checked out OK and there was an amber LED lit up on the motherboard. I started taking stuff out and disconnecting things and it finally took off. So with only half the memory and...

Hi all. I'm wondering if there is now a software method of employing multiple (older PCI and or AGP) video cards to output to a single monitor having shared processing work (as in the old 3dFX cards or the current Sli/CF cards)? Does this sound reasonable or would it be impossible to...

Dear computer gurus... would anyone know if there exists any project attempting to create a layer that would allow running software made for e.g. x86 (or any other CISC architecture CPU) on a RISC architecture CPU? Or are there any cases where the adding of virtualization support has allowed to...

I'm trying to run a DOSbased app. which normally makes its own 'GUI'; on a Win7 based HP-Mini netbook. I start it from a *.bat. And it shows error: "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe This system does not support full screen mode". AFAICS it can only be set to 2 'resolutions' : 800 * 600 and some...

Here's a scenario: (1) There's an existing wired peer-to-peer network connected to the internet with a gateway router. There is a network printer as well. (2) I'd like to add a wireless router for public wi-fi. Question: What's the most easily maintained way to insure that those public

Did they have 32 meg DIMMs twelve years ago when my new-used printer was made? Can I just install memory that fits physically, withouth risking hurting a printer or a computer? or do I have to be careful and only install what was intended? I inherited an old HP LaserJet 2100NT printer, in v....

Subject: Using UPS without data cable and software System: Acer Aspire M3400 desktop w/ Windows 7 I just bought an APC UPS (ES 550), and was wondering about the consequences of not using the USB data cable and accompanying software. Here's my situation: the power in my area occasionally goes out...

Hello, I carefully replaced the CMOS battery on my Thinkpad R31 laptop with XP, but the screen appears very dim so that it is almost unreadable. I tried Fn + Home/End, but no change whether one is on step 1 or 5. Also the center "mouse" (the red button) doesn't work anymore, but an external...

Subject: How to create bootable USB external hard drive? System: Acer Aspire M3400 desktop w/ Windows 7 My Acer desktop PC has an internal 640GB hard drive; and I have a 2TB external USB hard drive. I would like to copy my internal drive to the external one, so that, if the internal one fails, I...

WD400, master w/cable select. 40GB with XP and FAT32. Suddenly reporting itself as an 8.4GB drive with no partitions! Tried in more than one PC that definitely support larger HDs. Is everything lost? I hear it power/spin up without clicking.

Pentium IV running Windows 32 bit. Scan to PDF button produces an error message : "This Scanner driver can not create PDF file. Use EPSON Scan Ver.2.7 or greater." The Scanner driver/utility is Ver.3.5. Scan to E-mail button produces only a brief pause and nothing more. All other scanner functions...

I had W98 installed on 10GB partition and then i have installed WInXP PRo on the rest of 40GB disk(30GB partition). Now i have a problem as i do not need w98 anymore and i want to remove it to format it, but when trying to format it via Xp the popup says 'Windows was unable to complete the...

Is I/O performance strictly determined by chipset selection, or do some makers manage to consistently get better I/O performance through their own clever designs? For an Intel-based MB, what's the best choice for building a system in the next 6 months or so? -- Bert Hyman St. Paul,...

I have a spare box lying around that I'm going to use for messing around with different Linux distro's. However it has an 8800GTX in it which seems a bit like overkill for such purposes, but I do not have any other video cards. So I was wondering if it's possible to reduce the amount of power...

Hello all, I recently purchased a SSD replacement drive (an oldish model (MCL, PATA etc) for an ageing laptop. It's not one of the better known brands, as far as I know at least: It's a KingSpec. http://www.kingspec.com/ I can't determine what internal sector size it uses and so if I need to...

Hi, What memory cards can I buy to plug into a HP Mini 210-1100? How do they compare with a USBstick? Or are the memory cards just for devices like cameras, which don't take a USBstick? Or for cell phones?

Subject: How to create Windows 7 installation disc? System: Acer Aspire w/ Windows 7 preinstalled I just bought an Acer Aspire desktop PC that came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit preinstalled on the hard drive; however, there is no installation DVD. If my hard drive fails, how can I reinstall...