Lately Ive been getting tired of always snagging the wire from my headset. Anyone use a wireless headset/mic that could be recommended? I game for long periods sometimes, so comfort is a +plus.

Hi, A newly installed CPU heat sink and fan prevented my PC from running. The PC started up then turned itself off after a few seconds. The HSF appeared to be seated properly with more than adequate heat sink compound. The heat sink was considerably larger than its predecessor but no shorts to...

One day when I came back to use the computer, which was switched on, I kept pressing the keyboard but nothing came onto the monitor. I switched off the power and switched on again, the screen came out for a while, and went off again. So I decided to unplug the power plug of the monitor and plug it...

I'm hoping someone knowledgeable about hardware can point me in the right direction. I recently was given an HP wx8000 workstation with twin Xeons. I shipped it home well packed in my luggage. On arrival I got some POST beeps codes that went away as soon as I reseated all the boards. At this...

Running XP Professional SP-2. Created second partition on hard drive to install Vista. SP-3 just released. Are there additional issues with SP-3 running a dualboot with Vista on second partition? Should I NOT upgrade to SP-3 given that SP-2 is working well before installing Vista?

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Hi, I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and 6 GB of hardisk. This has not been of much use lately. I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard disk that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB hdd to this, will it work? Regards,

This is a doozy. I don't know if anyone can even tell me what truly happened or not. Here is my story: I recently got a DVD/CD drive that worked perfectly fine... for a while. I used it for some time and then one night we rented a movie (Finding Neverland) and watched it on our TV's DVD player....

I also have a 5 years old Compaq Presario 2140CA laptop. I tried to use System Recovery CDs to reinstll it completely to original manufacturer standards but the problem is that it just shuts down in the middle of the recovery or reinstalling process. Previously it just shuts down if I play a video...

I just got an 8 GB USB 2.0 flash drive, and I timed some file transfers. Small file test (photos ranging from 100K to 4 MB): - I copied 1.9 GB worth of photos from my HD to the flash drive, and it took 25 minutes. That's about 1.3 MB/sec. - Then I copied all 1.9 GB worth of photos from the flash...

When I play a 1080P video on my plasma my computer shuts down after approximately 2 minutes. When in the bios health page I see that shutdown is selected for CPU at 70C and that when in the bios page the temperatures a CPU 60C , case 35C Of course when my video is playing I cannot see...

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In the middle of the night, the motherboard speaker began to chirp about every 60 seconds. The machine had been off for about 6 hours. I disconnected my PC speakers and turned off the switch on the back of the pc, but it continued to chirp every 60 seconds until I pulled the speaker connection...

Thanks Robert. I couldn't find the original article but there is some mention of something at the website http://www.maximumpc.com/article/watchdog_january_2008 I will further investigate this before buying. "Tornado Gets Sucked In By Windows Vista The Tornado whips through large file...

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I read on an old thread on HTFC about Skyline Graphics selling Dell replacement fans. I want to keep that resource alive for all of you who need to replace a Dell fan but I can't seem to post to the old thread. Anyway, I needed to replace the CPU fan for my Dell Dimension desktop. Dell doesn't...

Hi I've just acquired an old Dell Inspiron 3700, 192MB RAM, 6GB HD, Win98SE. It all seems to run fine, battery life good for the age, keyboard had a few faulty keys but removing cleaning and replacing has done the trick. Problem is the whining noise from the hard disk (marked as DARA-206000,...

My three years old printer (iP2000) got a problem. It simply denies to cooperate and tells me that there is "a service error 5100". Is there anything I could do exept to buy a new one or to send it to a Canon Service? Grateful for your tips. QV

Hi, all ! I am setting up a computer lab for the disabled. We are looking for equipments that might aid the disabled (mainly those who are not that good in movement), and one of the things we are planning to get them is trackball. There are many types of trackballs available, unfortunately most...

Hello, Anyone here familiar with the utility called SpeedFan? I installed it because I wanted to determine the temperature of my CPU, and I need help interpreting the information. There's a reading labeled "CPU", and then one for each of my cores labeled "Core 0", "Core 1", etc. I have an Intel...