I have a couple of audio lines (one from an xbox, and one from an xbox 360) that I would like to simultaneously feed to a set of powered speakers. It's not that I necessarily want to have the sound overlap, it's just that I don't want the complication of having to select which audio is routed...

I'm hoping someone here has had experience with this. I have to scan tons of 110 negatives on the V750 Pro. There is no film holder for that size and putting them on the glass created too many Norton rings to deal with. Epson suggested I make my own cardboard holders for all of the odd...

Just got my first LCD monitor (Samsung 932BW, 19" widescreen, 1440x900 native resolution and the only one where the text is sharp). I noticed that some text has a red tint just to the side of the it (i.e., like a red shadow). To reproduce it easily, I open Notepad and fill a line with "l"...

I purchased an Acer Aspire 5100 Laptop 10 months ago. It recently started acting up and I discovered bad sectors on the hard drive. I was just going to send the hard drive in for replacement, so I removed it and started loading up another drive. I had trouble loading Windows on it. It would...

I have a fairly new computer with a western digital caviar SE16 250GB 7.2K rpm 16MB hard drive. I sometimes get lag when the drive usage goes to 100% (as shown by the nvidia monitor), and it sometimes goes on for up to 30 seconds. On advice from others I have used the perfectdisk defragger,...

I currently have a couple of these systems from Compaq and a few of them are saying Disk Controller Failure, sometimes even when their is no Hard Drive hooked up. It's error 1782. Usually, after taking 9 years to boot, it usually eventually goes to the hard drive, and I tested the hard drive in...

Anyone have any ideas? My DVD writer works perfectly (Sony DL model), but if I try to write a CD it immediately all resets and I get a back screen and return to the BIOS start screen (full restart). Tips welcomed! Replace writer? Thanks DeanB

What do you do with DC suppliers feeding PCs and peripherals, since normally they cannot be switched off and are continuously bound to mains? Now for ethical reasons and also to spare energy I plugged all of them to a multi-socket that can be switched off but a problem arose with a PC...

I have an Acer F20 monitor (very nice screen !) connected to an HP Vectra with XP-SP2. Sometimes when the PC goes to sleep, the monitor will not completely go to standby; instead it becomes night-blue (almost black) with the lamp still on. Then waking the PC up will not reactivate the monitor. No...

Hello again, Not only am I stumped as to the cause of this problem, but I'm also stumped as to how to frame a question to do a Google search... OS: Windows XP My client cannot listen to, or rip, songs from audio CDs. There are songs that are stored on the HD that can be listened to.

Is there a built-in WinXP temperature sensor reading for hard drives? Or is this 3rd-party software? Any recommendations? Thanks DeanB

Hi This is not a new PC, and Windows Update has worked many times in the past. It's a 3GHz P4 running WinXP-pro SP2. When I try a Windows Update I get redirected to this page: http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/thanks.aspx?ln=en&thankspage=2& "Thank you for your interest in...

hi all, I'm thinking of upgrading to a super-dupy system, a super Mac Pro but then I have the following needs: - Development e.g. Eclipse (ok in Mac), Visual .NET (Only Win). - Heavyweight Databases e.g. Oracle (rather from Linux e.g. Fedora). - Use of lot of Win apps I have already paid for e.g....

I need an additional fan in my PC - the only room is on the side panel, bolted onto the outside of the casing (sticking out, as it were). If I want to take off the side while the PC is on, I will need to unplug the little connector to the power supply to remove the panel completely (its the regular...

I'm eyeballing a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, and wondering if anyone has any suggestions on a heat sink/fan combination. My goal is quiet, within a reasonable budget. Water cooling is not an option at this time. The last time I build an Intel system with a stock heatsink/fan was a P4 2.8GHz, I was...

suppose i have a public network foo accessible from home. 1. how can i connect to that "wan" using my router (asus wl500g) ? (bridge option on the router requires mac address and i do not know that). i just need help with the wan portion since lan portion is obviously a no brainer (well......

A post the other day about USB keyboards and accessing the BIOS started me thinking... I have a USB keyboard, which I have been using for many months now and all is well. Problem is that when I want to boot and enter the BIOS, I have to plug in my old PS2 keyboard direct to the PS2 port on the...

Posted on behalf of a friend, who is potentially getting some of my kit: Lets assume it will for this question that the rig will use my MSI 7600GS and 2GB of DDR2 667: Question is around 2 Specific processors - Pentium 4 3.06GHz model 519 (1M, 533) or Core 2 Duo e6400, 2.13GHz. Which is...

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Hi all, I am buying a new pc. Can anyone tell me if I should settle for an Intel processor/motherboard or go in for AMD processor/mb. I Googled for the comparison but didn't find anything helpful some of them were mixed reviews. Which motherboards are best for AMD and for Intel? I'am also...