XP Pro SP3, Thinkpad T42. A pair of LabTec LCS 150 extension speakers. I was getting total dropouts of sound while watching a video. At first I thought it was a bad internet connection, but I discovered that by cutting the volume below half, barely enough to listen to something, the...

C.I.A. Director Panetta is absolutely right when he says he wants to move his Agency forward, America faces a lot of issues right now, but some are from the past and will affect the present and the future of the Intelligence Community and here are some and that can be linked : 1) The Neocon and...

Hihi. Recently I bought a new computer. Intel Quad core :D Anyways When I finally tried to set it up (three days later _), nothing would show up on the monitor screen. Trying to figure out what was wrong, I put the monitor cable into the old computer. Turns out the cable had kak'ed itself. Got...

Running a file server on a DFI mainboard with an nForce 4 chipset. I have three 1TB SATA drives that I am putting into a RAID5 array. Should I utilize the RAID offerred by the nForce chipset, or should I just run the drives as normal SATA and let Windows 2003 handle the RAID functions?

I just got an nVidia Quadro 2 Pro for a PC. I want it to work in my Power Mac G4, but I'm not quite sure where to begin. I know I probably just need to re-flash my EEPROM with something more Mac-appropriate, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that on this card. FYI, it's just a re-branded...

Hi Experts, I have an 18 month old box self-assembled (Box 1) with Win2K SP4 and one that goes back at least 10 years - Box 2, also self-assembled. DSL was running on both (one at a time, of course) for over 2 years. Box 2 has had no problem at all with DSL. After about a year, after Box 1...

I've read that hardware firewalls are found in routers and that they are in some ways better than software firewalls. I really have no need for a router, per se, but I wouldn't mind replacing ZoneAlarm if it is the thing to do. But I've also read that software and hardware firewalls have...

Well, I ran a SMART scan from BIOS, but it came up ok I ran the advanced scan on Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test, which indicated that there are problems with the HD. DFT recommends wiping the entire disk. I would, but need to get WinXP CD from Dell, so as to reinstall the OS.

I have an external drive set up as shared and modifiable on one computer and want to access it from a LAN'ed second computer via Network Places. XP tells me it cannot do it - says i don't have permissions. Since I can do the same for an internal hard drive, which means my networking should be...

I have a machine with a MACHSPEED K8M8MSR2-VC motherboard with four USB ports on its rear plus two headers with two USB ports each, one of which isn't connected, the other is. ***The one that is connected is stated to be USB2 in the MACHSPEED manual. That gives me a total of 6 USB ports. I have...

Hi there, I've been having this freezing problem for over 1-2 months now, but it's becoming worse with each day, so I decided to post on these forums in search of any solutions. Main Problem: Computer freezes at random, usually while playing games (about 5-10min into)...Sometimes it stays up...

Is it possible to make these devices connected by USB Bootable? What I mean is its normal that if you boot from a CD you have to use the internal optical drive; the same also with the O/S, it must be booted from the internally installed harddrive. Is there a turn around for this? TIA Roy

So .. I connected the IDE floppy drive's data and power cables and booted up. Unfortunately the drive did not appear in device manager, or,of course, not in My computer either. This old floppy drive has something like 6 jumper setting, damned if I know which should be set. It is set now as it...

I have a cordless mouse whose receiver plugs into a USB port in the back of my mini-tower computer. Except when the batteries are new, I get intermittent communication between the mouse and the receiver. I wish to add a simple 3-foot extension cable to bring the receiver closer to my mouse...

I want to connect an external 1TB USB hard drive to a KVM in order that 2 machines can access that hard drive. Otherwise I have to manually move the USB connector from machine to machine. I also would like to connect a USB printer similarly instead of sharing it via XP. Is this possible? Or am...

I've been Googling myself silly and can't find the answer to a relatively simple question. At least I'm pretty sure it's an easy question for SOMEBODY! I've looked to find out how you sell electricity back into the grid. Hundreds of web pages will tell you something like, "Well you fill out...

Hey ~misfit~, I don't remember if you said you once had a T42. If so, in what ways does the T60 outshine it on a practical basis? Thanks -- JimL

A vendor setting up a system for us asked a question that I don't know the answer to. Does anyone know the impedance on the output (speaker or headset) jack of most pc audio cards? We use mostly Dell Optiplex's with I believe Soundmax cards in them. I know very little about audio. Is the...

Why when 2 analogous models of SSD are offered, from which one is SATA and the second is IDE, then they so significantly differ in speed although their price is identical? For instace Transcend: 1.) IDE (PATA) TS32GSSD25-M Read up to 66MB/s, Write up to 47MB/s...

Is there a lot of difference in the effectiveness of wireless routers? My only obvious use for wireless would be either to use the laptop out on the deck or upstairs while in bed. Would a wireless router be likely to be marginal in such "through the wall" or "through the floor" situations...