Hello everyone, A couple weeks ago my monitor screen became pink for a second or two. Since than it has become during the day pink for maybe 6 minutes. That happened a couple times but not everyday. I fooled with the Monitor cable and nothng has happened I thought it might be the videocard. I...

Does anyone know of any restrictions on hard drive upgrades in laptops? There is no point asking Dell because they will simply say that they can only offer support on Dell products and cannot advise me on non-dell upgrades. I have an Inspiron 6400 with a 100GB (I think its Sata) drive at...

Howdy, We have a Win2000 Pro box on our lan that is used (nominally) as our server. That is, it is not used as a workstation, but holds files that other systems access. Earlier today, I had to do something on that system even though other systems were having no trouble with it. I immediately saw...

"John" wrote in message ... Hello, I was wondering if my video card, a power supply problem, or could it be the CMOS battery. I sometimes get a message "no signal". This particular video card has been replaced 2 x...

Over the past 2 months, a fault seems to have developed with my monitor which is a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 720, nearly 10 years old, but still a very good picture. Whenever the computer goes into hibernation or standby mode, and I power off the monitor, then come back later and switch it back on,...

Hello all: Somebody gave me an IBM Netvista desktop computer (8305Y1G) with Windows 2000 on it. I upgraded to Windows XP Professional. But the USB ports don't work with a Kingston flash drive (no indication of the presence of such an E: drive at all). Whether this situation existed already with...

Last week I experienced a peculiarity that I can't think of any reason why and how did it happen... I was playing a video and while it was running, I plugged in an external hard drive, which immediately changed the sound of the audio; from normal to suddenly being drowned by a persistent humming...

I bought a WD 320GB ATA100 HD and installed it a few months ago. Initially I installed it in my main computer and tried to format and form partitions on it using the CDR. It just would not permit partitioning - wierd considering that I had done this task dozens of times from the same CD with no...

Sorry if this question has been asked, but I need a new PC, and I hate the thought of buying Vista. Anyone major PC makers still sell PCs with XP as an option? Thanks.

Hi ! I have a 120 gb sata hdd 2.5 locked. Nobody knows the password. How can i remove the password ?? Thanks.

Hi, on the 1 july I had to change the server address, and since then there is no messages at all showing in these newsgroup, somebody e-mailed me to reset the messages, so I did a catch-up for all the newsgroup -- Thank You in Advance Merci a l'avance

My friend has a clone computer with an Intel D845WN Motherboard. Recently, his system became unable to start. Power supply is working. but there is no boot-up or bios info showing up on the monitor. The monitor is tested and works.. His hard drive works as we put his into my machine and it booted...

Hi, I had to switchto a new server since the 1 July and since then I see no messages, on any of the newsgroup -- Thank You in Advance Merci a l'avance Martin

I am now using a ps/2-vga KVM to link 4 machines potentially. This enables me to assist friends by working on their machines by simply connecting up loose cables from the KVM to their machine(s) and selecting same on the KVM. Has made life very simple for me, and I would like to retain that...

Hi, I've got an old PC with a Microstar 6533 motherboard (dated July 2002) which I want to use to stream BBC iPlayer and other internet video channels onto my TV. The board has an Intel CPU (don't know what clockspeed), onboard VGA graphics, an AGP graphics card slot and some (old-style?) PCI...

Kaspersky 2009 is a pain in the rectum........it loaded on 2 comps (Dell M60 and Intel DT) no problems, but loads with errors on my day to day AMD desktop. I removed SpyBot and Mailwasher but its still not 100%. I have to disable numerous parts to get the comp to fire up without having to use...

I get a C:/Program File/Bluetooth folder opening at start up, how do I stop this. thanks

I’m trying to find a couple of MicroAngelo video cards and palette card. I’m also interested in any manuals, engineering documents and software. I’ve found a copy of the manual for the MA512. I’m also interested in hearing about anybody experience with these this graphics system. I will be...

H all We have an 18 month old Dell Inspiron 530 with NVIDIA Geforce 8300GS graphics. About a month ago, Windows XP died and had to be re-installed. Since then, I have been unable to get the multimedia video controller to work. Tried everything on the Dell support site - downloading every...

Hi, Which one should be better for a administrative task like office? I thought E7300 should be a good choose but the shopkeeper said Q8200 would be better. I always thought that you had to choose a quad when you want to do video, 3D or gaming and the dual core should be fine for...