Hi all, I have been investigating the possibilities of setting up wireless broadband at home for my self and have been told that I will need a four pieces of equipment (an ethernet compatible broadband modem, a router, a transmitter and a PCI card) totalling over £300. Im at the stage of half...

On 16 Jul 2005 07:48:16 -0700, wrote: Hi, I have a problem with my Sony Desktop (Sony PCV V300G) - one of Sony's entertainment PCs - the TV/PC. The boot up sequence starts with the Sony Logo, shows the Intel logo, detects the drives and stops dead, with a blinking...

POOP wrote: Stephen Sprunk wrote: "E" wrote in message ... I read, what some consider to be a rumor, that the next XBoX may have up to three G5 CPUs. If so, looks like MS will be...

I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105 that suffered a hard disk crash the other day--for awhile, it was asking me for the HD passsword at boot (I never set one), which I understand was a symptom of a serious disk problem. Miraculously, it booted today and I was able to organize the essential files I...

Hello, I have a Gigabyte 7VAX motherboard, AthlonXP2000. The 40mm fan on the chipset is dying a quick, noisy death. The first question is, I guess, is this fan really necessary? I don't have a case fan (computer didn't come with one) and the place I bought this computer is out of business. My...

I built a new system with a Pentium 4 3ghz processor and an MSI motherboard. The processor runs at about 60 degrees C and sometimes goes up to 65 to 70. Sometimes the computer will reboot during heavy processing loads. I have tried different fan/heatsink combos, installing two new case fans, and...

To All Cognoscenti, Greeting! I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat damage to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced, including the GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller. Now I'm struggling with the task of rebuilding my operating system...

I was wondering if anyone has soldered a DVI connector, and how difficult it is to do. I need to route a DVI cable through a small hole, so I am planning on routing the bare cable through the hole and soldering the connector afterwards. Crimp terminals would be nice, but I was unable to find such...

Linux is a free operating system that was created by Linus Torvalds when he was a student at the University of Helsinki in 1991. Torvalds started Linux by writing a kernel - the heart of the operating system - partly from scratch and partly by using publicly available software. Torvalds then...

At first i thought it was my HD as my pc was running so slow, then i found out through "Task Manager" that my CPU was been maxed out by simple tasks like moving my mouse to opening MIRC. opening the programs took my CPU usage to 100%, and moving mouse took it from 10% ( use to be 2% idle) to over...

At first i thought it was my HD as my pc was running so slow, then i found out through "Task Manager" that my CPU was been maxed out by simple tasks like moving my mouse to opening MIRC. opening the programs took my CPU usage to 100%, and moving mouse took it from 10% ( use to be 2% idle) to over...

I've decided to buy a Geforce 5600 Ultra. However I'm not sure which one to choose, Creative,Gainward or Abit. I want to get one that has a core speed of 400MHz. What do you guys think? Performance is my main objective. Thanks in advance to Replies Andy

I'm getting a new graphics card and have decided to get a card with either an nividia Geforce Ti4800 chipset or an ATI 9600 chipset as i think these are the best performing graphics at my price range ~ max £150 unless anyone has other suggesstions. My main consideration is performance, does...

I have an Abit KR7A - RAID motherboard. I have a 1800+ XP CPU and want to upgrade the processor. Can anyone tell me the fastest CPU i can buy? Also I Have an ABit Siluro GF3 Ti200 and want to upgrade this aswell. What is the best Graphics card i can get remembering the motherboard...

Hi I inherited an old ICL Teamserver from work. A dual-PII-350 (that's the Slot 1 chips, not Sockets) with 512mb ram, onboard SCSI, USB, PCI Mylex RAID DAC960PG etc. Quite a serviceable machine. However, the power supply makes quite a racket, so having a spare ATX PSU lying around, I grabbed an...

If somebody has it used, please send info and price

I have Mustek PowerMust 400 USB UPS installed and I have problems with WinPower software. Drivers from the original CD does not detect my UPS. (I have green plug icon in system tray, but the program doesn't work; Monitor displays "no connection"). I downloaded latest version of Winpower software....

Hello My HDD drive WD1200JB failed. I know, there are a couple of firms, which recover the data from "dead" HDDs` but their services are very expensive. I`d like to ask you, is it any possiblity to try to alive the HDD, if the only reason of its damage it is a defect of the main electronics PCB?...

http://starbulletin.com/2005/04/02/business/index.html Rebates going way of the dodo? MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. » Retailers' love affair with mail-in rebates may be coming to an end. In response to customer complaints, Best Buy Co., the world's largest electronics retailer, promised yesterday to...

Hi! Could someone please explain why in the case of *mechanical* failure HD becomes sometimes undetected by BIOS and/or the operating system (e.g. win xp or linux)? If it was an electronic failure then such behaviour would be obious, but why the same happens with some mechanical failures? When...