I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with an apparent failing hard drive. Originally machine would halt partway through the boot with a lengthy message apparently pointing to a bad drive. I have run Setage's Seatools. The Long Test had approximately 550 errors, which it said it repaired, and it now passes...

I find that some motherboard manufacturers, notably Asus, are omitting PS/2 mouse ports on many (most?) of their current models. Comments please.

The server will host a Web Based application developed in Flex. Users can go to a browser which has Flash installed, access our application, see,add, remove their records and save it. It will store large amounts of data, though this can be backed up on a external storage regularly. Main requirement...

Has anyone used a flash drive with U3? Assuming you have no nuclear secrets on the drive, is it worth the extra fuss and bother? Thanks! Mike

I have accidentally deleted the only existing recording of my fiancee's mother's voice, who recently passed away suddenly and tragically (rapid progressing ALS); it was the greeting on her Uniden cordless phone/answering machine. (Apparently pressing the 'Stop' button while listening to the...

Hi Experts, About two weeks back I fell into a hole when neither of my computers would connect me to an ISP. Each computer had a different 56K modem and each would dial the ISP and indicate All Devices Connected. Almost immediately they would pop up a message: Error 50 Network Request not...

Purchased Monitor 1 in Feb 2007 with a 3 year warranty. Monitor 1 was replaced after 1 1/2 years because the stand went TU. It would not hold station. I asked if just the stand could be replaced as the panel was OK but they said no. Monitor 2 arrived in a couple of days. Monitor 2 had a problem...

I've been running my cable internet modem through USB. Today I got a couple Cat5e's in the mail and hooked one up (I don't recall specifying the "e"). I got nothing. An hour or two later a gal at Comcast is telling me to swap ends on the cable. I did. Now I'm on with ethernet. Question: Do...

I have a 4-port IOGEAR DVI KVM switch, It works fine with two machines that have DVI connections. I have a third machine that does not have that connection - just a RGB VGA connection. In order to use that machine with this KVM, I bought a DVI to VGA adapter. The result is no raster on my HD...

Hello to all, I got a Western Digital 80GB HDD from a friend because he could not get it to work. The probleme is that it would not work internal, but by using an USB box you could put data on it(but it was very slow), later when you wanted your data then XP/ Vista could find the drive just not...

i have got an emachine desktop, and recently it has taken a couple of attempts of pressing the power button for the machine to start up, i think the fault is with the button rather than anything more serious (well i hope so) now it will not power up at all, would it be possible to change the power...

Hi, I have a new usb harddisk. I connected it to my Win XP system. It is shown in the device manager, but not in drive management. So I cannot format it. Please help! Kees.

Would changing the pcs in my home to all gigabite network compatiable help speed up connection from internet cable or does a 10/100 card work as well for that connection. I know gigabite will speed up between pcs

Hi I have a DVD/CD player of type HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H50N. Occationally this player fail to find a CD rom that I insert in player - occationally it does find it (this is regarding one CD). This can happen for new CD's and old ones. I am aware that CDs might be broken - however is it possible...

How can one get rid of partitons on harddrives?

I'm always seeming to be having problems making backup copies of DVDs. I start off by creating an ISO of the DVD image. Then I can burn that ISO to another DVD (-R). Step 1 always seems to end with 98% done followed by an error. Having problems with Linux and Windows burning attempts. Does...

I have two hard drives. One is IDE PATA, the other is SATA. Both are bootable, and have booted and worked as data drives in the past. That is, I could selectively boot (using F8 and choosing which to boot from) from either, and use other as a data drive (eg I could move files back and...

motherboard: intel dg35ec (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/ desktop/dg35ec/index.htm) card: adaptec ASR 2045 (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/raid/ sas_raid/SAS-2405/index.htm) Now from everything I've read, this is supposed to work. the motherboards x16 slot is fully wired. So...

I have horrible luck with USB hubs. I currently have a Belkin 7-port hub sitting on my desk that I'm rather fond of. It has a relatively large power supply and so it can happily drive several devices that charge from USB at the same time, it has five ports pointing horizontally out the back which...

I'm having trouble determining whether an AMD processor I just received is a Black Edition or not. I sent for an AMD X2 7750+ Black Edition CPU and they sent one with the code number AD7750WCGHBOX. I cannot find mention of this model number on the AMD site whereas there is a clear reference to a...