I have a number of WordPad documents that are several years old on thumbdrives. I used WordPad with the idea in mind that I would always be able to open them with WordPad, not knowing the horrible truth that WordPad often will not open WordPad documents. When I tried opening them with a later...

I want to add a second hard drive to an older system. Can I mount it externally if I can find a cable extension? (It's too cramped inside the HP Pavillion.) Thanks, Andy

This should be dead easy but it is not. I have Windows 7 32 bit ultimate. It should tell me this as well as if I have service pack one on which I do. Why are simple things made so hard? Desmond.

Hi folks, I'm mounting this pc with an old MB I had (Gigabyte GA-8I915PMD) but I can't find the manual anywhere. Does anyone please can help me to connect the front panel switches. There's a 9 pin socket (1 empty) where none is identified. Any help ?

I removed one USB device and the error went away. 1. Could I conclude that it's just that device not the motherboard? 2. How could I check whether that USB device short-circuited? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with...

Hello, Do they still sell 34 pin IDE hard drives? or they obsolete? What is the state of the art in regular IDE hard drives? What is the pin count to connect to a motherboard? TIA

My problem: squiggly lines on monitor, followed by system freeze. My machine:Abit IP35Pro XE,video card EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2, Power Supply PC Power&Cooling Silencer 610watt. Oldish Dell monitor 19" (crt type) Machine is 3yrs old this July. Swapped a 17" monitor on, no help. Ran 3 hour memory...

I replaced new mobo, cpu and memory. I realized no AGP slot. I thought of PCI express slot as AGP slot. No AGP means I can't do my work because I need a multi-display graphic so I can do the multi- tasking. Most AGP card comes with 2 or 3 display support so I did two tasks. With new system...

How comes new mobo does not come with AGP slot?

I was careless and did not tape up some exposed wires for one of my power leads that I was using to power a fan in a computer. Red wire met black wire. Computer shut down immediately. Hope I didn't toast the whole computer. The P.S. is a Liteon Model # PS-6161-2H1 that puts out 188 watts.

With new mobo, cpu and fast memory installed, Windows XP loading up is much longer, Take a 3 time longer to loadup Windows XP than old system.....I'm trying to fix. I looked at all drivers and find no conflict at all. .It looks me like new system is not fully compatible with Windows XP. Old mobo...

The distributor replaced the USB device with a new one. It works better than the old one. I suspected the old one had fault(s). -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.37.1 ^ ^ ...

I so hope someone can help! I installed a program to download music a while back, then I thought I deleted it, but it did not go away. It moved under wraps. I tried to reinstall the prgm but... argh! I can not use it nor can I get rid of it. It is seemingly untouchable. It can not be removed by...

I would like to modify a dead mouse into a LED power. The chip would not activate the LED input until the PC boots into Window$. Could I short a few pins on the CP5609AMT to skip the detection of Window$ and instantly turns on the LED input? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v...

Does there exist IPS computer monitors with extremely good viewing angles? Any advice on them?

It has been long time since I built my last computer. In those days SATA was not common on main boards, therefore I have no experience whatsoever with SATA. The case of the computer I am building now has a connection for eSATA. The main board, GIGABYTE GA-H55M-S2H, has six internal...

First, what I have: Foxconn P45A-S LGA 775 MB Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHz LGA 775 65W Processor 8 GB G Skill DDR2 1066 RAM Gigabyte GV-NX96T512HP GeForce GT 512 MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express Video Card

Hi, I have a Samsung SyncMaster T220 that has a max resaloution of 1680 x 1050 32bit with a max refresh rate of 60 Hertz. Could I use an adapter that is a "digital to HDMI" to plug in my playstation 3 into it? the monitor has no HDMI plugs in it, just two that are analog and digital the small...

New mobo, cpu, memory are not worth of upgrading.. Aa far as speed is concern, I don't feel new system improve fast enough to see the change. the windows xp loading by new system is slower than old system even I reinstalled the winXP OS. Besides, no AGP slot available on new mobo which poses...

Is this possible. I bought one some time ago and formatted it. Wish I hadn't TIA Desmond.