Hi, I know XP allows for a Classsic interface but there still seems to be a remnant of XP gooiness that I'd like to get rid of. Personally, I really liked the look of Windows 2000. Is there an easy way to revert back to a Windows 2000 gui (does TweakXP do this?) or is it a matter of registry...

Does anyone make a power sequencer that could be used to startup hard drives sequentially rather than all at once? I'd like to put 4 HDs in my PC, and I don't want to load the power supply with spinning up all 4 HDs at the same time. *TimDaniels*

My new Barton Athlon XP 2500+ came with a heatsink with a pad of phase-change material on it. I need to replace the the material, so I plan to use Arctic Silver 3. The pad of material is maybe a half millimeter thick. If I use a 0.005" thin layer of AS3, will the difference in thickness cause...

This is my 1st attempt at building a system, and i had inadvertently managed to fry my motherboard and RAM. I had screwed the motherboard directly into the case, at the time the CPU and RAM were connected ( I now know I should have placed the mb onto the mounting screws provided) There was a...

I bought a Hyundai Imagequest L50A 15" flat panel LCD monitor 2 years ago and the built in adapter on the power cord has failed. I am unable to find a replacement adapter locally and Hyundaiq has not

I'm going to build my own computer soon and was wondering if it's possible to have two harddrives (about 120 Gig each) recording at once, running everything as one. I had bought a new computer 2 years ago and the hard drive died. I lost 80 hours of work. I want to have the second hard drive as a...

I bought a Hyundai Imagequest L50A 15" flat panel LCD monitor 2 years ago and the built in adapter on the power cord has failed. I am unable to find a replacement adapter locally and Hyundai has not responded to my emails.Does anyone have any suggestions so that I don't have to buy a new monitor...

I am getting a "sector not found reading drive c" error. The drive is only a few months old and used Western Digitals utility to test it and found no errors. Scan disk found and corrected a few errors. Thought I would try sys c: from a boot disk but it gave me the following error: "could not...

Hi there Maybe someone can give me some pointers here with a problem PC belonging to a friend who does not have to much money to fix it. PC spec ECS Motherboard VIA chipset 600 Duron 64meg PC133 RAM

The video display (actually, Windows XP) just froze on my system. I was composing an e-mail at the time, doing nothing graphics intensive. It froze for 20 seconds and came back in 640x480 mode, telling me: "Microsoft Windows detected and recovered from a device failure. Please save your work...

I am looking at building my first system, and I have a question related to FSB speed and memory speed. For example, if I were to get a Biostar M7NCD that supports either PC2100 (266), PC2700 (333), PC3200 (400), do I have to be running my FSB at the matching speed to take advantage of the...

hi, wonder if anyone can help. Im in the proccess of building a new comp and could do with some advice. I've got a jetway polaris DDR400 mobo and within the specs for the board it says Serial ATA controller. Does this mean I can fit a SATA HDD, if so do i need to purchase any cables etc. There...

Hi, I have a system with a WD2000JB and wanted to buy a second drive to ghost to. I thought the WD1200JB ($106) (http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101205) would make a nice companion but at GoogleGear's checkout it suggested I look at the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y120P0...

Hi I need a little help.... I can't get into yhe bios by pressing ctrl+alt+esc!!!! why????? - the password jumper is set to bypass!!! this is ACER DEBIS with m11e motherboard, pii400 ....... ;-)

Does anyone have any experience replacing this little fan? Is it needed? Can I just unplug it? :-) Thanks, Mitchua

I have Win Me and I would like ot record to Cd's some music that I have on cassetts, will I get a good reproduction? Do need to add some kind of extra sound card to my cpu? Appreciate any and all help. thanks in advance. cl.

A switch and the cable, connector to connect to a m/board. For ATX Anyone got one? all im missing as didnt get one onthe case etc. thanks

I'm remodeling the room where I keep my computer and want to run a new dedicated electrical circuit to the desk area that I'm going to keep a new computer I'm building. This new computer will be running an Antec 550 power supply. Is a 20 amp service to this new wall outlet enough? Or should I...

Hi folks I have a usb problem. After a thunderstorm & despite having a surge protector my usb ports on the motherboard died (along with modem & soundcard which I replaced & are now working ok). As my system is fairly old I bought a cheap Trust usb 1.0 pci card as a replacement. The card works...

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:13:24 -0500, "Lindy" wrote: I have a friend who owns a small business running 5 windows computers and he wants to set up a server for all his computers to use, I have built 2 computers, what is the difference between a regular home computer...