I have a 10 year old Dell that came with an approx 960 GB HDD. 3 years ago I added an approx 240 GB SSD to serve as C: and D: , and elevated the HDD as F: for large items, photos, music, etc. Both the HDD and SSD have always performed flawlessly, but was wondering how long I can expect this to...

What PC hardware diagnostic stress-testing freeware can you recommend? o I have a random hardware related BSOD whose cause is unknown to me https://i.postimg.cc/9Q4m7tfM/bsod01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/DyNFnJcK/bsod02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XYnhMnR0/bsod10.jpg ...

I've repaired thousands of machines and once in a while have seen a failed power supply take out a motherboard. Only once though have I seen the hard drives taken out. It was with a good quality supply and I thought it was just a very odd fluke. Last night I talked to someone who had also had...

I love this printer. Now suddenly it only prints grey, whether color or b&w. I put in new cartridges - same result. Anything I can try? I'd sure like to keep the printer. Thanks JW

On 2 Oct 2003 12:45:47 -0700 (Michael Strorm) wrote: Hi, I posted a question about problems I was having with an Athlon-XP based system yesterday. Now I'm getting round to thinking the CPU is fried. Background: Athlon XP 1800+ system w/ Gigabyte mobo. (1)...

Hey all! Does anyone have a circuit diagram, or adapter to convert the ~12v DC in a car to the voltages required for a low end ATX based PC?

Here's a more ambitious upgrade idea for my Kayak XAS -- a socket 370 to slot 1 converter to put something like a PIII 850 MHz in it, which still has a 100 MHz bus. The reason I always read that Coppermine processors can't be used is because they use a different voltage, but if that's the only...

Yes, it's me again! MBM is telling me that my CPU temp is currently 56°C, my case temp is 44°C and something else (I don't know what sensor it's reading) is 28°C. Now, this is almost idle (all I'm doing is surfing and newsgroups) - I was going to have a game of Lionheart tonight, but I daren't in...

I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb. The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up. Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?

If you do a little bit of searching, or I'm sure someone else here will reply with an answer.... there are sites out there what can clock your downstream (and probably upstream too) speeds. Or, you can go to some reliable website, Like microsoft, and download some fairly large file. And divide...

Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks

I've just got a 2.5" hard dive in a USB enclosure for external storage. The drive (an IBM Travelstar) is recognised by the system as an IBM USB device but no drive letter is assigned. I'm thinking that this is because it's a new drive and unformatted. I've never used an external hard drive...

Can someone tell me where I can find the model, product code, product number from the model? It's second hand, so I have no manuals. I see 80-001868-01 and 21GWZ337FHF7 on a barcode sticker near the volume control There's also the FCC ID CJE-0263 The Industry Canada ID 550-5305-A CSA id ...

I am really ashamed of myself for having to ask this question. I'm no computer expert but I should know better: A friend game me a 40GB hard drive that has a virus on it. I tried formatting it but the virus remained. I posted my problem in a forum and was told to use the program, NOD32 for DOS, an...

Hello there, I am helping a friend install his USB printer and I have ran into a few problems. I had to enable the USB ports in the bios so I done that and when I started up Windows98 it asks me for the drivers for it, however I cannot seem to find them on the Windows98 cd-rom. Is it possible that...

I'm curious. Thinking of getting a winchester drive of 120Gb. In the past I've I've had a 15Gb and now using a 40Gb drive, both IBM branded. Former drive behaved perfectly and current drives behaves perfectly. Yes, I know IBM sold the storage division to Hitachi. So, what are your comments? I...

"lorraine" wrote in message ... Okay, I took my mother-in-laws crashed HD to the computer guy and he can't get the HD to be recongnized. He suggested that I buy a refurbed HD (same model) and he'll swap the controllers and see if he...

I am curious if it is ok to leave my Compaq 6450NX Presario on all day long, in my house. I have heard "no", it can get hot, I have heard "yes", turning it on and off is actually bad for it. I do have a broadband connection with the latest free ZoneAlarm firewall. Is a aftermarket slot fan...

hi there, my current case has one 80mm fan (below the PSU) blowing air out of the case (plus the regulars: one cpu fan and one exhaust fan on the back of the psu). i've not added an intake fan in the front/bottom as there's no opening in my case for any airflow, so a fan there would be totally...

Hi, I just purchased a PNY GeForce4 MX440-se video card from Tiger Direct. No where on the specifications on Tiger Direct are their any mention of minimum requirements. After I ordered the card I went to nVidia's site and looked up the some of the features and warranty information. nVidia has...