Hi all gamers, I want your feedback. What is the best mouse that you use or have used for gaming. I'm looking for a wireless/optical mouse. Don't care about the weight or battery life. All I need is reaction speed and precision. No need to debate which mouse is the best and please keep it at to...

Hi All; I 'm thinking of buying a 250GB external USB 2.0 drive for backup. I'm running XP Home, if I buy this drive, how do I get Windoze to recognize it above the 137mb limit? Or does the 137mb limit only apply to internal drives? TIA. Paul

I recently purchase a new Nexlink computer and like everything about it except it is a bit loud. I thought I would start by replacing the front case fan to see if that would help quiet things. Any suggestions would be appreciated. specs state computer has: ATX tower TX-8 CMBB-fan

I'd like to hook my moms computer up to my home network, but we live in seperate houses about 350 to 400 feet away, would the signal degrade over this length? The longest reccomened distance is 330 feet (100 meters), 400 is pushing it, but may just work. Keep in mind you'll need external cat5...

Ok, here's my situation. I have an M7VIG Pro motherboard. The book specifically states "Supports 2 DDR 200/266 MHz (without ECC) devices, maximum memory size up to 2GB. Both slots can obviously support 1GB modules each. I purchased (2) 1GB memory modules. They are labeled as "1GB DDR333...

I recently had to reinstall my OS using an image file created by drive image due to my primary disk reporting a SMART error. I promoted my secondary disk to primary, did a quick NTFS format and installed the image. All seemed ok until i created new image, which reported errors at LBA 10,704,656...

Hi A friend of mine ask me a question and I have a doubt about the answer: can he put a 400W PSU in his pc where he used to have a 250W PSU? Is there a risk he could burn some components or is it ok? Thanks.

I have a Biostar M7NCD Pro (nforce2) motherboard as the basis of my homebuilt. It has been running without a hardware problem for about 11 months. I've used five different PC2100 sticks of various sizes and manufacturers in many combinations, in the Biostar and in a Dell 4500 (P4, Intel 845...

I have a couple of questions although they may not me answerable! 1) I'm interested in an Abit NF7 motherboard, how likely is it to support faster socket A processors? Is there an official limit? 2) Is there a point at which AMD will stop making socket A processors.... IE if I buy an XP3200+ now...

Here's what I have. C: drive was giving the old clunk of death, click ,clunk. the PC locked up and when I rebotted it would load up till the WIN XP logo appeared then it locked upand went to a blue screen. the error was that the drive was not able to me mounted or something to that effect. I...

Hey guys... got a dell inspiron laptop. This is the weirdest thing. I'm 'fixing' it for a friend (she got a virus). I wiped the HD clean and reloaded a fresh copy of XP pro... I even loaded suse linux 9.1 just for kicks. It was working perfectly. So I packed it up with the intention of bringing it...

Hi guys. My HDD crashed and took with it some very important data which I need to recover. The drive, when placed into a computer is dead. Dead to the point that it locks up the computer. It is a 40g Seagate drive. I have an identical drive to it as a spare and was wondering if I could somehow...

Got some good 5.1 speakers I am using the onboard 5.1 sound on my nforce2 motherboard. The sound is great with mp3's and DVD's but not so great with games. I am thinking of buying a seperate 5.1 card in particular a hercules fortissmo 2. My budget is up to £15. Should I stick with onboard or go...

Stupid question I'm sure but... Have just bought a Nexus 3500 PSU. See http://www.nexustek.nl/nx3500.htm. Can this be installed either way up, i.e. with the single big fan on top or at the bottom? And if so which way is preferable? With the label the right way up the fan would be at the top but...

I have been given one of the above. No box, just mobo (on tray), PSU, 128MB RAM, CPU (with 1MB cache) and am told it works. Yeah, like I know anything about these things! I'd like to get it going. The guy who (very kindly) posted it to me is unavailable at the moment, out of the country on...

Hi Our second baby has just been born and he will soon be moving into the spare bedroom. So I moved the home office into a corner of the living/dining room... but that's not working because there's too many distractions. I'm considering partitioning the rear end of my external garage off and...

Hi, My video card's (nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 by Chaintech) fan started buzzing and its worrying me because I payed $130 for it 2 years ago. I dont know if its something to be worried about so im looking to replace the fan with the Lasagna A type fan from www.tennmax.com. So basically my 2...

I have recently started monitoring the temps in my case and of my cpu and i was wondering if a 41 degree case and a 33 degree cpu temp are good... i think they are a bit hight but i have a AMD Athlon XP 1800+ OCed to 2700+ my core voltage is 1.825 but this is needed for a stable rig.....

Hi my pc uses pc100 ram, i have 2 slots , that occupy 2 sticks of 64mb totaling 128mb, recently i recieved a 128 mb of ram stick the only problem its pc133, the 1st thing i tried is taking out all of the ram i have in my pc and install only the new pc133 stick, it did not work, second thing i...

Hi, I want to use a KVM switch on my games PC so I can control another PC and get rid of of one of my monitors. The games PC has a fairly decent graphics card in it and I won't bother if a KVM degrades picture quality substantually. Does anyone know about this before I pay up? What should I be...