I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio?

Hi, I have an Nvidia Geforce FX 5700 Ultra (brand Gigabyte) in the AGP socket (8x) of a Gigabyte Motherboard. For months it has been running without any problem. But for the last 4 days, when I turn on my computer, the screen appears completely screwed up, multi-coloured with different...

Hi Guys, My system is: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Abit NF7-M Motherboard 512mb Kingston DDR2700 60gb WD 7200rpm 160gb Samsung 7200rpm Recently the noise began bothering me so I bought an Antec Sonata case

I need some help in choosing a case for an ATX motherboard. I have a Dell Dimension 4550, with 2.53GHz P4 CPU and 512MB of DDR 300 RAM. During a recent storm, it appears that my motherboard has been knocked out. Instead of getting the replacement motherboard from Dell, I am planning to get the...

I have a monitor LG FLATRON F700P and a video card AG315E-32 with 32MB (sorry I don't know the manufacturer, just know that the chip is from SiS). I'm used to work in a 1600x1200 resolution. One day, I just started my PC and the image was out of focus. I noticed that if I downgrade the resolution...

Hi, i have two laptops one is new and one is old. The old laptop is a gateway solo 5300 and the new one is an hp, sorry i dont know the model number. Anyway, teh gateway has been plugged in at all times, and now the battery meter is very unreliable as is the charge. My question is if i use a...

I have an old Hewlett Packard 8490 (Pentium III / 500MHz / 440BX chipset / 100 MHz FSB / ATA66 / 512MB RAM / 120GB HD). I recently purchased a 8x DVD Recorder for it (I got it on sale :) I can record with it but only at 2x (barely). I was wondering if it would be a good idea to upgrade to an Ultra...

Hi guys I am turning my pc on and it gives me 2 beebs + msg "CMOS SETTING WRONG" when starting it. Then it will try to load windows xp proffesional with no success " it freezes" I tried to boot it up in "Safe Mode" with its diffrent combination but still it would not work,

I have a Toshiba 509 P4 WideScreen laptop and since day one has had a tiny "red speck" stuck pixel towards the lower left bottom of the screen. While it is noticible only in black spots that are in that area it still bothers me none the less. Is this repairable and does anyone have any expereince...

This seems plausible in theory, but I've never tried it and would like to hear opinions, or better - some success stories. Many people advocate partitioning a drive, installing the OS on a smallish partition to contain just the drive, have the Page file on another smallish partition, installing...

I was just looking at the following image at anandtech.com, and wondered how it planned to bend the light after going through the lens. Are they just being stupid, or does light bend *after* going through a...

Hi all, Anyone knows if it's possible to monitor or take a reading of how much watts the psu is giving out. I have a 400W psu and I would like to know if I'm running it at full capacity or if it's just giving out 50% of its capacity. Reason is the fan pulls out air which is 2x hotter that my case...

What's your highest overclock and what was it on? (no BS please) Mine was 400Mhz on and old athlon 800 (from 800mhz to 1.2Ghz) on an Asus A7V133, I pushed the stock mutliplier of 8.0x to 12.0x on the stock FSB of 100Mhz.

The hard disk on my machine came divided into a 15GB (C:) drive & a 100GB (D:) drive. All system and program files & folders are located on the C: drive, which is now full. I would like to use the much larger D: drive for some of these files. Can I move the WINDOWS folder from the C: drive to...

Hi, I'm using WindowsMe, on P3-933 Dell4100. Just installed an Ali M5271 USB2.0 + Firewire PCI card. First issue was windows would hang at the "New Hardware Found..." box. I happened to touch my printer USB plug to the back of the card & it then continued loading! Huh? It seemed to load all...

I am getting a new PC and would like to leave it on all my waking hours, so I am concerned about power consumption when it's just sitting there not doing anything. AMD XP processors seems to have standby power usage of only about 5 watts, but what about Intel processors? Can they also be put into...

When playing a sound file (e.g. mp3), the sound gets distorted every time the hard disk or CDROM drive is accessed. The distortion persists during the entire access time. Is there any way to get around this problem? This problem is heard on Windows and Linux. System specs: AMD K6 550 MHz 320 MB...

I just bought a Pacific Digital 52X24X52 external USB2.0 CD-RW, along with a CompUSA generic 2-port USB2.0 card. I installed them last night, and it seemed to work out - the drive is recognized appropriately, and reads and writes to CD-R. SiSoft Sandra 2004 reports a drive index of ~8000 - a little...

Hello all, I have been a software guy. Dun know much about hardware. I've been trying to look at comparable low-powered computer. Something comparable to this: http://www.compulab.co.il/atxbase-arm.htm (this company claims under 1 W ??). I've seen comparable ones that run ~15 W advertised.

I recently bought a new video card. Now, all went well installing it, installing all the drivers, ect. It was the right type (AGP), and all that. Well, my Anti-virus said a 'rundll32.exe' had been modified, and the only options it gave me where help and repair. I checked out help, which didn't...