How can I tell if my machine is 64-bit? Put it another way, how can I tell if the mobo/cpu should take a 64-bit install of W7? Thanks

Greetings experts :-) About a year ago I bought an external IDE drive and it has had very little use. I had not used it for about 6 months and now it seems not to work. The HD enclosed was a 320 GB WD3200AAJB, WD Caviar Blue. The white light came on with the switch but there was no sound from...

Hello, Recently I installed XP Pro after having reformatted the HD (which before carried XP Home Edition). Now I get on boot-up both OS announced, XP Pro in the first line, XP Home Edition in the second. If I wait 25 or so seconds, XP Pro loads, but if I push Enter, it loads immediately. If I...

How can I tell if my machine is 64-bit? Put it another way, how can I tell if the mobo/cpu should take a 64-bit install of W7? Thanks

Hello, I am trying to run memtest86+. I have a flash drive, upon which I loaded the boot software from memtest.org. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get it to boot. In my BIOS, I have boot order options for USB which include usb-fdd, usb-hdd, usb-zip, and usb-cdrom. I tried setting it to...

A friend of mine needs to buy a new desktop or tower and asked me for advice. Though I've been building machines for many years I have never once gone out and purchased a new one...so have no idea what's good now days. I really don't have time now to build a new one...nor do I think I'd save...

Hi all Is there any reason why I shouldn't use an old Dell flat screen on a new Win 7 64 bit PC? The screen has a VGA cable which currently has a plug-in converter to adapt from VGA to something clever at the graphics card. Do modern Win 7 PCs still come with VGA out ports as standard? Will the...

The major components are a Gigabyte mobo, Antec Earthwatts 380 watt PSU, 2.33 gig Core2 Duo, XP Pro, 320 gig WD Caviar PATA C: drive, 320 gig WD Caviar SATA aux drive. After replacing some bad ram a couple of days ago, the machine was running like the proverbial Swiss watch until today when it...

I installed Xubuntu on a HP dc5700 s 64bit. Maybe some of you remember me, but I almost had everything working and when I downloaded my last fix it screwed up more than it fixed. Instead of trying to chase my tail around any further I think I would be better off just starting over with a new...

Hello Everyone, I need your help with a hardware electronics question. There is a standard PWM 4-pin male connector socket on my motherboard for case fan. I replaced the factory case fan and CPU fan with a far more efficient and silent CPU cooler, so now there is nothing connected to the case...

A few months back I Formated a HP Compaq dc5700 (small form) buisness comp and Installed Xubuntu on it, and this is my first experience with Linux. I had issues with the cd/dvd right off the bat and posted about it a while back. Well I got most of it working now. Took me 2 weeks to get cd audio...

I want to provide Internet access to a 2nd home PC without having to drag the modem and cable clear into the next room,(40ft.). I have been told I can use a wireless router and it will just locate the signal from the 1st PC and connect using that. I have no knowledge concerning routers and have...

To be exact, mid-level laptops with the price around 500-600€ / 600-700$. Model is enough, I'll later search within my own country's shops ;) --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary Usenet downloading made easy =--------- -= Get GrabIt for free from...

I finally settled on: Board: ASUS P5KPL-AM EPU LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard $63 (w/ shipping) Item=N82E16813131615 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131615&Tpk=N82E16813131615 Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E7500 Wolfdale 2.93GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W...

Hello group As It pertains to hardware I would like to know. Supposing you use the particular laptop as your main computer 7 days a week. Which is better for a notebook in terms of longevity of its components ( level of depreciation also) : having always too boot up when and then power shut...

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This is the same laptop I just posted a hard drive problem with a couple od days ago. An HP Mini 210 1U80NR. I put in a new hard drive and the customer provided me with a Windows 7 installation CD. Everything went fine except for the display driver. Windows update can't find it. HP support...

I just formated a HP Compaq dc5700 (small form) buisness comp and Installed Xubuntu on it. I am finding out that getting drivers for this thing isn't as straite forward as windows. I went to HP site and (no suprise) no support for linux there. I tried the internal search for drivers tool and it...

Hi, I am a newbie here - need some help. Yesterday, after putting the PC on I was able to go to windows without any problem, however I got a message that New Hardware Found - Find and Install Drivers. I noticed that It was referring to the SCSI controller device. Then after a while I had to restart...

This may be OT but I didn't know where else to post this. I found a hard drive with an installation package on it consisting of two ISO files in two separate folders. The ISO files are each over 7GB in size and extract to folders larger than that. I tried installing from the extracted files from...