http://www.ok2bid.com/cgi-bin/auction.pl?item=471073511735 Please can anyone tell me if this is a good piece of kit. I've bought from this new auction site before and found them to be good - what does anyone think about this back-up drive?? Cheers.

I have a Gigabyte GA7ZX motherboard with 800mhz Duron processor, 256ram. My sound card went bad and I installed a SB 16 PCi and also installed WinXP Home. Found out that the sound card was not supported by XP. Tried a Diamond DT-688 which was supposed to work but didn't. Installed Philips Sonic...

Maybe somebody knows how to deal with the following problem: SITUATION: have inserted 512MB sandisk securedigital card through a pcmcia adapter in my notebook and saved files to the card and then remove the card again. (IBM Thinkpad, Windows 2000 Prof) TROUBLE: when inserting the sd-card again,...

Hello everybody, happy new year. I've got an old siemens fd202 pentium 75, 64M, 800M HD, floppy + cdrom and I want to install linux on it. My cdrom works on another pc, and any other cdrom (drive) doesn't work on this pc. In the bios any cdrom drive is not recognize... I don't know what to try, I...

maxtor diamond plus drive w/ ata 133 PCI card Maybe this will save someone some time... I searched for this entry and couldn't find it... I have a Dell 8100, my daughters' figured out how to crash the hard drive that came with it last night. Went to Staples this morning bought a Maxtor 200GB drive...

I have an Asus board P3V133. I run a PIII 533 slot1 just fine. I have a PIII 1.13 ghz slot 370 to upgrade. I have an adapter with 2 jumpers on it. I installed this and do not get anything. Just trying to speed up this old girl a little. Any suggestions?

I have a Soyo SY-7VCA-E board. I had an Intel PIII 1.0ghz cpu installed and it ran fine. One day everything shut down and I cannot get any response. The book says the board and cpu are not working if you do not even get a boot screen. I do not get any screen. I figured the cpu was fried. I bought a...

I dont know what to get for a pc that im trying to build. i havent started yet but i have an idea of what i want (not on parts just on what i want it to do). So basically my question is: What parts to get for it. I know i mostly want to just play games and surf the web. so if anyone could just...

I have a WD Caviar 30 GB disk which I am using with a fairly old motherboard (Soyo-5ema+ with AMD 350 Mhz processor). Anyway, when my m/c refused to boot up recently, I suspected an ide controller problem since it would not boot from a CD or a floppy drive. I tried using the 2nd IDE controller as...

Hi all, I have recently got 2 USB2 20GB portable HDs - Now the fun starts hear - i have access to 7pcs and 3 macs 3 of the pcs running usb1 and XP work fine no probs 1 of the pcs with usb2 and XP works fine 1 of the pcs with usb2 and XP recongnizes the drive and works till you try to treansfer...

Hi, All! I was down at my (step) family house last night celebrating the New Year. One of the guest came up to me and said we could use your assistance. Why he said that is a long story. My daughter inherited my wife's pc: Win98, DVD/CDrom, etc. It seems they put a cd in the DVD player and...

Can someone tell me if there is a video card that can do 2 screens + tv-out?? TNX Please don't use the email it does not work.

Hi all, I have recently got 2 USB2 20GB portable HDs - Now the fun starts hear - i have access to 7pcs and 3 macs 3 of the pcs running usb1 and XP work fine no probs 1 of the pcs with usb2 and XP works fine 1 of the pcs with usb2 and XP recongnizes the drive and works till you try to treansfer...

Yesterday I bought a box (SLC, 350W), MB (Intel DFI 865 PE Infinity 800mhz), processor (P4, 2.66Ghz), RAM (2x256mb PC400 Apacer), HDD (IBM Deskstar 60gb) and GC (ATI Rage 32mb AGP) witch I installed with no problems. When I plug the cabel into the computer, the network lights blink and the display...

I I need a driver for the USB Storage Adapter to connect my Memorex BBQ 200 to a PC.

I just moved a hard drive from one Win2K machine to another machine. On the new machine I see that 15GB of a 40GB disk is used, yet when I explore the disk with Explorer, I see only six files (all hidden). Any ideas on how to see and recover the data that fills the other 15gb of the disk. Thanks...

Hello there.. I added a slave hard drive a while back and ever since, I would get random restarts. i turned off automatically restart, and what I was getting was BSOD.. this happened most often when I was playing a game, or something else that took 3d video. i assumed that the problem was my PS...

I have another system I'm working on and trying to stabilize more. The system is based on a ASUS A7V333 motherboard. I previously had a Athlon 2600XP or something like that in it (I can't remember for sure) but recently upgraded it to a Athlon 3000XP. The same day I also upgraded the memory. I...

I just purchased a Athlon 2600 CPU and would like to install it myself. I know there are thermal adhesives out there, but do I need to use them to connect the heatsink to the CPU? Also, I am thinking about overclocking the CPU. Any thoughts? TIA. Trav

My hard drive slowed to crawl (1/10th normal speed) and was making loud noises. reboots, defrag, virus scan and scandisk did'nt help. Took it out of computer and shook the bugger, put it back and all was well again after xp complained about something at bootup -- I forget what. I did'nt...