If I order a 20" LCD online, what are the chances of getting one with no dead pixels/subpixels and no lit pixels/subpixels? I know there are vendors that will let you return a LCD that you are unsatisfied with for any reason... but if the chances of getting a perfect one are low, then that would...

I need to use a PCI slot card but do not want to buy a desktop unit. Is there a commercial adaptor that will allow me to use it externally with my notebook computer? Thanks, Tim

120 Gb is the phisical size of the drive. 111Gb is the formatted size of the harddrive. you will always lose a cirtain percentage of your drive when it is formatted it is normal.

Is there a way to have 3d gaming apps span 3 monitors? I had it spanning 2 monitors that were connected to a dualhead video card. But I want the game (or even WinXP) to "Properly span" the desktop. Not just extend the desktop. I hope some can help with this. Thanks in advance. LMS

Go to Maxtor web and download the utility for recognizing hard. they have bug and need that utiltity to recognize hard drives more than 80 gb. Pannu

Hi, Could anyone help me with this problem. Recently i replaced my old 20 gb harddrive with a slightly bigger, 80 gb one. Then put the old one back, with the 80 gb drive being master, and setting the 20 gb one slave. I formatted the 20 gb drive. It works fine - except that the system claims its...

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Hi, I recently bought a second hand deskpro, label at the bottom says: 314019-001 which according to some googling means it's a Deskpro EN small form factor. Unit came with 2 32mb pc66 ram modules installed. I wanted to upgrade so I installed a PC133 Kingston module (KT-EN133/128) which even has...

I've got the x6dae-g2 mobo, trying to install windows XP Pro (original release) onto it, and the install goes fine (as long as I disable ACPI in the bios), but the chipset drivers do not install correctly, and no PCI device can be recognized by the system. The actual error in the system device list...

hi all- here is an email my friend sent me, i'm not sure how to fix it-can it be done easily? he's not very computer savvy. Todd, my neighbor used his restore disc on his computer. Now we are

I just tried installing the FIC K8-800T mobo in my existing case yesterday. It was my FIRST time upgrading a mobo, so it definitely could have been my error. However, is there a good chance that a FIC mobo was defective ? Please let me know. Thanks for your time ! Steve,...

Hello! I've a little problem with the HPT370 RAID Controller. My motherboard is an ABIT KT7-RAID with the HPT 370 Raid Controller on board. I installed ABIT's latest BIOS update (BIOS ID 9A) in order to have my new 160 GB hard disk supported. Although this, only 137 GB of my hard disk are...

Hi, I've installed Agfa SnapScan1236 under Win2000 and only administrator or super user can use the scaner, common user have no access privilages to the scaner, Agfa didn't resolve that problem, but I've heard that changing access privilages to registry key connected with scanner driver can...

How many hardware ports are there in intel microprocessor? From where I can get the detailed info. regarding which port is used for what purpose? Thank you. regards, Yogesh Joshi

Hi guys! I finally built my new pc. It looks and works great :-) I'm a web/java developer who uses the computer mainly for programming, digital photo-retouching (not professional and only for web), viewing DVD. Not 3d games at all. As I don't have so much space on my bench I'm looking for a 19"...

Hi all, I have a 160Gb Maxtor hard drive. Upon running some windows update the drive appears to have failled. The symptons are that when the pc boots, the search for IDE drives results in the hard drive making a constant "clicking" sound. This results in a message stating there is an error on...

Hello gents, sorry for the cross posting, not sure which forums this effects, but I currently have several boxen: dual g4 1.25ghz, athlon xp 2000, and a dual p3 933 and I want a new rig for DVD to DIVX conversion specifically. Encoding DVD video to DIVX on my dual mac g4 takes something along...

Dose Linkworld make good PSUs???

Hi, Could someone tell me: 1) Where does track O reside on the platter? 2) Do all modern EIDE hard disk drives use zoned bit recording? 3) In particular, does WD Protégé WD200EB (20Gb) employ above technology? Thanks in advance, Ivan