Hi all, I am currently working on a university project which consists of developing a device that has a USB interface to a pc. In my application, i am interested in saving data to a flash memory chip and then making this data available to the computer via USB. Basically, i want the computer to...

hi all, I tried replacing an NVidia Vanta 8mb card on a Suse 9.0 Linux system with a new Geforce2 MX400 DDR 64MB card. 1. I uninstalled the driver for the old card in init 3 2. Shut off the computer, put in the new card. 3. The new card installation went well. During startup Yast asked me to accept...

I have a new Maxtor 160GB ATA drive. System is Windows 2000, mainboard is Asus A7A. The problem is that the drive wants to run in PIO mode. In the BIOS, it shows DMA #6 compatability. At first, there were errors in the event log in Windows. The device timed out when loading and several other...

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...

what is different between IT(INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY) & IS(INFORMATION SYSTEM)?

Compaq Deskpro 600 MHz Desktop/Tower Case Intel Celeron 600MHZ Processor IDE1: 40GB HDD 192MB RAM Ethernet Network Card Internal 1.44 Floppy Internal CD-ROM 15" Samsung Monitor Compaq Keyboard & Wheel Mouse Internal Sound Card & Internal Speaker

when the PC is turned on only the selected LED in the CD drive is flashing.Even the blower in the Power suply is not turning on. But there is -5v on one of the pins of the peripherial power connection. does the power supply gone ? what else can I check ???

Someone is testing out some LVD SCSI drives I gave him, and he told me that the data rate with the cable I gave him is 40mb instead of the advertised 80mb per second. He said he thinks that some sort of "Active Negation" terminator is needed, and I was wondering if someone could elaborate on what...

Because I'm planning to get an Apple AirPort Express, I decided to sell this to an interested party. Due to export restrictions, I can only sell this one to anyone in the United States. Netgear 802.11b Router * Connects up to 10 computers wirelessly via 802.11b * Connects up to 4 computers...

I walked away from my laptop while wearing my headphones and the laptop female headphone jack got damaged. Now, I can only listen to things in Mono. Anyone had this same experience? If so, any estimates on what it took to repair? Compaq Presario 1800. Thanks, Eric

Does anyone know whether the following two hard drives are compatible? I have an old IBM (notebook) hard drive with the following specs: AT Interface (Enhanced IDE) conforming to ATA-5 ULTRA DMA Mode 5 Storage: 30 GB Interface transfer rate: 100 MB/s I am planning to replace it with a new hard...

Evening, I'm not quite sure whether this is the correct group to post this message in, as I'm not certain that it's my hardware that's letting me down, but in any case... The machine was purchased in late '99 (Celeron 500 MHz, 320 MB SD-RAM, 10.2 GB HDD) and has been functioning quite happily for...

I'm just curious if any body knows if they make a converter kit to play music from your computer through your home stereo. I'm sure they have something to set up a connection through RC jacks on the stereo and your sound port on your computer or maybe some frequency broadcast unit that can be...

Does anyone know whether the following two hard drives are compatible? I have an old IBM (notebook) hard drive with the following specs: ATA-5 ULTRA DMA Mode 5 Storage: 30 GB Interface transfer rate: 100 MB/s I am planning to replace it with a new hard drive with the following specs: ATA-6

When booting my PC, which has a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard, it pauses for about 30-40 seconds with the GigaRAID message "Please wait for IDE scan..." (along with a little activity indicator.) After that it boots up fine. I have tried looking everywhere for an option to stop this...

I'm trying to add memory in an old Dell Dimension XPS R-series (not a new XPS) that does fine with its existing 64 megs of ram but, when I put the two new sticks in, windows 2000 stops at the end of the long white bar at startup and refuses to budge. I have heard of a "phantom jumper" which...

Compaq Deskpro 600 MHz Desktop/Tower Case Intel Celeron 600MHZ Processor IDE1: 40GB HDD 192MB RAM Ethernet Network Card Internal 1.44 Floppy Internal CD-ROM 15" Samsung Monitor Compaq Keyboard & Wheel Mouse Internal Sound Card & Internal Speaker

Hi all, I'm running a Gigabyte 7N400Pro2 but I can't get the onboard network bootrom going. The onboard LAN is a Realtek RTL8169, but even with all the BIOS LAN options set to enabled the board still won't boot from the LAN (it doesn't even seem to run the bootrom, there are no extra...

Ik wil voor in de woonkamer voor mijzelf en huisgenoten een micosysteem bouwen. Daarbij mijn keuze gevallen op een Shuttle Barebone. Door de verkopers van Computerland Amsterdam geadviseerd naar iets anders uit te kijken. Een Shuttle Barebone i.c.m een Athlon XP 2600 is vragen om problemen. Nu het...

Hey, does anyone know which soundcards are the best right now? I do a lot of gaming so I want to hear some clean explosions!