Hi, I'm considering building a Media PC with video recording capabilities and would welcome any suggestions as to which parts to use for a decent system at a reasonable price. Thanks in advance Spikey

Hi, I have windows2000. Recently I installed another copy of windows 2000. Both are on the same hard dist. How do I de-install one of them. Thanks

Dear Hardware Group, I've just a acquired a new second hand PC and reinstalled Windows 98. The OS doesn't seem to recognize the graphics card and has simply installed a VGA driver. Can anyone suggest how I might identify the card so I can install the correct driver. Thanks for any help...

Hi, Is anyone have the experience about the USB drive cannot be used when connected to window 2000 or XP PC. But it works in another machine such as notebook or other window 2000 and XP PC. The one that did not work is ASUS motherboard with celeron CPU. There is no USB driver for the...

I have a few questions about Equinox hardware that hopefully somebody can help me with. I am planning on using an Equinox SST-16P PCI card with a Super Serial panel and 16 modems. I am considering upgrading that to a SST-64P or SST-128P and several panels with up to 128 modems. Does anybody have...

I have a ati radeon video card 9000 pro atlantis and with radeon driver 2.4c.I have an asus motherboard and my cpu is amd atlon 1.8 I can't make active agp acceleration. How can i do?

I bought a Dell 2400 last month thinking I could throw all my components into it only to find that Dell does not include AGP slots on their value line motherboards (grrr!). Because the new system sat in it's box for over a month while I took care of other things, I can't even return it and am stuck...

I'm posting below some messages I've exchanged with ECS USA technical support recently. I was trying to find out what should be the correct setting for the AGP clock on a 741GX-M motherboard, which has independent settings for CPU FSB, memory and AGP clock, and the replies I got were almost...

Wie kann man es erreichen, dass man schwarz drucken kann, obwohl eine oder alle Farbpatronen leer sind/ist? Vielen Dank für einen Tipp.

Scenario: I'm 19, going to the university of antwerp in Belgium (computer sciences) and have an old pc at home for my dad, a teacher, for collecting scores of students and maken tests. PC: Pentium 166MMX motherboard with 64MB edo ram (intel 440 chipset) Voodoo3 3000 PCI 2.1 GB HDD on primary...

Hello I'm looking to buy a DVD burner with dual layer burning capability. I am trying to decide whether to buy the Lite-on SOHW-832S or the NEC ND-2510A. Does anybody know how the two drives compare against each other. Any help/suggestion is appreciated. Cheers, Joe

Hello all I've got a laptop with 1 pcmcia slot. I've got a pcmcia hard drive that is as tall as 2 pcmcia cards. It won't fit into the slot. The slot is not tall enough to accept the hard drive. In older laptops with 2 pcmcia slots, the drive fits just fine. Is there some kind of device I can...

Hi there! I'm writing this post because only God knows how much pain I've been through these last 10 days after buying a new PC, so I hope this post can be of any use to someone else. *PROBLEM: -Computer suddenly rebooted while playing 3D games, after 30-120 minutes of gameplay OR displayed a...

My son just purchased a new HP destop. Along with it, he purchased an EA Sports NASCAR 2004 race simulator along with a steering wheel and pedals. However, he is encountering a problem loading the game. He keeps getting an error message stating "compressed texture hardware needed". With the...

I was wondering if anybody had built (from scratch) a media center pc. I have Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 on a cd, but I wanted to know if anybody had experience with this. I want to get a good media center pc, but without the huge price tag.

In the motherboard/CPU combos listed under pricewatch.com, all of the ones with AMD Athlon 64 3800+ processors are clocked at 1.8GHz, instead of 2.4GHz. Is this because of limitations in the motherboard, RAM, cooling, etc.? Thanks, Russell

Hello you all, Does anyone know how I can get a hold of a reference platform for Intel's Bulverde and approximately how much it will cost?? Thanks in advance. Regards, Phil

Hello, I have an Iogear 3.5" COMBO (usb 2.0/firewire) ION 250GB external HD. The machine I use to format and write data to the external usb drive is a Dell PowerEdge 650 with a Belkin 3-port USB 2.0 PCI Card (model F5U219 PCI Rev 4) running RedHat Linux 9 (kernel 2.4). The machine I try to read...

I have a 24 pin power supply in my Compaq 5322rsh and I have a new Antec 350 watt 20 pin power supply I would like to install. I have made all necessary case modifications to install the unit. I purchased an adapter cable to go from new 20 pin power supply to 24 pin motherboard connection. needless...

I was rebooting the Citrix server (Windows 2000) because some users complained it was slow. When the server came back up it informed me that one of my drives had failed. There was a loud beeping. I went into the Megaraid Express Plus configuration utility to view the drives. I saw that ID 0 drive...