I have inherited an Epson 3000 Stylus printer in pristine condition. It does not want to print in color, just black and white. Though the installation disk is specified as only for Window NT and before, I did find XP drivers that enable it to be recognized by my XP SP3. It connects via LPT1. I...

This is one group I've come to respect and love. most of my hardware problems got their solutions here. I note, disappointedly, spammers advertising stuff here. My private gmail box would quietly put these messages into the trash can, I wonder if such a thing is possible for messages posted into...

Have you ever say this word!!! Believe me if you say it,you will be one of the happiest people… Indeed, the word will change your life. It will make you another person. It's an easy word. However, some can't do it…… Some say it like any word, so they don't have its great affect. Some know it's...

Hi! I've the following nasty problem: a PC with a motherboard Gateway GA-G31M-ESL2 rev 1, F8 with 2 slot for memory and 2 DIMMS Corsair TWIN2X 4096-6400C4DHX (2 GB each). I tried many time to install different Linux flavours, Kubuntu and OpenSuse, but after some tens minuts the process...

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These things are delicate and forcing covers can break off plastic clips etc. Has anyone succeeded in opening this mouse that has gone on strike? If so I'd appreciate the trick. TIA and have a great weekend :-)

I bought a Samsung external CD/DVD reader/writer, and discovered that it's just an ols IDE device, inside a box with a USB interface added. Which is OK since I can use it externally hot plugged via USB, or I can plug the IDE internal to my spare box which has no USB facility. Connected as an IDE,...

Hi All How can you test if your Intel P45 chipset is faulty or not ? Is there a utility program to test chipsets ? ( for example Memory use Memtest86 )

Hi All I have a problem with a PS/2 Optical Mouse, I cannot Left Click or Right Click, and have bought a new one and it does the same thing, please help solve the problem. Thanks John Smith

Jerry West wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo card in it. The other day it suddenly had the display turn all white. All the white pixels are on and showing. That's it. It works fine otherwise, i.e. I can reach it thru the network but alas, it is...

You tried replacing the video card? VERY FEW laptops have video cards (although a number of Dell models do). The first thing you should have tried was connecting an external monitor. This could be the LCD panel itself, or the cable that travels from the laptop base to the lid through the...

Hi all, Trying to fire up my CF harddisk. Plugged the (generic) adaptor in to the IDE socket, installed the card and rebooted. Bios detects the card and reports the size: so far so good. The bios says the card will only work with PIO mode, fair enough, not expecting great performance and I...

hardwa Older Intel p4 3.2ghz, asus P4C800-de mobo The mobo still expected the CDrom to connect via one of its ide controllers. It has 2 sata ports that are full with harddrives, and 2 more for a raid setup I ordered a new cdrom and didn't notice or even think really, about

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage kony wrote: On 22 Nov 2009 21:30:59 GMT, Arno wrote: In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage kony wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:58:43 -0500, kony wrote: Safely Remove Hardware...

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote: On 11/23/2009 5:50 PM PT, david typed: Question: How does one unmount/dismount in Windows 98 SE since it doesn't have those USB safety removal option in its system tray? Upgrade to something that isn't 12 years...

I magnetized usb flash drive with the center of a metal candle holder which was magnetic. How do I un-magnetize my usb flash drive?

I have a new keyboard. The left, right, and up arrows work ok, but the left arrow will not allow me to move leftward over text that I want to modify. I have to use backspace. Any way to fix this? Thanks Duke

I have a ASUS P4B533-VM mobo that is facing me with a problem I have not had before. The Northbridge controller has a heat sink held tightly ontop of it with 4 very tense springees that clip onto 4 loops sticking up from the mobo. Two of the 4 loops have pulled out of the mobo enabling the heat...

Saw some branded 4gb USB sticks for £8 at Play.com http://tinyurl.com/y9eqy45 Can't work out which one to get. Which of these is better? Transcend JetFlash Lexar JumpDrive Kingston Data Traveler Mini Slim Thanks.