I look after a network of six computers for a club. On one computer, the CMOS battery (CR2032) died today, and I replaced it. However, I had to re-set several BIOS settings to get it back to operating normally. Did this by starting up another computer with the same motherboard and looking at the...

I want to convert some of my old choice LPs to MP3's, and thence to CD/DVD disk. I have a working turntable with what looks to be RCA output. I have removed it from my Home Theater setup, and, so, I now do not have a receiver or amp for the turntable. It appears that I cannot simply connect this...

I'm looking at building a new server using an LSI MegaRAID 9260-4i card and a Supermicro SC743TQ-865B-SQ case. What do I need to connect between the RAID card and the backplane to get the case LEDs working? They're supposed to be able to indicate when a drive fails. I know both the card and the...

Visited the Computer Museum in Mountain View, CA. early October this year. Wonderful stuff, comes highly recommended! Returning home, friends asked me to make a presentation of what I saw. Some pictures and some stories. Even though I only cover a fraction, of a fraction, of what they have of...

Greetings to all, I have a "server room" (well...) with multiple machines, old and inaccurate list (missing major PC upgrade and several Suns - http://web.studenti.math.hr/~bubba/hardware.html). The reason for quotation mark on server room is, naturally,...

One NEC 19 inch Monitor FREE (Needs repair on on-off RELAY) Otherwise colour is perfect You pay FREIGHT thats ALL Must Go SOON Will be shipped in original Carton

I am Looking for Lantastic AE-2 Network ISA Cards It must be in working condition Does anyone have old cards like this you want to sell off e-mail me at:

I posted at http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.hardware/browse_thread/thread/ef0c3c9ad6b4717e/e4b54961e2648710?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=type+of+RAM+%2B+economical+#e4b54961e2648710 to know how to get economical RAM and was given great advice by few posters(thanks Paul, Peter, larry moe 'n curly for the...

Hi, I've seen a box for a usb turntale, who makes such a thing & how much?

I'm jumping through a lot hoops here to record music off of FM radio. * I've got my radio connected to my DVD recorder to record several hours of music. Then I have to take the DVD-RW to my computer and I'm using dreamlinux to create/edit MP3s of the individual songs. Finally, I jump into windows...

Hi Suddenly I cant get windows to read my CD/DVD player It's a "TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-W162C" under WindowsXP Pro (all latest patches). Under Control Panel == Device Manager it comes up with a yellow "!" icon on the CD graphic. I have tried right clicking on it and uninstalling it, with the hope the...

I seem to have bad luck with USB ports on both my homebuilt machines (a couple of MSI 48N Neo Platinum/AMD 64 CPU) and USB mice (several Logitech (MX Revolution and G7 and a couple of off brands) and an HP DV5 notebook. One by one the ports I connect the mice to eventually stop recognizing the...

I would like to install a small fire detection/suppression system for my computer. I've seen a lot of rediculously expensive stuff online, but I'd like to spend as little as possible. Surely there's something that could be had for little more than the cost of a small hand-held fire-extinguisher,...

I've been having some trouble with a new system (about a month old), that spontaneously reboots, with no error messages in /var/log/syslog, or other log files. The system will run fine for a couple of days, and reboot 4 times the next day, sometimes rebooting again while still running the startup...

Hello, Can anyone tell me which card is good for administative tasks, office, internet, visual studio programming and fifa 10? Thx

I've never setup raid before and want to know if the following is possible... I currently have a 1TB samsung SATA drive with a 50GB primary partition, which is my C: system drive (WinXP_32_ProSP3). The remaining 900+GB is my data drive.containing HD video work, games, photos etc. If I buy a...

Yes DOS! Can anyone point me to instructions or preferebly an ISO image for creating a DOS bootable CD. Mine has finally failed. I need to update my BIOS and only have a dos option. I have a blank CDr + Nero standing by! Google just turns up invalid urls or advice that I should not need a DOS...

If my audio editor (Audacity) is working on an audio file and my movie player has a film loaded, then I can't switch between the apps and hear each app's audio. I don't want to actually play the audio at the very same time but I do want to be be able to go to one or the other app and hear its...

I've been looking at a few external drive caddies, but the cheap ones mention that they can take up to 400GB hard drive. Why the limit? Doesn't seem right to me - surely a SATA controller (internal or external) could manage any current size of SATA driver?

I'm a home user on XP Pro. I need to work out what OS to specify on a prebuilt machine (one for me and one for a friend). It's either Windows 7 or Vista. Although I'm fairly technical I haven't kept up to date with details of the newer Windows. I haven't even seen either Win 7 or Vista...