Hello All: I am trying to refurbish an older computer before I give it away. Will be loading Ubuntu Linux on it. This computer won't start. It has been sitting in storage for a couple of years. When I press the start button, I get a flicker of light on various led's but nothing happens...

I have a new LG SATA GH22LS50 burner with which I wanted to experiment to try Lightscribe to label disks. I ordered some Verbatim Lightscribe DVD-R disks at the same time. I also bought a few HP DVD+R Lightscribe disks, which I started using first. All went well. I recorded one set of...

How frequently should a system be opened and blown out to clean accumulated dust, etc.? The system is used daily, being on about half real time.

At work we need to be able to connect one USB keyboard and one USB mouse to two computers. I am guessing that a hardware switch with two in-ports and four out-ports would work. Does anyone know where I can get this? Do you have any other ideas?

anyone use this software and have a shortcut on their desktop/backdrop. Do you notice a change in the icon. Some days its the normal icon, a green B within a yellow irregular pentagon and other days it's a B with red cloud above. Why?

I've recently purchased a Gigabyte motherboard that as an 8-pin 12V connector on it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128358 The case I would like use came with a power supply, that a 4-pin 12V connector. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371007

As subject, are there any that are able to be safely sited on a carpet/bed/lap. I'm looking at devices like the Samsung NC10, Acer Aspire D150/250, Dell Mini10v, MSI Wind. But they all seem to have vents on the bottom that MUST NOT be blocked. Ta.

My LaCie Big Disk Extreme 1Tb has stopped showing up in Explorer. I have been trying other cables, etc. I want to try the drive next on another machine. However, I don't remember if I had to install any drivers or anything on my Dell Dimension XPPro sp3. I can't find any cd's where I normally keep...

The biggest issue for me when it comes to using a laptop is the battery issue. I've been trying to figure out the best way to get the most number of hours out of a re-charge and was looking for advice. I'm just studying programming, doing some word processing and occasionally run MAME from a...

I have a Jetway K8M8MSR2 motherboard. It has 6 total USB ports on the rear, none on front. 4 ports are on-board, whilst 2 ports are on a separate mounting connected to a motherboard header. The computer is connected to a IOGEAR GCMP1764 4-computer KVM. It has a keyboard, mouse and a EPSON R300...

I did an ipconfig/all command and found under 'Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection' Media state...... Media disconnected Description Intel (R) 82562V 10/100 Platform LAN Connect Physical Address 00-16-76- etc

I had a problem with my computer today. It is working again, but I would like to figure out what happened as I think something probably needs to be replaced soon. I'd rather get it fixed before it totally quits working. I tend to let it run for a few weeks at a time. There was some lightning, so I...

Hello Group: I have an older computer which was moved to another room. It seemed to run fine, but one day the monitor (LCD) was off, so I looked behind it and the power cord wasn't pushed all the way in. I pushed it in and the monitor came on. Everything seemed fine, but then I tried to move the...

The pc crashes and the blue screen appears. (Vista) The error is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Some people says that there's a problem with the RAM. How can i see if the RAM has a problem? The error occurs some times, not every.... I ran Memtest86+ and the test is passed without errors.

I have just been astonished by the difference between two search engines: Yahoo.com and Google. The search was for: "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable" In the Google search it was just like a flock of vultures coming in for a feast - pure commercial with very little technical...

Old rack mounted hardware, 8 disk drive slots and four female D9 sockets on back. So some how, data was through these D9 sockets. I'm suspecting is was a dual ported hard disk array boxen. Located in a support cabinet for a Concurrent Corporation Micro Five. The other two units were SCSI1...

This SATA drive is installed with an Intel D845GEBV2 board and Win2K SP4. While copying some files to a partition on this drive a few days ago the computer crashed and I had to reboot. The 750GB drive is divided into 3 partitions and the 250GB one I was copying to now looks very dead. It had...

Hi all. I have a Vaio VGN-NR10E laptop which needs a new internal hard disk. Could anyone recommend some good compatible drives? I was hoping to pay less than around £80 GBP as not that much space is needed (even 60GB would be adaquate). The current drive, that died, was listed in device...

Hi, I own a Dell pc and want to make use of a wireless connection that will soon be available in my house. I think that I will need to install a wireless adapter card in the pc, and wonder if this could effect the warranty of the PC (based in UK). Any thoughts?

I just bought a DELL Inspiron 537 running (Vista 64). I also have an emachine W5633 running (Vista32). I am sharing same KB, mouse, monitor (via KVM switch)on both. My problem is that the Dell will not respond to the emachine keyboard KB-0705. It sees the keyboard as just a windows keyboard not...