On Oct 7, 9:02*pm, John Doe wrote: I just caught part of a Senate hearing about concerns that Google is misusing monopoly power. One stated contention in the hearing is that most users shop by entering "washing machine" into the Google search engine instead of...

Hi, I have looked everywhere for a driver for my mobo with google - I have been to this site for my gigabyte mobo but no good. http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1363&dl=1#dl I have a GA-7DXE Rev: 3.1 motherboard I have USB 1.1 connection speed but I need USB 2.0 speeds for...

Hi I bought this printer about 4 months ago. I discovered later that it had a chip in it to tell you how much ink is left in it. The problem is that you can't take it to a local shop and have it filled cheeaper than buying a replacement from Samsung. The chip will still over rule and say it's...

I'm having trouble with my PC hardware, and I'm hoping someone can offer some advice. Two nights ago, I came home from work as usual and turned on my PC to do some web browsing. After just a minute or two, the PC suddenly shut itself off. I waited a minute and turned it back on. Everything came...

I am just now putting the finishing touches on my first PC home build. I have everything up and running with Windows 7 installed with one exception... The Integrated Graphics card works fine but when I try to boot up with my external graphics card I get a blank screen with no signal at all. No bios...

Hi all, I am going to order the Thermaltake Element V for my new Asus mobo: http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1420&ID=1900#Tab0 My new mobo will be the Asus M4A89TD PRO USB3: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/M4A89TD_PROUSB3

Hi I bought a Light scribe dvd writer when it came out about 4 years ago. I have had several drives over the years. I found that the Light scribe side of it stopped working. Drives are cheep but there seems to be an issue with this for me. You don't see many websites selling these any more. Has...

between now and when I get new home service I am stuck on this dreadful iPhone violins playing planning to go wireless BUT WITH A REAL KEYBOARD AND MONITOR anybody use this type of device **Alfa 1000mw 1W Waterproof Marine high power Long Range Outdoor 802.11 G USB CPE wireless network Wifi...

http://imgur.com/NMk1J My niece brought her computer to me. She had been having trouble. She said the machine would sometimes not beep (POST) when she turned the machine on. If it did not beep it would not come on. She said that most of the time the machine would beep and it would work, but...

Following was printed on the chip: S82557 L6485369 SZ758 I(m)(c)1989 1995 Win 7 failed to find a driver for it. I downloaded PROWIN32.EXE from Intel, but it also failed to install.

Hi I have not upgraded my PC for over 5 years. Terrible I know. I also have relied on the on board graphics supported by the half size main boards. I still have a asus m2v mx motherboard with a PCI Express x 16 My problem is I want to buy a card to plug in. I don't know if PCI Express x 16 is...

Anonymous wrote in : I go dumpster-diving. I found a newish PC with Bluray drive, TV tuner, DDR2-1066 RAM, 600 W power supply et cetera. Now the garbos had been on strike, and this bin had been ...

Looks like Clearwire/Clear throttles power users during peak system usage times. During off times (maybe at night), they reinstate your speed. Apparently your sum usage for throttling purposes values nighttime use the same as peek time use. If I learn differently, I will correct.

I've got an i7 2600k machine with 8GB RAM, and am looking for the best hard drive configuration. Which configuration should give the best performance for everyday computing, ie. no heavy gaming/video editing/photoshopping/etc.: A. Two 7200rpm drives in RAID 0 config. B. one 10,000rpm raptor...

Wondering if I can use a new toy as a Hotspot (a wireless internet receiver). It's this device for receiving WiFi signals. Alpha UBDo-gt It's a waterproof version of their long-range USB indoor adapters. I suppose whether it will work as a Hotspot depends on the ISP providing wireless data...

"Nobody (Revisited)" wrote: On 9/28/2011 2:56 AM, Anonymous wrote: I go dumpster-diving. I found a newish PC with Bluray drive, TV tuner, DDR2-1066 RAM, 600 W power supply et cetera. Now the garbos had been on strike, and this bin had been there for a week...

I just had OCZ replace a 120G SSD drive. I did 2 things. I replaced the drive and added a 750G SATA drive that currently only has a back up of Win7 I made after (before would have been smarter) I replaced the bad SSD drive. Now the hard drive light sometimes stays on for a long period of time. I...

Hello, Just wondering if all this heat/warm weather outside is from all these cpus or is it cpues ?!? ;) Bye, Skybuck =D

Hello, Here is an idea which might have some value for some people: The file system of for example Microsoft Windows could use free space to store redundant data/copies. The free space is not used anyway so it could be used to recover from bad sectors more easily.

Hello, I have discovered a very serious issue with my DreamPC from 2006 (updated along the years because of hardware failures) for which I will seek help. (Computer has 4 harddisks). The problem is: When the old harddisks are disconnected the new harddisk don't boot.