For years I've been taking .jpgs and pasting them in WordPad documents and thought it was a great thing to be able to do it. I've done hundreds of documents like that and never had any problems. But now all of a sudden they don't show the pictures or even the text anymore, but instead it's just a...

I have an Asus P6T motherboard with Realtek ALC1200 on board audio and Windows 7 64 bit OS, DirectX 10, Audio Driver version 6.0.1.5859. The sound works normally for all audio functions. I installed Nero and went to use the Wave Editor application to record a song from the web and got the...

I have a lot of files that I back up and store. Recently I was going on an extended trip and was wondering what to do with the hundreds of DVDs I had to keep them safe and that got me to thinking. What is better, storing archived files/programs/videos/music on DVDs or using the small, affordable...

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:30:28 -0800 (PST) "Palin'sAnusRimmer" wrote: Probably about time. But the case will take years to resolve, no matter which side blinks. Actually, Barack might be better off suing the prescription drug empire and the Repugs for blocking...

Got a WD Elements 1TB external. This is the first such drive I've seen that has NO ventilation slots whatsoever. Just a black case. It's my understanding that cooling is critical for drive longevity. When I run externals I also have a fan blowing over them - from a distance to avoid the magnetic...

I hear a little zooming sound in my ears... I can think of two possibilities: 1. Too much gaming (Company of Heroe's + Left 4 Dead 2 + Dirt 2 ;)) 2. High pitch sound coming from stock AMD X2 CPU Cooler ?! I think it's actually number 2 ?!

Hey guys... When I play games like Crysis Warhead I want every single percentage of CPU and Memory my system has to be available. With that in mind I always kill Aero and Gadgets and anything else that's obviously not required before I launch a game. I got sick of doing this over and over so I...

Dear All, As you know global warming is endangering the future of life on the planet. It will also affect us; rising sea levels, dwindling water supplies, mass deaths due to heat waves, stoppage of the gulfstream, which brings milder climate to north of Europe, super hurricanes, less food due to...

Just wondering if anyone is aware of anyone who produces "standard" circuit boards that have transparency. So far all the ones I've found just produce the "thin filament" type: : http://www.fivestartech.com/products/pseriespastes.htm Which isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I know you can...

I recently installed Windows 7 64 bit on an Aus P6T with 2 SATA hard drives. I have an icon in the task bar, the same one that appears when you plug an USB stick or camera in, that shows my 2 hard drives, all the partitions, and gives me the open to eject the drives. I know SATA drives are hot...

When I boot my computer with the Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade DVD in the drive the boot gets to "CD ROM Boot Priority....Boot Ready_" but does not proceed to "Press any key to boot from CD". I can hear the drive spinning. I've pressed keys. The boot order is correct: CD Drive first. The DVD...

Building a new machine with a ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 MB Got machine together and booted into windows XP CD with no issues, Full formatted and did the XP install. At that point I stopped shut it down to resume updating XP the following day. Booting the following day I encountered constant reboots...

Almost everyone has a network now a days. If Windoze was on a small partition/drive, you could back it up automatically everyday. If the boot disks fails you could change out the drive and in a matter of min be up and running again. You could even buy slower drives for support programs and spend...

I've got an iogear GCS942UW6 on both an XP and a Win 7 Pro64 computer... It works like a dream on the Win7 computer but the XP system will freeze up or the mouse button will sort of stay clicked (when I move the mouse around it will highlight everything like I'm holding the mouse down). Does...

Do some BIOS' and/or DVD drives have a problem booting from an installation DVD in an UDF file system rather than the standard ISO? Windows 7 DVD is in UDF. When I boot my computer with the Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade DVD in the drive the boot gets to "CD ROM Boot Priority....Boot Ready_" but...

I bought a new Segate 500GB SATA hard disk, connect it externally through USB. It worked fine for some time and then someone borrowed it. Now I cant get to read the data in it. My windows detects it but says...0 mb used and 0 mb free. I have some important data in it and I seriously need to...

I also noticed when the green power light blink/flicker like crazy, it takes about 2-3 seconds to turn off/go away after switching the PSU off. On 12/1/2009 9:39 PM PT, Ant typed: Hello! I came home to my already powered on old Linux computer desktop (leave it mostly 24/7). I woke it up...

I just built a new machine and have been plagued with crashes. When I first ran MEMTEST on it, everything came out okay. Both sticks in bank 1 & 2 work fine (except for one set of errors when running it for 12 hours), and if they're in 3 & 4 they work fine, but in banks 2 & 4 I get errors. If I...

Hi, I am going to buy a new database server which will have to work seriously 24/7. I simlpy wonder if Phenom is OK for this kind of usage, or have I to buy an Opteron ? Or perhaps is it better to take an Intel CPU, and which one ? Can please someone give me an advice ?

I have a slipstreamed version of Windows XP SP3. Is there some way to add the most recent updates to that? In other words, I want to automate the process as well as possible. Thanks.