Hi! When attempting to download Windows Updates, even one update at a time, to my Dell WIN XP machine, I get the cryptic error message: MXdisk.sys Page Fault in Non - Page Fault Area. I concluded from other comments on the error page that perhaps I was using a component that was not WIN XP...

Will the compaq ij200 printer work with an XP machine. Information on the web seems to suggest it will work with win98 but not XP

I have a gatew5ay solo 5150 laptop. The soldered on 32MB of system RAM is bad, and I can not find anyway to disable this memory so I can continue to use the laptop.

Guys, Got a load of breadboards for sale for a tenner each. They are pretty cool each with built in LEDs, hold switchs, toggle switchs, power rails and built in 1KHz clock. There pretty big too. Prefect for prototying thoose large digital designs Check them...

Any suggestions for restoring my sound? I have recently purchased a Chaintech Zenith Ultra 7NJS MoBo. My sound was working fine for approx. 2 weeks then one day i tried to play something & nothing!. I have tried all the usual remedies - re-installing sound driver, re-install of OS, Checking my...

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systemsI've a Mag 810FD 19" display that is about 2 years old, in the last couple of weeks I began to notice color distortion in the top left & lower right of the screen. This color distortion is similar to what happens when you put a magnet too close. I haven't changed my...

Hey, I recently installed an old 256 MB hard-drive from an old 386 I had lying about into a late '99 model 500 MHz Celeron box. It works almost perfectly, except for the following little problem... Every so often, when the machine is booted, Linux (my OS of choice - no flames please; you use what...

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Salut, J'ai un pc intel celeron,au cour de l'exécution de n'importe quelle application(surtout en mode dos),il se bloque. J'ai formaté le disque dur, réinstallé les apllications de nouveau, mise à jour du bios, changer la pile.Mais pas de résultats. S'il y a solution, ne retardez pas à...

Hallo, Ik heb pas een sitecom wireless router (106) geinstalleerd en werkt goed, alleen heb ik steeds een variabele snelheid ,tussen 54 mb en 18 mb. weet iemand of dit hoort,en/of een oplossing hiervoor heeft MVG Hans

Hi all, I have a PIII 1.13 GHz machine with Intel 815EGEW motherboard. I want to buy a new speaker set. Intel 815EGEW has an onboard soundcard. But I don't know whether it supports 5.1 speaker system or not. Whether I can go for buying a 5.1 speaker system (ie. the onboard soundcard supports 5.1...

Hi, I have a Celeron 2.4GHZ CPU with 512 MB RAM on ASUS P4P800S/SE motherboard. the problem that when i run heavy application (like Prince of Persia 3D) the CPU temperature jumps from 43C to 74C+ !!!. even, when i do simple operation like copying 300MB file the temperature reaches to about 65C! Is...

When i turn my computer on, it runs for a little while but eventually just clicks off. It doesn't matter what im doing at the time, surfing the web, playin a game, whatever, just after a few minutes it will click off. I know there is a virus that can cause this, but i have had it before and this...

My 2-yr-old system includes the following: Athlon XP 1800+ GigaByte GA-7VRXP mobo 512MB Crucial PC2700 DDR 64 MB VisionTek GeForce 3 Ti500 SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 80 GB Western Digital HDD Dual Boot: Red Hat 9/WinXP Home

I wonder if there is some real gold in the pins of the old 486 and the old pentium CPUs. It might be better to save the gold before disposing of them, but are the pins just plated or solid? Please let us know if anyone has knowledge of this. Thanks. Jim

i never used to hear a sound when connecting to the internet, now the output for this comes through the speakers and nothing else will! Why can i not have sound outut from anything anymore! ?????? Please help, any info. will be gratefully recieved. j

I have a windows XP machine, started not booting but instead giving an error - primary hard drive failed. So I swapped the hard drive with a spare, and now it boots, but seems to every so often turn off (it's not the sasser virus). The other strange thing is that the CD drive, which worked before,...

hello I want to increase the speakers sound in my computer its too weak please rebly

After formatting a 40 gig (39 something) Western Digital HDD I have in my computer it lost about 6 gigs of space and now only reads that it is a 33.01 gig drive. I have formatted, reformatted, written zeros to the entire drive and used western digitals' own formatting tools to no avail. Thinking...

Hi ! Pc - Techie's ,.. i have a pc Amd 2500+ with 1stick of 256 DDR ,with asus A78V-MX mother board i have been using and p4 powersupply for it whenever i turn on the computer the computer turns on and then within 5 sec. it turns off and again the pc get on in next 3sec then i runs normally i...