Legion wrote: Tastes horrible. This is about my previous post about my HDD showing 7 Gb on a 40GB Hard Drive. Hate to post this, could have said nothing, but maybe it could be a lesson for someone with an older PC. Here goes: Opened the case and checked the nameplate data on the...

I have been weighing up the value of these two processors in a new system. It seems to me the two processors have fairly similar performances in most situations but that an AMD64 system is considerably more expensive at about £100 - £150 more (not so easy to compare as other items on the machines...

I have an IBM NetVista computer. Everytime I start the pc, it keeps rebooting. Please someone help me to troubleshoot it. Many thanks :\

I have a Dell Latitude D600 and a NEC LT158 projector that would not work properly together. On a fresh install of windows with the latest security patches and all drivers but the video driver, I can hit my "Fn + F8" key combination to activate the external video display and it works fine. Upon...

Hello all, I have an older e-Machines system in which the Power Supply just died out. The PS in this case is a 250w 20-Pin + 4 power supply. I do happen to have a newer 400w 20-Pin + 4 power supply laying around here, but I'm a bit unsure on whether to stick the larger wattage PS into this...

For no apparent reason, I lost the D: drive in Win2K. It shows up on the BIOS POST, so I know it's there. The IDE channel is present in Device Manager. Devide Manager also reports that the physical drive is present and working properly. It just does not show up in Win2K. What is going on and what...

Submitter here. Just bought a new 19-inch LCD monitor. It's an "off-brand" monitor purchased from a well-known big-box store. I love the size and the resolution (1280x1024), but I'm not crazy about the inherent "fuzziness" in the picture. This is especially true of text. I've tweaked it every way...

Hi, My hard drive has just failed. It won't boot at all and its making odd wining and clicking sounds. It's a Maxtor Diamondmax (the Maxtor Powermax software cannot even see it on my system) I would like to recover the data, although it's not that valuable really, but I don't want to spend £400+...

From a quick review of your modem it is purely that - a modem. What you are after is an adsl ROUTER. You will be very lucky if you can access the modem you currently have with USB & Ethernet at the same time. A solution would be to to plug modem's USB into the pc that is powered on most often,...

Hi Im using Tech-Com Internal TV tuner Card and InterVideo WinDVR as player. Everything is fine except that im unable to tune to channels below 50Mhz. Kindly help me in this regard... Regards Vinesh

Is it possible to make an audio source which is mono on ONE channel and play it as mono through BOTH channels The audio source may be a WAV or MP3 file which is already stored on the PC or it may be a line input going into the PC via a socket. Maybe there is a software utility which can do...

Whenever I use one of my CRT monitors, and I open a window with lots of white on it (i.e. google home page in IE or paint) the vertical and horizontal width and height increase. It is monitor specific, I know this because I have tried a few different monitors with it. Can anyone help? Thanks

I have a couple of Logisys 120mm clear case fans. I am trying to determine which side is "up", so to speak. On black case fans there are arror markers to tell you which direction the fan turns and the direction of the airflow. There is no morkings on the clear fans. Am I just missing the...

Just wondered if a broadband modem, an access point and a notebook with a wireless network card is enough (hardware wise) to get online wirelessly. If yes, what kind of cable should I use between the access point and the modem (a “router to client cable” or a “peer-to-peer” cable)? Can I later...

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:51:54 -0400, Hatchetmama wrote: Would you STFU already. Oh, you wanna try and fix it yourself some more, honey? Why don't you go and buy yourself a new monitor next, boy I bet THAT'LL get it workin! No thanks, I...

a month or two back i had posted about a p-III (1ghz) that was crashing and i had replaced all the components except for the cpu and motherboard. since i was at the end of my rope...i put the closest substitute cpu in the machine ( a celron-433) and the machine worked fien after that... so it...

In my Motherboard (Asrock? 2003?) manual, it says this for memory: 3 slots for DDR: DIMM1, DIMM2, DIMM3 I currently have a a PC 2700 (DDR 333) in DIMM1 - one slot used up. I can't figure out if I can install more memory in the system - I do have 2 slots free, but the manual says: PC1600/PC2100...

----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Spray" Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:24 PM Subject: IE6 Wont Load properly help please Hello all I hope you can help with the following problems i am having with ie6 .

Which OS to use with it? Techreport.com rates them as CPU's so I'm considering one for a friends new build. But... Will plain vanilla XP pro work as well as another OS? Is there a working release of a 64bit XP pro? If I buy an X2 I don't want to waste the potential of the chip by having an OS...

Hi. A colleague at work (here in the UK) wants a new PC which he will mostly use for editing family stuff from a camcorder and compiling DVD's. My immediate thoughts are a powerful processor to work on the rendering, lots of RAM and lots of storeage space. Basic graphics card and onboard sound...