Hello - I acquired a laptop from work that was going to be tossed out. There's no OS on it, and curiously enough, the laptop not only lacks a floppy and a CD-ROM, but it does not _appear_ to have any place on it in which a removable drive would go. So naturally I am very curious how one would go...

I was removing my cpu cooler and broke the plastic frame that mounts the cooler. I've checked a few places for a replacement, but it doesn't seem to be distributed seperately. Does anyone know of a place that supplies hard to find parts like this? I've got an Intel Midway P4 motherboard. I would...

Hi all, I've recently bought a ASUS TV FM Card. I've installed driver and theater (ASUS Home Theater) software succesfully, but when i try to watch tv on my computer using the card and the theater software I only get a black screen without sound. When I do an automatic search on tv-channels it...

My computer (P4, WinXP Pro) as received from Dell has the following drive assignments: C: Hard drive (of course) D: Zip drive E: CD\DVD drive G: Card reader in my printer. I shortly am adding a second hard drive. Using Windows Disk Management, I am thinking of first re-assigning the zip drive to...

I have seen cards with 12 and 16 pipelines, bu understand that 16 is better and that the VIVO cards have the 16?

Hi I would like some advice pls. I am looking to replace my current PC - mainly because it is so noisy when I turn it on and also because I fancy a new PC with a higher spec! I have found a site that does Super Silent Systems but it is way over the top price-wise. My budget is £500-600 ish. I...

I'm looking for a cature card with hardware encoding for around $100. I've narrowed it down to two cards: 1) Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 Personal Video Recorder http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html 2) Sapphire Theatrix Theater 550 Pro PCI TV...

Hey guys, I'm planning to flash the BIOS on an older system to overcome the 2Gb limit it has for hard drives. I'm not too familiar with this, so a making a BIOS backup first seems like a pretty good idea. It's an Award bios on a Soltek SL-54P5 motherboard, I have a boot disk with awdflash and an...

I've been looking around, and can't find much info on this. My Logitech wireless mouse stops working after a while (cannot move cursor) until I click the mouse. After clicking the mouse, it works normally again until it's left idle for a while again. It never used to do this, what's wrong with it?

I want to leave 2 computers with crt monitors in an unheated storage space in new england over the winter. will this damage the pc's or monitors? Thks, Jeff

I have two removable drive bays which I have connected to the primary IDE channel. This allows me to switch disks around at will, which is necessary for cloning backups, using archive disks, etc. There is a problem, however, because Windows gets confused. Usually I can clean things up by removing...

Well, my Seagate hard drive is just about gone. I will be low level formatting it and sending it back tomorrow, then hooking up my backup as the master. Can anybody recommend a site where there are good consumer reviews for hard drives? At this point though, I'm beginning to think that there are no...

If the hard drive is dead, how do I get important information off of it? There are things on there that are crucial. Thanks in advance

i have an hp pavillion t460. now i want to upgrade the ram. what kinda memory should i buy? i it best with 2x512, or just 1x1024+1x254 or what?

Possiedo un PC all in one (LCD PC) e mi si è bruciato l'alimentatore che avviamente non è di quelli standard. Sapete indicarmi chi potrebbe avere degli alimentatori di questo tipo ? Come tipo intendo alimentatori da computer con dimensioni diverse da quelle standard. Grazie

Hi there, My brother wants to upgrade his RAM but I have taken it out of his PC and I cannot tell what type of RAM is it. It says EXTRAM on it. I know that it is 128mb but that is all. Basically i need to know how to identify RAM. Is it DDR SDRAM etc? what speed? I would appreciate any input on...

Mobo is GA-6VX7 F2, running a Celeron 433. Kid's PC. I have a PS/2 mouse connected and a PS/2 keyboard. I unplugged the PS/2 mouse and plugged in a USB mouse. (Haven't tried a serial mouse.) USB mouse was detected by XP. I've since unplugged the USB mouse, as I can't boot with it plugged in...

Is there such a device that can hold at least 100 dvd disks and read/play them as well and can attach to a PC via a USB connection?

I am unable to boot a new K7VM3 motherboard that I am installing in an e-machines H2482 computer case. I am using an Athlon XP 2400 CPU and 512-meg of DDR RAM, which both were working correctly in another computer. After installing the RAM, CPU and CPU fan, and connecting a 300 watt power supply,...

Has anybody ever attempted to convert their corded keyboard or mouse to a wireless version? I have a FlexPro split keyboard that is corded, and about 10 years old that I have yet to see in a wireless version, and my logitech 5 button mouse is not yet available in cordless (and when it is, I'd...