i bought a compaq presario cq56 from a vendor who came to the country from America. less than one month after, if I charge the battery to 100%, on removing the power plug, the battery falls dead within 15-20 mins and my linux machine just dies instantly without even hibernating. Sometimes, the...

32" monitor is gone now that I'm waiting on shipment of a 23" $100 AOC replacement for this 19" NEC. Hopefully 23" will adequately cover a more comfortable resolution adjustment to program size ratios. So are the 32" monitor speakers I'd hooked up to my soundcard. Found some "laptop" speakers...

Is there a setting in windows Xp x64 that chooses to turn off the optical drives at any time?? I can boot my PC and have the use of the optical drives (CD, and DVD) but if I go away from the PC and return later, (usually after the PC has shut down the monitor (timed out)) the opticals might still...

Hi This is strange. I have a sound card creative audagy live 24. I have installed the drivers. I can listen to a music CD. I can even listen to an MP3 on my computer. But if I try to listen to music on the wwww like u-tube I get nothing. Am I missing something here? :( Desmond.

What could cause it? PC is a HP m9088hk. The SATA has 3 modes: IDE, AHCI and RAID. Now only IDE mode detected the 250G hard disk! The SATA DVD burner was not affected, working both in IDE and AHCI modes. The SATA cable seemed to be fine as well. -- @~@ Remain silent. Nothing from...

i am going to buy a usb to sata adapter. i want to run a hard drive (3.5 sata) outside of the case (bare) to transfer files i have a spare power supply that can connect to the hard drive the molex on the power supply will connect to the hd and the sata data cable will connect to the usb-sata...

I ordered some items from Newegg and noticed that one item is coming from a reseller. I tried resellers on Amazon and generally (99.9% of the time) had bad experiences. I learned that if Amazon isn't sending it then order it a different way. The resellers on Newegg are also on Amazon. Newegg...

Worth mentioning again IMO. WeatherScope is free to PC users (probably still $10 for smart phones). It is ultra configurable. Naturally I use a black background with mostly white lines (for streets, city and state boundaries, etc). The rain shows up as various colors from green to red. If you...

(CNN) -- For many years, it was a rite of fall. You moved into your dorm room or new apartment. You started unpacking the car. And the first thing you set up in your new place was the stereo system: receiver, turntable or CD player, tape deck and speakers. The wires could get tangled, and...

So far, looks like the best deal is at the local megastore, a sealed pack of three 10 ounce cans of Dust Off for $12.

If you've ever checked the mail repeatedly only to find it empty, or your mailbox is a good hoof from your house, this project is for you. It's a simple photo-sensitive alarm that will fire off an SMS message to your phone when the mailbox is opened and the sensor is triggered. Related The video...

Hello, I think I just watched what AMD likes to call AMD's 2014 GPU preview: http://www.livestream.com/amdlivestream/video?clipId=pla_33493acd-ba7b-4917-8caf-ff204913625b A presentation about their latest graphics cards and the software that will use it. 1. The biggest dropping bombshell they...

i just used Easus Diskcopy to copy from a 500Mb drive to a 2tb drive with the hope of resizing the partitions afterwards to get more space. But on completion no partitioning tool will give me any more space because BIOS only recognizes the new drive as 500Mb - an exact image of the old one. what...

I thought shopping at Amazon meant saving money and not giving business to Walmart, but started noticing too many of the "site to store" prices were precisely the same (to the penny) as they are on Amazon. Apparently stuff ships from Amazon's warehouse to Walmart stores. Probably not a good...

how does one check to see if hardware virtualization is disabled for his bios? I installed kvm virtualization files into my system (fedora) but when i "egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo"-ed, the command returned no output but the yum install returned installation complete.

AMD A4-5300 Trinity 3.4GHz for $50 entry level dualcore looks like a wiener MSI MB include XP drivers for thier FM2+ MBs - 6SATA/USB3/& eat DDR3. One slot for my most reverent ASUS XONAR soundboard. Weird, the thought of of no videochip, being included on the CPU...

Hello, I had a HD that was dying, so I bought an SSD. For a while I had both the SSD and HD and booted from my HD in windows 7. I then installed windows 8 on my SSD. This worked well as I copied files from my HD to my SSD. Now, I no longer need the HD but when I remove it, my computer thinks...

Hi, I've never used a 64bit OS. I have 32bit OS and 3GB of RAM. It's enough RAM for most anything I've tried. I'm not even sure 32bit XP can effectively use over 2GB. But if I switch to 64bit Win7 how does that change things? Is it that it's faster but hogs more RAM or will 3GB be enough for...

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/09/17/seth-macfarlanes-dads-is-bad-but-could-it-have-been-worse/ Jeff Yang who worked as entertainment writer for Wall Street Journal has obtained the original script of the Fox racist sitcom "Dads". He wrote the best comment. Dads is written by the three...

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