I own a Compaq laptop which is 3 year old now. I installed Win XP Pro from scratch as the computer came with XP home in a language other than English. I have also installed the required drivers for graphic card, touchpad, mouse, etc. It turns out the laptop works fine most of the time, but from...

Anyone else hear that Dell is buying Alienware?Sounds like a way for them to get around their agreement with Intel to use only Intel cpu's in their systems.

I have 2 hard drives, both of them partitioned. I have created a partition ):\ of 7.8 GB on the 2nd drive, formatted using NTFS (all other partitions are FAT32). I want to Image my C:\ OS drive to that new partition, which I have labeled a Primary rather than Logical Partition - my C:\ drive is...

hi...., I seem to have a small choice between two cdreader/burner/dvd reader units. I have windows 98se and I see in the Amazon.com that the new game oblivion might be a dvd read game only. My plain jane cd-reader will not do at all, and i might as well get a burner too, but i see that the dvd...

Hi, Strange problem I have... The original CD ROM drive that came with my computer doesn't work anymore. So, I took the one from my old system and put it in. It works just fine but now the system won't detect my CD burner!!! I went into the BIOS and it isn't there. When I plug in the old one...

ok my friend has got a problem , he has an lcd 19" philips 190s6 (8ms, 1280x1024 resolution 60 hz) he had some old 14 " crt monitor ( really crap , so he bought this lcd screen , or ok , he got it for free , but ok lets get to the problem , when he is moving his mouse ,or just moves something , he...

Ok I have a problem starting up a computer. I think it may be the memory but I am not sure. It will start up but with no picture. I changed to another monitor that I know works with a new video card that I know works. The same thing happens. The computer will start up but nothing is visable on...

I bought a Belkin USB KVM and seconds before breaking the seal on the package I read that wireless mice and keyboards do not work with this unit. I honestly didn't expect that this could be a problem. Does anybody recommend another make and model of USB KVM that does work with wireless input...

I am using an old style mouse with cable and rollerball. I would like to upgrade it because it the rollerball gets clogged up with dirt. And the mousewheel too picks up dust which then gets into the internal workings and makes the scrolling action jerky. However, in the past I have heard various...

ok my friend has got a problem , he has an lcd 19" philips 190s6 (8ms, 1280x1024 resolution 60 hz) he had some old 14 " crt monitor ( really crap , so he bought this lcd screen , or ok , he got it for free , but ok lets get to the problem , when he is moving his mouse ,or just moves something , he...

So, I'm running on a sort of old computer. I have a Socket A mobo with no onboard SATA. I've been indefinitely putting off an upgrade for over a year now that would include faster RAM, a 64-bit Athlon processor, and a better video card, but I've just found no way to justify the expense of such a...

I see on www.tigerdirect.ca that Pentium D 820 and Pentium 4 640/641 Retail CPU's are priced very close together. Has anybody read any good comparative reviews on these processors, comparing them head-to-head? Which is better?

I'm also a programmer, as working in front of computer day and day, my right hand is so tired and get some pain. So I tried to mouse in both hands. I find that it is really an efficient way to release pains. At first I switched the mouse buttons in windows control panel, but it taken me several...

i just got a 2,5"-hdd (Hitachi Travelstar) which i want to use as a mobile disk to transfar data from work to home-pc and back. According to the label on it it should be a 40GB-hdd but WinXP only shows 20GB. Any ideas how to activate the other 20GB? Thanks for any help in advance.

Just wanted to post something very bizarre that I discovered about my ASUS P4C800E-Dlx mainboard today. I've got a 2.6Ghz Northwood P4 clocked at around 3.14Ghz. 1.5gig of memory at 3:4 of the CPU bus speed (cheap memory) and a recently aquired BFG 6800GS AGP video card. I just went into my CMOS...

I have a 4 yr old desktop system, 2ghz processor and 1 mb ram, home-built that works fine except that it is extremly slow when doing certain medium memory intensive jobs. ie autocad raster insertion. It will always crash when doing very memory intensive 3d rendering. I also have a dellinspiron...

I am helping a friend with his laptop that was damage by a delta baggage handler. The display is fractured. So we connected the external monitor port to a lcd monitor to verify that the laptop would boot. And indeed it did. However it booted to 640X480 with 4 bit color? It will not let me change...

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Hello all- I have had a rough experience with Hybrid Gear Computer Corp in Bryan TX. I had them build a really really fast laptop for me in nov. 2003 3.2 ghz P4 w/ Hyperthreading & 800 mhz FSB, 1G ram,dvd, burner, skimpy HD and an ATI mobility Radeon 9600 128mb. Suddenly about 3 months ago, simple...

Hello I apologize in advance as I am sure this question has been asked a thousand times but I could not find the exact answer I was looking for googling. I helped someone setup a router on a cable modem today and had to clone the mac address to get it to work. Cable provider is Comcast. Modem...