Hi There, I have NO IDEA what is going on with my pc and any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I've done pc help desk and support, but just can't nut this out! Basically, the PC won't boot at all anymore. Wont even boot to the bios. I have power and the HDD's are spinning up. I've no num...

i have a pc133 256 meg dimm that went bad and i'm trying to identify the manufacturer to see if it's still under warranty. it has the following label: SM-COM 0025 SM1604028A so far, i have not been able to find any company named "sm-com" or similar that makes memory chips.

Hi, I have a via based mainboard with a AMD k6-2 @ 450mgz. The FSB is 66 it has a 20gb hdd and agp 2x w/ a trident 4mb graphics card. Right now im running win xp pro w/256mb of sdram. But ths problem is, that the mainboard came with two form factors ATX and AT. When I have At it runs fine but it...

I currently have 2 - 128 MB of RAM installed on my computer. They are both PC800-40. I bought 2 - 256 MB of RAM to install on my computer. They are also PC800-40. When I install the chips, I get an error saying to take out the newly installed chips and only use PC800-40 RAM chips for memory...

I've got an Optiplex GX1 that's locking up on the BIOS screen. The load bar gets about 1/5th across, and the system just freezes. I unplugged the system, pulled out the CMOS battery, and held the power button down for twenty seconds -- as far as I can tell, this should have reset the...

I have a palm m500 and would like to clone it to another palm as a backup. I have some programs that are irreplacable and can't be beamed. Is there a program or method for doing this? Can I transfer the programs and data to a card, switch it to another palm, and copy that way? Are there...

If you have either of these magazines (2600 or Blacklisted 411), I would be interested in any issues that you have so please send an email to the address above!

If you have either of these magazines (2600 or Blacklisted 411), I would be interested in any issues that you have so please send an email to the address above!

When I installed Windows XP on my computer with ATi Radeon 7000 video card, the video would freeze at the welcome screen. However, I was able to install Windows 2000 without any problem. Why?

I bought a used Sun Ultra 5 machine with a VGA video port to be used with PC monitors. I can hear it POST and continue to subsequently boot up, but the monitor remains blank. I thought I might need a new video card, but the monitors (Yes, I have tried two of them!) I've used first go to green, then...

I admin an old Dell PE2300 with a PERC card running NT4. My trouble is, the card itself failed. The underlying RAID 5 array is (hopefully) unaffected. Of course, I cannot access it. I have a new card on the way. I am wondering if I can save the existing array and not have to recreate it or...

If I order a 20" LCD online, what are the chances of getting one with no dead pixels/subpixels and no lit pixels/subpixels? I know there are vendors that will let you return a LCD that you are unsatisfied with for any reason... but if the chances of getting a perfect one are low, then that would...

http://www.torontoitsolutions.com/specials.htm AMD Athlon XP2000+ INTEL P4 3.2C ASUS A7V8X-MX MotherBoard Abit IC7 Max3 256MB DDR OCZ 1000MB EL 52X CD-ROM ...

Hi I have got a second hand daytek 1731D monitor. It works fine but I can only get 1024x768 out of it. I have installed the official driver but it makes no difference. I can turn the res up further in the display settings but all the happens is that

I am seting up the HP printer , I use HP laser printer previous and use the HP printer control code finely , now I have brought a HP inkjet printer , can I use the same printer control code or I need to use another set of control code ? thx

Hi! Could someone please explain why after cleaning of the drum in the laser printer Panasonic KXP-6500 there are now several rows of the text (in the bottom part of the sheet of paper, and partly also in the middle) printed with much less amount of toner (the text is very light in these...

Hi! Could someone please explain why in the case of *mechanical* failure HD becomes sometimes undetected by BIOS and/or the operating system (e.g. win xp or linux)? If it was an electronic failure then such behaviour would be obious, but why the same happens with some mechanical failures? When...

Hi! Could someone please explain why in the case of *mechanical* failure HD becomes sometimes undetected by BIOS and/or the operating system (e.g. win xp or linux)? If it was an electronic failure then such behaviour would be obious, but why the same happens with some mechanical failures? When...

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:08:43 +0100, Schildkröt wrote: some graphics cards, like this one http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/7500-beast.asp have a built-in tvtuner. can this be used to record programs on my hard disk? Yes what are the pc (cpu) requirements for this capturing?

I have a problem after we have changed the printer from HP 4L to HP 2300 , my current problem after changed the printer is : If the userA print the report(eg. reprot A) with a small font (eg. 8 pitch) , it work fine the output is 8 pitch , however , if userB then print the report(eg. report B) with...