A customer of mine has a Compaq Presario 5004US. It's 60GB HDD died. I tried to replace it with a Western Digital WD800 80GB. The BIOS sees it but when I start the recovery CD a screen comes up and says Recovery CD Error Contact Compaq Support. Of course the PC is out of warranty so they won't...

How long do notebook batteries last? I have a 1 year old Toshiba and it won't hold a charge at all. I have hardly used the battery itself, most of the time the laptop is plugged into a/c. Could this have shortened its lifespan? The web price for batteries is around $75...seems a little steep. ...

I'm looking at the asus P4C800 motherboard. The harddrive I'm thinking about getting is the Western Digital 200GB 7200RPM EIDE Hard Drive. I don't know much about hdd and motherboard compatability. Is this going to work for me?

I recently installed an inexpensive Sound Blaster card into an ATX Windows 98 SE PC. I can get the Windows OS to play throught the sound card (the music played at bootup/logon time) and also DVD movies and games, but not music CD's. Anyone know what the problem might be? TIA Patrick

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Hola a todos: Estoy pensando en cambiar mi viejo ordenador Celeron a 1 Mhz, y quiero darme el gusto de comprarme un ordenador con lo último que haya salido a la fecha de hoy. Estoy dispuesto a gastar hasta unos € 2.000. Solo me refiero a la Torre, ya que mi scanner e impresora todavía me sirven....

I have a system put together with a Socket "A" mother board and an AMD Althon running at 1.1 Ghz. I have only two PCI slots that are both being used. One for a SCSI controller for my Scanner and one for a Sound Card. I want to add an external DVD writer with a Firewire connection and an external...

My OS is WindowsXP Home Edition. I see two cpus under device manager but the task manager only shows one. Does my computer really have two cpus? If it does, why the second one is not working? Thanks.

Which one would be better the Pentium 4 is a 3.2 Ghz Hyper-threading processor, and the notebook is mainly going to be used as a desktop ie. not much travelling or mobile computing. What are some of the advantages of M over a regulard pentium 4

Hi, I am wanting to run an 8" touch screen monitor (which supposedly only uses 9W) from my PSU. The monitor only needs a 12V input, and rather than blow up the monitor testing it, I thought that I would ask everyone if this is possible? I know that I would have to rig up some sort of plug, but...

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I have a dvd reader LG drd8160B It worked properly for 2 years. But it does not read DVD discs any more for some weeks, only CD's. It asks me to insert a disc although there is one in the player. my config : win 2000, ram 256, HDD 40 G, AMD duron 1.2 Ghz, 1 CD writer Sony can you help me ?

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Just wondering....if anyone knows of a Socket 939 motherboard with or soon to come PCI Express intigration?

Hello everyone, I'm having voice modem gvc 33.6kb.But the problem is that I can't hear any sound except the connectiong sound,when try to run phone dialer application.I can get dialing message & modem can detect incoming calls. Other modem I've found is internal MOtorola 56kPH data-fax-voice...

hi to all .. i wanna upgrade my system from a 1.3 Duron to Athlon XP 2500 . how much performance increase should i get if i go for that upgrade also im gonna increase the RAM from 256 to 512 ! my main purpose is gammin and for that i have a good graphic card as well (Radeon 9600 128MB). is it a...

hey guyz this is my current specs: P4 2.4B ASUS P4S8X 256MB 266MHZ DDR MSI RADEON 9800 PRO WIN XP SP1 now that is my prob, i know my video card is okay for games, but game just keep getting stuck sometimes (no its not a video card issue, i get 5800 at 3DMARK03)

we have just installed a new HD and RAM. When we start up the pc it makes one long beep and 3 short ones. Any ideas as to what we have done wrong?

hi guys, i've got a HP ScanJet 4Si that's a network scanner with ADF and DUPLEX (double-sided) feature. The problem is, if i scan a double-sided book, the pages don't show in the right order. If i open the scanned book in PaperPort, the 40 front pages come first, and then the 40 backside pages....

Greetings: We've relaunched our WiFi Hotspot Directory which is accessible via PocketPCs, Palms, Laptops and even iPods. I can send you this months edition which are welcome to distribute freely to your members. I didn't include it with this email as given the rash of virus' many people don't even...