For a variety of reasons, the Smart TV features on my 43 inch LG are a royal PITA - I've been using my laptop and connecting to the TV with a Display Port=HDMI cable. The TV also has USB sockets - is there any significant difference in quality between HDMI and USB cables when used ...

Ho fatto quest'estate un acquisto di una stampante/scanner da www.elektrovaltenesi.it Vi sconsiglio assolutamente di evitare di acquistarci, il perche' lo vedete dopo guardando quello che mi e' successo (terminato il tutto dopo 86 giorni senza la stampante e con tanto tempo e soldi persi). Io ho...

Am in the UK. Running an old system which works quite well: Via 266 mobo with Duron 1800 processor and 768MB of SD-RAM. Will upgrade the system when I need the extra power. Currently need to add to my data storage. Don't want to get Parallel IDE (PATA) because newer mobos will support only...

**** The word 'Silent' is subjective and based on what a person considers to be noise, along with the sensitivity of the person's ears, and tolerance of different pitches. One man's silence is another man's noise ***** I've bought components after reading reviews that they're silent, only to be...

The following problem has confounded every IT friend and support person i have presented it to and appears to defy logic so i am throwing it to a broader audience of experts to see if it elicits some ideas. Thanks in advance for considering it and apologies for cross-group posting! Problem:...

For those who have been following this tortured saga of the Corrupt NTFS Filesystem, I think I finally fixed it. I am running Win2K which was built from an InPlace Upgrade of a previous installation of Win2K in another computer, which was built from a previous installation of NT4 in yet another...

I know the motherboards are different but is there a reason why desktop computer aren't built to use mobile cpus? I assume desktop and mobile are about the same performance for the average user, mobile cpus are capable enough to run 99% of the games available, and mobile cpus run cooler and more...

Hi all, a friend of mine take his PC to me to solve OS problems, but when he came here, the problem was that no video signal arrives to the monitor. The same pc works fine with another video card, and so does the video card on another pc, but they don't work together. This PC worked with no...

So, I was at the local sandwich shop last night, and I noticed I was able to pick up a signal from a local T-Mobile hotspot, which I have an account with. It was only one bar out of five. But I was able to connect to it and surf the web without any problems. I then looked up the hotspots in the...

A friend of mine is a small hotel owner in Florida and wants a printer which can copy driver's license on one side and car registration card on another and use only the required paper instead of 8.5 X 11 size paper. His business is down because of the pandemic so he is trying to save on paper,...

I have a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard and am using it with a ASUS V9570 NVidia 5700 card. The odd problem is I get no picture in DOS. It works fine in Windows but if I have to boot from floppy such as for a BIOS update or during bootup before it goes into Windows the screen is blank. As well,...

Most of my printing involves documents and legal briefs. There is some color printing for brochures and stuff I find on the Internet. Can someone recommend a color ink jet that prints laser-like text and is reasonably fast. Thanks in advance, BS

I have a 10 year old Dell that came with an approx 960 GB HDD. 3 years ago I added an approx 240 GB SSD to serve as C: and D: , and elevated the HDD as F: for large items, photos, music, etc. Both the HDD and SSD have always performed flawlessly, but was wondering how long I can expect this to...

Some switched mode power supplies start by rectifying the mains voltage to 350+volts dc and storing this on a capacitor.That is enough to kill you in certain circumstances.All capacitors from main powered equipment should be treated with respect. Ken Reynolds

Hi I have a Dell Dimension 8300 on which I want to improve the cooling. I want to do this because I know the PC overheats after about 1 hr and is quite unstable. There is currently the fan in the PSU and a fan on the back which is vented to act as the CPU fan. I also added a PCI fan to cool the...

I am in the UK and want to make several phone extensions. QUESTION: I would like to know I this will increase the level of hum. ISTR UK phones have a transformer and some other components to neutralise hum but would that be good enough to prevent hum from a messy setup like mine? Some...

Recently I asked about suggestions regarding a UPS. I ended up getting an 875 VA 525 Watt "Geek Squad" model from Best Buy - yeah, yeah, everyone says Geek Squad stuff is overhyped junk, but at $69 on sale, the price seemed right. It seems to handle my 2 computers fine - a PIV 2.4 gig and a PIII...

Franklin ) wrote... Hi guys, after several years I have run out of power on my old 700 MHz Duron system and now want something new. I don't play games, I am not a power user, I don't do video or audio editing. I just surf and do some small office activities. So what...

Greetings I'm currently restoring a system that was hit with a power surge where the following were fried: PSU Motherboard Hard Drive CDROM CDRW Network (PCI) Audio (PCI)

Ok, so I have a couple Leadtek WinFast A280 LE AGP 8x VIVO 128MB GeForce ti4200's. I bought them for my machine and my girlfriends (back when I had one) and they cost over NZ$300 each new. They were a significant investment at the time, costing twice as much as the T'bredB Athlon XP CPUs they...