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Since everyone in the family has cell phones with voice mail, I am playing with the idea of getting rid of the landline. One thing that is holding me back is how to fax. I am a little reluctant to use online services as most the time I am sending personal information. Is there a way I could...

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I pass this along just to warn you out there that buying hardware from Staples that has a rebate may look like a worthwhile endeavor, but be prepared for a fight to get that rebate. I bought a Minolta 1350W Laser Printer three weeks ago, and am still fighting with the Staples Rebate Center, who...

I'm going to build a new computer for myself and I'm looking for some advice. I currently have an Enlight 7237 atx medium tower case, Asus A7N8X mb with AMD xp 2500 cpu, 2x256 DDR3 pc 2700 memory, and a Ti4200 video card. My computing needs are pretty modest. I do a little gaming, mostly turn...

Hey... I'm due for an upgrade, but it's been a long time since I've actually chosen hardware, to me a 2.1GHZ processor is rubbish, but with core 2 duo, it'a all I can afford. I've never been one for laptops, cos of the cost / performance ratio, but I'm finding myself using a work laptop more and...

Every time there is a power outage my Dell 4600C displays an old date. The rather obvious solution seemed to be that CMOS battery needed replaced. So I replaced the battery (3-V CR2032 coin cell). Many months went by until another power outage occurred today. Well lo & behold when the power...

I've got a brand new ASUS Sabertooth z87 which is acting a bit unstable. It started with a BSOD when enabling Hyper-V, or when installing certain drivers (Intel's Rapid Storage, for example), but after a BSOD, resetting using the hardware reset switch would hang on the logo of the BIOS screen. It...

It's time to replace the aging and now noisy Yamaha 161040 CDRW drive with a DVD writer CDRW burner. There are numerous makes, Sony, NEC, Pioneer, LiteON etc so which does one go for. £30 to £80 appears the range. dj

I had a recent disater when, possibly due to a faulty motherboard, the boot sector became inaccessible. Before I admit defeat and re-format the HD, is there any software which would enable me to recover the data? I had just loaded my daughter's wedding pics so I'm desperate.

Let's say you have two hard disks on the IDE controller. The first one is a master on channel 0 and the second one is a master on channel 1. Both are active boot disks with the operating system present. The boot.ini file specifies where the operating system is located....

Hi A friend has copied his HD to a larger one... It all worked ok but the copy didn't alter the partition sizes. So we have a 2Gb primary partition as before and it is too small.... (can't do it again disk has retired since) So I bought Partition Magic 8... (I was going to get it anyway) But I...

Can anyone give me an answer to what will give best performance, an SATA 10000rpm drive or an SATA-II 7200rpm drive. Can't seem to find any SATA-II drives that are 10000rpm and if there are any they will probably be out of my price range. I've tried searching the web for the answer but with...

hi is there anyone out there who can do me a copy of the soundblaster extigy driver cd. i've lost mine and i think it's a con that creative don't let you download drivers for free like every other manufacturer around! thanks in advance fiev

I've had hardware problems on-and-off for some time now. So I took the plunge today and replaced my Athlon 2000 system with a new Pentium (Prescot) system. I bought a new motherboard (Abit), processor (Prescot P4 at 3GHz) and memory (512Mb of DDR3200). I managed to install the new mobo, CPU and...

Will Windows Power the Living Room? Microsoft's Home Concept PC combines video recorder, CD player, phone, and more. Joris Evers, IDG News Service Tuesday, May 04, 2004 SEATTLE -- Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are showing off at a developers conference here some Windows XP concept devices intended...

Need to test my backup hard drive after it got dropped on the desk. Is it better to surface check the whole drive at once rather than surface check each partition separately? Would Svend's "Findbad" do this whole-drive check? Can any utility software get the hard drive to map any bad sectors not...

I am just wondering as I have 2 hard drive (and a CDrom a cd/rw) and I wonder is I am pulling too much power (which might explain by beeps at boot up (three) sometimes. I know I only have a 90watt power supply. I think my CPU uses 15-20watts also. Thanks. (2 & 3 gig drives)

Hi, considering exchanging my case 350 psu for a better one. This is because the 12V + rail is showing to be overcharged by the mboard monitor to 12.5V. I think this could have something to do with my pc crashing as too much current is being drown from the psu. Please advise whether to get a new...

Hello. I have just upgraded my MSI KT3 Ultra with a Barton XP2500+ and Thermaltake Silentboost 7. I have found instructions to change the FSB, but it says "make sure if your running at 133 that you dissable hostclk+33 first " Where do I find hostclk+33 in my BIOS (v5.7)? I can't find it....