OS Windows XPSP3 MB K8M8MS for Socket 754 Athlon64 cpu On board VGA 3D Accelerator Ultra-AGPII 2 GB Bandwidth 24-bit true color RAMDAC upto 300 Mhz pixel clock Programmable frame buffer sized from 16 MB to 64 MB Chipset: VIA K8M800 North Bridge VIA VT8237 South Bridge I think that my on board...

I've been struggling, perhaps just with vocabulary, in trying to set up a home network. Here's the scenario: In one end of an L-shaped house, I have a combination DSL modem/wireless router that is serving a desktop and a couple of wireless media devices. In the other end of the L-shaped...

Is there a way if you can tell whether a flash drive is USB 1 or 2? -- Bill Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska.

I'm trying to find a way to run a video projector from my laptop in such a way that I can preview slides on the laptop while projecting the main slide program to an audience. I've tried all the options that laptop video cards offer, but come back to the basic problem which is that the laptop...

I have an older frankenputer with an AGP 8x slot and regular PCI slots. Currently am using 32 meg Matrox G450 (AGP 4X?). Video does not stream well (choppy) and I am wondering if an upgrade to an 8X card with more memory would be worthwhile or if there is a system tweak I could do. Currently,...

Guys..ive noticed that some of my usenet groups are having problems posting. Dont know if this is cause googles screwing it up or if usenet itself is slowly dying away. Anyone have a clue? If it is...I kind of knew it would happen bout a decade ago. Once internet speeds became faster and everyone...

Hi all I have come by an Athlon box 2.2GHz 448Mb RAM running XP Media Centre. Can anyone help with the following please? Is XP media centre like XP home - i. e. no administrator account except in safe mode? I would like add an old IDE drive into the box to recover data.

is standard notebook suitable for continuous working mode, say run internet application 24/5? Or even 6-7 hours continuous mode without turn off? (however, from outlet). Possible hardware issues, wear?

Windows 7 home premium 32 bit Display adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4550 I've connected my usual CRT monitor in order to fix a few problems on this computer but I can't access safe mode as I get the message 'Out of range - H: 75.0K V: 59.9' 75.0K is flashing in red 59.9 is blue.

Hello group Just lately my 7year old winxp3 notebook screensaver is not functioning anymore, Is this a hardware or a software defect? Are there any known DIY remedies? Never had experienced this fault... Roy

I have an eMachine here with Windows XP SP3 that has a severe time problem. For instance, it lost 57 minutes in the time it took me to run defrag on it which was about an hour and a half. I just rebooted it and it lost 10 minutes. There doesn't seem to be any set pattern. I just rebooted it...

Hello group Just lately my 7year old winxp3 notebook screensaver is not functioning anymore, Is this a hardware or a software defect? Are there any known DIY remedies? Never had experienced this fault... Roy

Someone wants me to copy a bunch of pictures (jpgs) off their computer onto a DVD-R disc so they can watch them on their home DVD player. What kind of software / converter do I need to do this? Or can it even be done? -- -- I'm retired. I was tired yesterday. I'm tired again today --

Hello, I have a 12" touch screen monitor that has no sign about the brand, i only find a model number "PD-40" , and searching with google i cannot find information about it. It only seems that the brand name should be Sampo but their website is no more available. It has the standard vga...

and with which stuff is overburdened and to bridge it on the very sole things i'm working with this system ? I0m working in XP professional now and i would like to adjust third programs as main stuff processor working on, so that all programs i'm working in are the primary tasks processor-ram- has...

Dear all: As of today, is there any serious market-oriented comparison of the following hardware architectures: - SPARC v9 - zArchitecture - x86/x64 Thanks in advance John.

It happens unpredicitble, it just powers off... it turns on, it works, just stupid laptop doens't have friggin(...in.) audio driver, as HP don't keep in on their page anymore. What's worst this notebook is an older machine which is working flawlesly, and i would sell it for a stupid sum of...

Hello, This is my first post! :) I have a problem with my graphics card when i play games or watch dvd's where it will either crash or play with lines or fuzzy pixels! It's fine when doing nothing high powered. I think I've found the problem (fingers crossed) I think my power supply doesn't have...

I had an Antec Neo-HE 550 p/s in a machine that died a couple years ago after a severe thunderstorm. Used my CoolMax power supply tester, which showed that the 3.3v line was bad. This tester shows the actual voltage only for rails that are approximately OK; in other cases it just shows a...

I have A Trinity 400 (S1854) motherboard that goes back to 1999. Currently, it has an 80GB IDE/PATA hard drive installed. It is my understanding that the BIOS of a motherboard going back to that era has a 137GB (or so) limit in terms of hard drive size. I would like to install a 320GB IDE/PATA...