I'm trying to find out if there are updated drivers available, as I seem to get a lot of fixation errors when burning (using WinXP Home, and Nero 5.5, with Imation discs). I'm wondering if there is any freeware/shareware out there that will show me the brand/maker of my installed CDR and CDRW...

Hello, Looking to get a cheap AGP card which must be fanless (dont like noise!). Performance not much of an issue coz I wont be playing games, just looking for anything better than onboard graphics. Dont need anything like a Radeon 9000/9200 - can even be as low as a 32 MB card. Any...

I've just bought what I thought was a bargain stick of 512mb DDR memory. I didn't know the timing, but thought I'd likely get PC2100. I wish! The make is Samsung (M383L6420BT1-CA0), and the chips are marked K4H560438B-TCA0 There is also a label marked "IBM 512mb simm_nsNS 64Mx72 100hz 2.5v DDR...

OK, I have an ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP card on my crappy old PC. The driver that came with it (4.11.2612) was a bit screwy as 400x300 resolution would just cause my monitor to switch off (I have the correct drivers for my monitor), and some programs would only run at a max. of 85Hz when the monitor...

You might try here; http://support.neccomp.com/hardware/desktops/es/ "Joe Bloe" wrote in message ... I am trying to find out what audio driver is needed for an old NEC Powermate ES PC with the following specs: 64 Meg RAM P-II...

Quick question for you all. I have been having some problems turning on my PC, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I notice when my power cable is plugged into my power supply that I do have a green LED on my motherboard and when it's unplugged the light goes off. Is it possible for the LED...

I'm building a couple of systems for my mother and my uncle. I wanted a MicroATX motherboard with TV-out and found the Chaintech 7NIF2. I ordered the fastest processor I could while staying within my budget, so I got two Athlon XP 2000's. The first sign that I had a serious problem was that the...

Dave Smith wrote: I'm thinking about installing a SMART monitoring app. I'd rather not use Norton's as I'm leery of their System Works suite. I've seen several free ones and a couple sharewares. Are they worth using and do they cause any problems? Any recommendations as to which to...

Hi, my monitor made a very harsh crackling noise when opening a high resolution video file in Winamp...I've heard that the noise could be related to the voltage going to the monitor and something called 'arcing'. Could it be related to my video card, my old TNT2 broke, so I put an old 8mb AGP card...

I've gotten the impression that the speed a CDR/CDRW is burned at determines the maixmum speed that the burned data can be read at afterwards. In case I'm wrong, let me explain what has happened. A CD was burned at 32x. It was inserted into a different CDRW drive which can only read at 32x max. It...

I vaguely remember some site called Retailer Ratings, but can't locate it any more. Do you know any? I need to check them out before make some purchases. Thanks.

Has anyone else had problems getting the vibration feature on forced feedback gamepads to work with Windows XP?I have a new AxisPadFX that works in every other way but the vibration.I'm not sure who makes them,the name on the package is Gemini Industries,but the pad itself is identical to the...

I have Logitech Internet navigator keyboard for a while now and all is OK, excpet keys are beginning to stuck somewhat (i must press harder or exactly on the middle), so i wonder, if anyone knows, can i do something about it, like remove each and every key and grease it with some special grease...

My local computer shop went out of business and I need a - (CHC611A) Super VESA IDE Controller Card. It's a generic card that was put in when they built it in '94. Anyone know some online sites that I can try? Imp

I bought the pieces and setup a machine for a friend based on a Gigabyte GA 7VKML motherboard with the onboard Savage DDR video and AC 97 audio. He's had this for a number of months and has been running Windows XP on it with no problems. Last week he had the PC on while he was watching TV in...

First, as far as I know, SIMMs and DIMMs have never been able to coexist in any mobo. In addition most older mobos require that DIMMs be installed with no blank sockets between them. Additionally many boards required that DIMMs of different sizes be installed in a particular order, usually the...

Sweaty Bill's Gaming Emporium put me in my place by writing Hi Guys. Fitted my 1st new hard drive yestreday, and all is well apart from the HDD led is always on. I presume this means that it is constanly accessing the drive, which will obviously wear it out. Is this common, and are ...

Anyone successfully running an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500 or the newer All-In-Wonder Radeon 9000 on a O/C'd BX chipset system running at 133MHz FSB with the 2X AGP slot therefore running at 89MHz? I have a BX6 Rev 2 mobo with only the 1/4 PCI bus divider (so my PCI bus can remain okay at...

Is it possible to mix DDR modules from different manuracturers. I have 512 meg 2700 DDR CL2.5 184 pin DIMM from Kingston and now Best Buy has 512 Meg of RK Byte memory on sale. TIA

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:04:32 -0400, Jean-Philippe Houde wrote: Hi, I would like to buy a Dell OptiPlex GX1 to use it as a little storage server (with 80gig HD or larger). I've search the Dell web site and the maximum drive size that someone reported to...