I have 2 external disks and 1 of them changed to blue when I changed its name, which I like. The second is also external and I also renamed it, but the lettering stays black. I see nowhere in Properties a way to change the color. How did it happen to the first one and not the second one? And...

I have just bought an external hard drive and would like to play around with some linux distros. My motherboard doesn't support booting from a usb drive (but does from a usb key. I wondered if it was possible to use the external drive using a boot manager on the main hard drive to load from...

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Can I remove the battery from my laptop and run it just with the AC adapter? -- daveiosys

I have a Promise TX2000 and have two WD 120GB drives in a RAID 1 (mirror). One has gone bad, so I am trying to upgrade the drives to two new Seagate 400GB drives. My plan is: Create new RAID array and use the good WD 120GB drive as the master from which to copy. After establishing a new mirror...

I plan on getting Windows Vista shortly after it comes out. One concern I have thought is I've read how many monitors won't display HDTV. I am in the market for a new monitor so am considering this. One monitor I'm looking at is the Samsung 205BW. As well, I am considering the Dell E207WFP20. I...

I use WinXP Pro with all updates. From the computer, the printer won't print from any application in any user account including new ones created to test it. On it's own, the printer will print it's own Test Page.

I just got an APC LS 700 uninterrruptible power supply. They tell me the waveform it produces on battery backup is "stepped sine wave." I don't know how many steps there are per 60 Hz cycle. I have a SimpleTech 350 GB hard drive which connects to my computer via USB. Its power supply is a little...

Hello, I need to open the case on a Winbook J1 laptop and attempt to fix the receptor for the A/C plug-in. Is this even remotely possible on this computer? -- Gary Miller

Hi All! I recently replaced power supply in my system. It's intel SE440BX motherboard and has 3 fan connectors. The power supply is Antec Smartpower 2.0 400 watt ATX12V and has a fan sensor (2 wires/3 pins). The queston is where to connect the sensor and waht's purpose of it? Thanks

Hello, Need to buy a new PC which will be used as a test web server. Vital that it has Windows Server 2003. Tried PCWorld, Dell ETC - no joy. Anyone know of a PC other than a server which comes with Windows Server 2003 Web Edition? Regards,

Hi, I have an old PC which I've just turned into a music machine and (living room) web access. It runs Win 2000 Pro (just) but everything is very slow to load and I mean SLOW. The reason is it has just 64MB RAM, but virtual memory is using about 200MB, plainly I need a RAM upgrade. The...

Greetings, Which is the world's lightest notebook compiuter. A friend has an extremely light Mac with a titanium body. I use Windows. Paul

Hi whats your opinion about samsung 173 P+?? I want to buy it but I want to know your opinion MR

I want to buy a new computer and I want to use it for working with video files. Converting DVD to avi, mpeg, etc., and vice versa (converting avi, mpeg to DVD). Plus I want to burn DVDs with these files. I want to know what type of system I need. How fast a processor, how much RAM, how much hard...

Anyone successful at replacing the motherboard on a Dell Dimension 3100 with an after market board? I have three new 3100's and they don't have PCIx16 slots...just PCI x1 slots. Intel has a MicroBTX board that looks like it may...

Does anyone know of any websites that sell printer parts,(not consumable parts)? I need parts for my Canon MP730 printer and wonder if there's any aftermarket parts for Canon printers in the USA. Thanks, Snyde

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My laptop's hd crashed. I'm putting a new one in but the screws just spin. The first set of screws started to work properly after i pulled them and screwed at the same time. Is this a "safety" thing, do i need a special tool? These screws are sunken in so i can't try pulling them.

I want as good a drive as possible without spending the bank. Money is tight and my current RW drive makes unreadable dics (Itunes). Is there anyway to make them last longer. I have had bad luck and it is not the sole drive in the case. I have a DVD drive to take some of the load off the...