hi all the question is as follows: what motherboard and memory should i pick if going for Athlon 3000+/3200+ proc. and 512 RAM needed. Its a gaming system btw. It (mother+mem) should be lower or something like 250-300 $$ canadian without tax. plz use this site as a price reference:...

Anyone using a Panasonic KX-P7100 Duplex Laser Printer? I need an installation disk. You may contact me privately at

Hi I am reading a course about A+ (PC technician). in One slide which has title od "Real(16-bit) and Protected (32-bit) Operation Mode" (please see below) My questions: 1) does the real mode mean DOS and protected me Windows? if yes why they are named so?? 2) Why Real mode can access 1Mb memory...

i have a horizontal white line that goes across the screen, about 1/3 down. it is very annoying. i have heard of other people having this same problem with Toshiba laptop LCD screens before as well. does anyone know if Toshiba will cover this under warranty (i have had it less than a year), or...

http://www.torontoitsolutions.com/specials.htm AMD Athlon XP2000+ INTEL P4 3.2C ASUS A7V8X-MX MotherBoard Abit IC7 Max3 256MB DDR OCZ 1000MB EL 52X CD-ROM ...

Hi, i work in a security company, and i've to make a software which allows user to control access of people to a military restricted area . the database etc isn't a problem for me but i would like to know which is the easiest way to connect a magnetic card reader to my software and how to make...

I have P4C800-E motherboard with Promise RAID controller, which I have configured as RAID 0 (striping) 2 x160GB harddisks as the bootable (Windows XP) connected to Promise SATA_RAID1/SATA_RAID2 interface. Now I like to add 2x160GB disk on the PRI_RAID interface to set RAID 0+1 (stripping...

So now I can seemingly read and write sectors on the hard drive and store the data in a 512 byte buffer in my ram, but whenever I read a sector, no matter what, I get the same data, an alternating pattern of FF and 7F for the whole sector. Any thoughts? I am using LBA (logical block addressing)...

Hi, I am using both office 2k and office 2k3 pro. on outlook, i am getting pinged like crazy from usally the same address claiming to have microsoft updates, which i know is not true. But i delete them, but i get 40 a day easy! On office2k3 it says virus found, but is there a way to block the...

I've got new Intel Motherboard 865 GLC which has Dual Channel Memory support. The motherboard has 4 RAM slots. Intel suggest in manual to instal, for example, two similar 256 MB RAM memory sticks (one in each channel slot) in order benefit from Dual channel support. I however was planning to...

I have an APC Matrix 5000 UPS with bad batteries. Here is a link for the replacements that i was told to get: http://www.americanbatterycompany.com/batteries/apc/rbc14.htm Everything would be fine except that they cost over $526. My main question is whether or not there are any major...

I am trying to control an IDE hard drive iwth an 8051. Basically the problem that I have is that when I try to read a sector from the hard drive, i get an ID field not found error. I don't know how to fix this, nor do I even know what the ID field is. Can anyone suggest anything?

Hi, does anybody know if the MSI 6368 V2.1 works with the VIA C3 Ezra processors? The board is on the "VIA C3? Verified Motherboard List". But I've heard that some of these boards nevertheless have problems with the newer VIA C3 cores. The support pages of MSI are not very helpful. The German ones...

Can anyone tell me where there is a block diagram of the Internal architecture of a CPU, please? Thanx Lonewolf3

I have an IBM T20 that has given me great service for three years. Now when I try to turn it on nothing happens. The hard drive indicator falshes for a second then nothing. I am currently stationed in Italy, and took my machine to a local service center. Thay said "it might be this or it might be...

I just reformatted my computer and reinstalled Windows. Prior to the reformat my dvd drive worked fine. It stopped working though since the reformat (I reinstalled windows using the cd-r drive). If I put a disk in the computer hangs up for a few seconds and nothing registers on the drive. When I...

Hello, I have a laptop hard drive that we need to recover the data from. The drive has hardware problems -- in particular a bearing problem that is causing something called "platter wobble". The actuator failed, but before it did there's some platter damage. We've already had DriveSavers do a...

I just swapped my old drives, etc. into a new Antec Sonata case with a SOYO K7VMP mobo and when I press the main power button "ON", the power supply turns on and the case LED lights up, but the system does NOT boot. If I press the RESET button, then the system will boot up normally. Any ideas on...

Hi, All! Please forgive me for taking so long to inform you of the final outcome. A friend of ours had the same software (WorksSuite 2000). We borrowed her cd's and everything loaded fine. Cd #4 was definitely damaged or something.

I have just bought and assembled a new PC with the ABIT AN7 motherboard and a single SATA HDD, however, when I tried to install the OS (XP-Pro) it told me that it couldn't install because it couldn't find any HDD's. I have never used a SATA drive before, and my first thought was that they can't be...