I have a P3 mother board with a broken fan retainer on the ZIF socket. Can you use a fan from a socket 462 MBoard? If not does anyone have a workaround for this problem? Neil

I notice that a lot of PC cases now mount the PSU at the bottom. Does this restrict the choice of PSUs? i.e. Will a PSU with a fan at the bottom work OK when mounted at the bottom of the case?

I have a Windows 7 PC for use by the family. It has a single HDD only. This PC needs to go back for repair (noisy PSU). How easy would it be to temporarily move the HDD, to use just as a data disk, to another PC? I don't want to spend ages reconfiguring things when the PC would only be gone for...

Just curious. I just ordered an air conditioner :) Walmart had the AC for the same base price but plus tax. My last order from Walmart was a ripoff. Haven't ordered anything PC from Newegg for a long time.

Microsoft's "SkyDrive" has been renamed to "OneDrive". Maybe something to do with oneness. I have a shared folder with these options... View Only Anyone with this link can see the files you share Edit

Any of you guys cannot post? Eternal September is giving me 441 errors "temporary internal error".

The internet is not really world wide (or, why I cannot I access US sites from the Philippines (PH) without a proxy server outside the PH?) From the Philippines, I tried to get some printer drivers from Canon (US), and my connection timed out. I then tried to access Gizmo's freeware site, and the...

I know it was recommended, but I can't find the thread. As I recall, it was in the Windows 7 group, but I would use it in 8 as well. It's working great so far. Love being able to find stuff. The only momentary annoyance was being reminded that it's not for business use, but that's nothing.

Anybody who doesn't understand what I'm talking about doesn't use system sounds. What a bunch of jerks at Microsoft. The term "system sounds" is for global sounds. If a specific program system sound is specified, an appropriate volume sound will be chosen for that program. The reason there is...

A friend gave me a Lenovo 3000 desktop PC to troubleshoot. I opened the case and found the mainboard is GA-G31M-S2L Eh? Companies like HP used bespoke mainboards from Foxconn, MSI, ECS or whoever. One HP I had the mainboard was chip-for-chip the same as a retail MSI board, just different BIOS. ...

The other day, much to my chagrin, I reset the D-Link router and somehow I accidentally erased the flash RAM so it was set to default, meaning no password for the wireless. So for a few weeks I unknowingly had a wireless access point turned on and attracted a bunch of people from the neighborhood....

Bug in rendering a .docx file in Office 2007 Enterprise edition. There's a bug in Office Enterprise 2007. Read below. The same file, when run in Windows 2007, and having the same file size, will sometimes lose characters when displayed on different computers. The characters lost are either...

I thought that it was a zif connector or type of, but after looking at other zif connectors, molex type, I am now not so sure. http://www.bob2cat.org.uk/Pictures/10pinzifconnector.jpg

Anyone have a good recommendation for software to use to clone large drives? I've used Acronis and Easeus, with a lot more success cloning a 1 TB to another 1 TB with Easeus, but it takes a LONG time, 5-6 hours. (Acronis doesn't want to clone 1TB to 1TB, claiming the new disk isn't large...

A friend of mine wants to buy a basic laptop, a Toshiba-c70d-a-111, priced 399 euro (same price in dollar?). The processor is rather "basic". But he wants to replace the internal disk with the new "WD Black2" disk (SSD 120GB + HDD 1 TB), price 279 euro/dollar. Would this be a good combination for...

I am reviewing a good introductory article on Solid State Drives in Maximum PC Feb edition. They mention if you have lots of data, you can put a traditional mechanical HD as your "D" drive and use the SSD drive as your "C" drive. Advantages? I guess you save money in not having to pay for a much...

Any suggestions for a decent app to recover lost partitions?

The USB drive by Western Digital is the My Passport series, for Windows 7, NTFS formatted. It shows, and I've rechecked a half dozen times and looked for hidden files, that total capacity is 465 GB (taking the smaller number) and, for each folder (taking the largest number and even rounding up)...

Hi, i have a Hp G62 notebook since 2010 with Win7 installed but lately the screen shows sometimes some lines and sometimes switchs off the screen even the system is working... Sometimes appears the blue screen with some errors about video card. Now i have scanned for possibly malwares but now i...

Technological evolution... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e79yi2IbBDQ