Id like to give a try at building my own PC However.... I'm wanting something very low power consumption as I intend to leave the PC on 24/7. Is it even possible to have a low power desktop PC? Not much utility in a PC that one has to turn off/on whenever needing to use it at home.... in my...

Got Vista Public Beta2 coming on DVD, so I'm starting the big search for drivers: mobo Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Gigabyte tech support pointed me to nvidia.com for all mobo drivers .. sound, lan, chipset BFG GF7900GTO Again, BFP pointed me to nVidia Vista driver

Id like to buy a wireless keyboard with built in mouse or trackball.... or any kind of built in pointing device In other words....I want everything integrated into one keyboard and wireless... NOT a sep wireless keyboard and sep wireless mouse Having a hard time finding something like this

I know almost everyone out there wants to make their CPU faster, but I'd rather slow mine down just a tad - less stress on the system, less worry about failure. I just built a new system with the ASUS A8N-SLI series motherboard. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 3500+, which is supposed to run at 2200...

Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler. ...

hi, can anyone recommend a good widescreen lcd for gaming ?, looking for either 19" or 20" at ~£250 any help appreciated. -- Eps

So I inherited a slightly old Dell Precision workstation. It's braindead BIOS only allows booting from drives attached to onboard controllers. I had bought a nice new 3Gbps SATA Raid PCI card, and hoped to be able to boot from it, but found that - although the RAID setup code on the card could be...

I have a new hiper 24 pin psu and if you refer to my earlier post you will see that i am having problems, I have a question, would it at all be possible to plug an old 20-pin ATX PSU into a motherboard that has a 24-pin ATX connector? just for testing purposes? not for full time use, or is this...

Looking to get either Norton Ghost 10 or Acronis True Image 10. Which is better, and why?

Motherboard: Asus CUBX CPU: P3-700MHz The board's PS/2 ports have died. If I overclocked the CPU to 933MHz, BIOS reported 384M RAM. If I didn't overclock, BIOS reported 512M RAM. WHY?

I am planning a new system. It will be used for several different tasks. Specifically, I will be using Photoshop and Premiere Pro. I also will be using Dragon Naturally Speaking (voice recognition) all of the time. I want the best video card I can get but I am not sure... The two that I have...

Just built a new desktop and connected it to my network. My whole mp3 collection is on my laptop. When I make my "music" folder shared on the network, it appears to work just fine. The odd part, is that some of the folders appear as empty when i look through them on my desktop. They are right...

I bought a new laptop, but it's loaded with stuff I don't want, trial versions of this that and the other, etc. I was going to just reformat and go from there, but reading the lit that came with it, it said to never put an operating system on it except for the one on the restore CD because if you...

I'm trying to diagnose my computer problem right now and I'm not sure if it's a CPU temp problem or a hardware problem. I'm a relative newbie when it comes to this, so bare with me please. When I go into BIOS, I see two temperature readings. System Temp and CPU Temp. Which is the important one to...

I've got my new box built, OS installed, and everything's running sweet, except for the front USB ports on the case. Case: Chieftec (Chenming) Bravo Series Mobo: Asus A8V Deluxe The mobo has four onboard ports, which work fine. It also has two dual headers for additional ports. Plugging the cable...

A few Months ago I ordered All the parts I would need to start building my system. I spent around $1000 but wanted a gaming system which adds a few hundered dollars more than if it wasn't. Everything Works Fine and Got the satisfaction of Knowing All the Software and hardware that are inside. It...

If I am accessing the Internet through a Netgear MR8914 (thats Blueyonders version of the MR814) Seeing as it has firewall protection built in, is there any advantage either way with using MS XP pro firewall. Thanks David

My mother has a four year old Iwill KK266-r based PC that has suddenly started giving her grief. It's got a non-overclocked 1.3Ghz Athlon & one of the original 32Mb Radeons and is used for little more demanding than office, email and internet. After about half an hours use, it virtually locks up...

Need some comfortable mouse and keyboard to help my carpal tunnel syndrome: Need a trackball which fits the following specs: 1. Want the ball to be controlled with my index and middle finger not my thumb. 2. Wired 3. Needs to have actual scroll wheel (not simulated one) 4. Prefer the trackball...

What is the most compatible hardware for solaris 10 other than hardware from sun ? I want to build a desktop with solaris 10 What is the optimal hardware configuation that would ensure seamless software installation? While sun offers desktops such as ultra 20, what other hardware are tested to be...