help please - removing a NorthQ 3312 from an AMD Sempron CPU I have what looks like a NorthQ 3312 corrugated fanned heatsink fitted on an AMD Sempron CPU. I want to replace it with a Corsair CWCH60 Water Cooler. Can anyone tell me what's involved in removing the NorthQ please. A web search...

my son keeps trying to d/l an update for his Garmin satnav. however burning to a cd is a problem, as they say he must create a directory , presumably on the 'iso before burning to cd .wondered if anyone could offer advice' if poss.

Anyone using a laptop with eSata? I am beginning to think that is what I want. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=laptop+esata

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3) File record segment 7372 is unreadable. Errors found. Concurrently, I'm getting the same flash player error again. Unfortunately, this time using Adobe's uninstall routine is not correcting the problem. Using Firefox 8.0.1. Last time it seemed to...

SECOND TRY, WOLFUS. YOU DIDN'T GET THE PC FROUP'S NAME QUITE RIGHT. On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:41:25 +0000, Aardvark wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:20:19 -0700, §ñühwö£f wrote: Aardvark wrote: I bought a switching PSU, brand new in the box, about two years ago. Up until a week or...

I just saw an interview/demo on Fox Business News regarding an 112 in tv for $55,000. The most interesting thing is that it weighed only 75 lbs & is 1 in thick; the tv was VERY flexible as in like a sheet of paper; can be WRAPPED around a column/post. For gamers, a smaller size like 20-30 in,...

I know this isn't the right gtoup for laptop questions (can you recommend a good group?) but maybe tou can help with this. I have a Dell Studio 1737 laptop. Several times, the display has failed to turn on when the computer booted up. When I attached an external monitor, I was able to determine...

Which is the best graphics card for use with scientific software as Mathematica? Is better a Nvidia Quadro 600 or a Nvidia GTX 560? The friends of university tell me that is better Quadro 600 for some specific drivers. In a shop of computer science have recommended me instead the GTX...

I have one box running XP with a geforce 9600GT, and a more recent build with windows 7 has a geforce GT430 I want to swap the graphics cards over - can I do that without any driver complications looking for advice, as although I have been building pcs for many yearsI don't know everything and...

This is for XP, sp3. I've just installed XP-sp3 on a new motherboard and I'm in the process of turning off a lot of garbage services and in general optimizing it. I've turned off indexing service as well as the cache-thing that's supposed to make it boot-up faster. The system does auto-login as...

Have there been any netbooks made / sold that don't have XP drivers or that otherwise can't run XP? I'm thinking about EeePC, Aspire, and anything else running Intel Atom or maybe AMD Neo or Fusion, with a 10" screen. I'm looking at buying one (what-ever is still available at retail) and will...

Hey Nilly... Is that little bitmap in the upper left corner of your UseNet posts all that's left of your guitar playing ability? Show us what you got.

Take an ordinary PC power supply cable. Fold it once, so that both ends meet. Then fold it again. Then simply tie it as if you were starting to tie a square knot, but only a single tie. That works for all sorts of cables. It might not be good for some of your home theater stuff. I do use it for...

Are there any ATSC tuner cards that will OUTPUT a user-selected channel to (a) composite, (b) S-video, (c) component video, (d) HDMI, and (e) 9-pin VGA output ports? (if not all of a through e, then at least b, c and d) All the cards I can find do not have rear-panel outputs. All they seem to...

Recently, I've started having intermittent problems with my monitor during boot-up of the pc. It is not a consistent, reproducible problem. The problem - after powering on my pc, the monitor power LED light flashes off/on but the screen ramains blank. Nothing is displayed. Usually, I get...

My computer is acting up. After rebooting, it run run normally for about 2 minutes then it locks up. The screen freezes and the mouse and keyboard don't work. The hard drive still spins. The CD tray still opens. The CPU fan still spins. The power supply back fan is spinning (does not seem to be...

Take an ordinary PC power supply cable. Fold it once, so that both ends meet. Then fold it again. Then simply tie it as if you were starting to tie a square knot, but only a single tie. That works for all sorts of cables. It might not be good for some of your home theater stuff. I do use it for...

I have now put in a new 500gig HDD but in disk manager it says it is "Dynamic" and not "Basic". I googled dynamic and to my understanding dynamic is for Raid and uses a database for its file system. Is there any reason I should keep it as dynamic I will only be storing my personal files on it...

I bought a new Sata HDD and it didnt say on it if it was Sata2 or Sata3 I found this web page about its specs and it seems to be Sata3 as it has 6Gb/s but my mobo only has Sata2 at 3Gb/s will this drive be compatable with my mobo? Will the HDD work at 3Gb/s? I am using a Gigabyte X48-DS5...

Hello, I am in need of some help in getting this router ( Linksys wrt 350n) back up and running. When I plug it in , all that happens is the power light blinks continually. The version sticker says 1.1. I have tried the 30\30\30 with no joy. Any suggestions are more than welcome . Thanks in...