This should be dead easy but it is not. I have Windows 7 32 bit ultimate. It should tell me this as well as if I have service pack one on which I do. Why are simple things made so hard? Desmond.

I want to add a second hard drive to an older system. Can I mount it externally if I can find a cable extension? (It's too cramped inside the HP Pavillion.) Thanks, Andy

I have a number of WordPad documents that are several years old on thumbdrives. I used WordPad with the idea in mind that I would always be able to open them with WordPad, not knowing the horrible truth that WordPad often will not open WordPad documents. When I tried opening them with a later...

I know that a lot of you know about Windows / hardware internals, and maybe there's an explanation of the following. I'm trying to use a famous and much-used uninstaller, and getting my registry hosed each time. The product I'm trying to test it with is Realarcade's basic games module, that has...

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Hello, I am trying to figure out why I keep getting a "port 01: " message when I try to boot. The machine in question is an Acer Aspire AX1300 Slimeline. It is running Vista home prem. sp/1, AMD athlon x2 7550 dual core 3gb ddr2 pc6400, 320hdd. The mobo looks like a DA061/078L. Heres what I get on...

Are there any Powersupply unit monitoring applications or utilities that can tell me how many watts of power I am using at a givent time?

I have a USB port that mounts in a 5.25 bay and plugs into a USB port. Do any mobos come with an internal port (not the pins)?

mobos??? is that something you get from a mofo?

Are there any Powersupply unit monitoring applications or utilities that can tell me how many watts of power I am using at a givent time? tia

Rather than buying a stand alone wireless router....can a person just configure his desktop with wireless card to ACT as a wireless "router" and save some desk space if short on space?

Hi folks, I'm looking at building a machine for a building contractor. I'm thinking Phenom II X4 with at least 4GB of RAM. I'd like to avoid built in video if that's possible. Also, I'm thinking a mirrored RAID 1 volume. Let's shoot for $300(US) without the monitor for starters. Once I get...

Recently upgraded from Intel 845 IDE board to Intel 915 SATA board with one IDE channel. I know it's not much but the MB, CPU and memory are faster and it makes a difference and I'm a gearhead, what can I say. The problem is that I have to run my CD burner and extra HDs on a Silicon Image 0680...

So how does this internet access over your iPhone WiFi work? The Verizon web site is about as clear as ****. So does that mean I can access the internet with my laptop wirelessly through the iPhone? I can use it exclusively for my internet service?

I found a SPI FSP550-60PLG 550W EPS12V Active PFC Power Supply. It has a 24 pin main connector which is more pins than the power supply of my current system. I can't find out what motherboards would work with it? Andy

I have ordered the cat 5 cable to install another jack, but what I would like to do until then is to use a spare linksys router as a repeater. I thought all I had to do was remove the working network connection cable from the existing computer and plug it into port 1 of the router. Then take...

If I have a usb mp3 connected by a usb cable and the pc is in standby mode or is totaly off will the pc drain the mp3 players battry? Thanks GK

I want to put a slave hard drive into a computer that's master drive has windows 98SE on it. Should I create it as a primary DOS partition or an extended DOS partition? Also as long as I am asking about it what is a logical DOS drive within an extended DOS partition?????

Are there video cards that have 2 HDMI connections as opposed to DVI. So that they can be run to a TV and a Monitor, video and audio in the same cable?

Ray wrote: I have a ASUS P5B-E mo, a GeForce 9500 GT video, 4 sata hard drives (with sata and Molex connectors) and 5 usb peripherals and need a power supply to run it. The GF9500GT video card wants 18 amps so I am thinking of getting one of these supplies: 1. OXZ...