"Peter" wrote in message ... Hi, I was wondering does anyone know what is the particular setting in BIOS that allows to bootup the system without having a keyboard or mouse attached? Thanks.

Anyone know of a truely universal PC power supply tester/evaluator? Ideally, I'd like one that u could plug in some/any/all of the various types of pwr plugs and simulate loads, and obtain V/A outputs and/or satisfactory/unsatisfactory indications, etc. The tester would accept standard AT/ATX as...

Last week I built my first home-made pc, with a Antec Sonata case and MSI K8N Neo Platinum AMD64 754 socket motherboard. The process went rather smoothly. But I do have a couple issues. First, the MSI motherboard has 5 pci slots, one of them is an orange colored dedicated communication slot,...

hi, all The other day I was poking around insides of my computer. I took out the motherboard, disconnected all the cables and power cords. After I done with my research (I was in the process of fitting a new motherboard into my pc), I put everything back in and reconnected the power. But the...

There's been a lot of talk lately about CPU vulnerabilities ala Meltown but what is the general consensus with the obvious built in back doors being put into CPU's at the OEM level. AMD Platform Security Processor/Trust Zone Secure Technology which is AMD's version of Intel AMT/Intel Management...

So I have an actual legitimate business license key for Office Professional Plus 2016 from an enterprise with volume licenses and I am looking for an offline installer/iso/image or what have you so I can install the software. Something I can physically put on my computer to install Office 2016 and...

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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...

Are there any tablet PC's that can run Windows XP? And I mean can they *run* XP. I'm not asking if or which ones come with XP installed (obviously none do any more). I would guess that the list would include any tablets that are being sold today with Windows 7 - because I don't think that any...

Proper usenet posting style restored. I could swear that I read somewhere last year that Micro$haft had extended the end-date for the System-Builder version of XP-pro to June 2009. But everything I can find on-line right now says it was Jan 31/2009. Anteaus top-poasted:

What's the downside of deleting the "HelpAssistant" and "SUPPORT_numbers" accounts from my XP-pro system(s) ? I mean, do I _REALLY_ need them?

If you are wondering why Windows 8 tops the charts, even though Microsoft touts the platform as more secure than its predecessors (don't they always) - the answer is quite simple; Flash. Because Flash is now baked into the modern instance of IE, any Flash vulnerability can now be tied into Windows...

Ammammata wrote: (what-ever) I posted the full details of this hack back on May 22 in a thread with the subject: "A few registry key entries will allow XP to update itself via Windows Update until the year 2019"

Hello, I have NEC 3550A dual dvd burner. Fr some reason the drive tray will not open or eject. I tried to open it in windows and while booting up with no luck. Windows and bios recognise the drive just fine. Pressing the open button will turn the light on the drive on but nothing happens. I...

Hi. I have a question about RAM and WinXP. I know that XP has very bad RAM management (when I say RAM I mean physical RAM), so it uses just a half (or so) of avaliable RAM. Since I intend to buy over 2 GB of RAM (I need lots of memory: 3D+video work), I'm not happy about it, but it wouldn't be such...

Hi. I'm buying a new comp. The old one has Western Digital which worked just fine. Anyway, what is there to know about hitachi drives? Speed, quality... I know hitachi CD-Roms are pure disaster, but I don't know much about their hard drives. (it's hard to find comparison on hard drives)

Hi, I have a problem that I think has to do with the DDR 128 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card in my 5 year old system (Dell Dimension 8200, XP Pro SP2, 1.25 GB RAM). When playing DVDs or video files there are vertical lines spaced about 1/2" apart of what look like alternating 1/4" wide red and green...

I want to know the direction with respect to the fan chassis and wire configurations. A simple clock wise or left and right / in or out in itself is not enough to completely describe the air flow. There are multiple lay terms out there, does anyone have the actual specification as standard for a...

Hi people. I am new. My first language is spanish, so I apologize for any error. First about me: I am an auditor / fraud investigator. I have been working / playing / building / fixing PC's since 1988, but I am not a certified tech nor a programmer. I just do what is needed to be done. I have...

The computer was working fine last night when I went to bed. When I got up this morning I used a can of air on the inside to clean it out. I waited about 10 minutes then powered up. Right past the bios screen I get this: SDRAM Dimm at 1 and then computer won't proceed any further. I bought new...