Hello all, I am planning to upgrade my MSI K7T/1800+ to an AMD64-939 system with PCI-E. For safety I backup my XP-Pro system (and a lot of other sw-programs) twice a week to another HardDisk with...

I have set-up a new SATA drive as my boot drive (some of you will know that it's been a long story ;-) I want to use my old PATA (Maxtor ATA 133) drive as a slave. But I can't find a jumper setting...

Hello everyone... I recently replaced an old P4/MB combo with an Athlon 64 3200+ and Abit AV8 mainboard. I tried out the game I play (World of Warcraft if that's matters) and I noticed that the CPU...

I am going to upgrade my Athlon XP 1800+ to a Athlon 64 3200+ and want to know if the cooler I have - a Coolermaster Aero 7+ - will fit on the new socket or will I need a new CPU cooler?

I didnt notice any big differences with the Seagate 160 and my other recent 200 gig Maxtors and WDs but I just installed an 80gig WD and it feels like its made of styrofoam. its really light like its...

Hi everybody. I'll first get the specs out of the way: IWill K266 MoBo ATX 235W power supply 512MB SDRAM AMD Athlon XP 1400 + cooler Radeon 9600pro 128 80GB HDD

Trying to help out a friend. He has a laptop with Windows 2000 installed and it's password protected. He doesn't know the password and someone told him (and i don't know enough to dispute this) that...

Hi Having sorted an old Celeron 1.7 for my previously non-starting ....Qbic I now find theca boots to the opening screen and displays Celeron and memory...after a few seconds I get a constant...

I would like to use a pen scanner to take selected text out of books as I read them, as notes, and then transfer them to a Word file on the PC for later reference. Has anyone used a pen scanner to...

When I press ctrl alt delete it says that my cpu is running at 100%. What could be causing this?

Has anybody any experience with longer USB cables? I know there is some theoretical limit like 6 or 10 feet, but I also know with RS232 there used to be a limit of 50 feet. I know I was able to...

Hi I bought the above barebones.. it is my first Intel based PC for years and unusually for me can't even get a screen up!. It fires up the CPU fan ok but no HD spin up (unless I take the 80 way...

when machine boots up the post tells me that i have an 18 gig and 75 gig hard drives, when in fact I have a 40 gig and 120 gig drives, in the bios setup screens, both the disks are identified...

Okay, This may seem like a lame question but... Is ANYONE doing any research to increase the performance of a "dial-up" modem beyond the so-called 56kbps limit? TIA

OS needs te be reinstalled after a BIOS update ? that's bull bobby have you tried to set de bios defaults in your BIOS ? --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary...

I bought a laptop Hard drive and enclosure for a backup. Instructions say it needs to be "initialize" through disk management. The disk shows up and I can right click on it, but initialize is not...

I now know why Windows would not recognise my SATA drive during installation. My combination of motherboard (Asus K8V SE) and Windows (XP Pro SP2) *does* need a third party driver to see my SATA...

Hi, NG, When I use Easy CD Creator and its CD-RW facility to make a RW CD( i.e.formatted)and then write data to that CD. I am unable to read or write to that CD again when I place it into another...

ik heb sinds kort het probleem dat ik vreemde startpagina's krijg tijdens het opstarten van explorer. onder internet opties dit verwijderen helpt tijdelijk, zodra ik opnieuw opstart heb ik weer het...