So I'm playing a little game this afternoon (World of Warcraft if you must know) and all of a sudden withut warning or anything my computer shuts off. No power. I push the power button; Nothing. ...

does anyone have any idea as to what might be wrong with my friends computer when you boot it starts the initial screen which tells you about the speed and memory and bios. But then it just says...

Thanks again to each of the people who took the time to respond to each of my earlier posts. You really have been of great help in steering me in the right direction--and saving me some expensive...

Can the FIC KB 6130 mobo run a celeron 633 with a 370 to skt1 converter?

Zio has decided not to be included in drives OS WinXP SP2 (XP does not require a driver) and it has been working for many months. My ZIO has stopped showing up in Explorer or My Computer yet when I...

Hello. I bought a ATi Radeon 9800 Pro. It has worked fine until just recently. The alarm that signals no power connection (message on screen, boot halted) went off a couple of times, and then it...

The "Epson R300 or R320?" thread made me think of Lightscribe. I've never used it, but would suspect that it's a simple enough concept that it could be made to reliable work. It appears that the...

Hi, I have a Pentium III-500Mhz from which the processor cooler has started to make a lot of noise. I was wondering if it would be possible to keep the machine running without the cooler. Can...

I have an external USB hard disc with a lot of backup files on it. Where should I put (or better: where should I NOT put) this external harddisc in order be safe to not accidential delete the...

Hi all, Little hacking question : My Notebook, an Acer TravelMate 6000, isn't supposed to have a Bluetooth built in device. However, I think that the hardware is effectively installed but simply...

I have been trying to install Windows XP Pro (SP2) on a new (SATA) hard drive and I've had problems with the setup program recognising my drive (does XP have a problem with SATA drives?). I (now)...

I really appreciate the help of people who responded to the first post, and found their suggestions to be very helpful. Given their input, I have done some more homework and put together...

Hello all, I've recently had a serious HD crash using an external caddy via Firewire - basically the disc cannot be read though the drive and partitions can be seen by XP and I'm able to format the...

I was just thinking that, technically if you had two optical drives couldn't you just insert the cd with the sata raid drives in one while the xp setup cd is in the other? or does xp setup only look...

Hi all. I am having troubles with a motherboard. (I think) I am administering a MK QDI PlatiniX Novo-6AL 4xDDR400/LK/SATA/LAN with two harddrives (ata) . Both with a fully functional copy of winXP....

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Tried to install a standard 1.4 Mb floppy drive in my Dad's Packard Bell computer. No problems with hardware or connections. No problem setting it up in the BIOS. But it won't show up in Windows...

I have talked to several friends and clients who didnt have the original packaging(who does after 1 month) after the products went bad/defective. These incidents happened after 1 month or so ,and...

I just got a fantastic deal on a brand new dual Xeon file server for the corporation I work for. Best of all, it cost about $4000 less than a comparable server from either Dell or HP. It's in a...

Okay, I'm getting around to building a new system as my current one (though it served me well for 5 years) has become hopelessly dated. I'm considering building an Athlon 64 based system, with the...