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Watch TV on PC.
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 7 Comments

My COMPAQ PRESARIO S5100NX may not run video with only 512 Ram

More hard drive questions
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 7 Comments

Have been building PCs for some 12 years now. In that time, I've seen every hard drive maker produce lemons. And, of course, with that comes the naysayers and protagonists allegiance to a given...

dvd reads only some disks...
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 3 Comments

DVD readers and writers have a different laser for the CD. If defective, won't/can't read a CD. The bios at boot time for boot media can only read the boot info on the DVD/CD. That must exist to...

Incompatible data modem(s?)
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Hi Bob, Meant to say "some PCMCIA cards have USB adaptors" Searching shows no nVidia chipset presence on the Presario laptop; there is a (now obsolete) Texas Instruments PCI 1620 CardBus Controller...

adding another hard drive
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 3 Comments

"gursaran abott" wrote: At the end of the drive where the jumper goes there should be markings right on the hd for MA for master, SL for slave, and CL for cable. They should line up with the...

Cloning new HD
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 11 Comments

"sgopus" wrote: I have tried both however for this attempt, I was using the CLONE function. Thank you for your input!

Memory Problem w/ASUS A7V133 MB in XP Pro - repost
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 12 Comments

sced13ri wrote: It's a puzzle why the board does that. I'm surprised Crucial doesn't have some record of previous customers reporting something similar. Paul

PRESARIO S5100 CPU 100% Usuage
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 5 Comments

I added a new 256MB Video Card and 512RAM. Thanks for all the links and help. Lsu Edu in New Orlens, Enjoy your Gumbo

Is it the motherboard, ram, or CPU?
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 6 Comments

"Stockmoose16" <Stockmoose16@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:cfe1310f-8751-49a2-96c0-6ca793a54b6e@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com... If you go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Startup and...

Question on Registry key for printer parameters
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 1 Comments

While not absolutely sure, I believe the information is stored in the registry, probably within these keys: HKCU/printers/DevModePerUser/printer name. From what I could find in my own registry,...

Replacing a socket 478 w/ Socket T (775)
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments

On Mar 11, 5:06*pm, Stockmoose16 <Stockmoos...@yahoo.com> wrote: You need to know that a socket 478 porcessor would probably not work in a socket T (775.) You would need a new processor and...

Automating hardware auditing
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Lots of software to do that http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=manage+hardware+inventory EMoscosoCam wrote:

Quad
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 17 Comments

the link you posted relates strictly to the licensing issues NOT the number of cores supported. you would be suppling the hagwash. bamboozle wrote:

Repair bad sector...
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 16 Comments

"XJHay" <XJHay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7EEC1C4B-47EC-49E7-A608-24D9C2DD3695@microsoft.com... Indeed there is and it is built into the firmware that operates your hard drive....

Frontech UPS
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Line Interactive design. Boost and bulk AVR (Auto Voltage Regulation). Fully Digitized microprocessor controlled., Energy saving function (UPS green mode). 50/60Hz frequency auto sensing and...

Recognize DVD writer as DVD reader
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Hi bob, There are burning software that not need installation. I tried some of that and you can burn CD/DVD without be administrator... Thank you. Kind regards Riccardo Costanzo

XP recognizes by does not install Western Digital 750 gig Caviar SATA external drive coupled with USB
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments

What does , , "diskmgmt.msc" report? Ed

Hard Drive says its smaller then it is?
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 34 Comments

Not a problem at all! Glad it worked out for you, and sorry about the initial mis-information. For some reason the brain was reading your post as "disk manager" instead of "device manager" at...

DVD-Rom - Cd/DVD Burner Problem
Posted on March 12th, 2008 | 5 Comments

I'm having a problem. Media player want record cd's. I also notice that i didn't have a recording tab when i open up the drive to see if i had recording tab. I went to registry _ subkey and followed...

Some DVDs no longer work
Posted on March 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Absolute nightmare isn't it. I've got ffdshow installed do you happen to have the same as that was the last video codecs I installed and I don't know if that was before or after the drives started...