I have recently built a machine. its specs are as follows AMD Althlon 64 2800+ XP MSI K8M Neo V motherboard 512MB DDR ram Connect 3D Radeon 9250 (64 bit) 128 Graphic Card A DVD ROM and a CR-R/RW drive running Windows XP with SP2 well my problem is simple and quite weird. My PC stays quite...

On 6 Jun 2005 14:38:24 -0400 He understood Liz1 so well askolepaul wrote : I’m unable to resolve the following two problems. In my Device Manager I constantly have two conflicts, one being the MPU-401 Compatible Midi Device and the other being Gameport...

Hi, I have some old disquettes (sony 1.44) that should have some word documents on them. They are from 1996 and were probably made with Word on a pentium 386 PC. The 3 computers I've tried to read them on want to format the discs and I can't retrieve the files. Can anyone please tell me how to...

I have an Allnet NAS 6200 external drive with a 250 GB HDD inside. This is a network drive, where the HDD internally is formatted with a Linux file system. I'm planning to stop using the Allnet box and instead get a USB 2.0 external drive box and put the 250GB HDD into it. How can I access...

Having just started working from home (CAD draughting) the first day we had 2 power cuts (outs) in 24 hours. A UPS was therefore moved up the most wanted list, to the top. I set a budget of £100 +/- 10% and a search for the various makes came up with the Belkin F6C800uk Universal. In fact it was...

I thought I was spraying compressed air to clean the dust off my MB. However, I had accidentally picked up the can of WD40! Will this do anything to the MB??? I feel like an idiot. -Pete

I have an infamous IBM Deathstar (an rma actually) It has an intermittent high pitched whining sound that last for a few tens of seconds then disappears for minutes, or hours. SMART doesn't show anything wrong with it. I had a Seagate drive that did the same thing for a while, then stopped doing...

Hi I'm new here. The last two nights, I have experienced something really weird. I wonder if anything like this has ever happened to anyone, here. Two days ago around 11:00PM, I was playing MVP Baseball 2005 and suddenly, everything on the screen became "greener". I kept playing and

I built a computer a couple of weeks ago with the following components: - AMD Athlon 3000+ CPU - Radeon 9600 pro - 512MB DDR Memory - GA 7vt600 motherboard - Running windows xp The PC keeps freezing while i listen to music or play games. Could anyone help me and give me some ideas as to why this...

I have a 3-4 year old Intel El Paso motherboard w/82845 chipset. It has 2 front mounted USB 1.1 ports. I traced the cable to the connector on the motherboard and it's easily accessible. My question: Is there a USB 2.0 PCI card out there that has an internal connector compatible with the...

Just built a knew desktop and connected it to my network. My whole mp3 collection is on my laptop. When I make my "music" folder shared on the network, it appears to work just fine. The odd part, is that some of the folders appear as empty when i look through them on my desktop. They are right...

Well I'm trying to install a US Robotics 56k external fax/modem on my PC. It was working under XP-SP1. I recently upgraded to XP-SP2. Device Manager doesn't recognize the modem. Even pointing at the drivers, during setup, nothing is recognized. I haven't used the fax/modem much in the past, but...

I'm looking at new ram to buy for my computer and I have two questions: a) Is DDR-RAM the same as DDR-SDRAM? The reason it seems like this is because newegg.com has SDRAM and it has DDR-SDRAM but it does not have just DDR-RAM. b) What is the difference between Registered and Unbuffered RAM? ...

I want to upgrade the memory on my system. The MB manual (Intel SE440BX-2) data insists that the components be unbuffered, with gold plated connectors, and have an SPD (Speed Presence Detect) feature, and PC100 speed or better. I absolutely want ECC. Mismatching plating with connectors can lead...

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We want to to upgrade the memory for out Asus NCT-D motherboard but are getting conflicting information from Kingston rep. The manual says we can't use 128MB chips but the Kingston rep is suggesting the below RAM module. Does anyone have a thought on this? ...

Has anyone ever have any good/bad experiences with the Fantom Titanium line of external USB hard disk drives? I Googled up and down and can't find any reviews or performance tests. Thanks all!

I'm in a network environment, and my computer has several network drives mapped (F, G, H, O and R). These, obviously, resolve after login (WindowsXP Professional). I've recently purchased a 12-in-1 media card reader. If I plug the device in before the computer is on, it maps 4 drives ( F, G, H...

Hi All, Been reading the group for a quite a while, and now its time to ask a question myself :-) I recently bought a 1gb stick of DDR 400. Realised too late that I maybe should have bought 2 x 512 DDR400 so that I had 1 memory controller working on each 512 stick. This is something I have...

I'm trying to get my friend's laptop fixed. The screen laptop screen is showing nothing but a pattern of fine vertical lines. When hook up an external monitor the external one is working fine. All I notice different from the last time I worked on his computer is that the bios battery seems dead....