I've seen a few SATA converters. Are these worth buying? I'm still abit confused as to what they're for!? See the follwing...

Is static electricity always accompanied by an audible (even if slightly) spark (arc)? I guess what I am asking is if I ground myself each time before I touch the computer innards, can I be sure I have eliminated static electricity because I don't hear or feel anything? IOW, can static...

The above came with an old DRAGON board. The board is long since dead, but the drive (for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a CF/SM reader and has 2 2.0 ports) was never used as I didn't have a digital camera at the time (and had no use for the ports). I am hoping that it isn't...

They have a 6 hour sale starting at 8 am and the usual week long one. I think some people are camping out for the systems they have in their ads some Amd 64 system for 699 or 599. I think it may be that HP/Compaq is aggressively pushing sales --- they had sales at Office Depot too. Ive read that...

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=5334&GroupID=0 the above link is to a PSU i currently own nowww, will it allow me to support a PCI-E motherboard? obv with PCI-E graphics. apparantly all ATX2.0 PSU will work with PCI-E motherboards, but i'm not sure here as there is...

It happens when I turn my PC on, it make problems on the first 3-5 minutes. Like, it gets stuck when loading windows, or reboots without a reason. I reinstalled windows, but same problems again. What could it be ?

I thought some people werent aware of some deals that are usually quickly gone in the US but it does come off like spam so Ill leave it to the deal websites. Nothing will be mentioned by me again,

I want to upgrade the memory on my wife's laptop (Samsung V25) from 256Mb to 512Mb. I think that it uses SODIMM 133, non-parity memory? Is that correct? Is that simply "laptop 133 memory"? Do I need to buy Samsung memory or will generic stuff work? Has anyone upgraded this laptop? Is it...

i asked a while back about PCI-Express I'v not had the chance to look into building a PCI-E system, built a few AGP systems and its been straight forward plug the card in get everything set up, power on and its cool, the VGA card works without installing it's drivers before hand, then install...

This is the link: http://tinyurl.com/5de9q Thank u.

My system: Power Supply: Okia 420ATX Mainboard : ASUS P4S8X-X CPU : Pentium 4 2.66 GHz/533FSB (SL6EH) Memory : Samsung 2x512MB PC3200 Video: : Chaintech GForce FX 5200 (nVidia) 8X AGP Drives : Maxtor 80 GB ata 133/udma OS : Windows...

Hello all, Is it a known issue of Xeon Nocona processors to lack EMMX? or is it just my CPUs :-( Bellow an excerpt from an exhaustive report of my Xeon processors: Extended Features EMMX - Extended MMX Technology: No 3DNow! Technology: No

hi i have been looking at chieftec Dragon Blue cases for a while now, and i reckon i can pretty easilly take a keyboard apart and spray the shell in a similar sort of blue and as for mice well i already have a lue/black mouse but my TFT monitor is silver is there any way at all to take the whole...

:cry: Recently got a dell monitor but there is no high voltage. Any suggestions

just a little teeny bit of research here by me but if you were to wal into a computer shop, any shop. how much would you pay for the following, not knowing anything about brands or anything just the spec of the PC 16x Dual Layer DVD-/+RW AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 512MB DDR400 PC3200 ram

could someone tell me where i can find a upgrade site and info for a trigem imperial motherboard 1.07 it is a celeron 2.20 GH e-machine processor wmt478/nwb intel 1500mhz using 2200mhz -00000f27bfebfbff. many thanks i am lost. trying to find out if it supports dual monitor...

2 quick questions Is there a better method of checking a HDD than using scandisk or is scandisk enough? Which programs are good for running a system check, such as memory testing? Thanks, Michael Culley

I've moved from the UK to Australia Oz and tried to use my Toshiba WBG 1200A ADSL modem/wireless router to connect to a local ISP called Optus but i can't get it to work - the tech help at Optus suggest that it may be because the WBG ADSL modem does not work in australia due to different ADSL...

I have a very frustrating problem, in that it is very intermittent. I can start the PC but within 5 to 10 minutes usually, the monitor will turn itself off (the on off button will go amber....of flash...according to the type of monitor) I have tried three monitors on the system and it has happened...

I installed a Maxtor 250GB Ultra Series which was formatted in Dynamic format ntfs. I filled this with AVIs and removed it in it's removable drawer. I installed another Maxtor 250 which I formatted in Basis ntsf. I then replaced old drive D with empty 250G attached to IDE cha. 1. I then replaced...