I am resurrecting a Gateway 500 MHz machine with 512MB RAM, running XP SP3. It does pretty well, except it will not play video from video DVDs in the player. DVD sound (dialogue) is fine, just no video at all. Audio CDs play just fine. I have tried three different drives with same bad result. ...

Somewhere on teh intarwebs DK wrote: In article , "SC Tom" wrote: Another way to check video resources, is with GPU-Z. CPU-Z reports 1024 Mb video. Yeah, but he didn't say CPU-Z did he? CPU-Z is designed to give the most accurate info about the...

For listening to the occasional MP3, sports video clips (like ESPN) and such. The speakers on my LCD are pretty puny and not really loud enough to hear much. I don't have a sound card so standard mother board connections are all I have available. The mother board has VT1708 high-def with a...

I have a ScanDisk Cruzer Blade USB FLASH DRIVE - 8GB. I want to make it a bootable XP USB drive. I have not been successful at all, using 'pe2usb' primarily. My Googling tells me that there is a known problem trying to do this with USB drives over 2GB. Is that true? Has anyone been...

I have inherited an old Compaq Presario 1260 laptop. I want to bring it up to current and give it to my son. It boots fine except for a dead motherboard battery which I will try to replace later. But now, I want to install XP on it, as it has W98 now. The laptop has a disk drive, but it...

Is there any use for Iomega ditto 2gb tapes?

Any thoughts on air-filtered PC cases? My suspicion is that unless the filters are of a far larger area than the fans that they'ed restrict the airflow considerably compared to no filter and would clog relatively quickly? On that basis unless in an industrial enviroment I'm better off just...

http://gothamist.com/2012/02/21/hit-and-run_driver_kills_woman_in_n.php A woman was killed when she was brutally mowed down in Fort Lee, NJ last night, and witnesses say the driver ran over her multiple times. Police found a car with NY plates abandoned a mile from the scene. One of the good...

My 23" ViewSonic LCD (model VA2323wm) has a bright green vertical line across the left side. I am not much of an expert with electronics... Would this screen problem be something that a person inexperienced with electronics repairs could easily fix without turning to some expensive repair...

I'm trying to add RAM to a friend's T5010 and I'm not sure whether I have to add two matched sticks or if I can just use one stick. Does anyone know whether that model allows odd numbers of sticks (it has 4 slots) or if it requires matched pairs in sets of two?

I have a Gateway Solo 1450 laptop that presenting very dim, and to my eye, reddish cast, video. Also, there is a bit more flicker in it than there out to be. Hooking up an external monitor produces bright, clean, stable video. Any bets as to if this is a problem with the CCFL(s), inverter, or...

what happenswhen motherboard specifiction has specified that memory frequency supported a 533mhz and 667mhz but along the one module of 1GB 667mhy we install 1GB 800mhz modulewhich works and is "compatible" , technically speaking what happens ? i know it has to dowith the oscilator...

Something very portable, without a fixed monitor? (Not a laptop) but with all the usual USB, video, & LAN interfaces. Peter

Is there software to diagnose properties (especially temperature) for video cards, like those of HDDs? The NVIDEA website doesn't seem to have one. I have a nVidea GTX-480 and it runs very hot. Peter

I have a 4G USB flash drive that I want to divide into two partitions in order to try to make the USB bootable then. According to Google researching, USB flash drives cannot be partitioned if the drive is identified as removable media, which it is. It also says the only way to partition a USB...

why was the architectural need to make ram sockets, concretely 3rd and 4th socket just for SS modules(against DS in 1st and 2nd sockets), the same for dual channels for 4 modules or just for two modules in 3rd and 4th socket, they have to be SS modules. why would manufacturer in 2003.(K7 Triton...

How to noticegraphic problems, besides overheating and exhaustive tests of graphic card/chip ? is there a possible way to notice such failures in some kind of log,, like card producers log if they make them ??? or what event IDs would i have to search for to look for in the event...

I expect to have to buy a new monitor soon and would like to get some input as to which brands to focus my research. The market has changed a lot since the last time I bought a monitor (2005). Google provided over 100,000 hits for the terms monitor review recoomendation 2012 and the reviews I...

Dell Vostro 1520 motherboards with Part No U653J and Part No 0D46F. Can someone define what is the difference between them? Which part number is for Motherboard with on-board Nvidia video chipset?

My friend had an HP mouse and the left click button didn't work right so he went to Wal-Mart and bought a Logitech mouse and he put the old HP mouse on the carpet on it's side and he hit it with a hammer and the mouse exploded and the bottom of the mouse landed upside down on the carpet and the...