Can anyone suggest a a fairly good quality cd writer available in the UK for quite a low price? I had been thinking about buying a DVD writer to replace my recently deceased 4x sony cd writer although at the moment they're still a little expensive and imo they will stay that way until formats...

HI all I have 3 machines at home, one of which contains music and ghost images.. What I would like to do is add a 4th box strictly for storing the above. This box will Always stay on so that the files are always accessible. What would the minimum requirements be for this 4th box: Power...

Hi, I've got a IBM thinkpad 600e that has just started asking for a password on start-up. This is before Windows starts. Does anone know how I can by-pass this or even better, get rid of it? I think its set in the BIOS, but I cant get there! Cheers Paul

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Hello I've just install new modem, HyperTeminal works perfect, but i can't connect to Internet(via windows XP client) . modem doesn't want to dial number. What i've done wrong ?

I have an external USB 2.0 CD-RW that is performing poorly. I think it is due to the fact that I only have one USB hub that is integrated into the motherboard for six USB ports. My question is would I be better off putting in a PCI card and adding more ports, or using a self-powered USB hub that...

hi, i'm running a geforce 3 ti200, i'm getting some red vertical lines on icons and i'm nearly certain this is to do with overheating, am i correct in my assumption. ? (running xp btw and it only occurs after some time) thanks. ps.. any £50ish cards that are better then the ti200 out now? ...

Hi, I am in the process of buying a Samsung ML-1710 laser printer and am looking to buy a USB cable. I have seen for example at Officedepot the "Belkin" brand for around $25 which I understand is the Rolls Royce of usb cables, but I am wondering if I could just as easily get a cheap one to do the...

I wondered what the physical difference is between a 650 and 700 MB recordable CD ROM. How does the drive figure out which kind of blank it has? What does it do different to record? I have heard audio cds created this way are compatible with home units. Is it just they allow more inner tracks...

It seems quite uneasy to find a driver specifically for windows2003 ...

Folks: I have a Panasonic KX-P7100 Laser printer. Currently my toner cartridge is empty, that is, the ink is all done. TigerDirect is telling me that I should buy a new toner for $80 S&H included. Is it possible (and if so how) to just purchase REFILL ink in a bottle then just transfer this...

I have a ultra 3 scsi that all of a sudden stopped booting and the activity light stays lit all the time. It won't boot and is not recognized by the scsi card correctly. If it is bad what are my options to get data from it? It does spin but no software I have will read it. It made a sound like...

hi there, my current case has one 80mm fan (below the PSU) blowing air out of the case (plus the regulars: one cpu fan and one exhaust fan on the back of the psu). i've not added an intake fan in the front/bottom as there's no opening in my case for any airflow, so a fan there would be totally...

I have just installed windows 98 onto a P2 (Intel MU440EX motherboard) - the system is all up and running apart from the onboard sound card (Yamaha XG ymf740-v) - I install the drivers and on system startup the system hangs. If I go into safe mode and uninstall the sound card all is well - my...

I have a brand x clone running Windows 2000. Occasionally, it has trouble booting. It sometimes does the BIOS check, then hangs, sometimes it hangs during the boot process itself. I have done virus scans, and run defrag. I remember MSFT used to deliver a utility called scandisk. Maybe they...

Hi! Just got one more HDD. The problem is that I can't seem to be able to make 120gb FAT32 partitions anymore? Actually I can't get them bigger then 32gb. Yeah, I know that 32gb should be the limit, but hey I gots 3 more drives workin nicely with big FAT32 partitions. The thing is that for those...

I've been out of the hardware scene for awhile, but I'm looking to upgrade my current system to a P4 2.X system. While checking out www.pricewatch.com, I noticed all kinds of new features that I have no idea what they mean: FSB 800, hyperthreading, Socket 478, etc. Can someone give me a baseline...

I have an MSI K7N2G board with an Athlon 2400 usually running at 1997Mhz If I change an IDE drive (even unplugging it and then plugging in again) the speed drops to around 1500Mhz and the CPU shows as a 1800+ Reflashing the BIOS resets it to 1997MHz again OK but this seems a bit weird Any ideas...

Hi, I'm looking for somewhere to get a CPU cooling fan for my motherboard which is Socket 462. Could anyone tell me where I can buy one please. A UK based company is what I'm looking for. Cheers, Dave PS could you also mail me at if u know, cheers.