I'm trying to find a replacement bulb for an IBM 0275-001 flatbed scanner, and have had zip luck locating one either on the Web or over the phone. On-line searches have turned up mostly places which specialize in home lighting. I called IBM's parts and service center and they don't even have a...

I have an Athlon palomino XP 1700+ with a MSI motherboard, KT7266 (VIA chipsets), Win 98 SE. It has been running relatively problem free for about 1.5 yrs, until recently. It had been getting sluggish, with occasional lockups, so I reformatted the drive and reloaded win 98 SE. Most of the time...

Hi, I have some old files on Verbatim Rewriteable Optical Disks 128MB that I want to look at. Can anyone tell me what sort of drive I need to get hold of to read them - clearly an optical disk drive of some sort but which / where ...ect Thanks Peter

which is better out os these graphic cards ( please take GPU into account) I was asking because the 128MB card was less than AUD$50 more than the 64MB -128 MB Radeon 9200LE AGP 8X card (inc. DVI / TV out) -64 MB GeForce4 MX-440 AGP 8X card (inc. TV out) -- Krish...

My computer has an Authentic AMD AMD-k6(tm) 3D processor, 256 mb ram. I have a 10 gb hard drive (Generic IDE Disk type 46) and would like to fit a second one which I will have to buy from Ebay as noone sells them any more. Is there any particular type to buy? There are some on Ebay costing ukp24...

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what would the performance advantage of having a HDD with a 8M buffer ?? and would it be better to have 2x 40GIG hdd rather than 1x 80 GIG any comments would be appreciated TIA Chris

Looks like the last Nvidia release is worse than people believed? http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2003q3/valve/index.x?pg=1 From the "real" benchmarks it looks like even the Ti4400-4600 perform pretty close to or better than their newest in DX8 mode? In Dx9 mode any of them they appear to be...

is a 9600 Pro a worthy upgrade or do i need to go to the 9800 or above, or the nvidia options fx5600 is that worth it or do i need the 5900 ??? ideas -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

I have a Gateway Pentium4 running XP in a mid tower case. It has 3 3.5" inch bays which I have filled with 3 hard drives. For the second time one of the HD's (not the boot drive) has gone bad. I have noticed that when I touch any of the HD's they are extremely hot and always have been. Like...

Hello I need a Datasheet for VIA VT82C596B South Bridge Controller Thanks Benjamin

Vance's point was that what you downloaded weren't Xp files. Normally one would just right click the INF file and select install, but it doesn't appear any of those files are for XP. "Vance Roos" wrote in message ... I am trying to...

I have a 3.2 gig Maxtor model #83209D5 with a CHS of 6218/16/63 that is bad. It will not spin up and is not detected by the computer BIOS. It has valuable data on it Does anyone have this drive they would want to sell? even one that has crashed. im hoping by swapping out the circuit board I can...

Is there something to use to give energy to USB devices? For example if I want to use my USB calculator when my notebook is off, there's a device (for example with battery) to give energy? Thanks

I am looking for a new PC desktop and came across the HP a250n because it looks like an excellent value. I am also looking at the Sony VAIO PCV-RS420, which has similar specs for around the same price. How good is the HP and how does it compare to the Sony? I also saw the PowerSpec 9250, which is...

I have to mount a 2.2 GHZ CPU on a replacement Intel motherboard. Is it necessary or recommended to apply a heat transfer jel to the contact surface when installing.

Chipset is SiS 746FX says it takes DDR 400 What I want to know is I will be upgrading my CPU from XP1800+ to XP2600+, but RAM is high and will buy this another time. Can I use DDR PC 2100 RAM with the new Barton (333Mhz FSB) core CPUs? I think I can because on the K7S5As, you could use PC133...

we currently have 3 PCs at home on a LAN sharing a cable modem via a cheap Belkin router that works well but it doesnt divide the bandwidth equally between all 3 machines and some programs can greedily take all the bandwidth. Is there a router or program that would split the bandwidth so that each...

What is THE BEST heat sink fan (and heat sink) for and an AMD CPU? I like the look of Coolmaster's Areo 7+. it's manual speed control is a plus, but I've heard it's a bit "buzzy" at full speed. Vantec's Areocool, the one with a magnetic drive for the fan, looks very good and I've heard it...

I just installed a new master Hard Drive (Maxtor) on my Dell desktop. It's about 3.5 years old. Upon entering BIOS, under Primary IDE Master, it says "NONE". It's my only hard drive installed. It's plugged in correctly, etc. What'g going on?? TIA! John S.