Hi I have a Dell Dimension 8300 on which I want to improve the cooling. I want to do this because I know the PC overheats after about 1 hr and is quite unstable. There is currently the fan in the PSU and a fan on the back which is vented to act as the CPU fan. I also added a PCI fan to cool the...

I play a lot of half life mods and i have the same fault first turn off fast rights in display control panel if this dont work play in 800*600 as for ur 3dmark u should always make sure all nvidia drivers r total removed :o( pain as for ur problem now when u reinstall ur hard drive aways...

Does anyone know where I can buy Ram Check hardware - or anything that tests RAM? thanks James

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:38:09 -0400, Gaëtan Mongeon wrote: Is there a way to upgrade a USB 1.0 port to USB 2.0 port? Thanks, GM No. If you have an open slot, get a PCI USB2.0 interface. You can also

Can a Pentium III faster than 700MHz be installed in one of these? If so, whats the fastest that can be used? Thanks

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 23:27:56 +0200, ad heijblom wrote: Hi, I use an old PII-266Mhz system with HP 8210 CD-rewriter. I wanna purchase a Plextor 52x24x52 CD-rewriter to replace the old one, but I'm not sure if it will work fine with the old PII box (224 Mb workstorage and...

athlon xp 2100 (1.73 ghz) 512 mb pc2100 epox 8rda+ maxtor 120 GB HD Geforce 4 ti4200 64 MB I have about £50 to spend, would and stick of 512 mb memory make any noticeable difference ?, should I throw out the old memory and replace it with 2700 or higher ?

Hi: I want to build my own PC. But I need to buy the parts one by one in the next few months. My first question: What Mother Board and Processor? I don't need the best, but I want the best value/cost option? I have one HD 20GB, Floppy, Keyboard, Monitor and Mouse. Next step the memory and case......

Hi, I am getting some issues when I have burnt a CD with applications from one machine, and then bringing the CD on to my machine and trying to run the applications, I am getting errors regarding the file. thefiles I am copying are either .zip files, or .exe file. when trying to open a zip file,...

As the topic says i am looking for a completely silent 3.0ghz + cpu cooler if you know of any could you paste some links in the reply! Thanks all :)

I have a Logitech iFeel Mouse and I want to use the rumble option but I don't want to install the Logitech Drivers Package to enable this rumbling feature. I'd like to install ONLY the drivers (not the entire Logitech mouse control panel) and the TouchWare 2.9 software. How can I do that? If I...

There are AMD processors with a number associated with them that isn't speed. For example, 2..1 GHz AMD Athlon has XP 3000+. What does the 3000+ mean? many thanks Colin

Hey, I have a scanner which runs on a parallel port and and a joystick which runs on a serial port. I've been looking up comps and i found one i like, the catch is that it doesn't have parallel or serial ports. Can i get adapters for the USB ports? I've heard that USB is designed to run by...

1. Can RAID be set up on basic drives or do they have to be converted to dynamic ? 2. Can you back up to USB/firewire from a RAID setup ? Thanks

When starting up a computer it doesn't get past the "COMPAQ" name and then stops. At random it does start up, after trying a dozen times. What causes this? Hard disk worn out maybe? (computer is four years old). ©dk

The problem is hard to explain. When in 3D games & sometimes in Windows the display will suddenly screw up badly, changing to a multi-colored pattern of small squares in a vertical striped array each stripe about 1 1/2 inches across. The colors are blue, yellow, blue-green. Only turning the...

I have a pair of WD 200GB 8MB cashe drives that i am trying to set up in my system. The motherboard is a chaintech 7NJS Ultra with an onboard promise FastTrack 376 RAID controller. The manual (for the mainboard) is translated English, and not that much help. My question is jumper...

I've bought the Polaroid PDC 3035 Digital camera from Argos, and I bought a 64Mb SmartMedia card to go with it. But when I put it in and try to take a picture it says 'Check Card Protect Switch'. I can't see a way of doing this though. If the card is facing with the gold upwards the notch is cut...

is there a soft showing the type of motherboard installed on my Pc ? (i know the processor is an old PII) ThanX

hello, How can create a bootable cd-rom (if it possible) that boots a basic dos system (command.com, io.sys, msdos.sys) thanks