I have a - 2.4ghz, - 5x 80mm fans - 1 cathode - 2x 7200 harddrives - 64mb vidcard - cdrw - zip - floppy

When settting up 2 or more PC's on a router, do they all have to run the same O/S. For instance 1 has XP, do they all need XP ? or is it okay to run another with 98 SE ? Thanks in advance Renman

Is a Radeon 9600 128MB for CND$175 (with tax) a good deal? Thanks, Mitchua

Looking to get a TV Tuner card for my computer and have a couple questions. How well would a tuner card work with satellite TV? Since the signal has passed through the sat box it is pretty much already "tuned" so I'm a bit confused on this. Also , would the recording feature work with...

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...

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Hi there, I am having a problem with my floppy drive at the moment and I am at my wits end. Every time I go to read a floppy disk I get the message 'disk is not formatted, would you like to format now'. This only started about 1 month ago, and up to this point, I had no trouble accessing my...

Hello, I just got a Samsung CD-RW that advertises the ability to read & write at 52x, and to rewrite at 24x. However, I've tried several cd-burning programs, including Nero, which came with the drive, and they all report that the drive can't exceed 32x, thus preventing me from using the drive at...

I'm looking for a cheap TV capture card to work as a digital video recorder for my digital cable e.g. I know I'm going to miss a show so I set it to record. Forgetting for the moment the challenge of the digital cable box (I know, I know...I'd only get the analog channels), will an ATI TV Wonder...

We are upgrading the workstation that acts as a server to 3.0 GHz processor and have the option to run win2000 or XP. Thoughts either way? Also, we have 3 machines that are 650mz - but run win98se and crash regularly. Would WIN2000 or XP load and run on those machines slower than win98? (they all...

Can someone suggest a decent way of bencmarking a soundcard? I'm trying to decide whether or not it's worth the hassle to reinstall my SBLive card or just use the 6 channel onboard sound from my new MSI mainboard. Thanks!

Hi, i have an external HDD connected to the USB port of my Desktop PC. Every time I want to access the external HDD with my Laptop I created a share on the desktop PC and copied the data to my Laptop via network. Because my Desktop PC is very noisy, I'd like to access the external HDD without...

Hello all, I have been a software guy. Dun know much about hardware. I've been trying to look at comparable low-powered computer. Something comparable to this: http://www.compulab.co.il/atxbase-arm.htm (this company claims under 1 W ??). I've seen comparable ones that run ~15 W advertised.

"Robert Anderson" rlanderson@NOSPAM wrote in message ... I have an e-machine running windows 98. At any rate, I upgraded from 32 MB RAM up to 128 MB RAM. Since the upgrade the machine has been very slow to bootup, often stalling on the Windows...

My son's 2 year old pc was relatively trouble free until about a week ago. It was running Win98 and monday morning the system failed to boot to windows. I chose to fdisk, delete all partitions, repartition and format the drive and try a fresh install of Win98se. This ran smoothly until I started...

Hi, I'll be buying a 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro http://www.necmitsubishi.com/products/home/ProductDetail.cfm?product_i d=232&division=MITSUBISHI and am now looking a various cards to drive this monstrosity. Mitsubishi specs say it can go to 2048 x 1536 @ 86 and my job now is to match it to a card...

Hello, I went through related messages in this group, but couldn't find the answer yet. Any help is very welcome! Here's my problem: I have a VIA® Apollo Pro133 chipset (mobo model 693-686A), with following characteristics mentioned in the manual: • A total of three 168-pin DIMM sockets (3.3V...

My frien has got a Gigabyte barebones system that has a hidden panel on it with Firewire, USB2 and a PCMCIA slot. Is there anything that I can get for my desktop that's similar? I'm just missing the PC card slot - something that fits a 3.5" drive bay would be perfect. Cheers Jason

Hello, I want to upgrade the RAM in my Compaq Prosignia 320 (BI440ZX motherboard). I know it takes DIMM SDRAM modules (PC66/PC100), but I have seen 100 and 168 pin modules advertised. Does anyone know how many pins are used for MY memory modules? Thanks.

Eizo has gained quite a reputation for quality in the past few years. Now it seems they just sneaked out a new monitor the Flexscan L557. It looks like its an improved L565. Brochure http://www.eizo.com/products/lcd/l557/contents.html Comparison with...