Hi all, I was a firm believer that SW could not break HW apart from maybe playing with monitor resolution and such. Now I'm not so sure. I'd apreciate your advice on this. To cut a long story short, this is what I did. I installed windows XP on a disk then used ntfsclone (linux tool) to clone...

I would love to run into the ass wipe that wrote the adware I have on my computer right now. I would inflict a slow and painful death on him, video taping the entire long drawn-out tortuous event then send it to Dateline, 60 minutes, 20/20 and all the rest. I would not even worry about being...

Earlier today I managed to set my monitor to 1600X1200 which is beyond its max of 1280X1024, however it produced a useable 'picture' for some applications (I could play poker for example, and display 4 full tables) however now when I set it to that resolution is produce an unusable (fuzzy)...

I currently have 2x 200gb 7200rpm drives on my desktop. As always, i want it all to go a bit faster: Is it worth getting a 15000rpm scsi or a 10000rpm sata or just get a mammoth 500gb drive (7200). I want to speed up boot time and make the applications run a little faster. If i decided to get a...

I have two identical machines, 18 months old (out of warranty!) that I bought from Staples for my twin girls. Their supplier at that time was Proteva - now out of business. The network connectivity on both has been nothing but trouble, kicking out at ~3 month interval. At first I returned...

I tried to hook up a 20GB hard drive as the master in my old PC, a 200MHZ Pentium home-built job that I bought used and that served me well through a succession of hard drives up to 4GB running Windows 98 and Linux. The auto-detect in the BIOS wouldn't detect the 20GB HD properly, showing a size of...

I can hear a high screeching sound, when i click the on button nothing happens, the fan does not go on either. I am hoping its a power supply fault and not the mobo, its a Antec SmartPower 2.0 350 Watt ATX12V PSU which is not even a year old. The last couple of days when it was working I had to...

Hello, I've sent my computer to the computer repair shop and they say thats its power supply is brocken and needs replacing. The cost for the power supply needed is about £130. I have some details of the power supply and my computer before i sent it off. Computer:

Hi guys. I'm planning to build my second overclocked Intel D 805 system after having an excellent experience with an Asus P5ND2-SLI + Intel D 805 @ 3.33GHz. The motherboard below looks promising - cheap, DDR2-667 and with onboard graphics. IMVHO overclocking any further requires a DDR2-800 mobo +...

I just bought an Intel Pentium 4 531 CPU and motherboard. Been having some trouble with it. So I'm wondering if the CPU/Motherboard is defective or if my 350W power supply is insufficient? What is the Power requirement for the Intel Pentium 4 processors? I can't seem to find this information...

ISTR there is a sort of wildcard entry which can be used as the last part of a postcode to refer to an area. It can usually be used when a web page needs a full postcode. For example, if I had a post code of BS49 4ER then I could use the wildcard to refer to only BS49

Appologies if this not a correct group to ask this question. I have just purchased a ccheap new E-Sytem Desk-top PC. The suppliers specification for the the PC quotes the CPU as a "AMD Athlon 3000+". However, windows XP quotes the Processor as "Mobile AMD Athlon(tm)XP-M Processor 3000+". Should I...

Hi...... One external harddrive connected to two PCs at the same time? Could I plug the harddrive into one port on the hub and the two computers on different ports and then access the drive from both computers? Newfdog

I don't know if anyone can help. I am trying to download a manual for PC Chips M810LR motherboard. Their site is totally unobtainable and I am assuming that they have gone to the wall. Can anyone suggest where I might find the manual please. -- Keith Willcocks (If you can't laugh at life, it...

I've just realised that my AMD Athlon 1.41GHz PC (with 512Mb RAM and XP Pro) has only got USB 1.1. No wonder I have problems with some of my devices! Two questions. First, can I simply install a (relatively inexpensive) PCI card with some USB 2.0 ports, and them run a multiport powered USB 2.0...

I recently got a external USB hub. It's very basic with only three or four passive electronic components. It plugs into a USB port and then at the other end of a short cable it has the components and four USB sockets. Is this sort of thing any good? ISTR some nasty problems with XP and missing...

I have an HP DeskJet 890C printer that still prints well, and even has drivers available for Vista. I like it, and don't want to replace it if I don't have to. It uses the HP 23 color cartridge, and HP 45 Black cartridge which hold a lot more ink than the new cartridges. The problem is that it...

I have an old compaq presario 5220. I have 63 MB of physical memory or disk space. I need to add up to 256 MB, or at least up to 128 MB. How do add more RAM to my computer? Can Presario 5220 take up to 256 MB of space? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.

There is a music selection that I want to record from a web site from an NPR radio station. I can not find the rendition or the artist available. The audio is such that downloading is inhibited. One option is to feed the audio out from my sound card into my other computer (elsewhere in the...

I am running 5 hard drives in a PC running XP Pro. 1 of the drives only gets used once a week and the other once a month for backups. It seems silly and like a lot of wear & tear on the disks to keep them running 24/7 like the other disks. Is it possible to shut down certain disks after x hours...