I have been hired as consultant to setup a test process for testing All-in-One printers. Does anyone have good advice or testing multiple modems at once? I was thinking about using a PBX simulator. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

Bios screen comes up and posts fine. Then screen goes black and monitor activity light goes dead. At this point if I press any key it will finish booting fine. This happpens every time. I have flashed every known bios and reset everything I can think of. Any ideas or do I just have to live with...

Can anyone recommend a good hardware firewall, preferably one on a decent cable modem (and router) combo. I have the MS router and Norton Internet Security, but it seems they adapt pretty quickly. And just for kicks, did you know the hackers use voice recog. to launch macros for accessing others'...

Hi! I'm Luca, from Italy. I have a little trouble... (I not speak English very well) I've got a 20 GB HD (EIDE), I would like to connect it to the USB port, and I want to use it like an external hd. Can someone help me?

Hi good people. I am trying to run sound under DOS 6.22 with my Soundblaster Audigy 2 card. After a fair amount of searching on the web I have not had any success with drivers that can do this. Has anyone in this forum ever come across such a beast in either an experimental/beta form or...

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...

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...

Just wondering... When are the legacy ports on the PC going to dissappear? I remember reading long ago that the PC'99 spec called for mainboards with no parallel, serial ports and no ISA slot. The PS/2 port is next to go. Well, here 2003 is more than half over and these ports still exist. I'm...

Problem is, once the pc is plugged in, it stays on and will not shut off. While in addition, it does not load windows, it just seems like its stuck in the power light is only on mode. It gives power to the cd drive, but even when switching the power cords from the cd to the harddrive it still has...

I'm trying to revive an old LaserJet series II printer. When I run a test print all I get is a black page with 6 white 1/8 in lines at the top. Then after the test page prints I get a "51 Error" message. The same happens when I try to print a Word document. Any ideas as to what might be wrong? ...

are there any motherboards around now that will boot from an external usb hard disc drive?

Can I use AGP graphic card with DDR RAM on the motherboard supporting SDRAM? Roch

Hi - I was using freeserve as my isp and all was working well. I installed AOL 8 and now the modem is dead - even if I re-install the drivers and remove AOL - why oh why did this happen? thanks

recently purchased a inexpensive cd-rw for a project. When I put in a cd of clip art to look at, it displayed ok, but made a whirring sound as it spun up and ran. Is some of this to be expected? I put a cd-rw in my main pc about a month ago. It was noisy like this and I took it back and got...

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...

for example, if i have a DDR400 that means my throughput is 400M * 2 (1 transfer in each clock edge) * 32 bit / 8 = 3.2 GB/s is the 2x transfer per clock cycle what is called double pumped? so how is pentium 4 platform quad pumped? does is have a 64 bit wide Bus ?

Can anyone explain me what is the advantage of having RAM faster than the FSB? thanks in advance

Hi, I wonder if someone can help... My system will sometimes switch itself off completely shortly after switching it on. On the four occasions it has happened it switched off after about 1/2 an hour, once it did it twice in quick succession. I switch back on and it seems to run fine. I built the...

I have an old monitor and the brightness is really dim! I have the monitor button for Brightness and Contrast all the way up and it is still DARK. 1) Is there a piece of software that will brighten the monitor beyond the limits of the hardware? I have tested out the calibration software, but...

Just a bit of warning for anyone contemplating purchasing anything made by ECS... They will not honour their warranties. My mainboard has failed within the warranty period. ECS refused to issue an RMA number since I didn't purchase it directly from them. My supplier is out of business. At this...