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!

"shawn" wrote in message ... shawn wrote: I've got a MS Intellimouse (optical) hooked up to my PC that's been given me some weird problems. It was working fine until the last few days. Some times...

Check it out. $6.99 repeat. Purple Watermelon splayed all to Hell!.

Hi, I am using Mozilla and would like to know how I go about making Outlook my default. Everytime I hit an email link in Mozilla the email for that browser comes up and not Outlook. Help would be appricated. Kevin

Does anyone know of a recovery program that can overcome "invalid file headers" in MSWord docs? Thanks, Ryan

Old recipe for computer signal jammer (slightly modified): Card with power lead circuit interupted by ohm emmiter (reader with resistor inserted). Tin receiving module for good measure (can be made with conical shapes to recede signal).

I'm having a problem with one of the fans inside my PC since saturday. It started when I turned the computer on, and the fan below my hard drive (the one that's right behind the case's front) would get very noisy. Well, forst of all, what is the purpose of this fan? It is not placed next...

Hi, I'm trying to run Athlon 2000+ on MSI K7T Turbo (ms-6330) with flashed BIOS, 352 MB PC133 ram, Win XP SP1, but with very little success. The system runs OK if I have the CPU FSB jumper set to 100MHz (the CPU speed is ~ 1250MHZ). If I take the jumper out, the CPU runs on its normal 1660 MHz...

Is it worth dishing out the extra bucks for the 8mb version of the Seagate Barracuda 120GB IDE hard drive? I'm looking for preformance but most of all QUIET. I have 2 noisy sub-40GB drives now and I'm looking for something as quiet as possible, with a bit more space as well. I hear the Seagates...

Hi there, I am helping a pal to install a second cd drive to his Pentium P4 running XP Home. No matter what we do, we can only get one of the two cd drives to work at one time.... we have tried various slave/master jumper settings, tried having one of the drives on the primary IDE slaved to the...

I find my delphi program cannot hangup an external modem using +++~~~ATH0. But I have tried some internal modems it functions. Is this normal for some kinds of modems which need DTR drop rather than soft hangup command? I am using zoom 56k external modem.

Hi, Is this drive faulty or not? The full text of the report is below, but the bit I'm interested in is:- Partition 1 (No Label) Result: Invalid BPB Partition 2 (No Label) Result: Invalid BPB The drive is a Seagate 40GB, split into 2 x 20gb it has been working fine for about 6 months when...

Hi can anyone help, I have 2 Seagate ST150176LC SCA type hard disks which I belive run in LVD mode as standard, are these compatible with an Adaptec AIC 7880..?? or do I have to enable single ended option..?? System: Dell Poweredge 4100/200 Adaptec AIC 7880 with backplane for hotswap. Adaptec AIC...

Looks like this type cable is my only option for my setup. Any pitfalls of using such a cable on an old USR v.E external modem?

Hi - does anyone know where I can download serial & parallel loopback software? thanks

A few weeks ago my Radeon 7000 started acting all funky. First it started crashing out of 3D games. I thought it was the game so I tried to reinstall but then I noticed that even outside the games the screen is lighter than normal sometimes. When I click around the Display settings it will...

I am going to buy a laptop, the cost is about $150 more for Pentium 4 2.2GHz vs. Celeron 2GHz. Is it worth to buy P4? Thanks Hai Pham

Hi, Does Windows kill the "bootability" other secondary hard drives it finds with the same OS on? Just I had a old machine with Windows 95 OSR2 on, I then upgraded the HD, installed the same copy of Windows on, and used the only bootable hard drive as a secondary, to transfer stuff over, and as a...

"elziko" wrote in message ... I've just ordered one of these: http://web6.scan.co.uk/Products/Info.asp?WPID=39264 Now I'm worried it wont do what I want it to. I have three XP machines networked...

When I rebooted into win2k, it claimed my second hard disk had failed. It was trying to reinstall the driver it seems, because the error message said error installing driver for hard disk. Weird, its been in use and working before then. Subsequently, the disk now is showing up as a logical disk of...