I an getting shutdown errors after install of Creative SB Audigy board. System shutsdown with message about hardware or software causing memory dump or something to that effect. I was hoping someone knew of possible SB conflict or where to start debugging other than renoving sound card and buying...

For all you old timers, just found out you can reset the CMOS by removing the charge battery for 2 minutes. When I last messed around with one, they worked on a trickle charge and I managed to turn one to shiny dust. If you have a programmable one (as I do) and get hammered by greasy...

Where can I find the cheapest parts available? There's this site I had bookmarked, where it's an internet index of the cheapest computer parts.

What should I be seeing in the device manager for my USB ports on an MSI KT6 Delta mainboard? The board is supposed to have USB 2 (or "High-speed" as they call it now). I've applied the drivers/patch that comes on the MSI CD but the device mangler doesn't mention anything about "VIA enhanced" or...

I was previously using the Thermaltake TR2-M2 (less expensive Aeroflow clone): http://www.tr2tt.com/English/Products/coolers/m2.htm Temps (usually around 45C) and db level were acceptable with the above, but once I caught wind of the new Thermaltake "Silent Boost"...

Usually you worried about someone being in your back pocket. Now they're a ****ing download! Same old ****, different day. If I find a tracker, I'll leave no trace of either.

The Promise cards emulate SCSI, DMA is always on. John wrote: It works fine now but the PC feels a bit sluggish like its lagging a bit especially when accessing the hard drive. Feels like DMA isnt on. I checked a setting on the Promise Maxtor controller tab in Device Manager about...

Right, here's what I'm using: Vaio (yes, yes - I know) laptop:PCG-FX701 (Athlon 1400+, 256Meg, Win XP) Newlink cardbus USB 2.0 port Samsung 252B CDRW in a (powered) USB 2.0 caddy. So, I've installed all of the drivers, I even have a full complement of Windows Updates but WHY does it still take...

All I really want to know is when Intel will finally let go of their windfall. I mean, Jesus, how long can you hold on to something you don't even understand?

Hello, I've got an old celeron 333MHz, with all-in-one MOBO (mobo+sound+video) i want to install a new ATI AGP card with a TV-Out on it. Will the two cards conflict with each other??? How do i tell my PC to fully override the MOBO's in-built video chipset? I haven't bought the ATI TV-Out card...

Anybody out here have any information on this. I do have most of the technical specs, but no manual or even th slightest real clues about how to make it work. I do realize it works under NT but really would like to get more info on it or a manual or leads to any of the before mentioned....

Ok, this is a really weird problem. I just installed a new hard drive on my Asus A7V266-E mobo and now when I boot up, I get the message "Keyboard is locked out - Unlock the key" after the POST. Here's the strange part, when I lay my PC on its side, I don't get the message and the PC boots up...

Hi, I have hard disk monitoring software installed on my XP Pro machine. I have two physical hard disks installed, and for one, the software states ' SMART feature set - Supported, disabled'. How do I go about enabling it? Thanks, Neil

Does anyone have a good website to trade old computer parts I have lying around (in Canada)? --Mitchua

Hei! I have just installed a new secondary hardisk, but the operative system (XP) won't start. Can anyone help me? HK

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:59:47 -0700, "lorraine" wrote: Hey again. Okay, now I'm talking about my computer here. Compaq presario 5360 I've already upgraded the ram so I've got 316MB My son put a Sony CD-RW CRX140E in.

Can anyone recommend a *good* 300+W power supply with built-in line conditioning? My son's system is suffering from crappy wall power, and instead of getting one of APC's line conditioners, I thought I'd scope out PSUs that would do it instead. Thanks.

Up until Windows XP (and even after) I have always partitioned my hard disk with FDISK. With the new technology of XP I understand you can now partition you hard disk within Windows. I would like to hear opinions (or maybe even concrete facts) as to which way is better. Before alot of you say "Man,...

Hello, I'm about a used ATI Rage LT Pro original, AGP, tv-out, 8mb what do you think of that piece of hardware? Reliable? Is it enough to play DivX on a TV screen? thx

Hello, about 6 months ago i got a 80GB maxtor HD. I partitioned and formatted it with max-blast and created a few partitions for windows and linux. Everything seems to work fine but when i want to rezise, delete or do annything with the drive using partition magic it can do annything claiming it...