I would like to have an A-B switch for Cat5 network cable that would allow me to switch between a "normal for me" installation of Westell 6100 modem and LinkSys Wireless router to the computer or from the modem directly to the computer, bypassing the router. Does such a switch exist? I have been...

Hi All, About two years ago I had a hard drive go belly up on me. The stepper motor was the problem. The disc inside the hard drive was OK. My IT, at that time, told me that in about two years there would be a prouct on the market that anyone could buy that could read the disc from the hard...

Picked up a PIII computer and monitor off the side of the road yesterday. My neighbors say they worked before they put them out there. However it rained that morning so the innards are wet. I opened up the computer to let it dry out and it doesn't look wet inside. The monitor I don't know...

Got sick of choosing between mouse pads that didn't work with my optical mouse and using my mouse without one (didn't feel right). Story: http://www.sugapablo.net/story.php?id=447 Posting because I would've loved to have been able to Google this. -- Sugapablo

Hi all. I've bought a new 400 W power suply. It was supposed to be a silence power suply. In fact, it is less noisy than my old one, but when I turn on the compueter it makes a lot of noise... It's not a regular noise, like the noise of a fan. It's some kind of tickling sound... In 3 / 4 minutes...

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:08:44 +1200, Jack Hammond wrote: Are there and DVD Writers that fully support multisession, with say DVD+ RW/DVD+R Writing..? From what I have read it not supported in the DVD reading specs.. Thanks

I've resurrected an old Pentium computer from the early '90s, an old system of mine that's been in the closet for a few years. I got it up and running well, but it only has 64M of RAM in it and I would like to add more, if it's even available any more. I'm trying to identify the motherboard so I...

I'm shopping for an external drive enclosure. It makes sense to me to get one that will take either PATA or SATA drives, and have found a few of those at...

I'm looking to build a couple of systems right away just for simple home use. I don't play games too much on my PC at all, so, I'm just looking to build a decent and comptent system for general computer use. The specs I have are below. As you can see, about the only things different are the CPUs...

I won this on ebay: Dell Dimension XPS B933 Motherboard PIII 933mhz 128mb Anyone have experience with this or something similar? I'm trying to figure out if there's a power switch pair of pins or how that works. Thanks.

I've a hard drive that began to fail, sometimes bios recognised it and SO began to boot, but next to it system reboots. Now none computer find it. I'm think that hd don't spin, because i dont listen noise. any tool could access to hd without bios support ? the hd is a western digital caviar...

I wonder if you can help me. I have a Desktop PC that has broken so I have ordered a new one and am awaiting its delivery. I do not know if the HD's in my broken PC are damaged or whether they are still in good working order. What I wanted to know; and I do not know if this is even possible, is,...

Hello Group, About a year ago, I bought 2 WD Caviar SE-Serial ATA drives (WD3000JD) within a week of each other. Installed them in the computer and used them for VIDEO_TS directories - using the second drive as a backup. A few months ago the first drive DIED...TOTALLY.... within a week,...

I have on board video and am upgrading to 128mb pci card. Is it necessary to disable the on board before installing the new card. Didn't know if windows did this and automatically picked up on the new card or not. System is win xp home. Thanks

Hello, I am upgrading my AGP video card in order to have a DVI port and dual monitor support. I found a card I like at Newegg, Gigabyte GV-N52128DS with a DVI and D-SUB connectors. Do you know if I can connect 2 monitors to this card? I am running Windows XP. Thank you. Below is the link to...

I lost video on one of my Win98 computers this morning and I need some help to get it back. Upon doing a normal "reboot" from the desktop, with no programs running, the computer went thru the startup sequence but did not display anything on the monitor. Dead blank. I took the computer down, opened...

Anything to look for/avoid/be aware of in a KVM switch? The ones I'm seeing in retail stores Circuit City, Best Buy, Cheap Guys are $60 - $70ish, I see numerous much less expensive units on eBay. Thanks.

I bought a motherboard off Ebay. It arrived in a box, surrounded by bubble wrap. The motherboard was not put in antistatic envelop. What is the probability, in your opinion, that this would cause a static charge during the shipping process? GE

I recently got this from ebay: ----------------------------------------------------- Dell Optiplex GX1/GX110/GX150/GX200 System Board and PIII Processor This System Board has been pre-tested and pulled from a working Dell Optiplex 110 computer. It includes an Intel 866 MHZ Pentium III Processor and...

Hi there, I'm running a linux server on an old PentiumPro machine. Last week it suddenly started to run very slow until no repons at all. When I wanted to reboot the system it didn't pass the BIOS boot. Only several hours later I was able to reboot the system, but after about 10 minutes...