I have a new Gateway 500-series computer with an ATA RW-CDROM and a SATA hard drive. I added a 250i Zip drive to the middle connecter of the CDROM cable. I added an ATA/IDE hard drive to the end connector of its own cable. Everything is set to cable-select. When I first booted, it recognized...

Can I mix doubled-sided ram with singled ram? Both are SDRam, Dimms, 133MHz Motheboard = ASUS A7V-133 CPU = Athlon 1.20 GHz thanks

I need a board that goes in a mits diamond pro 91txm monitor.......anyone know where i can locate old parts? Mits no longer makes the part so i am screwed there

I am considering buying a mitsubishi/diomand view lcd 17" monitor. my question is there are a choice of 3 models DV172, DV173, DV175. They all seem to retail for exactly the same price. In your opinion which one would be best suited for photo editing as a main application? And also how much better...

I've just got my monitor back from a service and I'm having difficulty with a couple of settings. First thing I did was adjust the picture size so it's right to the edge of the screen. But, when I restart my PC, the picture has shrunk a fraction so I have to readjust it again. I've tried doing this...

I have a monitor which, with a series of clicks, switches on and off. I have tried switching the Power save function off. No difference. When I then switch it off at the power button, then switch on, it will behave normally, sometimes. This behaviour sometimes begins on power up of the...

is it just a case of removing all the screws in the base to remove the case or is there another way to the CPU

Hi, I just tried to update my Mitac 6120N notebook with the latest bios ver. 1.11 I typed the command miflash ***.bin /u Now the laptop is dead. Is there any way to recover the bios?

Hello, can someone help me? I'm looking for the manual of the monitor Mistubishi EUM-2951A. Contact me by email (remove ANTISPAM). Thanks in advance.

Hi there, I had a major problem with my old pc today...It began some month ago...The machine got stuck completely so that only the small switch behind could help...Today, my pc turned off automatically (just black screen, no correct shutdown) and if you turn on the small switch on the backside and...

To All Cognoscenti, Greetings! After I inserted my backup drive (Maxtor 6Y160PO, residing in a removable rack) into the computer and started it up, the machine did an automatic diskcheck and found no error. When I checked HD HeartBeat, it had a yellow warning on the backup drive. Under the SMART...

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Hi Everyone I have been using a 60 gig harddrive as my primary with an XP OS on the ntfs file system. I also installed XP on my 15 gig HD onthe FAT32 file system. Ever since i got my 25 gig drive to run, now i can't load my 60 gig HD with the NTFS file system. My error message when i try to run my...

I’ve got a WinXP Pro system, which until recently had the full range of power management options and schemes (turn off monitor/harddisks, system standby, system hibernation), but now has lost the option to go into standby mode. The mode seems to be completely absent from all options, including the...

Hi, On my Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120 GB disk I have two partitions, one small for OS and one large for programs/data. After running DC++ for awhile the large partition seemed sluggish so I ran WinXP's built-in defragmentation program. This worked fine and the large partition was accessible...

SATARaid drives 0 and 1 are shown during POST, but only drive 0 appears in XP. In XP, the local disk drives should be C:\, D:\, and G:\. I have 2 hard drives connected on the SATA slot and one on IDE. Go easy on me, I know nothing about RAID. Thanks for your help.

Oh wow! I did a time-consuming (many hours) copy-paste of a large folder with many folders&files from one large USB stick to another (1TB). The result looks bad. The # and size of the folders & files are 'way different: FROM TO #FOLDERS=2710 ...

My D: drive (my CD-ROM) seems to have disappeared. My CPU no longer thinks there is a D: drive. How can I make the CPU recognize it again? BF

My OS is XP and i just booted up and mysteriously my CD drive is missing from my computer and will not work .. tried sysrestore.. didn't help.. any suggestions :(

My sister, who lives 100 miles away, gets video but not audio on most of the URLs that people email to her. For example on: http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html (Great fun video, BTW.) Any ideas what software she is missing? Shockwave? Real Audio? Files with a .wmv or .wma extension seem to work...