I have a Compaq Presario that has fried hard drive. I purchased a 40 Gig hard drive with a RPM of 5,600. According to Compaq, the BIOS has a capability of reading up to an 80 Gig hard drive at 5,400 RPM. I have installed it and have made sure that it is connected to the #1 IDE motherboard...

Dear Group, I have a problem with my Dell PowerEdge 1400SC. I see while I reboot the message in my screen "previous voltage alert!" This means accourding the manual that I have to replace my powersupply. I wonder what really is the problem and how serious this is. I had one year warrenty on this...

Hi... I've got a Acer Travelmate 350TE and when i was working in Microsoft Word and then wanted to go on the net thru copernicus... it suddenly appeared with this message: *** STOP: 0X00000077 (0XC000003C,0X000003C,0X00000000,0X00123000) KERNAL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR Beginning dump of physical...

Is your hub self powered or bus powered? Try making it self powered from a wall wart. Is this an ASUS p2b-d motherboard? There was a resistor problem with them involving USB power. Marc Reinig System Solutions "PaulAlex" wrote in...

I do graphic design and find myself with old jobs stored on obsolete media. Occasionally I need to copy from one of these old jobs in my current work. At first I begin copying my entire library of old media jobs onto new media as a matter of standard procedure. But that didn't last long. Then (and...

Hey all! Just wondering if there have been any improvements in the "broadband speed tweaking" area. Most of us know about changing the RWIN and MTU settings, but it's a long drawn out process... make a change, reboot, test... repeat, repeat, repeat. I was just wondering if someone had come up...

I recently installed a 120Gb HDD alongside my 20Gb HDD. I initially uninstalled the 20Gb, put the 120GB on the IDE cable as master (setting the appropriate link position) and did a clean install of Win Xp OS. The 120Gb HDD performed okay after the install. I then set the 120GB disk to Slave and...

Gateway still driving me nuts. Boot freezes at the MS flag. I can boot in safe mode, but have no idea what to look for to fix the problem. Can anyone suggest anything that I can do? Thank you

Hi I had a problem with my first drive. WinXP tells me I had a boot disk failure. I reinstalled windows and the boot problem went away. Now it seems very time I attach the second HD to the system at boot up the bios does not see any drives except the DVD. If I remove the drive cable the system...

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I would consider something like an ATHLON XP 2400 @ 266mhZ. I need both the MOBO and CPU (+ fan). I would like maybe more than three PCI slots, plus one ISA. Want ATX form factor with on board audio and video and a couple of USB ports. Money is a factor. Thanks

My neighbor has a Gateway 2000 G5-233 that may have been damaged by lightning-caused surge. Anyway now it doesn't fire up at all - no beeps. The PSU runs, as does its fan. I notice that the front outside panel has an LED that purports to show different conditions - it is amber which is so-called...

Whenever I log onto a specific ID on my Windows XP Professional computer it comes up with a screen that says BN Server and you can click the x on the small window to close it or terminate as it says. It doens't seem to cause any problems and only does it on one specific ID on my computer. If I log...

comp is acting weird. this is whats happening.... i switch on the comp, goes thru POST and all that no problem. when it gets to "starting windows xp", i get a message comming up saying "no signal" the screen is just black, i can hear windows booting up but i cant see anything apart from a black...

I recently installed a third hd on my system connected to a Maxtor ATA 100 PCI adapter card. The drive is recognized at boot-up and also shows up in system info as working properly, but it doesn't show up in Windows Explorer, My Computer, etc. I also have Partition Magic installed and the drive...

I have a delphi program which uses modem component to connect from PC side modem to a device side modem. I find that the program does not work with some kind of modems. (Some other kind of modems works very stable!) After connection my program will change the connection speed 19200 down to 9600....

Hello Someone I know has a Dell with the following specs Pentium III 866Mhz i815 Intel/Dell motherboard Geforce2 GTS 32MB (Dell) (latest drivers) Sound Blaster Live! value Windows XP

hi there, been asked to upgrade a friends pc ! now its got albeit old quite a funky MB dual slot 1 and onboard scsi at the mo its got a single pII 350 in Now looking on ebay i can get 2 x P3 700mhz for peanuts Or get a new athlon board and chip. It only needs to run premier 6 well what dya rekon ?

Hello, I have been shopping for a system for the past week and trying to find the best all around deal. Like most any person shopping for a computer, I want to deal with a good company and get a great product for a fair price. I'll tell you early on that I don't know enough to build my own...