Hi On a 7zx board sometimes the hard disks aren't detected by the CMOS at startup. I must unplug the DD cables from the MB and restart the machine. The cables are brand new. Is there something to do to fix that pb ? Thanks

I have a little domestic LAN with 2 PCs and I'm considering buying a WD My Book Home Edition 1TB since it has 3 interfaces and I thought I could connect it to PC1 through USB 2.0 and to PC2 through FireWire400 (there is another interface eSata for a future PC3...) so I could access it from one...

Hello, Here is the setup I am considering : 1 PC with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse on 1 side of the desk, and another monitor keyboard and mouse on the other side for my wife. Only 1 of us will be on the system at any given time. If I get a computer with 2 monitor inputs and wireless keyboad and...

Hello All, I wish to purchase a new laptop and chose Inspiron 1525 as it seems to be an affordable one with a Pentium processor. 1) What is your budget? 35K-45K in Indian rupees 2) What size notebook would you prefer?

My hardware and software characteristic: Card name: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e Operating System: Windows XP Professional DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) ------------------------------------------------------- Driver...

Hi: Can informating stored in volatile RAM still be recovered after the computer is turned off? I remember reading something on a forensics website that the evidence is not only on the platters of the HDD but also on the disk cache chips and the volatile RAM chips in the PC. Even if the PC is...

Not sure if this is the right group but oh well... An idea to speed up busses. Take the PCI bus for example. It has 32-bit data path. Lets increase it to 256-bit but group it into 8 sub-busses. Each sub-bus acts as a PCI bus and a device can select which sub bus it wants. It can be made...

Does anyone know of a free progarm that I can run that will tell me if a particular cable is USB or USB2? I have quite a collection, a lot of which came packaged with various devices; a handful of cables are now marked by the manufacturer as USB2, but that is a relatively new policy. Anyone...

My motherboard is USB 1.1 enabled and has a few USB ports available on the back. The front USB ports have broken so I purchased a USB hub and a generic USB 2.0 card. I don't really know whether installing the USB 2.0 card gets me that speed if the motherboard's onboard support is only USB 1.1...

Hello. I have an Esprimo Mobile v5535 laptop by Fujitsu Siemens. I can set monitor brightness by function keys Fn-F8 and Fn-F9 but every time I shutdown the laptop and start it up again the brightness level is set to factory default. I would like to make a small program and make it start at boot...

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Hi, when I go to create, with my external disk "Maxtor OneTouch 4 plus", a Safety Drill copy of my harddisk "Samsung HD753LJ" I have this error: Target total disk(G:\) space 95386764 MB Target Total disk(G:\) free space 86466764 MB End System Info section Total space for vol C:\ 268440236032 ...

I am getting a window a few times a day now, that Is occurring without my having added any hardware whatsoever. The window says Some device(s) have been hot-plugged in/out, information displays or devices will be updated I wonder where this came from. The one thing that I have done recently,...

Hi, My USB's don't respond to any devices plugged in. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling them under Device Manager, but still does not respond. I've read that maybe updating my BIOS may help but I'm having difficulties with that.

Hi I googled alot but I couldnt get the answer for this issue. The Dell laptop (inspiron 600m) bought in 2005 worked pretty well. Now its not booting, the three LEDs above round power-on button blinks for few seconds and goes off. I showed it to the local laptop repairer, he couldnt fix it and with...

How to restore it to its FACTORY Default state without re-install the OS (WinXP Home) Thank you very much !!! -- ************************************************************************** Stephen Lo, Vancouver, BC., CA.

Continuing the thread from he http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.hardware/browse_thread/thread/5af5bd864c1a4369/d9e56ffcd7f7d002?hl=en&lnk=gst In a nutshell though, my mainboard is an MS-6390 by MSI with firmware version 2.4. I bought an IDE HDD (WD Caviar SE 320 GB, 3200AAJB) a few weeks...

Hallo one friend just plug the 4 pin power connector in the wrong way to her hard disc. It seems that the part which is used to protect the over voltage has been burn-off. I am gonna change the part which is "physical" broken and back up her data. i wrote down the label on the component as AE VU

Can you please help ID this Asus mobo? ------------------- Very recent model. Based on some new Intel chipset (successor to P35 perhaps?) socket 775 3 PCI slots 8 channel sound 6 SATA

I never see a post on this subject. I also never hear of others having my problem. So I am wondering why me? Anyway - This is my experience: I have two XP AMD machines, each with two IDE hard drives and one IDE DVD burner. I run them both, using a KVM to select each one. They both are some 3...