This is a bit of a long shot, but maybe somebody has seen something like this, I am thinking not but ya never know. Situation is really weird: My PC can play World of Warships fine, Company of Heroes via Game Ranger fine. It can browse/websurf the internet fine. It can even connect to another...

Toolpackinmama here, My friends, never mind why I didn't know better than to perch the Captain Kirk water globe I got for Xmas on top of my computer. It was a narrow cylindrical water-filled teleporter that lit up n stuff, and I just wanted to look at it a lot, OK? I bumped my desk too hard when...

I would like to install a small fire detection/suppression system for my computer. I've seen a lot of rediculously expensive stuff online, but I'd like to spend as little as possible. Surely there's something that could be had for little more than the cost of a small hand-held fire-extinguisher,...

Is there any way to keep my CD-R and DVD drives from winding up every time I open Windows Explorer? What makes Windows decide to start the drives? They take 10 seconds to wind up (sounding like a jet engine the whole time), and Windows won't expand a file tree until they come up to speed. There...

I have a friend of a friend with a HP (Pavilion 7915) computer, and it crapped out recently, so my friend's friend had another's friend's teen son wipe the HD clean. Unfortunately, the friend's son who wiped the HD didn't know what to do after that. THAT'S WHEN THEY FINALLY THINK OF CALLING...

My budget is tight... very tight..... as I'm a full time college student. Having said that I'm wanting to build a solid desktop PC for general Internet and school use...something that is cheap to build now but has enough room to upgrade later when I get back to work. I'm NOT a techie at all and...

It is so hot here this summer that my computer crashes when it gets hot. I was looking into water cooled pc cases. Is it safe to buy a kit. Also the prices vary from £199 to £1,400. http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/WCUK-CM-690-II-Lite-USB2-240-Watercooled-Case-Black--Blue_35292.html I am not...

I tried taking a file manager shortcut from a prior installation (probably worked in Windows 8.0). Put it on the desktop. Pinned it to Start. From Start, pinned it to Taskbar. And thought I was getting away with something. But... That shortcut puts another icon on the taskbar whenever it's open....

I am using an old style mouse with cable and rollerball. I would like to upgrade it because it the rollerball gets clogged up with dirt. And the mousewheel too picks up dust which then gets into the internal workings and makes the scrolling action jerky. However, in the past I have heard various...

I bought a 450 watt power supply at CompUSA and then sent in all the paperwork to get a $20 rebate. When I got the rebate check I put it in my wallet and promptly forgot about it. It says: VOID after 12/30/2005. Has anybody had this problem and figured out how to get another check. I didn't try...

Hello all, I appologize in advance for crossposting in 3 different groups, but I'm unsure what the appropriate topic this issue falls under: First I want to say upfront that I am a systems engineer/builder/network engineer and have been dealing with hardware for years now so I am...

I check AMD X2 3800+ Manual that was deliver with my BOXED AMD X2 3800+ processor. The manual mentions nothing about the stock cpu cooler and it's fan. IT'S NOW OFFICIAL: I HATE AMD AND I WILL NEVER BUY A PROCESSOR FROM THEM EVER AGAIN ! (AND YOU CAN SHOVE YOUR FOKKING USELESS STREAM/GRAPHICS...

More and more, as I look at prefabricated cases for PCs, I ask myself: what prevents someone from building a PC with no case? For example, why couldn't you, say, build some sort of wooden mounting area into a wall or a desk, then mount all the components to it, so that you have something that...

I have a friend with a 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA (in a Win XP Pro machine) that's throwing weird partition issues at the drop of a hat. Last week, after the PC crashed in a game, the entire drive (3 primary NTFS partitions) became inaccessible. Partition Magic 8 showed it as one errored...

Bloody computers! My colleague has mongrel PC with the following spec: ECS P61WT-A+ board with a Celeron 766, 384MB RAM, onboard Intel i810 graphics, 10GB HDD and running Windows 98se. The BIOS is Award Modular v 6.00 PG; P61WT-A+ Ver. 1.0h 11/08/1999. Do you need any more information? It's...

OK, I'm back. Things are going slowly because of the pain in my head - but they're moving forward. What tools do I need to put together a PC (all suggestions welcome). Is there a small, powered screwdriver, variable speed, for this sort of thing? (I know I don't need a powered screwdriver for...

Hello, I used WinToUSB to install Windows 10 on a 128 USB/Flash stick. Windows 10 ISO used was: en_windows_10_core_10240_x64_dvd.iso (UnOfficial RTM)

One of the ports of my NEC-based USB 2.0 card quit working because the National Semiconductor LM3526 power controller chip failed. I'm pretty sure that I didn't zap it with static (I always touch the outher metal shell to the computer case before plugging it in) or try to plug it in backwards. ...

Hi, I have an odd (to me) problem. But I'm sure it has a "change this setting" solution. I added a new WD Caviar 160GB HD (ATA-100) to my computer. I partitioned it into 40GB NTFS and 120GB reiserfs. This drive is set as master. I installed winXP SP2 on the 40GB NTFS partition. A. When I run...

Hi, This question began with my attempts to find out why the CPU fan in my new homebuilt PC was rotating so fast (5000+ RPM) and, as a result, causing so much noise. I have one of the newish Intel P4 3E (Prescott/90nm) processors - the core temperature of which seems to vary between 60 and...