More of a grumble than a request for help, but if anyone can save me future hassle, please feel free... I have a Shuttle PC which I use in the Living Room. Recently needed to reformat it and started again with WinXP. So I unplugged it and took it through to my computer room and formatted it, put...

Hi, I have a dell 650 poweredge, and have just tried disconnecting c: ( primary channel ) to check it boots ok from d: ( secondary ) however it doesnt. Also there's no option in the bios to boot from d:, so is it not supported? seems a bit stupid to me... Dunno if this is the best place to get...

Hi, My daughter just called from DC. Her printer (HP 3650) stopped feeding in the middle of a print job. She can hear the usual noises but it just won't feed. She tried fanning the paper then feeding in one sheet to no avail. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks,

A newbie question about USB. I am developing a PC application (not driver) to communicate with a USB 2.0 slave peripheral device. I would like to know, if my application has built a connection and is talking to the USB peripheral, and I disconnect the cable suddenly, will the application be able to...

Hi all, 1) Is it worth going with AGP still? How long has the tech got left? I want to get the ASUS P5S800 as it seems like good value for money, and I am trying to put a PC together for ~£350. Rest of system to be: P4 prescott LGA775 @ 3Gig 512 DDR400

Hi I am planning to buy an ABit AN8 Ultra. I want to build a cheap reliable machine which is quick at Photoshop CS2 work. ABit AN8 Ultra 2x 512MB DDR400 CL2.5 Corsair Memory Radeon X800GT 256MB graphics card (for a bit of Battlefield 2!) And this is where I get stuck. I have read everyones...

I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB monitor and over the past couple of days I've noticed a sort of ghost line appears at the bottom of the screen. It moves up and down a bit and I noticed that, for a split second, the picture contracts a tiny bit and then returns to normal. I should point...

I just got a new Dell 9100 system that came with XP Media Center OS. Few questions: 1. Can I Ghost the system image to another (home built) non-Dell system with similar CPU parameters. 2. I noticed that they included I386 binaries on the HDD. Can I somehow copy this to another PC and run XP setup...

Ok, so its not really "new" its old, i got it off this guy that sells monitors on ebay. I bought from him a Viewsonic Viewpanel 15" LCD TFT Monitor. In his auction photos the monitor seemed fine, nice pictures etc. Feedback great, seems to sell monitors only. Well today it came and when i first...

Dear All, anyone knows where I can find a newer manual for motherboard Asus p3v133, so I can set up the motherboard to a Pentium III 933 (the manual I have only shows how to do it until 733mhz). Any help is really appreciated it. thanks in advance.

hi, I'm after a udma 133 ide cable for a dell 1u rackmount server, and I can't find them anywhere! I've found a udma 100 cable. What is it that restricts it to 133? Will it work at 133? If not will i lose anything noticably? I'm planning on using software raid so this could be critical! Rgds,

v4t9hy3d8 wrote: if i put my old 10 gig hard drive which had win98 into my new computer with a 60 gig with win xp will there be conficts? and must i keep my large windows98 folder with all its files on the smaller drive? What programs must i keep onthe old smaller drive or can they...

I am considering which to but. One issue which concerns me is the power consumption, somoething most people probably don't even think about when buying because they think it is insignigicant. Anyway a quick calculation, I am assuming my PC will be on about 16 hours a day on average (probablyon...

Your computer CPU is it's brain...... Just as when riding a motorcycle, do you really want to protect your brain with the cheapest product available? Spend the money, get a good one. Your local computer store will be able to match up a fair priced one with your CPU. -If a new fan is required,...

I am unable to boot a new ASRock K7VM3 motherboard that I am installing in an e-machines H2482 computer case. I am using an Athlon XP 2400 CPU and 512-meg of DDR RAM, which both were working correctly in another computer. After installing the RAM, CPU and CPU fan, and connecting a 300 watt...

I have one of these I use to connect an older printer to my PC. Will such a converter work for all parallel devices? Peter.

I have a new PC that intermittently locks up when I'm using it. Sometimes it'll be after just a couple of minutes, sometimes I'll have it running for hours, but it's locking up every couple of days and I don't know what to do about it. There's no error message displayed or anything, but the mouse...

Is there a changeover switch available that allows switching a single monitor for use by two computers?. Thanks J.

Hi, Today I got my PC back from a repair/upgrades shop and I got a new case. There is a knob at the front of it, but the guy said he couldn't connect it up to something (my soundcard I think he said) because he didn't have the 'book' for it. What's that knob for exactly? My sound works fine, so is...

Hi All, I've just built a pc with 1 RAM stick, nominally 1 gigabyte. Evry measure of the RAM size, by every sort of utility, including memtest, shows a size of 960 M. It seems to me I should be seeing the advertised 1024 M.