I have a Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KA7PD0/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 that is getting a bit iffy at times. It's a beast of a mouse, but I love it- the way it fits my hand, the easily accessible buttons, etc. I've tried a...

Hi Rod, With the battery removed, same thing. I had tried that already. Remember, I am a service technician. The fact that Ctrl and power button (manual says to do this if power won't go off) makes it go "off" (LEDs) indicates that Bios is "working", at least in part if it is the source of...

I have been thinking of buying one LCD. I have a very nice monitor, and I love tube monitors. LCD monitors have turned me off because nearly all LCD makers don't want to sell backlight for the LCD, and present LCD won't work with HD-DVD due to "systemwide content protection scheme called PVP-OPM"...

Hello, Since some time now, I have a problem with my standby function in Windows XP. Sometimes when I push the sleep button on my keyboard, the pc goes into standby (S3) but immediately resumes. After a few seconds I push again and it goes and remains in standby. It looks it happens when the pc...

The usage will be for training staff via MS-PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets and MS-Word documents. It has to be TV capable so that a cable connection from Comcast will allow viewing news from Comcast as well as ability to connect to the Internet. It also should be able to connect to a...

How is the performance on the celeron compared to Pentium 4 - both 2,4 ghz. As see the Celeron has a 128 kb cache and the Pentium 4 times as much. How much impact will that do on a server if a Celeron is chosen? Regards Per

I'm hoping that the 'hardware' groups may be able to assist as I've had no answers from Networking groups. I use a mixture of Linux Mandrake, Win98, ME and XP. I have a wireless network with Netgear WG602 54mbps AP, Netgear WG602 54mbps PC card, a Linksys 11mbps USB adapter and a WiFi enabled...

Hi all. A friend of mine would like to built his own new machine. Mostly for gaming. AMD or Pentium ?? He would like a P4 about 2.0. What mobo should he get? Must be 8*AGP .I built my own AMD with a FIC13 mobo, but i dont know all that much about Pentium. And prob about 2gig of at least PC2100...

On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:43:42 +0100, "Martin Nike" wrote: Is it normal for the MS wireless intellimouse explorer to require new batteries every few weeks? Regards Patrick.

Just found this adapter: http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapter_cfide_fdd.shtml It lets you connect a compactFlash memory card to your IDE interface, to act as a permanent storage (hard disk). Anyone any experience of this technology and can comment on performance versus a 'normal'...

"Lem" wrote in message ... Am looking for cheap mono laser printer for personal home use for under about £160. Will print about 200 to 250 pages a month. Are there any models which are outright winners in this category? By the way, are...

My new computer came delivered today. Good - but bad. The supposed 1.4Ghz AMD Duron has come up under SiSoftware Sandra utility as 1.05Ghz and under Windows 2000 Professional system information screen: x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1048 Mhz. However searching for the information...

Here is an idea for the future which could buy some time with increasing computer performance: Start designing entire computers which are very heat tolerent. So illiminate all components which are low heat tolerent like plastics/pcb's and such. Replace everything with maybe metals or so which...

Hi, I will try once more. I did not get the answer I need: This PCI card says it will work with DOS. Also, using MSD I can get the computer to recognize the card, remap the IRQ and use the right address (I have disabled the built-in ports except LPT1 to make sure this doesn't have an impact)....

I recently purchased an OEM version of the SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 for a computer I was building at home (the full title is CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER LIVE! DE 5.1 OEM and the part # is SB0220). When it came time to install the card, I noticed that there was no CD IN connector on the board. I found...

Been lurking in newsgroups and have just realised its a good idea to have additional partitions on hard drives. Glad to have opinion/ideas on how best to manage this. I have two hard drives installed, neither of which have more than one partition...and both only about 5% used at the mo:- C:...

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:25:27 +0100, Knowing that it was a Hollywood invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Guy" wrote : Hello and thanks for reading me, I am the owner of a Packard Bell computer which has an AMD 2400+ cpu, a NOVA mother board and an integrated nVidia...

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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:34:35 GMT, "Stephen Jaye" wrote: Howdy To All, I wish to purchase an older PCI display adapter w/correct drivers, or download correct drivers for present card, I'm ressurecting an old Micron P166 running Win95 for a disabled retiree....

hi all, inot sure where to post this, but here goes.... have a prob concerning a win2000 pro installation. when i have installed win 2000 onto a freshly formatted drive, all seems to be ok untill i use the mainboard cd to install the chipset drivers/usb ports etc. what happens then is that i loose...