I have a new LG SATA GH22LS50 burner with which I wanted to experiment to try Lightscribe to label disks. I ordered some Verbatim Lightscribe DVD-R disks at the same time. I also bought a few HP DVD+R Lightscribe disks, which I started using first. All went well. I recorded one set of...

Recently, a friend told me that he'd heard talk (not something he saw on the net or read in a magazine) that Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives are more reliable than their other 7200 rpm models. Is there any truth to this ? I already had a general idea about the differences in performance (quite a...

I am having problems taking full advantage of my system's audio capabilities. I have a system with the following configurations, hardware, and software settings: System: Pentium 4 (3GHz, 1GB RAM) Windows XP Home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 Sound Card: SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS

I am building a system with IDE & Sata HDD's. I want to install the OS on the IDE. Would I be better to install the IDE drive & OS first and add the Sata after everything is up and running? I'm wondering if XP will pick up the Sata on it's own without sata drivers being installed. Another...

hi everybody, I've a problem with the audio recording. My Pc is equipped with: mother board GA-8SQ800 F4 (Gigabyte) - O.S. :win XP pro - device audio: Realtek AC97 Audio. When I try to record my voice , after I've recorded it, I can hear only noise.

I'm cleaning up my file library and I just came across a Ritek DVD-R that looks fine according to the directory structure, but about 80% of the files I read from it are coming up as all zeros. I copied the contents of the disk to my hard drive without errors. All the files that I expect to find...

I am running an Athlon XP 2000+ Not sure of the fan and heatsink make and model. Monitoring with Speedfan 4.34 Logging cpu temp and cpu fan rpm Yesterday's SF log of about 4 hours ending with a crash (electrical outage, fwiw) with 15,413 samples, showed: CPU temp variation -- 40 - 45 degrees...

Hi, My family recently had to send their desktop PC back to the manufacturers (a small/medium sized OEM) with a hardware fault. They returned it claiming that they could find no fault, so I'm trying to get some information on what they used to test the machine and on a couple of odd statements in...

I have seen these SD card adapters to plug a card into the USB port. (Instead of using a lead to transfer the data from a device such as a digita camera.) In general do these apaters permit the PC to write to the SD Card?

Hello, I recently bought 4gig of corsair ram (5-5-10) and installed it into my pc, running on windows xp X64, but the PC is showing me that it's seeing only 3.25gb (or 3328mb in the bios) of ram. Now I'm running it on a Asus P5B SE motherboard, which is fairly old, but this shouldnt be the...

Nothing in literature with external drive, nor on manufacturer's web site explains why the there are two ieee 1394 (firewire) ports. anyone know the purpose of having two? --David

Hi, The problem I have concerns an old computer (~ 2001), and it's about playing audio and video files. The symptoms are pitches and crackles in audio playback (not only in mp3's or audio CDs, but even during the Windows log in sound, or the "click sound" when using the mouse). The video problems...

A friend of mine has a pc that's not booting, so I took out the HD and connected it to my PC, using a special USB cable, and my PC says it found the new hardware, even shows the correct name and model number when it pops up the little balloon in the systray. But then when I try to open file...

Is this a good thing to do. I have an external hard drive and have it always powered-up. It is quite warm since there are not heat sinks or cooling fans that I am aware of. I'm just wondering if these externals were meant only for backing up data or for mobility of large amounts of data rather...

What's the best A3 Colour Printer to buy? I am thinking of getting a HP Photosmart 8750. Is there anything else that I should consider? Cheers. ss.

For googlers. Installed XP on Maxtor 80gb 7200rpm drive. IDE 0, master. Used XP install to format primary 20gig partition, which had held a working XP from another machine, and was NTFS. XP worked fine. Installed SP2, and XP worked fine. Imaged that to extended NTFS 20gb partition on same...

Who is making the most solid NVidia cards these days? PNY, BFG, eVga, XFX etc. Just looking for opinions on brand to settle a dispute. I need general opinions. TIA

I have a Socket A M/B with an Athlon XP2000 chip. I also have an 80Gb HDD. I have just cought a new 250 Gb S-ATA drive and am now told that it will not work with my old motherboard. Is my friend right, and can I fix it without sending back the HDD? TIA Dave

Does a P4 mother board (950...) fit in to PII or PIII case. I will buy a new PSU. Boba Vancouver

I just bought a Sony Vaio yesterday. It has a 120g drive and it is divided into 2 partitions 14g and 92g. I wasn't expecting it to be partitioned out the box and was wondering what would be the rationale in keeping it this way? Because I'm considering just getting rid of the second partition. Can...