Hi, I guess I've been out of the loop too long. I was at CompUSA looking at a whole isles worth of keyboards for my new system and came away thinking that for something a person would spend hours working with the quality seems like they were meant to be about as enduring as Gillette disposables....

Okay, put this thing together finally. An AMD Athlon 950 with a NEW power supply since the old one was making nice burning smells. So for the whole night while I was in the kitchen installing stuff it worked perfect (about 2 hours). Then I move it to a different room and hook it up and now it...

Hi all, I'm having HD problems. Basically I've run scandisk for a few days (an Norton diskdoctor) and today the disk didn't show up in windows... It's a maxtor 80gig - downloaded their drive utility and the drive seems to be ok. When I now boot to a bootdisk - I get the "...there is no valid...

Hi everyones. Thanks a lot to take the time to read...i appreciate. I'm in a big dilemma here, and i need your comments and ideas. I have an IBM Aptiva with the following configurations: AMD K6-2 400Mhz--256Mb pc100 RAM--80 Gb 7200rpm Maxtor-- integrated ATI Rage Pro 8Mb video--integrated ESS solo...

Hi, There's a Revision C of this router (http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=63#firmware) but no vendors (Newegg, Googlegear, TigerDirect) I've contacted can guarantee I'll get this latest version with the faster processor and I'd rather not play the game of sending things back till I...

Hello We have 2 IBM Travelstar Hard Drives that have been tested using the "IBM fitness test software utility" and have failed the test due to "password" protection. Does anyone know how to break hdd passwords? If so it would be much appreciated if you can help. --

I have a compaq presario laptop 900Mhz P3. This morning I couldnt get any power when I turned on. I have replaced power supplies on PCs, never laptops. How hard and expensive. thanks craig

Well, the Sub-BGT worked like a charm, nice and bright now - but one problem, the screen is slightly out of focus. There is no outside focus or sharpness buttons, so I am wondering if there is some on the inside. Any recommendations?

Hi everyones. Thanks to read. I need to replace the motherboard in my IBM Aptiva (1999) that is getting sick, but since it's a microATX format... i will probably have trouble finding a motherboard that fits since most now are ATX. The actual power supply doesn't even deliver 150Watts so replacing...

The Biostar M7NCD is a lot less than some others with the Nvidia nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset; any negatives? Reviews were good at newegg, but couldn't find it rated at motherboards.org. Or, is there a different one you'd recommend, with eye towards bang for the buck? I may overclock, but haven't done...

my computer seems to be making a ticking noise - very regular, maybe 1 tick per second or slightly quicker. I'm not sure whether its one of the hardrives. Its _not_ a click, like when a HD goes down, I've heard that and that is definitely a clicking or a crunch, but this is definitely a tick...

I am a little curious about the inner working of the monitor now - Why would they place the SUB -BGT right next to the H V ADJ (it is on the left side of the monitor) and have the two GAIN pots and the CONTRAST pot together (they are bunched together at the back of the monitor)? Should the SUB -...

I am building a new machine using a M7VIG Pro MOBO. The case has two front USB's (USB2?). Anyway the MOBO manual is very sparse in info and shows in a diagram two (JUSB2 & JUSB3) headers marked: 2 . . . . . Pin 1,2 == +5V 1 . . . . Pin 3,4 === Data(-) Pin 5,6 ===...

I have a new AMD Athlon 2000 CPU on a M7VIG Pro MOBO. Should I set the CPU frequency at 100 or 133? Thank you

When I boot my laptop, I get a message saying that new hardware has been found, specifically a "software modem". I'm not sure what a "software modem" is, and I don't think I have one or need one on this system. What do I do to get rid of this message?

Hi all, If anyone can help I'll be eternally grateful, Basically, I'm trying to add some RAM to my old crap PC (bought in 1998 - a Cyrix 6x86 M2 300Mhz with 32 MB RAM, 4 MB of which is used for onboard graphics - dunno what motherboard model it is though). I went to buy a 256 MB DIMM (PC133) for...

Not quite sure whether this would be an appropriate group to post this, please feel free to offer anything more suitable if you know of any groups. I have a Compaq TFT500 monitor which has a screen fault in that the display seems to have a dull greenish tint to it when compared to a known...

I was wondering something, I have some audio links that I want to save to my HDD. However when I save these files (usually .asx format) they only link to online content, thus I have to be online to access them. I was wondering what if anything I can use to save these to my hdd? TIA ParanoiaBOTS

hello, Is there any way to have more than 4 hard disks (include any IDE device cd-rom, dvd etc.) on a system. What do I need? thanks

Just a bit of warning for anyone contemplating purchasing anything made by ECS... They will not honour their warranties. My mainboard has failed within the warranty period. ECS refused to issue an RMA number since I didn't purchase it directly from them. My supplier is out of business. At this...