I live in Toronto Canada, and I have some serious computer problems :( First I will explain why I am angry .. then I will explain the problems I am having with my computer lol I tried installing Macromedia Dreamweaver...Fireworks and Microsoft Office 2003. Each time I got an error saying that I...

I have a problem that quite frankly baffles me, so I might not tell it right since I have no clue what is actually going on. I built myself a new PC: Asus P5GD1 motherboard (Intel 915P chipset) 2 WD harddisks, a NEC dvd/cd rw Nvidia GeForce 6200 video card (PCIx) Hauppauge WinTV Go! TV card

Can anyone suggest where I might be able to pick up a replacement reciever for my cordless keyboard/mouse? Current one I have no longer works with the keyboard. Mouse is fine. Keyboard works with friends reciever. Model number "C-RA2-DUAL" Part number "850569-0000" Made by Logitech

I am looking into upgrading my son's PC. How do I identify which new motherboard will fit into the existing tower please?

hey there, after some excessive amount of case modding to fit 4 additional suckholes/blowholes (3 in the side case blowing IN and 1 on top of case blowing OUT), i've finally managed to bring my case temperatures under control -- about 6C above the room ambient (ambient is 28C, case is 34C). But my...

CrackerJack wrote: What exactly is the problem if too much cpu compound is put on the core and it gets squashed out onto the surrounding area? Apart from looking messy, is there any real problem with this? If you put on so much that the compound squashes out past the edges, that's too...

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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:40:47 GMT, Mark M wrote: I use a partition copier which boots off a floppy disk before any other OS is launched. If I copy a partition from one hard drive to another, then is there any risk of data corruption if the BIOS has...

Is there a generally-accepted best angle for the slope of a regular keyboard? One web page says this: ------------------ BEGIN QUOTE ----------------- "angle of the keyboard relative to the angle of the wrist. Most keyboards slope upwards from front to back, and this means that users bend...

OK, So, I have a 40GB USB hard drive, and I want to dual boot from it with winXP and Gentoo. Aswell as that, I want to use truecrypt to completely encrypt my OS and hard drive for one or both OS's. I have been googling around for a long while, and I know that this is a very difficult task but, it...

Suppose someone visited your office or home and tried to make a voice recording using a hidden recorder. If they used a older-style dictation machine based on tape then you could detect the electromagnetic transmissions from the dictation machine when it was recording. But how would you detect...

Here's how to boot between two Windows XP systems without using any special softwa First, Why? 1) Your system hard drive is getting old, and you want to be prepared for a quick switch-over to a new system hard drive when the old one croaks.

The following is my first home built system (proposed): Goals: Home theater, versatility, fast, quiet. Budget: $2000 $80 Full Tower Case http://www.directron.com/ma01bd.html Black is awesome. Full tower allows me to put this on the floor next to my digital piano (Clavinova CVP 109) and have...

Started today. It looks pretty cool. http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=305996&pfp=BROWSE

What wears out in an HDD? Is it only the tone arm that breaks? or can the bearings the platter rides on break??? Good watches use jewels, rubies, as bearings; and cheap watches use metal. What do hard drives use? I googled but couldn't find much about this. Does the spindle really ride on...

A friend gave me a Toshiba Satellite A85-S1072, and said if I can get the durned thing to boot I can have it. He said his son set the password in the BIOS, and promptly forgot it. Now it won't boot until the correct password is entered of course. Anyhoo, I have a Hiren's Boot CD (v15.2) with a...

hi, x-posted this is not a very popular topic as i keep losing people :-) but i'd appreciate any help. ibm aptiva 2159-s90 (1997; split system; win95B) SUDDENLY for no reason, had post-start-up errors (date and time change (they hadn't changed) and config change -- referred to the floppy...

Hello, Today 29 june 2015 after installing Microsoft Windows 7 updates the Creative Labs X-Fi Elite Pro Soundblaster 7.1 stopped working. (No more sound, no more audio devices available for console launcher, software for soundblaster). The update process went as follows: I accidently clicked...

I have been weighing up the value of these two processors in a new system. It seems to me the two processors have fairly similar performances in most situations but that an AMD64 system is considerably more expensive at about £100 - £150 more (not so easy to compare as other items on the machines...

A friend of mine has this old computer with a Jetway 720BF motherboard, 64MB of 168pin 100MHz SDRAM and a Pentium II (Slot 1) CPU (100MHz FSB) with 450MHz installed. The computer still does the job but I was wondering if it would be possible to tweak the thing a little bit. According to the...