"Dr Joolz" wrote in message ... Hi guys, I have an Asus CUSL2 motherboard and a 80GB HDD, and am thinking of getting a 120GB HDD as a 2nd drive in the system, first of all does anyone know if the CUSL2 will take 200GB of storage...

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Hi All, I've had a lot trouble with email. On closer inspection one test email showed a character error in address: E.g. should be viu.ca Where do I start? Server?

I recently bought a "bare bones" computer (Asus A7n8X Deluxe mobo, Athlon XP 2500+ CPU, 512MB RAM, WinXP Home) and transferred my existing hard and optical drives into it, from a much older computer, where they had been working just fine (the drives themselves are much newer than the other parts of...

Anyone know where I might download the manual for motherboard M2N78-LA free? Or is that asking too much? Love Duke

Hi Ive got 2 PC's at home i need to upgrade to allow my kids to LAN play 1942: Battlefield (a game they both love and all their friends play) The games minimum requirements a pentium3 500mhz. (My kids PC is an intel pentium3 450 mhz and Pentium 2 and the game wont run) Therefore i wish to...

"w_tom" wrote in message ... This is deception: I like to tell callers that the modem has acted as a fuse, and saved the rest of their P.C. Lightning has traveled many miles through non-conductive air. Is a silly little 'fuse'...

Free Agent Matthew Newton keeps a watchful eye on Open Source and Free Software, and shows that you don't need commercial apps to get the job done. Freedom: Coming to a Windows Box Near You Who said that Free Software is just for Linux users?

Halfgaar Babbled on and on and on about: Wheat Muncher wrote: I would have thought the same, until I tried it. It actually caused my case temp to rise a good 10 degrees celcius, which in turn made everything a bit hotter. As it stands also, AMD's need the PSU to draw the hot air...

Got a dead 7200 Western Digital drive (9 months old) I want to get repaired. Just physically repaired. I will do the data recovery. It is not being recognized by the bios and makes clicking/scratching sounds. Too far gone for software recovery without the physical problem being repaired. So,...

"Piotr Makley" wrote in message ... I use a 1-point Pozidriv screwdriver made by Stanley for work on my PC. it works very well. It seems to be the best point size and type. I get little slippage. The cross-slots hold well. Etc. ...

I recently installed an old Maxtor 7120AT into my AMD 2800+ machine running Win XP. The machine correctly identifies the Maxtor drive as a slave, and mounts it on the file system as drive F:. The control panel reports this device as a "Maxtor 7120 AT". When I open the F drive in Windows, the...

Ok, so I'm looking for advice on what sort of computer equipment I need for the project I'm taking on. I work at a talent agency and we want to be able to put together our actors' demo reels on DVD. Up to now, we have been using video tape. For a bunch of different reasons that are pretty obvious,...

Hello, if the speed and quality of solid state memory depend by internal controller , what could be better SD or microSD ? For example main difference by SSD and a SD is the internal controller ( a SSD have many arm cpu as internal controller ) , so a SD could be better than a microSD because...

Hi, I've been using an Acer Aspire 5000 notebook for about a year. During that while I have only occasionally used the DVD drive for writing DVDs. Just recently, I tried again and it failed twice in the middle of a burn. I am using Windows XPSP2 and Nero 7. The log file that Nero generates is...

I need some help please!! I'm looking for a motherboard with sound, network board, and graphic card onboard. The motherboard needs support for an Athlon64 CPU. I also want 2 SATA connections and if possible a "Suspend-to-RAM" feature. I found this link, but I don't understand excatly all features...

As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS on an active partition when booting it up for the 1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen" by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you have to open...

Hey guys. I'm looking at upgrading my PC and I've come across an interesting problem: - Pay £165 for a Intel Dual Core E6850 (clocked @ 3.0GHz) - Pay £160 for a Quad Core Q6600 (clocked @ 2.4GHz) Now to my untrained eye, the quad-core seems like an easy choice. Am I correct, or is the...

What is a good wifi extender solution for Windows laptops in Europe? My college-age daughter is traveling in the summer to visit old-school relatives in Europe who are still on dialup, but they live next door to my sister in law who owns the apartment next door with basic WiFi but it has a very...

I didn't know that the All-In-One ever made a comeback ! https://eco-techrecycling.com/hp-8300-2 Where were these used - education ? John T.