We just put a new hard drive, and a new CD-RW in my sons computer, and are trying to install XP. We have formatted and partitioned the drive, and when we boot with XP, everything seems fine until we get to "installing devices". At this point the XP time estimate drops from about 37 to 34 minutes,...

Hi group, Does anyone know of a keyboard which contains an integrated touchpad or trackball currently on the market? I once saw a keyboard with a trackball where the number pad is usually located but can't remember the company who made it. I did a search among the "biggies" (Logitech, MS, etc...)...

Are there any latest Motherboards outhere that are backwards compatible with Pentium 3 chips?

does anyone know anywhere i can find out what the recommended operatitn temparatues of cpu's is i have a athlon Xp 2400 thorabread core, and seems to be running a bit hot - but im not sure - its running at around 60-64 c

Ina 2.8 class, is there much expected performance diffrerence??

Hi, I just tried to update my Mitac 6120N notebook with the latest bios ver. 1.11 I typed the command miflash ***.bin /u Now the laptop is dead. Is there any way to recover the bios?

I haven't been able to find any up-to-date CPU benchmarks. When I do a Google search, I get results from years ago and sorting through them all is difficult. Are there any sites online that provide the most up-to-date benchmarks? The ones I'm most interested in at the moment are the AMD Athlon...

i sent a router bact to d-link for warrantee repair for a client - after the client stuffed up a firmware upgrade (on instruction from a d-link tech). i rang them about 6 times over the period of 4 weeks and the responces i got were the person handling that one is sick its being sent back to you...

Please do not purchase any dlink items as they really suck in tech support 1 they take ages to answer phone 2 they dont know what they are doing 3 they say they will email you what you need to do, they never do 4 they pretend to not understand what you are saying, by saying this is a bad line...

just bought an OEM one for 96 dollars shipped...couldnt pass up the price anyone have experience with one? thank in advance GT

Here's what I know about this one so far and keep in mind this is second hand info. Appearently USB mice on Windows XP and 2000 have a habit of freezing until unplugged, then when plugged in again they work correctly. This has happened even on systems fresh out of the box, and with fully updated...

Hi, I have a little problem with Abits tool FlashMenu. If I install the application and try to run it - it want start. When I click on it - nothing happens at all. What is the problem? :'( I have Abit BD 7. If there is any other info I need to provide, please ask.

I am searching for a suplier that has a PCI/ISA card capable of producing RGB outputs just like the old CGA cards. The other requirement is that more than one can be put into the same PC. (or a card with multiple outputs) I've read that this could be done with some VGA cards, but this varies...

I am looking for any setup information available for a Quantum Hardcard EZ127. BIOS setup info, Drivers, Jumpers, etc.

I've just bought an asus pundit barebones system and put in it 120Gb hard drive, 512Mb RAM, 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 and an 8x DVD-RW (NB this system has no floppy drive). All the parts have installed fine and in the BIOS they are all listed nicley with the HDD as the master and the DVD-RW as the primary...

Where can I buy a plastic attachment for my monitor that allows me to store small pc speakers, etc? What are these things called? Thanks in anticipation :)

I am looking for a boot manager which has ability to auto-hide extended partition during boot process. Anyone knows it ? Tomek

Hi, I have the opportunity to buy one of these 2 laptops at the same price, which one do you suggest me to buy? (the price is $370 US, is it a good price?) thanks for your advice and suggestions, Joss -Toshiba satellite 2250XCDS celeron 600mhz, 192Mo, HD 6Go and 20Go, 13.3" tft,

Greetings all! I own a Dell 8250 with a 2.8 P4 chip, 512 meg of memory, and a 120 gig WD hard drive. I recently purchased a second WD 120 drive, and an Adaptec RAID card. I'd like to set up a RAID 0 configuration. Now my question: I understand that when you enable the RAID setup, you lose all...

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...