My monitor has two different kind of ports: * VGA * DVI The desktop PC has these ports: * VGA * DisplayPort Right now the monitor is connected to the PC with a VGA cable.

I have an Asus 24" VS248H-P R LED monitor and a PowerColor (Radeon) HD6750 1GB DDR3 video card. Two or three times now over a six month period, I noticed that the monitor screen will have a semi-transparent grey splotch in the lower left quadrant of the screen. IIRC, each time it happened when I...

This card has DVI and HDMI connections. My Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H mobo has both on-board too. I want to connect HDMI from PC to TV. I need to have HDMI show up as default under sound Playback Devices, which it does not now do. I must have the wrong drivers for this card because I don't see...

I have an old HP Pavillion laptop, model is dv1040us. It is probably about 10 years old... Starting today, when I turn the laptop on there is no boot up process. The screen stays dark. I can see that there is power reaching the laptop because the keyboard LEDs light up, so I don't think that the...

Hello, As some of you know I promised myself a new PC for 2016. Maybe it was going to be an ARM thing or something.... However I do like the idea of owning a processor with my name in it: "Skylake" processor :) I did have a verbal fight once with somebody called "Lake" lol... but I can get...

I've been lucky so far. I've acquired older systems (with various issues) that people didn't want anymore. As long as they weren't too old, I'd take them home, scrap them for viable parts and recycle the rest. Sometimes, I'd rebuild one and donate it to a church or daycare center if it's new...

I have a Artisan 835 AIO printer that I am ver y happy with, glad to say. It can scan single pages laying on its scan-glass and can scan a series of pages sequentially from a nice feed-hopper on the top of the printer. It can even scan to pdf documents. I want to scan a large number of document...

Cool to see this on here... I was about to make a posting... but it's already here =D http://www.batteriser.com/ So what you guys make of this ? Will it work, the minitized version that is ? =D I will include some newsgroups for those people stupid enough to use wireless keyboards and...

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 have to buy a laptop for my son who's studying architecture. I'm on a tight budget and wish to get the best bang for the buck. They use AutoCAD, Revit, Lumion and similar programs. I believe these are CPU-intensive tasks and will appreciate help in evaluating what's available. I'd like to...

Hello, A few days ago or so my appartment was further cleaned, and some old electronics had to go. I wanted to test if an old monitor would still work, so I connected it to my 80486. To my surprise, my beloved 486 would not turn on...

I had assumed that gold thermal compound was better than silver but I may have been wrong. Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease shows a table where silver is second best behind diamond but gold is not mentioned. Opinions?

I'm using Windows XP SP3. The instructions for a process I've used before start out with DISKPART from the command line to prep a USB flash drive (thumb drive). The first step within Diskpart is List Disk. The first time I used it, there was no problem and List Disk listed all available disks...

In passing... I suddenly started to have serious problems with my Logitech wireless trackball a couple of months ago although the wireless keyboard continued to work perfectly through the same little RF dongle. Basically the cursor would become jerky or freeze entirely on an intermittent basis....

I have a Dell Inspiron B130 that probably is not recoverable, but I thought I would ask - It will not power up at all. It has a new battery, and the indicator lights on the front show only one light - second from the right. When I press the 'on' button, the three lights on the top face come...

Hi, I read that manufacturers only warrantee CPU chips for 3 years. I saw a published chart that details CPU thermal death rates. I am looking for software to help my decision making. Before I get into specifics, I would like to thank members of this forum for help provided in the past. Last...

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Not quite sure how to explain this. I have an ageing laptop with Windows Vista that I am very happy with. I also have a spare Sata disk and want to install Windows 7 on this disk via my Vista machine. The object of this is to make sure that my machine will accept a Windows 7 installation....

Lets examine the low-level physics of a SATA hard-drive. Surely the C/H/S is fixed, like the ManufctrID, and is read, even if the device fails to turn? Is it true that a HD, which is moved while running, experiences centrifugal forces which when forced, by eg. the humans hand, is likely to...