Hello, Some of todays or future cable modems seem to contain a processor with a heatsink and a fan on top of it. Apperently gigabit ethernet speeds/wireless speeds might require either a processor with a fan on it, or multiple processors without fans. I certainly do not want another device in...

Hello, I'd like to issue another warning: When your ISP increases your internet speed, your very old cable modem may fail eventually. It's processor will have to work harder, draws more power, it may fail/overheat or the adapter may fail.

I have this HP printer: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=3795406 It is now priting only blank sheets... I have unsuccessfully tried: * Cleaning the printhead as described...

get more mileage out of your laser printer cartridge With high ink jet print costs, it makes sense to use it only when needed. After seven years I'm still using my original laser printer cartridge refilled once. I may have got as many as 75,000 pages on the first charge of toner. I have learned...

The mylar ribbon for the keyboard has a small piece missing and some of the keys don't function. Is there any way to repair the ribbon? It's an old Compaq laptop and not worth the price of a replacement KB (even if I could find one on eBay) (Works fine with external KB)

Hey everyone. Firstly id like to say sorry for if i have posted in a wrong thread/newsboard. Secondly id like to thank anyone who reads and responds to this post as it is much appreciated. I got an Acer Aspire AX1300 for Christmas this year and it is a great computer, however i am experiencing...

Hi all For www.datamuseum.dk, I'm looking for an old Philips harddrive X1216 (also known as PTS 6876) or eventually an X1215 (6875). We want to revitalize a 1980's Philips system, but the harddrives have disappeared. The drives have cartridges like IBM 5440, 16 sectors. Apart from the...

I have inherited an oldie - the Sharp Camcorder VL-NZ159U (?circa 2002?). It seems complete, and works pretty good. It came without any drivers which seem to be needed to upload recorded video and/or pictures to a PC. I found drivers which work okay on my PC in XP, but not on my other PC in...

I'm having problems with my older generation iStar BPU-350 disk rack shown he http://www.trixtar.org/3/tinkerings/quietcool/sidesaddle.png This series has activity lights at the top and the pencil switches are at the bottom, all of them completely misaligned as usual from the trays which...

I have a Dell Vostro 230 that will, after shutdown, spontaneously startup up again after a couple of seconds pause. You can hold the power button down for several seconds to get the machine to shut off and it will then stay off. Here are some things I've tried to squelch this bounce: 0)...

I want to know my ip number, what i must do? tnx

How to connect CAT 5 or 6 to a modular telephone jack? I need to connect an 8C8P jack to a 4-conductor telephone-style jack, at both ends of the cable.. Two basic questions: A) Terminology, Does RJ45 just refer to 4-conductor modular telephone line connectors, that are on the ends of the...

I have my origina IBM Graphics Printer that I bought along with my PCJr in 1983 or 4. And I have another dot matrix printer, with pin feed and a few more buttons, that I got cheap or free maybe 10 years later. And a vey small dot matrix printer that someone gave me for trying to fix her...

I bought a China made Baofeng UV-5R for $45 from eBay. Because of Moore's Law, silicon devices continue to improve in quality and decrease in price. Before Baofeng, the popular brand was Icom for $300. The UV-5R is a hand held digital signal processing VHF/UHF transceiver. It is dual band, which...

Asking here as I don't have a laptop. If a laptop battery fails for whatever reason, should it still be able to switch on / boot / be usable powered on just the mains power, with or without the battery pack installed? I have a friend who when booted to Windows it claimed there was a fault with...

I have a Dell Vostro 230 desktop computer, that freezes on boot. That is, it just stops dead in its tracks, fans still running, and the image still on the screen. It is at a pretty regular spot in the boot process, after POSTing, and early in the OS's wind up. It's the same for whatever...

Comcast has now encrypted all channels on the cable so my ATSC tuner will not work. I can get only two channels on the dinky antenna that came with the tuner. I am tied to Comcast and and entitled to a box, but how do I connect it? I run Win7 and dual monitors, one to HDMI and the the other to...

Massive, undetectable security flaw found in USB http://www.extremetech.com/computing/187279-undetectable-indefensible-security-flaw-found-in-usb-its-time-to-get-your-ps2-keyboard-out-of-the-cupboard "This flaw, dubbed BadUSB by Security Research Labs in Berlin, leverages the fact that every USB...

What color are the LEDs in an LED monitor? Also, roughly how many are there in a typical monitor?

Past results are no guarantee of future performance, or words to that effect as used in those investment ads. I have this homemade computer running the first version of Windows Home Server. The hardware was basic: a dual-core Celeron, 4gB of memory, a gigabit Ethernet card, a drive port board...