Hi all, I would like to buy a 22 inch monitor 1920x1080 in particular to play games. Is it a poor choice ?? Thanks !! Luiss

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I have two machines, both with OEM Lightscribe LG GH22LS50 BURNER DRIVEs. One works just fine - burns DVDs and labels thereon. The other however, will burn a DVD but is not recognized as a Lightscribe drive. I have tried to find a driver for the drive, thinking that is the problem. I can't find...

hex-shaped, not round Why did Weller, 20 or 30 years ago, stop making its irons with the six-sided section, just behind the tip. It kept the iron from rolling off the table.

In trying to rehabilitate a "NASCAR PC by Cisnet," which apparently a re-branded AOpen OpenBook 2000, I've noticed an odd effect with the display. On startup the screen display has an impressive transition whenever there's a video mode change. Whole lines of the display with sort of go on full...

Hi all, I was trying to replace a power jack on an inspiron 1501 laptop. An operation I have avoided for some time due to the possible outcome being the catastrophic destruction of the motherboard or components thereof. I removed the motherboard , but could not melt the solder sufficiently to...

I have a friend with a hard drive that has developed bad sectors from running over max temp for a while (probably the cause). Asuming the heat problem is fixed, is the drive likely to survive, or will it keep developing more bad sectors? Don't need advice about new drives / backups etc - just...

I am trying to install a new system consisting of the following: 1) Tower - Thermaltake V4 Black Edition (VM30001W2Z) ATX Mid-Tower 2) MOBO - Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H 3) CPU - AMD Phenom IIX2 2.8GHz 4) PSU - Thermaltake 450W TT-450NL1NH-1

I've been looking for a hopefully-mini remote keyboard/mouse(ball?) to control video from the room wwhere I watch tv. I can't really use the RF becausew the limit on all of them seems to be 30 feet and I'm at that or above it. So that leaves IR, adn so far it seems the IR receievers all plug...

I'm currently using a Linksys NSLU2 for home networking/storage but not too happy with its speed. I have a couple of usb hard drives plugged into it and 5.5Mb/sec seems to be the fastest I can get out of it. Having googled around about this is it seems that this is the normal max for this...

I have an open port on my Verizon router unused. What is it for? How would I use it?

This is probably dumb. I am a novice when it comes to GPS. I am considering one of the Garmin units with built-in maps - I like the 1450T because it is 5". I am curious about the audio. Is GPS audio built into the units or do they require bluetooth radio to go with them? My two vehicles...

I've got a Dlink 8-port kvm -- dkvm-8E. I'm intended to buy another dkvm-8E to extend the kvm to a 16-port one. However it's not easy to find a daisy-chain cable for this kvm. I notice that the daisy-chain port of this kvm resembles the console port(console port is the one which connects to a...

Computer won't turn on! About 4 months ago, my computer wouldn't turn on. It has an Asus mobo with an ATX power supply. I turn it on and off at least once a day. I pressed the on button about 10 times and finally it went on. A couple months later, I had to press the on button about 30...

I have an HP ZE5170 2GHz laptop running XP Pro SP3, it came with 2 256MB ram sticks, and since it supports 1GB I bought 2 512 ram sticks so I can use the latest versions of FF and Chrome - which are pretty memory-hungry. When I couldn't find any pc2100 locally I bought pc2700. It passed a few...

I have an old ZE5170 that runs great. I bumped up the RAM from 512kb to 1MB - the max it can handle - and it's now fast enough to work well with the latest FF and Chrome browsers. I don't need a lot of power, it's used for email, web browsing, writing PHP and Visual Basic, so it's fast enough...

Can anyone help me (either by pointing me at any obvious sites that I've missed, or with personal opinion)? I'm not a regular builder; I tweak what I have, and build fresh once every few years when my current machine runs out of legs to play whatever games are out there at a reasonable speed (at...

Do all 80-connector IDE flat cables have blue connectors? Alternatively, if I have a Dell Dimension 4700 with a CD and DVD drive, with a bad cable, and both drives are set to CS, and I don't have a spare 80-connector cable, can I use a 40-connector flat cable and set the farther drive to Master...

My friend emailed me that he just bought a Dell Optiplex GX60 Intel Tower PC with Intel Dual Core 3.0 GHZ CPU, 2 GB DDR2 memory from 'Woot's merchants'. I can find no info on such a combo. Anyone have any info? DELL seems to have discontinued the GX60. Thanks

1. Would an anti-glare filter of 20 inch such as 3M EF200XXLB Anti-Glare/Radiation Computer Filter, Black Frame http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Health/Safety/Products/Related/?PC_7_RJH9U52300A9E023IJD0GR3O74_nid=0GNNMZZJ6Rgs651JNCZ61CglNGM0L4CN7Qbl be fine for the Dell XPS one or...