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On 19 May 2006 03:54:25 -0700, gremlin_dude(a)hotmail.com wrote: Hi. About a couple of months ago my Sony Vaio lcd monitor (pcvd-17sd1w) was working fine. I was using it all day and in the evening needed to restart my pc, so i did and when the monitor went to come back on, it displayed only a white screen an... 19 May 2006 15:58

Dell driver update has disabled my DVD drives!
I have applied some updates from the Dell site which have rendered my DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM unusable! Dell can only offer the suggestion to do a restore which will lose other OK changes I have made, and I'm not sure it will fix it anyway! This is a bit sharp since they recommend the drivers for my PC based on the ser... 15 May 2006 18:08

Gigabank question
Curious- how do these i/o magic 4.0 giga-bank drives compare to a regular HD or DVD in terms of speed... I was thinking of backing up My docs from my pc, to use when I travel with my laptop.. I think my laptop (HP n5445) has the older USB port, so it may not access data as fast, but would it access data faster... 12 May 2006 09:41

SATA2 cables
Are Serial ATA 150, and Serial ATA 300, (SATA II) cables interchangeable? I have SATA II drives/controllers, will either cable work without a performance hit? ... 7 May 2006 02:44

Computer Case Fan Airflow Direction
I want to install two additional fans in my case but I need some questions answered first, 1. My case (Centurion 5 CAC-T05 US) has an intake on the front and an exhaust on the rear. I will install an additional intake on the front. Should the side fan be exhaust, or intake? 2. What direction does the CPU fan blow ... 2 May 2006 19:26

GGraphica Controller
I have a Intel 82865G graphics controller on my system and I would like to know what is the max resolution it will support. On my current 15" TFT LCD Monitor it is set to 1024x768. I am thinking about buying a Acer AL1916W widescreen with 1440x900 resolution. I use a Emachine T3995 80GB hard drive and 512MB memory ... 28 Apr 2006 17:11

WYSE s30 re-image
Has anybody done a basic re-image of WYSE S30 winterm. Have downloaded the image, installed DHCP Turbo, installed IIS and FTP followed the instrutions from WYSE and still cant get it to work with a crossover cable. It gets a DHCP address copies image and then just loops through. Eventually, the log message win... 17 Apr 2006 18:42

USB Issues?
Hey all, Not sure if this is 100% hardware issue, but whenever I plug in any sort of USB memory device, it never shows up on my Windows XP Explorer, whereas on other PCs it does. However, it does show up on my taskbar that the hardware has been detected, then later there's an icon down there that says "Safely Re... 15 Apr 2006 01:48

PC Chips Mobo Manual
I don't know if anyone can help. I am trying to download a manual for PC Chips M810LR motherboard. Their site is totally unobtainable and I am assuming that they have gone to the wall. Can anyone suggest where I might find the manual please. -- Keith Willcocks (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth li... 14 Apr 2006 06:36

win98se and adsl modem
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've got a problem getting win98se to connect with my adsl modem. the modem is a Centurytel flavored Netopia 3341. PC1 connects to it via USB cable and the Cayman drivers included with the modem. PC2 connects via straight-through ethernet cable (NOT a crossover ... 12 Apr 2006 16:48