Hardware

Taking a laptop apart
My computer got a case of chock shock. Yeah, my Toshiba Satellite laptop running WinXP Pro has a hardware compatibility problem with Bridgestone P205/65R15 Protenzas. The 'puter works fine except for now I have only half my screen (upper left along long diagonal cut). So, I figured I'd play with the machine and... 4 Sep 2006 14:50

Motherboard connectors
Things are pretty tight and hard to see, but I think my new motherboard requires different connectors than those that are on my IBM Netvista case. I have a Biostare system board. I find that the: Audio in from the CD ROM connector has four holes but the connector is thicker than the motherboard will accept ... 10 Sep 2006 22:58

USB Floppy drive
I recently built a new machine and I decided not to fit a floppy drive to keep it as clean and legacy free as possible. I only ever use floppies for drivers. I temporarily installed a floppy drive form an older machine for RAID drivers when installing the OS. Now that I have to do it again I thought I might ... 2 Sep 2006 07:53

Need K7MNF-64 MOBO
I need a K7MNF-64 motherboard, but I cannot find one at a decent price. Seems to be out of stock or otherwise unavailable everywhere I look, except at one Ebay 'store'. $50 - $65 maybe, but $100 is too much. Does anyone have any idea where I might find one at a decent price? Thanks for reading this shot in t... 31 Aug 2006 00:36

Toshiba Trecra A4
Hi I have a Toshiba Treca A4 Laptop and have a question about how to remove the case (leaving the screen intact) as I feel that my laptop keeps switching off by it self. I think it has to do with the heat of the CPU and it has to do something with the FAN etc. Could some one point me to a manual/help/advise ab... 29 Aug 2006 03:11

hard drive disassembly
I unscrewed the top 6 screws of my HD with a Torx T9 from Sears. However, the top still won't come off. Any ideas? Thanks. ... 28 Aug 2006 16:35

Conner CP2121 hard drive
My old Compaq Contura keyboard has failed and I want to recover some of the data on the hard drive. I thought that sticking the hard drive in one of these external hard drive enclosures would do the job but the hard drive has more pins than the receptacle accepts. What other options are there? (that won't cost an a... 28 Aug 2006 15:31

six-sided star screw
I have an old broken hard drive, and I'd like to look inside. It has some kind of six-sided star screw. Anyone know a good place to get a screwdriver for this and if there's a name for it? Thanks. ... 26 Aug 2006 16:22

PC Won't boot up
I need help with my pc that won't boot up. One night we had a power outage (no electrical storm, no lighting) and the computer hasn't booted since. I have a custom-built unit, with AMD Athlon XP 1.15 GHz processor on a Gigabyte Technology 7VTXE+ motherboard. The system uses Windows 2000. The unit has power. On... 23 Aug 2006 21:36

DDR 1 vs DDR2
Will DDr1 memory fit in a ddr2 slot? ... 25 Aug 2006 10:06