Hardware

Laptop Hard Drive Upgrade
A friend has just had her laptop's hard drive go belly up. If we wanted to replace it with a larger capacity drive, do we have to worry that it might generate more heat than the previous component, and cause problems? ... 8 Nov 2006 03:25

upgrade graphics?
Anybody any idea whether I'd be able to replace the onboard graphics with a dedicated graphics card on the system below? I'm thinking of getting this machine but only if I can upgrade the graphics. Base Unit Intel Pentium 4 531 HT processor (3GHz) 512MB Ram (667MHz DDR2) 160GB 7200RPM Ultra-ATA 133 hard disk... 8 Nov 2006 08:17

Computer won't turn on
My home-built PC has worked fine for a year, but now it won't power on. There is a red light on the motherboard which i assume means it is getting power. I bought a brand new power supply and still the thing won't turn on. The fans would spin and the hard drive would churn the first few times i tried turning it on... 9 Nov 2006 20:03

PCI space saver
I have four PCI slots on my computer, and nomally the cards go in vertically. I was wondering if there is anything that can convert the slots to horizontal ones to save space. ... 5 Nov 2006 19:10

Computer Won't Start Problem
I have a PC with an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium MB, in a Sonata II case (Antec SmartPower 450 power supply). The computer had been running for many days without interruption. This morning I shut it down, using the Shutdown feature of Windows XP. It turned off as expected. But when I pushed the on button on the fron... 7 Nov 2006 16:58

Video problem
I am having a strange video problem under XP Home. On one of two identical machines, the gray of all menu bars on programs and folders as well as the background of many, if not all, of the pop-up message windows suddenly do not appear gray. These item appear with a dull green tint. On the other machine these i... 30 Oct 2006 18:24

What is the maximum memory I can add to a Dell 4300 Dimension?
Howdy I have upgraded my kid's computer to an HP Media Center and taken their old Dell 4300 Desktop as a backup to my business laptop. Anyone help me out with info on how much memory I can put into it as well as a good source for buying it? Thanks Frank ... 25 Oct 2006 11:51

computer battery problem...
I have a Toshiba laptop (my third) that used to run without the battery pack. The computer is probably 10 years old. I use it in my vehicle to look at maps and also run a timer program that keeps track of where you are on any interstate freeway in the US. The computer is continuously plugged into a 120 volt po... 28 Oct 2006 23:09

Defragmentation after several years
I have had my Hard Drive for at the very least 3 years. In that 3 years I have reformatted multiple times and had many serious problems and crashes. My hard drive is still hanging in there but I am not sure how much longer it has. As a self proclaimed computer nerd I have never in my life heard about disk defrag... 25 Oct 2006 12:54

Corrupt NTFS filesystem
Citizen Bob wrote: I know, I should reinstall Win2K from scratch. But I refuse to do it because 1) I have close to 100 installed applications, many of which I do not even recall the customizations. It would take months to reinstall all that software to the same configuration I now have; instead you're ... 11 Nov 2006 15:41