Hardware

Installing 1 SATA HDD
I am having trouble with Motherboard Hard Drive recognition of a W.D.160GB SATA Hard Drive on my socket 939 Asus A8v MB. This is a first time SATA hard drive install on this motherboard, with 2 other *IDE* hard drives and 2 optical drives, already installed and working fine. I am *NOT* trying to setup any kind ... 4 Jan 2007 05:24

System freezing up
Help! My system freezes up periodically and I cannot figure out why. It seems to happen most often when playing games on the internet. I am running: AMD XP 2800 Barton w/ 266 fsb Biostar M7NCD MOBO PowerColor 9250 256MB Video Card 512 MB RAM PC333 Windows XP Pro SP1 Any input is appreciated. Ruthlezz ... 4 Jan 2007 05:24

KDS Valiant 6480CiPTD New Battery Charging Problems
Hello, I bought on eBay a great condition KDS Valiant 6480CiPTD. The only thing missing was a battery. So the first thing i did was get a battery for it, also on eBay. I got the battery put it into the laptop and left it overnight to charge. In the morning when i decided to go to my local coffee shop and surf th... 30 Dec 2006 17:42

PM replacement? was Re: Newly built computer Boot problem
What's a good replacement? Joel Rod Speed wrote: PM is an obsolete dinosaur that isnt supported properly anymore. ... 30 Dec 2006 15:04

cleaning up dust inside Dell inspiron 1100
My computer is three years old and recently has been making too much fan noise. I suspect dust has accumulated inside the processor,hard disk and other parts which might be causing this. There is no software issue. I am running XP Pro with SP2 on a 2.2GHz with 512M RAM. Can anybody advise how to proceed for clean... 7 Jan 2007 00:48

Antec Sonata case + GeForce 8800GTX
Hello, I currently have an Antec Sonata ATX case, any idea if a GeForce 8800 GTX card will fit into it ??? Anyone with the same set-up ? Thanks Matthias ... 29 Dec 2006 11:09

IBM ThinkPad A30p display defects
Once again, my ThinkPad A30p (model 2653-65U) has developed the infamous display problem that has plagued many A30p owners; flashing blue lines, unreadable, garbled text when the machine is turned-on. The display corruption (seemingly) stops after WinXP loads the display driver (the Windows GUI looks OK), BUT full-... 6 Jan 2007 07:58

Dell Dimension E520
Hi, Looking to buy a new computer and found this deal on the Dell website change support option to 1yr CAR) and wondered if this was a good deal or whether there was anything any better either elsewhere or on the Dell site itself. Any suggestions please? Many thanks. Ian Edmont. PS: Deal is - Intel�... 13 Jan 2007 15:11

Problem with Power & IDE Connections to HDD and DVD drives
I have two machines that have had similar problems over the past year. It seems that periodically a machine will not boot up because the hard drive is not recognized. Further, sometimes a machine will boot up okay, but then I discover that a DVD drive is not recognized. Every time it happens, I can 'jiggle' or r... 27 Dec 2006 17:05

Add second used hard drive
I have a P4 2.4 with a 40G hard drive that is full. I have an old computer in the basement with the same hard drive in it loaded with Win98. Can I just set the old HD as Slave, plug it in and use it for storage? Should I reformat it or just delete the files and OS that is on it? I was told by the lady at the co... 28 Dec 2006 04:22