Hardware

sony vio pcg z600ne - sound card drivers
hi all. friend of mine asked me to sort a few things out on his really old sony laptop pcg z600ne on front or pcg 5291 onback. all is left for me to do is install sound drivers. any one got any tips of id-ing his sound card or know which one it is? btw he's doesn't have the system restore cds, or I would of told ... 8 Jan 2006 12:12

Disable sound card with Front Panel headphone jack
Here's the problem: I have a Creative Sound Blaster card (pretty old too, Creative AudioPCI (ES1370) SB PCI 64/128(WDM)) and I have a front panel that has a headphone jack, mic jack and 2 USB slots. I want to be able to disable the speakers that are plugged into the sound at the back when I insert headphones int... 9 Jan 2006 08:04

APC Smart-UPS vs Cyberpower CPS1500AVR
Thanks a lot for all the comments, I think I will get a better one. I went to tigerdirect, they carry APC Smart-UPS 1500 VA and they also carry Cyberpower CPS1500AVR (1500 VA) Is this Cyberpower any good? It said it's design for running server, it's like 30% less expensive than Smart-UPS... any idea? Thank... 7 Jan 2006 03:29

DVD-writer dieing?
Hello. I've got an 'Optorite DVD RW DD0201' with the latest firmware. Now a few months back I created a large number of data DVDs using a different writer but unknowingly using poor blank DVD's (I though big companies like Memorex/Phillips etc made their own). So I've been copying what I can from these disks and... 6 Jan 2006 16:40

APC UPS RS 1500 data cable schematic
I lost the RJ45 to USB data cable that connects my computer to the APC UPS RS-1500 battery backup system, can anyone who has it tell me which pins on the RJ45 side connect to the USB end? I would like to make this cable myself. Thanks Salman ... 3 Jan 2006 14:01

Computer powering off and can't use 2 RAM sticks at once
I could use some help with a couple of problems, the first is that my computer is turning itself off (it just loses power as if you had unplugged it) roughly once per day. The other problem, which may be linked, is that when I install 1 stick of RAM the computer works, but when I put two in I get errors o... 3 Jan 2006 02:28

HD replace problems
If anyone can help I'd sure appreciate it-- I replaced the hard drive of a 4 yr old PCV-RX590G Sony Vaio with a Western Digital 200 GB drive. The Vaio originally came with a 100 GB drive running XP. After installing the drive, I used the system recovery disks and thought everything went nicely, but when I checked... 2 Jan 2006 19:15

RAID-1 and bad sectors?
I just used BootItNG to resize the 2 NTFS partitions on my hard disk. I was increasing the size of the C drive, so I had to shrink the D drive and slide it down to the end of the disk. When I did the slide operation, I told it to slide everything including the unused areas. I ended up getting an "error reading f... 13 Jan 2006 08:48

LCD Monitor display confusion
Could someone please explain to me about LCD display resolution? I have a 19 inch Viewsonic VP191b monitor now for over a year. I have had NO problem with the display, therefore I am unused to dealing with a monitor problem. I recently changed motherboards and CPU, but kept all other hardware, including my ... 30 Dec 2005 09:57

Real-time clock
I have an old '386 computer that my grandchildren use to run DOS based games which will not run on my newer computers. Well, it finally stopped running; would freeze after post. Examination found that bios information would not be retained. The board does not contain a battery. There is a Dallas Real Time Cloc... 31 Dec 2005 23:10