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Damage by connecting bad hard drive
How much damage can be done by connecting a bad hard drive to an EIDE interface? Last night I received a panic request to extract data from the hard drive of a "PC that had just stopped working". I connected it to a known good machine which subsequently refused to boot with and now without the second drive. Mach... 22 Dec 2006 14:49

compaq presario laptop
I just picked up a 1694 laptop and when I plug it in I get nothing.. the light is on the power cord but the laptop does nothing.. I am thinking that is could only be the cord or maybe a bad battery. Anyone have any suggestions on this.. thanks ... 20 Dec 2006 18:23

P4M800-M7A Non-Booting Frustration
Hello all, This is a somewhat long post, and one which you might want to disregard if you don't know much about assembling computers. If you do know lots about assembling computers or have had a problem similar to the one I'll describe in the next paragraph, your help would be very much appreciated, however. H... 20 Dec 2006 18:56

IE7 something to watch out for
In a bunch of new installs I've done lately, everything runs great until I download IE7. Then, when I start IE7, all I get is a big white screen with toolbar at top and an hourglass mouse just sitting there. I've discovered that the problem is the IE7 Phishing Filter is trying to snoop a site ( like Google ) and t... 20 Dec 2006 15:38

PC Cases
I have been looking at pc cases, went to a local store and they had the antec p180 and p150 plus some others. One looked exactly like the sonata II. Of the cases I saw, the p180 looked nice, big, a lot of features. I am not really fond of the full length door though. However, is there some reason why peop... 24 Dec 2006 14:15

Computer won't turn on right away
Please help! All of a sudden, my computer won't turn on - at first. When I hit the power button, nothing happens right away. Sometimes the computer will start up within seconds, sometimes not for several hours. There appears to be absolutely no response from the PC when I hit the power button, I just have to wai... 21 Dec 2006 05:47

Vista won't allow installation of unsigned drivers!
January 2007 PC WORLD - buried in Scott Spanbauer's "VISTA: the upgrade" article is this astonishing statement: "... Vista won't let you install unsigned drivers that haven't been through Microsoft's quality assurance process..." I'm horrified. How do you feel? ... 26 Dec 2006 02:52

Quietest 120mm case fan?
What is the quietest 120mm case fan available? ... 20 Jan 2007 04:43

Motherboard/CPU Question
I just noticed an Asus P4S800D-X SiS Socket 478 ATX Motherboard and an Intel Celeron D 345 3.06GHz OEM Processor bundle on sale for $75.00. Does anyone have any experience with with this combo, and if so, do you recommend it for the price? I saw one review that was critical of the Celeron D- 345, 3.06GHZ CPU,... 21 Dec 2006 19:41

300gig HD, only showing as 137HD during win2k install
hello all, this is the 2nd HD where i've run into this problem, of a misinstall ?locking the HD as the wrong size, this has nothing to do with the OS, as I'm installing from a booted CD, its a new bios that is detecting the HD as 300gig, just in the installation i'm only offered the small partition and deleting and... 20 Dec 2006 23:18