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PC Pitstop tests? What do you think of the PC Pitstop tests? Is that a good indicator of a computer's performance? I use them whenever I build a new machine or upgrade in any significant way. What the heck, it's free. I find them interesting and amusing, but I have no idea how reliable of an indicator the score is. They d... 23 Mar 2010 04:30
When some idiot tells you to buy a 500+ W power supply... John Doe wrote: (white noise) .......whether he has ever actually measured the wattage a typical PC uses. Since he can buy a wattage meter "Kill-A-Watt" for $20 US, there is no excuse for any such "technician" to remain ignorant. If you buy a junk power supply, you might need 500 W, but you are still... 19 Mar 2010 15:28
Prinitng black and white on a color printer I've always used a black & white printer but recently I got a Canon MP560 color printer. How can I make it print color pages in black & white? Surely there must be an option in the Printer Properties but I can't see it! ... 13 Mar 2010 17:33
32-bit Win 7 driver for a strange Intel S82557 network Following was printed on the chip: S82557 L6485369 SZ758 I(m)(c)1989 1995 Win 7 failed to find a driver for it. I downloaded PROWIN32.EXE from Intel, but it also failed to install. The card was detected by WinXP without issue. So where is the driver for this card? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Visio... 10 Mar 2010 07:27
CPU ceiling? Are we stuck around 3ghz? I haven't seen much speed improvement in years other than more cores and 64 bit. Some 4ghz around,seems like we should be at 7 or 10 ghz by now. ... 18 Mar 2010 15:27
hard drive dead? Hello, I am trying to help someone at work to fix his son's pc. It is a HP Media Center m7360n. When he tries to start it up it goes to the 4 options screen (safemode, safemode with networking, last known good conf. that worked and start windows normally) The 30 sec. countdown starts,when you make a selection the c... 10 Mar 2010 17:32
Failing cpu fan Hello. I've been having some troubles with my stock cpu fan. I have a core 2 duo 6420 @ 2.13 ghz. When I shut the computer down the fan doesn't start up unless I give it a manual push or restart again. I can't find anywhere just to buy the fan. On newegg the cheapest decent heat sink fan combo is 50 bucks. I'm h... 13 Mar 2010 07:30
The Future of Building your Own PC Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a caller and said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore. He said the reason is, PCs are dirt cheap because the big boys buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell, sell them with razor thin profits. The question is, do you think stock lays around plac... 16 Mar 2010 11:20
if G is gravitation, what is N usually? Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote: ... I forgot... :) Newtons http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Not to be confused with: http://i47.tinypic.com/30ifas5.jpg Jon ... 7 Mar 2010 23:56
Error with windows XP installation help Hi all im having a error code problem when i am installing windows xp pro, this is what I get: just after the part that says: setup is loading files (windows executive)... file \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded the error code is 7 setup can not continue. press any key to exit it says this over and ... 7 Mar 2010 11:46 |