I may be on the wrong path here but in order to troubleshoot a random reboot
(and sometimes the program just drops out without reboot) when the kids are
playing games like Harry Potter and Age of Empires I have used a number of
utilities to stress the system but nothing yet has ...

I have an Acer CDRW drive 10*8*32.  This drive keeps opening and closing
on its own.  Sometimes it does it repeatedly and sometimes it will go
for hours without doing anything. It doesnt make a difference if there
is a disk in it or not.  Does it seem like a hardware or software

As some of you will know, I've been having problems with the new SATA hard
disk.
So I tried to upgrade the BIOS of my Asus K8 SE Deluxe motherboard. I used
the flash update tool and everything appeared to work perfectly - but now my

I have a pretty odd question about harddisks development and production.
First of all I apologize if this problem doesn't belong to this ng.
Then, pls, point me to the right ng.
Well. My friend argues that the development of a new HD is not

Hello, I've been using voice chat over the internet with friends recently
and was wanting to get a wireless headset so I don't have to sit in front of
the computer to talk with them.  Does anyone know of a relatively cheap
wireless headset?  The only one I can seem to find is the ...

Could someone plz tell me what an acceptable temperature is for CPU's.  I
have an Asus K8V Deluxe, with a Athlon 64 3400+ cpu, currently running at 43
degrees.  One of my fans has gone and I'm not sure whether to continue using
the comp until it's replaced.

I'm trying to install a new hard drive for a friend and I'm running
into a problem. It won't format (NTFS) completely. Using the Win 2000
setup disc it recognizes the drive and runs through the format process
(prior to starting installation) but comes up with an error at the end

I'm looking for Harddrive ca. 200Gb, for my worstation with SATA, for 24
hr/day use
any suggestions?
rl

This is about a strange problem I'm facing after I did some
upgrades and swapping between some of the computers in
my house.
I upgraded my children's computer with an Athlon 64 CPU

Hello this is an p3 933mhz , 256 mb memory, laptop running on win2000, the
problem is at any time, it gets stuck, i get this blue screen with the long
numbers of code and this driver file pcmcia.sys OR ntoskrnl.exe,
driver_rq1_not_less_or_equal. What does this mean exactly? the ...

So I'm playing a little game this afternoon (World of Warcraft if you must
know) and all of a sudden withut warning or anything my computer shuts off.
No power.  I push the power button; Nothing.  Nada.  I begin to become a
bit concerned.  I assumed it was the PSU (ThermalTake ...

does anyone have any idea as to what might be wrong with my friends computer
when you boot it starts the initial screen which tells you about the speed
and memory and bios. But then it just says "suggested DRAM clock is "100"
and nothing i press will make the computer go past ...

Thanks again to each of the people who took the time to respond to each of
my earlier posts.  You really have been of great help in steering me in the
right direction--and saving me some expensive mistakes.  I really appreciate
it.

Zio has decided not to be included in drives
OS WinXP SP2 (XP does not require a driver) and it has been working for many
months.
My ZIO has stopped showing up in Explorer or My Computer yet when I plug and

Hello. I bought a ATi Radeon 9800 Pro. It has worked fine until just
recently. The alarm that signals no power connection (message on screen,
boot halted) went off a couple of times, and then it seemed to work OK.
The alarm went off again today. Everything was correctly connected.  ...