I've been making some upgrades to my
home Box (initially, a Gateway 310X running
Fedora 3). Among them was getting a scsi hdd
(Seagate Cheetah ST336607LW:

When I close Windows Explorer window (by clicking on the 'x'), I get a
replication of explorer windows.  Likewise, I get same replication
sometimes when I select windows explorer icon on the desktop.
Any ideas why?

In two of these CPUs, which one is more powerful than the other?
Im buying in one of these two so i need to know which one will run the
windows better, more reliable, and safe.

I have several external hard drives.
Is it better to connect each hard drive to seperate USB sockets, or is
it OK to connect them all on a USB hub?
I've tested speeds of transferring between hard drives while connected

I have been asked to transfer some footage taken on a Sony HandyCam onto a
DVD. I have tried this on a friends Panasonic DVD Recorder and it works fine
on their player. However, when I play it on mine it says the disc is not
recognised or is cotrrupt. So, I put it into my ...

I've bought a sony AIT backup drive and installed the software that came
with it. I'm not sure if it's just me but I find backup software very
un-intuitive. Does anyone know of a good cheap simple backup program that I
can just specify what to backup and when? The ability to put ...

I have a PC with Asus P4R800-V Deluxe MoBo, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU
2.53GHz, currently PC2700 512MB RAM, Dell 19" LCD 1905FP.
Problem:
             My current PC is slow when I switch windows and slow to launch

This is a 120GB hard drive. I have tried every jumper setting and also
with no jumper setting. The unit powers up but my computer Dell Pentium
4 will not recognize the hard drive. Samsung says they don't their
support hard drives used in external enclosures. My computer recognizes

I put this old AMD 233MHZ machine together to give away, and have it
running fairly well.
Thing is, during boot at 'verifying DMI pool data' it starts beeping
continually until W98 desktop comes up.  Then it stops beeping until

Is there a way to refresh the battery to get longer life. I seem to
remember seeing something like that on my son's Compaq laptop but
can't find that opion on mine..

I am trying to resurrect an old ATX 200MHZ machine out of spare parts
to give to my novice neighbor.  It seems to work fine except for the
fact that it will not recognize any of several CDR/CDRW/DVDRW drives I
have.  I tried one DVDRW drive that I know for a fact works, and the

My hard drive may be bad.
When I boot now I get an error message
primary master hard disk: S.M.A.R.T.  COMMAND FAILED PRESS F1 TO
RESUME

Sorry to cross post,  but I can't seem to get any of the experts to
comment on my problem.  I am trying to choose a video capture card,
and I am concerned about how to maintain lip sync with the video.  I
realize this is relatively old stuff to most of you gamers,  but we

I was running a single threaded long process on a HT P4 last night and
noticed that it only used effectively one fake cpu. The result was the
actual usage sat at 50% which looked like a big waste of cpu time to me.
Would it be better to have HT turned off? Is it any use in ...

Hello I have a new Linksys BEFSR41 with 2 computers connected to it. My
question is, is it possible to split the avalible bandwith down the middle
so each computer gets half and half and no more? I've looked in the options
and settings for QoS but I'm not sure if it can do what I ...