What conditions should be fullfilled to use these features.
My MB supports both, but the RTC never wakes up the PC when it was shutdown.
(Not Standby).
I thaught I understood it correctly that the BIOS RTC clock continues and

Can anyone suggest a newsgroup where I might find other folks who have had
problems with specific BIOS versions,  for a specific Intel motherboard?
I certainly could not find an e-mail address for any relevant intel employee
or department.

Can anyone reccomend a good product (preferably a power bar or simmilar) to
protect computer equipment against a lightning strike ? I'm looking for
something with a connected equipment warranty..  (ie. if my PC goes up in
smoke while connected to their product, they pay for the ...

I have a friend with an old Pentium 1 desktop with windows 95 lying
around.  I think that the processor is rated at 90 MHz and the system
has 16 MB of ram.
I was wondering if the computer is still powerful enough to be still

I am regularly asked by friends and customers what to look for when buying a
new laptop. 'Should I go for Vista? which processor? how much memory? what
do you recommend? I have given my opinions and recommended some great
systems here:

Wondering if anyone might have a reccomendation for a laptop that has a good
processor and video card for phot editing?

On accasion in some emails, pictures show up as a small box in the upper
left corner with a red 'x' in it.  Is this due to some settings?
XPPro SP2, 1gig ram, P4 processor and I use Outlook for mail.
Dave C.

I recently put together a computer but forgot to put the thermal paste
on the CPU before installing the heatsink/fan. Should I take it down
and do it? Is it that important?
I think it would involve buying a new heatsink rack, because I've

I'm building a new system and when I fire it up it gives me the message,
"Windows could not start because of the following problem:
"Did not properly generate ARC name for HAL and system paths. Please
check the windows documentation about ARC configuration options and your

I've got a question about the new X3550 from all-in-one Lexmark.
I hears it's got a wi-fi option, like it's twin brother, X4550. So why
the hell X4550 is two times more expensive? I also heard thet you have
to buy something else for the X3550 to work in wi-fi. Is it true?

I was just wondering if LCD monitors typically try to refresh
everything simultaneously.  It might be easier if they did it top
to bottom since data comes in top to bottom, and
that requires no buffering.

I'm looking for a clicky keyboard that's black and has the enter key that's
not L-shaped.  I would like it also to have some multimedia keys such as
volume, previous, next, stop, pause/play, and the like.  I'm looking for
something that's affordable and won't break the bank, and ...

Anyone who can comment on those products?
http://www.pc-store.gr/product_details.php?category_id=40&item_id=117
http://www.pc-store.gr/product_details.php?category_id=40&item_id=118
http://www.pc-store.gr/product_details.php?category_id=40&item_id=119

My wife's 5 1/2 years old XP laptop had some problems that I traced to a
single bad block (using chkdsk /r /f).
My question is how badly does this bode for the hard drive? Is a single
bad block after this amount of time a sign of it failing soon or could

I have a compaq nc6230, trying to use wireless, Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG
Network Connection.
From Device Manager, I continue to get the error "This device cannot start.
(Code 10).