I have an external hard drive I have been hooking up to my laptop which
has been working fine for months as drive E. I got a new camera for
Christmas, and even when it isn't plugged in it has assigned itself to
drive E and jumped my external hard drive up to F. I realize all of my

Most of my printing involves documents and legal briefs. There is some
color printing for brochures and stuff I find on the Internet. Can
someone recommend a color ink jet that prints laser-like text and is
reasonably fast.

I'm planning to send audio from my old pc (win XP) to a TV.
The TV has the standard yellow coax looking plug.
My pc has a small NIC card in back with line, speaker, and audio. The audio
plug uses a small pin plug.  No other audio output things on the frame.

What's the difference between these two (the 256MB variant):
http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_sp.php?id=274
http://www.powercolor.com/eng/products_speci.asp?ProductID=1571
Is one a better, more respected manufacturer?

I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
problem. Any ideas why this is happening?

I am attempting to upgrade this computer to its absolute limits for
use in elementary school classes at a small private school.  According
to Gateway, the max RAM is 256MB (2x128MB) PC66 and the max CPU is a
Celeron 400 with a 66MHz FSB.

Zoek een goed program om hardware te testen.
Onder andere harddisk testen.
Moederbord etc..
M.a.w. gans de PC.

Anyone here have Guitar Hero 3 for PC?
Can you tell me what the PID and VID for the device is? What name does it
appear as under Game Controllers?
My PS3 GH3 guitar installs fine on my PC, and I can use it as a game

Once upon a time I created an Msdos boot CD that had all my chosen utilities on it. This CD no longer works and needs to be
recreated. The only problem is I can't make one that holds more than 1.4 MB of data and I know there's a reason why and I know there's
a fix for it, however ...

I received a couple of rack mount 24 port ethernet switches that look
exactly like a Netronix 7326 model.  There is no brand name on them,
but the MAC number refers to Netronix Inc. They seem to be configured
in a way that makes them unusable as normal LAN switches, and I have

I got the corsair hx620, and the cable to the motherboard has 24 pins, but
is also 20-pin compatible. The extra 4 pins have a clip on one side that
clips to the other 20, but on the other side I see it is connected. Do I
have to remove it completely by tearing that side?

I bought Mainboard Gigabyte P35 and Core Duo 2GHz BOX and when I power on
system then sometimes
CPU FAN don't run. If I do reset then FAN run.

Seems this NG is run by MS too. Bye.

I have a new Compaq Presario running Vista Premium and have installed my old
WD 10GB hard drive containing all my backup files.  Problem is the directory
shows it is empty except for the first item which shows a .txt file which
reads: 0010 d224 (Safe boot).  Is there something I ...

Good morning,
New member and novice user here.  I am trying to assist my daughter
with the following computer problem.  Her computer is a Dell
Dimension