I have a device that requires a serial port which I do not have on my
computer and was told I could get a USB to serial port adapter which plugs
into the usb and you attach the device to the serial end of the adapter.
I was wondering if these actually work and are wroth a go ?

I am having some problems with my PC. Here are the symptoms:
1) The PC comes on for a second, goes off, then comes on again. It
boots through POST and halts with a CMOS Checksum error where I have
to reconfigure the BIOS (I think this is a red herring). After BIOS

I'm about to buy a new system, motherboard will be Gigabyte GA-EX38-DQ6 with
an Intel E8400 processor running 3GHz.  The MB supports has an FSB speed of
1333 for this processor and supports up to 1200MHz for the memory including
stated sizes of 1066, 800, 533, etc.

1.  Are Intel Xeon or Itanium processors ever used in high-performance
single-processor desktop personal computer systems?
2.  Are these processors so customized for multiple-processor systems that
they'd be inappropriate in single-processor systems?

Please correct if I am wrong:
I am thinking that an old, good, socket 7, AMD 350 motherboard, with a CPU
fan and a video card and keyboard attached, will provide adequate load for a
300 Watt power supply that is 3 years old to, for example, allow the power

I'm going to be building/buying a high-end gamer system similar to:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227063
Wanted to get opinions. Also, is one graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce
9800GX2 1GB) better than the performance I could get with two in SLI?

hi...
I have this laptop with a PCMCIA slot, and frankly I haven't used one of
those since the early days of wireless networking.
Looked at some flash memory and hard disks, but they all were very large in

I have an IBM ThinkPad 1460 that a friend gave me.  I want to put a
bigger HD in it.  Is that even possible?  I tried to remove what I
think is the HD cover (on the back above the external monitor port)
and it wouldn't open.  I didn't try to force it.  Is the HD

hey all, I have a question, I have been told that dvd writers only
have a certian number burns and then they begin to fail. Does this
carry any weight? If so, how many? thanks for listening.-J

hi...
I'm running Outlook 2007 and today I couldn't backup my PST-file because of
an stubborn CRC error which keep popping up.
So I tried to run SCANPST but same error.

I need to read and erase a some Ext3 formatted hard drives
from an external enclosure.  There are a number of Ext3
drivers for windows on the net but none explicitly say they
will work for an external drive.  Does it matter to a driver that

I hope someone can help me.
In my P4 I've got a Nvidia Geforce 2 mx 200 AGP card and I want to
replace it with a matrox millenium G550 dual monitor card.
If I'm right the new matrox millennium G550 will fit perfectly in my

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I have an MSI K9N7 SLI-F mainboard with one of those tiny clear northbridge
fans. It looks to be about 50mm in size. For a number of months it's been
making this awful noise, especially from a cold start, so I pulled it and
lubed with white grease. It's quiet for the moment now, but ...

I've always had a wake on lan on my PC which I use almost daily to wake my
home machine up from the office. I upgraded to a bigabyte board but never
checked to make sure it had wol. I appears it doesn't. Is there any way with
a bit of inventiveness and a soldering iron that I can ...