Can someone give me a check list to help me solve why my computer is
shutting down without warning.   I have had the 550W power supply  checked
on another computer with similar load and it is okay.
The shutdown can be during post pup to a a few minutes after windows XP SP2

I' ve a Buffalo Terastation  (old model with IDE disk).
My idea now is to change internal disks with 4 new disks (of 1TB
each). I was thinking to buy
SATA disk (I can't find IDE disk of 1TB).

I just bought a new 22" monitor and for a while was running it on my old
system with onboard intel graphics. Native resolution is 1680 x 1050, but
this makes everything too small and blurry. On the old machine I was able to
run 1600x900 which was comfortable - on my normal machine ...

I have a section of lower-level  ceiling behind drywall next to the rim
joist that is cold.  I'd like to insulate it.  I remember reading in this
newsgroup that someone took a leaf blower and blew cellulose with some
success.

Most of my equipment runs at 1gbit/sec and can support jumbo frames. I do
have a laptop that only does 100mbit/sec, as does my internet cable modem.
If I change my gigabit PC's to use jumbo frames what will happen to the
connection to my laptop or cable modem?

Lately my laser printer has started to give me problems. It prints
correctly at the right and left borders but it doesn't print anything
at the center. The print fades away toward the centre to come back
after a while, leaving a column of clean paper. I'm wondering if this

I was looking at mice in the store today and notice an ms mouse that was
taller than the rest.  Just trying the displayed one briefly, it seemed more
comfortable. Has anyone tried it? How is the comfort long term? Also, how is
the tracking? I once said I would never use another ...

My keyboard female (motherboard side) connector has gone
dud so I bought a USB keyboard which works fine....except that
it does not allow me access to Bios. I have since been told that
I must make changes in Bios (Legacy) to have the USB keyboard accepted

I have a client witch using two screens on the same computer but not
at the same time. He switching them because he is working in two
different positions.
The second screen is not connected on the computer with the default

I have a PC running 4 years no problems, Radeon 9200SE 128Mb AGP
graphics card. Since last week it is failing to boot every alternate
attempt, monitor shows 'no signal', I hold power down to power off,
and power on again and it works perfectly. This has happened over the

I want to buy the Abit IL9 Pro motherboard:
http://www.abit.com.tw/page/uk/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=IL
9+Pro&fMTYPE=LGA775
It has 4 SATA connectors, but does that mean that it also has 4 SATA
busses? It's very important that it has, as I want to run software

How can raise a dead motherboard or a motherboard that is developing
one fault or the other.

I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software issue.
This is a 2000 computer, running Win98se.  Last year they changed the
Daylight Savings Time (DST).  I installed some download that was
supposed to fix these older computers that were designed to change the

I just bought a WinPRV Vista713X card and the when I do a video
capture of my camcorder, captures great but NO AUDIO.
mY camcorder is an old model that uses a standard A/V single plug
coming out of the camera but with a RCA plug on the other end.

I want to know more deep in Windows XP inner program like Ms-DOS
advance
you know things that looks like that