I recently returned from holiday to find that my computer was booting VERY
slowly. After a bit of online research, I narrowed the issue down to my HD
being faulty. I tried chkdsk and it was failing, system restore also crashed
etc. I bought a new HD today, reinstalled Windows and ...

I can't record sound from a microphone. Have tried the windows
recorder and two webcam apps.
I have a QuickCam Web, and concede that that mic may be dead. It shows
though in Device Manager and that the drivers are there and working.

I ran into the following issue while upgrading an older PC that finally
failed me. I could  not find any solutions online but after 2 days of
research, I finally found the solution and  thought I would offer it
(and circumstances behind my issue) for those who might encounter  the

    I have a Gigabyte GA-K8nsc-939 board with a AMD 3200+ 64 bit chip.
My computer was off but still connected to an outlet backed up with a
surge protector when certain electronic equipment was hit with a power
spike during a lightning storm. My computer works fine. Except for the

I have a new HDD arriving Monday under warranty and must give the old
corrupt drive to the courier in exchange.
The old drive does fire up into windows after about 6 hours and it is
possible to access some of my business data, letters, invoices, banking etc.

Is there a program that will allow me to create an ISO image from a
data folder?  I don't want to have to copy the data folder's files to
a RW disk first to then make an ISO image using MagicISO.
How?

I've done lots of Googling. I have two sticks of 168 pin sdram 1gb
each, exactly the same. Both sticks work in either slot. The bios
recognizes it as 2gb of ram. I'm having trouble getting both sticks to
post. One stick is 100% successful. I have to power off and on many

I have the content of a CD (data) on an external hard drive in a
folder, say 'CDCOPY'.  I also have a program that expects CDs that it
reads to be on a disk in a disk drive.  That is, selecting the
program's 'read CD' option causes the program to read from a disk

I have a 1 GB SD card that I want to use as a way to move files
between my Motorola Q (cell phone), my laptop, and my desktop. The
problem that I am having is that when I get the card formatted and get
all the files and directories onto the card that I want to keep, it

What is the fastest cpu that I can upgrade to for the compaq nx7010?:

What's the difference between setting a system in  - Power savings: Standby
vs. Hibernate?
thanks!
mac

Is there any way to make an old (1994 era) Conner CFS420A hard drive
work with a USB to SATA/IDE adapter?
When I hook up the CFS420A to the adapter it spins up OK and is
recognised by name in the Device Manager (running Vista Home Premium)

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I have read that the word 'enhanced' in Device Manager indicates my
machine has USB2.  Now then - I have eight USB ports.  Are they all
USB2?  Is there some utility that will tell me which if not all are

I bought two Seagate 'FreeAgent' external hard drives (500GB) at
separate times. I mistakenly bought two different models - one has
SATA and Firewire in addition to USB, but the other only has USB.
Seagate tells me that firewire is not faster than USB on desktop PCs,

I can't reistall my laptop because windows (tried with 2000 and XP)
can't load some files.
I replaced the hdd and the memory but still the same.
When I ran memtest86 I got a lot of errors. I ran it with the original