I have an HP laptop and use an older  external LCD monitor.  The monitor
works fine... as long as the laptop lid is open but goes blank and says
"mode not supported" if I close the lid.  I have the laptop settings (Vista)
to "do nothing " when I close the lid.  Might I have ...

There's no bios temperature monitoring on the Dell Dimension 4600. So
I've used a digital thermometer and made contact with the black
fanless heatsink on the motherboard's northbridge. I get 52 degree
Celcius (126 Fahrenheit). Is this normal temperature for a North

Ran across this thread at Tom's Hardware Forum.
Is the following advice true?
"Get the 750w PC P&C its the same price but a better supply, after
the mail in rebate its cheaper. There is no reason not to do this.

I have a problem with my network adapter, after the tweaking with
RightMark CPU Clock. It's disappeared!
I was lowering the cpu voltage and after one usual crash of the system
(for the too low value), the OS, nor other OSs (Linux, BSD, etc), can

I'm taking an floppy drive from my older Sony Vaio computer to install
in a new Acer. (I have a very infrequent need to access some old disks.)
I thought I could take the cable, complete with female sockets, and use
it in the Acer, but the connectors are slightly different. On the ...

I have my Vista laptop (HP) hooked up to an external monitor.  The laptop is
closed and on a shelf that is very hard to get to.  I would like to shut it
off at night.  I can shut it off with the keyboard.  Is there any way
(physical or software controlled) that I can turn it back ...

I have an ASUS AN8, AMD 3700+, 250gb HD, running XP Pro.  I also have
two external HDs, one 250gb and the other 500gb.  The two externals
have almost 600gb of files I do not want to lose.  The total GBs of the two
externals will increase over time.  

Following on from Bob L's post and a few others. I have also bought a
reported 16GB flash drive from ebay. I expected it to be a fake, but it
looked like and actually is a very nice looking device - leather bound with
an aluminium lid. It seems to hold about 3-4GB before ...

Building a new system to replace a Pentium 630 setup. Will be used for
occasional rendering of video and have plans to learn AutoCad/Chief
Architect. Hard Drives are missing from the list and will use a Velociraptor
150GB and two Western Digital 640GB drives that will be transferred ...

I posted this question in sci.electronics.repair but none of the
well-meaning replies was of much help. I hope I have better luck
here. It's about the two-terminal SMD protection device at the
power supply inputs of hard disks.

my way is create a 4.5g ramdisk,and set the pagefile and TEMP on it,does
anyone knows a better way?

Hello everybody,this is my first post. Please try to help an oldtime
newcomer out. I have an E-MACHINE T1125 desktop. It has a 1.3 GH
processor and 256 MB DRAM. Machine has been slow lately so everybod
says add some memory. So I look up specs on machine and it says it i

I want to be able to print the standard basic colors**
exactly the same way that they appear on the screen. A
specific instance of this is that cyan*** is printed as a
much darker shade of blue than appears on the screen.

An old PCChips M747 motherboard won't boot after the BIOS was updated.
Before the flash, the BIOS ID was:
61-1208-000747-00101111-071595-M747-M747V3.0-H Release 12/01/1998S
After the update, it was:

Hello group
This might be off topic but hoping somebody here is familiar with
these problem. As this is first time I experienced this and I am at a
loss why this happen.