I saw a wireless router described as having some ports and some switched
ports.
Is there an English way to describe the difference or something ... ?  Are
switched ports ports you can click a witch to turn them off?  Or are they

Can anyone please help me locate Win XP drivers for a Compaq
C7194TU laptop?
I know Compaq dropped support for XP some time ago and I've been
searching for third-party solutions. I found several apparently

Can anyone advise on the best configuration for increasing RAM in Dell
Optiplex GX280s please?
The slots are arranged in 2 separate pairs.
As supplied, one slot in each pair has 256Mb.

Is there a trick I don't know?
I bought a new GFORCE MEGADISK FANTOM 1TB external SATA hard drive and
have it connected as USB.  I have formatted it, and have tested it to
store files and folders on it, and it works fine.

The USB card reader described below looks impressive.  Is it really a piece
of junk feature wise?
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Mini All-in-1 Memory Card Reader Blue Compatible with: Secure Digital:

Hi Experts,
I have a DSL modem with a variable IP# and it worked great for over a
year. Then it would not connect to the 'net at all. I moved the Kingston
network card through several slots and finally I found one that worked.

I want to efficiently clone a number of SATA harddrives.  Instead of
purchasing an expensive dedicated drive cloning box, I wonder if there
are fast PCIe SATA disk controller cards which are able to directly
clone disks using appropriate software. Either ont-to-one or one-to-two

I've been trying to diagnose a custom-built system that I think is based
upon an Intel D915GUX motherboard.  Unfortunately, I can't get it on the
bench and break it down, but thought I might hit you with the symptoms
to see if anything sounds familiar:

I've been searching for a driver for an Atheros AR8012 ethernet
controller, without much success. It's for a friend who no longer
has the driver disc of his motherboard. The chip is not mentioned
on the Atheros website and when I went to the motherboard maker's

I was looking at Hitachi drives (like what came in my ThinkPad).
A 120GB drive at 5400 rpm costs twice as much ($120 - $63) as a 120GB with
virtually the exact same specs except in 4200 rpm.  I see a better
throughput when used internally as  opposed to externally.  Is that what

Will an ethernet cable do any better or worse than a USB connection in a
LinkSys cable modem?

If this is the wrong place for this tell me where to go for the answer and
I'll go quietly.
SOMETHING set up some kind of _ethernet_ thing in Network Connections called
(in part) WAN miniport.  It appeared after I ran Comcast's Decktop Doctor.

What are those little 1" x 1" clear lens-like stickers that are put on
PC cases called?
http://www.jayscomputers.com.au/images/badges.jpg
I see that they're sometimes called badges, but I'm having trouble

I built myself a new computer.  Unfortunately  the sound card on the
motherboard turned out to be not very good.
To experiment with a USB soundcard, I got Creative X-Fi Surround 5.1.
It was around 60 bucks at Fry's.

Am running XP Pro/SP2.  I have a SATA HDD attached via USB.  I made a
copy of about 20 GB of data from an internal HDD to the USB HDD.
I wanted a second copy of the data and I wanted that second copy to be
stored on my USB HDD.  IYSWIM.  So I used XP to make a copy: