I have a Dell 8400 that I need to format and reload.  It had xp home on it
and I have the xp home cd from dell.  My friend wanted xp pro on it and
provided their retail xp pro cd.
I pulled the sata hdd and saved off all the data and did a reformat while in

Hmm,
I have been noticing reduced audio quality the last days.
It turns out my surround sound system not working anymore ?
Probably Creative X-Fi Driver related...

1. One copy for 32 bit software, apps/drivers. (Windows on Windows=WOW)
2. One copy for 64 bit software, apps/drivers.
= 96 bits versus 32 bits ;)
3 TIMES MORE MEMORY ! ;)

Does anyone have any experience in what I should buy to share
one monitor, keyboard, mouse with two towers (space concerns).
thanks

I thought there was a Norton Utilities program that had the capability to
write zeros on all the unused space on the hard drive.  I looked at all the
menu options in Norton DiskEdit and Disk Doctor and I don't see any such
capability.

I have an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU and a MSI KT6V (MS-7021 v1.X)
ATX mainboard. The KT6V mainboard is based on VIA KT600 North Bridge
& VT8237 South Bridge chipset.
I bought a 1GB DDR400 module recently. When I tried to use it with

I am going to install the OS on a completely new hardware setup this
weekend. I will use an older copy of pre-SP1 Windows XP Prof that I
will remove from my current PC. My roommate has a volume license copy
of Windows XP Prof with SP2 from work. Could I install using his

This is new to me - I built a PC and plugged in all connectors and my
system wouldn't turn on.  I noticed it powered on the fan and power
supply for less than 1 second then turned off.  I got the same result
with a different power supply.

Hi. I'm having modem problems on a computer I just assembled. Asrock
775i65G motherboard, Intel Celeron 3.2 Ghz cpu, 512 Mb DIMM...Win 98
SE, Trendnet TFM-PCIV92A modem (says 98 SE compatible).
I have one yellow question mark in Device Manager...on PCI System

Hello, finally I'm upgrading to a 20 megabit connection... of course I
need to buy a new modem/router.
What can you suggest? thank you!
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HI folks.  I'm waiting for the July 22 price drop for all the intel
stuff at this point.  I was originally going to use an E6600 dual core
but from what I hear the price of the quad core Q6600 will be dropped
significantly so I was going to go with that now.  Is there anything

I've just received an old Sun Sparc station 5 and want to have a play
with it cos I've always been into retro computers.  I've just looked
at it though and don't know where to start.  I seem to be missing an
awful lot of things that I'd expect to come as standard.  I have the

Can I swap a DVD player for a CD burner in my notebook? My notebook
has a DVD /CD player only in it. It has an adapter on the back of the
drive. Can I replace it with a CD-RW burner or are burner and players
have different configured plugs at the back for the adapter to plug

I built this computer 3 years ago.  Here are the specs.
Intel motherboard D875PBZ
2.6C GHz. Intel processor
30 GB Maxtor ultra ATA hard drive (connected using the IDE cable)

I noticed in the nvidia control panel the temperatures of the these two
graphics cards (sli) are 50 degrees celcius in idle mode !
That's pretty high !
Add to the fact that the gfx fans are probably spinning very slowly because