hi frnds
just few month back only  i bought a second hand computer i am not
that much good in computer hardware knowledge.  task bar manger is not
working , and in the same time processing speed is very low few times

I have two hard drives on an XP Pentium IV--a Western Digital about
five years old, as old as the processor, and a brand new Seagate.  I
have a CD-ROM and nothing else on the tower except fans.
When booting up, when the machine is cold, I occasionally hear a weird

I am going to build ATA RAID5 storage using Dell Optiplex GX150(079WPJ
DELL 200 WATT ATX POWER SUPPLY) + Promise FastTrak SX4000 + qty.4 x
WD800 5VDC 0.80A / 12VDC 0.45A.
*May be a CDROM, but CDROM can be removed after building a storage.

I cant figure this out. I have been scouring the internet for a few
months on this issue thinking I could solve it on my own. But I am at
my wits end here. It is an HP ze4610us laptop with AMD Athlon XP2500+,
44MB of RAM, 1.8GHz processor, it uses a Proxim Orinoco Gold a/b/g

hey i've a little problem with my computer. on turning it on, i get a
black screen asking if i want to open it in safe mode or normal mode
because it wasn't closed down right and whichever you click, a blue
screen pops up. on the blue screen it has some technical information

I'm stuck between Brisbane vs Windsor processors.  There's a lot on the
net about which is better or worse, hotter or cooler, 65 nm vs 89 nm
(whatever an "nm" is), etc, etc, etc.  I think I'm on information
overload.  I've sort of narrowed my choices down to being between,

I have a HP desktop with 256mb DDR SDRAM DIMM
I just got a new 512md memory stick, can install this one in addition
to the old one?
Or i have to remove one stick and install the new one

Whether I play from dvd or internet streaming video I see yellow dots
pixels randomly all over the screen is it due to bad card ?
Thanks for replying.

I expect someone here will have a good idea about this...
As of yesterday, my PC running WinXP has started crashing (rebooting)
pretty regularly every 10-30 minutes.  Even if I am not using it and
just leave it on.   I haven't added/removed any software or hardware

The board's an ABIT KV7-V with a VIA KT-600 chipset.  There's an
onboard SATA (Sil-3112 controller) RAID , which is the boot drive
(striped).
I've added another SATA drive (for backup) using a Vantec Serial ATA

i know this may be a stupid question, but are laptop hard drives non
replaceable due to the oem license?

    For a new system, which is better?  They are both Quad processors.  The
AMD is cheaper.  Which one performs better?

Just installed a Sapphire 2900xt graphics card in my xp based system, now
I've been having all these problems with the desktop going blank and locking
solid or vpu recover resetting.
System is a quad core 6600 Intel cpu (stock speed, water cooled) Abit AW9D

Can anybody help me, please?
I have recently bought a WD Passport, Portable hard drive, 160 GB,
Black, Model: WD1600U017-005, S/N: WXE507552370. I have a Dell laptop:
Inspiron1300 (ME051). Its specifications are: Processor type: Intel

I am helping a friend upgrade from a built in graphics card to a pci-
express graphics card.  what i am seeing is the cards PCI connectors
and the PCI slot on his Dell computer are reversed.
Mother board:   |____|_______________________| I/O plate at back of