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My friend is having a motherboard/graphics card problem. He has a cheap ECS motherboard with a sis 661 chipset. He has an fx5600 video card installed. problem is, when we try to play wow on his computer, it pops up with an error saying unable to start video accelerator. something along...

I formatted yesterday, before that I haven't formatted in close to a year. anyways got everything installed again, got most of the updates (or all, not sure) updated IE to the latest. I am now having an problem which is effecting nearly everything I do online. I keep getting erros on...

I got this Satellite reciever that I want to use the harddrive from. Its a sata western digital 250 gig drive, when I run it in my system, the computer cannot see the drive, also bios screws up when I try to enter it (takes a long time to enter as well) Sometimes when I do get into bios...

I am having a problem with my setup. I just recently upgraded my 120 gig WDSE drive to a 300 gig Maxtor Diamondmax10 16m cache drive. Ever since going to the new drive, my DVD drive has been crippled (pioneer 16x DL IDE). I have ripped a dvd and it never got above 2.5x. I suspect that the...

I recently had an LG drive just die on me, so I went and replaced the drive with a pioneer DVD RW drive. Ever since I got it I cant get it to burn a disk. It goes throught the burning process and completes but it never actually burns. The disk is always empty and the burner doesnt light...

Hi, I just picked up this red iMac, g3 400, 577 megs ram, 10 gig drive etc. I got it with OS 9.1 I think, everything worked, then I upgraded (format reinstall) OSX. Everything worked again. I then moved the computer to a different location in the house. Upon hooking it back up to...

Hi there, Basically, I am cheap, and all the computer stores are closing this time of night. I need a long cat 5 cable and I have a bunch of short ones available. I want to solder a couple of cables together to give a 3rd computer internet. I see that the Cat 5 cable has something...

I have a system here that has the 865PE motherboard. I am switching it over to an 865G based motherboard, both are Asus boards, the rest of the system will be the same parts. Do you think switching boards will cause XP to not boot up? The systems will be the same parts besides going from an...

Hello all, I have been a cable internet user for a long time, never really had a problem with it. I decided to bundle my services together with one company that offered me a good rate. So I decided to switch to there DSL. After receiving the DSL kit, I installed it and ran into MANY...

Does anyone know of the equivilant of a win98 startup floppy disk but on cd?? I need one for a machine without a floppy drive.

It no big deal at all but lets say you reply to a thread and you close the browser and come back and go to the forum where you replied, the thread will show up as there is a new reply unread yet there are no new replies after your post. is this an issue with the browser or a browser setting...

I have winxp on my main machine I have been getting machine reboots for the past couple weeks. It started when I took out a 256 meg stick of ram and replaced it with a brand new 512 meg stick of ram bringing the total up to 1024 megs ram, one stick is ddr 333, the new stick is ddr400, both...

Found this while browsing around, http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14831 One thing about the new slot is theres no need for a molex connector.

Anyone know of a program to specifically change the refresh rate of a monitor? Like odd rates *between* 60, 70, 75, 85 etc.

So I get a new 32" CRT TV and set it up and I get magnetic problems, Find out its my big stereo speakers. So I spent 8 hours re-arranging my living room and in the process I have to move the computer desk 1 wall over no now its facing 90 degrees in a different direction. Now I am getting a...

I have a Compaq 12XL423 laptop here and its having a problem. Its my fathers and he is a truck driver. Apperently it was left in a truck in pretty cold conditions along the lines of minus 30c temps. Now the laptop wasn't turned on in that temp to my knowledge so I am not sure if that...

So I might be getting an old imac from work. Currently I have only PC's. They have to upgrade these macs at work and they are giving them away. I am going to try to get my hands on the red Imac as I believe out of all of them, the red ones the fastest. The rest are green I think. I really...

With the new prescotts on the horizon, They are running around 1.3v right? Should people watch out for SID again? I assume lower vcore = lower limits then northwood. Northwood 1.5ish vcore - Max ~1.7 before dieing out. Prescott 1.3ish vcore - Max ~1.55 before SIDS??? Something to watch...