Can anyone recommend a good hardware monitor that will keep an eye on fan
speeds (particularly the chipset fan), motherboard temperatues and report
S.M.A.R.T. data from the hard drive ?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Background - Dell PC came with OEM XP installed on Maxtor 40GB.
It's a 1.7 P4 so the machine is several years old.  Routine winupdates
to current SP2 config.  Second 80G Maxtor installed as data disk,
drive D on same primary ide.  Two DVD.CD drives on secondary ide.

has anyone every tried copying many small files onto a large (2gb) USB 2.0
pen drive? I am talking about around 250 files, each a few KB in size.
Takes me 2 minutes to copy them onto the drive...with the total folder size
being only 4.4 mb! So I don't even get USB1 speed, it's more ...

I have the exact problem as described by Peter Coughlin dated
September, 2003.  I have not found any helpful responses to his post
and so hesitatingly re-open the subject.
I have a Dell Inspiron 600m running XP pro.  When the computer should

I'm hoping some kind soul can give me a clue here, cos I'm lost.
I have a HP pavilion PC (running Windows XP) with a flat screen
monitor, neither of which have ever failed me. Then yesterday I go out
and buy a new mouse (a Trust chordless one), DVD RW drive, and printer

I lost my CD/DVD drives from the system device profile.  I even bought a new
IDE controller, installed it, and it reconized the drives on and off for a
while before complete losing them again.  I was able to see files in the
directory of one (I have both a Toshiba DVD and a ...

bought the above from local computer fair - great.  However, plugged in via
usb but computer doesnt recognise.  No disks or anything else supplied.  
Please could someone give me step by step instructions how to install so I
can back up my files.  Thanks.

I am hoping you can help me.  I have just re-formatted my system driv
with xp pro and now my secondary drive has become unreadable
My system drive reads as a basic drive and the secondary drive reads a
a dynamic drive.  The reason this is a problem is that there is ove

After installing some new memory I noticed when pc was booting that I had
disconneted the power cable on the floppy.I tried to reconnect it as it was
booting up and
it died.I realise I'm really to stupid to own a pc but...have I fried the

Hace poco adquiri una camara digital Nikon Coolpix 5200, pero no puedo
descargar las fotografias desde la camara a mi PC, este es una computadora
Compaq Presario 5203, AMD k6 330 Mghertz, 160 RAM, con conexiones USB, nose
si sera por lo anticuado de mi equipo, pero ha sido una ...

Months ago, I had a new hard drive installed as slave drive. It is
Samsung SP0411N (40GB) and it worked fine. I was able to save som
files into it. Later, I moved out files from it and then when I trie
to save other files, it says that the hard drive is not formatted.

Hey Guys,
got a problem i cnt solve, my computer seems to switch off everytime i
do a big process e.g. Converting a mp3 file to ogg or sumthing or
installing a large program. i first thought it was my hard drive n that

I have 3 drive for CD's and DVD's.
1 is a DVD Rom. 1 is a CD R/W. The third is a DVD R/W.
each has an assigned drive letter that appears in My Computer.
When I place a dick in any of them the drive lights come on and the cursor

I dunno if this problem is related to software or hardware , but i'
kinda hopeless so i'll try anythin
My System Was Working All fine Then i Bought A new RAM Chip and it wa
DDR and my previous one Was SDRAM and they told me that i can't ru

When a specific software refused to install properly, I upgraded from
Win2k Pro to WinXP Pro.  Then, I come to realize the software wouldn't
work properly because my CPU was a PII, when a PIII was required.  As
it turns out my ASUS mobo will support the CPU upgrade, and I will