My motherboard has a pair of DDR and another pair of SDRAM ram slots.  I use
DDR so the SDRAM is emply.  The BIOS has a selection of 100mhz or 133 mhz for
SDRAM.  I wonder if the speed applies since the motherboard should go by the
DDR.  There is no DDR selection.  Do I have to ...

I was wondering how a person can check to see if the hard drive that is
installed is SATA, without taking the cover off.  I was looking around
Device Manager and noticed that my SATA drive shows as being on the primary
IDE channel, under IDE controllers. (BTW, I know I have an ...

I have replaced a faulty GeForce 5200 GPU with a GeForce 6200 GPU. Previous
faults have been rectified but i am now unable to play any DVD's or video
files on WMPlayer or real Player. As soon as the video file tries to load in
WMP or real player the PC locks up and I can only ...

"This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)"My webcam was installed a
while back but i did it wrong and it comes up with errors if i try to install
it so i tryed to uninstall it but it came up with another error :S

I have bought a DELL Dimension 9100 and I did not check the ports in
the specs before. Now it turns out that the PC comes with *NO* printer
port and *NO* com: ports whatsoever. Only a number of USB ports...
I am really in need of both so I tried to install a combo I/O board

Pentium D 820, i945P, Windows XP Pro SP2, latest drivers, bios, etc...
Device manager detects and displays both cores as two physical processors...
but, Task Manager's performance tab only seems to be accessing one CPU - one
Usage history graph. Under view > CPU history - One ...

I just bought me a DYNEX External Hard Drive enclosure and i Put a 40gb
maxtor drive in it with the pins MASTER selected.  It installs the
drive and in device manager it recognizes the device under Disk Drives
and knows its connected by USB, but I cannot get a drive letter anyone

I have an ACER AL1714 17in. lcd. Its a great monitor, but a day ago it may
have suffered from burn-in!!!!!!!!! its not bad, it looks like the upper of
IE. is there any way to fix this like program a lil elbow grease?

I just purchased a V7 LCD 19" monitor with speakers.  However, when I
connect the speakers to my Compaq 5000 Presario computer, they don't
work.  Both connections are okay and so is the volume control.  What
else should I be checking?

stuff on it. It had been formatted and set up with Windows XP from the Dell
OS disk. I had to take it off that system (I won't go into the reasons why.)
Needless to say, I knew I wouldn't be able to use ...

I just bought a Lexar Firewire Compactflash Reader--I have a 4pin connection
on my laptop, so had to get a 6-pin/4pin cable...it doesn't work. Can anyone
tell me why? and if it is possible to get it to work? I am a photographer,
and wanted to use it to dump images off my new 1gb ...

It started when I noticed that both of my CD_R and DVD driverswere
missing from my computer, the device manager had a yellow sign next to
them saying there was an error with the driver, error 39. I went to the
Microsoft site, followed instructions involving the registry, rebooted,

I need some help, I heard that you can make computer games load and play
faster if you creat a virtial cd drive. I download GAME DRIVE and it took TOO
LONG just to copy call of duty cd1. Is there any other program that I can use
or does window have an function to do this.

Rather than write a page of action taken, I will list:
Have a 20 GB HD installed.
Bought a new 160 GB Seagate Hurricane
Installed per Segate Manual.

Okay...I bought a new MS wireless optical intellimouse 4 months ago.  Today,
when I move the mouse UP, the pointer goes DOWN, and vise versa.  BUT, left
and right are still operating correctly.  
I've uninstalled the software. I've rebooted several times.  Next I'll