This memory module CT32M64S4D7E is available from Crucial directly for
$68.39 (on sale) and from NewEgg for $57.00. NewEgg lists it as OEM.
What makes a memory module OEM anyway? Is this the same exact module?
Any reason not to get it from NewEgg and save $?

I'm running XP SP2.  My PC has an IDE 52x CD/RW drive.
With just one particular CD that everyone else in the office can read
fine, my mouse freezes for a couple minutes at a time, but then
recovers.  That is, the computer doesn't crash (not right away), but

Ok, gang, I have come up with a web-surfin' granny type PC I want to sell.
With taxes and shipping in my area, it comes to $267. And that is no OS,
keyboard, speakers or mouse. Obviously adding XP would add another $100. I
was thinking about adding a free Linux based OS.

My printer works fine, but every time I use it the wizzard recognizes it as
new and wants to help me install it.  Simple enough to cancel, but not very
elegant.

I have recently had a motherboard crash and had to replace th
motherboard, and also replaced the hard drive, as well as the vide
card. However, when i replaced the video card, (I had previously had
256MB) I replaced it with a 128MB to save money, don't ask me why i wa

We have five developers that we need to upgrade to newer faster boxes.
We have chosen Dell because they seem to offer and good
price/performance/support equation.  I have historically purchased 1 yr
old processing power as it is usually good enough.  I just had a recent

after starting my computer my cursor freezes in the center of the screen.  I
restarted several times and find the same problem each time.  Tried starting
in safe mode but can't.
Every time I tried it opens in regular mode.  I am sending this message on

I am having a problem with the boundries of my desktop.
for some reason i can drag a window halfway off my screen.
I do not wish this to happen.
if i maximize a window it will only reach the sides of my monitor, and won't

I have seen earlier postings on this subject on this newsgroup and there
appear to be very narrow specifications for the co-existence of different
packages for burning and the type and brand of media used for burning. But I
also find that Sonic's MyDVD 5 which came along with my ...

I have just had to replace my motherboard. The old one came with a card
reader. I connected this to the new motherboard, but got a Warning:
"The card reader does not recognise your motherboard. Please contact
your card reader vendor.".

I am running a P4 1700 with 1Mb SDRAM, Audigy 1 sound card with 4 speakers
and XP Home SP2 fully updated.
On startup the speaker default is 2/2.1 in both the Creative Speaker utility
and the XP Control Panel - Sound setup.

I have an Asus laptop. Asus release a new version of its ATK0100 ACPI Utility
a few days ago, version 51. I upgraded from version 50. However, during
upgrade process, it failed and stated files were missing. I tried
uninstalling and installing the older version 50 with the same ...

USB is acting very strange.  I tried to add a new External Drive USB 2.0 to
my XPSP2 system.  Windows said it had to find the driver.  When it found the
driver it was unable to install it because it could not read the device.  I
unstalled the device controller and the USB ...

Is this the  right place to ask a NTFS HDD related question? I have a HDD
formatted with XP Pro that has some problems.

Am having problems with my disk drive (D).  It happily plays audio cd's but
will not play cd roms or game disks.  It gives me the error message:
D:/Access denied!
I have done all the system clean ups (defragmenter) and have re-scanned the