Who makes or prototypes cases/shells for appliances like Routers or
PDA/Handheld? I have the internal components using ARM technology (like
internals of a PDA) and want to put a clean usable box around it for
initial customer use. 2 Solutions could exist: 1) generic off-the-shelf

Who makes Serial (RS-232...) to wireless (Bluetooth/802.11) external
converters/adapters/dongles? I need to have wireless power
(rechargeable battery and or solar cell), not power by wire or draining
from the serial pins.

Who makes off the shelf USB appliances < $400 (cheaper better)? Specs I
would like: small (roughly size of a router), 8+ USB ports, computing
ability (like PDA or computer), embedded OS (Linux or Windows
CE/XP-Embedded), battery or screen would be nice (like PDA). Does not

Hey there....
Microphone was working fine until I installed SP2.
Now in audio properties, my mic box is greyed out, and I can't uncheck
the box that says "select.."..

I have a question. Better to ask before having a real trouble.
My laptop's original harddrive is only 30GB, soon I'm planning to buy a new
HDD of 100GB and replace the existing one.
The question is: is it possible to "copy/clone" the old HDD to a new one, so

I need to know how to get my system to recognize that I have hooked one up
but having my pc re-check its config. doesn't seem to work please respond
asap.

I'm having what i think may be a hardware problem and am wondering if
anyone else has experienced the same and hopefully has a solution.  My
setup is:
Asus P5LD2-VM Motherboard

Hello to All
I have an Asus P5LD2 Mobe with P4 640 Cpu attached.  Power is from an Atrix
500T.
I have just dumped the Probe 2, having had another disk sent and downloading

I've had a strange problem with my laptop keyboard, and I don't know anyone
who's encountered this problem ever.  My right shift key has converted itself
into a strange control key.  It's not quite like the other control key, and
its taken some of the functions from my original ...

Whenever I plug in my MP3 player or my two flash drives, they are reconized
by Windows and show up in safely remove hardware with no problems at all.
However, when I go into My Computer they do not show up. It will not even
show up in any of my programs (they all want drive ...

Have several boxes with various video cards using ATI Radeon chipsets.
Works fine at 1024x768 for several monitors, but not with the Relisys TE786.
That monitor shows only part of the screen using 800x600.  Moving the mouse
moves the "view window" to see the rest of the screen.  ...

Anyone seen this problem? I had XP Pro on another machine and the CD got
scratched bad. So I bought a new copy of just the Home Edition and now I
cannot use my backup hard drive. It says it is a foreign disk in the disk
manager and if I want to change it to a basic disk it will ...

My presentation has embedded MPEG video/DVD video. However, when the
movie/video begins to play, I am only seeing a black box on the
projected image where the movie should be playing. What could be wrong?

Simple question I hope.
A USB flashdrive in XP is auto recognized as a flash drive.
A USB Floppy drive is auto regognized as a floppy drive.
Is there a way my PDA on a USB cable can be seen by the OS as just a

My desktop is XP Home SP2.  I just reformatted the C drive and
reinstalled software.  I was using Outlook 2000, hit
Control+Alt+Delete to see if another instance was running, and Bam!
The system crashed!