I replaced the cmos battery and having reset the time in a normal boot
up, the time in the taskbar goes to 1:00 and then resets the hour
wrong (1 or 2 hours slow).
Any ideas?

I am about to upgrade the processor in a PC at work from a Core 2 Duo E6400
to a Core 2 Quad Q6600. My boss seems to think that I need to reinstall
Windows XP after doing the hardware change, but I thought you could just make
the swap and Windows  wouldn't miss a beat.... Who's ...

I am running win xp pro and already have one WD Raptor drive, but am
thinking of getting another one. Not sure if mine is the 8mb or the 16mb,
but I bought it at least a couple of years ago. The current one is 74gb.
Anyhow, in looking to get another 74gb one, I noticed that there ...

I want to disconnect the hard drive of a new VISTA computer, install a new
hard drive and install XP Home on it. I began this project in August but
hubby became ill and I'm just now getting back to it.
I realize I will need to install XP Drivers for the computer hardware;

My current Plextor recorder failed just like the previous ones! This is my
third PX-760A, and I had one PX-716A before that, which also failed. I am
bored from using the warranty services, every time they replace my recorder,
it works a few months and then fails.

I need help desperately.  I have a Verizon Wireless Card 5750 which my
computer recognizes and the software doesn't recognize.  I have been on the
telephone with Verizon Wireless Technicans as well as live chat and even
spent 3 hours in one of their Corporate Stores the other ...

I'm upgrading my old 2003-04ish Chaintech motherboard to the new GIGABYTE
GA-965P-DS3 and also upgrading to a intel core 2 duo e6700. I have Windows XP
SP2 installed. Anyways I was wondering what I have to do to install these
correctly, I have read everything on the internets and ...

This is a maxtor usb drive (1.5 TB).  It shows up in device manager, and
in my computer > manage > disk management.  You can set it to an active
partition, and you can give it a drive letter.  But then when you try to
format it (it's apparently currently in mac format), it says that ...

my desktop has a celeron which shows  mhz in the system screen.  i get a
feeling the speed has reduced after a recent service session by a
technician.  is there a way to confirm the actual clock speed of the
processor, so i can ensure the system is setup to run at the highese ...

ok ,so i am adding 1g of ram to my compaq persario sr1403wm desktop pc.i open
up the cover an there is a big piece of gray metal with what looks like teeth
protruding up ,with some glue on the back.so i find the spot with matching
glue an apply pressure to stick.close cover boot ...

Are the 2 above items compatible? The netgear wireless MR314 is 811b, 11 MBps thruput, and the ASUS PCI cards are just bought 2 weeks ago. They are internal cards with the small antenna.
I get with one desktop which has this Asus card a very low signal, even though the computer is ...

I am using a VAIO VGN-SZ110 running XP SP2 (having already upgraded to Vista
and back down to XP SP2).  I am unable to install drivers for my built-in
bluetooth device (trying the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack).
When I upgraded to Vista, BT worked fine, restored back to XP, now BT is ...

Sony Vaio RA830G with nVidea GeForce 6500 graphics card
I'm contemplating replacing my 17inch Sony flat panel monitor with a
20inch HP wide screen monitor with 1680x1050 resolution.
Checking my current display properties I seen that the highest option is

I have a Dell Inspiron 2200 running XP. I can no longer run on the battery.
If i press FN + F3 to view battery level nothing shows up. When i go to
control panel, power options and power meter tab, it says under the battery
picture "not present". When i hit F2 on start up and ...

I have spent a couple of hours reading about how DVD's are manufactured, and
how long to expect them to last, but for my older desktop with a DVD ROM,
I'd like to make a FULL backup onto DVD using Acronis. Acronis made two
files under 4.0GB each and I transferred them to the ...