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Hello, I have an old Mad Catz dual force racing steering wheel with pedals that was originally made for the Playstation (PS1) I am trying to make it work with my PC. I just want to use the Pedals for flying helicopters. I do not want to use the steering wheel. The pedals have a female DB9...

My monitor is old, is 1080p. 1920x1200. Thank you for the build list vapour. currently reviewing everything. and definitely considering bigger ssd, thanks. I should mention that I planned on buying my GTX 1080 Ti video card used. That is the only I could afford one. And also, that I have...

$1000-$1400, USA. I will check those out right now thank you.

Hello everyone, trying to build a PC for a while now. I am no expert, but have been tirelessly reading for over a week now and i'm worn out, and I'm ready to pull the trigger here. I figured it a good idea to run it by the folks on this forum first to make sure everything is compatible. I will...

Ok I borrowed a hard drive from my friend and installed it into my gateway and it started right up. So the problem was the hard drive. Now I have to give the borrowed hard drive back. My question now is, What can I do to get my 1tb toshiba hard drive to load windows 7 and gateway drivers? This...

Yes I triple checked the original hard drive in multiple pc's and it still wouldn't work. Reguarding the new Toshiba hardrive, I have downloaded the drivers from gateway already and put then on a usb stick but the install windows screen keeps saying the same thing when prompted to search for...

I have a gateway laptop model NV57H26U I recently dropped it and it froze up. I took the battery out and restarted it. Then it launched start up repair and was unable to fix itself after many attempts. I assumed the hard drive was damaged. I had a toshiba 1tb external Hard drive (s/n...

Hello, My laptop broke months ago and I am trying hard to find a replacement motherboard. My model is the Gateway NV57H17u https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101264 I have been searching for months but there are no NV57H17u models online for sale. My question is will...

Hello, I recently had an HDD fail, I assume that this was most likely due to persistent power outages. I live in an off grid situation, my electricity is strictly solar power. I have a relatively small battery bank so my power usually shuts off around 3am and starts up again in the morning...

Well that is a shame. thanks for your replies. I really do appreciate it. Wish I would have realized this sooner, now I have an extra GPU that I cant use. If I buy a new power supply I'll have to rewire the entire computer correct? Can anyone recommend a cheap power supply that will work, im...

Hello, I am trying to hook up a second video card to my PC. I'm currently running 1 ati Radeon HD 5850. I have a second card here same exact thing, and here is the problem. My psu is a fatal1ty 700w and it has only 2 6+2 pcie pins. Each 5850 video card requires 2 6 pin pci pins. So I see I'm...