Commodore

I found an old Commodore VIC-20 in my great aunts garage. It still powers on and puts out image. I don't really know what to do with this thing, it's nearly twice my age. Is it worth anything? Anyone want it? Have any suggestions?

when i launch fortnite i get a BSOD shorty after clicking on the battle royal mode. i hear sounds from the music just no lobbu screen.

I am about to reinstall windows and I need to know what drivers do I need to install to have it up and running.

Looking for a new gaming cpu,motherboard. Which has the best price to perfomance ratio? Intel or Ryzen? Also, which combo is cheaper? Intel+mobo or Ryzen+mobo?

looking to purchase a rx 580, preferably a closed shroud variety. a sapphire nitro+ would be wonderful. why cant i find one for sale new? when will they come back lol

im currently running windows 10 it was originally windows 8 updated to 10 using the free upgrade i lost my windows cd and box which had the product key is there a way for me to recover my windows product key. im planning to install my os on a ssd as an upgrade .

So I bought a NZXT S340 mid tower case that doesn't have an optical drive slot, but I do have an Optical drive as well as a Windows 8.1 install disk. Is there a way to connect the OD to my pc just to install OS? Even if it's not fastened in the case.

Does 500 watts power supply will be sufficient to run 3 HDDs? One of my hdd is not recognize by my computer. There's a clicking noise. I think my there nothing wrong with my hdd, because I tried using to other computer, and it worked properly. What do you think the problem? Is it the...

This is the card i'm getting: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130932 My current PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341022 I'm a...semi noob.. when it comes to PSU's so I came to tom's of course haha :) but do you think I'll run into any...

Set up the Windows live and down loaded all my emails and then it has stopped working, Tried deleting the account and setting up again but exact the same happened again

MOBO ASUS Sabertooth P67 CPU Intel - Core i5 2500K RAM Patriot - PXD38G1600LLK Viper 2 Edition (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 VGA EVGA - GeForce GTX 570 SuperClock HDD WDC SATA3 Caviar Black 1TB 64M DVD LG DVD-RW (Box) PSU Tagan - BZ 800W Casing Thermaltake Level 10GT Cooler Gelid Solution Traquillo...

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) I've managed to lose the XP-CD I purchased from Dell. Are there any optoins other than purchasing a new one? If I have to reinstall XP on a Dell system that had a different XP-CD installed before will this cause problems?

I know there is a student discount for a windows 7 upgrade. I need the full version though. Is there a student or military discount for a full version? I've been searching all weekend.

The battery on my compaq pressario stated going, then one day as I was doing some work the ac cord stopped working together with the battery and it shut down. Was able to purchase another cord, but becasue it did not shut down properly it's giving trouble to reboot. It started ok one time and...

hey i got windows 7 7600 build and when i run the windows system performance test to see my ratings, during the test i get artifacts and i have to restart my pc ?? any idea why, im running my cpu, and gpu on stock, ram at 1066mhz everything should be good so why does it crash and also the temps...

My wife and I enjoy playing Diablo, Diablo2, Dungeon Siege & Dungeon Siege2 I enjoy Oblivian, but it isn't multi player. Is there any new games simular to that style that we can play together on home network?

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) It's been a long time since I have seen as clueless as "fred" in the newsgroups. His track record for being wrong must be approaching a world record. Since he is not man enough to answer the posts that challenge the complete nonsense...

Well, we have a thread for the highest WEI scores, so we have a pretty good idea what the score is for OC'd i7s and PIIs as well as a feeling for what a pair of GTX 295s in SLI will do, but what about more mundane systems? Ever want to know what the score would be if you put windows 7 on that...

AMD's new 45nm processors are soon to come out.. the phenom II 4x 940 and the 920. they'll be running at i believe 2.83ghz for the 920 and 3.0 for 940, with a 6mb and 8mb cache. not bad? the price will be good. im pretty sure they'll eat the i7s.. could probably manage to clock it pretty good...

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) Sister-in- law has a 2 month old XPS that cost close to $3000 with all the bells and whistles. The hard drive dies so she called Dell service. They said they'd bring a new drive and motherboard on the first attempt. Showed up with no...

Hello, first time poster and rather new to Tom's Hardware site. I have a couple questions if your community would'nt mind answering for me. I have 2 computers the first is HP a1730n it came with vista 32bit Amd Athalon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, I added 4 gigs of ram Kingston 240-Pin DDR2...

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq (More info?) I'm thinking of getting an old Presario 5000 (5WV254) and installing a new motherboard, CPU and RAM - keeping the drives, the PSU etc. and installing '98 Is this doable? I'd be happy to have something running at around 2GHz, and...

I edited the post (first i wanted to buy a chieftec :roll: ) I have a MSI k8n Neo platinum mobo, that requires a minimum of 18A on the 12V rail. http://www.antec.com/ec/productDetails.php?ProdID=07655 http://www.antec.com/ec/productDetails.php?ProdID=05505 My problem is that the NeoHE is...

Hi guys. I need help picking an lcd monitor. I am currently still using an Samsung Syncmaster 753s 17 inch crt. I have narrowed down my selection to the BenQ FP22w,Acer AL2216W and Samsung 226BW. The Acer is the cheapest while the Samsung being the most expensive. They have mostly the same...

Archived from groups: misc.consumers,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) (Ed Foster's Gripelog)---Software publishers generally insist that their products are licensed, not sold - and that they therefore can deprive you of the fair use rights you'd otherwise have with a book or a music CD. But...

I just bought my computter at Best buy where do I get it

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) Someone recently posted a message or two regarding a Dual Layer DVD that was on the market that would fit the Inspiron 8600 if the face plate were replaced. I saved the thread, but now cannot find it. Does anyone remember? Seems to...

I have the newest Mac mini and I wonder if i should buy an external hard drive. It is 500HD and 2 gigs of memory. Thanks.

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?) Did the upgrade, but the Dell Logitech wireless mouse is acting up. Loaded new drivers from logitch, but the thumb button doesn't work. (This mouse has a L &R button, scroll wheel and a thumb button for those things you have to double...

Do you think Sandy Bridge is in direct competition to Ivy Bridge?

Hi guys, just wanted to ask a quick question before I take the plunge and buy some fans. I have a red/black theme for my desktop (Black corsair 650D with red lights and such) and I had a question about the fans that go with the H100i that I have installed. I currently have 2 Corsair SP120's...

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (More info?) Is there any reason why I can't install a second drive as big as I like on my p5-133? Thanks.

Hey, I built this PC on a budget last year didnt really have a clue what i was buying and still don't :( Looking for opinions on the best upgrades for it. i would like to play games such as battlefield 4 flawlessly on max settings if possible, currently having issues with frame rate drops...

Im looking to buy a new graphics card and was wondering if it was compatible with my motherboard. Motherboard: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02560084&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=4300938#N252 Graphics card i was thinking of buying...

Hello I have Windows 8 Pro Media Center and I like it for the most part, but when I try to play my videos in the Start menu Video section it opens and just hangs and says "Starting" for like forever, so I thought that it was a computer issue, but when I went into the Media Center and Media...

The symptom started appearing about two weeks ago. My Logitech cordless mouse's cursor is jumping like crazy. It is like not the mouse cursor chasing subject on my desktop but I am chasing the mouse cursor. When I try to focus the mouse cursor on something the cursor will for example suddenly...

OK - so I installed Win 8 pro on an existing 64 bit Win 7 platform. I've corrected most of the driver issues, but the system crashes at 11:36 am and 11:36 pm every day. Dumps are taken but win 8 won't let me look at them. I noticed the "bad_pool_header" on the BSOD screen and thought I'd...

I am in a corporate environment and i have been assigned a manual IP address via a software i dont know...i dont even remember its name...so i am a contract based employee here for one month...and the download speed is just awesome...i just want to make sure i am not detected here.....is there...

Hello, i have lost my web cam cd driver of web-cam 2007make pl supply the software

Most GPU and chipset heatsinks will also accept a standard 40mm fan, which usually performs better do to it's increased thickness, and usually blocks PCI slot 1. Some fans require slight trimming along two edges to fit. What's the frequency, Kenneth?