IBM ThinkPad

I have an old Dell computer that I'd like to upgrade to play some games on. It will have a 300w PSU and the processor is some dual core AMD. I'm not exactly sure what it has as I don't have the PSU right now and so I have no way of turning it on to check. So what's the best bang for my buck? I...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?) Hi, I had to do a full reinstall of XP Home. There are several users all with their own documents etc. I need to get at the old "my documents" folders to copy the users data across but on one users the access is...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?) I'm runnig a xp with sp2 , everytime I want to print the contains of a page and the result of the print out are missing the right side of the contains, even changing the fonts under internet options and the view option...

Hi, i was wondering if it was possible to plug a power line adapter into a switch? Here is what i want to do. Wall, Line, NetComm Wireless modem router, ethernet cable, WD Live Wire, ethernet cable, TP-LINK 8-PORT 10/100/1000 SWITCH to other things like PC, PS3, XBox, Printer. Thanks. What...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) When I first boot my puter in the AM, my second Hard Disk drive is apparently not recognized, and does not show in "My Computer". If i "reboot" an hour or so later, it shows up. Any one have any suggestions. Thanks John

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?) Hi all, My remote assistance used to work fine but is now broken! I am trying to use it on my home network which consists of a Linksys BEFSR41 and two PC's running XP and SP2, UPnP is enabled on both machines and on the...

I decided to get a 24" 1920x1080 monitor and i'm currently using a ATI Radeon HD4850, but i plugged in and it has a one a half inch black border around it and when i go to set my resolution in ATI's CCC the maximum is 1680x1050? :/ also it wont leave me play 50% percent of my games like metro...

4U Supercomputing Server w/ Dual NVidia Tesla C2050 GPUs w/dual 3.33GHz Intel 6-core & 24GB memory (configured to hold up to 8 GPU's and 18 Memory slots). Located in Austin, TX USA. Specs: 2 x Six-Core Intel Xeon (Westmere) X5680 3.33GHz Processors 2 x Nvidia Tesla C2050 w/448scores & 3GB DDR5...

I have 2 Asianet Broadband connections 1) Unlimited 600KBps (RAPID 625) and 2) Limited 4 MBps (HOMENET 475) 2 a.m. to 8.a.m unlimited usage). I have 2 PCs, one will be in my dedicated home theater room and the other PC in the living room where my wife & kids will use for browsing/gaming etc...

connect Prolink P204H to Cisco1841 router Prolink IP 192.168.100.10 Cisco 1841 IP FE0/0 192.168.100.11 FE0/1 192.168.10.10 PC IP 192.168.10.11 Can't connect internet from Prolink router

Hey guys, I read an article this morning showing AMD's TressFX technology on the new Tomb Raider game. Looks quite nice if you ask me. I've got everything Nvidia on my PC and I'm wondering if the feature will be available for Nvidia users... anyone know? Article...

I appear to be fighting some kind of incompatibility problem: Specifically, the new motherboard (Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP) and the new power supply (Antec tp3-430 truepower trio) don't seem to like each other: When I put them together, the CPU fan turns very slowly and the motherboard will not...

Can someone please assist me. I have been trying to share drives between my dekstop and laptop using a router. I have connected both PCs to the router and has made changes to the file sharing enability to both. However, when I changed the ip address to 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 respectively...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?) Hello, I was wanting to know how to creat files that require a password to access them???????????? Can you Help Me?????????????/

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?) when i installed sp2 my pritner show as opffline i unintsalled and reinstalled both printer and driver plus the printer software did not worked i unistalled SP2 and walla my printer are working just fine can anyone tell...

Hello, I have 2 NIC cards on the same machine running Redhat 9.I need to setup the machine in such a way that both cards are in the same subnet but card on port eth1 can be reached through card on port eth0.I tried modifying the iptables (with the limited knowledge that I have on it,used...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) Hi, The Laser external Hard drive now has another drive in it in case it was the problem but the same things is still happening. I plug it into another of 4 USB ports I have...

So, decided to put in a video card from a different computer into this one, also put in a new PSU so it could power it, when I plugged both in and powered it, monitor didn't show anything with everything plugged in firmly, (by the way, I have a onboard graphics card). Then I was told I needed to...

Hi, I am firing up my new pc build with a clean HDD. I have an copy of XP Pro 2002, pre-SP1, floating around so I installed that. I also have a copy of XP SP2 so I installed SP2 next so I can access all of my 160GB HDD. I did not install anything else ... SP1 or whatever. Is this a...

First off my specs: Windows XP, Gigabyte P945 motherboard, Q6600 with aftermarket heatsink/fan, 500W PSU, 4 GB Ram, 8600GT 256MB 128-bit, 320 GB HDD and 750 GB HDD. I had a 8800GT 512MB a couple weeks ago fry. Went to play GTA 4 and BAM! Artifacts on the load screen and froze up. Rebooted...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) I own a HP pavillion 754n desktop it already has an 80 gb Ide harddrive installed. I want to add a Maxtor / DiamondMax 10 / 200GB / 7200 / 8MB / ATA-133 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive and Im wondering of its compatibility. I...

hello, I'm putting a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608016 onto a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128544&Tpk=gigabyte%20z77x%20ud3h and when installing the backing plate it tells me if i have a LGA1366 & LGA1156 to remove the rubber inlay and to...

Hello, i want to create a network for a hospital of about 12 pcs . 1 should be a server. what windows should i use ? how can i make a server to administrate ? need a sharing folder in it . please help me from the beginning

Hello, what the actual distance of mobile "BLUETOOTH"

i am not getting one pc in workgroup

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) I was successful in transferring all my files from 98 to XP except for a all files for a software application. The software was a problem installing as well. I think is was running on 95 originally. What can I do to get my...

My pc looks like this :arrow: AMD Duron 1600 mhz , 2x 256 MB DDR 400 mhz Ram , Seagate 160 Gb 7200 rpm 8MB Cache , ECS L7S7A2 motherboard , Leadtek A340TD ( Fx 5200 128 mb ) , dvd-rw LG 4163B , and a 300W ATX , Windows XP PRO SP2 , DirectX 9.0c ( latest build ) . Now ... my problem is this ...

Does anyone know where I can get some free Stun Server software to run on Windows XP. I'm designing a SIP training course and want to simulate a SIP network in a classroom environment. Cheers David

Hello, Comcast tech support showed me that my Dell XPS running Vista is receiving data packets but cannot bring up IE or Firefox. I can view shared public directories from another computer in my workgroup. Comcast could not tell me if the problem is caused by hardware, software, or virus...

Hello to all, Using a D-Link WBR-1310 Firmware Revision 1.04 which has worked for years. Was set at 10/100MB but always on a 10MB Cards. New system, 100MB built in lan connection and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. 3 to 4 times a day it will get the wrong ip address and dump. Using disable and enable...

please help, i cant uninstall client sevices for netware, much obliged :(

So, I wanted to go SLI on my board. I have a GA-M57SLI-S4 version 2.0 from what i understand.. even tho it has 2 x16 PCIe ports. when I am using both, they go down to x8. So, is it worth it to go to SLI? or do you think it will be a big difrence if i upgrade my board? BTW, I have an 8800 GT...

Hello all, Ijust built my new rig. AMD 4800, lanparty UT nf4 sli-dr, maxtor 250GB HD, Turbo-cool 510 powered, 1024 DDR x 2, Aopen 7800 GTX. I set up the dard drive with 1 partition of 250 like the manual said. I have my cdRom set to the primary and my HD to secondary. When I try and...

Hello there, I need some advice on a new PSU... Here is my PC spec: Dell Dimension E520 (2008) Intel Pentium D duel core 2.80 Ghz 4 gig RAM 500gig SATA hard drive http://www.dell.com/us/en/dfh/desktops/dimen_e520/pd.aspx?refid=dimen_e520&cs=22&s=dfh I have purchased the PNY GTS250 CPU...

So ... I'm considering building a new PC in the next month or so ... and normally in the past I have followed buyer's guides for the most part ... but I discovered these forums and I've learned a lot just by reading what people have to say. It got me thinking about AMD, since everyone seems...

first, sorry for putting in the wrong category, i dont know where to post. here is my "new" computer (brought in March) i7 920 evga gtx 260 + gskill 6gb ddr3 wd black 640 gb asus p6t and the rest r not important they are NOT overclocked my computer did ran faster than my old one, dont even know...

I am going to build a computer with a pretty low budget im hoping to be able to play games and record like minecraft and day Z i dont want to spend over 500 for the computer and i already have a case. Does any one have a good setup with this budget limit?

Hello, i hd a lan printer from which if i m printing the document from another system than it does not print the document

Hi! Im new to the site, and this is my first build. I know enough to get by but not alot. So any insight for future reference is appreciated. Its mostly a gaming media center rig for my game room. Gonna be playing alot of simcity and minecraft lol. Asus sabertooth z77 i7 quad-core 3770k...

I don't know if this is a harware issue with my SSD, disk controller (motherboard), power supply or something else, but depending on what I'm doing, the computer will operate for a few minutes then freeze and eventually reboot itself. When it reboots, I get the "Bootmgr is Missing" message...