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I have an HP G42-415DX notebook with a card slot that supports Memory Stick, MS Pro, MMC, SD, and XD cards. I have a camera that uses a MS Pro Duo card. The card came with an adapter to make it fit a non-Duo slot. The notebook's manual, however, says that I should never insert any type of...

Any particularly good ones? Particularly bad ones? The model I'm looking to replace is a Brother TN-570 if it matters.

My system shut down normally last night, now it won't start. The standby power LED is on, but pushing the power button does nothing. I tested the power supply with a multimeter and all voltages are good on the main power cable and the 12V cable, I didn't test the drive cables because I assumed...

Sometime in the past few months, my eeePC 1005HA with Windows 7 Starter has developed an interesting problem. After coming out of hibernation, the battery indicator won't update from the level it was at before hibernating. The battery itself works fine, it's just that the indicator is stuck...

I have a Maxtor 300GB SATA drive from circa 2005 that's been out of use for less than two years. When I last used it, it was working fine. Today I decided to install it into a media player. It didn't recognize it. So I took it out and connected it to my desktop system (the same system it...

I started up my network media player tonight only to find that it wasn't seeing my server. I grabbed my netbook and found that it didn't see the server either. The server was running fine otherwise (it's my main computer), but I rebooted it thinking that the SMB server process must've crashed...

I could've sworn that I had my Windows 7 system set to download updates automatically but ask whether to install them, the same as I always had my XP system. But last night it automatically installed the big IE security patch and rebooted. When I checked this morning, it was set to...

Every once in a while, Windows 7 will put up an icon in the taskbar notification area saying that one of my partitions has an error and needs to be scanned. Sometimes I'll miss it and won't know about it til I reboot and it scans automatically. But whether it scans at boot or whether I...

Earlier this year I got tired of Yahoo Messenger nagging me to upgrade, so I did. But I had a weird problem with version 9. Whenever I would send a link to a friend running version 8, something would change the domain name in the link to the IP address of my router! I couldn't find anybody...

I have an ATI X1300 with a Gateway 1680x1050 monitor attached to the DVI port and a Samsung 1920x1080 TV attached to the VGA port. Under Windows XP, both displays worked fine at their native resolution. (And defaulted to it too.) After installing 7, the Gateway worked fine but the Samsung...

I have an Intel D975XBX board with a Core2 Duo 6600. I'm running XP Pro SP3 with all updates applied. The system used to have a slightly annoying problem whereas my card reader, connected to one of the spare USB headers on the motherboard, would suddenly switch to low-speed upon inserting a card...

I have an Intel D975XBX board with a Core2 Duo 6600. I'm running XP Pro SP3 with all updates applied. The system used to have a slightly annoying problem whereas my card reader, connected to one of the spare USB headers on the motherboard, would suddenly switch to low-speed upon inserting a...

Based on comments on this forum, I was thinking of buying a DLink DIR-655. I need an affordable gigabit N router with good QoS features. It seems to be highly recommended here. But on the forum at Broadband Reports (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/dlink), everyone seems to think it's anywhere...

To make a long story short, when I installed my XP system I did it on a disk that was already mostly occupied with a Linux system, and only had room for the main partition, no hibernate partition. Now, I'm getting ready to remove Linux from that disk, and I'd like to enable hibernation in XP...

I'm no network guru. But what I'm trying to do seems really simple, and I'm at a loss as to why it's not working. I recently bought a wireless network adapter for my desktop system and tried to set up an ad-hoc network with my laptop according to the directions at...

I bought an Inspiron 9300 in October 2005. In September of this year it developed a stuck column of pixels near the left edge of the screen. Searching the web led to the discovery that this was a widespread problem and tended to get worse. According to Dell's own website, they would replace...

I'm using the onboard audio hardware on my Intel D975XBX motherboard, with Windows XP Pro SP3 and the latest audio drivers downloaded directly from Intel. I have a question about the behavior of the SPDIF output. If I enable SPDIF in the "IDT Audio Settings" program, anytime I play a stereo...

How is a person supposed to find new threads in the For Sale forum with everybody bumping their posts every 6 hours? What would be wrong with restricting bumps to every few days, at most?

I installed this drive when I was looking for a replacement for a bad CD-R drive, and only recently tried to burn DVDs with it. So far I haven't found anything it'll burn at 16x. Memorex 16x DVD-Rs will burn at 4x and verify at up to around 5x, and Maxell 16x DVD-Rs will burn at 4x and verify...

I recently built a new system for myself and wanted to give my old system, a Pentium 4 on an ASUS P4P800, to my girlfriend. I thought to keep things simple I'd just take the hard drive out of her HP Celeron system and put it in my old one. She's still running Windows ME. When I booted it, it...

I just built a system with the D975XBX, an E6600, and Patriot RAM. I'd like to do some overclocking (as much as the stock cooler will let me), but I've found some strange things: 1: Speedstep doesn't drop the clock speed, but it appears to drop the Vcore when idle. (This isn't really a...