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I use a phone hotspot for internet in my RV but i want to add some security cameras that require a LAN connection, is it possible to hook up a router wirelessly to my hotspot and then plug into the router and make everything work? I have an older linksys wrt54g router laying around, or will i...

how do you disable picture screen before windows 10 login screen? Its annoying as fack. Im about to switch to linux, i hate win 10! win 7 was a 1000 times better. Thanks.

Anyone here very knowledgeable about phones? i posted on here a month or so ago but got only one reply. I have verizon old unlimited data plan and I use foxfi to turn on my hotspot, which says wont work in android versions newer than 6.0.1. Had a note 4 which worked great but i broke it, now...

Ok, not sure what the deal is but i have multiple thumb drives and a network drive and a couple usb terabyte drives and i get just shit transfer speeds usually. Doesnt matter what drives i use to or from. have ssd in the pc. I have an older pc running windows 7, only usb 2 technology, but ill...

Currently had a samsung galaxy note 4, love it, but dropped and broke something inside, screen is mostly black with funny colors on the top and partway down the side. Gonna cost 200 bucks to fix they said, or i can buy a refurb one from walmart dot com for 180, lol. Currently using a note 3...

best free AntiVirus? currently have avast but it bothers me to buy it every 5 minutes and its pissing me off. Ive kinda been slacking off on my computer skills the last few years so ive come to ask the experts! I either need a different program that doesnt nag you so much or figure out a way...

Odd issue, been playing with computers since the 90s and never seen this happen. All of a sudden like my keyboard and sometimes my mouse are unresponsive at the windows 7 login screen. Sometimes the mouse works, sometimes it doesnt. If it doesnt work initially on power up it has worked every...

I have a dji inspire 1 and the 1080p 60fps videos i record play super choppy/laggy on my pc, if i upload it to youtube it plays fine. i have an i7 core quad 2.67ghz and a radeon 6970 vid card, 6 gig of ram. The file plays fine on my buddies apple laptop with the same speed i7 processor as mine...

Anyone else notice win 10 running warmer? my pc is about 10 degrees warmer after the upgrade while doing the same tasks, unless major stuff im not aware of is going on in the background. asus p6t i7 920 @2.67ghz 6gb ram radeon 6970

Im slightly confused on usb drive speeds max capable. I have an older asus P6T motherboard which as i understand is limited to usb 2.0 speeds. I understand that the drive itself is also a factor in the speed but according to google search usb 2.0 is capable of 60MB/s but i never get over 24 or...

is it possible to use 3 displays and duplicate two and extend one? the settings seem to indicate so but i cannot get it to work to save my life. setup, 1 flat screen DVI, one old crt vga but using a DVI adapter which doesnt show up unless i have it plugged into the bottom dvi port, is this my...

as title says, Got a 5.6gig file and an 8gig stick, wont fit, wtf? freshly formatted empty drive. :confused:

Pretty sure this is a vid card issue, been out of the computer game for a while and shit changes so fast its hard to keep up, used to know everything back in the windows95 days, now i can hardly turn the damn things on, haha! anyway, i got a monitor on a dvi cable and a lcd tv on the hdmi...

I was wondering if a carrier can block a website through mobile hotspot to just the PC only, the website doesnt respond on my pc but opens just fine in my mobile browser, it also opens just fine in on my pc if i use my mobile hotspot from a different carrier so it seems like they somehow blocked...

This may be the wrong spot to post this but i wasnt sure so here goes. whats the deal with the usb 2.0 and usb 3.0 transfer speeds? I see advertised like usb 2.0 up to 480 megs per second but i get around 10, WTF, why is this? how do i make it faster? anyone point me in the right direction? thanks.

I have my PC on the opposite side of a wall from my TV and surround sound system, I have amd radeon 6970 with hdmi out i run to my surround sound system and provide vid and sound for streaming video content to my tv, however i have a soundblaster audigy 2z or zs or some such card as well as...

Whenever my power goes out and my computer is on when i press the button to turn it back on the lights on the case flash for a sec and the fan starts and then all power cuts like its tripping a breaker or doesnt have enough juice to start or something. if i clear the cmos it fires right up but...

Ive been having some issues in a game with lag and ive run multiple speed tests and ping/packet loss tests that turn up no errors so i was thinking it was the game, however not everyone has the same effects so i dug deeper and did some traceroutes to various ip address. i know quite a bit about...

I have a radeon 6970 vid card, what cable do i need to go from this card out to an hdmi plug in? Thanks for the help.

Im looking for opinions on the best laptop/tablet touchscreen running win 8 out there. Ive only seen one at best buy and i forget the brand but it folded all the way over so the keyboard was on the table when the touchscreen was flat on the table, seemed pretty neat but i was wondering what...

This might be a dumb question but i cant figure it out. I have a square monitor and a widescreen tv and I would like to have them both show the desktop but in each monitors native resolution. I cant figure it out so im left with blank black spots on my widescreen tv which is annoying as hell...

I have an ati 6970 and a google search suggested using ati tool, but the program appears to be 5 years old, how do i see my vid card temps? thanks.

Just installed a 6970 vid card and it will not remember my multiple monitor display settings. It remembers the resolution but every time i restart it reverts to a single display. I have it plugged into my integra 30.3 AV receiver and one monitor. It sees the 30.3 as two separate monitors for...

I figured it would be plug and play, it shows up in device manager and says its working properly. When I click on it it will eject and say please insert a disk but it will not read any disks. Is there some trick to getting sata dvd roms to work or possible DOA? I ordered another one and...

I have a question about what would be the best vid card and sound card to hook my pc up to my tv and surround sound and to use them both separately. I dont want to dedicate the system to the tv as I also play games on the PC from time to time. My current setup is a Nvidia 8800gts hooked up to my...

Local store is trying to sell me some HDMI cables for 150$ and they offer a cable for 1000$ which they say you can hear the difference between the two for a home theater audio system. Ive been buying my HDMI cables on monoprice.com for 3-7$ Does anyone know anything about those monoprice...

I have a question about what would be the best vid card and sound card to hook my pc up to my tv and surround sound and to use them both separately. I dont want to dedicate the system to the tv as I also play games on the PC from time to time. My current setup is a Nvidia 8800gts hooked up to...

One of my friends had the xp security 2011 virus, ran some program call Fsecure and it seems to have gotten rid of the virus but has also seems to have created this problem. They report that the internet worked fine before running fsecure and now when trying to open windows explorer it pops up...

I have a weird problem with my ps3 that ive had for years now, the audio crackles sometimes and makes a static like sound seemingly randomly. I thought it was perhaps a bad hdmi cable or my tv or something until i recently purchased an xbox and had the exact same problem with a different cable...

currently i have an hp pavilion tx 1000 entertainment pc, its got the 12.1 inch screen i think. Ive had it about 4 years and i love it but am looking for a faster one. Its screen swivels around to face backwards from the keyboard and folds down. I always turn it around backwards when i fly to...

free wifi, but on my laptop i have to click accept to their terms, xbox doesnt seem to have a browser when its trying to connect so since i cant click accept it cant find the internet, any one know a way around this? tried searching, but it said the words "xbox online and hotel" were too common...

when i double click the icon in my systray of the the flashing monitor, which opens my wireless network connection status window, the number next to Speed fluctuates between 11.0 Mbps to 54.0 Mbps. I just updated my dlink wbr 2310 routers firmware to 1.03 from 1.02 because previously i was...

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but if not let me know. the problem did not occur untill i installed a new mobo and processor, all other hardware and software is the same. I have An Asrock dual sata 939 MOBO, with a opteron 165 dual core processor 1.8ghz, an AGP 7800gs vid...

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but if not let me know. I post it here as the problem did not occur untill i installed a new mobo and processor, all other hardware and software is the same. I have An Asrock dual sata 939 MOBO, with a opteron 165 dual core processor 1.8ghz, an...

Im looking for a new DVD rw recordable drive, and was wondering what you guys though was the best one to get, currently i have a Lite On Brand, and its been excelent, but its only a 2x speed and only single layer. I will probably get another Lite On, as ive had no problems at all with this one...

I have a Abit AI7 motherboard, AGP Nvidia 7800gs video card, P4 2.6 overclocked to 3.2 ghz, 2 gb ram. Was having a problem with my onboard sound in Battlefield 2, the voip wasnt working, so i figgured id buy a new sound card. I got a Creative Xfi Extreme Gamer, installed it, and the device...

Hi, windows xp will boot, but when i try to open firefox, it doesnt open, but every time i click it, it puts another instance in the task manager. None of my other programs will open either, with the exception of ventrillo. I can rightclick start and go to explore, and it seems to work, however...

I have an onboard realtec 97 sound device, and it has multiple plugs on the back of my cpu, Green, for speakers, pink for mic, then theres a blue, black and orange plugs also. I dont know what the blue black and orange ones are for, but my question is this. I have a headset with a mic, which...

Did there used to be a sticky thread here with tips and tricks to tweakin win xp? or am i crazy?