I have an external USB drive (Seagate Free Agent 500GB) connected to a Dell XPS2 Laptop running XP SP2. When I attempt to power on the machine with the USB drive connected, the bios attempts to boot off of the USB drive and the system hangs at a black screen with a blinking cursor, requiring a...
My dvd drive keeps powering off if I leave it idle for more than 5 mins. It removes itself from the device manager as if it was never there. When I reboot it, it works fine until I leave it idle again and then the same thing happens.
I need to find a way to recover (preferably burn to cd and/or zip and upload) files in an expired Windows XP Home installation. Since the Windows Genuine Advantage security prevents any way of backing the files up, there are two ways so far that I've heard of to go about doing this. One is to...
maxtor (5-year warranty from date of manufacture)- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?CMP=AFC-TechBargains&Item=N82E16822144016
wd (3-year warranty) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?CMP=AFC-TechBargains&Item=N82E16822136073
AMD showed us a couple years ago that GHz isn't all that matters when it comes to the performance in your computer, especially in gaming. What I want to know is does this hold true with Pentium mobile cpus (Centrino) vs. the full blown Pentium HTs?
For example, the Dell XPS2 notebooks are a...
This discovery was made by a member of supraforums, Eugene.
Just thought I'd relay the message if it wasn't already known.
http://www.supraforums.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=2774358#post2774358
Which 478 mobo is the absolute best for OCing a 2.26 P4?
I was thinking of the ABIT AI7 (found here: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-164&depa=1)...
But then I came across this one: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-152&depa=1...
I just got my Leadtek 6800NU the other day from Newegg, I'm so glad I got this instead of the chaintech or eVGA (due to the non-reference HSF). It runs spectatular on its stock speeds of 325/700), but I decided I wanted to overclock it so I get coolbits, got 400/900 in two tries, then got...