My system BIOS does NOT have an option to turn on SMART monitoring for hard drives. Is there a third party utility I can buy for Windows XP that would enable...

Dear all, I have an ASUS A7V600-X board with Award Bios (updated to the latest available version), and with VT8377/VT8237 North- and Southbridge. Now I...

I have a problem installing Realtek High Definition Audio drivers. When installing the most recent driver from Realtek website (WDM_R178.exe), the driver...

Is there any way to disable the annoying and unwanted help from Windows (Vista) auto opening the DVD tray? When I accidentally hit the DVD drive letter in...

Hi everybody! Just today I bought an HP laptop with pre-loaded windows 8.1. (1) Is it true that windows 8.1 allows a recovery disk on a USB drive only, as...

Hi everybody, I have an old (2005) LG PC which I recently reformatted with XP. Unfortunately, I dont have the audio drivers so it doesnt detect the on-board...

Hi all, Have to soon upgrade Aunt's system box from XP Home edition to W7 Home Premium, ....so before / whilst at it, I'll pop in a pcie x1 USB 3 card, and a...

Physical damage forced me to change mother boards. It was time anyway. Prior to changing the m-boards but after the damage incident, the old m-board worked for...

Hi all, I have a P.C. that keeps blowing power supply's. It is P4 2.4, Gigabyte GA-8IG100MK Main Board in a "whitebox" of unknown make. Low spec AGP video...

There is an option for sounds at Windows startup for sure.. The computer illiterates (not meant as an insult) that post here have problems differentiating...

I have a strange problem with my DVD burner since yesterday. When running Windows I can't open the tray anymore. Also, the device seems vanished from Windows...

Could someone give a short procedure please on how to do this? Thank you in advance

About three days ago I posted a message here or in the hardware group defending MS Activation because it took me less than 3 clicks; it was fast and easy. Well...

Windows XP Home (SP1) I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it. I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB...

I have a laptop and a netbook both running WinXP and with a DSL connection to the internet. I use both computers wirelessly in my home and have a...

I have the MS Precision Wheel with the Sidewinder 4.0 software installed on my WinXP Pro system. Since I bought the MS Precision 2 joystick and installed its...

This is how to get an original STB TV PCI to work with Windows XP. The driver is available at http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/download.html . I have to admit...

I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components....

The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now" from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the disk (with...

My latest Dell has 6 USB 2.0 ports. But no 1394! I'd prefer to have 4 USBs and 2 FWs instead. This distinction seems to apply to digicams and cameras: my 2...