I have a laptop (made by a german company called targa). The fan comes on full power every few minutes or so, depending on what I am doing. This is quite loud...

HELP. When there is no disc in the DVD drive it says its a DVD-RW drive which is right, but when i put in a DVD it says it is a CD Drive and that it cant run...

could anyone tell me why a fan terminals on a mother board would stop working. checked the fan its ok but two different fan terminals have ceased to work Thank...

Hi, I'm running Windows XP Home SP2. I'm wanting to create a logical drive on the already formatted hard disk. The entire hard disk was given to Windows XP...

After a system crash, one of my hard disks became "invisible". BIOS recognizes it, WinXP System info reports it, but Storage...Disk Management reports it as...

Hi all, I have a problem with my Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop keyboard. Not long ago, the right arrow key sometimes didn't work (there was no response when I...

Is there a guide for how to set IntelliType to make the keys do more useful things than the defaults? For example: The "Mail" key brings up Outlook, but...

I have three machines using three systems in my home network; WIN95, WIN98SE, and Windows XP HE. I had a printed connected to the WIN98SE machine but started...

I have a Compaq PC working fine for 3 years till I installed a USB driver for a SanDisk reader. Here's what I had for drives before the installation (X:)...

I'd like to buy a 2" disk in USB enclosure. Do these thin aluminium enclosures provide enough cooling and mechanical protection for the drive? Can you...

I had an extra SATA drive, so I bought an external drive enclosure for it. I use it to back up files. But when I do anything that requires a lot of I/O...

Anyone ever hook up a ECS PF5 Extreme motherboard audio header to a common front panel speaker/headphone jack and a common microphone jack? If so, could you...

Hello all, Is there any kind of CHEAP adapter that will allow me to hook a PC Card up to a desktop/server (cheaper than going out and buying a fax...

Is it possible to check RAM speed (e.g. PC-100, PC-133, etc) without actually opening the computer and looking at the label on the memory stick?

i can't use my dvd rewriter many times, i reinastalled the windows, after i use about 10? than it doesn't work anymore. now it seems can't be reached too!!

I just had a system meltdown on my other PC, running 2k. The "system" file went bad, and restoring it from a backup at the recovery console got me up and...

Since installing a new HD for my Master, I lost my DVD drive and my CD-RW drive. I've tried to install the software, but the drives won't work. I have...

I have a problem, and I have not found any good working solution for this. I was running windows XP (installed it 2 months ago) on my service computer on our...

Can somebody tell me how to do a firmware update on my cd rom?

I'm thinking this may be a stupid question, but here it goes. Is there a tool out there that will tell you the cyl. heads and sectors of the HDD if you only...