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Hi, Need a effective way of cooling my HDD's. I have an old silverstone TJ06 case which use the railing system to slot the hdd's. i have tried the dual fan hdd coolers which dont help at all. i realize there arent many coolers that will be compatible with my case. i dont mind modifying the case.

Hi Would like to setup desktop virtualization for demonstration purposes, thinking to use three workstation user, management and server hosting vm's. I have not yet experienced the actual setup so not sure what things i need to make this work. appreciate your input in advance. Cheers,

Hi my xfx 9600 has always been running very noisy, i was thinking of getting NV silencer. which one will fit my card? also what are peoples opinion on it? currently using a silverstone LC17 case.

hi i have a MSI 945P Platinum board running pentium D 840. one night pc powered off randomly when i was sleeping. I first suspected PSU, so got another antec 650psu which strangely powered my board. The strange problem is that the board only powers if i dont connected the 4pin p4 12v...

thinking of putting together a pc box for home. from experience i have realised choosing the right cpu and motherboard is very important as cpu is generally the most expensive part of the setup hence needs to be carefully picked, i tend to belive in the latest and greatest but not pay...

Hi I don't have a set budget but would like to keep it around $2500 USD mark. (Just for the box) So the computer will be mainly used for image editing. applications that i will be using are Maya, Adobe CS4 and little use of sound forge. running on windows 7 pro, possibly 64bit version. Can...

Hi there need help diagnosing this problem i am currently having with this laptop. Its a toshiba A200 and about 18 months old, the laptop sometimes powers on showing blue power, hdd indicator. sometimes shows a orange indicator on power indicator. besides this when it starts sometimes it...

Hi I recently put together a external 2.5" drive. gigabyte case + western digital 160GB hdd. few weeks ago i put some data in it but today when i plugged it in it shows nothing. but in properties it says 4.48gb used and 144gb free. i have seen this problem occurred so many times (in other...

hi I am currently diagnosing the old socket 370, P3 i use to use before. its currently turning ON, however there no beeps but monitor turns on as in the red light turns to green but it says "no signal". and the HDD light is solid red so as the CDROM light. i suspected it was ram, so i pulled...

Hi does anyone know how to use Riva Tuner? i have XFX 9600GT nividia card, the fan is constantly running at full speed with full noise. i was suggested to use RivaTuner. i have tried to follow some guides on it but the guides were written for older version and some steps dont match. i am...

Last night i plugged my usb into my friends computer and noticed that the big blue light on the side never came on, neither did the usb got detected. (not even in disk management in admin tools). so i plugged it back into my other computer and same problem. though i forgot to take it out...

i am interested in purchasing the Nvidia 9600GT 512mb card, i look for this on google there are all sorts of brands with all sorts of prices. brands such as asus, msi, albatron, XFX make them. i thought nVidia was the only one to make nvidia cards. or nvidia makes the gpu but rest body is made...

Hi I am building a HTPC soon, i was guided towards ATI RADEON HD series in terms of graphics, my htpc will be playing bluray at defination of 720P & 1080P. my budget is around $200. Any suggestion as to which card from radeon hd series, if not what is in comparison to it in nVidia. although...

hi pc restarts after showing the bios screen and this loops. what are the possible things that could cause this?. its a p4 northwood i think, 256mb ddr ram, intel mobo.

Hi every now and then when i access files on my second harddrive windows gives me a error message "windows explorer encountered a problem and needs to close" this is the full report content. I am not able to figure whats wrong. can somebody help?

Hi I have 2 accounts on win xp pro. admin & friend. i am encountering the "Internet explorer Script Error" while i try to open by inbox in hotmail & when i open user User Accounts from control panel. I currently have IE 7 installed & you remember when its feshly install then when you launch it...

HI I have lots of emails in several folders, i even have calander & tasks entries which i want to import. What is the safest way to do this. IN MS Office Outlook 2003.

Hi I want to do memory upgrade , add another 1 gig. since my mobo is dual channel i still have 2/4 slots free, i just dont know which memory to buy so it is compatible. i know the old sdram rule which was that the system detects the lowest processing speed e.g my new ram is pc 5300 and old 1...

Hi Trying to connect 2 computers so each other can browse files. i was considering putting this ASUS WL-138G Wireless LAN PCI Adapter IEEE802.11G 54Mbps on both computers. Am i on the right track?

HI I Had windows vista ultimate and winxp sp2 as dual bootup on seperate partition. i used the r option to repair my xp after that it would straight boot into xp. how can i fix this. i have used vistabootpro. do not know how to use it in this situation.