Hardware

Windows XP Drivers
I am reformatting my pc and would like the link for the drivers I will need tyvm -- Lila ... 2 Feb 2010 17:39

Paul & co re Graphic Card
Well Paul had nextday delivery of my Geforce 6200 from Novatec and fitted this morning,instead of using supplied disc I disabled old driver for previous Nvidia and let Widows search, which it did find ok Picture now fine after making display adjustments .There are many other items on supplied disc such as Panel... 2 Feb 2010 17:39

IRQ conflict
Looks like I'm having a good old fashioned IRQ conflict. Even though IRQ's are theoretically shareable these days, in practice it may not be such a hot idea. The problem first occurred after I replaced my motherboard and processor on one of my systems, a couple of weeks back. I was getting a BSOD once every cou... 22 Feb 2010 14:11

Need to delete pending MS updates
A friend asked me to help him with his computer. So I went and started applying the updates to his XP machine. Well it turns out that he has a VERY small drive and even less memory :-( I have downloaded some MS updates but there is not enough room to run them let alone let them just remain on the drive Whe... 26 Jan 2010 20:08

Extended RAM available when dedicated to your video/graphicscard?
Brian V wrote: Hi. I have learned that a person is able to dedicate a certain amount of RAM to their video/graphics card. In 32-bit XP and Vista, there is the apparent 4Gb limit on the RAM that is recognized (or allocated?). So my question is: If I were to dedicate all the RAM my graphics card ... 26 Jan 2010 10:58

Replaced laptop hard drive, now XP keeps asking for driver
After having recently replaced a laptop hard drive (IDE) with a larger one, Windows XP, sp3 keeps asking for a driver upon reboot for the new and larger Western Digital hard drive. The machine works fine with the new drive, recognizes the entire 120 GB drive (the old one having been about 40 GB), and even Devi... 27 Jan 2010 07:03

Ultra DMA mode showing up
Hi, I have a HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop with Windows XP MCE 2005 running. Recently I had to to do an in-place upgrade as I was getting BSOD on trying to enter safe mode. Everything went on fine without a glitch. But now I do see a performance hit on my laptop's performance. It takes longer to boot and hand over... 25 Jan 2010 22:57

Monitor or graphic card
Please advise not sure if it is my Monitor LG1919s or graphic card Creative Labs CT 6970 at fault. Problem my screen is now displaying grey horizontal lines as though looking through a Venetian blind. any window I open showing grey tint where as before would be white background. I have refitted said card, done ... 27 Jan 2010 07:03

RAM Mhz compared to a four digit number?
Hi. I am looking at different RAMS to upgrade and pput in my pc. On crucial.com it said I can use: "Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-8500,DDR2 PC2-6400,DDR2 PC2-5300 with a maximum of 1GB per slot". Some RAM I'v looked at uses MHz. Eg: Buffalo 2GB DDR2 667MHz 240-Pin Computer Memory. So, my question is: ... 2 Feb 2010 17:39

Driver ati mobility radeon 9600
Ciao ho disinstallato per sbaglio i driver della mia scheda video in XP, volevo scaricarli ma la ATI dice che li ha inclusi in windows infatti la scheda mi si installa sul portatile, ma non mi da la risoluzione dovuta: cioè 1280X800. Non so proprio cosa fare... ho anche scaricato dal sito della asus i driver che ve... 23 Jan 2010 19:57