Hardware

How to record cassette player using line-in?
I am having trouble recording a cassette player onto XP. (1) I play a cassette recorder into my PC's line-in and I can hear it clearly in the speakers. (2) I select line-in on XP's recording control (SNDVOL32.EXE). (3) However when I press the record button on Audacity, there is no audio signal displayed o... 2 Feb 2010 14:21

Dual Monitor Hardware Information
Whether you are planning to setup a dual monitor computer or looking for some related information, the website http://www.dual-monitor.biz/category/hardware/ can be really handy to use and search for the required information on dual monitor hardware. ... 2 Feb 2010 14:21

Ominous Ticking from Monitor
My monitor (a DEC 21" CRT, older than dirt) has started to give sharp, static-discharge type audible ticks, which are accompanied by short distortions of picture and dimming. The picture distortion lasts for a refresh cycle, the dimming can take a few cycles to disappear. When I power off the screen, I hear a ... 6 Feb 2010 12:57

Looking for a good, cheap keyboard.
For several years now, I've been using a Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-K49-00001-Multimedia-Keyboard/dp/B00006D2LI except it's black and white instead of blue and white. Lately, the keys have been sticking and no amount of cleaning the board (I disassemble it a... 4 Feb 2010 04:26

WinXP Install on 1TB drive
Virus attack has 'broken' Windows (my own fault). Boot now fails half way through Windows XP loading screen - restarts with no warning. Safe mode is the same! All my data files *are* backed up, but I want to avoid the annoyance of re-configuring all my XP settings and restoring 700GB of data to my second partition... 2 Feb 2010 14:21

Heatsink Pushpins - Where to buy?
Hi all, I'm experimenting with different heatsinks on my nforce 500 northbridge chip (K9N4 SLI board), and the plastic pushpins have a habit of breaking in the process of removing them. I was wondering if there is somewhere I can get these in bulk instead of relying on the 2 or 3 pins that come with each hea... 26 Jan 2010 23:23

AMD Athlon 1800+ MS8366-8244 Mobo
Will this motherboard take a 1Gb of memory in both the A0 and the A1 slot. I am running version 1.6 I think of the BIOS but the machine on boot will only see 131mb of memory and dxdiag only reports the same. Have tried swaping over slots but machine at time refuses to boot without 256 in slot A1. Never flashed a BI... 26 Jan 2010 22:17

Sony VAIO VGN-Z540NBB Computer Memory
Hello, Please provide me the full details of Sony VAIO VGN-Z540NBB Computer Memory? -- sachin_mishra ... 27 Jan 2010 16:00

Q: laptop CPU clock
Hi everyone here and there! After changing my laptop CPU A50-106 toshiba from celeron 1.7 to Pentium M dothan 2ghz fsb:400 now laptop works on 600mhz !?!? as CPUZ is showing 6x multiliers and from the specs of the processor original is 20x multipliers REAL clock. 2ghz. I tried to install newer bios but the same... 25 Jan 2010 00:42

Welcome screen now take a minute to process
My total reboot time on Windows XP 32 took one minute, now the welcome screen takes that long by itself. How can I fix this? ... 25 Jan 2010 00:42