Lounge: Hardware

I'm thinking of buying the HP - 17.3" Pavilion Laptop - 8GB Memory - 750GB Hard Drive - Dark Umber laptop ...

Hi Y'all, I'm considering purchasing the Visio 8" tablet and was wondering if any fellow Loungers have any first hand experience with the unit? I'd be most thankful for your input as it looks...

I've had an Intel Core i5-2500 (no "K" or "S" on the end) that I've been using for about a year as my home server, running Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. The main reason I purchased this processor was...

If I am buying an extension cable for an external drive, is what I want USB 2.0 Active Extension / Repeater Cable A Male to A Female? Basically, A Male to A Female? I don't know that I need the...

I bought an IBM USB floppy disk drive on eBay, as I have some info on diskettes that I wanted to access. My recently built PC has Win7 x64 on an Asus P8Z68-V/Gen3 motherboard, which is SATA 6 and...

Hi all, My Kyocera FS-1028 USB MFC was working fine up until two weeks ago when for no apparent reason it disappeared from my list of printers and only appears as a FS-1028MFP scanner, and works...

I applied the May patch Tuesday updates and now my ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 mobo insists on running ASUS Express Gate when I boot up. There's a switch in the BIOS to disable Express Gate, but it...

My ancient Dell XPS 410 has a 375 watt PS which I need to replace. My very 1st time replacing PS. Are all PS's of a standard size or do I need to take measurements of my old PS? Thanks to CompUSA...

I get sales emails from a company I have been buying PC stuff from for years and every now and then, recently this morning, they offered Re-Furbished Hard Drives for substantially less then buying a...

Have a new monitor ordered. HP 2511x 25-Inch LED Monitor was wondering if anybody had one. I'm not an HP fan so much because their products usually come with a lot of software, upgrades / updates...

I'm running XP on a MCP6P M2+ MOBO system with 4 SATA connectors. I'm using one connector with an iSATA - eSATA bridge for my external HD cable The other 3 are taken by three internal HD's. I...

my logitech wireless optical mouse jumps randomly and also sometimes just doesn't move. I think it picks up the signal from my d-link wireless router - possible?

Hi all: I've got a Speedtouch modem and it has recently begun to intermittently and unpredictably make a sound that's similar to a "You've got e-mail" type chime. It's driving me batty! Has...

I've a new vid card, nvidia 9800gt and a new digital monitor. monitor is not getting a signal from pc. Am hopped up on percocet from surgery but need to get pc working now. cable & card are seated....

I set out today to build a shiny new Ivy Bridge computer, since the components became available online just the other day. I narrowed the list down to: Intel Core i7 3770, Gigabyte GA-DS3H mobo &...

I am running Windows XP SP3 with an AOC LM925 monitor. Recently the monitor has started showing the On Screen Display intermittently, obscuring what I am working on. It only says on for a brief...

You can read the rest of the article here;http://www.mswhs.com/2012/04/wd-caviar-green-hdd-intellipark-fix/ For those that do have the hard drives listed here is a link for the program to correct...

I have 3 computers that I bought through a refurbishment program and use in a (charity) small business. They are older machines that were at least Pentium 4s, upgraded to Win7and 2MB memory. They...

I have an acer aspire aoa150 and the battery wont charge. Windows Xp, puts a red X over it . I have tried every thing, from updating the bios to a clean windows install. The orignal battery was about...

Hi All, I seem to be having a problem with my printer (HP C7250 AIO connected to Win 7) and the wireless connection between it and my PC. The w'less connection worked fine as recently as Sunday...

I have a PC devoted to audio / music which I admittedly set up wrong. I trusted in bad advice when I 1st began home recording. My issue: I did not partition the HD and, as a result, my OS and my...

Maybe I'm really missing something here, but why would I bother with SD cards when there are USB drives? There must be advantages...Most every machine I see today has at least one USB drive, but not...

I have a Sweex Mo070UK usb fax/modem which I am trying to set up for Windows 7. It is recognised in Control Panel as 'USB SoftV92 Data Fax Modem with smartCP' and I can use it as a modem/dialler....

HP Hardware Diagnostic test reports that hard drive"Failed" SMART Extended Self Test HD521-3W. The error messages are:"...electrical element of the test failed". And, "The first failing LBA value...

My desktop PC (Win7 Pro, 64 bit) has 2 SD Card readers. One built in to the PC itself, the other, a slot on the side of my Dell monitor. Both of these - until last week - would read and write to my...

They sound interesting... And the 30-year anniversary of the Sinclair Spectrum.

Today I called Logitech to replace a M510 wireless mouse under warranty for the left button double clicking when single clicking. I purchased this mouse 8/5/2011... I have bought mice over the...

My daughter received a retired HP550 (FW385AT#ABA) form her Mother-in-law that was going to be thrown out by her office. It is rather old, has only 1G RAM and no HDD, it was removed and destroyed....

adsl gateway sna6500/18 Hi, this gate can be used as an accesspoint in a bigger network using a lan port and...