Recent content by baaj

Weird, huh? It was something I picked when my laptop died in China about 5 years ago. It has served me well through the years. Just to be clear - the connection is still USB, but it has an additional plug for the PS/2. It seems to work fine without that, but your comment above sounds like...

Good question - the enclosure actually has an additional cable which connects to a PS/2 port. I assume this provides supplemental power,

Sorry, forgot to mention that I need to recover some data from the old drive

I've spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to get this work to no avail, so hopefully some of you guys can help! OK, here the deal - I took a working drive out of an old laptop and installed it in a enclosure box to connect it to another computer over USB. The box works (tested with...

RESOLVED - it was in fact the CPU cooler. Reseating it was easy enough to talk him through. Cheers.

I've built many computers over the years, but this is really stumping me. Hopefully someone here can help me think of a way to troubleshoot. I built a new rig for my father, tested it thoroughly (memtest for 12 hours, and then Prime for another 8) then shipped it to him. It's not OC'd - I...

It was actually the AVG. A really dumb oversight on my part. I haven't found the right configuration yet, but at least I know where to look. Thanks all for getting me back on track with the troubleshooting. With networking, I remain the perpetual n00b. This community is awesome for not...

The weird thing about that is I have disabled the windows firewall. There is a network firewall on my router, but that should make a difference in this case, correct? I have AVG virus software that has a bundled firewall - do I need to make adjustments here? The only other thing I can think...

Sorry, I meant each device does not list the name any of the others. All are ping-able by IP, but not by name. The windows machine can ping all others, but none of them can ping the windows machine I just want to share files between each and stream media to the ps3 from the Windows machine

I've spent about a week trying to figure this out on my own, but, as awlays I've found I'm way over my head with networking between OSs and would really appreciate help from the experts here... I've got a Symantec Gateway Security 460 router with the wireless installed, and I'm just trying to...

RESOLVED! Among the many different paths suggested, I chose the linux/grub route to get things back on track, which worked to get me back into XP, where I was able to remove vista (following a tutorial this time, instead of repeating the ugly hacking job which landed me in this situation in...

At wits end, so thought I'd try you experts here... Installed, I have C: Windows Xp Professional (English) F: Windows Vista Beta (expired and need to remove) G: Windows XP Professional (Chinese) I: Kubuntu I was trying to remove vista from the boot record and I messed it all up...