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I have a art print that has 2 Chinese symbols. It was explained by an American (?) that the symbols stood for "danger" and "opportunity". Months later I was visited by a Chinese national who was suprised by the artwork. He asked me "do you know what it means"? I told him of the...

Bingo! Thanks all for the assistance. This build, my 2 daughters are going to do it all, including installing the operating system. Its going to be a "Mother's Day" present.

It's been a while for this computer to get some fresh legs, and I'm not familiar on the latest stuff. What should I get? I'm looking to get a relatively cheap AMD processor, a mobo that has on-board sound/lan, and possibly on-board video if it is decent. The computer is for my wife, who is...

Thanks all for the replies. Yes, I agree that a format is the only option to give me piece of mind. I will be planning soon the the old "lost weekend". Not as bad as it was in the past, but bad never the less.

I made a big mistake a couple of weeks ago. While installing WinXP on one of my home computers, I shared my full HD from my main computer to copy a bunch of files. Yes, I forgot to unshare it afterwords. A couple of days ago I started to notice some funny stuff, like the cursor slowing down...

I have been waiting years for the ability to use a handheld device for reading books. Theoretically I could load a .pdf or .doc file onto a PDA and read a book anywhere I wanted to (car, bed, bath, couch, etc.). So, do any PDA's handle normal PC document type files, and can a PDA can display...

Check to see what modes your drives are running. Is anything running in PIO mode?

GOT THE FIX!!! This problem was one of the most time-consuming computer issues I have faced in a long time. First, the whole issue here was the burner running in PIO mode in WinXP instead of DMA. As i learned, PIO mode uses the processor to handle all the i/o functions. DMA uses the system...

I did some more research on google and unfortunately have come up dry for a solution. There are numerous posts about the same symptoms burning that I have. I read some speculation that it may be a problem with data transfer speed on the IDE bus. I have tried various combinations of PIO and...

I don't know when this started, but burning stuff is much slower than it used to be. I know I am not getting 24X anymore, and Nero is hogging all the system resources. I can't do anything while burning, and the Nero stats bars update only every 10 seconds or so. Additionally, the buffer now...

Perfect! Thanks for the links.

I tried posting this in the Hardware section, and got little response... I am looking for a video card and a broadcast device that would hook up to one of my computers. The broadcast device could then be hooked up to any of my TV's so I could view movies, watch multiplayer computer games live...

This subject may have been discussed before (I unsuccessfully scanned pages of posts...) but here it is. I am looking for a video card and a broadcast device that would say hook up to one of my computers. The broadcast device could then be hooked up to any of my TV's so I could view movies...

Thanks for the advice. No, there aren't any games for Linux that I am interested in at the moment. One other thing... I have 4 computers on a router that are running WIN98. I have Linux on a spare HD that I am connecting to "my" computer for playing around with Linux at the moment. Is it...

Just installed it and it was suprisingly easy. Just don't know what i am gonna do with it yet. The GUI is very easy to work with, and getting my cable internet (via a Linksys router) to work was a snap. Question: Do I need to install any special drivers (4-1, AGP, etc.) to run Linux...