Recent content by mwilcko

Hi, I have an older Compaq Presario 1200 (12xl125) Notebook. Basically I turned it on the other day and the unit turns on, the screen doesnt get a signal and it keeps checking the floppy over and over. I tried hooking up the vga out but no signal gets sent to my monitor. Putting a floppy in...

Has anyone tried hooking their pc or video game system up to a big screen(rear projection) television? I remember hearing that this can damage your tv? Can you do it and what could cause a problem and how do you avoid those problems? Thanks!

Hi, What all do I need to setup a simple web server over a DSL connection(384k upstream)? I plan on hosting a bunch of websites that get very very little traffic, is 384k upstream enough bandwidth? I plan to use simple redirection to host the multiple sites since I will have only one static...

Whats Faster, Athlon 1100mhz(200mhz bus) or Athlon 1000(266mhz bus)? The reason I ask is they are about the same price... Also, the KT133a chipset supports the 100mhz bus, right? Thanks!

Is "High Density" ram stable? I noticed it only works with certain mb chipsets that support 512megs per memory slot... Its alot cheaper than low density ram.

What ever happened to Rendition... they made some decent and popular 3d chips back in the day when 3dfx was king. Didnt Micron buy them?

When the next big CPU price drop? I thought Intel was supposed to lower P3 prices this month forcing AMD chips way down?

Hi, My girlfriend has an old Mac 7100-80 with 40 megs of ram... she tries to use Quark and Photoshop and it is very slow... seems more like a memory problem to me than cpu power(too many fonts installed). What type of 72 pin dimms does it use, parity or non-parity? Is it cheap to upgrade...

After drastic pc price drops and benchmarks that show the the g4 is much much slower than a P3, how long will it be before Apple goes away? If you open the Sunday paper you will see adds from Staples, Office Max, etc.. for full pc's(Celeron 700) with monitor, printer, etc... for $499 or less...

I do video editing for a living and mainly use Boris FX/ Boris Red which rendering times heavily depend on FPU performance. Currently Im using an classic Athlon 800 with pc100 memory. Would I see a huge benefit by going to the Athlon 1.33 with the faster 266 memory? The reason I ask is, for...

Please help me find CHEAP business card cd-r... I cant find them for less than 70 cents each(with sleeve)... Has anyone seen them for less? I buy by the spindle... thanks in advance!

Hi, I recently bought three 12x burners and bought Nero since it support simultaneous writes and my burners... unfortunately it keeps telling me "your license only allows you to record to 2 cd recorders"... I emailed Ahead software to learn that I need to blow another $250! after...

Can you copy a cd to multiple cd burners at the same time? Has anyone else here actually done this? Im looking to buy 4 or 5 EIDE 8x burners.

Hi, I am trying to put together a cheap cd duplicating station with an old p2-266. I have 96 megs of ram and a ultra33 card to control extra drives. Basically I want to have a 32x reader copy a cd to four 8x or 12x burners at the same time.. some have suggested that this cpu cant handle...

Click on the speaker icon in the lower right hand corner of windows, make sure the volume levels are no higher than the half way up.. alot of people jack the volume control in windows all the way up which will cause static sound on many sound cards.