Recent content by Quasimodo

Any suggestions for a friend of mine that needs to design a website. Must be pretty user friendly. I'm a hardware, o.s. kinda guy, he's a musician. I can do a little hand coding in html if needed but from what the project he envisions sounds like it's out of my limited experience. Hopefully...

Thanks for the info on the battery. And I shouldn't worry about power cycling it then either I would think?

If I am going to be using my laptop on an ac adaptor most of the time would it be better to remove the battery and only charge/discharge it when I plan on going mobile. (lookd thru archives and didnt really see anything on this topic) Additionally if I don't have a power conditioning...

as in remove all pci cards + unpluc ide cables or just perif cards? with or without keyboard/mouse plugged in? thanks for the help by the way. and what would someone reccomend for a board replacement mid value socket A mb. (if the proc isnt toast as well) Q

Can I get a lil help out here please?

Had a friend drop off his comp for me to look at. He said it was working and he heard a pop and smelled something like it was burning (never a good sign). First thing I noticed was alot of dust in the case.. and a definately burned out powersupply. So I replaced the powersupply. The...

I use an older Belkin Kvm switch that only has ps2 ports. I have been looking around online but I'm not sure if the little green thingy ps2 to usb adaptor will power this. Any ideas on how to get this to work with my old school kvm switch? Q

Well to further stir the pot, I got my 11 yr old son (fairly computer literate but not an advanced user by any stretch of the term) a shuffle for xmas. As has been documented ad naseum it is a huge resource hog, and he has a somewhat older slower pc. Having seen the post for EAC to lame and...

Best Bet is Driverguide.com If they don't have it its prob not avail. I use them all the time when rebuilding O.S's for clients that don't have there original disks from manufacturer. Q

Well after trying all of the above things over the weekend and getting no where fast I got really frustrated. So I swapped out all the cables on my router. Nope no change. Last thing I tried was replacing the NIC card. Bingo. Perfect transfer. Took approx 9 mins to transfer 4.04Gb knoppix live...

Works for me, since im currently at work I will have to try it when I get home. Would haveing a substandard nic cause any interference or slowdown? I have a kinda crappy kne100tx card in one box. When I look at the Netgear router it seems to constantly be tx/rx but when i run netstat I don't...

After Googling network collisions I found this article.. Interested in your opinion on the solution the author comes up with Speed Up Network File Copying in Windows XP

So by ur calculation 600MB/min it should take only a few mins to transfer the file not 1 1/2 hrs like its taking.. So likely im getting collisions on the network. I thought having ur nic's set to autosense can cause collisions vs having both cards set to same rate ie 10/100 duplex Will...

So i got 2 computers, sitting next to each other. running thru a netgear router. one computer sucks at downloading bittorrents. (playing around w various versions of linux and need to d/l iso's of the live dvd's). The other does fine (from what I've been able to find out its a Netgear issue w...

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