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    Getting the interview

    Background info: I?ve been in the military for the last seven years and have limited experience when it comes to the business world. My target employers will be government contractors. After my first round of resumes went out I received 1 lonely response. It was an email asking for a...
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    Memtest 86+ giving me errors (strange ones)

    This is a stable system that was memtested for 8hr when first built (0 errors). I ran me test tonight (On a whim) and got errors from the first test on. I had 47 errors at the end of test 3. I run two sticks of 1gb each. I first pulled one (same problem), swapped them (same problem), and moved...
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    Help with a Jpeg file

    I have a jpeg file that is giving me a problem. Viewing it as a thumbnail in explorer it looks fine. If I click on the photo to open it (windows photo viewer,PS,or any editing program) the bottom half is grayed out like only half the photo got loaded. Any chance to save this photo?
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    Computer turned off!

    This morning during my morning "scan" of news and such online my computer crashed. It did not freeze at all, I was clicking one of my firefox tabs and the next thing I knew it was "hard" off (it did not reboot). It was like I had lost power but nothing else even blinked. I restarted the computer...
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    Need help with random reboots

    This is a plea for help. I have been having random reboots ever since the computer was shutdown due to a power failure (it is on a surge protector). I really am useless when it comes to running windows debugging tools. Would anybody be willing to look over a few of my .dmp files (attached)...
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    old friends

    What is the best web site to find old friends, current e-mail address's for free?
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    Dell 2001FP

    I can't seam to get my mouse (MX510) to work off the LCD's usb hub. Once I plug it in I get the pop up "detected new hardware", then it says "installing new MX510 mouse" finally it says "Hardware did not install properly you may have a problem." I have a USB drive that works fine off the same...
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    FP2001 dell

    Need some help with my problem. The problem is every time I play a movie on my FO2001 at full screen the picture gets distorted. It looks like the aspect ratio is all out of whack (my guess and it may be a bad one. What do you have to do to play full screen movies on the FP2001.
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    Some questions about the Dell 9300 & genral notbook stuff.

    Alright I just bought my first laptop the dell 9300: total came to 1400ish M 740 Processor (1.73GHz/533MHz FSB) 17 inch UltraSharp? Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife? 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm 256MB NVIDA® GeForce? Go 6800 40GB Hard Drive 5400 Microsoft®...
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    SB 5100 problems

    SB 5100 problems First off this modem worked fine for 6 months.....Then about 1 month ago my connection started to drop intermittently. Almost once an hr for no longer then 2 mins. I have had the cable company out twice. Both times they have remarked on how high my signal is. They added some...
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    CRT to LCD

    I'm moving to a dell 2001fp from my old 19"crt. Is their anything else I really need to do other then plug the new LCD in. (driver,tweaks, any hints) Also will my system have problems with the 16x12 res? Thanks.
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    RealVNC

    I would like to do a few things on the computer (online poker) at work that I'm sure my employer would look down on. If I used realVNC to access my home computer to do this would the network admins have any clue what was going on other then I was running realVNC? Also how secure is realVNC?
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    Easy to use * free* technical drawing software

    This may be a long shot, does anyone know of a freeware program that would aid me with making some technical drawings. I plan to make my own computer desk. I've looked all over the net for some free building plan's and haven't found anything I want. So, I decided to try and do it from scratch...
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    DVD drive

    Ok new system (the one in my sig). Windows went in fine. Installed in order windows critical updates, nvida chipset drivers, A64 drivers, video drivers, sound drivers, and then some items off the msi disk. After I used the DVD drive to install the MSI utilities it stoped working, I removeed the...
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    Do it your self?

    Could anyone tell me a great place to look for free woodworking plans. Pay Site < I would like to find somthing close to this but with free plans.
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    Online stock trading, help for a newb!

    Could someone post some links to forums where online trading is the main topic. I am totaly new to the realm of investing. So post some links for me. I'm looking for forums mostly but a newb guide or two would help. TIA!
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    Windows XP roll back to Win NT

    Need some help. My company ordered 20 Sony Vaio's that came with Windows XP installed. Because of security guidelines I have to load Windows NT on all the computers. Is it as easy as formatting over the XP partition and loading NT or is their more to it? Don't most pre-built computers have a...
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    Windows Logon UI

    Today my computer started to do something strange. I lock my desktop with the Win+"L" key combo. It goes to my welcome screen, then it goes to a blank blue screen with the Little "thinking" mouse icon. It will do that for about 10mins where I can not log on at all. Once it goes back to the...