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I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop and my neighbor just gave me his old motherboard and cpu from his desktop. It's a P4, would it be faster than the Celeron that came with the laptop? P4 2.2 Ghz/512/400/1.5v SL5ZU MALAY L1520034-0518 INTEL 01 INTEL 02 CELERON 2.40GHZ/128/400 SL6VU...

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I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 and it won't turn on. There's no beeps or lights etc, just totally dead. I held the power button down for 5 minutes and nothing happened. Also tried: Tried battery in another computer, it was fine Tested CMOS battery voltage - 3 volts Tested power supply - 19...

It goes away now after about 5 minutes of warm up, thank god..

Ok, I guess their server was down so they never made a case file.. just have to call back when it's back up.

Ok, I'll try again.

I bought a Canon IP3000 printer on May 8th from newegg and it won't print black ink. I talked to Canon and they said it's defective..So I emailed newegg asking for a refund. This is what they wrote back We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. After reviewing your...

I figured out the problem with the 8088, there was a jumper that had to be closed for the onboard video to work. Apparently we upgraded to a Hercules EGA video card and disabled the onboard video. Thanks for the ideas

My school papers from elementary school are on it, or so my mom says. I don't remember using it for school as much as our 386..

I'm trying to backup my old Seagate ST-238 hard drive but the 8088 won't boot up. I tried taking the controller card and hard drive and putting them in my old 386 but it says controller error when it boots up. I tried using the controller card already in my 386 but the Seagate has 2 ribbon cable...

Hi, is it in any way harmful for a CRT to run it at max contrast and 0 brightness? I was calibrating my Sony G520 according to this webpage and I get the best picture at 0 brightness and 100 contrast. I don't know if this would be bad for it though.

My Sony G520 all of a sudden has these faint diagonal lines (about 30* angle) going across the screen. (They're about the same brightness as the lines for the aperature grill). Usually these lines only appear when it's changing modes or just turned on, but now they're not going away. What do you...

I just put together a computer usinga PC Chips M825G and AMD Sempron and I can't get it to reach post. The CPU fan comes on so I know the power supply is working but there's no video and the keyboard lights don't flash. I checked the CMOS jumper and the ram and both are fine. I'm not sure what...

I tried the firmware update and it says I don't need it. damn

My Hitachi 7200rpm 80gb drive is making a really annoying high pitched whine. Is there any way to dampen it? I just 5v'ed all my fans so it's a lot more noticeable now. If I can fix this my computer will be very silent