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My main desktop has just died. I am getting no response from the power button at all. I have checked the power cable itself on a dell optiplex system i have lying around, powers that system up fine. I have plugged a usb light/fan into the troubled desktop and the fan and light both work via...

Just recieved one of these 18:00GMT, just thot I should bring it to your attention incase its the start of something larger. :)

Hey guys, been a long time since i visited here! I've been lost in real life, boring i know but unfortunately it took over my life for a while. I see alot of familiars as well as new faces :) Hope everything is going well for everyone, im going to try and stick around for a while here. Miss...

Can someone confirm for me if this Western Digital Scorpio hard drive will be compatible with the rev.1 Macbooks? Im looking at upgrading my current 60Gb :)

I remember years ago, in fact it may have just been in XP, that Windows OS' could only cope with a hard drive up to 100 or so Gigs. If I add a S-ATA2 500Gb drive to my system, will I be required to partition it or will it function okay as a block device? I imagine it will, but I thought I...

Any one else notice that Neowin is broken?

I have aquired the above system, with two Pentium 3 Processors each running at 1.0GHz, 512MB of ECC RAM and two 18.2GB 10k SCSI drives. I am wondering if anyone can advise of a stable release of a linux distribution and/or BSD distribution that will run on this hardware which will take...

How can I write a script that will run a program ( ~/folding/FAH502 ) everytime the server boots up. I know that cronjobs can run things at a certain time, but my server isnt important enough to warrant purchasing a UPS so when we have a powercut i need to run around and restart all my running...

My girlfriend has just purchased an Advent 8115 laptop, its a good quality machine for its price and runs Vista Premium. It has according to Device Manager a RT73 USB Wireless Card, the wireless card is in fact internal and not USB dongle but we cant seem to connect to my Belkin G+ Mimo...

Has anyone managed to get Shockwave Player 10.2 working under Vista 64-bit? I keep getting the below error msg.

Has anyone here, got or ever had experiences with Dynamode Routers? I have been trying to get port forwarding to work correctly so that my external IP will be forwarded onto port 80 of my server, but to no avail. It is a R-ADSL-C4W-EG model but I still cannot get anywhere with forwarding ports...

I have just become addicted to this. Is there any free resources out there for free additional aircraft, airports etc. Or are these types of add-ons only available through the commercial products that Microsoft sell? Cheers

Anyone having issues with trying to Register their copy here? Each time I visit the page, and click on the option to Register. Nothing happens... at all... Nothing. :suprised:

I have for sale a Shuttle XPC System. Aluminium G2 Design Shuttle XPC AMD Sempron 2.0GHz 2800+ (Socket A) 2x 512MB DDR3200 Crucial RAM running in Dual Channel 80GB Maxtor DiamonMax 7200rpm IDE Hard drive. Pioneer OEM DVD-RW (+/-) GeForce 4 Dual Head Onboard Graphics Firewire USB 2.0 Comes with...

Just waiting on delivery of the following: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 (1.83GHz), ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA PT880 200GB Western Digital S-ATA 2x 1GB Crucial DDR3200 (running dual channel) LITEON DVD8900 DVD-RW Vista Home Premium 64-bit Will add to it; Radeon X1300 256MB DDR3 :suprised: and my...

Anyone heard of or using an ASRock board? Any comments to make about them. I'm thinking of upgrading to a Core 2 Duo Desktop with the; ASRock 775I65G R2.0 SKT 775 865G AGP onboard VGA 5.1 channel audio mATX says it takes the Core 2 Duo, and will take the 2gb of RAM im wanting to feed...

Had a little quick search and noticed that no results came up. For future reference, there appears to be a bug present in many installs of Vista that when you open a folder containing a video file the above message "COM Surrogate has stopped working" is displayed. (see attached) This is...

For sale: first-generation, iPod Nano in white. 2GB The Nano is in excellent working order, battery life is still excellent. Rear chrome casing has scratching as is normal from being in a pocket, front has no noticable scratches. May or may not have original packaging... either way it will be...

I have recently purchased a new Graphics Card & Monitor for use with Vista. I currently dont get Aero with my GeForce 4 Integrated chip, but have purchased a Radeon X1300 XT with 256MB Dedicated. Not just to run Aero but a number of reasons. I am wondering, after I install the Graphics card...

Hi, I am needing some help on how to create Pivot Tables in both Excel 2000 and 2003 (If there are indeed any differences). I am starting a new job tomorrow, and although I wont need to do this immediately i will need to learn. I only have OOo too so dont have a local win32 installation to try...