Forum: Hardware

is there any software or anything that I can do to force sound from my rear speakers? none of my computer's music or internet radio is provided in 5.1 surround, so my rear speakers don't do anything at all (they are properly set up in windows sounds and do function)

Hey PeerWeb... working on a new PC build and can't for the life of me find a good heatsink for the LGA 1366 platform. Anyone have any experience? I want something that does not use those fucking pushpins like on the stock cooler. I swear if I ever have to mount another one of those I'll scream. ...

Hey guys, I'm going to be building a new computer and hopefully ordering the parts next week so I can build it while I'm at home during exams, so I was wondering if you had any suggestions on this stuff: CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Ed. - 3.2GHz -- $169.99 Mobo: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro -- 159.99...

Recently got a Kingston Class 4 8g SDHC card for modding my Wii/DSi. When I first got it the first thing I did was format it to the FAT32file system (required for softmodding wii/DSi) and for a couple days everything was working well, my flash cart for my DSi came with a card reader that was...

Hi guys, I've been trying to fix a mates laptop all night, getting nowhere fast! It's a toshiba l300d laptop, with vista installed. It won't boot, so I tried restoring from the hdd partition, no joy just hangs.. Tried a vista disc, xp disc and winows7 disc, they all get to "loading files" then...

iv just slotted in a samsung 750gb hdd which was hardly ever used ,and i mean hardly ever used! this drive was an external that stopped working and in my infinite wisdom decided that it was the enclosure :D seems to have been the case but didn't show up in my computer and with some jiggery pokery...

I need a 1Gb DDR But i dont understand Them :( e.g. PC2700 DDR 333Mhz Vs PC4000 DDR 500Mhz Which Would Be Better and Why? Im looking to spend £20 At Most

Before the site took a dive, there was a thread where I asked for a bunch of input on my build. Well (as the title implies) I built it. Core 2 Quad Processor Q9550 Boxed - Yorkfield http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0299412 $169.99 COOLER MASTER ELITE 335...

im having troubles installing nero 8 onto my computer and I am using windows vista unfortunately... I will put in sequence the messages I am getting - Fatal Error: installation corrupted - please reinstall nero (this comes up before the there is anything on the status bar for the installation...

Hey there, my parents are asking me to price out some options for laptops. One for my dad, one for me. I'm pretty good on the desktop side of things, but could use some help in the mobile area, as I don't follow it as closely. Budget on each is around $1500. I can go a bit under or over. ...

I saw that the new Firepro (new series of workstation cards) card is 99% identical to the 4870 in terms of hardware. So the only real difference is the driver which allows for up to 6 times the performance in apps like maya. So first question is if it is possible to load the drivers onto the...

So I just got a new 1TB hard drive to replace one of my data drives. I put the old SATA drive in an external enclosure and it started doing some weird stuff. Copying large files to the drive would cause the system to hang, making some questionable noises, and refusing to eject in Windows. I...

well i havnt done much in a while with my comp... so for an upgrade... or downgrade perhaps to some.. but for use and efficancy in my case.. iv been looking mostly at the new small Eee machines that use the high efficancy Intel Atom cpu... and then i got thinking is there a GPU equivalant? ...

Hi Everyone, I am hoping that someone could help me figure out what is wrong with my pc. All of a sudden when I turn on the computer nothing appears on the monitor. I though that it might be the video card, so I installed a new pci video card. But no changes it is still the same. There are no...