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My brother has an imac and has asked me to find him a cdrw drive for it. I am wondering if I can use an internal cdrw drive in a firewire 5.25" drive enclosure. If I can will any drive work in it with the mac or are some not compatible with macs. Finally are there any good cheaper...

does anyone know where I can get a driver for a baystack 21 network card to get it to function under windows xp?

I have managed to restore my comouter to how it was last night using a partition magic boot disk. the problem arose as when I last installed win98 I swapped my partitions in fdisk by accident I then installed win98 onto the D: partition. last night I formatted the C: partition. the computer...

I have changed the drive letter of my win98 partition. Now all the file paths are wrong. is there a software package that can correct this??

Any help would be great here. I recently got a new (well refurbished) Packard Bell A726 monitor. Tonight while using it the screen started to waiver at the sides, I was concerned so I lowered the refresh rate and the resolution (Even though I was using it well within its limits) then I got that...

I haven't tried the latest VIA drivers as I have been told they might make other things in my system worse, I am using windows 98 linux and BeOS, But the main problems occur with windows The device I really having trouble with is a usb webcam (I changed my printer over to parallel for...

hi as this this a sound question i would like to add on a little more. Can ac97 onboard sound work with linux at all, I use red hat 7, if not does anyone of a good CHEAP card that works well in Linux and windows, (and BeOS for that matter)?

I'm having trouble with my usb connections- a lot of the time my software will tell me my devices aren't plugged in. My Motherboard ( don't know the make) Has a VIA MVP4 chipset and four usb ports on board. I was wondering 1. Are there any known usb problems with this chipset. 2. Is there any...

thanks for all your help. I cracked the PC open to find out what hardware it had, then I entered the hard disk data in the BIOS as it wasn't automatically detected, the PC then fired up no problems. My friend then informed me his PC hadn't been used or plugged in for months. I left the PC on for...

thanks for the tips I'll crack it open check out the battery and then find out the specs of the hardware. Then maybe put it into the shop

Any help would be great. I am trying to help a friend with his computer. I don't know much about it as it is nearly fifteen years old and I'm scared to open it up in case it crumbles. The problem is when it is turned on a message comes up saying something to the effect: CMOS memory checksum...

I am using redhat7 the tool i think is sndconfig

can anyone help me I am new to linux and when i use sound configuration tool my system freezes. My sound I think is via ac97 each time I have tried it the system freezes I have to turn off the pc then linux stops during booting the only way to get back into linux is to reinstall it

thanks for the tip I haven't had time to try it yet but I'll let you know if it is successful ( or I'll probably be back on here looking for more help soon)

Can someone please help?? I have just got a copy of red hat 7 and am trying to install it on my win 98 machine but I can't even get started. when I boot the machine with the cd it starts fine but as soon as the redhat screen comes up with the mouse and keyboard options the moniter begins to...