Posts by nwsummers

Have you tried booting into safe mode? If it is a driver issue or a problem with a startup file, this will help you narrow it down. When you power on your system, press F5 or F8 (then choose Safe Mode) just before the Windows splash...

O&O Defrag is one of the best out there. It is not, however, free. It has a 30 day trial to try it out. To give a brief description of performance increase, I have Half-life 2 on my Ferrari 3200 laptop and load times are a pain;...

Go to the manufacturer's website, first If you cannot get them there, find them at: http://www.geocities.com/madtoast OR www.dell.com <--- They have pretty good drivers for most Geforce Go series laptops (even if your laptop...

The closest thing I could find for you are: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115154 and a refurb laptop: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_g...h=acer+ferrari

Try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers. If that doesn't work, uninstall the device itself in Device Manager, restart the machine, and let Windows reinstall the wireless card. Good luck

95% of companies ship their computers with OEM versions of Windows. IF the PC comes pre-installed with an OS, then it's more than likely OEM (simply because companies get good deals on bulk OEM products).

It's really simple. Make sure you have a bootable XP CD. Pop that CD in; restart your system. Agree to the prompts on startup and select the second partition (not the one with x64) and install it there. XP will do the rest and give...

Any overclocking runs the risk of damage to your computer components; it doesn't matter if you overclocked by 10Mhz or 1000Mhz. What you should watch out for is artifacts. Artifacts are lines, squares and other things in games that...

There's no way to tell unless the site where you're downloading it from says. A ZIP file compresses the file(s) to make it easier to download. Some files can be compressed to a very small size, while others cannot be compressed at...

SODIMMs (Small Outline DIMMs) SDRAM (2.75inch x 1.25inch) were originally developed for use in notebook computers. They are physically smaller than desktop DIMMs and have 144pins. "Low profile" SODIMMs are required in some...