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Hi guys, I'm looking for a good fanless PSU, and I have narrowed it down to two choices: Seasonic 460W X-460FL, or; NorthQ Pacific II 500W NQ-4350GP-FL The Seasonic one has genreally good reviews: there isn't much to read about the NorthQ one. The NorthQ PSU is "virtually fanless" -...

Hi all, I plugged in a new printer and when the Windows "Found New Hardware" wizard popped up, I accidentally clicked the option to "search online for drivers" - EVERY TIME. Now this is driving me crazy. I don't want Windows to try to search automatically every time I try to install...

I have an extremely annoying problem. For the past six months, I have been using IMAP as my primary form of e-mail - storing my Inbox online instead of downloading the messages through POP3. A few days ago, I opened my Outlook Express, and the IMAP folder synchronised with the server - and...

I just installed Vista to try it out, and on a new installation, one of the first programs I tried to download and install was Windows Live Messenger (The new name/version of MSN Messenger). During the installation process, I got the error message: "An error occured during the installation...

*Sigh* I have another weird error which I can't diagnose. My computer bluescreens and reboots from time to time. When I check the System log in the Event Viewer, I see the following error: "The device, \Device\Harddisk2\D, has a bad block." From searching various forums, I gather that the "D"...

Hi all, I have a weird problem. Let me describe the situation. For some time now, my Windows installation has become dodgy: video files keep stuttering, etc. I decided that the best thing to do would be a reinstall. Now, I have three separate physical hard drives in use at the moment: two...

I have a weird problem. For some reason, every time I (re)boot my machine, the boot selector refuses to remember which hard drive I have selected in order to be the boot device. Every time, I have to go into the boot menu and tell it. I have an MSI K8N NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra motherboard, with...

I hope someone will be able to advise me regarding a problem I have here. I'll tell you the situation. My friend has a hard drive which corrupted.. and has since bought a new computer. Now, I am trying to connect the drive as a secondary drive and use a data recovery program to retrieve the...

I have a very weird problem, and I can't seem to work out why. I've scoured the internet for references to it, but I can't find anything which mentions the symptoms I'm experiencing. I have several hard drives in my computer. The last one I bought is running on an IDE cable attached to a...