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I'd like to be able to stream some movies and TV shows I have on an external HDD to a HDTV in an apartment where internet access it not available. I was wondering if there is a device out there that is available that is also user friendly because I got a mom that is a complete novice when it...

Thanks for responding getochkn. I exposed the wires and it looks like I have the following colored wires: from left to right:Gray, white, brown, black, empty, tan, orange, red. My guess is black is ground. The tan, orange, and red read 18.3V, 19V, and 19V respectively. The other 3 pins that...

I have a Compaq CQ62/HP G62 Notebook I'm trying to fix. It looks like a power related problem because when I plug it in to the AC adapter to the DC jack on the laptop, the side LEDs do not light up. I tried wiggling the AC adapter into the DC jack, no good. So I took a multi-meter and I tested...

Actually I read at it's either the CPU or the screen brightness that consume more of a laptops battery power. But I am really interested in learning is if adding 2 storage drives consumes more power than having a regular HDD and an optical disk drive. But if a SSD really only consumes 1 watt...

So I know its possible for some computers to take out the optical CD/DVD drive and replace it with a SSD drive. I was wondering what effects it has on a laptop's battery life. I know that when active, an optical drive would use more power than both an SSD and a HDD. Not sure about how often...

So is it safe to say that for the typical consumer (and maybe light gamer) that there will be little noticeable comparison in terms of processing power between the Sandy Bridge and the Llano processors. Although the gamer would probably lean towards the AMD b/c of the discrete graphics I mean...

So I know that the i5-2410m (or any of the 2nd gen i5) are currently better than the Llano A6-3400m and the A8-3500m processors. I just want to know HOW much better. I know there are benchmark program scores and numbers, but it'd help me decide whether or not the i5's are worth the extra money...

Im aware of that but that's because laptops overheat or get too hot and the solders crack or something. My laptop was kept cool because of my cooling pad, so I dont get how heating up my motherboard exactly fixes it when it is usually kept below the temperature where hardware failure occurs.

So my problem is that all of a sudden, my laptop's screen doesn't turn on. Exact details: my laptop had been on a couple hours today, and when I went away to watch TV for a couple of hours, I came back to it to find that the screen would not turn on. My laptop goes to sleep after 10 minutes...

If by "erased" you mean they wiped all the data off them, yeah you can still use them if they'll let you take apart the laptop and take the hard drives out.

No, you did not lose everything on your hard drive (most likely). Its probably a hardware dying or some awkward setting. First: can your computer boot up to the BIOS screen (the black background screen with like white or blue or low-resoultion text). If so, good. If not, well your computer's...

Just curious: what dv-series fiasco? That motherboard recall?

So I'm in the market to get a new laptop and I just wanted to get a comparision check on these two laptops. I'm currently a college student, so most of my purposes for the computer will be general web browsing, videos, decent battery life and maybe some light gaming (L4D2 is the most graphics...

So my computer's motherboard (ASUS M4A785-M) has an optical SPDIF out and my home theater system (Durabrand HT-395) has an optical input and I was trying to figure out what kind of cable would work with this combination. I got this "SPDIF" cable from a friend and this one doesn't fit either my...