Recent content by tekhaze

I have an old set of 5.1 surround sound speakers and my motherboard doesn't support it. Is it possible to combine the three 3.5 mm jack wires from the set into one 3.5 mm to fit into the green port on the back of my PC?

Just an update in case anyone happened to be curious... Was going to try hooking the HDD to one of my PCs and install Linux on it, but I can't since it's an old IDE type for laptops. I'm researching an option of "hacking" into it via network. Since it's on WinXP, which is unsupported, there...

I have tried entering the Bios using those keys to no avail. WinXP loads up to a password screen, but we can't get any data to transfer over USB mouse or keyboard, only some LEDs on these come on. I've tried each of the 3 USB ports, restarting the machine before every try, hoping one would allow...

Repairing friend's old winXP Acer laptop and the Keyboard/touch pad doesn't work. Tried plugging in different external USB mice and keyboards but they only get power to LEDs, no data. Can't access Bios as a result or start a boot disk. I would like to install ubuntu so they can use it as a...