Bought a used HP nc8230 and user informed me they could not get into bios. No problem I have diconnected the cmos battery plenty of times to reset bios. It does not work with this model because after a lot of research I found out it has the trusted platform module (TPM). Hp tells me the power on password is permenent in CMOS and the only way to get around this is to replace the motherboard. Just to inform you further about this, the minute you turn it on it ask for the power on password with a picture of a key. You don't even get a chance to try to Fkey into bios.

I recently bought a new laptop because my mom didnt want me downloading music and what not on her computer. My iPod updated and erased everything so now there's nothing on it. I'm trying to put the music I have on my computer on it but my laptop doesnt recognize it. I looked under my devices and it's under the category unspecified. All it says is Apple mobile device USB driver. It sees that it's an iPod but that it's. My friend told me to try all of the USB ports but that didn't work. Any idea how to fix this? Help is greatly appreciated!

I'm looking for a decient set of wireless head phones I can use with my 2 samsung TV's I have. One is a 51 inch LED and the other is a 37 inch LCD I just got after christmas. I was kind of hoping to find soemthing that would also work on my PC for online gaming if I could that had a mic. I'm having trouble finding much in my price range really wich is 50ish dollars. Maybe I'll just be better off getting a set of sony's for 70 bucks and be done with it but they are only for TV's. I just figured it would be nice to get more use out them since i'm spending the money.

Got any ideas of what I should look into? I'm technologically challenged..

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I'm shopping around for a new video card for my pc and am utterly confused with all of the options and terminology! Some cards have the same name but with a "TI" attached to it, does anyone know what the TI stands for, and does that mean it's better or worse??

Hi! I hope I am posting this question in the right subforum.

My old LCD monitor at work went kaput yesterday and I had to get a "new to me" monitor from the extra supplies of hardware.

The settings on my laptop monitor look fine for the most part, but the external monitor applications and desktop fonts and icons are way too large and not "crisp" - they are a bit blurry. In my Microsoft Excel 2003, all the cells look as if they are bolded but they are not. My Outlook box is HUGE and people can see if from across the room.

I have a Flash Drive and an external usb working just fine but with my ext/int usb drive Win 7 keeps forgetting that it is formatted. Manage and  minitool partition both see it and all folders read/write - all partitions are NTFS- drive is 1Tb Hitachi with its own power supply.  I have spent days on the net trying to esolve this.