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i have an old belkin F5U221 2.0 4-port usb hub that i was recently using for my computer. It was working fine up until a week ago when we had a power outage and the next day when i started up my computer the belkin hub now shows up as an unknown device, i tried doing the hardware scan in device manager, tried updating the driver, even reinstalled XP and nothing seems to work. When i look at the properties it says No drivers are installed for this device. Should i just buckle down and get a new hub or does somebody have any suggestions? I haven't been able to find any drivers for this hub online and belkin doesn't list it on their site anymore.

Im trying to download shows onto my computer using the download helper add-on. Sometimes i start the video, click the download helper button and then when it starts downloading, i'll exit out of the video and it'll keep downloading. Sometimes it downloads the whole video and sometimes it only downloads half of it. Do i need have to video on the web page finish loading in order for it to download all the way or is there a problem with the download helper?

The problem I'm having is that whenever I connect my ipod to itunes it will sync only about 2 gb . Then when you disconnect the ipod there isn't any music on it. My songs aren't corrupted or anything, I had an old 80 gb ipod that worked just fine with them. My sister even tried to use her itunes with the ipod and she's getting the same error. I've tried restoring the ipod to its original settings, I've formatted the ipod, and i've used disk error check on it, I updated the ipods software to the latest one, I have the current itunes. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have windows xp by the way and my sister has vista. So if your help only pertains to either one its all good.

i was wondering if anybody had bought any tecate or full throttle and got the rebate for the fight and if you did, does it work for Directv?

i wanted to put some youtube videos on my ipod and psp and i need a good but free converter to do that. does anybody know a good one that they've actually used?

i have this old Compaq LTE ELITE 4/75CXL laptop that i wanna use just for minor purposes like surfing the net and stuff like that. the problem is that it doesn't have any usb ports or a cd-rom . it has a slot for pcmcia cards but i don't think they sell any for a laptop this old. it does have a PS/2 connection though. is there anyway i can get a PS/2 to USB converter and use that so i can connect a flash drive, or a external cd burner?

i need to buy a pay as you go phone and i need to know which service is the best for my money. im only gonna use it for about 6 months until i get enough money for an actual plan. im trying to decide between virgin mobile, t-mobile, and verizon. i don't really talk that much on the phone. i live in california so i don't know if certain plans work better here or what.

i can only spend about 280 for a home theater system so i narrowed it down to these two:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8724...

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8713...

Im not sure which one to get. sony's subwoofer has more power than the LG one but LG has more power in the speakers. so if anyone with experience with either one of these can tell me which one is better would be great.

so i've tried putting the ps3 ip address on dmz on my linksys router but it still says its nat 3 so i tried putting it on port fowarding and it still said it was nat 3. and i've enabled upnp on my router and ps3 and it still says its nat 3. my internet connection is fine, i can browse and sign into my psn account. does anybody have any suggestions? besides getting an xbox or anything.

this laptop i want looks perfect , it has a T7250 Core 2 Duo Processor, 2.0 ghz, 2 gb ram but upgradeable to 4gb and 250 hard drive, the only problem is that it spins at 4200 rpm. my question is that if i upgrade to 4 gb of ram, will that kinda speed up the hard drive in any way, or is just gonna perform that way regardless?

i bought this awhile ago and i've been messing around with the picture settings and still can't seem to find the best one for movies. basically i'm looking for a setting that has the best lighting but also has the least amount of grainy picture that sometimes happens with dark scenes.so if anybody has this kind of tv, suggestions would be helpful.

does anybody have the direct tv hd reciever? cause i'm supposedly getting it tomorrow and i wanted to know how the picture quality is in general when viewing regular non- hd channels. is it better than usual or pretty much the same as regular direct tv

isn't this scoring similiar to the taylor vs hopkins scoring, except the opposite guy won? taylor was the agressor in the fight, and threw more punches and made the fight whereas hopkins laid back and counterpunched and outlanded taylor. yet they gave the fight to taylor just based on the what judges favored, the guy who came forward and threw more punches, but didn't land as much not the guy who threw less yet landed more. so i don't know why people get all pissed off that one of the judges had de la hoya winning when it similiar to the situation with taylor vs hopkins. what do you people think?

even though he won convincingly, how many of you think that hes a boring fighter? all he would do is throw 2-3 punches and then clinch, just like freakin john ruiz. sometimes he would charge at urango just to get him into a clinch. holding maybe 2 in a round is alright, but hatton clinched like 15 times in every round. hes seriously overrated. what do you people think?

i got this LG GSA-4160B burner from overstock for my computer and it came with the burner, a grey flat cord and that was it. after i got the other parts needed for it i installed it and it was working fine. after a couple of months though it stopped recognizing blank cds. i would put one in and usually it start up my nero software but now it doesn't do anything and when i try to burn a cd it keeps saying insert a blank cd, i do and then it says burner is not ready. i'm not sure what the problem is. i have the burner installed below my other cd drive, its in the slave position, it has power and has the little cord in the black port down on the motherboard. i've tried two different types of blank cds on it but they don't work. any solutions or maybe an online installation manual to download? i checked my nero info tool and it says that the system aspi isn't installed but that the nero one is, is that one of the problems? help would be greatly appreciated

i was thinkin about getting a wii so i was wondering if anybody had gotten one and if you could tell me the pros and cons of it and if its worth buying.

ok, on cartoon network , i think in the late 90's there was this cartoon show that they had, and the main character was a weird chinese guy that had hair that kinda pointed up like a unicorn horn or something. and he played a triangle and danced weird and stuff. haha anybody know the name of that show?

does anybody have any suggestions to how to make firefox as fast as it can go. i have fasterfox and firetune but its still slower than my internet explorer. . i have wireless internet. so any configurations or anything?