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Yes, any 2.5" HDD will work now a days. Check the RPM's of the drives though, generally a 5400 will use more power than a 4200 so if you're interested in staying low on power consumption (even a few watts) then go for a 4200RPM drive.

Switch the PSU like stated and see if it will boot consistantly for say a week or a few days. If so then you know you found the problem (or at least 1 part of it). If it's still not booting consistantly then try changing out other components 1 by 1 and see how it goes.

If you mean virus/worms/spyware/adware/everything else than that'd be your job to diagnose it. Look it up online and find out what's going on and then remedy it. Unless of course you wanna shell out 85-100$ an hour for some computer place to fix it. If you mean a hardware problem well then, I...

If the message is NTLDR then that would be either a direct OS problem or a problem with the MBR of the OS. Easiest way to remedy this would be to just do a repair install of XP. If it's not booting from the CD-ROM make sure you got the boot order right in the BIOS and then if it's still not...

If it smells like burning (:P) then you might want to try a new PSU and see if it will boot with that. It is indeed most likely your PSU that is causing the problems though.

Don't jump to conlusions. Run Motherboard Monitor 5 and get some temps. If it displays at 32C it means the sensors aren't reading right. Run a pass with Memtest86 and see if it gives you any errors on your ram. More than likely however it's your PSU that's causing the random shut downs of your...

BUILDING COMPUTERS 101 I don't know why everyone always skips over this. Lies, thermal grease/pad/paste helps with the transfer of heat, it isn't necessarily required, but it is highly advised.

I got ~10 17" monitors at home, I'll be there next week if you're still looking for one.

So does every other printer on the market (mainly photo printers). As for your experience, work 12 hour days at 3 local tech shops and then go freelance for a few years before you start banging out info which might not actually be true. As for a good printer basically the cheapest one you can...

Don't reinstall windows. If it's not working in the BIOS I dare say it's a broken PS/2 port. Take a look inside at it and see if it's loose and see if all the solder points are still connected to the motherboard.

Sounds like it could be the backlight or it could be a loose cable. The only way to tell for sure is to open it up and take a gander. However if you're not that experienced with laptops/computers in general I suggest giving it to someone who knows what they're doing.

White reflects the laser or optical light best but a black mousepad will work to. Unless you're a serious gamer you won't need a 40$ mousepad.

The PATA cable (ribbon) goes on 3 and will only fit one way. The p6 connector is for use in Floppy drives of Card readers or sometimes fans, not for the 2 slot. And the P5 goes into the 1 slot and will only fit one way. The 2 slot is so you can set the jumpers to tell the drive that it's a...

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101221 Why would you sell it for 50? I just think you'd be able to get more for it.

It will play DVD's fine. QUESTIONS 101 I am also guessing the native resolution but it could also be your codecs, check that they are installed right and not corrupt/out of date.

Is that the SE16 WD2500KS would it? I have 4 of them and have gotten "reports" of bad sectors from my machine with 2 of the 4 drives. Could also be a lot of different reasons. My best guess would also be something with the HDD or possibly the windows install.

QUESTIONS 101 Reset your BIOS see if the machine will post. If not it leads me to believe it is also a PSU problem, try swapping out the current one for a different one and see if it will post that way.

They need to be the same model (same manufacuter doesn't matter [it might, never tried it]) to work in SLI. If you wanted to SLI you would need to buy another 6600GT which would almost be a waste of money at this time period.

YOU won't be able to notice the difference. So if you wanna save 50$ then go ahead and do it, if you wanna upgrade, do that too.

Like mentioned QUESTIONS 101 Also you might want to run a pass with Memtest86 and see if gives you any errors.