according to Toshiba ,a white screen is a dead screen

hi ,do you have it plugged into green plug on sound card ,
sub woofer not shielded, to protect you monitor place it on the floor behind you computer desk maybe ,not sure about health issues ,aren't...

monitors have a refresh and resolution limit ,you may be able to find what your monitors is,with a google search of the make and model number ,
my opinion is the monitor is so old ,it cant handle...

resolution is one thing what is the refresh rate set at .

most likely the backlite or the lcd inverter causing you problems

how did you determine this ,did you use memtest86 or another ram diagnostic tool .

spybot and ad-aware ,are both recommended as they both have different data base of spyware .one will find what the other doesn't

im sorry to hear that ,but im having a hard time helping someone who know little or nutthing about computer let alone trying to do what you are trying to fix,you really need to do a search for "how...

take it to someone who can help you with you problem.

yes they can ,bad ribbon cable or not hooked up right ,or something like that .

first ,how do you know the hdd is whats not being detected ,do you get any error messages on the screen [no] nothing on the screen, then its likely a video card problem ,do you have a sound card...

you just don't get it do you ,im pretty sure your monitor works, its you install of winxp that not working ,you computer is not computing,not sending video signal to the monitor .im all most 100%...

LOL ,when you blow the thing up you will be handing out much more cash for a new computer ,the old saying ,pay me now or pay me later applies here .

yes ,but what im trying to tell you to do is this .get a hardrive
with nothing of interest on it ,install it in the tower as master by its self,and format and reload winxp on it to see if it works...

tower = computers,metal outer case .
the ram issue is a very complicated one.search www.google.com for "different ram types " and see what you find

you are suppose to carry it in a static free bag .anyway you may not have killed you ram ,i handle it all the time out side of a static bag ,i really think you need to take to a pro .i can explain it...

you could try that ,but why not try taking one harddrive and putting it into the tower .taking the winxp cd and boot to it , and format hdd, and reload windows and all necessary drivers to run the...

i have no idea as to why anything is happing to your computer ,because I'm not there to see inside the box ,see how its all hooked up,or how you are handling the delicate parts of the computer when...

the f stands for fix, when you did a chkdsk without the /f did you let it run threw the complete chkdsk ,could take an 1 hr or more

at the command prompt type in chkdsk /f ,note there is a space between the k and the /

YES. Good luck ,i'll be around ,don't do much else with my free time .good luck

there will be no data loss ,it will repair the data structure of the hard drive ,this may or may not fix your problem ,but will not hurt to run it ,you have to do it as a process of delimitation ,to...

Im trying to help them in there own post so no sense confusing thinks by posting here .
and you both have different problems ,similar but different .
any way , re-read and i think this was the...

I disagree, and its against forum polices ,to hijack others threads ,

ok ,im going to re-read from the top and see if it all makes any sence and maybe i can offer something constructive ,in stead...

I really need to start reading posters nic-names ,just realizes that 2 people are posting for help in the one thread ,always start you own thread and not hijack someone else's !

the thing that gets me about computers and computer problems is people who no nothing about computers think its ok to take them apart and try and fix them ,do you fix your own...

nice story but it got boring for me ,so did you ever take the 64 meg chips and throw them away .to see if it went back to working correctly .

Motherboard ,with onboard video can also have an AGP video slot to upgrade the video to something better.You can also add a PCI video card ,You could look around for a old 2meg PCI card [a bout 5...