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I come here to help people troubleshoot problems and let them help me troubleshoot mine. daniweb.com is a good site.

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Computers, Gaming, Hunting.
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AMD 6000 X2, 2GB A-DATA DDR2-800, Sapphire HD3850, Gigabyte DS4 (amd), HT Omega Striker (Sound), 2x…
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Hello everybody I am new here and hope to find an answer to my computer problem. I am Dutch, live in Germany and work with compuers for quite a while (home and work) I have a big problem with my USB keyboerd that stopped working after a restart some days …

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I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with an GeForce Go440 video card. After I did so, my display settings were changed. What I found is that I can set the screen resolution to 1600 x 1200 and the display will take up the entire screen, …

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I have an HP Notebook 4610. (AMD Processor, WXP.) About twice a week the screen on the laptop goes completely black, yet the computer is still running. I use the touchpad and try to bring it back, however, it stays black. It is like the brightness was automatically shut off. …

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I have an off the shelf Gateway that recently stopped responding. Powers up, HD and Optical Drives spin up but nothing else. As a self admitted newbie I want to troubleshoot and to repair myself but other than checking connections and looking for possible visible signs of a short or …

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I have a Gateway MX7340 laptop that is two years old. Windows XP SP2. When I power it up all I get is a black screen and I do not hear any processes running, only the fan. Nothing happens at all. The computer did not come with a start up …

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Hi, thanks for having a look at my problem. I have a dell PC that i bought a while ago (a few years) and it has worked perfectly until yesterday. I got back from my cottage to a dead computer. I had aparently left it on over the weekend, as …

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I keep my Toshiba Satellite M45-S355 laptop powered on virtually all the time. One morning I woke up to a blue error screen that was full of text, but most notably said "Memory Dump". I restarted and it ran as normal for several days. But then it happened again. And …

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Would like to install xp on latitude c400 but cannot change the boot order. Up and down work, enable and disable work, there is no primary password, no admin password, no hdd password. Setup is accessed with FN-F1 and appears normal. The boot order will not respond. There is external …

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I built this computer earlier this year (early spring), and it has been running fine since (i had absolutely no problems with the initial build). Now, however, it has started having trouble staying on. It will randomly turn off, often quickly after i turn it on (before boot or even …

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I've got ADSL through Qwest and the supplied modem's been getting pretty finicky dropping connections and needing frequent reboots. I'm going to buy a new modem (the actiontec m1000): [url]http://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-EUADSL23C-08-Qwest-DSL-Modem/dp/B001A4H9CW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1260462711&sr=8-1[/url] I've never setup a new ADSL modem, but I do have experience networking. I was just hoping someone has had …

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Was doing a minor wireless network for a boarding house... there is one cable modem (a motorolla surfboard) for broadband cable internet access... the ethernet cable goes from there to a Netgear dual band wireless router. Then, another ethernet cable goes upstairs to another wireless router (the first router's range …

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My Dell inspiron 8200 does not recognize the new 160 gig HD I installed. All I can do is access the BIOS. I have tried to reboot from the cd but no luck. I have also changed the reboot sequence in the BIOS. Coule this be the motherboard? Thanks Leo

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Just a few doubts regarding networking.. have completed my ccna last year and now thinking of preparing for CCSP... can any one help me on where to start or what type of basics should i have to read as i ama basically a system admin... any help would be greatly …

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As the threat title goes, my PSU just died today with a glorious pop and spark of electricity. Before I go further, I'll detail the specs and some history: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard PSU (while it was still alive): PP500 500W 1 GB RAM nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX (Later upgraded to …

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hi all, my 1st post here. I have a dell gx260, celery 1.7ghz cpu, 512 meg, 40 gig hd. sometimes the power switch works fine, sometimes it doesn't work at all. by that I mean it does nothing! no lights/beeps/fans. it's as though it's not even connected (I checked & …

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Well lemme explain my situation, my hard drive is dieing, i go into a game and 10min later i hear this "click" sound....it only clicks once and my computer freezes and i usually immediately shut off to try to avoid anything else happening. But thats not my main problem, my …

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I recently purchased a new laptop with built in wi-fi, bout do not know alot about wireless routers. I wondered if maybe someone can make some suggestions about a good wireless router that can keep up with my dsl!

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Hi I'm having problems installing a pci video card to my mother board. I'm having problems getting it to display on my HP desktop running on Vista be a drvier issue but am not sure. Any suggestions on what the problem might be.

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Ok so recently i bought 2 gb of ram to help speed up my comp.I havea regular compaq desktop with 165 watt PSU and when I put the 2gb of ram in and started my comp up and immediatly I smelled smoke coming from the PSU. now when I start …

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I have an Epson receipt printer which Windows detects as an Epson TM-P2.01. It has worked fairly well, but it is suddenly not working anymore. Every time a print job is sent to the device, it either spools it, or if spooling is disabled it tries to print it. But …

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Hi all Im having a bit trouble figuring out why my EAH3870TOP (Ati 3870 oc'd) is not running at full speed , its not even running at half the speed its supposed to. even after i overcloked it would show me that its running at the oc'd speed but in …

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Built this system in 03 Asus A7N8X nForce2 Athlon(XP)/Duron SktA DDR ATX Motherboard AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83GHz 333FSB 512KB Processor Kingston KVR400X64C25/512 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CL2.5 Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD800JB 80GB ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer Asus CRW-4824A 48x24x52 EIDE CD-RW Drive w/Flextralink eVGA NV52 GeForce2 …

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Hello. Im running an Acer Power1000 small form factor, well 9 of them. within a week 4 motherboards fried, just 1 month out of warranty. I happened to find a company which deals with acer parts and replaced the mboards for 150 ea. vs 500 which is what acer wanted... …

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Hey everyone. I work at a library and I have some public access computers for searching our catalog with internet explorer. I want the user to not be able to close this internet explorer window, and I believe the setting for that is in the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in …

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when i was playing C&C 3, the game Hung causing me to try and end the process. the same happens in Colin Mcrae DiRT. im running Windows XP GPU:Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX 512MB! CPU:Amd Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7GHz ea core!) MOBO:Gigiabyte S-series PSU:codegen 530W RAM:1.7gb

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is there any way to get this video driver to display a wide screen resolution? I installed a wide screen monitor but have no option in display properties to choose a resolution with appropriate ratio.

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Hi, i dont know that much about computers, but it seems like the people on this forum do. So i was wondering if you could help. this is my first post! So hi everyone! When i play games like Warxraft 3 frozen throne, Starcraft brood war and others, ( I …

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"STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive(file): \systemroot\system32\config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate It is corrupt, absent, or not writable" That's the error I get. I get it when the Windows loading bar fills up. Any idea what the problem is or how to fix it? …

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hi got a prob my computer was running all ok yesterday . but today on startup its saying no signal to the monitor . i have tryed a spare grafic card that i had lying around . still no luck . the fan on the grafic card runs ok . …

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Hello, First off i would like to say that this is a awesome site and i'm so glad i found it because i'm in over my head with my laptop.I have a Toshiba satellite model P205-S6287.The other day it started acting funny for instance every time i would click on …

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