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Is everyone familiar with this game? Just reply with the first word that comes to your mind when you think of the last word posted. You can't respond to the post with a comment, just the word that comes to your mind. It can only be a word or a …

My toshiba laptop screen suddenly turned black,but if looking closely you can still barely see what is on the screen, like the screen saver turned it self on, but I restarted my computer many times and it loads up but still no results. I had this problem about 4 months …

I have a 2005 Toshiba laptop with a celeron processor. For some reason my computer will just shut off without warning. You've got about 15 minutes tops to use it before it'll just turn off unexpectedly. If you're doing something a little more complicated, like running a virus scan, it'll …

Please help me I think I am going crazy. I am building a comuter, I have everything setup and when I try to boot windows from a CD, I keep getting the same error PXE-E61: Media test failure, Check cable. PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE-ROM Boot failure: System Halted I have …

Hi For some reason my computer will not allow new usb devices to just automatically work. It will always ask for software, which it cant find. Ive recently tried using my new digital camera (an olympus Mini) and I plug it in, the computers beeps 3 times quickly (the beep …

Hi there,. I recently brought my computer to my families to do some work over the holidays...Basically whats going wrong is when I plug in my computer ( a HP a500n ), the power supply on the back blinks rapidly and there is a clicking sound if I lean close …

Everytime i start up my computer, it gets to the microsoft xp loading screen and then shuts down again. Sometimes I very breifly, for about half a second, get a blue screen. Its not on long enough to read.

Hello all. Thus far, my computer has been dead for about 5 days, and I've narrowed down what the problem may be, and I need a bit of help on that part. First, the background story: My sister, one day, happened to be playing GTA:Vice City, when the computer suddenly …

Hello, My acer ZG5 is not working, when i press the power button the light (on the button) comes on for 2 seconds and then it turns off, there is nothing on the screen or any sound, i had the same problem yesterday but somehow it worked yesterday but today …

Well actually my friends 3yr old son dropped my external hard drive. Now it will power on and everything, but it makes this noise as it sits there and tries to get loaded by windows like a clicking noise, or if you put a scratched up CD in a drive …

hi I am asking this question as I have been totally baffled all day on this and have been looking for a fix now for quite a while. My friend presented me with this board after he had attempted to flash its BIOS using the @bios utility on the supplied …

Hey, I'm just wondering as to what everyones avg battery life is for their notebooks, and what their specs are. Personally, my battery life sucks...I unplug it and walk upstairs, and its down about 3-4%...its almost pointless as a notebook...so is there any way to improve battery life? Any tips/suggestions …

I have a computer that takes around ten minutes after switching the power on for it to start. It had happened like this sometimes back but when I ran adware and removed some spyware and was ok but now I have run adware and removed some spywares ,run updated norton …

Shut down the machine fine last night, but it refuses to start up today. Goes through BIOS alright, then shows me a screen that reads: "The last attempt to restart the sytem from its preveious location failed. Attempt to restart again?" the choices are: "Delete restoration data and proceed to …

Hi All, I am a new member of this site , so again hi to all the member of this forum. My problem is very weird(atleast I think so), My net conec is PPoE and I got wirless router of netgear MR814v2, and my computer is centrino laptop, now the …

Hello all! I am looking to get my A+ cert. Before I do, is this a waste of money.. I mean, it is really easy to obtain, so I just want to know if I am heading in the right direction. Thank you.

Hi Have had a problem with the Tecra, hoping for some assistance. The screen froze whilst surfing on the internet. The only way I could switch it off to force it to shutdown by keeping my finger on the silver off switch for a few seconds. It did switch off. …

Theres a light on my motherboard that is lit does that mean its not the power supply? What could it possibly be, hard drive, CPU or the tower? Nothing at all happens when I power up. Thanks for the help. Its maybe two years old I bought it from ibuypower.com.

0 Vaio Desktop wont start Expand Post » My Sony Vaio Desktop Rx 660 will not start. I turned my computer off for the weekend and after returning on Monday I tried turning my computer on and nothing will happen. I took apart my computer and after inspection and some …

:( i had a laptop computer - Sony Vaio - K series - PCG-K315M I dont know what i did but now my computer is having no operation system. Before it was Window XP Home edition - Service Pack 2. Then, i tried to install another Window ( Window XP …

A recent question requested advice about building your own PC. The website style is a little amateurish, perhaps, and some of the discussion of components is certainly getting a bit 'dated', but one of the most comprehensive system building guides I've yet come across is Rob Williams' My Super PC …

Hi there. wonder if anyone can shed a little light on this for me I have been trying to write some files to a brand new completely blank cd but to no avail:sad: the cd writing wizard appears to start ok and gets through scanning the disk image ok. it …

Hi, My computer stops responding about 10-15 seconds after I turn it on. This happens regardless of whether I try to boot into Windows or go into the BIOS menu. The processor is a PIII 1.0 GHz. Brand new mobo and power supply. Is this happening because there isn't enough …

Ok this is a game I juast thought of and don't know if its been done before or if it will work well but bare with me. Ok I start by stating a sentence. The next person will change [B]one[/B] word and repost the sentence. The new sentence has to …

This morning I got up to use my laptop and it suddenly went out and has been out all day. I've tried all kinds of methods including holding down the power button to "drain" the power. This is the first time this has happened so are there any ideas you …

Ok i only found this out earlier today and it does work as I tried it. this is how to remove a boot string that does not work (Ibased on the fact you have a dualboot os and want it to be single boot again as the other os dont …

Hi Just curious to find out if anyone knows how to program smart cards using a card reader/programmer connected to an RS232 port. I've downloaded software but the machine and software says it cant detect the card reader. any ideas.

I have an Acer Aspire 5050 3371 Notebook and I'm about to burn it at the stake. Can somebody please help me? I know nothing about computers. Okay, so my Notebook has issues with authority. It seems to only seems to turn on when it wants to. Usually I will …

I have a [I]WinFast TV2000 xp [/I] tv card in my computer.I installed all the drivers and I put audio output from the tv card to sound card [I]line in[/I], but there is no sound when I try to watch tv or when I record!! In configurations,my Audio device is …

Hello, i recently decided to build my own computer. I have everything assembled, however when I turn the computer on the monitor displays a "no signal" message. I have recently exchanged the motherboard, video card, and processor for the same model. And when i took it to the computer store …