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Whenever I plug in a Honeywell 3800g scanner into my Windows XP professional sp3 computer, the pop up "Windows detected a new device - composite USB device' appears in the lower right, and within seconds of that the computer either freezes or blue screens, with this error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL the stop …

I am trying to help a customer restore their connectivity to their server. earlier this week, a power outage wiped out thier servers' internet connection and the connection to 2 computers, I'll call them 1 and 2. We advised them to replace the wireless usb adapter they were using to …

I installed a Synchrotech cardbus reader into a new PC today. It fits into a 3.5" drive bay and has a IDE cable that connects to the PCI slot on the back of the board. After installing it, the mouse driver disappeared and I had to reinstall the drivers. I …

I have a couple of computers here, a friend wanted me to make an image of an old XP hard drive with all her work files, emails, etc, and put them on a hard drive in a newer computer. The newer computer runs Windows 7 and I feel like that …

I'm having an issue where a computer that was seemingly working fine a couple days ago is now freezing whenever I try to click on anything on the desktop. This happens right after startup. I can sometimes get the start menu to open, but once I try to click on …

I'm working on another Pavilion (the 750n this time) and when you plug it in, it automatically turns on without the power button, does one solid beep for probably 5 seconds, and turns off, won't let you press the power button to try again. The only way to get it …

Someone gave me a computer and asked me to look at it, they told me they couldn't load Windows. I have the computer, and this is what it's doing: -HP splash screen comes up -The very next screen is the screen for Windows Safe Mode (with the only options being …

Okay so I was pulling some hair off my motherboard and bumped the powercable that connects the PSU to the Motherboard (not the 4 pin one, the bigger one that is like 16-pin) any way the system all of a sudden just shut down all I can think is that …

Someone asked me to remedy a problem on a laptop running XP Media Center SP3...has a Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive, but Seagate Manager isn't recognizing the drive. When I plug the drive in, Windows recognizes and reads from the drive. I cannot uninstall the Seagate utility to reinstall it …

I have a 20 GB Quantum Fireball HD that I tested not to long ago(a month?). I told my friend he could have it for a bit of extra space, and that I would put a couple of things on it for him. So, I plugged it into my free …

Specs: Shuttle AK32A Motherboard Kingston 256MB RAM Maxtor 20GB HDD Nvidia GeForce MX440 500W PSU Amd Athlon CPU It's a custom-built PC, and when I powered it on for the first time, all the fans came on, the HDD's spun, and it seemed to be recieving power. But, I get …

Hi all, my uncle handed me his laptop and asked me to clean a virus. I used Kaspersky AV Boot to clean out the virus, and I was able to restore internet connectivity once that was done. I tried to run a virus scan and it kept getting stuck in …

I recently built a computer. Here is the hardware I am using. CPU- Intel Core i5-660 Clarkdale 3.33GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Power Supply- Rosewill Xtreme Series RX750-D-B 750W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91 Hard Disk Drive- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 …

Hi Even though I signed up here 4 years ago I know squat about tech stuff, so Please: speak slowly...lol My computer old, ancient really, a Heinz-ish, but we've gotten along with each other fine until: -scan on Primary drive C: first took 3 hours, then 3 days even after: …

A friend of mine is having lock up problem, the PC always boots up but randomly locks up every couple of days, sometimes more. On two occasions, at least, the computer locked up while surfing the web, the monitor went black, and the PC started beeping until I turned it …

I have an ASUS M3N78-VM mobo with WD 350g SATA drive running Win XP. Everything has been good for about 7 months but I now have intermittent problems when powering up the machine. From a cold start the SATA drive is not recognized in the bios and I get a …

I have installed windows vista basic from a dell cd on my dv2530ea hp laptop by mistake ,the problem is that now the laptop does not work i.e it shuts down after every few minutes i have cleared the heat sink so heat does'nt seem to be the problem but …

hello guys my computer freezing up during diplaying montherboard manufacturer's logo and i cannot even see the POST message.. is this a BIOS problem or any hardware problem? please helpp..