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[COLOR=#000000]I recently purchased a new Biostar P4M80/M7a Version 7 with Intel Pentium D 840 and 1 gig of memory.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]On first boot entered BIOS settings, reboot, lock at POST screen, and cannot enter BIOS[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Could not enter BIOS again[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Cleared BIOS picked default settings, reboot lock at POST screen, and …

Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-SD279 with both Windows XP and Ubuntu on it. I bought a DVD-RW burner combo (P000366780) and as soon as I tried it, the computer gave me the Error #1 message and my only option with windows was to reboot. I could enter into …

Hello, i have an ACER Travelmate 292LMi. The original Dvd-Rom that was with my acer broke down and i switched it with a NEC 7550A. Now i want to format my pc and i noticed that primary dvd is still the one i changed(the one broken). First boot device is …

i insert my usb pendrive into the socket but nothing seems to detect it even with windows xp service pack 2.

I recently had a defective MOBO replaced by ASUS. It's a P5B Deluxe. After reinstalling the MOBO and all original components the BIOS wouldn't recognize the HDD, a Seagate 320 Gb SATA drive. After checking everything and several restarts it finally recognized the hard drive. Once past the BIOS screen …

I have a Compaq model 5835 w/celeron processor running Win98. The hard drive crashed, something came loose inside the drive. I replaced the drive with a good one from another computer, with Windows ME o/s. When I boot the computer, I get the 1782 Disk Controller Failure message, and I'm …

i think it should go here i have not got a cd re-writer but i want to install ubuntu so is there anyway i can install it from and iso seperetly

To start off, I am trying to fix my friends computer because his hard drive has failed. He is planning on building a whole new computer in about six months, however he wants to get his current one going until then. I went out and bought a 250 GB/SATA 16Mb …

I recently received an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop with a Hard Drive Failure post (fixed disk 0 failure). I immediately assumed the hard drive wasn't plugged in securely or it had failed. I proceeded to swap the drive out and test the old hard drive in another computer. It turns …

I installed a second SATA drive on my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R board and am curious if anyone knows if it matters, performance wise, whether the second drive is on a different channel. I have tried switching it around, but to be honest I don't see any real difference, although it may …

Hey ive just got a new 80Gb IDE hitachi HDD. Now installing would be simple enough but, My primary HDD is a SATA HDD. I've read there should be no problem but i cant get my bios to pick up the new HDD. i've got a double IDE with DVD …

Hello new friends A somewhat long story, but I am loosing sleep over this one. I have this very weird problem after purchasing a second, identical sata drive. Mobo= MSI Neo FSR v2 / IDE = NEC DVD rewriter / Sata = 2 Samsungs 2504C, BIOS = latest AwardPhoenix. Everything …

I have a 40 GB Samsung hard disk. Free quently booting I lost my hard disk data. It may be burn. It is dedected by mohter board but not windows xp. By seagate disk manager I dedect it . But it seens 18 Gb. I just Restore my data .doc …

Hi I want to add one Baracuda HD and one Sony DVD RW in my computer which has already one Baracuda HD and Samsung DVD rom. How can I connect with the IDE 1 and IDE 2 and how should I arrange the jumper in all these IDEs Pl help …

I set a partition up for my pc to run linux. This made me lose 130gb form my hard drive. i removed the partition but still no luck. i checked the partition again, i tried to deletd the partiton with windows installed in it but was unable to. anyway of …

cd rewirter recgnizes cds but does not burn cd's please help i need to burn cd's if it means opening up the cd rewriter i will:(

Hi Guys. I'm having a problem with a SATA HDD and would appreciate some advice. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8SQ800 and is SATA capable. I was running a couple of IDE drives with XP installed on the C:. A couple of days ago my C: developed a problem so …

I bought a new SATA Hard Drive, and I want it to be secondary to my first hard drive. After I connected the device to my computer, how do I install it so I could see it in the "My Computer" folder? I'm also having problems setting it up on …

So.. my old motherboard died on me after a couple of years of good service and I had to buy a new one. Old board was a MSI K7N2-Delta2-LSR([url=http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=596&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=]link[/url]) with a nvidia nforce 2 RAID MCP raid controller on it. I had two sata drives running in a bootable raid …

Could someone help me,after $400 and 2 techs later I still have the same problem.In simple terms(which is all I know)monitor always left on like I was told and I turn on the hardrive in the morning and only sometimes will it come on,I have to turn it off at …

Hello Everyone: I am using an Intel D845GNT board with 2x80GB SATA drives. I am trying to replace these with 2x320 GB SATA II drives. I have ghosted the RAID 1 array data to an IDE HD. Here is where my problem begins. I am totally unable to boot into …

Hi, My motherboard is an Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe and my hard drive is 200GB Seagate Barracuda. Here goes, I had the hard drive up and running and all working fine. Then something happend and my best option was just to format the drive and start all over again. When I …

my friends memory stick got corrupted yesterday i think the psp displays a message that tells us to format the stick but we get an error when we do.. we tried to do it in DOS but it says "invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable" can we …

Hi, I have a IBM T41 Thinkpad. When I purchased it, it did not come with the recovery disc. And if I want to get it, it's $45. So I was thinking of formatting it without the recovery disc. But I am a computer newbie, and not sure where to …

hi to each and everyone! last night i went to my friends house to fix his computer. the problem was IE keeps hanging up after browsing 4 different websites. i ask him if he's using a genuine he said no. so i had a newly bought winxp genuine went to …

I am having major probs installing a 2nd SATA drive on my system. ASRock P4VM8 motherboard - supports 2 SATA drives. First (already running XP) drive is a Seagate 160GB SATA w/8MB cache. The new drive is a Western Digi 400G SATA2 7200RPM w/16MB cache. Plugged it in etc. Powdered …

Hey guys, ive got aproblem with my cd and dvd drives. Ive had a look around in a few forums but cant find the same problem so I thought Id ask for a hand. On both my cd and dvd (seperate drives) I can play audio cds, burn cd and …

Here's my problem: My PC eventually starts making optical drive related problems. Looks like ASPI layer issue, but it isn't. I have ASPI layer tools and utilities and they don't help. Nero has it's own ASPI layer, and reinstalling complete Nero (7.10) doesn't help. I am missing something here, and …

I currently have one SATA drive in my system. I would like to add two SATA drives and set them up in raid0. I would also like to keep the other SATA drive in the system, but not in raid, as it already has data on it. Is this congiguration …

i got a used laptop and i remooved vista from it, and the problem i got is that before i removed vista tere was 2gb ram and now it is about 340 mb left, what can i do to recover the missing ram?