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i am planning to upgrade my windows sp2 to sp3 . But i already have fedora installed (dual OS ). will my upgrade from sp2 to sp3 crash my fedora ?

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My Mobo is an Asus P5B Deluxe, Processor is a Core 2 Duo E6600 and RAM is dual channel OCZP800R22GK. This computer has been running for 1 1/2 years without a glitch. But I recently downloaded CPU-Z and it's telling me that my 800 mhz memeory's bus speed is presently …

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When I push the button on my computer to turn it on, nothing comes on, no fans, harddrive, NOTHING. So, the button basically doesn't work. When I have the power cord in and open the PC up, there is a light on the motherboard on, so the cord is fine. …

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I'm in a bit of a tussle at the moment. My PC has been acting odd for a very long time now and I just gathered the time to try and fix it. I searched around and found out how to fix most of my problems but one that's beating …

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Ok, so I recently bought a new Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000, I don't know if anyone here has that mouse or any Microsoft mouses, but for some reason when I click the scroll button/middle button on my mouse it will bring up all the windows on one screen. I don't …

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Computer Info: 6 Year old Dell B130 Pentium M 1.70 GHZ 1024 MB RAM The battery has been dead for 1-2 years. I have been running plugged in to outlet. Issue: 1. BSOD: Unmountable_Boot_Volume So I did a little research. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread41835.html[/url] [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302[/url] Easiest fix...Boot from Windows XP CD and Repair... …

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I'm running a Gateway desktop and recently my computer began acting strangely. Any time I try to run a program or executable, it asks me to select with program to open that type of file with (as if it doesn't associate a program with the extension .exe). Also, only an …

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Whenever I run Latale Online(Online game using Xtrap) I click start everything seems to run fine then nothing , seems like program just closes itself , I need help fixing this problem I went on the game forums but they dont know how to fix it so I figured out …

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Hello. I have an HP Pavilion 4500 laptop and it won't turn on. I've tried everything to get it to turn back on. There are no flashes or beeps or anything when I hit the power button. Also, before all this came up, my charger wasn't charging correctly. It would …

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I was greeted by the notice "One of the files containing the system's registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful" when I started my PC this morning. What makes Windows make a registry recovery? I want to know because …

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I'm a new user in desperate need of help! I have a Dell Deminsion 2350 with windows XP. I recently upgraded to DSL 6.0 along with adding my ISP's security suite. I have no trouble deleting spyware, adware etc... yet my 6.0 runs at dial up speed! I do have …

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Mga bos alam marami kayong alam sa computer at ako wala naglakas loob lang akong sumali dahil alam kong marmi akong matutunan sa inyo. paano ba mag install ng software sa computer?

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Have tried different approaches with no favorable results. It has disabled Avast! and whenever I delete the files with MBAM and reboot, it forces the computer to reboot again hence reinstalling itself all over again. HijackThis won't start up at all. Any help greatly appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [B]MBAM:[/B] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware …

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I have symantec and it told me I have a backdoor but it won't delete it for me. My computer is playing music at random times. It starts and stops. It freezes sometimes. I need HELP!!! This is my system log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …

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Hi all, My PC, which was purchased brand new last year, has started to take a very long time to load up programs and tends to freeze when I click on a website link or program file. The PC has 3GB of Ram and has an Intel Core 2 Quad …

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Hey Everyone! computer is a hp dv2000 wireless router is a linksysG 4 port internet provider is cox My problem is that my laptop will not connect to my wireless router. But when I connect my laptop directly to the router via a Ethernet cable I get full internet. When …

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[url]http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=k8vga-m[/url] The details to the motherboard are listed in the link above. ok the issue is that the 500GB SATA hard drive is not listed in the bios. I have verified that the drive is in fact a good drive by installing it into a different computer. now according to …

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Hello Helpful Tech My friend gave me his computer to clean out a virus. I used Malwarebytes to clear it up, another Vundo virus, now unable to access internet. Hijack this shows missing lsp.dll I'm about to run lspfix and was wondering if there is anything else I should fix …

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Hi! All of a sudden, I can't seem to boot into my Windows XP Home Edition. I see the logo and processing line but then it stops and starts to reboot again. I cannot boot into Safe mode and the last good configuration doesn't work. I did stop the automatic …

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I hate this FREAKING "Your current security settings put your compute at risk" Message!!! I have tried changing permissions on the following files: wscapi.dll wscsvc.dll wscui.dll Renamed them all to .bak files Went into registry and deleted the wscsvc registry key under HKLM/system/current control set/ services Rebooted the machine and …

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I have a toshiba Tecra S1 laptop running windows XP. I am unable to boot it up. I get 2 short beeps, 1 long beep, a pause and 3 short beeps. Then the beeps start all over. This does not happen each time I try to boot, sometimes it just …

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The laptop hard drive crashed. Installed new hard drive and reinstalled the XP Home OS. On startup I press F2 which opens the BIOS Setup screen. The screen is inactive, I can't change anything. It shows the correct time, processor, cpu speed, system memory, etc., but NOT primary hard drive. …

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Hi guys, Can anybody provide me some tips of how to recover my Assignment which is a corrupt microsoft document? Thanking in advance anybody who is willing to help me. Cheers........

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Dear Peers, My PC does not start by pressing the power switch on mu CPU. It was working fine..and suddenly shut down and never start again ever since. On pressing the power button, no indication is shown, nor any LED glows..its just dead. I noticed the tiny yellow LED on …

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who can give me the serial number of my windows xp it was lost. i can only remember D3R3T part of that serial number. help. thanks

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I've been running a linux box with a quad core for nearly a year now. I've managed to make work most of everything I set my mind to except for one very important thing: the four cores. As I gather, I would need to compile my kernel with "the right …

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Just a general question. I only just began using Vista... seeking YOUR opinions here... lately I've been using mostly: FireFox, uTorrent, DownLoad Accelerator, and HTML tidy for any "work" I do (nothing heavy). On a wireless (unsecured) network (shared across a whole house of apartments). It's not my router, but …

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I am trying to merge drive f with my acer c drive which as shown in the picture below is the middle drive. However weird thing is it does not show the name of my primary drive and also when i try and right click it to go ahead and …

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I have acquired a used canon 1d mk ii slr camera which should connect to pc via ieee 1394 firewire cable.This is supposed to open Canon software for downloading pictures and also backloading personal settings into camera. The pc is almost new Gigabyte mbo with Intel E8400 core two duo, …

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Alright in advance I'd like to apologize if I posted this in the wrong place, because I can not make up my mind about the right place... Maybe you'll understand once you read about the problem So I've got a thomson speedtouch 585v7 My internet works like a heaven and …

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Dear Pals, I am new to the forum and the reason iam here is because ive the same problem in one of my home PC. It was working fine and has Win XP Sp2. Now for past 2 days iam nto able to open yahoo, google and ESET.com. Ive ESET …

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my computer specs are as it is SOny dvd/cd drive 1 TB Seagate 2 9800 PNY GT cards nvidia 680i sli lt mobo q6600 2.4ghz stock settings truepower quatro 1000 w power supply 1x2gig stick Xm2 Corsair ram (heatsink edition) my monitor is a samsung 932b 3 days ago while …

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I am with a user whose PC has lost all file associations, tho' it seems to be able to start and run certain things (IExplorer for instance). I have various .reg patches to apply (from [url]www.dougknox.com[/url]) but since the PC doesn't even know how to open Regedit I am stuck. …

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Hi. I'm considering myself VERY lucky because my Sony Vaio was starting to act up (Display driver would quite functioning now and again, and PC would not always boot first time), so we got everything saved to an external disk drive, bought a new PC and I now have that …

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I have had an Excite email account for several years with no problems. (I use it as my main account and download everything into it as I have had so many problems with downloading email to my computer. So this is an account that I really need access to). Today …

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Hello, today I found a problem that seems a little odd to me. The situation is the following; on a Windows 2008 network, several clients are part of the domain, all without errors or any problems of note; except a laptop. This laptop is also part of the domain, it …

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I have a problem on a PC running Win XP Home Edition. Internet Expolrer 7.0 runs fine for the main user but VERY SLOW for the second one to the point of SOMETIMES timing out. They are both administrator accounts. The problem started soon after upgrade from IE-6. I reverted …

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Hey there, So I have been experiencing some issues with mouse lag in games. Simply put the mouse, as it moves from left to right, appears to lag my game and at some point I can even freeze the frame of my game with the mouse movement. However, when I …

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Hello, long time no see, i'm getting better at fixing problems but can't fix this one. I've looked on the net & it seems to be a popular problem but i can't find a solution. I cannot alter the homepage in internet options, it always resorts back to [B][url]http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&pver=6&ar=msnhome[/url][/B] I …

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Hi, is it possible for a monitor to be suddenly unable to display 1280X800 res in games? it's a hp 530 laptop with intel 945 chipset....until one week ago I had no such problem...thank You

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when I restart my laptop(windows xp) I get a screen: "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS" it happened continuously 4 times when i turned on the computer. Can anyone help me with this.

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Hi there, I have been an avid user of Windows XP since day 1. I have had no issues with it, surprise surprise, so continue to plug along. However, I have always been interested in testing out Linux as I hear so many positive things about it. I am currently …

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cant boot in to my compact laptop even cant detect xp cd but others cds can detect them i want to back my information before worst happens please hellp

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the monitor doesn't display anything, but the CPU and the monitor power on very well. so please help me, i tried to remove ram for sometime and put it back thats when it worked and after switching it off and on again it does the same problem,then i removed motherboard …

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when i try to install an educational software programme which is available in cd, and which requires registration through net, the programme/computer is not connecting to the net. Due to this the installation gets aborted. I use win XP SP1. Kindly help

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I recently got a virus or something nasty in my computer. My computer is running very slow and when i open windows it directs me to different pages. Also, I am unable to start my computer at times, it just shows a black screen. Please help!! Here is my log. …

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Hey guys, 70% of the time, clicks on google results sends me to ad sites totally unrelated to the search result. Also, my AntiVir Personal's "AntiVir Guard", the active antivirus monitoring system cannot be turned on. Ive done virus scans (AntiVir) and adware scans (Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware) to no avail. Here's …

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im trying 2 setup xp home edition for my mother who is a famous "Garden knome"... i tryed booting from the cd and and installing a new copy...but get a "no hardrive found" and it stops there. i even chnged the boot order to cd 1st, then harddrive 2nd. HP …

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