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| | I do enjoy the challenge of pc repairs, however I am not a tech, looking for online resources (wiring diagrams, part specs etc) general assistance.  |
| | I recently moved to Hawaii and packed up my computer in a box protected as well as it could be and then after unpacking it, the face to the case was smashed up pretty bad. I plugged it in and the it acts like it's powering up and then shuts … |
| | Last year I purchased the parts for a new computer and had my friend stick it all together. In the past few months the computer has showed slowing, the loading of Windows takes more time and so on. Today I rebooted my computer and was greeted with a BSOD. It … |
| | I have a compaq presario 2100 laptop in front of me. It starts up and everything sounds on and then it just stops at the start up screen. It says f2 to enter set up and f12 to boot from LAN. I have tried to press both of these buttons … |
| | Hi, I have some propblems with the computer at the moment. An error message 'Buffer Overrun Microsoft C++ occured in WINDOWS/explorer.exe. Explorere crashes when you click ok, the pop-up is not triggered by anything in particular. I have tried: Re-installing windows McAfee Virus Scan Spybot 1.5 Ad-Aware And still no …  |
 | i'm tired of everyone asking should they go to quad core. Here is my answer NO! Quad core is a waist of money right now, we don't have any need for it. quad core was developed for server use. it was designed to be able to run a massive ammount … |
| | I'm trying to install some .jar & .rar applications on my laptop (XP Pro, SP2) and/or Dell Axim hand held and applications fail to launch. Any suggestions for a technical illiterate? |
| | I have reformated my hardrive and installed Windows XP on it. Unfortunatly I still have NO sound on my computer! My onboard audio device ([I]C-Media AC97 Audio Device[/I]) has a yellow exclamation mark next to it in Device Manager. When I look at it's 'Properties' the device status is listed … |
| | Hey all. For a while now I've been having trouble with my Dell Inspiron 600m and networking. Before I formatted it yesterday, I was running Ubuntu off an external drive because Window's networking didn't work, wireless or wired. So I finally found my XP Pro disk and reformatted the thing, … |
| | I've done all the usual stuff like checking BIOS with an older pci card and tried different voltage, frequency on PCI-E, reset BIOS by taking the battery out, reset with jumper for 10 seconds and vice versa. I am not able to get this card working with the mobo. What …  |
| | Ok I don't know a whole lot about networking etc... but I was messing with it trying to set up a static IP for a torrenting app and it messed up my default router IP, it said there was an error with some setting I changed and set my default … |
| | Trojan horse BackDoor.Generic8.ZST Dear fellows I should be grateful if anyone has a cure to this. I have an external hard disk which shows an infection with (Trojan horse BackDoor.Generic8.ZST) when scanned with AVG 7.6.516.After healing is carried out and the scan made again, the trojan horse threat shows again. … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario 2140US got it in 04 stopped working by 06. I have had it just laying around now i have a use for it, so i need a lil trouble shooting help!!! Problem is the Lap Top will not boot up. It goes to the Compaq …  |
| | Hello all, First post, thanks in advance for your thoughts and help. I have a Panasonic CF-TF Toughbook with XP SP2. The problem started about a week ago when I used a flash drive to transfer info at a printing store. My AVG software caught the Trojan on my flash … |
| | Hi everyone, I would like to request assistance if ANYONE can help me. Recently, my grandpa passed away. I had taken a picture of him and my father before his death and had kept putting it off to save it to an external drive to show my father. About 3 …  |
 | Hello Again, I managed to fix my hard drive problem, but now i'm having issues with this executable file. At random times it decides that it is going to take up 99 - 100 % of my CPU. I had this issue before. So I reformatted my computer and put … |
| | how can i use telnet command for my pcs and router. i am using winxpsp2 |
 | Hey guys and gals ... looks like i'm 'it' again. I was just getting ready to teach kids a nature program when my boss tags me and says your "it". They bought a new computer for one of the other teachers a month ago and were having problems. It connects … |
| | Hello, and thanks in advance for any help. My PC got infected with what appeared to be two viruses simultaneously. Norton identified the first as some Vundo. I ran VundoFix, and it seems to have taken care of that one. Then Norton discovered what it calls Trojan.MetaJuan. This virus keeps … |
| | i implement on intranet application using snmp agent. but i don't know how many os support snmp agent. if any body know then tell me. |
| | I am looking at upgrading the RAM in a Dell Dimension 8200. The product specs on this rig state that it comes with PC800 RDRAM (256MB) as standard. Ideally I would like to beef it up considerably but a quick web search shows that this kind of RAM is not … |
| | when trying to upgrade from windows 98 se to xp it tells me there isnt enough room on hard drive. i have an 80 gig drive half full, i tried defragmenting and got the same problem. i dont understand whats wrong, theres almost 40 gigs left on the drive. im … |
| | On this 6/8 months old Tevion Laptop athlon 2g, windows history clears itself automatically about once weekly. I cannot find any way to extend the time before it clears itself, which can be a nuisance. Could anybody help ? Thanks Angoose |
| | OK - I keep getting the dreaded explorer buffer overrun message and Internet explorer periodically opens up new windows for me to all kinds of interesting sites, so it's pretty obvious I've managed to get my PC infected. I've updated definitions and run Spybot, Windows Defender and Norton, attempted to … |
| | I had 256MB RAM DDR PC2700 in my PC and I installed a 1GB stick. I had run a memory needs check from Crucial.com and it told me what I needed and I also checked the actual label stuck on the RAM in the PC. The connections on the RAM … |
| | Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 2:21:07 PM, on 2/3/2008 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINNT\System32\smss.exe C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\system32\regsvc.exe C:\WINNT\System32\SCardSvr.exe C:\WINNT\system32\MSTask.exe C:\WINNT\system32\tlntsvr.exe C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\WinMgmt.exe C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\system32\faxsvc.exe C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Video Add-on\icthis.exe C:\Program …  |
| | both my dvd drives are not working...device manager says devices working properly but nothing happens..dvd's or cd's dont play.. below is the log.. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:31:45 AM, on 1/31/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe …  |
| | Greetings all. I'm currently having issues with a Mac Pre-Intel G5 Tower. Been working on it most of the day, but it seems to have lost the OS on the hard drive overnight when I shut it down. Well, if I could just use the super drive to boot from, … |
| | Hi, I am currently facing difficulties in sharing files/folder over the network in WINDOWS 2003 domain environment. PROLEM is easy to understand. I want to enable File/Folder sharing but restriction applies as one department can't access other department's shared folder. First of all i can't understand two tabs one is … |
| | Hi, My wife's laptop started playing up and wouldn't load past the XP logo, it just keeps rebooting. I've tried all the usuals, last config etc. Now it won't even let me boot in safe mode. We got the laptop econd hand with no cd's so cannot perform a repair/recovery. … |
| | Hi, this is my first post on this board! I have a Compaq Presario M2305NR laptop. I bought it to write papers and research for school. I have had it for about 2 years. The computer works fine unless I turn it off. If I leave it on and just … |
| | Hi, I have got a problem on preloaded Windows vista home edition on my laptop. Actually whenever i try to burn dvd it complets the burn process sucessfully but unable to play that dvd on computer neither on dvd players. When i noitced the space of DVD actually windows vista … |
| | I am supposed to upgrade my boss's computer from the worthless Vista Home Premium to Vista Business. He purchased the upgrade disk. Is it necessary to do a clean install? I ask because of some time constraints. (Bosses think everything can be completed over a lunch hour, and he will … |
| | My friend's Alienware laptop mysteriously leaked a bunch of water out a couple mornings ago, to our knowledge nothing was spilled on it and no liquid was underneath it when it was set down. i've found threads on other forums about this happening with the macs, something about the batteries … |
| | I just bought a Gigabyte GA-73VM-S2 motherboard along with a Pentium E2200 processor. I checked the website and the E2200 is not on the CPU support list. The last CPU supported in this line of CPU's is the E2180. Is there any chance I can get the E2200 to work? |
| | Hi, Hope someone can help me, I have a HP zd8000 laptop which has started to run very slow when connected to the internet. I have AVG 7.5 full edition on laptop which often finds cookies etc and removes them but nothing ever serious. I also have AdAware loaded on, … |
| | I have an older dell inspiron 1130. need to replace the motherboard ram and hdd. what are your suggestion? I know the MB will probably have to come from dell. |
 | I have a question that may be dumb to some, but i will ask anyway, since i don't understand it fully. Can i install an upgrade copy of windows xp on a blank, self built machine, if i borrow a windows 98 disk from my friend as a "verification disk". … |
| | I'm using Ubuntu Linux 7.10. A free upgrade from my old operating system, Windows Vista Home Premium. However, I can no longer use my modeling guitar processor, the Digitech RP250. Do drivers exist for Linux? I've Googled! EDIT: Never mind. I just had to update my ALSA drivers and it … |
| | I need a geek! I shut down one night and the next morning when I powered up, I got "Drive read error" cntl+alt+dlt to restart. It does nothing, justs goes back to that every time I restart. Can't boot into safe mode but I can get into the Bios. Booted … |
| | I'm not quite sure how it happened. But I was just sitting at my computer reading stuff when a message came up saying that new hardware has been inserted and it was prompting me to finish the setup and installation. I was just sitting there, not doing much, definately not … |
| | Hello and thanks to everyone who has kindly responded to my questions and even more thank you to those responsible for creating and maintaining this website. My daughter has a Gateway Laptop about 2 years old running Windows XP for home. Recently the screen dimmed to the point that only … |
| | Hi all! Having a bit of trouble with a Compaq Presario 700 Laptop. It's been working fine the whole time I've had it until tonight - I installed Flight Simulator 2004, launched it, found it ran badly, updated the graphics drivers, found flight sim played a lot better, played it … |
| | Well i have a Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset family graphics card. All works and fine and ive downloaded the latest drivers but, When i tried to play joint task force the game said i didnt have pixel shader and vertex shader. But intels website says that my graphics card … |
| | can some one tell me if there is anything in this report which should be fixed, or if there's any big problems. sorry but im new to highjackthis. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 4:17:11 PM, on 2/2/2008 Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 … |
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| | Ok, I dunno how it started, but it just did as most things do. When i boot up the pc, explorer.exe is there, but after a few seconds, it dissapears, then comes back, then goes. It does this continually. I had to end the explorer.exe process for it to stop. … |
| | I have a Sandisk MP3 player model: m250 and whenever I try to sync my music by plugging it into the USB drive of my computer, my computer (or any other computer) won't identify my MP3 player as one, it will only identify it as some sort of disk drive, … |
| | I read a few other threads about desktops being unable to be altered, and only being able to change the flat color of your background. This encouraged me create an account to seek my own help. I'm not a novice at comprehending the whole getting-a-virus-from-the-internet aspect of having a computer, … |
 | Hi all. I know this is an odd question, but I'm hoping someone else out there knows how to do this. I've just installed Kubuntu 7.10 (which I like), but Debian seems to have messed around with the startup a bit... I've replaced my /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz file with one that changes … |
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