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 | Well, what happens is that I turn it on and it sounds like it is booting, I hear the HD start up and make on sound and then it just sits there; turned on and nothing on the screen. Any ideas? :?:  |
| | well i am at the point where i will upgrade agian. so which distro should i try this time. currently useing suse 8.2 important features support for the 64 bit CPU's (athlone64) easy to use price or avalible ISO support stablility though easy to use is starting to fade with … |
 | ok heres the problem: I am running two hard drives each w/ XP Professional on them. I get my new 120 gig hard drive and get XP running on it etc etc. Its now time to format the old hard drive and use it for file storage. So i go … |
| | VMWare Red Hat 9 Note: I'm new to Linux. I just want to get it running initially so I can learn from it. First: I had to statically assign the DNS addresses. How do I get Red Hat 9 to detect the DNS settings for the system? Second: I decompressed … |
| | I bought a game for my kids that will run on my system (according to the Minimum System Requirements: Supported OS: Windows |
| | This is pissing me off. Random restarts. I know the topic has bee discusses many a time before. But i've never heard anyone speak of this particular error. I hate it, i'm angry, lol, and I am about ready to make the "Switch" if you know what i'm talking about. … |
| | :idea: I installed WinXP first then I installed RED HAT 9 and logical partition exists. How come it will not dual boot. I can't choose the OS on the boot loader. It only shows XP. It is weird. However, my computer is connected to my DOMAIN active directory in the … |
 | Hi All looking for a few words of wisdom. just replanning my networkand thinking of what kit to get. i'm looking to get 1x mass store/fileserver (posabily for streamimng media) 1x webserver 1x terminal server just wondered if any of you have any advice on the spec's for these types … |
| | Hi, folks. I'm obviously new here, but I've read through some posts, and you all look like you know what you're doing. :D I was hoping that someone could give me a little advice. I just bought a new laptop on Ebay (you can see it at: [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3435098170&category=42198&rd=1[/url] ) I … |
| | Hi all! I need help applying to grad school. All of the forms are online as .pdf documents. I'm supposed to somehow fill them out on my computer and then print them and mail them. One school suggests using cutting and pasting with a word processor. I have tried that …  |
| | While downloading some windows updates, my computer crashed with the message on a blue SCREEN! about: kernel32.dll (or something lkek that) error needs to close to save disks whole bunch of stuff i didnt write down physical memory being flushed. ok, then on reboot it couldnt find ANY harddrives and … |
| | can scratches be removed from the plastic face of a laptop LCD??? |
| | I had a system built not too long ago, and have not tried burning any CDs till earlier ago. I don't know what exactly is wrong, but when I try burning, the CD burner would stall the program and all I hear is the disc or something spinning, but nothing's … |
| | Hi Hope that some one can help. My I.S.P. is NTL but when it was down last week I installed Freeserve and then uninstalled it. but can not get rid of it in I.E. it has set it's self as the defult home page and refuse to let me change … |
| | Cannot get IE to start using desktop shortcut or by clicking on the iexplore.exe in the c: I was able to get a IE window to open up by opening up a program in my PC and clicking on their update link. Thats the only way I can get an … |
| | My daughter is having an unusual problem with her computer. After running anywhere from 5 minutes to 1 hour, the computer shuts off completely. There is no warning or blue screen of death. The computer shuts off as if it were unplugged. A friend thinks it may be an overheating … |
| | The interface of my monitor keeps becoming smaller, then getting bigger, but almost never fills the whole monitor anymore. There are black bands down both sides of the screen. They are almost always there now and then the interface goes in even further, then back out again. Does this mean … |
| | Please can somebody help me get rid of the following problem: Every time I hit the seach button on ie6 it takes me to a music box site and places 40best.com: BookMark NOW on the bar below and keeps a pop up coming up and keeps reverting me back to … |
| | I'm running ie on an home edition xp computer, and for the past few weeks whenever i've tried running ie, a message pops-up saying Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close, we're sorry, blah blah blah- i haven't done anything drastically diff. on my puter, but i … |
| | Here's the problem: I am fixing this computer because it will not turn on. Well, I replace the battery in the MB, but now all it does is just turns on; no boot, no display no nothing. Any suggestions? |
 | Ok ,I am started to get annoyed at this problem but anyways here I go. When I go to My Computer and click on my D: Drive which is a hard drive it says please go to the control panel to instal or remove programs. When I right-click on the … |
| | Whenever I have multiple IE windows open, a couple of them refuse to close, even after I've closed IE... I have to kill them with Task Manager, which is annoying. I suspect it's something simple, but I've gone through all the IE menu options and can't figure out what I'm … |
| | I just changed my power supply and when I boot it says till i use 40 conductors wire and not 80 cond. w. it will be switching from d2 to ultra33 mode what does it mean and what should I do |
| | [size=3]Hi All, I am having trouble with my xp os. Everytime I start my computer it doesn't pick up my CD-rom. I have a older IBM computer PIII with a 500 mhz and tons of Ram, Everything else is working great, I just have to reinstall my drivers for cd-rom … |
| | Hey I'm currently building a computer right now and I put everything together execpt the video card. When I turn my computer on from the power supply the floppy drive light just turns on and the fan on the power supply runs. Is this how it is suppose to react … |
| | Well, I don't normally give out my email addy on bulletin boards, but I'm desperate. I can't access other threads to find out the solution to this problem because IE won't go to those links! ARGH!! Could someone please email me some help? My email address is [email]loveliftin@yahoo.com[/email]. I would … |
| | I have Windows XP Home and Linux Mandrake 9.1 Dual Booted on one Hard drive. My Windows XP Home partition is NTFS based, but Linux refuses to remember this. When I boot Linux it tells me the partition is the wrong FS type, yet I'm sure it's set to NTFS. … |
| | I have a old HP paviliion 63XX. Its about 5 years old, 500mhz. It has no video card so I guess its on the mother board. Anyway for no reason the computer starts out fine with the windows logo looking great then when It asks to log on it switches … |
| | i posted a message a couple of days ago about hardware malfunction and i didnt get any replies so ill put it in simpler form when i put in any new hardware and start up the computer a blue screen comes up while loading windows saying hardware malfunction system has … |
 | Hello.I'm having a problem running a game from winxp pro.My graphics card is a 32mb riva tnt 2 and hard disk is 32 gigabyte.The game is Archangel and the setup finishes very well.When I click on the desktop menu or from program files menu , first the screen goes black … |
| | I have a 17" VGA Monitor, bout 3-4 years old. It was connected to my PC which is also about 3 years old, and it was working fine. But when I removed it, and put it on my old Packard Bell the Screen became really wavey. So i thought it … |
| | I have a 17" flat panel monitor and there semes to be something wrong with it. When I turn it on it looks just fine but after about a sec the light that lights up the screen will turn off. If I shine a light on the monitor I can … |
| | I have 256MB on a 2.20GHz Intel Celeron. The 256MB is (PC2100) I was planing on installing a 512MB stick,but I need to know can I install (PC3200) memory when the other 256MB is (PC2100)? and what is overcycling and will it happen to me in doing this? |
| | Ok, i have a very fustrating problem. My buddies on messenger cannot recieve my IM's although i recieve theirs ok. This started happening about 4 weeks ago I've reinstalled messenger 6 it made no difference. I'm using aol dial up so I contacted aol about the problem and they say … |
 | My old (not really that old) Compaq died on me. I bought a new Dell. I wanted to keep the info on the Compaq so I installed its hard drive in my Dell as a secondary. I got all my pic's which is what I really wanted. But I cannot …  |
| | Hi, This is the sceneario......... I took my HDD out and put it in my mate computer, took out the jumper to make it a slave drive, and i loaded files in it..... i didn't change boot file or ne thing. I put the jumper back in to make it … |
| | Im trying to transfer some data from my old Western Digital 30G hard drive to my new Maxtor 80G SATA drive. When i hook up the old drive in my new comp, as a Primary Slave, i cannot get i to boot from my Maxtor, and it actually dosent even … |
| | ok... here's the deal.. i have a network of about 8 computers. i want to set up server with these priorities. 1) file server (the users will be all be using a version of windows) a) need to create user names and file restrictions 2) printer server a) i have … |
| | Dani... just so I can print out the topic, and post it on my wall... just post what you baught at the Mac store on Monday..  |
| | i have verizon dsl and when i go to task manager and check network and stuff it always goes up and down when i play games online it does the same thing maybe i have a virus but i have mcfee what would it mean if it kept going up … |
| | I have a 17" VGA Monitor, bout 3-4 years old. It was connected to my PC which is also about years old, and it was working fine. But when I removed it and put it on my old Packard Bell the Screen became really wavey. So i thought it might … |
 | Ok Heres my question to you all...see if you can figure this one out. Aiight, I've had this problem multiple times with all of my floppy drives, and believe me, I'm no n00b to computers, But either I never gave it the time to figure it out, or I'm just … |
| | I am running a long run (approx. 250-275' to a switch and then another 250-275' to another switch) Each end switch will be connected to a computer. I would like to know which type of cables I should use. The wire will be sealed inside PVC pipe and buried. The …  |
| | i got a new computer an my cousin tought me a lot about them mostly the basics but im learning more an it is very very slow an it skips alot when u play music like when u go on the web it starts to skip . neway i would … |
| | i got a gforce fx 5600 with 256mb video card and my temps are at 56c on the gpu core and i was wondering if that was a bad temp or a good temp if not do you know of any heatsinks and fan for the fx card? |
| | Hey guys, first post here... I recently configured my PC (XP-PRO SP1) to have more than one user, for my roommate. I want him as a Power User or regular User. I'm doing it so he can't access my documents and whatnot. I set everything up but when I log … |
| | I have a user with a PC running Windows XP home, on a Novell netware network and a bordermanager proxy server. Since the computer is shared by many users, they like to utilise the personalised background part of Windows XP and log in locally as different users. The first user … |
| | Hello all...pretty nre to this game but I'm in need of assistance. I decided (maybe unwisely) to build my own PC. I have the following - Asrock m/board/XP 2000 processor/256 DDR 400/Geforce graphics/cdrom/40 gb harddrive. Just a bare system for me to build on really.... Anyway, I have both 98 … |
| | I have 3 win2000 boxes and my main one has the broadband connection. In it I have two network cards in which the main card is set up for IP sharing. It passes the goods over to the second card and out to the second box. They now both have … |
| | I was given a laptop from a friend and it is in great shape. But when it powers on, after it does it's memory tests, it says "External Cache: Not Found" and it just sits there. I've looked around in CMOS and there isnt anything about disabling the external cache. … |
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