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hey guys really need some help here...have a HP Compaq Presario v3000 Win/XP Home...problem with the dvdrom..doesnt show up on "my computer"...insert a disk and it sounds ready spining,liights and all...but then ....nothing....please help....Thanks in advance.....

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After a reformat of a Dell Dimension 2400, the resolution of the machine will not go above 480X640. I can not get any sound to play. In device manager, I get the big Yellow Question Mark of Death for all of the "Other Devices," including my ethernet controller, multimedia controller, …

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I am very confused. Built my PC and everything. Drivers are up to date and so is Windows. Interesting thing is, that sometimes when I boot up the PC, it will jump straight into the BIOS and not go from the BIOS to the OS... I have no idea why …

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Okay computer will turn on, no post, but HD and lights come on without power to the CPU plug in. When I put the plug back in for the CPU power (4or6prong dont remember) on the MB it wont start at all. Hope that makes sense. I am thinking bad …

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I've recently installed a new CPU (Core2Quad Intel) and my computer no longer stays on for more than a minute. All bios are updated and the computer runs fine on my old CPU (pentium d duo). The new CPU is cool to the touch after a shutdown, so heat is …

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I have a simple question. I set up my printer to my laptop wirelessly do I disconnect the usb cable now? When I turn my printer on it will automatically be connected to my computer right?

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ok here is what I have done so far. I removed the battery removed power cable..no power going to the laptop now. pushed and held power button for minimum of 30 seconds or more. added battery only then tried to power up, only middle green light flashed, then nothing. I …

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okay guys, well i have read every above post from previous threads relating to this topic as my daughters Compaq laptop was working 3 nights ago and when she went to reboot it the following morning it gave the black screen.. she could just barely see some writing on screen …

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hi ! I have a problem about my dell computer, it startup correctly and you can use about 3-4 hours then it freeze and emit sound like engine is power on, then it shut down. When I try to power on again it emit a long beep then then display …

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I have a new Acer Aspire 1670 laptop which has worked fine for the past few weeks. However, I turned it on this morning (it worked fine last night) to find that my touchpad no longer works. I don't feel this is a hardware issue in the sense that the …

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I have a Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 HP desktop PC when I power the computer on I got Vga input: no input signal and the monitor went back to sleep. If you do you think that is a problem with the video card it is attached to …

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The other night I was on my laptop (Gateway NV57H20u) playing a game and it was about to die so I plugged in the charger and it shut off shortly after. The laptop was working completely fine before hand and now it won't even turn on. There are also no …

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So my computer has been saying werfault.exe application error anytime i start a program. So i started a clean install and tried to reinstall my OS but it came up with another error and now i have a computer with no OS or anything. Is my HDD or SSD broken? …

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`Hi guys…. my Pc Is not working…. no signal for monitor, no power for mouse & keyboard, Fans are working; power is coming for DVD R/W What might be the problem… any bady can help me…. Pls guys get me out of this….  

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I bought an OCZ Vector SSD about 6-8 months ago for a new build and currently have Win 7 installed on it. I haven't had any problems yet (touch wood) and it still runs lovely and quick. I installed and ran Astra32 today and it reports my SSD drive health …

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Had a spare bay in my laptop, and put a SATA 160 gig HD in purely for backup. Became apparent that I needed more space, so bought a Seagate 500 gig internal HD as a replacement. First thing I noticed is that the original 160 drive had SATA power, and …

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I am faing bad singals in my Samsung galaxy note 2 device from a month. Firstly, I was expecting that it was becuase of cell phone carrier but the problem still remian same with anonther cell phone carrier. Can anybody tll me what to do about this?

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tengo una sony vaio modelo SVE14111ELW que acabo de formatear tengo todos los drivers me sirve la tecla fn;puedo subir y bajar volumen pero no me sale el indicador y no puedo aumentar ni disminuir el brillo.investige y decian que instalara el drivers notebook control y utilities pero no lo …

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I got my iPod Shuffle a couple of days ago. It's 2 gigs. I look at all the youtube videos about how to sync music to my iPod and none of them work. I am using the current version (11.1.3) of itunes. I don't know what is going on! Please …

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Hi folks, My onboard VGA display port is not working. When I start machine display toggles 'ON'/'OFF' in series and after 10 seconds monitor goes blank. My doubt is that the VGA port has some issues. I've checked monitor by connecting it to laptop. Its working fine. So my question …

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Hi.. I have an Hp PAvilion DM4. The laptop screen has been going faint/black wen started. IT looks like as if there is some wire which is loose, as when I insert a thick cardboard in between the gap of laptop and the screen, the screen is absolutely fine. As …

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forgot my administration password to my dell latitude d600. can. you help

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I was copying and deleting some files on my mp3/mp4 player and all my files (songs and videos) have all disappeared, but i know they still exist on my mp3 player because my memory usage hasn't changed. Does anyone know how to fix this? Would defragmenting the player on my …

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hi have a nice time, how to find out the difference between 6 cell and 9 cell laptop batteries physically thanks for your time

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For the past 5 hours my self built desktop has crashed at startup, just after reaching the Windows XP loading screen (it never makes it to login). It has a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Processor, 1024Mbs of memory, and all its fans are working. I suspect it's some kind of power …

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Hi to all. Im gonna upgrade my cpu tom, but im torn between two video cards. The Sapphire r9 270x Toxic 2gb and the Sapphire r9 270x 4gb. Im not much of a techie guy so the difference comparison is confusing for me. I mainly use my computer for photo …

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Please Help! my computer turns off after few seconds of or a couple of minute of turn on. My computer has external graphic card, and 512 gb hardisk. Acutally it wasnot that often used for last couple of months (1-2), is it also the cause. After it has this problen, …

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hello all; Been awhile since i've been here, anyway, I have a computer with the following hardware. Gigabyte GA-ep35-ds3l mobo Intel p4 chip 8800 GT vid card 4 sticks matched 2 gig corsair ram aantec truepower 2.0 power supply 2 antec case fans backstory ... I didn't build the rig, …

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Hello. I had my Sony VGN-690 reballed to fix the graphics card solder connection ilness. When I got it back, I put in the power cord but never did see the charging amber light blink on the front. I thought it should have shown charge but the battery had been …

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I bought a new 3TB Seagate Desktop internal hard drive and wanted to add it to my hard drive that's already installed but my computer won't recognize it. Please help!

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I am confused about Android user rights. A lot of times you have to root your phone to get access to do things, but some programs run on a non-rooted phone in a way that would seem they have root access. Examples would be AppLockers, Antivirus programs, and Safe Browsing …

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Hi I am just wondering can I have two monitors connected to my pc via vga and hdmi. They are the only inputs I have and am just curious? Or do I need to get another pci express card with two vga inputs??

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A [Channel 4 News investigation](http://www.channel4.com/news/phone-mobile-data-24-hours-apps-security-secret) in the UK has revealed that in a 24 hour period just one smartphone made 350,000 requests to 315 different servers and made 30,000 requests to 76 servers when otherwise sitting totally idle for 45 minutes. Oh, and then there was the location data being …

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Hello, I thought I would pass this info along in case anybody comes across a similar problem. About a month ago when I turned on my LCD Monitor it was all fuzzy and the images were all distorted. A week or so later it started shaking and I couldn't even …

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Hi i have a 512MB Memory Ram DDR2 (i know it's too low) i put it on a desktop computer and when i check it only have 256MB Ram is that possible? i mean decreasing 512MB and make it 256MB Only?

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Hi everyone, I'm new on the forums, and this is my first post, so please bear with me ^^ I just purchased a Genius Eye 312 webcam. The webcam drivers installed fine, then I restarted the machine and plugged in the webcam. After I did, I was prompted to install …

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Hi guys, this is the always recurring problem. I have a small HP laptop, in which suddenly, the USB ports have started to malfunction. I have updated all the USB drivers but the problem persist. Have any of you any clue on how to fix this? Regards.

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Hi My laptop froze the other night, and wouldn't respond to anything i did, and so i had to manually take out its battery to turn it off. I think it froze again once i restarted it so i took out the battery a second time. Now, i cant get …

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I just got a new computer, my friend and I put it together. When ever i turn it on, I get a message PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent I have no idea why it's doing this. Please someone, help me figure this out

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If my iPhone 5s fingerprint data is walled off from the rest of A7 chip and the rest of iOS 7 in a 'Secure Enclave' and is never accessed by iOS or other apps, as Apple claims, then how come it all vanished when my iPhone crashed and I had …

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My On/Off button just blinks & computer won't turn on.. I tried reseating the hard drive & the ram..

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Please help me I think I am going crazy. I am building a comuter, I have everything setup and when I try to boot windows from a CD, I keep getting the same error PXE-E61: Media test failure, Check cable. PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE-ROM Boot failure: System Halted I have …

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Hello, I have an ASUS P8H61-M LE motherboard that I purchased last year with a dual core pentium chip and 4gb of RAM. Everything was working perfectly fine until I decided to upgrade to an i5 3570K and 8gb of RAM. I started seeing blue screens and the system was …

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When I was playing Warcraft 3 (a little dated but still a good game) my computer blue screened. The physical memory dump got to 95% when it stalled for a few minutes. I decided to restart the computer. After I did this the computer did not recognise my keyboard, mouse …

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Hi, I have a Sony VAIO Laptop VGN-NR21M/S which has been working fine. The only problem was the battery wasn't holding it's charge and I was planning to buy a new one. Last night it shut down while I was running Virtual DJ software. No warning, no error message or …

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I have a really strange situation with my storage device. I would be really grateful if somebody could guide me through this. System details: Mac mini 2.0 i7 8GB 500GBx2 External storage: My studio Book WD 6TB (inside probably 3TBx2 raid). file format: NTFS Connected to Mac through Firewire. intermediate …

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Okay...huge problem with one of my home built computers. I currently live in a small apartment with 2 PC's and one display, my TV. I plugged in one computer to the display and used Team Viewer to remote into the other when I needed to, its running Server 2008 R2 …

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Anyone explain to me how to controlll external device usong PC. That mean I want to know about microcintroller proramming

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pressing power switch, fans turn on for a second and then go off. green light is on the motherboard like its receiving power. LED on power switch not working. Its an old 350 watt power supply that I was going to use with new mobo,proccessor, ram. Old HDD. I didn't …

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I want to know how can i connect two PC through USB port and can i share date between two PC

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