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I have a very simple question. Can you run games off of an external hard drive. I play World of Warcraft and many other games. My computer, which is a laptop, only has 40gb of space. I don't have anymore room for patches or anything else. So I was wondering …

Hello Community, I've been thinking about buying a phone I've chosen these phones to choose from: http://www.jbhifi.com.au/phones/nokia/lumia-520-black-prepaid-sku-411577 http://www.jbhifi.com.au/phones/samsung/galaxy-express-4g-grey-sku-418996 http://www.dicksmith.com.au/unlocked-smart-phones/samsung-ativ-s-windows-8-unlocked-smartphone-dsau-em5132 http://www.jbhifi.com.au/phones/sony/xperia-acro-s-sku-91231 https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_16GB?id=nexus_4_16gb http://www.harveynorman.com.au/optus-nokia-lumia-720-windows-8-phone-pre-paid-mobile-red.html The funny thing is currently I don't have a mobile phone so I'm not sure what is a good phone and what isn't; the thing is I don't …

ACER BINSPIRE 1 D270 netbook...just fitted new HDD and attempted to boot from usb after changing setup boot order ,and got REALTTEK PIEe FE family controller series v1.27 PXE-E61 :media test failure ,check cable .......message ...does this mean the HDD conection is no good or what...as setup recognises a HDD …

There was a thread with this title "dell d610 won't power up w/ac adapter but it will power on with the battery" two years ago which was never resolved. It involves the power adapter light going out when it is plugged into the laptop. The laptop works fine off battery …

After installing new ram into my Qosmio x300 the screen doesn't display anything :/ The laptop had 2 RAM sticks in it Both of the RAM sticks were 2GB 533Mhz PC3-8500S I took them out and added one RAM stick with 8GB 1066 MHz PC-8500S

hi friend this is with reference to my sandisk's 8 gb pen drive which contained my lots of important data is not opening, this is showing the error that "there is problem in starting 4#RFADRHH.ini requested module not found". can u pls sombody help me to resolve this, will i …

My eMachine Laptop screen is splitted into 2.. the other one half looks darker.

My laptop won't boot, doesn't POST and am trying to see if it's terminal or prohibitively repairable. When powering up, it whirs, the fan starts and a few seconds later ( between 3 & 10) it shuts down never reaching the onscreen COMPAQ logo. Happened after a restart when I …

In a story this week by [URL="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,655422,00.html"]German news magazine Der Spiegel[/URL], I was surprised to learn that German book publishers are actively avoiding the eBook market, fearing it will eat into their print publishing business, instead of seeing it as an obvious new market for consumers to read their books. …

I have just purchased the zalman Z11 Plus, I need to ask a few questions: My motherboard is: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A78LMUSB3/ , There are 3, 3 pin fan connections in the case; Are there any fan connectors on my motherboard? My case has USB 3.0, My motherboard doesn't, what can I do …

My cousin's computer (vista)keeps shutting off at random time, one minute, one second, five seconds after turning on. Even while loading safe mode, it shuts off. I put thermal paste on the chip with no results. Already checked RAM sticks, connections, tried to turn it on with basic drives connected …

Hi to all, I am having 1.75 GB of RAM on my 32-bit PC. The speed of computer is very slow for first 15-mins. What should I do to increase speed. Please suggest me, I am very new in this thing. Thanks.

Hello everyone. I would like to know if there is a factory default configuration for the WD My book world NAS. I am helping a friend that has one of those in their office and the web interface states that the capacity is 1TB but nowhere in the gui did …

I have this cache latency graph and I am trying to figure out how to find the cache block size for L1, L2 and L3 caches from it but I cant find anything on how to do so I was able to guess the total cache size though.  …

While the News International [phone hacking scandal](http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking) that saw the demise of the News of the World newspaper cannot have escaped your attention in the US or UK, news from India concerning the latest 'tumble and clone' developments could leave the mobile phone calls of more than just celebrities at …

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I dropped my inspiron 1150 (windows xp home, pentium 4), and after much fiddling with it and a $40 call to Dell, ended up needing a new hard drive. Before I installed the new drive, on boot up it would go to the Dell logo, and even let me reinstall …

I have a Microsoft wireless 5000 keyboard that I want to use on my smart tv (the mouse USB is plugged into the TV). I have already tried many suggestions such as ctrl+shift+shift, shift+6, Lshift+Rshift+Lctrl, ctrl+shift+shift+?, and none work. Please, can anybody help?

I have inherited a brand new pc from a friend and have a question about sata. The mobo has only one pci-e slot and that is being blocked by the video card. I need a connection to my external hdd enclosure. The mobo has a single free esata port and …

Hi guys! I am a laptop user and uses my laptop mostly for gaming. While using my laptop, I placed an electric fan at the back, directly blowing air to my unit. It is effective and this kept my laptop from lag. The problem is when I am gaming at …

I'm having a problem with no screen but it has all lights lit on the top in the back but no hdd activity or light lit or flickering. Does not power off & on like some do & tried it with the hddd removed. Something has to be causing the …

A jury in the US has, after just three days deliberating, ruled that Samsung must pay Apple more than $1 billion in damages. The lawsuit had focussed on alleged patent infringements by Samsung in terms of both software and design relating to Apple's iPhone and iPad devices. Although not all …

Hello friends, I am having a HCL PC in my home with configuration of 120GB HDD, basic graphics memory, Core2Duo processor and with 1 gb of RAM. Now I am planning to do some upgrades to it. First of all, I am planning on DVD writer(already out). Then to the …

I am looking over my cousin's laptop he did something to it I am trying to figure out what as he wont tell me. THe laptop starts up but then freezes up on the toshiba start screen and I can go no futher. I can't acess the laptop it self. …

I had an iso image of a game on my computer, but I deleted it like a month or two ago. Ive been trying to recover it, because the backup I made was somehow corrupt. Ive tried several recovery programs, but I have not been able to find the file. …

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My computer took a hard fall yesterday. All of the USB plugs that were plugged in crashed to the inside, (we can hear them shaking inside), and the monitor plug broke. (The screws came off, the plug came out, etc.) We tried to plug in a TV screen with a …

Everytime I open a new page in Windows 8 I get an advertisment pop up screen. How can I delete this virus?

Hi, I'm using an ESX Virtual Drive and basically I want to allocate data to a VM Drive from unallocated space within the VM Drive due to lack of space. I've done some research and found this great software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpOhiywWJw#at=65 . What do you think? Is there a better and …

I delete all my files in my USB. Can I get it back? help me pls

I had purchased a Netgear Stora for back up and after a year the fan went out so now the device won't start. I took out the HDD (Seagate 1TB 3") and purchased a Dynex enclosure so that I am able to access the disk. Win7 installs the driver and …

Hello, I have brought Samsung Duos mobile. This is my first android phone. I have some cousins living abroad and I want to call them from my mobile. My mobile carriers charges a lot for international calls. So, I was checking cheap international calling and found chattimeapps.com I never installed …

I emailed to myself an article from an app on my phone. Now it keeps trying to sync the email with my computer and it can't. The email did not go to my computer and I can't erase it off of my phone. Every 15 minutes it I get a …

how to rename the file when the file is copied into a different directory? please help me, regards, V

I am having trouble printing. The pages will come out empty and the ink cartridges are full. I don't know what the problem is or what to do. Please help!

I just installed a PCI-E nVidia card into my slot and it can go x16, but I get this message when I boot... Alert! PCI Express card is operating in X1 mode, Strike F1 to continue or F2 for Setup Utility. I have a Dell 4700. Thanks!!

Hi, I am planning to build a budget gaming PC with the price limit of roughly £400. I have found a group of components that add up to make roughly £350 and I was wondering whether these components are worth there money, if it will be good enough to play …

Hello, My name is Jeannot thewissen. I got a dell Optiplex from a friend, because he said it wont power on. So I tested it powers but if you power it on you dont get any video or sound. The only thing that happens is that the fan in a …

hello guys, this is my first post.. i am using this lg 500g crt monitor. it runs smooth till last week. the computer starts as usual , num key blinks means windows is running normaly..monitor led green blinking very fast which is unusal. on off not working when i tried …

my 500gb local disk C can't boot to the desktop, it only boot to starting windows and it can not move further again, i have a very important document i have to copy from it. i slave it to anothe computer to copy my stoff but it ask me to …

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I need a good place to buy PC hardware in the UK, not amazon because everything i recieve from there (Even new) doesn't have the good feel of buying it from the makers themselves (NVIDIA for example), i hope you understand what i mean, are there any shops that are …

I have used asus k52 model notebook processao is AMD V series 2.30 gh.It become very hot when i start notebook.Please give me solution. Thanks Ashim

Hi, I would like to merge two partition C:\ and D:\ , in drive C:\ there is the OS and drive D:\ is empty. Is it saves to merge those two partition without reinstalling the OS? Thanks, Davy

help ! I'm wanting to re-use my old IBM thinkpad BUT have forgotten password. Have tried the other answers but they don't work for this which is on windows 2000

I have a HP 5060zx laptop that does not boot up sometimes: The power light comes on, but there is no display. I tried connecting to an external display and nothing happens on that as well. This problem happens seems to happen intermittently. After this problem occurs if I leave …

Hello. I have just purchased a Lexar JumpDrive S50 32 gigs and I am having trouble accessing the USB. The USB shows up in the my computer window with a grayed out icon and when I double click it it states "Please insert a drive". The same statement is displayed …