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So I got a new 550w 80plus Enermax PSU and a 1GB nVidia GTX 650 video card. I put it all in my HP Pavilion p6-2310 (hunk of junk) w/windows 8 x64 and closed it up. Two startups in a row I got a series of 6 long beeps. Other …

I have a dell dimension 8250 that I've had for quite a while. Up until now I've been able to fix all of its problems but I was swapping out a hard drive and I accidently pulled out half of the power cord and the computer short circuited and it …

So, here's the problem. I got a new laptop, the Sager NP6165 during an xmas sale about a month ago. I usually just play Guild Wars 2 on it, other than that I'm just surfing youtube videos or listening to music. Sometimes my laptop just cuts off without any warning …

please help me about my lenovo ideatab A2107 A series i cannot connect to the internet but the signal in 3g is high but the internet connection is failed.. please advise..!!! do i need to make a new apn.. please give me the apn of mobily network for this stuff... …

A few days back the battery led started flashing continuously, while I was still using the laptop. I turned off the laptop immediatedly and noticed that the laptop was quite hot. I let it cool down and powered it up after 20 minutes. This time the Power led came on, …

To be honest Tablet Pen Drives are the best. Even they get wasked with your clothes, they work. My tablet pen drive recently got washed with my clothes and still its working.

Hi! I have a desktop pc which keeps on looping instead of loading the operating system. Is motherboard is MSI H61M-P31(G3).Previously it was running on windows xp service pack 3 and after a power failure it displayed some information promting me to repair some corrupt boot file but it could …

PC displays a black after login, turning to safemode, still gives me the same results.Please i need ur quick help. thanx.

Hello all, I've searched for this vigorusly but to no avail... My question is.. is there a way to get my Saitek USB keyboard to work pre-boot.. Here's my problem, When I first turn on my computer, if i wanted to get into the advanced boot menu or use a …

Hello, I just built my own computer and have connected all power cords. Everything turns on just fine, and fans spinning. My VGA connected to the DVI-I on my graphics card is plugged in but the monitor will not pick up a signal therefore no display. Here are the specs …

What are the repercussions of having an odd number of RAM modules. E.g. 3 x 4GB I know it will work but I want to know exactly what damage it can do/problems it can create. Cheers EDIT: And also, why is it better to have more RAM modules (e.g 2x4GB …

Hello.Please anyone help me with this code. I tried to look in every forum but nothing gives the right answer. Promblem is: **R cannot be resolved to a variable** . Here is my java code: package com.example.twittersearch; import java.util.Arrays; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.content.SharedPreferences; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.LayoutInflater; import …

I have gateway laptop nv54 turned computer on this morning screen black. i removed battery and held power button for 30 secs plugged back in still no screen. i took out ram and put it back in. didnt work. HELP!

Is it okay to install 2GB ram in one slot and 1GB to other slot (channel a of channel b) of my motherboard? my motherboard is from MSI. model is K8NGM2 Series MS-7207(v1.X) Micro-ATX Mainboard.

I have just had to restore an hp desktop as it crashed and burned. This computer was on a network and worked fine but now says there is no ethernet controller driver installed and it wont recognize our network. I have no clue what to do and any help would …

hello everyone, just wondering: would buying a second identical hard drive and setting up raid 0 on my computer be worth it? Will raid 0 give me a preformance boost? Or should i upgrade my drive from my stock WD10EARS (Western Digital Green) to a Western Digital Black? Specs: Gateway …

Five years ago I wrote in with the same problem. Forget what I did, but I managed to fix the right click button on the touchpad without opening up the case and it has been fine for 5 years. Two days ago the problem returned. Would really like help fixing …

Hello This problem is occuring on my Dell Latitude Cp[I]i[/I] A400XT. I just reinstalled Windows ME to try to resolve the problem however the system monitor reports that the cpu is 36-79% in use all the time (even after 10min of being idle). I asked for help in another thread …

Hello there, how can i unlock my moderm without using the IMEI number because i have failed to get it thanks

hi. i have a toshiba laptop(not sure what model number is) and for a while now(i would say prolly since last year) i have been having a hard time with the drive loading stuff. when i pop the drive out and put cd's, dvds, software discs, game discs what ever …

Hello everyone! I have a Dell Latitude Cpi. I know it is old but it run some cool old games i have. unfortunatly, the battery only lasts 1 hour if im lucky. I'm just wondering if there is anyway I can extend the battery life? Windows Me reports that it …

I have a acre aspire one notebook and I can't get it to work on battery only , when I unplug the power it closes off. The battery reads that its full, so I took the battery out for a few days when I put it back in it still …

i am using lg monitor from past 1 year from last day the screen is flickering i dono y its just start flickering during the start of the system and then for 5 min and its back to normal there us no bad weather too here

Android, Apple, and Blackberry are te biggest smartphone company at this moment, what next vendor or OS will grow up in your opinion?

the lap would not start, disarmament, I found shorted capacitors. change and lit. at the time, the battery charge indicator indicates a level of 6% and battery charging without exceeding that percentage. with the lap on, on its front two LEDs light one blue and one red to orange (the …

Hi I have an Antec Easy Sata hotswop hardrive caddy. I have been using it with two hard drives. It seems that I need to restart Windows (version 7 running on a Dell 490 workstation) to get a replaced drive to be recognized. What seems to happen is th name …

Booting my toshiba laptop, lcd is completely black. No bios, no light, nothing. I can connect to an external monitor, and that works. It boots. The machine works, but the lcd is black. Any thoughts?

I run a HP Pavillion Desktop with windows 7. I have problem where I cant intall new devices, ie a mouse, MP3 player or an external hard drive. All existing devices work ok, ie mice, MP3 players and external hard drives. I get a message device driver not successfully installed. …

Mobo: Asusrock Z77E-ITX VGA: EVGA Geforce GTX670 FTW (fearing its broken) CPU: Intel i5 2550K PSU: Seasonic SS-560MK Gold Cooling: Antec Kuehler H20/Stock Mem : 2x 4GB Crucial 1.2Volts low profile Hi, This is a lot of text but I am trying to be as detailed as I can. I …

My Dell Inspiron 6000 refuses to startup. When I press the power or the play button to turn it on, the Numbers, caps and scroll lights flash as usual. The power light and the one next to that also turns on (the light in-between the power indicator and the charger …

Hello I can't seem to turn on my new build pc, the power supply cords are connected to the motherboard but I can't seem to manage to get it to boot. I have a 650w psu so I don't think is a matter of power. When I try to turn …

I have user's 4510s laptop that wont boot. According to him the there was a powercut and they shutdown the machine but when they tried to restart it wouldn't boot. Presssing ESC does nothing and even putting Hiren's CD does not boot from the CD. the scenario is similar to …

I'm running Windows 7 on an Acer laptop. I have tried two known and working External hard divers on my laptop. I can see both on the Device manger and it states both drivers are working, however they are not appearing on my Computer. i have followed previous threads and …

Has anyone, does anyone, use Inkseine? It's a perfect blend between Journal and OneNote, with a bit more. If so, does it do web searches for you? The computer search works brilliantly, but the Web searches are just a never-ending "Querying...".

I have a hp desktop computer. The connector to the monitor was apparently pushed against the wall and now the connector for the monitor cable cannot be secured because the connector on the motherboard is pushed in and the screws on the cable connector cannot reach the holes on computer's …

Hi, due to lack of room I am planning to place the fan+grille of the Antex H20 Kuehler directly on top of the intake of the GFX card. (The total height of this plus some room on underside of GFX card is exactly fitting in a low profile case that …

MID tablet problem wireless not working

What is the advantage of having few registers for CPU 1. Smaller Instruction size 2. Smaller cpu cycles 3. Smaller memory cycles 4. Increase in multiprogramming 5. None of the above. Can someone please give the answer with an explaination?

Hi, My computers graphics card or motherboard broke down at last week. It happened when I was compiling some code wich was written in Java and lwjgl. Is it possible that my code broke my computer or was it just a coincidence?

I don't understand why my pc get slower this pass few days. please help!!!:sad:

Hi, and thanks to all to can help. To make the story short, I have a Dell Latitude, and the power button stoppen working. Upon inspection, I found that the power button board itself was broken. This was confirmed because none of the caps lights, etc didn't light up when …

I've just bought a transcend 530 8GB pen-drive. I was trying to make it bootable using ubuntu startup disk creator. I've selected usb flash drive as first boot device but it isn't detecting anything. I've done it the same way before using different pendrive(which i lost). I've also tried Unetbootin …

hya, i have had a E-system laptop for over 2 years and suddenly it has a problem of shuting down without any notice. i started noticing it last month but the problem didnt seem much of an issue - it was last frequent but now it happens sometimes before it …

why is it that the bios setup of my laptop doesnt appear when i turn it on? i need to reformat its hard drive and i cant set my boot priority to the cd drive. any advise will be appreciated. thanks! :D

Hey, Hello to every one. Motheboard: INTEL DH67CL, Processor: Intel 2600K Sandy Bridge RAM: (4Gx4) 16GB HDD: 1TB WD VIDEO CARD: EVGA GTX460 1GB DDR5 PSU: Cooler Master GX750 (750Watt) Brand New Sound Card: Creative Audigy Value 7.1 Casing: Cooler Master Elite 430 Black Guys i have the computer system …

I have dell Optiplex GX620, I have installed windows 7 but it shows that no audio output device is installed. I even changed my sound card, but no use. I have visited many hardware shops as well to repair it but no one could find any problem. so is there …

Hello everyone. Hopefully somebody can help me. I have an old 250 GB external HDD which I used to use for data storage. It's a fairly old model (bought it in 2005) and the USB port on the caddy seems to be broken. At first, I could have the HDD …

I am getting the above error message and then everything freezes at boot up. Can anyone help with what to try next? I've removed the cover and pressed the trip switch manually while bootting. I've cleaned out the entire chasis and made sure all connections are secure. :?: It's a …

Ok heres my problem. For the past few weeks My computer Has been shutting down on its own, the thing is sometimes it restarts right away and other times it could be an hour or two It will just boot back up on its own. I have tried everything I …

how to find the laptop which we are using is 32bit or 64bit (i am having acer aspire 4730z) can i install windows 7 64bit on it guide me thanking you.