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Hello, my problem is very strange. Since few weeks couple of my pen drives don't work on any of my USB Ports. Mouse and Keyboard is working, strange thing is that when I plug my IPhone via USB cable it can be read like normal, but pen drives don't (they …

hi everyone i have a dead laptop which is not working its motherboard is dead, but its screen is prefectly working. i have a desktop but dont have a spare monitor. what i want to do is to detach my laptop screen from laptop and use it as a monitor …

I have a Dell Vostro 200 Slimline that I want to put another hard drive in. I have a harddrive out of a Dell Dimension E521 that I want to put in their, however, I don't want to lose my data on it. Currently the BIOS is set to RAID, …

Specs: i5 2500k gtx 570 8GB Ram 64GB SSD Internet: DL- 50mb UL- 3mb hey guys. I don't know why my machine is acting like this, when I know its more than capable. I get lag when I play games, i don't constantly get lag but I will tell you …

Hi Experts I have been experience this problem recently. I have got a USB printer when I connect it through a new 5 m USB (non brand name, and not faulty) cable it didn't work but when I connect the same printer via 1.5 m it works. I tried the …

I just went and bought a Creative Recon3D soundcard and I cannot get it to see the Front Panel microphone. Just says its unplugged. FP output is fine - when plugged in it mutes rear speakers and plays out headphones. As far as I can tell, the Recon has the …

I recently installed a 2nd HDD in my optical drive space using an optibay imitator. Basically, there is a PATA to SATA converter so that I have an HDD instead of a disk drive. It is a late 2006 MacBook white. Everything worked great except for one minor glitch. When …

I am haveing trouble installing Mint OS onto a computer that previosly ran on Windows XP. i cannot get a version of mint that is not blocked. I keep getting pxe-e61: media test failure check cable error. all the cabels are good. how do I get the xp hard drive …

My laptop had XP on it, but a french version. I installed Vista over the top of it, but cant get it to work. It installed correctly, then rebooted. Its now stuck on the black screen with the green bars going back and forth, and it just sits there. So …

hello all, I have one question in my mind. i have seen one tablet with USB 2.0 port. I am using this in my pc after installing the device driver. Can i use my USB modem in this tablet? Tablet having OS Android. Hoping for your reply. Thank you.

1st and foremost i'm not too familiar with the internal workings of computers :(. The problem i'm having with my Compaq desktop computer is the orange light on the front comes on and stays on as soon as i push the power. No green light at all. My HD isn't …

I have an acer aspire 5710 laptop that ive had for nearly 5 years now. Yesterday though, i tried turning it on and the fan suddenly stopped working after a few seconds. The laptop itself dies two to three seconds later after the fan stopped. I tried turning it on …

From the LoL forums it says: "The following are the minimum and recommended system requirements for running League of Legends on a PC: Minimum System Requirements: 2 GHz processor 1 GB RAM (Windows Vista and 7 users will want 2 GB of RAM or more) 2 GB available hard disk …

Intel LGA1155 DDR3 1600 ATX BOXDH77KC Corsair Vengeance Blue 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B Intel i7-3370 Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155 BX80637I73770 GeForce GTX 550 Ti Corsair Enthusiast Series 650-Watt 80 Plus Bronze Certified Power Supply Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA …

hello, my computer is notebook dell inspiron N4110 PXE-MOF:existing ROM problem, this problem start when every time i tried reinstall the laptop with windows, i've read in internet, every one tell me that your hard drive is broke but my ubuntu work like charm, can you help me with this …

hi guys i have a problem, have tried cad/3d forums but no one is technical enough to help I recently built a computer, its a dual opteron intelagos 6272 system with 64 gig of ram and a 256 gig solid state drive. nvidia quadro 4000 card. I use 3d studio …

Have an SATA adaptor to allow an SATA drive to be used in a machine intended for an IDE drive. There is a power connector that is connected to a counterpart power connector from the system board. I need a power cable to go directly to the SATA drive. Images …

I have a computer that was left plugged into the surge protector afterastorm the cords were found melted to surge protector. I cant get into the computer to get the specs on it. I plug the monitor to another hard drive and it comes on just makes popping noises but …

i have Acer laptop and the problem am facing in the laptop from the beginning is with its display.firstly when i start the laptop it dosent starts properly so when i shake the screen then it starts.later while working on it suddenly it hangs for a second and there is …

Help my screen is only turning white under a certain user account on my laptop. If I log on to another user Im fine. So it cant be the connections... :( I have rebooted several times. Went to task mgr under another user to see whats running and nothing.....its a …

Hello, I've recently created an application though web which i can access From mobiles and pc's , which both didn't show any problem but when i tried to access it through handheld C5000W the images in the website didn't show , i've turned the show image property in the handheld …

hello dear friends which states of process isn't in multiprogramming systems ? states of process : " ready to run" to "running" or "running" to "ready to run" or "running" to "waiting (blocked)" or "waiting" to "ready to run" . i need a complete answer with clear reason please

Hey guys, I just bought a new setup: Intel i7 3770K Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H MSI GTX 660 TFZ 8GB corsair vengeance I've connected them all correctly... there mobo has a panel for debugging, and it says: "97" which means:"Console Output devices connect (ex. Monitor is lighted)" i tried to remove the …

Hi I have an Acer monitor which has developed a pixel wide green line down the centre of the screen. Can anyone suggest what I can do myself to fix this? Thanks in advance Guroo

I have a friend laptop, which shortly recovered running without battery by cold treatment in freezer for two hours, but got symptoms back after trying to charge the battery overnight. Now it again tries to start, accesses the DVD drive and lights up some leads, but not by Power switch …

Operating System: Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit For whatever reason, the wireless adapter on several laptops become disabled (by something other than the hard switch). It's either the powersettings shutting them off, code turning them off if the laptop is hardwired, or some other reason. The problem I'm trying to …

Well this seems the best place to start... I have a Gateway GT5622 Desk top computer My problem started about a month ago, my fan that is seated on the heatsink and the motherboard started to be very loud, i thought that it was getting hot so we cleaned the …

I am using a HP laptop dv5-1104 tu. My lcd was broken so i got NEW LCD fixed a year ago. Now for the past 3 days screen turns black after using it for a hour or so. Just the lcd is turning black. PC is not hung. To turn …

Am interested in developing a mobile app for work - want to send our engineers some job details to the calendar on their mobile device, then have them 'tick a box' when it is complete and log an entry back to the server in the office. I've been doing some …

Hi Recently I tried dual booting vista and xp, laptop hp g60-214em originally has vista installed, I partitioned the hd and put windows xp onto the partitioned drive. I installed some drivers to try and get xp to run properly after a restart xp wouldn't boot just goes to a …

I am having a problem with my Netgear adapter. My computer finds the device and says it's working properly but I can't pull up a web page when I disconnect my ethernet cable. I went into network connections and it is showing the connection as active but no ip address. …

I am trying to put a Western Digital 500 GB HDD into my Dell Inspiron 1011 (which has a 120 GB HDD with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). I was able to exchange the hard drives, and my laptop was able to recognize the HDD, but there was another problem. After the …

I bought a new westinghouse 32" tv and have noticed that the 1920x1080 resolution does not appear correctly, it either only takes up a portion of the screen or is cut off. I'm using and HDMI connection and do not have the vga settings available to fix the size. Is …

Hi i have a laptop HP Pavilion Ze4500 it is coming up with operating system not found? I know nothing about computers and this just happened one day. Any one who can help i would really appreciate it, My friend tried to change the hard drive and it made no …

Hello, I am using a HP w1907 widescreen lcd monitor since 4 years. Now abruptly 1-2 weeks befor it showed a very thin verticle line of white colour formarly the colour used to change but now it is white only. after some days a new line appeared adjacent to it …

My monitor is fuzzy i can see letters but the pictures are fuzzy i cant view the pictures....its not in safe mode i cant figure out whats wrong

I want to buy a graphic card for my pc but I dont know what model is adapt with my system. please guide me

I dropped my laptop ( Dell Vostro) and the pc board came out of the left side. I put it back in and wen i turn on the comp all i get is a blue screen with the little design on it. Is it because the little boa4d came out …

Hi, I currently own a custom Lenovo Ideapad Y480 that I purchased about a month ago. Just recently my laptop shut off (like the power was cut) and then restarted. Shortly after restart, it happened again. And again. So I shut it off and waited a while. I started it …

full screen of dos window cant opened in win07 os.

Help please! I have a sony vaio notebook which I bought in 2002. I just reinstalled it completely because it was getting slow. Everything went fine. I then downloaded all the updates since 2002 from the sony website. After installing software download taxi and downloading in there all the new …

Continuing the Lord of the Rings theme that I started with in the title of this review, I believe it is Gandalf who says "there is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power" but he sure …

Hi Daniweb! I'm going nuts here, this is my first IT problem I as a softwaredeveloper hasn't been able to solve myself... I'm just not that much hardware guy as I wanted to really be I guess.. :( *I have written a short synopsis of my problem, since my post …

hello. i was wondering if anyone could help me figure out why my laptop fan runs nonstop after startup. it usually takes a few minutes after starting it up, and then it continously runs until i get irritated and shut it down. also, the bottom of my laptop gets VERY …

Hi everyone I recently built a new computer (Intel Core i7, SSD, etc.), but decided to keep my old setup for general use. The specs for the old computer are as follow (minus the graphics card as I installed this into my new PC): AMD Athlon X2 5200+ MSI KA780G …

Recently I had a new motherboard installed to replace my old one that overheated. The new motherboard is a MSI H55M-E23 that has an Intel core i5 650 chipset installed. After getting all the drivers to work, I then installed my old XFX Geforce 9500 gt (512mb gddr3) in the …

Hey. I my having troubles booting up my pc. The front light is red. None of the fans are working. I'm not receiving any images or beeps. My case is a Cooler master HAF 912. Please help figure this out. I purchase the computer parts at my local Microcenter. Before …

Hi New to group and you seem to be a helpful group of people so I'll post here as a last effort before the go to the scrap box. I have an hp pavillion 8660C (got it cheap) heres the problem; When booting i goto the black screen and get …

I very much appreciate this site. While attempting to "fix" my Compaq Presario F763NR (which runs Vista), I deleted a start up file. Now, when I press the "on" button, it lights up for a second then shuts off and my computer won't turn on. I called HP but they …

I'm in need of help... I'm at the end of my tether. My computer recently started behaving oddly. Sometimes it simply would not boot and by boot I mean it wouldn't show anything on the monitor, no bios screen or antying. All the fans and hard disks were spinning, the …