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| | Well, My problem is I don't know if im going to need a new hard drive or not. I've tried a restore CD but they didn't work. It says it has something to do with not finding the D Drive which is where the recovery stuff is saved. Will I … Hardware hard-drive laptop storage |
| | A certain multinational company (provides coverage of sporting events like olympics) has decided to acquire a system that will definitely provide big benefits to them in terms of its operations. In relation to this, other software products valuable to the business have also been procured upon the recommendation of technical … |
| | Hi all, Once every 2 days or so my screen randomly shows images which look like the screen in these photos: [url]http://www.economizerz.com/other/daniweb/screen/1.JPG[/url] [url]http://www.economizerz.com/other/daniweb/screen/2.JPG[/url] If i leave my computer off for a few hours it fixes itself. I think it is because of a problem with my video card. What do … Hardware display video video-card |
| | My external Western Digital Elements 500GB USB drive occasionally sets itself to "Write Protected" and I can't alter any of the files on the drive until I reboot and the write protection is reset. This usually happens after a day or so, and rebooting is the only way of unlocking … Hardware operating-system storage windows-vista |
| | Hi guys, new to the forum. Having problems with my PC, basically, it won't boot. To cut a long story short, here's the chain of events. I replaced my 256MB of DDR RAM with two new 1GB cards, this was about 4 weeks ago and the PC was running great. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I just replaced a hard drive that had gone bad (I think) as I was getting a "bad hard drive, backup and replace" message. I tried several options but decided it was best to just get a new one. The problem now is that I get a "Master Hard Disk: … Hardware hard-drive storage windows-xp |
| | Using XP I have a 6.4Gb hard disk C which is full except for 200Mb. When I sum the size of each file and folder in C they total about 4Gb. I could sure use the missing 2Gb. Can some one point to where I should be looking. I used … Hardware storage |
| | Hi all. I have a 500gb external freecom harddrive. This had been working fine until today. When i turn it on i get the connection beep and it shows up in Device manager as working fine. BUT it does not show up in Disk Management or My Computer. This coincides … Hardware storage |
| | My Hp Pavillion was exhibiting symptoms of a dying power supply--it would boot but only stay on for a few minutes, then flash morse code that it was dying. So I got a new power supply (LONG painful story for another time but avoid buy.com unless you KNOW you won't … Hardware flash troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | :( dont know if am posting in the correct thread...hope u guys will help me out.. recently got a pc & installed every thing as per the mobo drivers cd...except for sound card. the audio in device mgr dosent show yellow but on selecting sound/video & game controllers there is … Hardware audio motherboards-cpu-ram video video-card |
| | recieving a generic host win32 error. my pc specs are as follows: windows 2003 pc/ xp sp2/ Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
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 | When I attempt to power up my Gateway ELP 500C all I get is an orange light [it used to be green]. My screen power button stays orange too and the screen stays black. Sometimes when I unplug my PC for a few hours it will start up as usual. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | When I try to install my 3dfx video card to update my video, I get three strange beeps on power up and the monitor doesn´t respond. When I remove it and put back in the old card, it works fine. Can somebody help? Hardware display video video-card |
 | Hey Someone gave us another working "quicksilver" Does anyone have one of these? Or Knows what their capable off.. We have one already but that's dedicated and modified for a specific task. Thsi one's for experimentation ....We have spare memory, and hard drives and family pack software to put in. … Hardware apple-hardware peer-to-peer video |
| | My computer randomly shuts down, its like someone unplugged, but my monitor, speakers, printer, external hard drive right next to the computer remain on when the computer shuts down...and it doesnt go through the normal shut down process, it just switches off...than when i turn it back on it says … |
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| | Hi all. I have a Toshiba Laptop and was happily working away on it, only for it to shut down and display the following message: "ALERT: System protection failure! Password =_" The only password I had set up was the one to access Windows, and this doesn't work. Whenever I … |
 | how to remove windows exlrorer error, i havw xp sp2. In the middle of the work suddenly i get message windows exlorer has generated error and will be closed. How to sove this problem:$ Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | heatsink under fan of micro choked with dust,pwr supply okey,fans work,drives have pwr,motherboard has pwr but won't load bios.caps appear okey no poptops. Hardware troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | I have the following self-built system which has worked great for the past 2 years: MSI K9N Platinum MB AMD 64 X2 4200+ CPU ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 Video card 2 GB Crucial Memory 450 Watt Antec Power Supply Machine locked up yesterday. When I tried to restart I get no … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | anybody help. got a nvidia tnt2 but cant get call of duty, gta3 vice city to work or any other newish game ok i need to upgrade thats at crimbo but at the min wont work. anybody know the newest drivers for it or will it just not work cause … Hardware display |
| | hi guyz,i have a problem with my display unit,about a month ago my monitor changed color,red and green disappeared and i was left with a kind of hazy orange that was very pronounced on the folders and the desktop,nway i tried everything on the desktop properties display settings and nothing … Hardware display |
 | Help, i've got a dell latitude cpx and the keyboad is really messsed up. You see, just like that i get a repeat of the s. It's usually an n or m or other keys, not all of them do it but it doesns't happen all the time, like that … Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | My Dell Inspiron laptop (runs Vista) was working fine this morning, then I turned it off. When I tried to turn it back on, some lights came on and the welcome tones, but no screen at all. I've taken the battery in and out as this was the only thing … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | hi...... i am facing some problem while starting XP. my XP is automatically rebooting after i click on the link like start windows normaly., or safe mode, or start windows as in last state....etc. But after a few reboots it is then booted. Whats the problem with my M/C? Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram  |
| | I have a compaq presario v5000 series and it wont start anymore I have a new ac adapter for it an i know it works but is there a sure fire way to know if it is the battery that needs replacement or is there a way to fix this … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | im trying to insall a new SATA HDD into my tower. I have a new XP pro OS for it, but when i installed the HDD or the old one i get a blank screen before BIOS no beeps no display errors. Ive tried using the video card i had … Hardware display video video-card  |
| | Presario V6254 laptop just out of warranty (didnt extend). So just 14 months old. Working normally then battery ran out, left to recharge, now will not boot. POST is 4 short beeps. power button and leds continue to flash. Drive can be heard working initially. have reseated dimms, unplugged RTC … Hardware first-post flash troubleshoot-hardware video |
| | Hi all Situation is: old motherboard don't have SATA connector and had plugged on it one HD on the primary IDE and one DVD drive on secondary IDE connector. I wanted to connect new SATA HD (WD 5000 AAKS ) and bought IDE-to-SATA adapter, plugged it on the primary IDE, … |
 | Hi there, Does anyone know what the APN for O2's 3G network is? We have consulted them and they said that it is mobile.o2.co.uk with the usual username and password. However this is not working. We have a PDA that will not connect to the internet, because I believe that … |
| | After I changed to a newer video card, shut down and started again my monitor has been dark, no display. RAM, processor, drive are all OK; the video card is in its slot and I have confirmed that all cards are firmly in their slots. Does anybody have an idea … Hardware display video video-card |
| | Maybe someone can help a little with some of the problems my mother-in-law's computer is having. She's had her 1210 for a few years without incident until this week. It was running like molasses even though the CPU was supposedly mostly freed up, and it randomly powered off. No big … Hardware flash troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi. I visit my 81 year old father once or twice a year and always try to clean up his computer and get it running better. I delete all the strange things that he "doesn't know" how they got installed.. and run a registry cleaner... (can't remember the which one, … Hardware first-post flash hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have a three year old Inspiron 9200. Has been perfect until now. Installed Vista Ultimate 5 months ago. No problems. Last night my 11 year old son was using it and running Action Replay for Nintendo DS. Not sure what happened when he was done. The system was off … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | My Toshiba l20 starts immediately i plug in the charger and nothing come on the screen also all the indicator lights( I mean the power, charging, HDD lights) will still be off. in this state i can still switch it on and off with the power bottom. Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I would say i'm decent at data recovery. I have recovered off many hard drives, SD cards and the likes. Sometimes with 100% recovery and other times with much lower varying results. I have Several bad 500 gb SATA Drives. 2 seagates (is the maxtor trend still there) and a … Hardware hard-drive pci-card storage windows-vista |
| | It pops up with a thing that says that windows can not open the file nvidia settings.mcl because it needs to know the program that created it. What do i do to fix this? Hardware display |
| | Hi, I have a Demension 2400 desktop with XP installed. I was playing a game on the computer and I accidently deleted the Microsoft registry file via run>regedit.exe. My computer still worked but I noticed the recycle bin was missing. I thought it was an error so I restarted. An … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Before the red dots incident was black screen showing up and the audio of the games went " taaaaaaaaaaaat" while gaming. Now....Whenever i play a game, red dots would appear and the game freezes and sometimes my screen flickers. All i have to do is to restart my PC. I … |
| | A friend has a toshiba A205 S4777 and reinstalled software from manufacturer discs. Afterwards the multi disc driver will not read cds but reads DVDs with no problem. Device Manager shows everything working correctly and computer reads the drive letter. I tried to upgrade the driver and no success. Uninstalled … Hardware storage |
| | hi i have this comp and all lights come on and fans but no picture on moniter its sounds like it want to boot up but then dies but lights and fans still run what could this be .help on this would be great thanks . Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have a Dell Latitude CPx-J laptop BIOS A16. It recently got the BSD and wouldn't boot. I removed the HDD(20GB) and heard a rattling sound. No problem (so I thought) and bought a new 80GB HDD(IDE ATA-6). I replaced the disk and now the laptop won't recognize it. When … Hardware bsd hard-drive ide troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello all!:) My microphone randomly stopped working a while ago and i went through several forums and guides on how to fix it, i now have it partially fixed. My microphone now works but on my soundcard only, when i use it for VoIP other people can my computer sounds … Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Just in the last couple of weeks my mouse has stopped working after I reboot my comp. If I unplug it and plug it back in again it works fine, until the next reboot anyway. I've tried different usb ports, a different mouse, defaukt mircosoft drivers, the latest logitech drivers, … Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Hi Guys, I was wondering [COLOR=#0000ff]Are most laptops ok to be plugged into generators? I've heard that some need to run through inverters??? Also my friend told me that with some laptops you need an inverter if your going to connect it to a generator, is this true? If so … |
| | I am looking to build my own computer as it is cheaper than buying a prebuilt one and i can get it to do what i want. I will mostly be using it for gaming. my budget will be around $1000 - $1200. I know a little bit about computers … Hardware gaming motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | So basically at this point I cant turn the comp on from the power button. Before hand it did it once before and at the time my wife had brought it in to Geek Squad ( I know, I know...) anywho they shrugged it off said it was the motherboard … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I don't know if this is the right place, but my question is multi tier and I apologize in advance if this doesn't belong here. Anyway, I am looking at buying a new laptop for college. I am going to be studying Computer Science so I need something at least … |
| | yes when I play World or Warcraft and I minimize it then restore it i get this error msg .. i also get it sometimes before it loads up ..and the same thing happens when i try to play Counter strike.. the msg is A problem has been detected and … |
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