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My PC is having problems...and by that I mean it crashed and wont turn back on (dead). Basically...it gives off the burning smell when you take off the case. I tried taking everything off the Motherboard (even the CPU), and just plugging in the Power Supply to it, and a …

Hello there all!!! I guessed this would be the best place for me to ask question. A cousin of mine has a sony VGN-C140G, he told me that just after he formatted it...his CD ROM drive stopped reading CDs. It is getting kinda troublesome finding the solution. I tried unstalling …

I am building a htpc and using a ecs elitegroup nforce 6100 mobo and I think it might have died. The fans spin, the ide drive and the hard drive spin and so does the fan on my graphics card. However it wont light up the network lights when I …

I have a bunch of songs that I downloaded and burned to cd-r disks, and they play fine in the normal cd player, but there is one problem. After one track is finished, it repeats, instead of skipping to the second track, and the only way to get to the …

Hello all well I'm writing cause I have a rather pricey problem. I own a TOSHIBA Satellite P105-S9722 It began with a slew of problems, initially it began shutting down at random times, running for hours, or just minutes. Also included with crazy messages on the blue screen of death, …

I recently bought another video card hoping to squeeze a couple more years our of PC gaming but have since had a major system malfunctions. My current situation is that the computer does not seem to post (nothing on the monitor). I checked the video card and also the previous …

i have a Dell Computer Corp. 0F5949 A01 motherboard with 512mb of ram. i want to upgrade that but being a teenager my funds are quite limited. i dont know if the mhz have to be the same but mine has 400 and i have no clue if it has …

I have a Compaq Presario 501NR that I bought from Best Buy in March of 2007. We went on a trip to New Orleans a couple of days ago and when I went to plugged it in at the Hilton, it would not power on. The battery has been bad, …

I just bought a new machine to make into a media center but when I connect the cd drive to the power and the IDE cable ( When connected just to the power it is fine ) it wont work it wont get powered. The drive is a Phillips CD-RW/DVD-ROM …

Hey everybody. So I ordered all new parts for a brand new PC recently. Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P 2GB DDR2 RAM Seagate 500GB HDD Atrix Gaming Case GeForce 8800 GT Sonic Here is my problem... I hooked up my mobo, PSU, CPU, heatsink and GFX card. The …

i dont know what happened to it. games that worked fine couple of days ago is now making my computer crash to a black screen and locks up. ive downloaded all the updates for windows and my graphics card (ati radeon x700 pro), i even called the ati costumer support …

I have a question to everyone and sort of asking for an opinion... Which is better...Intel CPU's or AMD CPU's??? I personally work with AMD CPU because i think they are better, and faster... I have heard from people (from another country outside USA) that AMD are used in game …

Hi House, am quite new in here, my hp desktp pc failed to boot from bios setup, the power light is on and the cooling fan turns as well as the board feeling warm. pls help. thnx

Sony VAIO PCV-RZ54G Pentium 4 Processor Motherboard ASUSTek P4SD-VL Installed Memory: 1.5 GB (2x256 and 2x512) DDR PC3200 Maximum: 2GB DDR PC3200 I recently bought a 1 GB kit of memory that was supposed to be compatible with the Sony PCV-RZ54G. When I opened my computer, I had two 256 …

Which is the better type of graphix card right now, in your opinion? Would you take the 280 or 4850? Which brand is best for overclocking?

Hi All, Firstly, I am not too sure if I am posting this problem in the correct forum, if so, please let me know... My sister has a Toshiba Satellite A135-S2386, it's a little over 1 year old, and her USB ports have suddenly stopped working...when she got it from …

Hey all, aight well this is a first for me and just to let everyone know i'm not computer savye at all. I know enough to run my computer and that's pretty much it so if you reply make sure to dumb it down for me thanks. So here's the …

Well guys, long story short. Very old laptop, Toshiba Satellite 2400 with intel pentium4 with XP Pro. About 4 years ago i gave it to my brother when it was working just fine apart frpm the CD/DVD drive which had given up but i gave it to him as he …

aint getting anything from post intel pentium 4 cpu 3.2 ghz 1 gig stick just added it was able to before but now it wont could it be the thermal grease that i put on to the cpu could i have not put enuf ??? should i put the 256 …

Basically this is what happened. My wireless connection was having troubles, I clicked repair connection and the process hung at disabling network adaptor. I was kind of annoyed and so I tried finding the right process to shut down in the task manager so that I could manually disable the …

My USB and COM ports stopped working recently, reformatting-reinstalling didn't help.. After sometime i installed linux.. Instead of repairs, i was advised to buy an internal PCI USB card.. but all the packages available say "Windows 98/2000/ME/XP".. Although the shopkeeper says it'll be functional on linux, i don't really wanna …

Hi there I am new to all this and hope that someone out there can help me PLEASE!. I have been using a 1GB flash drive for about 3 months with no problems at all. Suddenly two days ago my computer does not even display that the flash drive is …

Hey. My company has a bunch of files backed up on zip disks. the IT guy insisted that they use zip disks... LMAO!!! but i need the information off of the disks and can't get my computer to recognize it. i can't find any drivers online, so i don't know …

Right, i m sure this is a quite easy one to answer but i have been reading a lot of information and it s a lot contradictory. So here it is, what is the difference between an LCD TV and Plasma TV? I know these days LCDs are outselling Plasmas …

Hi guys Ohk this one I havent spent some time on yet but I can tell that this is not gonna be a good one.Ohk problem is a friend of mine has a Gigabyte mobo and is experiencing a the following when starting his machine [COLOR="Green"]Scanning BIOS image in Hard …

I was trying to install Windows XP in my Gateway Notebook Model MA7 with SATA Drive but it comes out with the message Hard disk not found while there is active HDD ditected in the BIOS setup. I have done all I can in the Bios setup but to no …

I've installed a new motherboard and processor. When I power up the unit, I see the processor cooling fan spinning but that is it. I'm not getting any video or POST boot errors. Also, the only way to power down the unit is to shut it off at the power …

After reformatting & reinstalling Windows XP on my system, I now have no audio on my PC. WHat can I do to regain the audio on my system.

Hey, I have a maxtor 150 gig hard drive. Its running on xp system with 1gig ram so pretty decent. I was working on something and then the system crashed so i restarted. Then it did a system check on E drive (the external hard drive) The drive was normally …

I am currently working on a PC belonging to a friend and am experiencing the following problem. The PC will start up ok but as it is going through the Post process it comes up with KEYBOARD ERROR - KEYBOARD MISSING OR NOT FOUND. I have tried two brand new …

Hi my name is Grace and I am having a problems with my printer. Two week ago I had a anti-virus trying to sell me some software so every time I clicked they came up. So my sister tried to help me and we got rid of the virus software. …

Ok, this is a strange one... Was running the Fedora 9 live cd, and deleted some stuff off my desktop in Vista. I also was getting ready to play a movie (all my movies are stored on my external drive) while the Fedora installer ran on the Live Cd. The …

I recently purchased an ATEN KVM CS-72E switch. I am using the switch to connect 2 computers to an LCD monitor. This setup works most of the time, but sometimes, when I switch to one of the computers, I get the message "Analog Out of Range". This never happened when …

can anyone help i have got a toshiba satellite pro 4200 that i got from ebay. it had windows 98 on it well i got a xp disc and put it on worked fine went on internet etc well later that day turned it on the toshiba sighn comes on …

TOSHIBA A65 - was using it and it turned itself off - it was running on battery at the time. Plugged it up and the 2 LED lights that are normally lit when the laptop is plugged in are lit but I cannot get it to power on. I waited …

Hey, I'm diligently trying to install a SATA hard drive (Western Digital 160GB) with my ASUS K8V SE Deluxe and the damn thing wont recognize it at all. I can only connect it with a SATA cable (no ribbon option, which is what the previous HDD was) and the motherboard …

Hello good folks at Dani Web !!!! I hope I'm posting this in the right place, if I'm not, let me know and I'll repost it where I'm supposed to. I have a Dell Dimention 3000, Windows XP Home, 2.8GHz, 80 GIG hard drive A friend of mine gave me …

I was running the ECS K7S5A, I just got my new ECS L7S7A2 board, moved all my stuff over to it, but no display on post. I did all the typical stuff, disconnected everything, reset CMOS, reseated the card, etc, etc-- nothing. Everything seems to be working fine other than …

What's up guys, my names Alex. 20 y/o from NJ. computer animator/digital artist, and hardware fanatic. After about 2.5 years on a socket 939 Athalon X2 4400+/2 gig DDR400 system, I decided I wanted something a little more up to date, and of course, I was gonna save money to …

Trying to install a PCI NIC card into a Win98SE machine but it doesn't say who the manufacturer is. I have found the following on the card: NE-320X-S-1/1D YA206266F0 000442 (the barcode) Chip is PTF-20525D and FFC# 292320XS1D20 there is also (0207) on the card I assume that this is …

Laptop is 13 1/2 months old and appears dead. Will not turn on with or without power supply, whether battery is in or not. Voltmeter on power supply shows 19.78V DC output so it is functioning. No lights of any kind light up on laptop when power supply plugged in. …

Satellite 1135-s1554 laptop will not boot up from battery or power supply. The first time the error came up was in Sept. 06, since then it has been operating great. The first signs of trouble was the lcd screen display was garbled and you could correct the lcd display screen …

OK... So about 2 month ago I bought a GB of RAM and put it into my computer, no problems, worked fine... Then about 4 weeks later I bought another GB of RAM and put that in with no problems, worked fine... Everything was great until a couple of days …

hi all, my 1st post here. I have a dell gx260, celery 1.7ghz cpu, 512 meg, 40 gig hd. sometimes the power switch works fine, sometimes it doesn't work at all. by that I mean it does nothing! no lights/beeps/fans. it's as though it's not even connected (I checked & …

I own a dell latitude d600 with windows xp pro. On startup it takes me to a screen for selecting how to start windows, regardless of my selection the computer reboots. An error message does appear, but only briefly. I do not know what this message says because it does …

My PC had the blue screen of death "physical dump" menu this morning and then shut down. When I powered it back up it has no display, keyboard, or mouse activity. Has anyone else seen this before?

Hey everyone. I've gotten some great help before, and this community is fantastic!! But now I have another problem. A week ago I installed a floppy drive on my machine - or, at least, got a floppy drive to read and transfer files (maybe I didn't install correctly?). Anyway, all …

i don't know what's the problem with my cd-rom drive but the icon in MY Computer keeps on disappearing frequently. i tried clicking on device manager, scanned the hardware but it remains hidden. The icon isn't visible. Can anyone plz help in this regard? it's too frustrating at times. Thanxx....

Hi hope someone can help me fix this extremely frustrating PC problem. Please excuse my lack of PC know-how, but I will try to explain my problem as best I can. For some time now, our main desk-top PC has been crashing out randomly, and displaying a black screen. "No …

My name is Shannon. And i was referred to you guys (this site) by a friend. I need help. I have recently purchased a Great Quality XZ 5361 Laptop offline and it didnt come with these following drivers: Multimedia Audio Controller, Network Controller, PCI Simple COmmunications COntroller, & the Video …