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| | I have an HP Pavilion 740n with a pentium 4 1.6ghz cpu, 2 x 256mb RAM (max RAM is 2gig) and onboard graphics. My problem is I wanted to upgrade the video card and RAM so I bought a card and a 512mb stick. I took out the 2 256mb … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | i start my system yesterday... it works finely for 20 minutes and shut down like a power cut.... after 5 miniutes it works... so can any body exlplain me what is the problem Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I hope someone can help me. I have a Sony VAIO PCV-RZ46G. After years of stuff I thought I would format everything and start from scratch. I have the recovery disks. The machine came partitioned with a 15GIG C: and the rest of the 200GIG HD was D:. I thought … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I've got some 5.1 speakers and they are currently plugged into my onboard 5.1 soundcard. I've recently bought the Razer Barracuda headphones which are also 5.1 sound. Was wondering if there are any sound cards that could allow me to have both plugged in at the same time (i.e. the … Hardware pci-card  |
| | So, I have a Macbook and one day for absolutely no reason it would not load the OS (Gray screen with question mark in the center). So I loaded via OS CD and I come to find that the hard drive (60GB) is dead. I called their support line, product … Hardware apple apple-hardware hard-drive mac-hardware |
| | I am new here and not a tech person so I hope it is okay to post here. I'm not sure everything is related but thought the details might help figure out what might be wrong. I own a HP a420n running Windows XP. I have had it for a … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | I'm hoping someone can give me some help with a self-made problem. I intended to get a reduced price lan drive for my home wifi network and bought a) a LanDrive case and b) a 500GB Western 'Element5' USB drive. However, when I stripped down the drive I found that … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | What site offers the best prices and most reliability? Superdeals wanted. Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
 | I'm having problems with 2 USB ports. This has only been happening since Windows ME crashed and I had to install Windows XP. I had all the cords unplugged and had plugged in another computer while I was waiting for some software in the mail. Then I plugged all the … Hardware flash motherboards-cpu-ram  |
| | Hello everybody, I really really need help with my laptop....:( O.k this is what happened.... My laptop is about 3 months old (so pretty much new), I have Windows Xp on it and I was installing The Sims 2 yesterday. It worked well and today I wanted to try and … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | My grandmother has a Dell Dimension 4500S it was working very well but a few weeks ago start acting crazy. When I turn the power on, the machine boot-up ok, but after the windows XP logo appears the display goes blank and then nothing else happens, the lights on the … Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram video video-card |
| | I assembled a pc a year ago and it worked well until recently. Once I press the power switch it starts but nothing comes on the screen and I don't get the *beep* sound either. After few attempts I found out a weird way to make it boot up. First … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | Hi, I Have A Problem. My Computer Has Been Unable To Get Online. I Have Found A Fault With My Extension Cable, But I Dont Understand With My New Modem Cable Why It Doest Work, Whereas My Old One Does!!? I Have A 1gb Athlon Computer 128mb Ram. Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 4500, About a year ago I decided to open the hinged case to clean some of the dust out. After she was all cleaned out I went to start her up. Well, she would start, but would not boot into windows. Just a yellow light … Hardware java-swing motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Cam anyone help me answer that question? I have a compaq Presario using PC2700 512gb DDR-333 184 pin ram. I am told I have 2 slots. Will the machine be faster with two 512's or one 1024?? Thanks Greg Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I've owned a Toshiba Satellite L15-S104 Laptop for a couple years now, but a few months ago it died on me. I'm not all that knowledgeable when it comes to actual computer hardware, so please excuse my ignorance/stupidity. I don't have all of the machine's specs as of right now, … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video |
| | Hello people, I wonder why many business machines such as servers and process computer (I work in one power plant) use SCSI disks? I noticed that practically all computers that do a lot of processing use SCSI disks. These computers are rather old (4 years and older). Maybe today, situation … Hardware storage |
| | I have got a HP Pavillion laptop and yesterday it has developed an annoying problem. I was justing exiting an application and just nipped to the toilet, when I came back to it the windows loading screen was frozen on the machine. I reset the machine and it started to … Hardware hard-drive laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
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| | I finally have had enough, for the past 1-2 years I've been bearing with this unreliable machine. The problem; When ever I'm playing a game it will randomly freeze up.. simple as that. However the weird thing is this only happens when using a game on the Steam platform ([url]http://www.steampowered.com[/url]) … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi I have a Toshiba Portege M405 Laptop that is just over a year old and just out of warranty. The problem is that about 90% of the time when I hit the button to turn it on all that happens is the power light comes and nothing happens. Other … Hardware hard-drive laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Ok, so I just ordered a PC from CyberPowerPc.com. I ordered the video card (8350), and RAM seperate from NewEgg.com My motherboard specs state that by default, it runs RAM at 1.8v. The RAM I ordered can do both 1.8v and 2.0v. In the [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16820227195&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Page=1]reviews[/url] for the RAM I ordered, … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram video video-card |
| | Hello All, I have an emachine T3958 pc with an integrated Intel 82845G video card. I recently purchased a Gateway FDH 2400 24" wideescreen monitor with a native (preferred) resolution of 1920x1200. I have the latest driver installed for this crappy video card, and still no option for my preferred … Hardware display video video-card |
| | Hello all, Whenever i connect it to my friend's computer, it gets detected well. all the data from my disk can be copied to my friends disk. also all the data can be copied from my friends to mine disk also. but whenever i rejoin my disk to my computer, … Hardware storage |
| | Hello Everyone, This is the first time posting for me and hopefully I can get some feed back on booting problems. I'm trying to fix my boss's computer and I have no idea how to fix it. The computer goes to the windows loading screen and shows a black screen … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware windows-vista |
| | Which one of these hard drives would you recommend: Samsung SpinPointF1 1000GB, 7200rpm, 32MB cache, SATA-300 ($300 est.) Western Digital Raptor 150GB, 10000rpm, 16MB cache, SATA-150 ($179 est.) Online @ tomshardware.com, the majority of the benchmarks were ruling in favor of the samsung, but i don't get that!! how did … Hardware storage |
| | Hi -- sorry for redundancy I'm posting this as a new thread (though I contributed it to a former thread considered "solved", because I consider this issue far from solved, and need help! I have an HP 1315 All in one scanner/printer. It used to work just fine with my … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram printer |
| | Mesh system built Oct 2006. AMD 64 AM2 cpu, Asus M2n32-sli deluxe motherboard, 2 x 1gb kit PC2 7200 OCZ2N9002GK Dual CH EPP 4.4.3.15 DDR2 memory, NVidia Geforce 7950 GX2 graphic card, PSU HEC 550w. My Son dragged this wreck - sorry rig - home this Christmas when he said … Hardware first-post hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have a motherboard which supports: 2 x Serial ATA/300 SATA, 1 x Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) IDE and a SATA2 Hard drive, to they make converters to connect the SATA2 to one of my existing ports listed above? Thanks in advance.. Hardware hard-drive ide storage |
| | Here is the specs of my motherboard ports: 2 x Serial ATA/300 SATA, 1 x Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) IDE As you can see I have SATA controller built in. I purchased a WD 180 GB HDD which is SATA2 . My question is will the SATA2 HDD run off of … |
 | Will 585 PS be enough for this system? Biostar TForce TF7025-M2 Motherboard AMD64 X2 4200+ 2.2Ghz Dual Core Processor GeForce 7800 gs Graphix Card 2GB High-Speed DDR2-800 Memory 80GB Hard Drive With 2 Stock Case Fans Basically I am turning my old gaming PC into a web browsing and dling … Hardware gaming hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
 | I recently downgraded back to ME (kinda had it with Windows lately) and now my processor reads as unknown. When I built this computer I ran ME, so I know it is compatible. All device managers I have used, including AMD's cpuid, reads it as unknown, though cpuid's Vendor ID … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127329[/url] im asking cause i noticed it came with a power cable, and my current 7600gt didint comme with one so im not sure if it will work. my mobo is a dell DM051 and the chipset is North Bridge: Intel Lakeport-G i945G if i cant or cant work can … Hardware display |
| | The USB Flash drive on a Dell Dimension 4600 and 9150 is not being detected. I have updated the BIOS, Chipset, and Drivers. Other USB items work in the ports. I have tried differened Flash drives, in different ports. And the flash drives all work on different PC's. After I … Hardware flash pc-peripheral  |
| | My school uses very old pentium 4 based pc's that run as slow as a turtle, and i am tired of it. i want to know how to over clock it without messing up the hardware, or getting caught. the specs i know of are: 256 or 512mb ram 40 … Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram novell |
 | Good day. I'm trying to get the parts to build a desktop computer. I've got a few questions: 1. What determines what size (watts) power supply I'll need? 2. Is it better to have case fans for fans for the individual components...a fan for the RAM, a fan for the … Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I've been getting flickering graphics, nonstop during gameplay on every game i play. during movie sequences or anything outside of game its fine. I'm running the latest drivers but still no change. In Nvidia control pane, 3d settings - adjust image settings with preview, the preview shows the flickering too, … Hardware display |
 | For some reason my computer refuses to burn DVD's using Nero Express 6, or by simply copy and pasting the file i want to into the DVD drive icon in 'My Computer' My CD/DVD drive is a "_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG" I am trying to Burn with DVD-R's Any Ideas? Serunson. Hardware storage |
| | Hello everyone, I stumbled upon the site via google and it looks great so far. Okay, as for my problem, my parents' custom PC (my old one) doesn't seem to work except in Safe mode at the moment. I came home two days ago and plugged in a used usb … |
| | HI everyone at DaniWeb, Recently i got a Hannspree 32" HDTV and started using it as my primary monitor, it has been working fine for roughly 2months until now i have found that there appears to be a thick black blob on the inside of the screen. But also i … Hardware display  |
| | Hi, I am in the market for some more ram. I found out that my P.C. runs DDR pc3200 and DDR pc 2700. Now at the moment I have 512mb DDR pc2700 of ram on my computer. First off which ram would be better to have pc2700 or pc3200. Now … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have a gateway computer with a 2.8 MHz P4 w/ HT that stopped working. When booting, it gets stuck on the 3.5" floppy drive & just loops back to that divice & won't continue booting. I've tried disconnecting all my cards & the floppy & still get no bootup. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I recently replaced my old P5LP-LE asus motherboard(stock for the HP3000apavilion) with a GigaByte LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard becasue it would not support the Q6600 CPU I recently purchased. When I got everything into the case and powered up the machine would load until the "Windows" … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I am trying to make a driver floppy for my Western digital 80 gig sata hd, I have found the files but when i try to put them on a disk it tells me its too big... i had a floppy already but the info got corrupted and as i … Hardware storage |
| | My S6000NX machine will not turn on, and there is a green light that keeps flashing next to the switch. HELP!!! Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi everyone I have replaced my mobo for an asrock K7VT2 with Athlon 2400+ onboard. I purchased two stick of 1gb ddrpc3200 ram (Samsung 400mhz) and put in the two ddr ram slots. when booted up it showed as two stick of 512/226 ddr both in bios and windows. checked … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | OK - I have read a lot of threads - however - I have spent hours troubleshooting this - and I have it down to this - my SATA hard drive is causing my power supply to shutdown after about 4 - 5 seconds of booting up. My original power … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | hello all I have a p5nd2-sli deluxe with intel pentium D 2.80ghz chipset is nForce4 sli intel edition. currently running 2 gigs corsair ddr2 (pc2-5300) 333mhz in dual channel. I just purchased 2 gigs corsair ddr2 (pc2-6400) 800mhz, that i wanted to add to my other 2 slots that were … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram windows-vista |
| | Hello. I have a Victorinox Swissbit 512 flash drive. I have had it for over 4 years now, and used is several times a month. Recently, I tried accessing the data on it, and I receive the following error message: USB device not recognized. I tried troubleshooting with windows, but … |
| | My computer was on in the morning and out of no where a blue screen reading "Unmountable Boot Volume" popped up. I tried rebooting, but the same screen appeared over and over. I put in my Windows XP Home Edition disk, and I tried repairing it using the steps from … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
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