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I recently purchased an OCZ Tech Game X Stream 1010w PSU. After installation everything powers up, but the computer does not start going through the BIOS. All I get is a blank screen. After re installation of the old PSU (unknown model, came with an old Gateway tower) rated at …

Hello, I need help, after dust cleaning my computer with celeron466, 256RAM, it will not boot through post at all, it will power up and just stay there with no screen and nothing. re-sit RAM and try different video card with no luck. Can anyone please help!! It is a …

Hi, i have just upgraded my computer to 64bit after my last computer failed on me, i think that in the process of my last computer failing, windows must have corrupt as i can't load up windows with this hard disk - i just get a blue screen error straight …

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I have a user's laptop which is currently running XP Media Center. In order to connect his notebook to the domain, I have to reformat and reinstall as XP Pro. One problem... it appears that his hard drive is SATA and I can't get the XP install disk to see …

I decided to try and revive an old compaq presario 2264 pc that has been collecting dust in my basement for the last 4 years. We shelved it due to a corrupted hard drive so I installed an 80GB one that I took from a dead dell computer. To the …

When I turn my PC (HP Media Center M370n) on, its boots up, then after about a minute or so, the computer just shuts off.. What the hell???? I'm lost, someone please help....

Hi All, Newbie here building my first machine (have done upgrades before but first shot starting from scratch. Got my machine put together, hit the power button, held my breath, and nothing.... Well a little more than nothing. The fans kicked on, the hard disk appears to be running, the …

Hi all! I'm a new member, working on my friend's Dell Dimension 3000. It's about three years old, and never had any hardware changes other than a wireless card install. At first, it wasn't completing booting. It would go through the opening splash screen, but then would go to a …

Hi, Well I'm having some trouble with my custom built PC. While at work my computer turned off and now it won't turn back on. I usually leave my computer running, so it was strange to see it off when I came home. It seems to be getting power, the …

I put 1G of RAM (Crucial) into my Compaq R3000 laptop (in addition to the existing 256M). I fired it up and it booted fine - maybe a little faster than before. I opened the System window, verified it recognized the additional RAM – 1.2G RAM present, no problem! Then …

Hi, I am having a somewhat similar problem with my Gateway laptop, using my rather inferior troubleshooting skills I have not reached any conclusions. It is a 400 series laptop, and It won´t turn on at all, with the battery in or out, plugged in or unplugged. Power is getting …

I have just bought a Maxtor 3200 usb external hard drive. It is formatted in ntfs. I have two operating systems Win98SE and XPHome. Both are formatted in fat32. I need to keep them both in fat32. However, I can't seem to format the hard drive in fat32 (doesn't give …

List the wattage for the Power Supply (PSU) on your computer. Who has the highest, and can PROVE IT!!!

Hi all. I have a custom built system that I've been using for around 3 years. To save power, I hibernate it before I go to bed. The other day, when I tried turning it back on from hibernate, nothing happened. The motherboard power light is on, the power supply …

Hi everyone I recently discovered a little about computers in my vocational engineering program at my highschool and I guess I started using my Grandmothers desktop as my lab rat and I started off by adding like memory sticks from old broken computers to hers, that worked out fine, added …

Hi, When I run the XP installation CD, the following message appears: "Disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition" I'm guessing this message stems from the fact that neither FAT32 nor NTFS partition is present (see below). "244 MB Disk on disk [MBR] Unpartitioned space 243 MB 76317 MB …

I have a Dell Dimension E310. Had to re-install Windows XP on it. I have no sound, sound card is integrated into the MOBO, and I cannot find those drivers. What type of sound card can install on this machine ? Help! anyone..

Hello, I am a new member to this forum. I hope it is ok to ask a question. I have a dell 942 all-in-one printer and I am trying to set up the fax service. I have at&t dsl setup with a filter on each phone jack. It was suggested …

Recently i've been having some computer trouble. I dont know if its the tower, like if something got infected in it, or if its the monitor. I myself am thinking its the tower, because I swapped my current monitor with my parent's to see if that was the problem. It …

I have struck out getting help from the video card maker and the monitor maker, so I am turning here for help. I am considering buying a Viewsonic monitor (the VA2226W) whose recommended resolution is 1680 x 1050. I have an older (and discontinued) video card, an ATI All in …

Hello, Acer laptop 8200 travelmate will not start after being off for a long period of time. I press the power button and the CPU fan starts going the screen remains black, the CPU activity light starts to blink, and then you can hear the fan just stop turning while …

hi guys sorry if i posted this in the wrong part of the forums if it is u can transfer it to the appropriate section my question is: Is Counter Strike Source playable in this specs? Intel G965 Chipset latest driver & GMA X3000 graphic 1.5 GB DDR 2 533 …

Hello, System is a three year old HP Pavilion zv5120us with XP Home SP2. The problem initially started as a recurring BSOD with stop error 0x000000f4. KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR was displayed one time with this stop error. After the initial BSOD, restarting Windows normally took from five to ten minutes. Subsequent BSODs …

I don't have much experience with laptops and am helping someone with their laptop on Tuesday and figure I'd go in with some advice. I've searched the web, talked to people, but would like some final clarification. The individual spilled a drink onto the keyboard of a laptop. Now when …

Hello everyone! I recently purchased a new hard drive and installed windows xp. Everything was doing great until i started playing GTA. At some points of the game the screen freezes and the sound turns to a horrible noise. I also discovered that also playing videos from the web( e.g. …

HELLO I recently bought a cheap pc from a friend and thought i would be able to get it going with the right bits that it needed internally (harddrive memory etc) The problem is it tries to boot up and all it seems to do is the cpu fan is …

I am not as familiar with RAM as I would like to be...I want to upgrade the RAM in my PC. I have a Dell that uses PC3200 400MHZ ram. Can I use any brand PC3200 RAM or do I have to use RAM that indicated it is for a …

Sorry for the long post, but I'm trying to be as complete as possible. I'm working on a friend's 8200 which suffered a drop. It was in a padded briefcase on an airline seat and got bumped to the deck by a guy passing by. It was powered off at …

can anyone help me how can i make a cd writeprotected.

Hi everyone! I wanted to ask you. I have four slots for RAM memory on my motherboard. 2 slots are taken by Dual Channel 256 Mb DDR SDRAM and 1 by Single Channel 512 Mb. I wanted to buy a single channel 1 Gb RAM, but somewhere on the internet …

Hi everyone. I CAN NOT GET ANY OPERATING SYSTEM TO RUN ON MY OLD COMPUTER, and I suspect it MAY be video-related first of all, here are my current specs: -P3 ~933mhz -256mb RAM -30gb hard drive -CD-RW drive -ATI RAGE PRO 128 ~ 64mb AGP video memory -on-board video …

anyone have any suggestions or set-ups for servers for a small business, that'll be able to handle networking the office together, run a website off of, run phones, basic business needs. Anyhelp will be appreciated, I haven't even started on the build, so anything from info on the motherboard to …

I've noticed many others have had the same problems... I'm one of those guys that has to take things apart to see what makes them work, knowing only a little and always getting myself in over my head. Yesterday the computer decided to quit while sitting there quietly running. It …

Hi folks, The day before last my Compaq wouldn't boot up :( After much troubleshooting I believe I have found the problem; a dead graphics card. I put the graphics card from my DELL into the Compaq and it did actually boot up (albeit with a terrible display resolution). So …

I have acer aspire 3020 laptop problem started 3 months ago screen display started to fade in bottom left of screen then ok for a week or two then returned each time lasted a little longer. now all of left side of screen fades from left to right. Got No …

hey yall, ive got a bit of experience building pcs, this is my 3rd for myself, but this is the first time im using sata drives. my problem is that when i get to the install for vista the damned pc wont boot from the vista dvd. i even tried …

i recently bought a new mp3 player, but i'm making sure it will work before i open it.. aka before i can take it back to wally world.. will this work? its an rca 256 meg m202 flash mp3 player req:64 meg ram 150 meg hd space windows 98se pentium …

Im visiting my parents and they just installed a new printer on their pc, it told them to restart the pc so they did. however the pc would not restart so my mom decided to pull the plug out of the wall and put it back in, now when i …

I have a friend who installed a new monitor. Acer Model AL2016wc We resized the display to make it easier to veiw, but she does not like her icons that small and going back through settings/control panel/display.. cannot change her settings back to where they were. Please help.

It's a Del GX260. After a power outage, it does not boot. Message: no boot device found

Hi all. My wife's iBook G3 is showing the small folder icon with a flashing ? on it. She has not backed up the HD for some time and reeeealllly needs documents off it. Listening closely at start up, I do not hear the HD spin, but rather hear two …

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this is going to be a long thread coz i will explain the situation in detail. ok the problem is simple....the computer 'beeps'when i turn it on and then shuts down automatically and nothing comes on the screen. these are the hardwares that i currently have PSU: coolermaster extreme …

Hello all! This is my first post here so go easy with me! I have been putting together a new build machine using a Foxconn 6497 motherboard and a ATi radeon X300 64MB graphic card. The board has no built in graphics ,so hence the small graphics card just to …

I have an old IBM laptop 560X model 2640-60U. It has a Pentium 200MHZ processor with 96 Megs of ram. I have a Mobile CD PCMCIA CD Rom drive that I would like to use with this laptop. I do have a drivers floppy for this CD rom drive. I …

after update of bios, Computer can't start windows or read HDD. i only get black screen. It's defenltiy Bios!

Hey all, newbie here, have a question for ya. Machine: HP PAvillion 5218nr (2006) 80Gb HD 200Meg Ram (UG) And the ever lovely Celeron M I've read similar posts on the topic already but wonder whether there's a genuine problem uninstalling/deleting the HP system recovery partition if i have the …

Hi I bought 80 gb IDE HD for celeron PC as secondary HD When i installed the hd it suppose to show the full volume of 80 gb but it was showing only 34gb. I thought this celeron PC may not support such big HD So I tried the same …

Hello everyone, *sigh* continous computer problems recently. I had a faulty hard drive replaced it with a 320 gb SATA seagate hard drive a little while ago(starting from scratch). The old hard drive kept refreshing; it was whirling down, then spinning, the whirling.. etc. After installing the new hard drive …

Is this a good gaming mobo? EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard