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Hi I have a dell d505 wich is dead no power when i switch on with battery when i plug in the power adapter the green light is on but when i plug it into the laptop the green light goes OFF it sounds like i am getting a short …

Hi Everyone, Recently I pressed the power button on my Dell CPx and the lights came on, flashed a time or two and then it shut off. Now, this is with it plugged in. I tried it with a full battery and it did the same thing with the exception …

when i right click my computer and go to properties, i see that it says pentium(R) 4 cpu 2.40ghz 2.41ghz, 2.00 gb of ram. and when i go to device manager and go under processors, it shows me there are 2. does this mean im using 2 processors on one …

Hello everyone, I am looking to purchase a disc printer for my job. The one I am looking at is the Vision II Inkjet Printer. I would like to know if anyone has one or had experience working with one. If so, I would also like to know if you …

I have a Satellite A10 Laptop Model number PSA10C035WM, I was running AVG Free antivirus when I came back to my laptop the computer had crashed saying that C:/windows32 Config file is corrupt or missing.The CD Rom won't read the recovery disk and I have no floppy drive.I have the …

About a month ago, all six USB ports on our computer (Compaq Presario S3100NX) suddenly stopped recognizing anything we would plug in. We only use a few of them for our printer, MP3 player and memory drive. There is still power going to all of them. I can charge my …

I'm looking into purchasing a new phone / pda for my Verizon service. It will be my first PDA since my old Psion days in the early/mid 90s. The two phones I'm currently looking at are the Palm Treo 700W Smartphone and the Verizon Wireless XV6700. For more information, check …

I have a ACER TravelMate 4011WLCi. The screen doesn't work at all. I hooked up a video projector to the Blue Port in the back and the video projector couldn't find a source at all. Is this a problem with the video card? If so, how do I check or …

Hello, I was wondering if someone knew how i can use both of my hard drives for storage. my primary C drive is only 6 GB and my D drive is 8 GB and Pretty much empty. i have been trying to drag programs folders into the D drive by …

I have a Philips internal (aftermarket) cd/dvd drive that has always worked fine with all WMP iterations. All of a sudden, related to no software or hardware issue I can think of, I get the error message stating that Windows Media Player can't detect any cd drive. I have checked …

hi i am new to this field about 2 years and i am 14 years old, i juz wanna noe cuz i will be upgrading to a newer GPU (Gigabyte Geforce 8600 GT) all i know its not tooo bad and it is at least good on playing crysis...rite? oh …

If I buy a new AMD CPU, do I have to buy a new fan too or can I use the fan from my previous AMD CPU with a different socket? Do the sockets have to be the same?

Hi there my pc wont boot up i need help! when i switch the pc on there is no picture and the fans continue to run constantly. my cpu is 2.0 ghz, 512 ram, 160gb, and i was on msn when i last used it. many thanks :cool:

Hi all. I've got my buddy's IBM R51 ThinkPad. Had some serious problems, so I backed up his data and reformatted the thing. Running XP SP2 on it...but having NO luck with getting ethernet/wireless internet installed. The 'Found New Hardware' box pops up saying it found an Ethernet controller. I've …

My flash drive keeps going on and off. When I plug it in, nothing usually happens, and I waited like 20 mins and it popped up. Then it went away again after a few minutes. And when its off, Windows can't detect it, so i can't format it. I have …

I got this computer from a friend who was having some problems booting it up. I tried to run a floppy disc to format the hard drive, but it doesn't make it that far in the start-up process. The OS is Windows 98, I believe. The computer is a Intel …

I just bought a motoslvr L7. I installed a memory chip for more space and it works fine. i formated it and i can transfer files to it successfully from my phone, my problem arises when i put songs on the card. the songs are successfully transfered to the chip …

hey guyz i have this little problem that i cant figure out , and frankly its very irritating i was woundering of u guyz could take a look and tell me whats the problem or how to resolve the it. i built my second extreme low budget pc for lan …

Hello all, This is my first post here, but this seems to be an extremely knowledgable and amiable community with some individuals who are incredibly capable and eager to help and after this, I'll certainly be back. I've been having a recurring problem with my home PC - roughly 20% …

hello ,i have windows xp sp2 home edition (os),it was working fine ,2 days back i got some form of infection (virus-spyware-malware)it made my computer hell ,i couldnt remove it with any standard or known protection systems ,tried so many ,then it went worse a pop up came on my …

i got the laptop Medion MD 95334. Intel (R) Pentium (R) Mo processor 1.60 GHz 798 MHz, 480 MB of RAM. Does anyone know how to upgrade this laptop's RAM? I see a rectangular PC card slot PCMCIA on this laptop? Is that where I put the RAM? Thank you.

Hey everyone il make this as short as i can :- i have a kmex 500watt PSU and i got it for my second lan party rig and after i putt all the parts together and assembled it in the case which is a mATX it looked very untidy thats …

I have a Dell 8400. Shortly after powering on the PC it seems over heat and shut down. When powering up, the fan in the power supply spins very slowly at first and speeds up after a while, all the while making an unusual noise. After it shuts down, the …

hello When u have dual system ram for example 200mhz 256x2 they should run at 400mhz each or atleast 200+ , i mean this is nothing big but just a thought on a my mind ''like take my ram for instance corsair 512x2 of 667mhz , now it says dual …

gday.i have an asus an8 (gto i thinks) MB, it has 4 slots for ram and can run dual channel. dual channel activates in slots 1/2 and 3/4.i have 4 x 512mb matched ram in atm. i have a spare 1GB stick, so would there be any advantage by replacing …

HI There, just found this site and decided to signup & see whats its all about, looking good!! but whilst here does anybody know where I can download a mac Ibook installation package that I can put on a Pendrive and use to install a new OS??? much thanks

i have a Toshiba Satellite M20 running an Intel Pentium M @ 1.3GHz in an Intel 855GM chipset @ 400MHz, is there a way to know the maximum ram compatibility? sorry... i'm not very experienced in hardware...

Hi everyone! I got a HP Pavilion 700. Pretty sure the motherboard got fried. Doesn't turn on. Was wondering what I can Replace it with? Was going to use same HD, OS, CPU, case, power supply, ETC. What info do I need to know which will work? Thanks everyone!

Im building my dad a pc and i found these parts but will they work together perfectly? His pc is for stock trading. ANTEC P182 USING A SPARE PSU 250G 32 MB CACHE HDD A RANDOM DVD/CD BURNER 8600GT [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122[/url] [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115018[/url] [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134[/url] [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059[/url]

hi, friends my system config is: Intel EM64T 3 ghz processor, Asrock 945gl dual motherboard having 6 sata ports, 1 gb ddr ram, 80 GB, i am running windows XP. My problem is, recently i have bought a 160 GB sata seagate hard disk but my sysmtem is not reporting …

Hello, I have a computer I built about 2 years ago maybe a little longer. I recently upgraded my DVDRW drive from IDE to Sata. Now more times then not when I insert a cd the drive begins to spin it and then shuts down. It takes me a while …

When this computer booted, there was no keyboard functionality. I disconnected the keyboard, then plugged it into a different USB port. The lights came on, so I opened IE,a and selected the search box (Google) and the box began filling with plus signs.(++++++++++....) I disconnected the USB extension cable and …

Hello. I got a Sony Vaio Laptop for Christmas and it's been working fine up until last night. I tried to turn it on and the power light went green (as usual) but the screen stayed blank and this continued to happen until finally it started, but seconds after it …

i had a 512mb pc3200 ram. my uncle replaced his computer and gave me two 512 DDR pc3200. i've installed both of them in but now it only reads 1 gig of ram. i went on crucial.com and it only reads that i have 2 slots filled. and 2 slots …

First of all cheers 2 all :) This is officially my first <help me> post, I stumbled on this web after googling the magic words "girls gone wild" and hitting the Im Feeling lucky button, then....oh wait... No that was before. I mean googled "motherboard random shutdown" :$ That said,I …

Ok so I dont know much about computers so this is tough for me. I'm hoping everyone here can help me fix my computer without having to reboot it or something I'm not sure If I even have a boot disc for it anyways. So you know when the computer …

This is one I've never seen before and I'm hoping someone can help. I was a computer support person for over 20 years and am now retired. The machine in question has been in operation for about a year. No changes have been made to the hardware. At power on …

I cannot remember when it started happening but sometime Quarter Four of last year I started seeing “seams” in games I play that were never previously there. The “seams” vary from game to game (In World of Warcraft there was a seam running down the middle of all characters if …

What is the Best mother board/CPU combo for Gaming?

Hi all, and thanks for reading. This is my 1st post, I'm not an expert at pc's, but do like to try to fix them, but now I give up!! lol I have a Samsung GT9000 laptop, win xp pro, SP2. I was doing a defrag, and seleted "shut down …

I have an older Dell PC that has gotten a virus within the past year. Had the PC completely erased and supposedly everything was reinstalled. I lost the password to my printing software and can't recover it, along with a few other important capabilities. Can you help me? Dell support …

Hello everybody! I am in need of your advice. I have been building computers for the past 2 years, and I do understand the most of it. ;) I have however not kept up with the ram market. At the moment, I am building a gaming rig, and I need …

i have this really old laptop, a toshiba satellite M20, which has become obsolete over the years... it's got 223 ram, 30gig HDD, centrino... so i was thinking in upgrading the pc's motherboard, processor and ram... is that possible? and if it is, is it adviceable?

After creating a Msdos startup disk, I still have challenges accessing and formatting drive C. The file system in C: is NTFS. Can someone please give me a nice step by step black scree syntax? Thanx

Hey, remember me? I'm back with no signal! *dun dun dun dun* *dramatic music* I rebuilt my computer... Heres what I've changed: New Motherboard: Asus P5N-E Sli New Video Card: e-GeForce 8600GT New Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 New Ram: 1 GB DDR2 Ram (1 chip, but I'll probably …

i am an IT officer for a small computer and we have been using the dell optiplex machines for sometime now but we are now facing some problems with the machines and i really need help. i have tried removing the RAM, checking the power supply and bios but these …

HI guyz, I have a laptop which cannot boot from the CD drive. I cant change the boot sequence because I mispalced the setup configuration password. I cant actually do any configuration in the setup screen since its all disabled by the password. I have tried several CMOS masterpasswords all …

ok i just saw i wsnt suppose to post questions here... im sorry i hope this is ok to post this here but anyways i will try to explain my problem andi hope i can get help here . i changed out motherboards about a month ago. since then about …

hi guys i know you have probably come accross this problem loads of times but i have installed a second hard drive on my pc as a slave it is showing up in add hardwere and is saying that the new hard drive is working but its not showing up …

i have had my laptop since june of 03 several people have tried to work on it i wasn't around but they said they got farther than i did i get it back and it is the same way i turn it on fan kicks on hardrive doesn't nor mouse …