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I am using a gigabyte 7VT600 1394 motherboard. AMD 2800 processor at the auto settings on the motherboard It is running at 2075.00MHz, system buss of 166, and a multiplier of 12.5. Does this seem right or can I get more out of it. It seems a little slow for …

Hi, I added a hard drive from one pc to another & the graphics on the screen looks blurry and bad. when i download the manufacturer which is gateway video drive for that specific drive. when i try to install it following the guide it doesn't. the guide does say …

Hey, i bought 2x1GB ram upgrades, which didnt quite fit in my comp. they didnt click in all the way when i thought i had installed them, so really i had no RAM when i booted my computer up. i could tell the computer was on, but my monitor never …

I have my friend's PC which is almost identical to my so i told him i would look at it. When you start it, you don't get video. The screen wont even turn on. These are the troubleshooting steps i took. There is no internal speaker unfortunately. Yes, the DVD/CD …

The power supply reads proper voltage (voltmeter), however no lights come on for this 750gb Maxtor HD One Touch IV. I know that I can get a warranty one, however I had literally finished, one day before, organizing every single music, video, footage, file, and harddrive backup into something clear …

Hello, Could you explain me who i can put a password in hdd?

Hi guys,,, Ive got this new computer, its a proper gaming one, and as any usual person i started downloading programs/software. My computer was working absolutely fine, and still does but when i go to shut down, the screen, keyboard and mouse lights all go off but not the computer …

Hi I recently upgraded to windows vista and decided that its not for me so i want to downgrade... When i tried to set the system to boot from the XP CD i noticed that the IDE optical drives arent showing in BIOS... the wierd thing is their both present …

Hi all, I am reaching out for a bit of assistance. I hope to get some before I go all nuts... I have an Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard, to which one 200 GB SATA HDD is installed as the main drive. Then I have one small 20 GB IDE HDD …

Hi all, just found this forum and I could do with some help! :-) My wife has an old Time laptop, bought on Ebay second hand,about a year ago. Recently, over the last week or three it's started randomly shutting down - instantly, like the power went off suddenly. Tonight …

New Pc parts wont work correctly I just bought new: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-945GCM(X)-S2 Processor: Pentuim D 945+ 3.40 GHZ 800MHZ FSB Dual Core Memory: Corsair CM2X1024-6400 (2 Matching Modules Power Supply: Ultra "X-Connect" 500 Watt Power Supply. Video Card: EVGA E-GeForce 8600GTS Problem is: Put all the parts together properly, …

:confused: I OWN A CTX EZBOOK 800 SERIES LAPTOP WITH AN AMD-K6 333MHZ PROCESSER, 160MB RAM, 4 GB FUJITSU MHC2040AT HARD DRIVE, EXTERNAL PCMCIA 8GB IBM TRAVELSTAR E HARD DRIVE, 1.44 FLOPPY DISK DRIVE, 56K MODEM, AND A Q-LITY 4X4X6 CDRW (MODEL: ECW-043). PROBLEM: A FEW DAYS AGO, I DELETED …

When I shut down my computer, the num/caps/scroll lock lights on my keyboard flash on & off about 10-15 times & then remain permanently lit up while the computer is off. Also, the light on my optical mouse is always lit. Could someone PLEASE tell me what is going on …

I just recently started getting this error upon starting up the machine. i didnt do anything different, it just came out of nowhere. i get this error : BIOS ERROR: "Item 0x01060001 (CPU ratio) reports unreasonable value: 10" and Over clk: "Cannot create System Shell Notification Icon". I know overclk.exe …

Somewhere along the line, my E: drive where I keep all my game/non-system stuff got replicated to F: Now when I boot, chkdsk comes up and says all these sectors are unreadable for both E&F drives. F: should not exist how do I rescue my system? I would at least …

I have two hard drives, one is sata. I want the one that is sata to be the default one my computer starts up on. How do I change my other hard drive being default?

OK, 2 questions, likely unrelated. 1) When I start or restart my computer, sometimes the computer will essentially "stop loading" after the windows logo. This is sort of like [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread15125.html[/url], except there is no windows startup noise. I have a Dell 1907FP monitor with both an analog and a digital …

When I push the button on my computer( i am posting from another comp) to start it the button lights up so there must be power to it, but nothing else happens. The fan on the processor doesnt start. Nothing shows up on the monitor except that it is in …

I am at my wits end with this one. PS/2 Keyboard and mouse (known working, default) will not function after windows xp (sp2) startup. The keyboard works fine in BIOS setup. Neither will function in windows, even in safe mode. Windows boots just fine, no errors, nothing in event log; …

I transplanted all new components for in my old AMD 2800 (not sure if the change to intel matters). New: Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI ATX Intel Video Card: POWERCOLOR X1950PRO512MBAC Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Supported Processor: Intel Core 2 …

HELP--my son bought a refurbished blackberry 7290 on ebay, charged it over night and it won't even turn on. Is there a trick or something I'm missing? I don't think the seller is scamming given his history. I'm waiting to hear back from him. Any ideas out there??????

I use a laptop( HP pavilion dv 5000 ) and want to start photo editing using adobe photoshop cs2. I have been offered an eizo flexiscan L658 monitor at a stupid price, which would give me superior colour controls and better image resolutions. Can I connect this monitor to my …

Hi all, Am currently running my systems HDMI output through my lcd tv and it runs fine, however when I switch the input source on the tv to another type (ie Svideo or Scart) and then switch it back to HDMI it will only return with a blue screen saying …

Hoping you could help? Picked up a used HP Pavilion N5425. Works perfectly except for the monitor. The angle of the monitor affects the visual. At an angle of between zero degrees (closed) to approx. 65 degrees the monitor works fine, however at this angle, you must place your chin …

i am would like to install a clean version of windows xp i boot with the disk and when i try to load the boot disk so i can start installiing xp it says nothing was found in my floppy drive i have all the cables in the right spot …

I'm new to this forum thing, so please forgive me if I'm in the wrong place! I have an Acer TravelMate 4050LCi Laptop, just over a year old, running XP home. Although, when I plug my optical mouse into the USB ports its light comes on, it won't work. Nothing …

My boss has an Hp xb2000 Expansion Bay with wireless mouse and keyboard. Once the computer is up and going the mouse starts to become jerky, like it is hanging up on the screen and sometimes it has to be clicked 3 times to get results. I thought it might …

Hi I saw "how to reverse a CRT picture tube" [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8zYeFnktb4[/url] Does anyone know how to the same thing with a external LCD? Is there a pinout change you can make to do the same? Has anyone ever seen software that can do the same thing? I need to do …

Hello. I am building a new system. I had my last (custom built by myself) system for 3 years before the PSU and mobo fried. About a year after I got it I transferred everything into a £180 Antec silent case and replaced the PSU (upgraded from 300w to 430w) …

Hi I just got 2 x 2GB of RAM for X-mas. I installed this on top of my other 2 GB RAM card of the same make and model. When i check system properties, it only shows i have 3 GB of RAM. how the hell did it get that …

Hi, So I decided to take the leap and build my first desktop. I thought I had experience by removing and installing various components from purchased computers but its never been quite like this. My motherboard ([url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188017&Tpk=EVGA%2b650i[/url]) , equipped with a Q6600, 2 sticks of OCZ ram and a cheapo …

I'm going to try to help someone install a video card on their computer after their last video card, a Radeon 600, crashed his computer because it overheated. I haven't verified any of this, I've never checked his computer before. He also reformatted his hard drive. However, assuming it's the …

hi all... i am planning on buying an 8800 GTS graphics card and i would like to know if my power supply can run it... the graphics card req is:- Minimum 400W or greater system power supply (with 12V current rating of 26A) my power supply says:- 420W +3.3V +5V …

I put in a new video card in a older Dell, for my wife where she works. It's a Pentium 4, a gig of ram, and a agp slot, and she was using the onboard video. She got 2 Evga GeForce 7600GS 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X cards. I 'm …

I have a LaserWriter 4/600, which I purchased back in '92 or '93, I think. It works perfectly. However, it requires a SCSI connection with the Ethernet port. When I bought a new computer in the mid-90's, a Mac G3, which I still have, I was advised that I could …

Hi, I'm new here, so hello and thanks in advance for your help. I've had an HP Pavilion 511k for years and it hasn't given me any trouble, but over a year ago I had to go to another country and left it with a friend. Now that I'm back, …

Okay, I've tried about everything I can think of and I am at my wits end. Here's the situation: My microphone on my headset is not working. Yes, it is plugged in, and no... it is not muted. 8-) It is apparently picking up only digital sounds (or sounds that …

Hey, I get this error occasionally on PC: at top: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and at bottom: 0x0000000A (0x79280BEC, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804E65DE) This happends randomly but consistenly after computer has been on for a bit.. I read elswhere that it could be ram or other hardware.. but none of them had that specific …

Hi, I found a PC by the side of the road that was only missing the hard drive, so I thought I'd try to fix it up. I bought a decent HD from a reputable seller on eBay, and connected it properly, and tried to boot up the PC with …

I am seeing the following symptoms: 1. No video. Black screen. 2. Can't get into bios via reboot. 3. hard drive access light is solid amber/on. Trouble shooting i've done so far: 1. swapped out the monitor for a known good monitor... no change... still no video. Any suggestions on …

Hi, when i switched on my emachines 610 the other day, it booted as normal (XP) and took me to the password screen but my keyboard, or mouse, didn't respond. The net result is i cannot access my computer at all as i can't get past this screen. The caps …

Howdy everyone, been reading the forums here and I'm very happy to have found you. My problem began yesterday when I decided to reseat my heatsink on my cpu and re-route a cable. I routed the 4 pin pwr cable to the mobo behind the sound card and the vid …

Hi this happened to me about 1 month ago and I thought I had fixed it by resetting the CMOS it has worked flawlessly for a month till today and this same issue has reappeared: Hi, I'm not too computer literate but I do know a little, my computer was …

I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop, 1.5 years old (unfortunately out of warranty). One day a few weeks ago, when I turned it on, the screen lit up but nothing showed up on the screen. Fans were running and Windows XP seemed to start properly (I could log in …

I recently lost the CD drive on my laptop (running Windows XP Home) Replacing the drive is not an option at the moment due to cost. I have connected an internal drive to a USB external drive box. The drive works fine but is there a way to configure it, …

I have had this Dell 8600 for several years. It has withstood being dropped numerous times and I even accidentally poured two cups of boiling water on top of the keyboard over a year ago. What did it in was my 2008 Streets and Trips Pharos USB GPS unit. I …

I found a Thinkpad A21M and i cant figure out how to login to the admin to put my user on it

This notebook is going back to HP for repairs, under warranty. The problem is I have importaint info on the HD, I was going to ship it without the HD to protect the info, HP won't accept the notebook without the HD....even though the problem is in the MB. Does …

So I got a new computer recently (posted below) and I decided that instead of taking out the extra 80gig i ordered with it and replacing it with my 300gig hard drive, that i'd just put the 300gig in there. Now, I didn't have any more IDE slots so I …

I am attempting to put the finishing touches on a powerful multimedia and gaming desktop I've put together from bits and pieces I've collected from a variety of sources. Everything seems to have come together nicely, with few exceptions. However, when I am running particularly demanding programs (games, specifically), I …