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So tell me what is a AirPort card and do i need one and whats does it do...HELP

If you know anything about this please help me out. I am about done building my new machine. Well, anyway I started it up just to make sure everything was working like I have always done before I finish. I shut it down and when I went to restart it …

This is exactly what happens from start to finish everytime I turn on my pc. Power On. Goes thru til Boot from CD to install windows XP Pro. (for some reason my dvd-burner drive won't recognize the cd in the drive and doesn't ask me to push any key to …

Hi. My husband built my pc. He's passed on. I'm trying to figure out if I have an AGP or PCI graphics slot. The device manager says it's in a pci bus, but I could have sworn he told me it was an agp. Here are some specs: Processor(s) Number …

My friend's Toshiba laptop is frozen and will not react to Ctrl+Alt+Del, nor will it shut down if you hold down the power button. The fan is also not working.

I am having trouble installing a second hard drive as a slave. They are IDE, originally there were two hard drives, however i have purchased a new hard drive to replace the old slave hard drive. I set the new hard drive jumper setting to slave, however when i do …

Hi! Newbie here. I have an issue with a HP Pavilion 553x. At power up, all fans run normally, the aftermarket video card driver loads, the drives have activity, the keyboard never lights up, the fans slow down, and the ccomputer beeps continuously. The Hp Invent screen is displayed and …

I have a Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop. Was working fine, but now does not power up at all. When plugged in, I touch the power button and all three lights blink green for a fraction of a second. THen only the light on far right blinks ten times yellow/amber. Nothing …

I don't if my mobo is dead or not. It's a VIA (sucky brand). When I reset the BIOS I wasn't able to boot into either the HDD or the CD-ROM. It would only boot off the floppy. So I don't know if it's dead or not. Any ideas?

I have just bought a new Mobo ( well it was off ebay ) and when I plugged it up it up to the rest of my hardware............it turned on, all the fans ran, CD-drive+floppy made noise but nothing came on the screen. I have tested the Monitor, RAM (in …

hi i am not able to boot my cd even though cd rom i s detecting well .there is no probs with cd since its working fine in other machines so can you please help me to sort out this problem thanks

This may have been discussed here or elsewhere, but I don't even know what search terms are appropriate for this problem. Problem: I have a USB card reader plugged into USB5/6 on my mobo. When I plug a USB expansion card into USB9/10, the drives on 5/6 disappear. I can't …

my dell computer will turn on but a screen apears that says it was shut down while there was still a program running. the screen says i can either start it on safe mode or the last previous mode used. I tried both and it just returns to the screen …

My HP desktop 1180 will not start. I have a green blinking light in the back, but nothing happens when I press power. I have reset it and I think I checked all the connections. Please help

The labtop is a PCG GRT 250P and it has a software problem with windows XP. The computer starts up and countious reboots before it get to the sign in screen. I've tried to reinstall Windows XP but the BOIS dosen't show the cd in the drive. Does anyone have …

Hi All, I want to buy my son a lcd monitor for Christmas. I'm pretty well decided on the 22" Samsung 226 BW which has a native resolution of 1680 X 1050. His computer has an NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GS AGP video card with a maximum resolution of 1280 X …

Can someone help me solve my display problem? I have an Asus laptop which is a little over a year and a half old and 1/4 of the screen stays black. The dimensions are suppose to be 1024x768, but a few days ago no matter how many times I reboot …

I am thinking of upgrading the ram in my laptop. it has 256k in it and i think that it is a pc2100 module that operates at 266 megahertz. The computer has an empty slot, so i can add a module easily. My question is does the new ram have …

What graphics card should I get? I want to play stuff like COD 4 and battlefield so if anyone knows any good cards that they use can you let us know I have a budget of £100 maybe £140 Also I am getting a pci express board so I can …

Hi Folks, I'm a PC repair teacher at a high school. I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop that a student brought in for repair. I can't figure out the problem. I power the computer up, you hear the hard drive spin, and then nothing. I've tried to boot into safe …

From 2 weeks back whenever i am pushing the button on. i am hearing cut-cut-cut sound from my cpu unable to recognize whether it is coming from mother board or hard disk n this continues for 5-8 minutesn then the power led is getting on but cpu fan starts working …

Hello, thanks in advance for your help I upgraded the ram on Sony Vaio PCG F707 yesterday but I believe I have made a big mistake. I bought 256mb ram 133mhz, problem is the laptop is designed to take 100mhz. I put the 133mhz in not relising my mistake and …

Hi all, I recently purchased a digital photo frame on ebay (item: 180139001180). All works well until I try to plug the AV cables into my TV and try to view the pictures by changing the output to "TV mode". I get an "out of range" error on the frame's …

My new motherboard will be coming with a 8pin CPU connector and I have only got a 4 pin on my PSU so what shall i do? any ideas

Hello - I recently bought a Coby MP3 player for my sister (model # MPC-848). Well, I have one just like it, and I had NO Trouble putting the music on mine. But, I went to add the music to hers, and when I go to copy it, and it …

This should be an interesting issue for you all to tackle... :D I was having this same issue with my computer (starting about a week or so ago), so I tried the standard things (clearing the CMOS, removing the battery for five minutes to wipe the CMOS, switching out hardware …

I dont know alot about computer, sorry if its what iam writing is not clear. Last night i was using my computer when all of a sudden the computer lost power. There was no warning of any sort on the monitor. When i tryed to turn on my computer, everything …

Well i'm not that good at computers but I'll try my best to give as much information as I can so maybe someone can help me out. I have an older computer, it's a compaq, Just installed windows 2000 pro on it and it's just the operating system and nothing …

Hello Does anyone know about any good screen recorder software similar to snagit and either cheap or free? I will really appreciate if someone could help me out here. Thank You

I recently obtained a used P35-609. The problem im having is getting it to power up and stay on longet than 5 seconds. Oddly if I enter into BIOS at power on it will remain on. Thus far iv left it on for 20 min. Iv tried removing reseating devices, …

Hi all, Im new to you guys. To the problem. I have 18 month old HP media center m7067c. 6 months out of warrenty it died or so I thought. I completed computer repair course 6 years ago and this is a first. I was busy at the time so …

Hey guys I wanna ask if any one has got this mobo cos i want to get a reliable power supply for it as the one i have at the moment is a cheap one as i didnt have nay other option. MSI K9AGM2-FIH Socket AM2 690G and SB600 Chipset …

Hello, thank you for allowing me to join this forum, I hope someone can help me here. I don't have a wide range of knowledge of computers I just type on them and do know how to install software just to give you some indication as to my computer know …

Hello, Recently I have discovered through a Tech Help call that I possibly have a bad memory strip. The tech person suggested that I download Memtest-86 and test each strip individually. I have done so, but the results are a bunch of numbers that are confusing to me and, as …

I have herd that AMD is a great CPU but i still have my doubts. This should be a good thread to see what you guys think. Consider overclocking, over heating etc.

Hi everyone. New to DaniWeb, but belong to some others. Let's see if anyone can give me a clue to my issue. (actually my brother's) He's has a Quickcam Communicate STX, and when he makes a video recording the video/audio are out of sync, audio lags about 1 sec. The …

(Sorry for bad spelling typing fast before next BSOD) Well heres my story, my computer was running great, then over night after not changing a thing or installing anything, it just got extremely slow half hour to start and 45 minutes to come back from stand by. It was ridiculous …

HI: After a three week vacation, I turned on my older computer and nothing happened -- no lights, fans, or any action whatsoever. I tore it apart, checked the push button switch and its wiring to the mother board. I opened up the power supply and checked what I thought …

Hey I have recently formatted mine pc...and after tht i have lost few drivers like.....Ethernet Controller,USB Controller,SM BUS Controller,Video Controller(VGA Compatible).All these have got a question mark in its front.How can i get to know what sort of controllers are in the motherboard and where cn i get its numbers …

My laptop does not have floppy drive. I have several internal drives. Is it possible to make use of these as an external drive? If so can anyone advise the best way. Thanks.

Hi, Just a small query to which I hope someone in this world can help! Recently bought a new dvd drive to replace an old cd one. Installed it, added nero essentials 7, all working fine up until the point of trying to play a dvd film. Game DVD's work …

My primary workstation has an ATI RADEON 9500 Pro w/256mb ram video card. It was a good card, but lately its been freaking out whenever I load up a game. I'm not a huge gamer, but I like to occasionally whittle away a few hours. After loading up games that …

I have a dead laptop. When I press the power button, I hear the fans, DVD/CD, and the harddrive working. The only lights working are the power and the mouse indicators. At one time the screen would come on showing the Compaq logo. It did not do that this last …

on my laptop the screen is visible but very dark. its not the brightness settings, so i imagine perhaps the bulb has gone but would love someone cleverer than me to confirm this, or suggest what i should do next. funny thing is that when you turn the laptop on, …

I digitized all my CD's so I can listen to music via PC connection to my stereo receiver. I plugged an A/V adapter into the green 1/8" sound output port on the back of the computer, then connected it to my receiver with 2 regular a/v cords. The sound comes …

I have a gigabyte motherboard that can take ram(DDR1 266/333/400(pc2100/2700/3200) and c.l 2,5.I have a 512(DDR1 400 pc2700 c.l 2,5) My question is can i put a ram from the same company 1Gb(DDR1 400 pc3200 c.l 2,5) Sorry for my bad english!!!! Thanks for your answers!!!!!!

Ok, About a week ago, i started playing around with an Ubuntu live cd that i had. The cd was the latest version (Feisty Fawn) and after a while i decided to install it. I was feeling rather enthusiastic and didn't think that much could go wrong so i proceeded …

Does anybody know how to reset battery for Compaq Presario 700 please help.

Hi All, I'm new, so I hope that I've started the thread in the right section. I appologize if I haven't. I'm thinking about upgrading my video card so that it has HD capability so that I can connect it to my HD TV. My Laptop is the Compaq Presario …

my dell is dead! it the power light comes on for 10 sec then goes off. i hit the key board and it started to boot but then went off ! what do i do ?! the screen does'nt come on except when i hit. latitude not inspiron, sorry