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hey guys i wana upgrade my comp right now im using LGA775 GA-8I945P(Pro) and i was wondering if this motherboard support Dual Core Cpu thanx for your help

I am considering getting a new computer. But I need advice. Every computer I've owned has been problematic in running smoothly because the hardware has been underpowered relative to the requirements of the software I've tried to run. I've certainly learned that systems off the shelf are often underpowered in …

hi I managed to acquire a Wallstreet Powerbook on eBay with a Sonnet 500MHz cpu upgrade. It came installed in an original Wallstreet and I decided to try it in the PDQ revision model. Everything I could find said that the sonnet cpu upgrades would work in either motherboard but …

I opened up my pc to add a second hard drive and when i plugged it back in i noticed the power indicator light on the front was blinking faintly. I pushed the power button and nothing happened. When I opened the pc back up i heard a ticking coming …

I put my part of my one computer into a new case so I could make room for a new computer but I have a little problem now. All I did was to take all my parts out of my one case which I will be putting new parts in …

I recently decided to start looking around for more ram for my computer. I have noticed a big variation between the RAM amount and price. I use the site Pricewatch.com to find great deals. I came across 4GB RAM for only $88 then there is a 1GB that is about …

Hi all, it's my first post on this forum. I just bought a new video card, a Peak ATI Radeon X1950 Pro (Pci), Together with a 2gb DDR2 RAM Bank. First i tried to install the RAM, but i noticed that the "attachment" is not compatible with my motherboard. Maybe …

I was using my computer - several apps open at once, but nothing out of the ordinary. Then, the computer froze up (no Ctrl-Alt-Del response). I turned it off. On again... nothing. When I turn it on, the HD activity light just stays a solid red for about 5 seconds. …

The LCD has black vertical lines, that correspond to icons or mouse movements. When connected to external monotor it works fine. Need advice, thanks cz52415

Working fine yesterday but when I switch on the power light / indicator flashes. Initially loud beeps then quieten to continuous beep - nothing on screen but orginally had "No signal". Tried removing cards, RAM, disconnecting HDD etc, re-siting CPU etc - all to no avail. Fans are working fine. …

Hello everyone, I am faced with tricky situation. I have an emachine computer the model is T2984 and the dam thing died recently. I think that the mother board is fried. The thing is that about 10 months ago I upgraded the the ram to 2 GB and also the …

[COLOR=#000000]I need help recovering a few days worth of photos in Barcelona off my 20 GB flashtrax, it is essentially a 20gb portable usb2.0 hard drive with a CF card reader, it acts as a portable hard drive, so I imagine any data recovery tools that would work for portable …

Hi i've spent the best part of today trying to do some research and can't seem to find any specific answers, so here's the problem and i hope someone can lend a hand. I'm running a dell xps m170 laptop with xp pro sp2. I was playing half-life 2 the …

I have an ABIT IS7 motherboard with a fan that is making a ton of noise. I know for sure it is the fan, and no, it's not filled with dust or anything silly like that. My problem is that I don't know how to either replace the fan or …

how do I fix my toshiba laptot 9100? when i reboot it goes thru everything normally but when it goes to windows the screen is black. need help! [email]alexander7300@yahoo.com[/email]

[B]Hi all, I have a Usb Flash Drive Cruzer Micro 1.0 GB from Sandisk (which should be plug and play) which isnot recognized in my Windows XP Home SP2 PC. i have allready tried MANY things like : 1) Upgrading XP to the latest version SP2 etc. 2) Flashed my …

Hi I am a bit of a novice and so will try to explain as best I can I have installed my drivers for my new MP3 player and the computer has the little symbol at the bottom of the screen saying everything is working correctly. When I go into …

Here's the deal - A WinXP HD that was crashed (supposedly) by a virus. To date, one 'tech' attempted data recovery using some utility which confirmed the data was still intact on the HD. This utility crashed shortly thereafter, and the tech could do nothing further. :( I know what …

I'm thinking about getting an iphone for christmas, but the thing is I hate AT&T and I don't want to pay $70+ a month for features i don't use. So I've found different ways of unlocking the iphone and was wondering if once it's unlocked I could take out the …

This Dell laptop randomly dies with vertical alternating Blue/Black stripes on display. Power off button only solution. Powers back up and runs normally until it decides to die again. When it occurs while running MS Word, work is saved and available after restart. Usually use with battery pack plugged in …

ok its a custom built system MSI K8TNeo MOBO AMD 64 bit 3200 1gb (2x512) PC3200 Corsair XMS MSI 5600 Nvidia graphics card Maddog sound card (i think i cant remember for sure) ASUS 500w Power supply (fairly new) Windows XP sp2 Ok it all started like this, a few …

hi guy's i've got a asus A7V8X-MX SE motherboard which supports only agp(8x/4x) cards and memory slot of type ddr1 dimm. I am planning to buy a new agp card most prob. geforce 7300gt-AGP version with 512MBDDR2 memory. So can any one tell me; will that be ok or compitable …

Hi All, I'm hoping that someone might be able to help me with my IBM T40. Basically...I hooked it up at an internet cafe (very stupid of me as I have no anti-virus software installed) and I got a warning message saying something along the lines of "spyware has been …

I have a T6420 E Machines that powers up, but doesn't boot the keyboard/mouse is not reading. Plus the machine seems to be making a different noise than it normally did (sounds louder). Is this the motherboard or the processor. And what is an affordable alternative to put into the …

hi. im goin to this new skool and they require that u hav this laptop: lenovo x61 tablet, here's some details: [url]http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=868[/url] cos it has a really crap video card and i like my gaming would it be hard to upgrade to something decent like nvidia 7800 (id go for …

E-Machine T3120. I have replaced all the hardware installed in this machine. New memory was also bought and installed. Also replaced the power supply and cd rom...nothing straightened this out. It stops at the post where it says "verifying DMI pool". I tried to re-install winxp home and it stopped …

I recently replaced my motherboard, cpu, and ram in my desktop and it works fine. I had a spare power supply (about 1 year and 6 months old, NEVER used, it came with my case) so I decided to take my old hardware and build spare pc. I got everything …

Twice in the last two days this has happened to my husband's computer. The monitor goes totally black but the power button is orange, so the monitor itself is fine, just not getting signal. The computer is so non-responsive that it has to be turned off at the power bar. …

if the motherboard dies can the memory from it be salvaged or not?

Hi all, I have a 667mhz MacBook Pro duo Intel. I shopped for memory and decided to upgrade from my 2x500mhz cards that came shipped with the book. From New Egg, i received a Patriot 2gig pc2-5300 card. I plugged the new card in and it wouldn't work with either …

I am up against a wall on a Proliant with a 3300 es raid card and seven 18.2 drives configured as a raid level 5. we had a drive fail in the array and replaced the drive, by accident we installed a 9.1 gig drive instead of the correct 18.2, …

*Problem: Brand new hard drive (properly installed) isn't being detected by the installation software (or by windows). It is properly installed... It is confirmed as working... It is meant for my computer (computer stats below)... The 8-pin jumper slot has no master or slave modes. *Component: Western Digital SATA 300, …

Hey guys. Its me again! :D So every time i scan my computer i get this thing called Shell32.dll. And under where it says Result/Infection, it says Change. Is this a bad thing? I heard it a Trojan? i tried deleting it but it wont let me ): help please! …

I bought a new Lexmark x4550 all in one printer. It includes the Lexmark tool bar that lets you print only the text, or the images of a web page. It does a lot of other things, too. The problem is it only shows up in IE. I haven't used …

I have E-1400 by second hand. Looks the same as the ESSENTIAL but has 800 MHz speed. This compact desktop of some time ago is rather noisy. The previous owner had mentioned about the fan noise. Does anybody know how to fix this?

Through the Help and Support Center on my Compaq Presario SR1319RS, I'm trying to create the set of CD's or DVD's for backup/recovery. The write process completes successfuly for the 1st disk of the set with either CD or DVD. However, about 6 attempts have failed during the Verification phase …

hi, I have a problem with my pc, in the sense that when I try to boot I get no signal to the monitor(which, by the way, is a 42" plasma that works on dvd and satellite and sky). for mobo I have a gygabyte sSseries, AMD 4600 dual core …

i've been a long time amd supporter and i have always had good luck with their processors, but with lackluster reviews of am2+ boards and phenom chips and no news of when we will see am3 sockets on the market... my next build is going to be intel. so i'm …

hello there... My brother has asked me to ask you this question on his behalf as he isn't subscribed to daniweb ok down to the boiling point... my brother is running xp professional on a new pc (i built for him) over the last two or three days my brother …

Maybe somebody needs help how you put photos on your i pod nano? I found a solution. For all those wishing to transfer their photos onto a photo-capable iPod (all iPods with colour screens): [url]http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/photo/1/[/url]

Hello, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7320 with an Intel celeron M 1.7ghz, I was hoping to upgrade to an Intel Pentium M 3.6ghz but I don't know if my motherboard will hack it. I can't find any model number on the mobo, and after running Belarc and Everest …

Greetings to the Group - My problem concerns viewing many web pages where the text will overwrite other text, especially when there is text below an image. Then the text will overwrite down into the body of the article. This happens on 3/4 of various web pages I visit. My …

My installed just ADATA 1GB PC2700 DDR mem is only recognised as 256MB. :sad: Previously I had 256MB and 512MB installed PC2100 working fine. I wanted to remove the 256 to upgrade to 1.5GB total. I tried many combinations to try and get it recognised but it only reads 256MB …

recently, my pc got a problem. It a asus p4sp-mx motherboard. when i turned up the pc it can't detect the harware installed (e.g hard drive, cd drive etc and it stopped there. can you give me an idea on how to fix this kind of problem.

I have dual monitors. They are working great. I have a Graphic card with two places. But whats better then dual monitors? how about 3? I need some help though. I have a dual monitor graphic card. Can I just put another graphic card in? with, say one more spot …

hi have a toshiba a60 sat pro when try to boot from hd passes self test and just get flashing cursor in top right of screen when try boot from cd passes self test and get no bootable media in atapi cd or black screen any one help regards marty

Hi, I am trying to add 3rd hard drive (500 GB) to my computer. I added IDE PCI card and installed software but, it is not detecting my 3rd hard drive. Is there any thing I have to do with jumper settings? or am I missing any procedures....? Help would …

hi, i am having a small problem with my new dual monitor setup. i just bought a pair of lg 22in widescreens on blackfri, and i was quite excited to get them up and running. im running a core2duo e6400 (clocked to 3.3ghz but running stock atm), 2gb corsair ram, …

Recently, my computer has been turning itself off. When I turn it back on, the computer either boots up then turns off after a non-consistent matter of time, or it just turns on and doesn't boot. I've opened the computer and checked all 4 fans that are inside, all of …

My computer was running great but now seems to bog down easily it has 1 gig of ram but after start up it only has about 300mb of useable ram is there anything I can check for I am a novice when comes to registry and bios stuff I do …