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Hi all I'm thinking of upgrading the RAM that my computer has and I was hoping that someone could help me out as to what RAM I should I get and how I determine whether it is compatible with my PC. My budget is $150NZD (maybe a bit more if …

Hi I'm new to forums but have a major problem with my Sony Vaio. It is just out of it's 3 year extended warranty and it crashed one day. I tried to close down the program and even pressed Alt+Del+F4 but it would not respond so I pressed and held …

I have a customer that wants to know if I will help him set something so he can write multiple DVDs at a time, possibly by networking a tower with several writers, but I wasn't sure if the software would support that. Maybe this post is in the wrong place; …

My T 6420 eMachine suddenly developed a problem with the mouse and keyboard not working, then it was hard to turn off, now it is completely dead. The Geek Squad said it is the mother board but I have no power, no lights no noises nothing. Before investing in new …

I have an old PC with a Intel motherboard installed, and an Award Software BIOS identified as follows: [B]Award Modular BIOS V6.00PG, An energy star Ally BIOS ID String: 09/25/2001 - i810(e)- W8362-6A69MTRAC-00[/B] I tried to install a 80GB Seagate ATA harddisk but the disk autodetection feature from the BIOS …

I just recently installed a new hard drive because my old one died on me. I installed windows XP Pro and all of the current drivers I could find. Some of the components are kind of older, like my graphics card, so the manufacturer website did not have the drivers …

All right, not a battery problem at all, when I turn it on, I recieve "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did now start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." I am then given options of Safe mode (which displays flooding text and freezes) …

Hello, First off i would like to say that this is a awesome site and i'm so glad i found it because i'm in over my head with my laptop.I have a Toshiba satellite model P205-S6287.The other day it started acting funny for instance every time i would click on …

Ok, I'm not the most technically inclined person but know a little about trouble shooting. Here's my problem. My computer doesn't boot. Here's what led to this problem. One of the cooling/exhaust fans, not on the motherboard itself but screwed into the side of the case, was making a LOT …

Specs: Gigabyte M55-SLI 4 AMD 64 x2 4200+ 2.2 GHz e-GeForce 8800 GTS 40 GB Seagate IDE HDD - master 120 GB Seagate IDE HDD - slave 2 GB (2x1GB) A-DATA DDR2 800 Zumax X3 series ZU-550w This system worked for about 1 week and today it does as the …

Got an ATI Radeon 9600SE for x-mas. However, when I opened my computer up I found that my AGP slot is 1x,2x and the new card will not fit. The new card states 4x/8x. Any suggestions on what I can do to upgrade my graphics so I can get directx9.0 …

[COLOR="Red"]I am going to build a computer for the first time and i need some advice. I am looking for a good motherboard that i can play some games on, but i dont want to turn it into a straight up gaming computer. I already have my power supply and …

I have a HP Omni xe3 notebook. Laptop will not turn on at all, purchased new ac adapter and still nothing. Can some one help or refer me in the right direction? Before this happened, I used the laptop about 2 or 3 nights before hand and it was working …

I have problems with my microphone, it has stopped working on my pc, but when I have tried in the another computer, it works.... I cant understand what the problem is.... What should I do? I will be very grateful if you can help me! All the best, Georgi

hey guys i have the logitech x-230 speakers, btu for some1 reason one of them doesnt work, does anybody know how i can fix this? ps: im not very good at understanding thigns about computers so when you give me instructions please eb specific. regards.

Hi guys, I recently brought my sister's computer home to do some upgrades. The computer worked fine over her house. When I tried to boot the computer up at my house, it shuts off about about 3 seconds. It is a HP Pavilion a 475c. I have never experienced something …

So I left for the summer this past summer, leaving my Toshiba Satellite sitting in my room (top floor of an un-ACed house in Vermont) for the summer. When I came back the battery was dead (wouldn't charge), so I bought a new one. Now when I try to turn …

I'm trying to burn a CD and the software program says the following:"No available CD-RW devices." I know my HP Writer is working fine. How do I get the software to recognize it? If someone could offer step by step instructions that would be great. Thank you. J

Hi, I have a problem with my monitor,when I turn my computer the monitor doesn't work.I chek the CPU,RAM and video card on diferent PC and they all work.I've tried to reset bios with J5 and the battery but nothing happend.I have to tell that I've tried to overclock my …

I have a system in mind, and it's almost ready to go, except for one thing - the power supply! I've been told that my rig will need a fair amount of juice, and that I need to be careful which PSU I buy. The first thing I was going …

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Hi I am a newbie to this kind of thing as well as to this site and I need some help!!! I have come very close to making the new PS Eye (SLEH-00201) camera work on my laptop, but I really have no idea what I'm doing. I tried installing …

I have a 3 year old Inspiron 8600 notebook computer. It was working wonderfully when I turned it off using the power button yesterday. My husband attempted to restart the computer several hours later and the screen is black. No logo, no backlight, just black. The green power light is …

i have made a pc and when i turn it on sometimes it turns on fot 2 secons turns off for 5 secons then turns back on is there anyway of moving this problem

IRQ 0 System timer OK IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK IRQ 9 SCSI/RAID Host Controller OK IRQ 10 MPU-401 …

Hi folks, I need your help. A few days ago my system died. I had to reinstall WinXP. Previous to this I had installed a second (IDE) hard drive. Since the reinstall it's not showing up as a drive in explorer. If I go into Device Manager is shows the …

I'm looking to upgrade my video card from a Nvidia GeForce 7300LE to something a bit better. My system specs are: Windows XP sp2 2gb ram 3.00ghz Pentium D cpu Dell 0WG864 Motherboard (i think that's all, tell me if there's something else i need to post) Which cards would …

This is a problem im finally fed up with. My laptop (Compaq Armada m700) is having a problem where the screen has become loose. The hinge that that is swings on no longer sticks in to place. When I use the laptop I either have to prop something behind the …

I have a 10 month old laptop with WinXP Home Edition and SP2 along with 3 spyware and 1 anti-virus program installed. All the software is current and a recent sweep of the computer for viruses and spyware since my problem developed showed no virus and only the usual minor …

i recently bought a new motherboard to replace one that had died for my friends uncle. he bought a new computer and decided to give me his old one. this was a good deal for it has 1 gig of ram, nice all in wonder video card and a Athlon …

Hi, My son has an amd 3700, 939 pin processor, 1 gig L2 cache. I think it is a great processor, but he wants a faster one in a 939 pin to go with his 8800 gts video card. I would appreciate any advice an this subject. thanks, Mike

Hello. :) Recently my PC's motherboard and PSU fried. Long story short: I had to have a new motherboard, PSU and HD fitted. I use a Digidesign MBox 2 for audio work and it is notoriously thirsty on power. It requires its own USB root hub for power and the …

Hi. My laptop has a 160GB hard drive with three partitions and Windows Vista installed on the first one. What I wanted to do is to resize the third partition from 100 to 80GB, create a new partition from the unallocated space and than install Kubuntu 7.10 on it. However, …

Hi, I have an old PC: celeron 2.2 512mb RAM (PC 2700) 300W PSU etc Motherboard only has a PCI slot, and I was looking fora cheap GPU, so I could play older games, I have been looking at the 6200, how good are they, and area there any better? …

[LIST] [*]I understand this gets posted alot. I've done alot of research on the subject keeping that fact in concideration. No I have all the Problems that have been noted down. I've completed all the Fixes that have been posted in replies from various forums. [*]I recently changed from 7600GT …

Seagate came out with a 500gb hdd that has a 32mb cache. How important is cache size? Will it make much of a difference in speed? Would it be more important to have the 32mb cache size on my os hdd or as my video, pics etc. hard drives? Please …

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I need a heat sink/fan to sit on top of an Athlon Xp 2800+. I would prefer it to be AMD recommended and be able for it to handle up to an athlon xp 3000+. I seriously cant find anything. PLEASE HELP ME I need this ASAP Thank you

I've looked through a few pages but I couldn't find anything related to my problem Okay, I recently put together this PC: Intel Core 2 QuadQ6600 Asus P5K 2GB Corsair PC2-6400C4 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II Thermaltake ToughPower 750W Modular Power Supply x1900GT When I turned it on, the …

Was hoping to get some help with my cd burner. It will let me read what is on a cd but when I go to burn a cd it says there is either something on a blank disk or does not see the blank disk in the burner at all …

Compaq Presario S4000NX approximately 4 yrs old. Yesterday, I added a DVD player burner and everything was working fine. I was able to power up and down without any issue and use the all of the drives. It worked great! This morning, I woke up to find that my machine …

Hello, I am facing some problem with my HDD that I am using as external Harddisk. I have been using this since a few months. Everything was working fine till yesterday. Yesterday suddenly, one of the logical drives is not available. It shows the drive letter, but there is nothing …

i tried to install a new hard drive it to my old computer because 40gb wasnt enough so i put a 20 gb hard drive in as well put it all back together and now when i try and boot it the moniter stays black. so i took out the …

Alright, so I'm new to this forum, and I do apologize if this is the incorrect forum, or if this question has been answered many times before, but here goes. I have a Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 external hd and I've owned it for approximately 4 months. I've never had …

Each time I try to overclock on 2D Core Clock to max on DVI it freezes! My graphics card has the DVI input and I have gotten the DVI adapter. I ve seted it all up and still it wont work! Am overclocking on 600MHz... Can anyone tell me why …

this is my first post and im in a real bind, so i got this alienware computer from a friend and heres there issuse, when i try to boot up the computer it powers on (fans, MB, Drives) but wont do anything else , and it makes this sound from …

Hi, I shutdown my laptop successfully last night, and today when I started, it display a message about the heat and asked me whether I want to continue. I immediately turned if off and opend it up to see if perhaps dust had acumiliated in the fan area. I didn't …

hello i'm new here. i just have this problem with my pc where it freezes randomly, doesn't matter if it's in a game or while surfing the net, it just does. i had it checked before, where the freeze was accompanied by something in my graphics messing up (lines, weird …

Hi, I recently changed mb. I used my old 300w power supply. after a few days I added another 512mb ddr 333. then a friend gave me an 3.20 HT P4 to replace my 2.80 celeron .Then the problems started.when I try to install a game (fear in this case) …

i just upgraded my whole system and wanted to add my old harddrive to new system to back up files then just junk old drive(old pc would notpower up) but it booted up from the old hard drive(running win 98) instead of new the new one(running xp) it did a …