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| | Hi, I have a Gateway E6000 desktop with an Intel Lexington 3 Pentium 4 HT - 3.06-GHz (533-MHz) motherboard. I got the machine used from a company that had it as their server. The first time I turned it on, I got a series of beeps from the BIOS : … Hardware ide troubleshoot-hardware windows-server  |
| | Hey everyone, first time here I ahve a Canadian Toshiba M40 which has a corrupted "sptd.sys" file that's preventing the machine from booting into windows. I've gone to a couple places and a cople forums and they all say I need to reinstall windows, or somehow replace the file with … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware ubuntu  |
| | Iv'e used bearshare for a while now, and recently its been coming up when i restart my comp "bearshare is corrupt". I need to re-install it, and it works fine until i turn my comp off again. if i pause downloads and turn the comp off, they're still there when … |
| | Once you full out a CD-R with files these file cannot be overwritten, correct? Where as you can overwrite the files on CD-RW, correct? Also I am right now copying imagage to CDR, when they are on CDR, I will be able to copy them from the CDR to another … Hardware storage |
| | This might be a bit lengthy so I will apologize in advance. While playing a game the other night my video froze, I couldn't Ctl Alt Del to fix the problem so I had to turn the computer completely off to try to get it to reset. Now after turning … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | When restarting my computer sometimes (not all the time) my hard drive starts but I have a black screen. I then turn it off wait a while and start it up again. Someone told me to pull the power cord out and plug it back in but yesterday it would … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hey everyone. I am having real trouble with my IPod. I have just purchased a 30gb video IPod and when i connect it up to my PC (i dont own a mac) the do not disconnect sign flashes up on my IPod and my PC freezes. After about five minutes … |
| | The computer I had that crashed was not connected to the internet but heres the error report, hope you can help me. BCCode : 9c BCP1 : 00000000 BCP2 : 8054D370 BCP3 : A2000000 BCP4 : 84010400 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1 Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I will try to be as explicit in details so you guys have as much to go on as possible. The basic problem is this. I built a pretty amazing machine six months ago (hardware is shown at the end of this post). It has been running pretty well. I … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | Compaq Presario 6370us. I turn it on, after a few seconds, the fans begin to spin and stop within 3-4 seconds. Nothing else happens. I put in a new power supply. No change. I cleaned it good (it was REALLY dirty). Thinking the compound on the heatsink might be degraded, … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | Hi, I'm somewhat computer literate, but am lost on how to find the following: I bought a liteonit.com CD burner...just a basic one, probably already obsolete. Anyways, I've never been able to make it work. It was supposed to be Mac-compatible plug n' play with firewire, and my connections are … Hardware apple-hardware email os-x |
| | B"H My daughter's laptop, Toshiba Portege 4010 has a keyboard (internal) that only the left side works. The Fn button is not working to turn off the lit num lock light. I thought that maybe if I reset the BIOS it my work. However, I am not sure how to … Hardware laptop pc-peripheral |
| | I have an acer aspire e360...amd dual core 4200 (about 4.4g total processing speed) with 2g ram 512mg ATI Radeon x1300 graphics...whenever i play a game like Counter Strike source or Warcraft 3 my comp freezes and makes scratching noises...the dude with the other post just like this had an … Hardware flash troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, I have a LG CD Writer. Earlier it was working. Now it is not writing files to Blank CD. It will read the CD having data but will not write files to blank CD. Please provide me a solution. Regards Sudheendra Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Hello, I'm the IT guy for our factory and I'm trying to determine what has killed several PCs. Here's the scenario - a computer runs fine but one day it either refuses to power on by the button or, we're using it and it suddenly shuts off, then refusing to … Hardware ide troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Well, I started up my comp yesterday and this blue thing popped up yesterday, and so I decided to reformat my HDD because I was too lazy to find out the problem. I put in a win98 boot up floppy so that I could use the format c: (I thought … Hardware operating-system troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hey I have a Radeon 9600XT 256 mb, 1 gig of ram, A8V deluxe motherboard, and a AMD Athalon 3500 2.2Ghz running XP. Recently I've had this "No Signal" error out of no where and its really a pain, randomly my system will freeze my screen will go black and … Hardware microsoft troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I am going to be upgrading my motherboard soon. I have XP Home edition on my system. The original XP software I have is the upgrade version from Win98. This was installed about 2 years ago. I was told I'm going to have to rebuild my C drive after replacing … Hardware laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | For some reason my old HD (40Gig) died and I bought a new one (80Gig) two or three days ago. I plugged it in, created the new partition and formated. But when I tried to install windows 2000 (because it's an relatively old, 1GigHerz Comp), it always says that there … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Just sprung for a new widescreen monitor which has an optimal resolution of 1440 x 900..of course my integrated video card above doesnt seem to be supporting that. Is there an easy work around to get it to that res. or am I stuck needing a new video card as … Hardware display video video-card |
| | Hi, recently my Toshiba Satellite M105 LCD screen has decided to no longer display a picture. It started with the screen jumping for a few minutes, but I was able to solve that problem my pinching the upper left hand side or the top of the display in general. Now, … |
| | My laptop computer boots up really slow and shuts down really slowly. I have to hold down the power button just to turn it off. When I try to type I have to push each button a few times before it shows up. I just put new memory in because … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi everybody I have a desktop. I discovered that my PC produces a lot of heat (above normal). When I put my hand on the back of the case on the spot of the power supply fan, I feel very little air coming out although I can see the fan … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | hi all, not real experienced with computers, mostly just learning through trial and error, have done this a few times before with the computer i made out of bits and peices for my daughter. haven't seen this before though and would greatly appreciate any help! the problem is this : … |
| | Hi, my laptop keeps rebooting, and I can’t find any way to make it stop. When I turn on my laptop all I get is a "First picture screen" (I dont know what to call it) telling me what processor I have got. It says: H2 Insyde Intel Inside centrino … Hardware ide laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | hi. i have got an E-System 3086 running on windows XP. i recently opened up my laptop to see if i could expand on it. To see how the things went together i took out the hard drive and the memory. I then obviously put every thing back together and … Hardware hard-drive laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hey Gang, I'm pretty frustrated with my desktop. It shuts off at different time intervals with no warning. I really have no explanation. I'm running windows xp and on the off chance, I have been able to make it to my desktop view and run notepad. So far I've ruled … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | TravelMate 3212NWXMi - Urgent RAM Upgradation...!!! Respected nerds, techs, geeks and dear fellow members, After months and years of waiting and speculation; I (poor soul who managed to purchase laptop first time in life) purchased one laptop few months back - TravelMate 3212NWXMi - Presently by default the laptop came … Hardware first-post laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have a Compaq Presario 2500 laptop and the hard drive has "died", taking with it all my data, photos etc. I have been to a computer repair shop who charged me an arm and a leg to tell me they could not extract the data from the hard drive. … Hardware hard-drive laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hey, So my friend built this computer (or at least tried to) and the monitor doesnt turn on. I plugged everything in right and still didnt work. The motherboard has an integrated vga, and we also put in a graphics card. it doesnt work on either one (tried removing graphics … Hardware display troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I just got a laptop from eBay - with no operating system installed. No software included. I have an XP CD and have tried resetting the BIOS to read from the CDROM first, with no luck. I pulled the hard drive out and all of the pins were intact and … |
| | I've bought a Acer laptop and am trying to open the casing to install an extra RAM module. I can't undo one screw (all the others are fine with the small jewellers screw drivers I've been using) The screw head isn't looking too flash after a couple of attempts. Acer … Hardware flash laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I'm currently in the process of imagine a bunch of new Lenovo 3000 J series desktops which have the AMD Athlon 64 processor and a gig of memory. We only received 4 of the Lenovo's with the AMD processors in them, the rest were all Intel's. Presumedly, this happened because … Hardware image troubleshoot-hardware |
| | my system specs: MSI x1950pro rosewill 550W 2gb OCZ ram amd [URL="http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=221028#"][/URL]4200+ MSI k9a platinum mobo crossfire xpress 3200 chipset 20.1" viewsonic vx2035wm LCD windows XP pro SP2 i'm having monitor flicker issues with my LCD. it only happens at my monitor's native 1680x1050 @ 60Hz resolution (max supported). there … |
| | [B]My Dell Laptop Inspiron 8200 is too slow. I have done everything that is the usual methods to speed it up to no avail. It has a 1.8 Gig Processor, 1 Gig of Ram. 40 Gig Hard Drive and all the trimmings. If anyone has experienced this, and figured out … Hardware hard-drive laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | hi I am using IBM PC and ever since I installed second DVD RW my computer has started giving following problem. sometime when I switch on a message appears in black background giving me the option to start in either Safe mode, normal mode etc etc when I opt for … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | My computer, which I have had for about 4 years, running Win 2000, started crashing recently. It works fine for about 45 minutes, then freezes, and after a few seconds the screen goes black with only a frozen cursor arrow. When I switch it off, the NumLock light on the … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | ok i'm trying to fix my friends emachine but i can't seem to found the problem. i hooked everything up turned on the pc nothing happens so i tested the power supply found out it was the powersupply i changed the powersupply. now the pc want stay on it would … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, I have been having a problem with the Crosshair motherboard- the BIOS has been able to run twice on two different days- when it is up it sees my drives, processor, I can set settings - everything loks great but when I save and exit I am left with … Hardware ide motherboards-cpu-ram |
 | I have a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6177 laptop that we bought late March/early April. Since getting it, I have used the drive MAYBE 5 times, the last time being 3 months ago easy. With that, I have no idea when it disappeared. I went to get some documents of a disc … Hardware laptop storage windows-vista |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 4600. My drive was an sata WD360GD. It was the main one and the computer just stopped finding it. It clicks too. 1)I got a serial ata card (connects sata drives to motherboards without them). And tried plugging it in to 2 other comps, still … Hardware storage |
| | My laptop will turn on, I can see the light but it does not seem to boot up. My screen stays black. I can open the CD but the caps lock and keys don't seem to do anything. I hook a monitor up to it and I still can't see … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have a dell xps gen 2, just in the last few days I have been having a problem with it freezing when windows is starting up. It happens just after it loads into windows. The computer will freeze for about 20 seconds, the strange part is that it only … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Dell E521 running XP pro. i have recently tried to update the bios on new PC. The power cut off before the installation was complete, now when i power up i get lots of beeps and a black screen. My keyboard, mouse and monitor are no longer recognised. Any help … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi everyone.. I have a problem with my comp.. It freezes completely when i try to play a game(mouse and keyboard completely dead),i believe it is a graphic card problem but latest drivers and every possible updates didnt helped.. so i could really use some help... SYSTEM INFO I have … Hardware display  |
| | I have posted this same Thread in the "Computer case, fans, and power supply" channel. I posted this again because I'm not sure which one i would put this in. But please read and see if yall can assist me. I have looked at quite a few forums to see … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram video video-card |
| | Hi all, just bought a new mo/bo and cpu today, threw it all in and now it has some real issues. When I press the power button, the case LED's and lights come on for about 5 seconds and I hear my video card's fan going, then it all goes … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | I have a HP VT6200 that I shut down normally and all was fine. I came back about 4 hours later and pressed the power switch and all I got was a battery light, a power light and a very dim HDD light (dim HDD light is normal until after … Hardware assembly first-post laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have a floppy. It was storing names in 8.3 form I renamed one of the files to 20.3 on Windows xp and opened it on linux both acknoledge that name .Please tell me what is the file system. I thought it had to be FAT 12 even the boot … Hardware storage |
| | i have an old computer downstairs which my parents use, and i want to change a few things in the bios. my problem is, the ps2 keyboard only starts working after its too late to access the bios. i dont know if im explaining this well but at a certain … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
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