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So my old computer is pretty much giving me the black screen of death right now, i just upgraded the video card recently so im pretty sure its not that that is broke..... im due to buy a new computer its been almost 10 years since i have but im …

My computer just keeps freezing and i cant even format my hardrive as that freezes to. can anyone please help?

We have two programs we use that require software keys to function. They are dongles that plug into the 25 pin female parallel port on the computer, and the printer cable itself plugs into them. Our laptop computers were just upgraded, but have only USB ports. I was hoping to …

Hi, Will quickly explain my problem. Looks like a dead machine to me... Please help, in case any of you know the answer to this. [U]PC Config:[/U] Intel Core 2 Duo processor on a Intel DG065RY motherboard, 2 DVD ROM's, XFX Force GeForce 7600 GS, 2 x 1 GB 800 …

Greetings: New to group, first post and hope it will not be my last. Love technology but its going to fast for me to keep up. I am interested in playing slot machines as you can tell from the title of this post. I am particularly interested in improving my …

Ok i had a thread with power supply maybe. I unhooked everything and it still would stay on for 5 second then turn back off. If i can the memory stick out and turn it on it will stay on but beep i know the beep means that there is …

Hello. My motherboard failed yesterday when I was hooking up a few devices to my computer. I brought it to a local company and they said the motherboard needed replacing and a new hard drive, as I'd need to do a fresh install on it. Their reason for the new …

Hi everyone I bought a new system about two weeks ago. CPU=Core2Duo E6550 CPU Cooler=Glacial Tech Igloo 5073 Silent 1700RPM Max. (nice and cheap 92mm fan) MB=Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R RAM=2x1GB Kingston DDR2-800MHz CL5 GPU=Gigabyte GeForce 8400GS CPU temperatures: Stock 2.33GHz: Idle=29 degrees Load (100%)=59-60 Overclocked 2.975GHz(7x425MHz@1.2V/1.3V): Idle=39-41 Load (100%)=60-61 I'm particularly …

my machine keeps restarting when i open an executable progrm and am buffled at wat could be the problem, could it be my harddrive is now corrupted?

Hi. I've got a Packard Bell laptop that is specified as having 1 GB of RAM. However, looking in the Windows system information and the BIOS both show it as having 896 MB. Does anyone know how I would go about determining whether the missing RAM is being used for …

Heya... I have bought a new pc 3 months ago....i do 3d work... well last night i left my pc on for rendering and face the padestel fan toward the casing after than i went to sleep... when i wokeup i saw my rendering was done so i shutdown the …

I have had my hp pavillion 7955 desktop for five years and a few days ago the computer froze up and wouldnt shut down even by holding the power button so i unplugged it (bad idea) as soon as it turned off i tried turning it on and nothing happend …

Hey all, I'm kind of pulling at my last threads with this problem now, hoping someone here can help me out. Pretty much since I made my PC in March (2007) it has had a problem of sporadic restarts. I had no idea what the cause could be and they …

Hi, I just upgraded my computer to PCI-Express, and built it, but I am having problems with it not booting. Some information I would like to give is: I decided to keep my CD/DVD drives, and my HDD (Heard old HDD's may cause problems with the OS on new machines?) …

I'm not a tech wizard like most of you on DaniWeb, so bear with me. I added a second hard drive to my Dell Windows XP computer. Is it possible to take that hard drive out of the computer and convert it to an external drive that would have a …

Hey all... well, i have shutdowned my computer for 2 days and when i back to turn it on, i get a problem with BIOS! i think that it has reset it-self! The Problem is that the computer don't continue to the Next Screen see the Problem/Screen in my attachments …

I was replacing some ram there were 2 pc800 45 64gb in the memory slots and 2 crimms. I pulled the 2 64gb and put 2 pc800 40ns 128gb, thats what the manual said to install. When I tryed to turn the pc back on it would power on fan …

It's a Aopen PIII mainboard which when powered up POSTs ok but the screen goes blank immediately after that. Thinking it could be memory, bios config, or other peripherals, I've repeatedly tried clearing the CMOS, disconnecting extra hardware, and memory. The board 'knows' when RAM is absent and when not. …

[COLOR="Green"][/COLOR] I put my graphics card on right and i plug in my monitor in the screen shows up blank whats wrong with it? i need help!

I am trying to retrieve data from my old c: drive. I have a SATA to USB adapter. If I connect the drive in windows xp it loops before the drive is recognized. If I run uneraser from a bootable floppy the drive is found correctly - serial number and …

Hello, I am a lonley 400 operator and we have a plasma tv where we run a monitoring tools. The images are starting to burn into the screen. Does anyone know of software that will move the ie screens around randomley to stop the burning? Thank you for your time.

My Toshiba TE2100 finally bid farewell to normal life last night. Orange light flashing, boots for 2 mins sometimes and then dies.... so I'm assuming it is the power board connection. I'm ok with saying 'au revoir' to the laptop - it has given a lot of service - but …

Ok here the problem. I turn on my desktop and it stays on for about 5 seconds then shuts off. I was going with the power supply is shot. Or could something else be wrong you can here thje CPU fan start up and the cd drive light turn on. …

I have a emachine computer. After I would turn it on & after a short time it would turn it self off & the with in a few minutes back on, this would go on & on after this would start happened, I could not turn it off manaully on …

I have a compaq presario 700 and the screen won't stay open. It has lost all the tension it had. Any suggestions on how I can fix it or recommend any devices I can buy to attach to laptop to keep the screen in an up right position. thanks stone

Hi, my laptop is not getting booted. whenever i try to charge it, the light on the charger gets off. with that charger i can charge my other laptop. so it seems that there is some problem with laptop & not the charger. what can be the problem that charger …

I have a strange issue with a friend's PC I've been looking at. Most of the time when you turn it on, the fan and HD spin briefly then stop. After doing this several times, it will usually start up normally. I've tried disconnecting various things, without any luck. It's …

Hi guys Just wondering about the problem i have at the minute. Its regarding a Dell Optiplex gx260 pentium 4 2 ghz with 256 mb RAM and windows 2000 professional running on it. The problem is when the PC is strated up and it reaches the Windows 200 Professional screen …

Hi, I have just been given two of these machines, both of which have probs. I will talk about this one first and come to the second one in a later thread. I put a 30Gig Drive in it and set the BIOS to boot from CD to install anew …

When I try installing win 2000 or even booting to access windows, I receive a stop error: 0x0000007A (0xe193934C, 0xc000000E, 0xa00c3d35, 0x02432860), Kernel Data Inpage Error; Address: a00c3d35 base at a0000000, Date Stamp 38438ff7-win 32 k sys, Beg dump of physical memory. The laptop is a Portege 7000Ct. I get …

Why won't bearshare work on my new computer it has windows vista??

Hi all I currently have an Asus p4p800se motherboard with a Radeon 9800xt graphics card. However, as I want to be able to play some of the newer games such as Pes 2008, Crysis, Bioshock etc... I need a card with shader model 3.0. I'm thinking of a Radeon X1950XT …

I have Windows XP Home Edition. I am getting a message when i turn on my toshiba satellite; it says "we apologize for the inconvenience, etc." and gives me a number of options to start up. None works - no matter which i select, i will get a blank screen …

Hi, this is probably a dumb question, but I have two systems and limited desk space, so I thought I'd get a KVM switch. I have a Logitech G7 wireless mouse and a generic USB keyboard that I've grown used to, and I've read a lot about the poor video …

I'm wondering if someone can help me with a hardware question. I just want to make sure I don't make a mistake since I'm planning to spend quite a bit on a new machine. I'm looking to purchase a fairly fast machine...something in which to edit video with as few …

Hi, I have an HP a705w with onboard Video I bought an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI, when i install the card and boot the computer up it doesn't even go into the boot sequence. Onboard drivers have been uninstalled, have verified I have more than enough power (400w power supply). …

Hi I wonder if any one can help me? my machine recently died. Basically when i power on the machine the fan starts (there is no post - but there doesn't appear to be any speaker or connection for it to do so - this is another issue which is …

Ok so I'm putting together a new computer and read it's bad to screw the mobo straight into the bracket due to shorting. The cases bracket has these little metal hills with flat tops where the screws go and I'm unsure whether it's good enough? Do I need some brass …

Hi All, My computer is IBM Thinkpad T41 laptop.The problem is that the CPU fan is always on and this is very irritating as i hate the sound it makes.When i check on the Tasmgr it does not show that much CPU Load to make the fan work.I dont know …

I built my computer a while ago. I used [URL="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-detailsInactive.asp?Sku=A455-1028E"]this motherboard[/URL] and bought only [URL="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-detailsInactive.asp?Sku=ULT31664"]one stick[/URL] of RAM. I want to buy another gig of RAM so I can have the "Dual channel memory" setup. I always hear that you need to put two [I]identical[/I] sticks in for that to …

Hello there My monitor only displays an image for a few minutes (if at all) and then freezes and then says 'no signal' and switches off. I don't have much hardware knowledge, but assume this may be something to do with overheating, the video board or cooling fan? I don't …

I have an ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium. After switching from IDE to SATA HDD, Windows started popping up with an error message straight on booting. svchost has tried to read/write to a memory sector and failed. I tried switching back to the IDE drive, and the computer refused to even go …

Earlier this week i purchased a core 2 duo e6850 and another gig of DDR2 800 ram. After putting them in my comp i started playing Vanguard: saga of heroes and after about 2 days i decided to play with the graphic settings since it was running perfect on highest …

Hey, I'm new to the forum here and I have read other people's post about no signals on their monitors however none of the solutions posted actually worked for me. I suppose there must be some explanation to why I'm receiving no signal on my monitor; my computer specs are: …

My laptop screen will not display an image. I have tried plugging in an external lcd and hitting Fn F8 and get no display either. The laptop is old but it did work a few days ago. I dont think the LCD is cracked or broken. Could it be the …

I am having problems with system Restore. My computer just wouldn't restore to the point I ask it to. Any ideas?

i have no sound in fedora 7 but its ok with windows. What seems to be the problem? need your help guys. thanks - tagz017

i'm planning to replace my old cpu's motherboard (that was almost 10 years ago) with a new one, with better specs so that i can make use of it and improvise it. Does it also need a new power supply? Need your advice guys. thanks

Hello everyone, If anybody at all can help me with this, I'd be really grateful: for the past couple of weeks, I've been having display issues that can be best described as follows: In games, when camera turns (most FPS) or graphics go fast (e.g PES6), it looks as if …

I attempted to build my first computer system today and here is what happened: Powered on the computer and after about 6 seconds of fans spinning, computer shuts down. Unplugged everything except for CPU (and cooling unit) and RAM. Motherboard beeped 5 times, then it beeped faster, multiple times (like …