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I recently put together the machine below, but im experiencing random shut downs where the power drops completely on it. The specs of the machine MSI K9N SLI-2F AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.8GHz Socket AM2 Corsair TWIN2X 5400 DDR2, 2048MB BFG GeForce 8800GTS OC2 320MB Cooler Master Real Power …

Hi, I have recently got given an old computer that someone didnt want. it is running on windows 98 SE. It booted up fine the first time, but the second time, it booted up untill the windows loading screen, did that 4 a few secs, and then i got this …

I acquired a Sony Vaio VGN-S150 laptop, and basically it was dropped onto a carpeted floor. Only problem now, is that it is very inconsistant when it comes to starting-up. For the most part, the power comes on, the hard drive and cooling fan start-up, but there's no sound or …

Im looking for a TV tuner card which is completly compatable with Windows Vista's media centre As many of the below as possible on one card: - Dual tuner - Free view - Digital - Remote - Time shift capable - PAL version (UK) The spec of my PC is …

Hello All. First off, glad to find this forum, it's very comprehensive. I have a ASUS A7V8X LA Kelut GL6E VIA KM400A VIA VT8237 motherboard, it's amost four years old now. About two years ago the NIC card stopped working, so I bought a new ethernet card and that took …

Hi all i've just bought an old Wingman Force joystick (the big grey one) from eBay and i'm having big problems getting it to work on XP. whenever i plug it into my USB the PC blue screens and restarts. the joystick works fine in windows safe mode. from this …

[COLOR=#000000]Toshiba Laptop Tecra 8100, made in USA [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Pressing the system power-switch (mains power supply and battery indicator lights being already on), results in the following:-[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] (a) Screen-indicator light turns on.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] (b) Hard disc indicator-light comes on for about 2 seconds and then goes off.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] …

I am rebuilding my pc and have bought everything new except the RAM. I don't get anything from the onboard video. The mother board and CPU are new as is the power supply. I remove the ram and I get no indication that the pc cares. No beeps or nothing. …

I've tried to troubleshoot my way through this, but find myself too frustrated with my own machine to think straight. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The problem started with my monitor (seemingly at random) going into power saving mode. I wouldn't be able to bring it back out of …

A week ago I build a new comp. Worked fine, decided to go legal and purchased several licenses of Vista. All installs have been flaky, mainly with power. So I got tired of Vista and went back to XP. The machine in question was fine, XP installed fine. Everything looked …

Hello Iv been a comptuer tech for a few years now and im posting this thread to see if any one has any ideas. Yesterday it was lighting very bad and my brothers house got struck by lighting, and his computer went out. He told me what happened and i …

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting and I wish it was for a better thread. I have an Asus laptop, M6000, with windows XP. Last time it worked I turned it off by hibernating, as I often do. Since then, when I turn it on it starts for …

Last month i lost everything from my IDE hard disk, that was 80Gb with 4 partition in it. in first partition (C:) was the OS windows XP. operating system wasn't working. then i tried to see my files in dos mode but it was showing no partition in my hard …

Hello everyone, [INDENT]I've just joined today and have come up through the electronics industry, moving over to the IT industry where I have had experience building and repairing PCs and more recently repairing G3 and G4 Power Macs. I have just aquired a faulty G5 Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac. This machine …

Hi there My powermac tower G5 was working fine until yesterday and today the screens wont receive signal from tower. I just bought two Samsung monitors and installed it to the computer it work fine for a couple of days and now it does not receive the signal from the …

Throughout the last week or so i have been experiencing frequent disconnects while connected wireless to my linksys router. Some of the disconnects seem to have logic to why it happens and others seem to come for no apparent reason. For instance, every time my phone rings and "Gets picked …

Hi my DVD re-writer after a couple of years of loyal service has stopped reading dvd's and only reads cd's, in fact in the properties of this drive it comes up as a cd drive. I bought a new dvd writer ( HP dvd740 Internal 16X DVD Writer ) but …

Hello all,working on a gateway laptop,the lcd jumps and has small white horizontal lines that don't go all the way across, but come from both sides,all over the screen ,like static interference,laptop would eventually lock up .but will work and keep running when hooked to my desktop computers monitor.I have …

What would be the reason about it?any help guys?

I have a Dell Dimension 4500 series desktop with 256mb of ram and I want to upgrade to 1gb. Im limited to only 512mb per each slot, but I could be wrong on that. I was wondering what kind of ram would you guys recommend and am I only limited …

Ok guys im new here and i need help. Today i was cleaning out my computer with a sort-of damp rag I took the cooler master fan off and got all the dust out etc. Put it all together, plugged the power supply back in. and after that i pressed …

I haved a Dell Dimension that I bought new. It was working fine until one day it wouldn't turn on. I checked all the normal things like power cord, different outlet, taking out any cards and disconnecting the power to hard drive and DVD rom. I left the RAM in …

Okay my computer was accidentally unplugged by my cat last night (Don't ask) anyway when I got up this morning my comp was completly off so I plugged it back in and attempted to turn it back on however, I was greeted with only a green blinking light. I unplugged …

Hey I am building two 3d/CAD machines. Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz Intel D955XBK MOBO with Crossfire Seagate 500gb SATA 14 mb Maxtor 40 gb hd 550w dual fan power supply Kingston KVR667D2N5 1 gb x8 Masscool CPU fan with copper pipes Samsung Litescribe DVD_RW nVidia GeForce 6600LE 512 …

While posting the computer will stop and say "Fatal Error DMA" HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks in advance to anyone who can lend assistance. I am trying to determine if I have a faulty motherboard. Heres the system I put together. Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2 GHZ Processor Intel BOXD955XBKLKR ATX Intel Motherboard eVGA Geforce 6800GS 256-P2-N386-AX Video Card CORSAIR 1GB DDR2 Dual Channel RAM …

Hi guys. Brand new to Apple computers as I got a "defective" G4 from my neighbor. He was going to throw it away but I told him I would try to fix it first. When I power it up, it makes a musical "greeting" power up sound and the monitor …

Let me start off by letting you know that I have installed a new PSU. A new MB. And a new CPU. I have pulled all non-essentials out of the pc...but it still will not POST. That is why I have the new parts. It stopped booting/POST with the older …

hey, i've browsed this site frot he last couple of days looking to remedy a problem that sounds very similar to the poster on the last two threads with this title. my acer 1640 laptop, purchased may 2006, has been since christmas struggling to carry out two processes at once, …

I have a toshiba p105-6024. After recently replacing my cd/dvd-rom drive, my screen will not come on. The power comes on but I get nothing. I tried the fn plus screen button but that did nothing either. What can I do to fix this?

Hi all, the Dvd R/Rw drive on my laptop is having issues reading disc put into it.. It was still doing okay a few days back when i used it to copy a few discs.. But now it don't seem to be able to read or write, and the "D …

Heres the lay down. I have recently got back into computer gaming and started installing some of my old games eg. Half life 2, call of duty 2 etc. All good so far. Now I would load up the game and play it for oh.. maybe 10 minutes flawlessly if …

Planning on making a less powerful computer for a friend of mines mom. The mobod is the ASUS M2N-E Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra MCP ATX AMD along with the x2 4600 brisbane. What memory would you suggest to work the best with NO overclocking at all. Would the …

hello all i have an Emachines 500 is. it had wondows 98 se installed for about 7 yrs.this past spring i upgraded to windows XP.the main hard drive is 4gb in size. i had a tougfh time with all the updates and adding SP2 to the mix.i figured i would …

I just bought a new Antec Earth Watts 500 power supply. I just installed it last night and I started hearing a noise (kind of like a cricket sound). It goes on for about 8 seconds then stops for a split second then 3 short cricket sounds and then the …

I have an ASUS A7N8X2.0 mainboard, with an Athlon XP 2500+ processor. I have 2Gb (2X1Gb sticks) of matched Kingston DDR memory. My problem is that my computer is only recognizing the memory as 1Gb. Each stick by itself will register as 1Gb in either of the 3 slots, but …

hello everyone i have a new generic stick mp3 player with 1G memory. After mistakingly formatting it in FAT32 and then back into FAT its memory shrunk from 1G to 500M. Its a generic piece with no manufacurer or serial number so there is no one to turn to. Does …

Hello all. I am wondering if I will be able to achieve DIMM performance with a RAM setup as such: 2 x 512MB = 1024MB (DIMM DDR, PC3200, 400Mhz - both) 2 x 1024MB RAM = 2048MB (DIMM DDR, PC3200, 400Mhz - both) This would give me a total of …

After spending the entire morning just getting a live boot of ubuntu to work (my fauly really, the last blank cd i had burned with an error, and i had to configure a flash drive to do it instead), i was finally able to use linux for the first time. …

ok im going to buy a new video card very soon. im not sure wat to get. i could go for 8800gts or gtx or ati 2900xt. well i can go for any of these but i just wanted to know which one is worth the price. im not going …

Help please! looking for hidden problems. Computer is about a year old, has recently started running slower. Takes a while to startup - much more than it used to. Yesterday, the mouse (kind with the mini DIN plug) froze on startup and won't respond (?). This is something new. I …

i was going to buy a new graphics card mainly to plug in my tv but when it says s-video tv out could i use that on a normal fat tv cheers bondi007

HI I have a strange problem with my HP dv5020us Laptop. A couple weeks back, it started acting strangely and froze. I suspected that the Harddrive must have poped out,as it sometimes does( HP forgot to screw it up). SO I shut down the machine and opened it but the …

I recently ordered a computer with an AMD Athlon 64 3300+ processor. This CPU runs at the same clock speed as a 3400+, but it's L2 cache is 256KB, as opposed to 512KB of the 3400+. My question is whether it was a mistake to order this processor, when I …

Maybe someone has an idea on this one: I own several Toshiba 2805 laptops - ranging from the S201 model (Celeron 650) to the faster S302 (PIII 750) models. They're working perfectly and I'm happy with them, and I wanted to install larger hard drives in them and give them …

primery master s.m.a.r.t command error at startup (f4 to resume) what would I do. Last operating system was xp pro.

Using Indian Laptop in UK...adapter getting extremely heated...??? Hi I am using 3212NWXMi Acer Laptop which i had purchased in India. The indian plugs are round shaped. But the sockets in UK require square pins. So i purchased one adapter through which i can plug indian round pins into sockets …

Alright... I'm wondering if anyone has seen this type of thing before. I've got a Dell L800R that has been completely wiped clean for os re-install. When I power up, I hold down the <del> key to enter setup... the dell logo shifts to the top of the screen, the …

This problem started about a month ago. When I boot off a disk manager floppy or win2000 cd it/computer shuts off right after it starts to load the drivers. I have tried different settings in the bios, (i.e. default, etc.). I have to hit power button to turn back on. …

Have new GE wireless keyboard and mouse. Keyboard routinely skips lters or adds too many leters, even spaces or returns are often ignored or multplied. Have gone to properties and tried several adjustments in key delay, or speeeed to no avail. Any answers anyone?