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Hello forum I just purchased a new LCD wide screen 24 inch monitor to replace the 19 inch CRT I had. The new wide screen is a Samsung syncmaster 245BW and I have installed the proper drivers for the monitor in Windows XP sp2. I periodocally see horizontal white streaks …

First time Posting!! Hey Guys, I have enjoyed reading in this forum! I have a quick question. I have a Gygabyte K9 triton motherboard. The manual says it supports upto 4GB of ram. Kingston Tech's website says that the max memory it supports is 2GB using 400MHz DDR or 4GB …

Hi, here is my problem: my Compaq presario SR1620NX just crashes almost every time I'm copying a DVD. The process I'm doing is: Copy the files from the DVD to the hard disk Create an iso file with the DVD files ---> * here the PC crashes * Crashes means …

My system runs slowly after I reboot. To make it run at normal speed I have to leave it powered off for at least 10 minutes. This problem is not related to the operating system or the programs running. The problem shows up whether I'm running Windows XP or Windows …

Just bought it (Patriot 4gb kit). Now I think of it, I probably should do some research on the motherboard first be4 plunging into the kit. Any good motherboard for this 4gb (2 x 2gb) kit? I would prefer AMD route if possible, but if there is a cheap route …

I am trying to start my PC by pressing the power switch, but it doesn't start-up. As long as I keep the power switch pressed the power and hard-disk LED's at the front of my Cabinet keep blinking, but the machine doesn't power on. This used to happen earlier too, …

I need life support for a PC... I came home and found the computer in a frozen state so I proceeded to press the reset button and since then it has not rebooted. The unit powers up and the hard drives powers up and the CPU fan and case fans …

Ok this will be hard to swallow but here goes.. In 2005 I bought a brand new Toshiba Mx-35. I sold it un-used to a friend who brought it back the next day and told me the monitor went out. We hooked it up to an external monitor and it …

I believe this is the right part of the forums to post this in. Okay I am investing in a gaming pc. A Dell XPS 710. I am not sure if I should get the 750 watt power supply or the 1 kilowatt power supply. What are the differences between …

so i have a sony vaio and we had xp put on it. i gave to my boyfriend and i was going through and deleting some programs that werent needed and i deleted some stupid picture package. well when we turned on the computer it loaded like usual but it …

Hi guys. Just wondering if anyone could help me troubleshoot. I just recently got done cleaning up some nasty spyware stuff. Now when using my computer I get almost no processor(?) noise. I don;t know if it's processor noise or not, but you know that crunching you get when it's …

This is what I have: - Shuttle MB w/xp2200 - supports both DDR and PC133 memory - 384 MB Ram - AGP 64MB video Okay, when i turn the system on...no video. You can see and hear the drives boot as if it were normally operating, except...no video. Also no …

My computer seems to be restarting randomly, and I get this blue screen with kernal errors etc. It also restarts when i try to play certain games like everquest for example it will crash at the patcher. I've run spybot, adware se personal, nortan antivirus, and registery cleaner. Computer specs …

Building a machine with ASUS P5WDG2. Have built 4 or 5 ASUS machines over past 10 years. Can't figure out where or how to connect the CDROM. Do I need to add an I/O card for the CD?

I am attempting to build a rig with the following setup: C2d 1.86ghz ASUS P5L-MX LGA 775 Intel 945G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard 2GB Corsair Value Ram 320 WD HD ATI X1650 Video Card Roswill 480w PSU This is a budget build so as you can see with the above …

hello If I put in ata133 pci controller card in my system, would my pc with built in ide/ata66 interface also run at ata133? Which is better or faster hard drive, ata133 (7200rpm) or ata133 (5400rpm)? Thanks

unsure wat details i need to leave so i can get help with my problem recently, in the past month, the computer has jus been freezing for no reason, even while its idle, then i restart and it hangs during dos loadup information. ive had this computer for 5 years …

Hi, I am a new member joined today looking at the very helpfull posts. I have Inspiron 5100 laptop and had problems with fan which is not cooling the processor enough. I read some forums regarding Inspiron 5100 fan problems, so I decided to open up and clean the fan. …

I have a major problem. My sons computer keeps losing its hard drive. I have gone into the BIOs and reset it to Default but then it lost the Hard Drive completely. I had checked before i rebooted to see if it was reading and it was. I set the …

Hello everybody, I have no image on the screen of my laptop but I am sure the screen is working fine because I have tried it on an other laptop (similar model). Furthermore the graphic card seems to be working because I do get images on an external monitor i …

Experience comes with poor judgement! Good judgement comes after bad experiences. I've taken my pc in for repair and upgrading. As someone who just want to enjoy my pc, and be able to control it, I was shocked by this bussiness who robs people like me, like hardware, to use …

Can any one help me open the case on my Gateway Solo 2150? Thanks,

Hi all, On (lucky me!) Friday the 13th, my [b]Maxtor 250GB SATA[/b] drive failed. Its connected to a Promise SATA PCI Card, and my computer specs are as follows: 2 existing SATA drives connected to mobo, 2GB ram, 3.2Ghz P4 HT. [b]The error:[/b] Windows loads very sluggishly, and when I …

Hi I am new in the forum.....I just installed windows vista and I'm having trouble with the hardrive memory....every time I enter my computer I see that the memory is lower....right now is 10 g less than it was when I install vista....I ran Norton scan and it did not …

Hi, Ive recently brought a second SATA HDD for my comp. Installed it with no problems and its working fine the only problem is the size its says it is. I bought it as a 250GB but when i look at it in "My Computer" it says that it is …

Hi guys im new here but im looking for an answer to a frustrating problem. I just built a computer and as soon as I power it on, it powers itself back off after 2 seconds. The HD\CD\fans all come on and spin, but it shuts down. Any help would …

I can use my pc upto 30mints or ever worst ll b only for 5 mints.. then its ll start to restart again.. but the problem is, once restart, its not goin to login window.. its keep on restarting te system ... at end i need to switch it off …

When I boot up my Gateway 450sx laptop it will run for approx 3 - 5 minutes then the monitor will, for lack of a better term, appear to scramble and eventually lock-up. When I reboot after this happens it will take 5 minutes of the fan running or hard …

2 year old dell 1150 shut down on it's own and now there is no power lights and no response from the power button - problem has been diagnosed as a motherboard by online support - dell wants $4450 to ship and fix. I am doubtful that that is the …

[url]http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/10911529/Sony_VAIO_VGC_RA828G_Desktop_PC.html[/url] Also I have upgraded it to 2 gigs of ram. I have tried before unsuccesfully and after a few years of owning it its starting to show its age in games such as Vanguard online, Battlefield 2, and Lord of the rings Online. I was wondering if it is …

Good evening guys... I just purchased a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop with the UXGA screen, which runs at 1920 x 1200 screen resolution. The screen brilliance and text resolution is awesome!!!, BUT every picture displayed on Internet Explorer is quite blurry. This includes regular images (like pictures) as well as …

hi guys this never happen to me before i got my pc from like 3 years and every thing is fine i know its the temperature as i downloaded speed fan and check the heat but there is some thing weird there is 2 fans in my pc the big …

I'm fairly new on this site and I see where a lot of you worry about power spikes and outages. Just about everyone has a sruge protector but it seems as if no one has a power back up system. I have two computers and both of them are on …

i just got a new mic (headset) for my computer (i use windows vista) and i can hear fine out of them but it does not detect my voice. i have searched on many forums and it says about all the settings and i have checked all them over and …

hi, ok i'll get to the point. My graphics are dead. I have tryed lots of different monitors and none work. I have had the same problem before, ushally after adding a new hard disk, or changing the RAM or something. i think it might be something to do with …

Hey guys, I'm new here and after seeing how helpful the community is I thought I'd give it a shot. Heres the specs ECS PT890T-A board w/ E6420 Ultra 500 watt X-Connect PSU Ultra 1gb dual channel (shipping) 60gb WD UDMA 200gb Seagate Barracuda UDMA evga 7600 gs 256mb pci-e …

When I pit a cd in the cd romand try to open it in "my computer", "my computer" doesn't respond. This is in the HP computer that crashed and burned a few weeks back.Have gotten it back up and running and this I hope is the last problem I have …

I have a weird problem with my Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDT. It sometime work good, but sometime it freeze (hang) when I work with it and can't do anything except I just reboot with slide the power. After I reboot, the leds indicator (the power, monitor and the battery indicator) …

Take a look [url="http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html"]here[/url]. What this is actually saying is that, the 7 series does not support directX 10, but that the 7900 card is better for gaming than the 8500 card (and even a bit better/faster than the 8600 card)? Why am I asking? Well, I'm planning on buying …

Hey, i want to put a new motherboard in my moms computer. Firstly, do I have to save any files on my hard drive?? Secondly, how do I discharge static from the motherboard? Lastly, is there anything I should know so that when I put it in I wont fry …

Hi all I am in serious trouble. i am not able to access my c: drive(when i open my computer it is shown like ([B][COLOR=red]Access Denied (c:)[/COLOR][/B] wherever i click on the icon it says c:\ not accessable. Access Denied. For this drive the sharing and security tab in the …

I am having 915GAV mother board, during booting the system shows intel desktop board logo followed by black screen telling keyboard detected, mouse detected, first drive cdrw sony, fixed disk 0 : Samsung hard disk and finally it shows press f4 key to resume after pressing f4 the system boots …

hey i have a question im using 1gig ddr2 533 and i want to ugrade it to 1gig DDR2 667 is it alrite i use DDR2 533 and 667 in the same motherboard my motherboard spec INTEL 945P EXPRESS CHIP

I keep getting boot from cd: boot disk error insert system disk when I try to load up. The drive is browsable from a temporary one which I added. In the recovery console I have tried bootcfg /rebuild fixmbr and fixboot to no avail.. This problem occured after I installed …

I just purchased parts to build a new computer, which ended up costing me about $450 dollars. I have had a good amount of expierence working with computers and so thought that i was easily up to the task. However when i assembled the computer (A Pentium 4 2.4ghz with …

I just got a Toshiba Satellite A70 from a friend who was gonna trash it. It took a nasty fall and now when you turn it on it displays: "For Realtek RTL8139(x)/8130/810x PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v 2.13 (020326) PXE-E61: Media test faillure, check cable PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM" repeatedly, …

Hard Disk - One Partition Unaccessible...!!! Hi I have attached three hard disks and have booted from one hard disk...but why one of partition (partition J ) of another hard disk is not getting accessed from the hard disk from which i have booted. Normally i was able to access …

I cold not login to IBM Think PAD T22 Laptop due to Alt Ctrl and DEL key are not working.I tried with following 1. Removed Key board and cleaned 2.By attached External USB Key board still I could not login.External keyboard is not recoconising. Plesae kelp me in this regrd. …

when i got home from work, my computer was turned off and the light was glowing orange. (i have an old pentium 4 2ghz gateway. cant find specifics on the model etc...). i would try to boot up the computer and nothing, i mean nothing at all was happening. i …

I'm building a PC and was wondering if a nVidia Geforce 7100GS 7100 GS 256MB PCI-E DDR2 DVI graphics card would work on my computer and would it be my best option. MY MOTHERBOARD IS A A8N-SLI SE MY RAM/MEMORY IS DDR400 HIGH DENSITY MY CPU/PROCESSOR IS A AMD ATHLON …