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Hey, I'm looking to buy a new MOBO for my computer, and I was hoping someone might have a suggestion...HEre is what i'm looking for. 1. Socket 775 ( It's an AMD Athlon XP M +2800) I'm not possitive about the socket....I cant find it in the users Manuel. 2. …

Yesterday I posted a thread about my new barebones kit and how I got a msg to make a backup SATA disk. After reading some technical info from a few websites I am thinking I need to ask a "dumb" question now. When I was re-booting for the first time …

When I turned on my [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread34516.html#"]laptop[/URL], the usual blue Dell logo screen (with press F2 to enter setup) came up followed by a blank screen where the cursor is at the top left flashing, the hard disk light is permanently on and it stays like that indefinitely. When I press …

I hope someone can help me because I this is driving me crazy, I have an HP Slimline s7220n running vista home premium, i bought it and installed it when it came out in early February and hap no problems at all and about a week ago out of no …

hey my system has a slave and a master hdd. the slave is about 5 yrs old. i got the master last yr cus sector 0 on the slave is corrupted. latley whenever i turn on the pc, a clicking sound comes from the slave and then i get a …

Hello. Thank you for looking. :) I have a MSI board. K7N2 Delta2 Platinum board. I have two (2) 512MB PC3200 sticks of Kingston Value RAM. I also have one (1) 512MB PC3200 Stick of Kingston Value RAM (identical to the dual channel sticks) for a total of 1.25GB of …

Hey I have yet another problem with my PC, and I think its hardware related. I recently formatted my PC so I have started from scratch (my pc kept freezing). I found out that the second slot for my RAM on the motherboard is not working and my RAM was …

Hi! My Quickcam Pro 3000 no longer works. For the past couple of months I've been getting a "USB device not recognized" message. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling. It worked for a short while after doing this a couple of weeks ago, but then stopped working. I again went through …

My amd athlon 3200 system quit on me a week and a half ago. 1.5 gb ram, nvidia 6800gt, 600watt psu, 1sataHD, cdrom, floppy etc. Ive read a few dozen threads on general failures and have tried everything I've seen suggested. I guess I'm just posting because I refuse to …

I havent had a new machine in some time but I finally invested in a new core2duo 6600 with some dual channel ram and an 8800gtx. After easily putting things together I booted up and got the new Gigabyte screen where it offers me the chance to edit bios, post …

I have a custom-built Gateway PC here that I used to use for several years in the early 90's. Since then it's been sitting in my closet and recently i decided to resurrect it and install linux on it. I turned it on and the computer started beeping non-stop. Seemed …

Last a buy a dvd/cd-rw from one people to replacing with my defect dvd drive. So, when I replacing and start my laptop. It meet a error like this; IDE #1 Error How can a solve this problem. Who can help me I need to quikle work with my computer …

Hey! I have a bunch of acer laptops and the most of them are working fine, except for one.. It came trough distribution service, so I have no idea what's happened to it on the way from the factory to me, but anyways, the problem/problems are: At first when I …

Hi, I have an older dell (the [URL="http://www3.shopping.com/xPF-Dell-DELL-DIMENSION-4500S-COMPUTER-CELERON-1-7GHZ-256MB-40GB-HARD-DISK-CDRW-Dell-Computer"]dimension 4500S[/URL]) and have been wanting to upgrade to a DVD/RW for some time now. I would really like to upgrade to an internal burner and take out my CD Drive, but I do not know if this is possible due to the …

My monitor is being plagued by strange discoloration at the very top of the screen. Its a Samsung syncmaster 171N LCD. Does anybody recognize this problem/know anything I can do to fix/improve it? Buying a new monitor is out of the question, so I'd least like to know what is …

I have a Sony VIAO laptop PCG-F690K with a dead CD/DVD drive. Just wont read anything anymore. Bought a replacement, but nowhere can I find how to install it. Instructions I have start with knowing how to take the keyboard off, first. Called Sony and I discover answers are in …

My old iMac DV died, and I replaced it with a 20-inch Intel iMac. Wonderful machine, but it doesn't have a modem. I need to send faxes, so I dusted off my Zoom K56 Flex fax modem. This device has a 25-pin RS-232 serial connector, so I bought a USB-to-Serial …

Laptop working fine one day, next day went to turn it on and will not boot up...says "No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility." When I hit F1 get same message and F2 just gives me info about system...what do I do?

I just plugged a USB pen drivei nto my computer which recognizes it a a floppy drive. Can someone tell why this is so?? Thanks, M

I currently have a network of 5 PCs wirelessly connected with a D-Link Access Point (DLink DWL-700). They are sharing the Internet access. I am required now to include two units of Apple Macintosh G4 and 1 unit of Apple Mac G5 wirelessly to the network, to share the Internet. …

Hi, I just had the motherboard fry in my other computer, which has a 160GB SATA HDD. I need the data on that drive, so I connected it as a secondary storage device on the computer I'm using now. The drive shows up in "My Computer" and I can access …

[COLOR=#222222]I have an ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard that wont start up at all, when you power up the PSU the green led on the MB lights up but when you hit the power button the CPU fan starts to spin then stops. The PSU works properly on another MB, I have …

I'm already to build the new monster machine, open up the new case and there are nine little reddish brown plastic washers with the nine brass offsets to attach the mobo to the case. What are these washers for and where do they go? between offsets and case, between offsets …

greetings everybody here i am a newbie, and a silversurfer at that, now the problem is that i have a toshiba 320gig ext hdd but it only shows 2.71gigs,i have tried to format it but its just the same, and the smallest of files or photos nearly fills it up.any …

Hi, The primary HDD on here is an IDE, which comes with the computer, and is not removable as the computer is configured to boot only that HDD (for some reason). I'm trying to get this computer to read a SATA HDD (160GB). I want it to be a secondary …

Hi, I'm hoping this can be diagnosed without specs because the computer came custom designed, and I don't have the specs handy anywhere. The only way I could possibly list them all is if the computer would actually boot up. But that's why I'm here. Last night, I turned off …

I have a Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra motherboard w/ an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ & 128MB PC2100 DDR RAM (I'll get more if I get this working). Other than that, all that's connected is a 64MB Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200, a 300 watt power supply and the external buttons …

Howdy Im working on a Dell laptop 1150 It dosnt start up, does not beep or load the bios heck the screen dosnt even turn on it does charge and the only light that comes on it the green power light in the front. The CD drive starts up along …

Background: WinXP SP2, totally current patches, current mouse drivers. Self-constructed generi-box with no previous problems. My old Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical USB mouse started messing up when I moved it around the screen quickly (it would click and drag stuff without me doing anything but move the mouse in circles). It …

I have a fairly new computer approx. 1.25 years old that has recently stopped working. While playing an online game, the visualizations became striped with red pixels then the pc froze. After a manual restart, the screen is permanently striped with intermittent off color pixels, and the computer shuts down/restarts …

first time I buy my mp3 player and I used it in with the windows xp operating system .. it have well function and I tranfer all files I needed and music in it... then i safely remove it from my pc.. the problem is when i second used it …

[I]I have an older computer its an apple mac 7200/75 and when i turn it on all i get is a picture of a floppy disk with a question mark on it. what do i do?

We have a "Low Mileage" Canon i550 printer that appears to the lay observer to be in perfect health. The mechanical parts seem to be fine: the ink cartridges respond to the buttons, sliding on their rails to and fro, etc. However, when a print request is sent from the …

hi my sony vaio vgn fe28 has lost its voice! i have no sound at all and when i checked in the control panel its says i have no audio device. any ideas how to fix this?

Hello people Yesterday morning i tried to boot up my PC. Everything went Ok but the monitor wont show anything. All the fans work properly(including the graphics card one) and so the leds but the monitor wont show anything. The monitor's power button keeps flashing all the time. I know …

Hi I have a broken HP Laptop. I took it a part and I want to use the DVD+RW drive for my Mac Mini. I want to know How I can hook it up to my computer, Where I can get a enclosure for the drive, and If need any …

hi, i had a similar problem to this user: [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread70304.html[/URL] I had installed a MAxtor 'DiamondMax 10' 160GB HDD as a slave to another 120GB HDD set as the Master running Windows XP Pro with SP2 and 1GB of Ram. I have all the IDE cables and jumpers set correctly …

Dear colleague: A HD in my office got a problem. I’ve tried to reinstall windows operating system. It goes to same step and it stops. It prompts three options: One is to press Enter key to proceed with installation, to press “R” key to recover, or to press “F3” to …

Hi, I built my pc round 3 months ago. Heres the system: ASRock 775Dual-VSTA mobo Pentium D 820 2.8 ghz 1gb DDRII RAM ATI Radeon 1300 GFX card MAXTOR 160gb HDD The barebones were a handmedown from my brother in law. It has been running like a dream since I …

Hello people, Well I am having problem with this motherboard. I was getting random reboots, now I have no signal that makes the monitor acknowledge that the POST is active. All I get are 2 beeps followed by 5-7 beeps kinda hard to follow them. After that for about 5-10 …

Here's the deal. I have a 350 GB SATA that acts as my OS drive, XP. I added an 80 GB IDE drive (from my old PC) on the secondary IDE port on my ASUS M2N4-SLI mother board. When I cold boot neither the BIOS not XP recognize that the …

Hi List This is my first posting. Last night I went to start my PC, which hadn't been playing up prior to this (any more than PCs ever do that is) and ... not a lot. The fans were working, the indicator light of the on/off switch was on. The …

Hi, I have Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop, runs WinXP. When I turned it on today, vertical lines appeared on screen, cant see anything. I've tried hooking it up to another monitor but had same problem. Anybody have any ideas what could be wrong? Cheers, Martyo

Hello everyone. Power was coming on and off our building so my friend decided to remove the secondary hard disk. When I came home, and tried to plug in the secondary hard disk, there was a low bleeping sound, then it stopped right after being told to press f1 or …

hi, My pc fan will sometimes give a loud whirl at startup and the screen will subsequently freezes after Windows is launched. This happens frequently but not always. I've ran defragment, fixed registry and checked the fan to no success. I'm at a loss as to how to fix this …

Acer 2300, when started this a.m. won't power up. Fan running, heat coming out but no sounds or anything else. Won't boot up with system disk either. Any ideas? Shut down fine last night. I removed the battery for about 5 min. replaced, held down the start button still nothing. …

Can someone tell me how to partition the hard disk into two pardtitions. My laptop came with the Operating system already installed. Can you guys rescue me with the steps. Specs: Windows xp sp2 40 GB HDD HP 510 Laptop.

Hi, I just picked up a compaq evo 25229-001 p4 motherboard. It has a 14 pin power supply connecter on the board. Is there an adapter for a 20 pin psu to a 14 pin? Thanks

For some reason my CPU usage keeps jumping up to 100% and slowing down my whole system. Two days ago everything was running perfectly smotthly and i cant figure out what has changed. the only thing that has changed in the past couple days is i downloaded a few more …

What would happen if I put 256mb PC133mhz in a motherboard that only supported PC100??? I think its cutting my memory in half and only giving me 128mb instead of 256