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I have an AMD 2.0G Processor 2G memory on a WINFast monther board. Every time I restart the motherboard dropps the DVD and the CDRom Drives. I have to shut down and wait 15 sec. before I restart. Can any one help or shoudl I just get a new motherboard.:-|

I'm running Xp and have a pentium 3 600 (my athalon Xp is down). I installed a Sound Blaster Live! card. Windows installed the drivers but there was no sound. I downloaded the drivers from the Creative Labs site but there is still no sound. The device manager and Creative …

Hi everyone! This is my first post here. I came across this site in a google search, and it seems like you guys really know what you are doing, so I hope you can help. I'm having a huge problem trying to get my new hard drive installed into my …

I need the drivers for the ATI 3D Rage Pro. They're not anywhere, I can't find them.

Hi all, I'm seriously thinking of building a new rig and would like to start buy purchasing a good motherboard. I want an Intel core 2 duo, so the motherboard must obviously be compatible for it. The only thing I don't need on it is a viedo card since I …

I recently had a problem my pc, basically, it would freeze, sometimes with pink and green vertical lines appearing accross the screen. The only way to restart the computer was to do it manually, but it wouldn't start, at all. The fans would run, but nothing would appear on the …

Hello, My daughter placed a installation cd in her cd drive earlier and plugged in a new MP3 player. She says that when she plugged in the MP3 that the system said it was entering sleep mode. It would thne not turn back on. I tried the power supply, I …

Hi there Looking for some help with the screen on a Dell Latitude D505. When it's on the colors are all screwed up - white is black, black is white, blue is orange etc. Updated video driver and BIOS from dell site but no joy. Connected to LCD TV at …

I think my ext hard drive is toast. First it worked fine. Then, it worked sometimes. Now, when I plug it in, it makes an "ih, ih, ih, ih, ih ..." and so on sound. Is this thing toast? Can it be fixed? Can the data be saved? Thanks.

I lost the manual to my PC and want to buy more memory for it. How do i know the type of memory i need to buy for it? its a medion PC intel celeron. Any help?

I recently had to switch back to the video card (Voodoo Banshee) that came with my PC (Gateway G6-400) because the one I upgraded to about 3 years ago was failing. Things were fine for a few hours, but now i'm having problems with it suddenly reverting to a very …

Hey, This is for people who want to treat their monitor carefully and want to keep it clean. I only know of one way that works for sure..so feel free to add some posts on how you got your monitor clean.:) LCD Monitor: An extremely soft cloth, rubbing alcohol. I …

Hi, I have bought an USB 2.0 PCMCIA card for my IBM R40 Laptop. When I plug the card in Windows XP Pro SP2 recognizes it and begins the installation. However, my computer freezes almost immediately. The only way to get my computer to restart is to remove the card, …

Hello all. This is quite an impressive forum and I am asking for some of your technical expertise. I am in the planning stages of building a new computer. Found a great deal on a barebones kit and thought I was ready to go, until... I spent the last 7 …

I have currently scrapped an old machine. It was a p4 3 ghz 1 gig ram pc3200 randeon x800 graphics with sound blaster audigy 2 ze and tv wonder 650 hdtv tuner card I now have 3.0 ghz pentium d 4mb cache 2 gig pc5400 ddr2 ram radeon x800 sound …

hey last night there was a storm where i live i pulled out all my power cords but for get to pull out my phone line so when i wake up in the morning and go to get on the net i find my ADSL doesnt work:sad: .... so i …

Hi, I have a Tecra 8100 laptop. It just started having the blue screen of death upon startup. I get the Welcome to Windows XP screen (before the XP login screen) and then it goes black and I next get the BSOD with IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL error. I can boot and run …

I have a GA-7DPXDW motherboard. One 512mb registered ecc ddr stick, of either samsung or micron. I just bought a 1gb samsung stick and stuck it in. For some reason, adding that stick, the computer is very slow to boot up. Turn it on, and it sits for about a …

My friend gave me this old motherboard and I'm trying to find out which pins I need to connect to the power LED, power switch and reset switch wires. The mb does not have the make & model on it, he can't find its manual and I can't find it …

My Uncle recently bought a new mobo and processor to put into his computer. We've put everything in, and the computer powers up. Then we get a screen that says, "American Megatrends" "AMIBIOS (C) 2005" It recognizes the hard drive and the optical drives, then at the bottom it says, …

I just picked up a 1 gb kingston U3 drive and looking through the whole thing i like the concept of it. though ive added alot of software to the drive it tells me i must have a .up3 file to update the program list with the new application. ive …

Is there a way to browse the internet using the PSP??? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced for your help, C++

This is not strictly speaking a dead machine problem but somebody might have come across the problem. When I power on my PC (ShuttleX), the usb lights come on (mouse, hub etc) but nothing happens for about 5-10 mins and then everything starts up and boots normally. I've checked cables, …

I have Motorola cable modem hard wired to my eMac. I would like to connect a wireless broadband router to my modem to allow a PC to make a wireless connection while the eMac remains hard wired. I purchased a Linksys Wireless-G router at the suggestion of the salesman only …

Hello, I am new to the forum, hope you guys can help. I know a decent amount about computers but have been stumped on this problem for about a week. I also couldn't find any info on past threads anyway my previous computer died (the motherboard did) and so I …

Hiya I am trying to play WMV files. I have tried through Media Player both 9 and 11 and also Real Player They both play the video very fast and is unwatchable. My first guess is a lack of a certain codec, but accorindg to GSPOT, i have all the …

Hi all I'm trying to get an old Time Cybernote 953E laptop working. My biggest problem seems to be the CD drive. It does not appear in my computer or in the hardware manager and when I enter the bios at startup it is not one of the devices listed. …

can anyone help i need raid drivers for a kv8 pro motherboard and cant find them anywhere :eek:

Ok here is the problem, my computer keeps shuting down and some the lights stay on and the cpu fan stops but the power supply fan is still runs. Very randomly it could stay on 5-10 hours ever since i put in a new Nvidia video card and 1G of …

Hello all, First off, I have an aging card that is easily 4+ years old. This card is a NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200 32MB. I am soon upgrading my computer and I need some input on what card I should choose. Whilst on my computer, I like to play light …

I recently installed a Dell 926 all in one printer/fax/scanner, purchased Jan 07, my PC now freezes without warning. Nature of freeze: Cursor does not move; Alt-Ctrl-Del has no effect, system does no appear to un-freeze spontaneously (still frozen after half an hour). Problem appears to be random, I can …

I'm not completely sure about which video cards are capable of dual-monitor output. Is it any video card that has two outputs? For instance, a VGA and a DVI? Or is there something special I'm supposed to look for? Here's the link to the cheap card I'm looking at: [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131228[/URL] …

I have an acer 4504Lmi. It wouldn't start, went through steps, ordered a motherboard last night. I have one concern however. I have read in a few places that a virus can damage your motherboard. Is this true? I don't want to replace the motherboard and put my hard drive …

my mate has an AMD athlon 64 3400 Geforce 600 graphics card 256meg and when the graphics card was put into the motherboard, and the comp was re-booted the computer beebs at him ontinualy on and off for 3-4 seconds can any one help?

How do I find out what my system's power supply is???

Hi all, so i spilled some drink on a toshiba 2435 s255 a while back, and damaged the Mainboard, after getting a new board now i have a problem and i would like to know if it is from a faulty board. When i boot up i get error something …

First off, English is not my native language and although I don't consider myself "bad" at English, it definitely isn't all that easy for me to describe this technical problem I'm having. Anyway, here it goes... I got me this mp3 player with usb and 1gb storage space a few …

Does a 1000mbps netwrok card actually increase your internet speed big time?????

I have a MAC G4 dual processor mirror front (downstairs in my home) and a G3 IBOOK white case that I would like to use wireless. I just purchased an Apple Original airport card on ebay for the laptop (not installed yet). I would like to network my computers and …

[B]i have been using the bluetooth dongle to send pictures and music from my pc. to my phone. {sony ericsson k610i} the problem i am having, is that my phone does not pic up the bluetooth device when i try to send files to my pc even trhough my phone …

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Greatings! I'm now in the community, so apologies if i skip procedures, if there is any. I did a silly thing on my powerbook G4, i change the hinge of the screen following the instruction from ifixit.com, so i remove hard drive, motherboard and almost everything. When i put all …

Hi all; Any ideas as to what could be the cause of the problem, I have an Asus V6000 Notebook, it intermittendly does not power up (IE: no power to notebook) I have tested the Power Adaptor with multimetre and correct voltage/sufficient voltage being supplied, also checked DC harness for …

Please help, I've tried everything I can think of and I'm gettting nowhere. A magnet was placed on a laptop, the laptop presented the blue screen of death, or so I am told by the owner of teh laptop. On restarting I get a message "Corrupt.Missing hal.dll file". The Laptop …

I have spent the last hour reading through threads and done it all and my Mic still doesn't work right. My problem is that when I try to use it it doesn't work. Under Volume Control I have mic muted and it always worked. It's always been that way. If …

How do i configure RAID 1 on 2 identical HDD's which are SATA. 1 HDD has windows XP while the other HDD is to be mirrored. The 2 hard disks are identical in the sense that they are of samecapacity. I would like to know the requirements of the 2 …

Hey Everyone, My sister has a Dell Inspiron 5150...The other night she spilled Coke onto the keyboard, and as you can imagine, the laptop didn't appreciate it!...Anyways, after everything stopped working, she brought it to me the next day and I opened everything up and cleaned/took out cables/replaced them, etc. …

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Hi, I have a Dell dimension 3000 from 2005. I bought a 200gb maxtor ultra series drive to complement my 80gb samsung one. I have the maxtor set up as the slave drive and I have the jumpers in the right positions, but when I watch movies off my maxtor …

Hi there I have this strange problem with my Compaq Presario 2500 Laptop. - computer starts up (and stays on) when plugged into the AC adaptor, and the connection is anything but loose. - the battery charging symbol shows that it's charging, and occasionally that it is directly on AC …