Hardware Forum

I have a Latitude C800. This morning we I turned it on the display came up very small with an 1.5" black border. Restarting has not helped. I use the laptop for teaching, and when projected through the projector the display is normal. Is reloading the display drivers the way …

Is there a simple program that will allow me to create menus on dvd's i want to burn? (eg. Play All, Episode selection)

My computer has this odd problem of turning off halways. What i mean is that i could be doing anything (gaming, programming, webbrowsing, running a adaware scan, etc) and it well shut off. The moniter gives me the power saving nbow activated message and it goes into power saving mode. …

Hi Everyone: Sorry, but I am new at this. I am having some weird problems with my computer and I have searched all over the net to find out what is wrong. My computer is around 2 years old, and it has worked fine, until about a month now. For …

Hey. My question is, can laptops have startup problems if they're cold? If the answer is No, or They Shouldn't, then I will call the depot and interrogate them as to Why my computer fails to start in the mornings. My problem is, sometimes when I turn on my computer, …

Installed a new graphic card, now my syncmaster nf 900 monitor doesnt work. Tried with a older computer and then it did work. strange... both are crt or what you call monitors that isnt flat. I had x600pro 256mb before this 7600gt 256mb card. Need help =) help me...

Hi all... I sure hope someone can help here!! I have the Inspiron 1150, just over a year old and in November had the motherboard replaced because the power supply connection just broke off. Warranty out in Jan, now there is just a black screen when the computer turns on. …

have got xp pro sp2 on h/d, i was formatting a floppy when something happened everything went off , all i was left with was the desktop screen with no icons, the only way to shut down was switchoff by the button on front, since then it will not bootup …

How do I format my hard drive? All my important files and documents are backed-up on my external HD. I need to reformat my C Hard drive, but cant figure out how. I have the restore disks I received when I purchased my computer, but am lost. Any help is …

On a computer I am trying to work on it gives the black screen with the can't load because of corrupt file and the part to put in the cd and push r for recovery etc. I went through the chkdsk /r and did a repair and recovery but it …

Well i hae been lookin' at some motherboards for the desktop i'm tryin' to build for me and my parents. My friend said should use a 2.5 GHz motherboard, but when i look at all the motherboards online, i see other stuff like sockets..... I'm so confused about that stuff. …

Greetings, Recently, 1 of my cousin wants to upgrade his graphic card; but he can't decide which one to get. I found 1 for him but I'm not really a geek into these stuff. So I'm here to ask you guys about it. So anyway, right now he is using …

[COLOR=#000000]Vista Vista !!! I don’t know how many people are facing problems during upgrading there system with Vista. But I should not have upgraded my system with that. I’ve had my karma about 6 months, initially I had a few problems with it freezing etc but nothing major. Then last …

I built a new machine back in November: AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ENERMAX EG651P-VE FM(24P) ATX 550W Power Supply Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard …

Hi, I was wondering if there is a DVD based guide to building you own pc from scratch instead of the regular boring books and large manuals. So that one can just watch it and learn the basics without much fuss. Thanks.

Hi, I recently bought a new PC running a french version of XP HOME. I installed an english version of the same OS and now the keys have gone rowdy. When I hit the A key I get a Q. Can anyone help ?

when i turn my computer on in the first screen thing it shows no hardrives detected. and in the bios it shows no hardrive either the harddrive makes a wierd noise to i would like to just beable to boot it to get of some of my important data any …

For some reason, when I woke up this morning, my computer wasn't logged on to my account. Instead, it was at the account select screen, and it said that some process could not be run. So I logged on and for some reason, everything was slow. I checked my processes …

Happy New Year Everyone!! I have a problem with my daughters laptop, she tried to power up her laptop but failed, she told me that the battery had failed, so i tested the battery, had little power (1% of 100%) which indicates that the battery is dead, the problem is …

Ok, so i'm an idiot and didn't remember to pay attention what plugs i undid and where the cables were supposed to go when reinstalling it:confused: . We bought the ATX 300 watt power supply and it came with extra plugs that weren't here before so now i'm at a …

have got a creative labs sound card installed, loaded drivers but still no sound when i go to souds in c/panel the volume part is greyed out can anyone help

I installed a hard drive to use for a slave but it is locked. I have a program to unlock it but the computer do not show the slave hard drive any where. Every thing is pluged in good I am aelectrician so I know how to hook every thing …

Hi all, I have a IBM laptop (T40). The LCD screen works properly when I am using AC power. When I use battery, the LCD brightness is very low and it looks like the LCD is turn off although the system is running and the battery is 100% full. The …

hello everyone -- i bought this new and barely used it. i suddenly got the urge to use my laptop and it didn't start. i was told to replace battery and hard drive -- i did both. still it doesn't boot. power goes on but only to a blank screen. …

I replaced a hard drive in a 3 year old Tablet PC and when I use the restore disc it starts and asks for the language preference, looks like its going to start the restore and then eject....no reason given. I've tried 2 sets of the restore discs with the …

I'm building a new computer with a SATA hard drive and want to transfer about 2 1/2 Gb of files from my old machine which has an IDE hard drive to the new one and was wondering if anyone has ideas on the best way to do this. I was …

I am hoping to speed up my PC by installing a faster IDE Controller -- my system (see below) came with an ATA-33, various posts have recco'd I go to a an ATA-100 for speed. A few Questions: [LIST=1] [*]Will this approach work? [*]Will it speed up the system? [*]See …

I recently had 2 samsung 60 gb hdd replaced in my alienware m7700 system. Originally they sat in a raid 0 config until 1 went defective, and I had both replaced by samsung under their 3 year warranty. I recently received both drives back, model number MP0603H, and thats when …

Hello everyone, i'm a new user and welcome all of your input. My cd drive has started acting up lately. It will spin and read any original cd i place in; however, it will not spin any burned discs that i place. I don't think it is a problem with …

hi, i am just wondering whether a smaller amount (2Gb) of premium RAM is better than more (4Gb) of regular RAM for a gaming machine my system isn't finished yet but at the moment it is 2.67Ghz core 2 duo the motherbord can support up to 1066 DDR2 and 1066 …

I have had my computer for about a year and its running fine, the temperature of the CPU has gone up since when i got my computer. I know this is supposed to happen, but I was just wondering if you are supposed to apply new thermal paste to your …

When camming on my Logitech 4000 I cant hear or be heard through the built in mic. Is it supposed to be possible when camming because it works fine when making a video message? I'm using yahoo messenger on mac OS9.2 if that helps. Very grateful for any replies.

My computer wont boot. Im getting power to the MOBO but nothing is happening, fans are running Video card is getting power, im getting nothing on my screen (it goes to green then into hybernation Yellow) I cant get into BIOS. I replaced the battery and still nothing. the interesting …

My daughter has scrached her finding nemo and shrek dvds so bad i had to buy her new ones, my imac g5 has a dvd burner, i was wondering how to copy the movies onto my computer and burn copys of them so i do not have to buy her …

hiya, hope i can get some advice on this. ive got a sony vaio pcg-k115b and nothing is happening when i plug in the charger no lights flashing absolutly zilch. ive tested the psu and im getting current through it and i have tested various places on the board and …

On a Dell lap-top(latitude??)pentium 3,using windows XPI get the following message"Windows was unable to save all the data for the file/Device/Harddisk volume1/Documents and Settings/user-name/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IES/AVSJQ31P.The data has been lost.This loss may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection.Please try to save this file …

At the tender age of fifty odd i decided to have alook into computers, having never touched one before its a very steep learning curve.I've been at it two months now, built a couple, out of old bits and pieces with reasonable success and strange results at times. However as …

I'm checking a Dell Inspiron my mother-in-law says won't turn on. When I plug the power supply into the laptop, the light on the power supply turns off, before even trying to turn on the laptop. I've tried two different power supplies that I KNOW work, but same problem. The …

Hi all. Installed a nice clean fresh copy of WindowsXP at my friends house. When i got home and plugged it in, it went on, although no image on the monitor appeared. I also seem to remember that i cud not hear a hard drive or CDROM load. After about …

[COLOR=#000000]Hello, Last night we had a Hard Disk crash and as some of you know this is a very stressful thing and keeps you awake for two days or so. It is 20 hours later and most accounts are restored. We need a lot of server tweaking the next couple …

Alright... Well, I am using Windows XP Media Center Edition, Intel Pentium 4 CPU (3.40 GHz), and one gig of ram. Dell computer (can't remember the model). Reformatted maybe four or more times in the past, getting tired of it. Anyhow. Me, my mother, and my father all use this …

Hi, I am a college student and I've had this computer since the end of 2003. One of my ram sticks burned out so my firend replaced it for me. However, it still showed that only one ram stick is working and one day it just turned off and whenever …

Just a quick question. I've bought a SATA 2 harddrive with a SATA300 connection, speed 3Gb/s. Will it work on my motherboard which has a SATA controller? Apparently SATA 2 hard drive will not work in a SATA controller on the motherboard. ThankS, WEEFCORP

Does anyone know where to get MSN Messenger for Palm? Thank you!

I have recently had a problem with my computer. Last week I took the system apart for cleaning (it was mighty dusty in there). After I reassembled everything, I had no immediate problems. I just couldn't get the green power LED on the front of the case to light, even …

Does anyone have any ideas when my screen dies and my laptop makes a grinding noise at start up. screen goes black after 2 minutes.

I got started on the computer today. Here are the parts Asus P5B-E C2D- Conroe 6400 Lite-on DVD RW Lite-on DVD Rom Mitsumi floppy/card reader G.Skill DDR2 800 XFX 7600 visiontek tv tuner 2-320 gb seagate hard drive Running MCE 2005 I got it all set up and everything seemed …

Hi People, I rencently purchased a 320Gb external harddrive, however it uses USB 2.0 which my powerbook don't have and is extremely slow using USB 1.0 An easy option I though was to get a Belkin USB 2.0 Notebook card, which, according to the instructions works on Mac OSX 10.2 …

After not being able to properly configure the microphone on my webcam to stop buzzing, I went out and bought a headset microphone. It works with MSN video calls and regular calls through MSN, but now my computer is saying that my audio device cannot play system sounds. The only …

Hi, I am planning to buy Vista 32 bit Ultimate edition in some time. I have been looking around for a good set of hardware forthis new os and here is the one that I like which is a motherboard from Asus. Asustek M2V AM2 VIAK8T890 [URL]http://www.asus.com.tw/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=305&model=1171&modelmenu=2[/URL] Now I also …