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| | I'm about to buy a computer (I've chosen the parts myself). It has a SATA 300 g HDD... I also have a IDE 30 g HDD from before and I wonder, can I take the SATA out and put the IDE in and install Windows on it and then put … |
| | [COLOR=black]Hello, I just found this forum from a link and I must say it is really great and fully packed with valuable information. I have been DR enthusiast for about a year now. Most of the things I learned by trial and error. I am having a problem with a … Hardware hard-drive pc-peripheral |
| | My Intel 975xbx (rev. 304) will accept three 1 GB sticks of Corasair XMS memory, but when I put a fourth stick in, I get the three beeps and it won't post. I have tried all four sticks in different combinations, so it isn't a particular module that is "bad". … Hardware first-post motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have just had a new HD installed and upgraded memory by a friend. Since then I cannot view photos or pictures properly. All itmeson my desktop are too big, also, the text in all me documents is enlarged. All colours are fuzzy. I have tried to change the display … Hardware display |
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 | [B]Motherboard[/B]: Intel? Imperial GL VE 20020930 [B]Processor[/B]: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz [B]Memory[/B]: 512MB [B]Video Card # 1[/B]: ATI PCI 9250 256MB [B]Hard Drive # 1[/B]: 37.5 GB [B]Hard Drive # 2[/B]: 37.5 GB [B]Power Supply[/B]: 300W [B]Case[/B]: e-machine T2042 Heres the deal...Trying to build my roommate a computer but we … |
| | hi, i am looking 4 a converter or adapter or card 2 let me use my SATA harddrive on a motherboard with no SATA ports, only one spare IDE port. Any advice? all i can find is converters 4 IDE drives to work on SATA ports, but not the other … |
| | My computer is not booting up. it starts and showed the BIOS page and then going to windows XP, it starts again to BIOS page. There is no beep sound or no boot disk failur sign. Can any one help me. configuration of my computer is p4 2.3 GH ram … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | As advised, I went to Tiger Direct and looked at mobo bundles and found what looks like a good deal. The board is an Abit KV7-V Via Socket A ATX, with a AMD Athlon XP 2900+ processor, and a Crucial 512MB PC32000 DDR module. It's priced at $199.00 with a … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi everyone, im new to these forums. I want to upgrade my dell dimension 4600. It has a P4 2.66gHz, and agp video card interface. I want to upgrade the motherboard/cpu(core 2 duo)/graphics. do they make a board that will fit in my case, and connect properly to all the … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram video video-card |
| | I have recently obtained a CPU from an institution which previously was on a network with heavy securities etc. I am now trying to set this computer up at home for use. But as i plug the computer in firstly, i have no video output and secondly, the CPU starts … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video |
| | [COLOR=#000000]I was on my laptop, Inspiron 8100, and everything was fine, no errors or anything. Took a break and when I came back my computer had a black screen. I tried to restart and it goes to the dell load page and windows XP pro page but that’s it. It … Hardware hard-drive ide laptop storage |
| | Question...say I want 1GB of DDR 400 There are 4 slots for memory What configuration would more efficiently use all available resources... 1GB, 1GB(2x512MB), or 1GB(2x(2x256MB)) I know for sure a single gb stick is expensive, so I'm going to assume that's out of the question...but 2x512 and 4x256 are … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have a HP pavilion dv5000 series notebook. After a few months of using the touchpad with mostly my index finger...there's a worn-down spot that has formed after usual wear and tear. What's the best way for me to get this touchpad replaced? It's not under warranty since it's a … Hardware pc-peripheral  |
| | [COLOR=#444444]Hi guys, I'm new - and just wanting some advice.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]I am trying to find a solution to a friend’s computer problem.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]The monitor is blank when the computer boots. I can see brief preliminary startup screens, but then it goes blank.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]Have checked … Hardware display video video-card  |
| | I am looking for a fanless vid card. I have checked newegg and found several. What makes a vid card good? I don't do much gaming but a little. Nothing too extreme though. The biggest thing I do is a lot of video editing and my wife likes to watch … Hardware display gaming pci-card video video-card |
 | I am very confuse about my system. I have recently bought MSI Radeon 9800pro 128Mb (RX9800pro TD-128). My system spec is Intel celeron D 2.4GHz (256kb chace) MSI Motherboard AGP 4x. 300W powersupply. 512Mb Kingstone DDR 400 bus I am not getting good performance from my card. I instaled the … |
| | I feel pretty silly posting this message, as I've been a firmware engineer since 1984! I have plenty of experience going inside a desktop PC. My laptop experience is quite limited though. I've got an old laptop, a Gateway Solo P3C, 133 MHZ, that I am putting into a condition … Hardware hard-drive laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
 | Hey guys, I'm looking to purchase a new computer, and I was wondering what card would be best. My options are these two: The 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX or The 256MB nVidia Quadro FX 3450 I'm going to be using this PC primarily for compiling program and schooling but … |
| | Hi all, just got back from a 3 week vacation and I am now having some problems with my old Inspiron 8100. Before I left for vacation this machine was working fine, with no problems. I disconnected the power from the machine before I left. After getting back last night … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Before I go ahead and buy my [URL=http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014&depa=1]hard drive[/URL] , I have one quick question. Will there be a performance increase if I went with SATA once I have actually opened an application? (Faster rendering times, or a higher frame rate in games) Thanks, and sorry for the silly question … Hardware asp hard-drive ide storage |
 | I like to run my games at the right settings. I usually run my games at 1024x768 and all the settings are at its highest. I got a new computer and the card i had in the old one was agp. My new computer has 2 pci express slots. This … Hardware display pci-card video video-card |
| | HL-5140 Brother Printer - Paper Light is on and no action. Tried cleaning it out, checked for any loose or ripped paper in the machine. Took the toner out and put it back in, and then tried swearing at it for some time all to no avail. Has anyone heard … Hardware pc-peripheral printer |
| | hello, I have an ECS G733 laptop (sold under various brands) that only boots very occasionally - 19 times out of 20 it does not even POST. then when it does that often ends in a corrupted screen rather than continue to booting the OS. for a while I did … Hardware first-post laptop troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | Ok before i posted this i did my homework and read the other threads on this subject, I bought a Motherboard from a friend of mine and i bought a housing for it, well i downloaded the manual and installed the motherboard. i went to plug it up turned the … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello everyone I have a Sony Vaio FS, and just last night i was using it, plugged into the mains, when i noticed the icon in the corner had switched to battery, when it should have said "charging". I thought it was weird and so decided to pull out the … Hardware laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi, I've been having some WIFI drop out issues with my mobo (ASUS P5B Delux WIFI) they were so bad when ASUS realized a new bios I grabbed it. I went though their flash utility and saved the old BIOS. It said it flashed fine and to restart, so I … Hardware flash motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Thanks to all who have taken time from their precious lives to read this.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]1st the problem (briefly) will be listed, then how I may have gotten it and finally all the steps I’ve taken thus far. [Since this here below is long I have omitted all the googling I … |
| | I had a power outage last night, and my pc shut down. Now when I restart it I get the blue screen with this stop message: Stop:0x0000007a (0xc0384068, 0xc000000e, 0xe101aa06, 0x00d1b880) Kernel_Data_Inpage_Error So i am wondering if my hard drive has died or if it is just some data corruption … Hardware hard-drive knoppix troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello I would like to know wether In case I connect a cdrom as a slave to a primary HD, would it lawer its performance? I would like to know that in both IDE and SATA connections Thanks Tori |
| | Hello people...my first post and i'm sure its not gona be the last. I've spent the last two days looking for and reading the entire www for a solution to this problem, (not very well i might add, im sure the problem would've been solved then:-| ). I've just bought … Hardware first-post hard-drive ide storage |
| | I think my mouse shorted out my computer. If I can save my harddrive can I trouble shoot what caused my short? I think the mother board may be toast. agree? Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, Just before I took my laptop out of its case intending to use it, and when I pressed the start button it booted up, I could hear everything, the backlight in the screen shown up, but I can't see anything. The screen is just blank, although you can hear … Hardware display laptop troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | I am new here and this site loks to be a great place to keep coming back to. Thanks in advance for your help. We have a Pavillion 7955 that has been just great but last week on start up it went to a screen were it was giving choices … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
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 | Recently I was upgradinga freinds computer with a DVD/CD burner and a video capture card so that he could capture all his old videos onto DVD and then toss them. The first problem that came up was that a 250W psu was not big enough to run 2 drives and … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | Hello, I've had this laptop since about October 2004, and this is my first major problem. I had it on sleep mode where I just closed the monitor and it shuts off (something I do often). When I opened it up, it started to boot back up like normal, but … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi - I'm new to this and also I'm over sixty, so I'm a bit slow. I have just bought a Logitech USB webcam with embedded microphone. Immediately I plug in the cam a get intermittent sound problems: these can happen in any application, such as mp3 playback with Windows … Hardware pc-peripheral webcam |
| | I just unpack my new pc from TigerDirect, but it couldn't start. After swapping power supply found it was the problem. Question- anybody knows how to work on a psu? what can I do to test or fix? Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | my mouse often won't start at boot, and takes multiple reboots to start it off, and when the cpu usage is over 50% it starts acting erratically, sometimes it would die if the cpu usage is too high, I've tried norton antivirus and regcure to fix it, I tried turning … Hardware hard-drive pc-peripheral |
| | [COLOR=black]Well, my hard drive died on me... and XP won't boot. Interestingly, when I pop the drive into an external enclosure, and turn it on inside of XP, it causes the computer to crash, and restart. I spent some time searching these forums for some help, but figured after about … Hardware first-post hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I'm using a Biostar TForce 6100 939 motherboard and had the occasion to try to enter safe mode to see if I could run a specific scan and found that pressing F8 which is suppose to enable the system configuration doesn't work. Anyone have any experience with this? Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My brother in law called me today and is having some problems with his new wireless keyboard and mouse. He installed a new monitor and now he keyboard and mouse won't work. He has tried the connect button but with no success. Any ideas what it could be? Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Hi! I am a student who wants to upgrade my laptop with more RAM. I have got a Fujitsu-Siemens S-4572. It has just got one slot and a maximum capacity of 256 mb, so that's what I am going for. Since I am on a budget (I am switching to … Hardware laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi, Hope someone can shed some light on this problem...... While trying to install a second HDD (sucessfully, at first!), when I came to restart the PC I got a blank screen, with no sign of the hard drive(s) booting up. I sourced an alternate motherboard (same make - P4 … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Last night I accidentally knocked my computer and it froze, so I turned it off at the mains and when I tried to turn it back on it gave me a sequence of beeps. 1 long beep and 2 short ones. Today I removed the suspected problem [graphics card] and … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram  |
| | Hi Can i just say thankyou in advance for any help anyone can offer me on problems i am experiencing. I recently bought a 74gb raptor drive 10000 rpm sata, i use an abit is7-g mb and with just the sata hdd connected everything is fine i installed the driver … |
| | Hi, yesterday I accidently knocked over my CPU when it was on the ground, i accidently kicked it a little and it tilped over, but then it started making alot of beepig noises and the moniter turned black, and now I cant get it to turn back on, it keeps … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My laptop fan died and the thermal paste melted on the cpu causing it to not touch the heat sink. Since then the laptop will not turn on because it heats up. Alctually it has turned on several times even all the way to windows login. Now it shuts off … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | My computer will not power up. I have checked the power supply with a block tester and there is no problem there or with the switch. I have an ASUS A8N SLI premium board and the green led lights up when power is supplied to the board but absolutely nothing … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
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