Hardware Forum

I learned about this site a few days ago, and it has already helped solve one of my problems, so I thought I'd ask another question. I am looking for an external hard drive. I found a great buy on amazon.com, its a SimpleTech 250gb external hard drive for $104. …

Hello All....Newbie here‚ I am trying to get a video card for my Dell Dimension 2400. Under the hood it's got a Pentium 4 processor, 768 MB RAM and a crummy Intel(R) 82845G video controller....This is what I need to upgrade. I've put in a ATI Radeon 9250 (512MB) video …

Hello, Can someone please tell me which cpu is faster and more suited towards gaming? I currently have a sempron 2800+(socket 754) and i've been looking at both of these for a while now. I would think the Athlon would be faster because it is 2.2 ghz compared to the …

Here's the million dollar question: Should I go with a Radeon X1650 Pro 512 DDR2 OR X1650 XT 256 GDDR3 Both are made by sapphire, the xt is a little bit more money

hey whats up, I installed THUG 2 on my friends pc its an old compaq but it passes the minimum requirements, anyways when I go to run it it says "Hard ware is too low, increase hardware acceleration and restart game" well if any of you knew me, would would …

Hi, I came here in search of help with my Dell Demension E510. (Windows XP) When I turn it on it makes a kind of grinding sound, and wont boot. There are the numbers '3' and '4' illuminated on the front of the tower. (I'm not sure if they were …

Hi, Hope someone can help. I went to turn on my pc the other day and I got the normal (for my pc) 3 screens up on my monitor, first the graphics card info then the memory check and drives check and lastly the boot up screen. At the bottom …

I'm looking for help recovering data from a PC which is not working at all. When it is turned on it makes a funny noise, but doesn't start up. The PC is quite old though, so is ready for the scrap heap - but what I would like to do …

hey folks got a hp laptop with a problem, think it might be a bad ac adapter, already changed out the motherboard due to a laptop repair shops recommendation, now $200 less in my pocket and still a dead laptop. when i try turning on the laptop occasionally it will …

Iam at my wits end with Gateway :sad: , I have ask on every type of support Gateway has, if the processor can be replaced on this model of laptop, and if so what do I need to buy. Maybe I should start with the problem, the laptop will not …

I have been playing around with an old computer of mine, and have found that when I turn on the computer, nothing happens, but if i unplug the 4pin power connector attatched to the motherboard and turn on the power, the fans run, but nothing else does. Any ideas as …

the other keys work but i can't seem to type @ this i have to copy and paste it i get this " instead of the a please help

Ok, this is my first post here. I am not a computer guy at all, I just use the internet and MS Word for my schoolwork. I have an emachines T4510 computer, and have had it for about 3 years. I moved into another home about 8 months ago. In …

under system profiler i see that my usb is recognizing the rca is plugged in but it doesnt pop up on my mac desktop,i dont know how to get to it otherwise to drop songs into it,my mac is a 10.3,any help????

I want to build a good Athlon 3800+ Duo core system and was looking for find a good motherboard for it. Price isn't a huge issue, the $150-$300 range is about what I'm looking for. Any good advice? SLI mode isn't a huge issue and haven't decided if I'm gonna …

3 of my videocards have been overheating to the point where it doesn't work anymore. This has happend all in about two weeks. I had the first video card for a while and it stopped working a few weeks ago. So I bought another one thinking it was the video …

Hey everyone, I'm new here. I havent had much experience with computers aside from surfing around, and using software. When it comes to hardware and RAM, processors, etc., I know next to nothing about these terms. If anyone is willing enough, can someone explain the basics as well as what …

Alright so, I have been expierencing several the symptoms of a so-called "dead machine". What has been happening is...well, here's the whole story. The first time it happened, it was a simple random restart. This happened twice again, with no problem, but the THIRD time, it failed to boot up. …

Hello after searching on google with my problem this seemed the place to ask. So yesterday there was a power cut which turned off my computer, so 5 minutes later i go to fire it back up and there is another power cut during the boot up i think. Now …

i have a 80gig Seagate Barracudda 7200.7 which i purchased last yr. Unfortunately for me it stopped functioning recently for some reason. FOrtunately it was still under warranty and was ecstatic to get it yesterday since my warranty runs out next week. so i try to install windows xp pro...initial …

Hello, im new here and require the assistance of pc experts on my problem as I have searched and searched for a solution but to no avail. Basically my pc will shut down quite randomly, most of the time when im playing games. It has only started recently and is …

Hi guys, it seems like everytime I type some characters and numbers which I didn't touch will appear, like as in if I type hello it will turn into he///ll//o oe something like that. I have got this problem with my previous computer and this is indeed frustrating as I …

I've been trying to fix an old computer for a long time. I've tried everything, but still no look. My problem is that I can't install an OS on it. If I try install xp or server 2003, it'll give me the blue screen of death, or say something's messed …

Anyone know what memory works best with Asus P5B-E mobod? Any specific brand? Also, will I notice a difference between the 667 or 800 speed?

I just bought an old wallstreet powerbook. It came with 32mb of ram and a 4gb harddrive running os 8.5. I installed 512mb of ram, and everything worked fine. Then I got a 60gb hard drive and put it in. When I turn it on I get a gray screen …

Does anyone know about Quikertek PB connect or Quiky USB or similar products and have you used them yourself or seen them being used? Does anybody know which product is better the PB connect or the Quicky USB? The products claim to just clamp onto or go next to the …

I just installed a western digital slave drive in my pc. When I reboot the found new hardware wizard pops up. I have formatted the slave drive and I still get the wizard. I have checked the Master/Slave connections on the drives and they are correct. Does anyone have an …

Hi, I have Emachines T2824. My computer won't start this morning. I do not even hear fan or any beep. I do see LED on my motherboard working and plug on the wall is also working. Any suggestions? Thanks, Shri

[COLOR=#000000]I have a bit of a dilemma and was hoping some of you guys could maybe help me out. I am switching a hard drive out on a laptop that I have determined to be faulty. I was able to backup the needed data onto a usb thumb drive, but …

Just bought a new 120gb WD hard drive. I plug it in, and Windows doesn't seem to recognise it. It pops up with "Found new Hardware", and the add hardware wizard simply says it is working properly. BIOS also shows the hard drive is there and working. Whats up? Do …

Hi all, a friend of mine has a computer tht she recently bought, pretty much everytime she uses it, after a while (no specific time period) it will either crash then reboot, or just randomly reboot. the fact that it is crashing makes me think of the Ram... the Fact …

So I recently replaced the motherboard in my Toshiba TE-2000 Notebook. (Model PT200U-00KLU902) The original problem with the old board had been that it would not start up. The only thing that would happen was that the green power LED would come on. Nothing else. So, all the forums and …

I'm in the middle of upgrading my system and bought a new mobo and ram but when I try and boot into my XP disk it just doesn't happen, the CD ROM is on top priority in the bios but when it says "Press any button to boot from CD" …

Hi , I posted a message some days back that hard disk crashed ..and asking what were my options.. well finally I need to replace the disk Now iam planning t buy a new drive and i am told by Dell suppprt that I can only replace with a ATA …

hey guys, heres one for ya.... im about to buy a whole set of brand new components including a HiperPower580Watt PSU thing is... something that im not sure about...:confused: take a look at this motherboard.. [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=443853[/url] as u can see in the picture.. there is a 4pin psu connector near …

I Have A Tar file and was wondering how, if possible, to convert it to avi or something burnable. Please help

My brothers pc keeps shutingdown after we start it.he told me he open it to clean it up and after he try to start it up it keeps shutingdown...i checked pw with one that works and it did the same.Same with ram i change it and same thing happens.Also i …

If I shut my PC off, the next time I try to boot up, it freezes on the HP blue screen (does not make it to Windows XP screen). This has been going on for a couple months now. If I shut my computer off, unplug it from the wall …

:) is it possible to install my new maxtor 100gb h/d in one computer & load windows xp pro, then take it out & install it into another w/out any conflics? i have a W3080 Emachine w/ a 2.167 ghz athlon processor & going to install another 512 chip & …

ok, heres my situation...:sad: a friend of mines computer, after a reboot, RANDOMLY refused to boot in to windows, the error message was something like.. cannot complete boot because the file lsasrv.dll is missing or corrupted. so.. i couldnt get it to boot up, i tried safe mode, and still …

Right now I currently have a P4 2.4 GHz processors with an MSI 648F Neo motherboard, and a GeForceFX 5600 graphics card, and 2 sticks of 512 dual channel. My motherboard recently died along with a stick of my ram. Which mother board should I go with, an Asus P4S800D-X …

I am sure there are some that will disagree with me but hopefully there is someone who can understand why I have resorted to this. This is a little embarassing, but I am confident that I am not the only person who has been victim to this. I purchased a …

hello! to every one im a new member here. i want ask maybe somebody can help me i upgrade my computer memory and when i put back the power cord in my computer i heard a sound bzzzz.. and after my computer wont turn on. no power at all. i …

You know better, if you let a CRT monitor keep an image on its screen for a long time it makes tracks on it. Is it same for the LCD monitors? Is it a must to use screen saver for LCD monitors too?

hello i have a t22 IBM Thinkpad Laptop 1st thing: for some reason, whenever i start my Laptop, i have to press on the RAM and hold it like that to get my computer to start starting up. if i don't hold the RAM right, it beeps once (pause) twice …

I never thought I'd live up to my name, but here I am. :cheesy: This is the first Mac i purchased because I was tired of Windows Blue Screens of Death. This is another story. I purchased an iPod 60 G about a year ago from a guy on Ebay. …

OK so here goes. I just git rid of a networkable printer, it was old and not working... the toner part malfuntioned. Anywho, I slavaged a sitck of 64 meg ram from it. The lable reads as following 64 MB, SYNCH, 100Mh, CL2 there is a silver text on the …

I'm putting together a new computer. Nothing is installed in the case yet except for the PSU. I have an ATRIX case that has a built in multifunctional PC temperature controller display and clock. I want to power the PSU up to test the voltages and to power up the …

Hello, I am new to this forum. I use Windows XP home SP2 I have just set up Dual monitors on my desktop PC. One is 19" LG Flatron and a 17" Diamond Digital Flatscreen. Running on an AGP GeForce FX5500 video card. The 17" is running off a DVI …

my pc keeps rebooting even if don't do much... and windows keep saying i have this problem... [URL="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293078"][COLOR=#0000ff]Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078)[/COLOR][/URL] my pc's specifiaction nvidia geforce 6200 256mb, p4 2.00ghz, 1 256mb 266mhz ram, 1 512 mb 266mhz ram the windows error report say i have a graphics …