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Hi People. I have been reading similar problems to mine and have not been able to find a solution. Perhaps someone will remember a solution I was unable to find or perhaps shed light on a new solution. Here is my Comp Specs: 1.5gb ddr ram (2chips: 1g, 512mb) Asus …

I recently moved from US to Hong Kong. I thought that I read my computer correctly in that it would work in US or here. I purchase an adapter and like a dummie plug directly into the socket. I heard a sizzle then a pop and then say a little …

I have a Compaq Presario 6000. A friend messed up my computer and then reinstalled windows xp. Now my computer will not detect the 2nd cd drive (cdr/rw) and my hard drive which was 40 GB now only shows 1.99 GB. Reinstallation is not an option because I don’t have …

My mother was given this laptop with not much use, and is still in very good condition. I consider myself rather computer-savy, and normally troubleshoot alot of my own problems with ease. However this one is different. This computer worked for about 3-4 months after we recieved it, until one …

i had some problems, suspected that cooling was a factor. so I got the Speedfan software, and all but one of the labels for the temperature readings were foreign to me, except the one labelled 'HD0 (250.1 GB)'. this is also the only reading I get that is consistently high …

3 questions 1: What is overclocking? 2: What does it help? 3: How to do it... I have ATI tray tools and there is a overclockin meny in it but I don't have the courage :) to do it becouse I know it can mess up a computer very bad …

Hi ppl. I am experianced PC user, built my own machine (among others) and have a Q for all the hardware experts, gurus and their mentors. Hmm.. make that ALMOST expirianced. There are alot of "unknowns" to me, especially when it comes to memory settings. The manual description is short …

In the manual for the motherboard I have, it says to make sure to connect the chassis fan connector to CHA_FAN1 if using a dual core CPU. Well the CPU I have is dual core, but I don't see any chassis fan or connector. Do I have to purchase another …

Recently, I've had a lot of trouble with my PC. First, it started going really slow, so I deleted a bunch of stuff and defraged using an awesome program called Diskeeper. Then, I installed Intel Application Accelerator, to increase my disk performance. I started making a backup using R-Drive Image. …

Ok my dell (november 2005. just out of warranty grrrr) has started making clicky scratchy grindy noises from the HDD , no bad sectors yet but windows goes dead slow whenever it accesses the HDD and the noise is really loud. I have backed up. Should i just get a …

hi everyone, this is my first thread, and I am hoping that someone can help, I am looking for mainbard drivers for a AcerMate 5120 Model M520DN M/Btype V50LAIN I am trying to get this older machine going for my 5& 6yr old nice and nephew for a first computer …

Please, i really need some help with it. i bought athlon xp 64 san diego 3700+, asus A8N VM{CSM} xclio 450w sli powersupply , kingston 512ram and a samsung 18x dvd drive the only thing i did not buy new was the HDD because i had an old Mactor 40Gb …

Hello, Here's the story: My friend wanted to see my graphics card in my old computer, a cicero. I say old, but by all means it is still a decent machine, the card is a radeon 9200 pro, I believe, nothing special. Anyways, I opened up the computer and tried …

A bought i used laptop and i open it and everything was fine. I put in a wireless card and got on the internet with no problem. I close it out and wrap it up for my young daughter for christmas. When use open it and turn it on a …

I just bought a new power supply for a new computer I'm building, it's a MIOS 500 watt. The person who sold it to me said that it had several SATA power connectors ( I didn't look in the box :-( ) When I got home and opened the box …

Some essential freeware pocketpc apps: magic button: makes the X button actually close things and if you tap and hold the X it turns the top bar into a taskbar of runing apps Calander+ and Task+ displays tasks on the today screen and gives much more options DevState Device status …

Hi......both my CD drives dont work. I have a cd rom drive (D) and a cd rw drive (E). Neither of them read any type of disc, whether it be data, music, photos etc and i have tried these disc in another pc and they work fine. I am using …

I would like to install a wireless router for my girl friend who has a laptop, and wishes to use it in locations that I would otherwise have to intall new phone jacks. The system I'm thinking about is: Linksy WRT54G $39.99 after rebate Linksy USB 100B $25.64 Both items …

I have a dell e310 runnng win xp. I have installed an 2nd DVD drive and set it as master drive and the original dell drive as slave. I am using Sonic Software to do all my DVD/CD work. My problem is that I can do everything from drive to …

Hi.(I'm not bad in computers, but i can't solve dis problem).Problem is: i need help with installing those #$*!!! cards on following "machine": P-MMX 200MHz CPU A-trend ATC-5000 mobo intel TX430B Chipset (4 EDO RAM, 2 SDRAM, 3 ISA, 4 PCI, no agp) Diamond Stealth II S220 (Rendition Verite 2100) …

Okay, in my Device Manager, this is what it says: [IMG]http://img330.imageshack.us/img330/4690/untitledtg1.png[/IMG] But yet, when I put my CD's in, nothing opens, and the icon is still like this: [IMG]http://img330.imageshack.us/img330/8515/untitledea6.png[/IMG] I was on the phone with Dell support, but as I was trying when they were on the phone, the disc …

hey all just new here, having a 'pain-in-the-ass' problem regarding my external hard drive. thing is i'm trying to connect this usb drive to my dvd recorder. therefore , it has to be formatted in fat32, and recognized by windows as a mass storage device (or removable media). that last …

My cousin asked me to look at his 4 year old Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook, because he was frequently receiving the blue screen of death. After finally getting it to boot up in safe mode and getting his files off-loaded to my primary desktop, I decided to reformat and reinstall …

Does anyone know where I can find the MB/GHz of my Video Card/Chip?

Hello all I try to burn a CD. The computer forze before it was finish so I turn the computer off. When i restarted the computer the CD writer nolonger read any CDs data or audio. Does anyone knows how to fix the problem. I once did the same thing …

Im having some issues with my H.D . I used to have 2 partitions on a single HD, but one day i messed up, I was using some partition software(by acronis to be exact)and i dicided to delete one(with a corrupted winxp installation)wich was a huge chunk of my HD. …

I asked a question in another thread about bumping the PIII on an old Socket 370 board, but I'm also considering moving on up to a 478 board and going to a Celeron CPU. Let's say I ditch the old PIII and old Socket 370 board with only 100mhz FSB. …

I just bought a new MSI KN NEO4 mboard. It does not have a jp2 for the speaker and power led. It has jp1 for the other leds. I checked the manual and there is supposed to be a jp2. I looked closley and there are small solder dots where …

Hi all. My dvd/rw will burn to a disc but when i put any disc genuine or burned in, it tells me what the title is but will not open to play. I tried a new burner and that does the same. When i put my old cd/rw in that …

I have a 845-series intel board. used to work absolutely fine till two days back. Now, out of the 6, only 1 USB port works - as in, if i connect my usb drive, it will light up - showing that it has got power, but it doesn't show up …

hi this is Ashwin from New Delhi, India. Recently my computer went for repairs & my RAM got reduced from 512 to 384.I had 2 x 256 MB DDR. When I asked the computer guy about it, he said that my old RAM had got spoilt and its now showing …

[B]I want to get a new graphic card for my Tulip Vision Line DT 5/120. The Memory type in the computer is Edo (Simm). I think the the graphic card type is PCI but I am not sure if the graphic card can have DDR ram or SDRAM etc, I …

HI , I have a KDS flat screen monitor and a Dell 4600 and lately I ve been having a weird problem on startup... It started with having some lines across the screen but this last time, after the computer was shut off for a week ( holidays ) , …

My cd hard drive doesnt do anything any more, i put a cd in, close it, there is a yellow light for like 5 seconds, and then all of a sudden, nothing happens, how do i get it working again?

Hey okay well the worst thing ever happend my girlfriend dropped her laptop and we need help first her cd drive broke off like cracked in half are they cheep hard to replace? then the laptop would not stay on long like maybe a minute she took it apart (the …

I have a sony pcv rs 400 pc with xp sp2. I had a virus called cws.mscofig. This and associated files were scanned and removed by different spyware programs. When I started the computer, Win xp did not start. I tried safe mode, it starts but hangs, nothing on screen. …

After my laptop automatically downloaded updates recently, my lappy wont bootup windows anymore. Not even in safe mode.Has anyone else had this problem recently?? Does anyone have a solution? I have Norton anti virus 2005 and that never picked up anything dodgy.

hi i have a PCI slot \. no AGP or PCI Express. for my better gaming, are there good graphic cards available for a PCi slot.

Okay this is what i get when i reboot my viao: CPU = Intel (R) Pentium (R) M processor 1.70GHz 639K System RAM Passed 510M Extended RAM Passed 2048K Cache SRAM Passed System BIOS shadowed Video BIOS shadowed Fixed Disk 0: K ATAPI CD-ROM: UJDA765aDVD/CDRW Mouse initialized S/N: System Configuration …

I'm trying to use an HP DVD writer (200j), but I can't find the driver anywhere. I've used it before on this laptop, but for some reason there's no driver for it. Windows recognized the device after several attempts, but the driver icon has that proverbial yellow exclamation mark. Interestingly, …

Ok so i ahve 2 diff laptops (well one is my moms) that are used in different ways and I am trying to find out whether I should be powering off/hibernatin/stand by to best prolong the life. Another thing is i have been told it is best to let the …

The strangest thing happened a few days ago. The display on my A10 started shaking or bouncing quickly vertically. I went to bed and when I woke up the next day the LCD screen was black. Upon closer inspection I could barely make out the display, as it should be, …

Hello everyone, I am hoping you can help me with this problem, as I am running out of ideas. I installed Linux on a hard drive in my computer, and then afterwards, I switched back to Windows XP because my girlfriend couldn't get along with Linux very well. The problem …

hey guys, im looking into overclocking my sempron 2500+ (1750mhz, max core speed 2200mhz) heres the problem, my motherboard, asus A7S8X-MX does not have any option to change core speed in the bios, and the jumper settings are very limited. i need something like softFSB but for XP. i ideally …

Hi guys, This issue is driving me crazy. I have an assembled unit and the CD-ROM just wont load anything. Everytime i load a CD/DVD it says the following error consistently CDStart.Exe - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000006). THe CDdrive is HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8481B and i …

Greetings, I have recently acquired a free Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop. After getting a WORKING power cord for it from ebay i plugged it in. When the power button is pressed the light on the front shows that the computer is on, the power cord is plugged in, and that …

This morning I got a 1g stick of ram that was pc2100 which is what my computer takes. I put it in my computer and when I booted up, my computer would beep 4-5 seconds long at 2 second intervals. I later found out that the ram i got does …

Hi i have a big dilema,my laptop is a dell inspiron and everthing is built in,i have never had any real probs but all of a sudden my sound car has disappeared my computer says i dont have one strange because i do in there somwhere and could hear my …

I have a maxtor 6Y120P0 IDE drive and I restarted my computer and it isnt recognized anymore. It still says it is there in the device manager but it doesnt show up in my computer. This drive has like everything on it. I need to find like a driver or …

On a HP A610N Computer: After using the HP Recovery CDs, that were built from this computer, the following error was displayed: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows\System32\Hal.dll I read the MS Bulletin about the boot.ini. I used my BartsPE boot disk to …