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Hi, I recently filled up all 3 pci slots of my mboard:modem , usb2 controller and audigy SE.The problem is that every time I connect to the Internet and try to put a song my PC resets.Even a simple sound from the windows can cause system stall and reset.So when …

I left the room with my computer on, and came back to the screen being frozen. I tried control alt delete and it didn't work. I hit the reset button and then the computer kept starting up and shutting down over and over. I thought maybe the reset button was …

hi, my problem is that i have formated my thinkpad 365xd and when i went to install win98 from the cd , its starts up with the thinkpad logo and then tells me INVALID SYSTEMS DISK ????:sad: can anyone help thinkpad 365xd nofloppy just a cd/rom drive thanks

Here is the lowdown. Today, at random, my PC quit booting all the way. It does turn on, run through the BIOS, etc. But after the "Windows XP" boot screen comes up, the monitor goes black, it is still receiving a signal, but it is black. I am able to …

Has anyone had the experience of upgrading this laptop? I can't tell if the Toshiba Satellite 2805-S202 can handle a simple upgrade or if I need to do a clean install. Also, I have a corporate CD-RW from the office but the laptop will not read it. I get an …

hi frnds; i need a valuable suggestion; i want to know how can i reduce the speed of my ethernet card in linux enterprise edition any suggestions ??????????????????????? plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help ??????????:?:

Hi there, This problem is so annoying. When I am playing games (FSX, FS9, COD2, BF2 etc) my computer randomly freezes. I can't do anything, no ctrl-alt-del, alt-tab or slt-f4..nothing works! my USB ports also die, my joysticks lights go off. There is nothing I can do but reboot. There …

i need help i have a great hi fi and play all my music from my pc i am running sound blaster 24 bit sound card i want better quilaty can anybody help me please:mrgreen: £££ is not important

i own a compaq 5410us, 1.3 celeron 512mb running windows xp home, i use this mostly for gaming and lastnight i went to bed and left my game running, when i woke up the screen was froze, i couldnt get cntl-alt-del to open up to close the window so i …

Ok im working on my friends Compaq 2200. I'v installed a new harddrive and proceeded to install xp. Xp seamed to install properly however once it restarts and gets past the windows load screen, screen goes blank but i can hear the startup sound and it seems to be working …

Hey everyone - I have been trying to troubleshoot this machine for a year now. It started with random strange images, then failure to produce a screen.... then a burning smell then failure to do ANYTHING! Here's what I've done: RMA'd/replaced the Vid Card - still nothing. Replaced power supply …

Hi Just built a pc with asus a7n8x-x motherboard, athlon xp 2500+, 512 ddr 333 ram. It works fine with Win 98 but wont install XP. About 5 mins into the installation it reports hardware problems tells me to try disabling a couple of cache's in the bios and try …

Hi, I hope someone can help as I don't have a clue what is causing the following problem. I have just put together a new PC, which powers on beautifully, POSTs and is happy, goes into the BIOS, and even gets as far as looking for the system disk, which …

I have Windows XP SP2 (32-bit) with all the latest updates installed. I have an AMD64 3200+ system. Since last few days, I've been facing a serious problem. Whenever I simply click on a video file (not open it) or open any other program, my Windows freezes. I am not …

I am going to build a computer for my 12 year old son for christmas. He now has a newcastle 3000. agp card, 1meg ram. I was thinking of amd 3700, 1meg L2 cache. pci express video card. I cant afford a FX processor. I have heard that a dual …

I cant seem to figure out what is wrong with the connection of my front panel mic jack. My motherboard manual says to connect it to the correct pins, and has a note that says: If your front panel cable is separated, please connect it to pin1 and pin3 or …

[COLOR=darkgreen]:sad: XP will not recognise the new or old DVD-RW drives i have fitted....[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkgreen]BEFORE ,i had an A-Open dvd rw drive and a Sony CD-RW drive that were instantly recognised.......I now have an A-Open DVD-RW drive AND a Panasonic DVD-RW drive that if i unplug 1 of them the …

Ok, so here is the whole story. At first my PSU died on my old computer, but since i didn't realize that, i thought it was the motherboard, so i bought a new one. Then obviously with the new mb comes a new proc and new video card and the …

Hi, Ive been having this problem for a few months now. When I reboot, or power up the PC, I get error beeps and then nothing. The beeps happen before [U]anything[/U] is displayed on the screen. The beeps are 2 extremely short beeps, back to back, then 6 independant short …

I am really confused. I was working on my computer and it hung up trying to recognize a USB drive. I restarted the computer and everything appeared fine. The Bios Post was fine and when I expected to see the Windows screen I didn't get anything except for a black …

The MB manual, and I'm crazy about the way they write these, says this board is good for Front Side Bus of 200/266/333. How do you determine which one it is? I suspect mine is probably the 200 and I would like to upgrade to the 333, but I don't …

Ive just installed a SATA II drive on my system, after the PATA gave me problems.. now whenever i run demanding programs such as Photoshop, Audio processing programs, DC++ server or demanding games( BF 2142, UT 2004) the sytem just freezes .. and i have to reset the system this …

Hey, My problem is that my system freezes when playing games, I played war rock for around 5 minutes then it froze and I had to restart, it's been doing it ever since. My CPU runs at 34c idle or when just a few programs running and around 39c when …

Hi I tried searching this forum, but couldn't find any problem quite like mine. I was hoping that someone would know the answer to this problem I have a Laptop Toshiba Qosmio F10-136 under a year old Windows XP All the drivers that came preinstalled (I have looked for updates …

Hi newbie here :mrgreen: I posted this message at the bottom of a similiar thread but thought i would actually start my own :cool: Im not pc stupid and understand the basics and have built many, but this problem bugging me. Lets say to start with my pc is running …

Hello to all I am new to this group and am in need of advice regarding booting a G5 that isn't responding following an attempt to use a firewire enclosure as start up device with a cloned sytem drive. After cloning drive and checking that it was seen as a …

Hi Can anybody help me? I have a Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop, 1 1/2 years old and something is very wrong with my screen. It flashes on for a second when I boot it, but it is gone again even before the Windows logo shows. It does turn on, and …

Hi All, I was using my PC when it just shut down. It will not start up again. No lights, no fans, nothing. I checked the power cables and the outlet, they are fine. If I unplug the PC and plug it back in and push the power button I …

About 2 months ago I bought 2, 1 GBs ram sticks, that I was going to put in both my computer and my moms. Now first let me say that I worked at a computer store for a few months and I know the parts and how to put a …

hello i hope you can help me.i have got a motherboard with the following details. [COLOR=darkred]Details[/COLOR] D865GBF AND D865GLC with processor : 3.0 GHz [COLOR=red]The problem[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]sometime my pc will automatically turn off.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]and when i start it again.I[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]t makes the beeb sound and the monitor doesn't show any Display.[/COLOR] …

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Hi all, I am using P4, 2.8 Ghz, 40gb, 512 mb, MSI Turbo cache VGA card (PCI Slot). It has been working fine since a year and a half but yesterday when i plugged new monitor in with my pc, it said [B]NO SIGNAL[/B]. I replaced the monitor with old …

A couple weeks ago I put my computer in standby. Came back an hour later to find it dead. The fans in the psu spin, all case fans spin, cpu fans spin, motherboard light is on. No signal to the monitor. After a week of troubleshooting I decided to get …

My brother's cpu, cpu fan, and hard drive randomly shuts off at random times, like I can get it to start to boot then the cpu and hard drive will shut off but other components will still have power, like the cd-rom drive doors will be able to open and …

My laptop is not dead, but dying, so I hope it's OK to post here Sometimes the scrollbars won't show up in certain applications, most notably a Visual Basic app I wrote myself. I'll open a form and there will be text and objects going off the screen to the …

i have a Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF Socket 754 Motherboard with a sempron 3000+ 64bit ,legend geforce 6600 and 512 mb ram which i have tested in my other computer. 350w psu. The computer just resets and starts up again. It has recently started doing it more often. it will crash around …

Hi all, This is my first time here (actually, my first time on any forum!) and I'm hoping that I can find a solution to this problem that's been bugging me!! (I did try and go through threads related to the query I'm about to make but nothing worked for …

What is the easiet way to switch from IDE to SATA? My current configuration is as followed: OS: WINXP SP2 MB: MSI -cant remember the model number, about 3 years old. IDE 1 - 40 gig WD IDE 2 - 20 gig WD I would like to swap out the …

[B]Rig [/B] [LIST] [*]Manufacturer: Alienware Laptop [*]CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz w/ Hyper Threading [*]GFX Card: nVidia 7800 GTX [*]RAM: 1 GB[/LIST][B]Problem [/B] Well all of the sudden a few days ago I went to my computer (which I leave on) and the screen was black but the computer was …

hello, a couple of days ago i was surfing the net minding my own business, when all uf a sudden, my IDE 60gb HDD started making a familiar clicking noise .. and sure enough its now dead. thats fine though, because i recently bought a 250GB maxtor maxline III SATA …

I have a Sony DRU820A DVD-RW, and within the past day it just stopped readin any discs whatsoever. It does not recognize that I have put a disc into the drive. However, when i reboot my computer, if i leave a cd in the drive, it wont start windows until …

ok.. lately my computer has been restarting randomly while playing World of Warcraft, however only when i play WoW does this happen, and time incriments in between when it happens varies from day to day. The other day it happened and when it restarted an error came up telling me …

I had a laptop gave to me that doesn't work. When you turn it on the power light comes on, you hear the hard drive spin, cd-rom has power, but there is no picture on the monitor. Also you cannot hear it go through any boot process. Does this sound …

Hey guys, new user here because I am having an issue with my Laptop. Bear with me here, kind of long, but I would appreciate it if you could give your time to help. First the specs: Compaq Presario R3000Z Notebook (2 years old) AMD Athalon 64 3400 processor 768MB …

Hi, my monitor seems to have developed a fault. The display is jumbled and halfway across there is a vertical lie and the text is stretched to the rhs of the screen! This only happens when the res is set to 1024x768, if i change the resolution to any other …

My computer's screen recently flashed (it's been working flawlessly for over 2 years) and ever since my screen has about [B]an 1 1/2 inch black border on both sides.[/B] If I run a game I will get the full screen. I tried formatting my computer but the problem still persists. …

Hi I'm new here.... Hi you all!! I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there's a way to clone more than 1 drive by tcp/ip using just one drive image in a server or something like that. This is my problem, I work as an IT support specialist …

ive got this problem for few hours by now, ive connected another HD to my pc and tried to turn the pc on, i could hear that the pc turned on but there was no display. i disconnected the new HD and tried again and the same thing happend. the …

im having a problem in my machine. my computer restarts randomly whenever i boot my computer and whenever i am playing games, but when i do normal things like surf and all other things except gaming it does not restart. can anyone tell me whats the problem? thanks. my video …

I have been having problems over the last few months with my PC rebooting. It mainly seems to be whenever I view a high res video or browse through large photo files. This is the event report, if it helps: Error code 0000009c, parameter1 00000000, parameter2 8054d370, parameter3 c4104000, parameter4 …