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I have a toshiba laptop and I've had this problem for a while and just stopped using it for a while because it got to be so annoying and impractacle to even use anymore. The power cable used to work perfectly fine when you plugged and unplugged it, then all …

i connected a laptop by s video cable. the graphics are clear but where ever text is displayed its all blurry can someone halp me?

Hi , My NEC Versa M400 notebook's Hard disk just died so I reinstalled WIndows XP Pro SP2 on a new Hard disk. Everything works fine except when I plug a USB mouse in the light on the Optical mouse comes on but there is no response from the mouse. …

I have been thinking about getting some upgrades for my computer. But I dont know what i should get. I play a lot of games on and offline so I cant just get cheap old upgrades. please help me!

Simply is it possible for the PC (motherboard) to blow PSU'S I.E.from a shorting motherboard or other device on the mobo Have been fixing PC'S for years but this scared me and my pocket, The PC had a blown smokey PSU, I replaced with a second hand known working unit.... …

Hi everybody I have a project to record a telephone conversation. My problem is that when I set the modem on recording condition, the voice of other side is being recorded but my own voice not recorded. Please guide me what setting to be arranged to have both sides’ voices …

[COLOR=Blue]:confused: Hi, I'm wondering if someone can tell me whether it would be possible to use a ColorStyleWriter2500 with an old Mac LC II? Besides the age difference between the devices(I'm assuming the printer is significantly newer than the LC II, in reality my Mac experience is greatly limited; I've …

Hello all. First time posting but have read many threads here that have helped me in the past although i cant find one to help me with this one. Hope someone can help because my head REALLY hurts! system: amd athlon 3000+ 2.0mhz 2x 512mb ram 400mhz ddr 3200 (pny …

On a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop, clicking was heard upon start up, then primary hard disk 0 not found. Bought a new hard drive and installed it, but am getting the same message. The hard disk is not recognized in the BIOS. Is there anything I need to do when …

Hi, I have been thinking about upgrading my computer because it pretty much sucks. I mostly play game online like battlefield 1942 etc. but a lot of the games i want to get i cant play them because my computer sucks! well i really need to know what the best …

synopsis: Two weeks ago I downloaded and installed the usual herd of Microsoft updates. About an hour later I started getting error messages. Windows wanted me to update my video drivers. I was already running the latest but I updated. Then windows wanted me to backoff on my video hardware …

bought a new computer latley and since im not too great on em i had a relative install windows etc. he recommended that i installed windows on one harddrive and the other stuff on another so that if windows F**** up i still have programs and documents left. It sounded …

Hi Folks, I am in a bind. The other day I was in Microsoft Internet and the Mac Powerbook just went into a loop. I powered it off and attempted to restart. Got nothing but the Apple ant the cirular busy icon contiuosly turning. Tried putting in CD and it …

My PC boots up normally, but in less than a minute the screen goes dark and then reverts to 8 bit color and 600x800 resolution. I go into control panel and reset it. This happens again. I reset again and then it works normally for hours. I bought a new …

I have a four-year-old Toshiba 1605CDS that I rarely use, but it is pretty fun to mess around with. I want to replace the hard drive on it from a 20GB to a 40GB which I have. Now for my question: Where is the hard drive located on the laptop? …

Hi all, this is my first post, hoping you guys can help me out with this. I Play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 alot, But i get these freezes that last about 10-15 seconds, sometimes longer, and i have got the blue screen of death a few times, i have all …

[quote=Vedax]Hiya all. first time poster to these boards..kinda new to the pc building sceen. Anyways ive purchased all my bits and got it all up and running but im having a few problems. The aerocool coolview case looks amazing with the jet black look and the lcd display on the …

Hi, I am new here. Building my first machine here, could maybe use some feedback. Im starting off my build with the first question being AMD or Intel. I decided that all my life I have had intel...why not try something new. I also am mostly concerned with the speed …

My problem.... :lol: 1st HD: 40GB with XP 2nd HD: 250GB just data I have a second hard drive(250gigs) installed in my machine basically for data storage, songs etc. Yesterday I tried to install another operating system (Linux) on the larger one. There was an error and seemingly the larger …

So last night, I was turning my computer off after playing a video game, and went through the start menu to turn off the computer. I was tired and lazy, so instead of clicking "Turn off" like I normally do, I just hit enter... which I noticed put my computer …

When I push the power button, the fans come on and it turns on fine, however, immediately after turning it on, it makes this beeping sound and then something in the floppy disk drive makes a sound. There is no floppy disk in the drive. The machine doesn't boot up, …

So I bought a 120GB HD for my computer, its a Western Digital Caviar SE. I want the make this HD my slave drive, but I bought it from Newegg and it came in a plain brown box filled with bubble wrap. So there is no manual on how to …

I realise that there are other threads on a theme but none have answered my problem, so.........PLEASE HELP;) I have a Toshiba A60 not yet 2 years old. It was working fine yeasterday, it was shut down properly and has had no software updates, new programmes or hardware added. Today …

I was adding a ram module to my computer. When I started ii I smelt burning. I replaced the power supply and now the light goes on but nothing happens. Will I have to buy a new motherboard?

Hi, just yesturday i reformatted my computer and there was no sound. i Reintalled Windows XP and all, and now i have no sound. i have quite a bit of knowledge in computers (the basics) and i would really apreciate every piece of help. thank you

[B][COLOR=Red][I]I have a dell inspiron 1000, whih has just died on me, it will not boot up even in safe mode, it displays error codes, can anyone help... Ganbino...:sad:[/I][/COLOR][/B]

I want to get a 256MB Video Card that is less then $200 But will be good for gaming in the future. What should i do? Any Ideas?

My grandma has been having problems with my grandfather's computer. I went up there and it would boot to a screen saying Boot Failure: System Halted. I immediately go for the CMOS battery and get a replacement. Teh next time I booted the computer it worked fine, but a few …

My beautiful HP Media Center desktop has stopped working. When I turn on the computer, fans start revving fast, but nothing happens. The fan will simply continue to rev. I have tried all electricity sources, plugged and unplugged everything, but to no avail. I have WindowsXP installed, my computer is …

Often as soon as windows starts to load, screen goes black, LED goes orange & screen reads NO INPUT SIGNAL & then POWER SAFE. I have checked connections to & from PC. Any ideas s to cause/ solution, please.

Hello, I've had a problem with my laptop for a few months now and have been unable to find any clues as to what is wrong with it. It is a Compaq Evo N800c and one night, while watching a dvd, the white areas of the screen began to flicker …

Hi guys i have a problem with my computer. When i switch it on at the wall my computer boots up staight away without me pressing the on button?? it then brings up a black screen with the following message: Performing automatic IDE configuration... Drive 0: Disk drive Drive 2: …

My emachines w4682 socket 478 stopped working on me and I bought a new asus 478 socket motherboard. When I plugged everything up it would not boot to windows. It was reading the c: and d: but would not boot to windows so I reinstalled the restore discs that came …

ok heres the deal i got 2 harddrives on my computer whe with 14g and another with 140 or somting. the on with 14 in now full causew i was load things to that dirve not hinking well now its full. so is the hardrive really one and splut into …

I just shut down this computer and at first when i pressed the power up button. I would hear fans whirl, and start up(never got to boot screen stage or anything). I pressed it like 3 times at 5,10,15 minute intervals... thinking oh, it might be overheated, what I did …

Got a friends Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. p3 700mhz 256mb ram Win XP Before windows can even load, it displays the following: The amount of system memory has changed. F1 to continue or F2 for setup Windows loads just fine passed that point. (as well as can be expected on …

Help I just had the thing on eariler. Now when I turned it on the monitor flashes and green, blue and red message. I tried to hold in the power button to shut it off and the only way I can shut it off is to unplug. I unplugged it …

If you have a widescreen monitor why and what size? I am thinking about a 22" Samsung. Any recommendations?

my cpu was running and it froze! I held in the power button to reset it. I press the button to start it back up and the fans run but it won't boot the monitor stays off. HELP ME OR I WILL GO BANANAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been trying to find out which A7V266 I have here. See the link to an image below. Picture has a label that reads A7V266-C but I have found nothing that substantiates that. I need a manual and also need to know type of memory [ecc, non-ecc] needed and want to …

Can anyone help me trough this problem? I've searched all the tech forums for possible solutions but still my pc restarts!:-| My computer restarts when playing in some online games Before it restarts, it either flashes a blue screen(BSOD) or wihout BSOD. (I've already unchecked the "automatically restart" in the …

Ok, so I have an ATI Radeon 9250 I got from wally world. It worked for like 3 months and all of a sudden stopped working on my computer... Now don't think i haven't troubleshooted, i found out it works just fine in my friend's computer, I've also tried updating …

Hello everyone. I have an Nvidea GeForce 4 Ti 4200 card with 64 MB. The core clock is 250 MHz and the memory is at the same frequency, as standard for this model. Does anyone know if it is possible to overclock the GPU and memory? If so, could you …

Hi, I'm running windows 98se on an old NCR computer and while it has 2 USB ports the computer says I don't have any USB anything. I got an mp3 player and it powers up when you plug it into either of the USB ports (like it's supposed to) but …

hi I need help badly...:sad: I tried installing win Xp on my new pc with gigabite ga-945p-s3 motherboard, the first time went ok. After installing the graphic card driver, monitor and all, i noticed part of the HD I partitioned at setup showed 0 volume. So unfortunately I decided to …

Building new computer... numerous problems... first hard drives appear in bios but then when trying to load win xp, it says they arent there... finally started working... then as windows trys to load (before i get to partition screen) random error messages pop up... determined that memory was incompatible (still …

I have a HP dv4000 and I bought a s-video cable for it to hook to my television. It color goes in and out and it mainly stays black and white. Can anyone help? Please!?

i have put the fsb up to 2.7 and voltage up one notch. i havent touched the multipler or anythin else. Have i missed putting anything up? Its stable but i dont know if ive missed somthing and also i have 400 ddr ram running at 444 setting.

Alright, this one has me confused. I have a pc that is running xp pro. When I plug anything into a USB port the computer will make its little noise that it found something, but the add new hardware wizard will never pop up. The computer will read the device, …

Hey everyone... I have a Centrios 1419830 MP3 Player When I hook it up to the computer, Windows XP recognizes it right away and says "New Hardware Installed" (or something like that). If you go into the device manager it says that it's working fine. Problem is, from what I …