Hardware Forum

I have a HP 753N 2.53GHz P4 Desktop System w/CD-RW/DVD. When the power button is pushed it just makes a clicking sound but will not stay powered. The fans momentarily come on, hard drive tries to spin up, but when I release the power button it just shuts off. Have …

I have an old pent.111 : 15 gig hd : 320 mem. I just loaded win xp. It was loading fine up till the last 5 min. which took 30 min. However, it finnished loading. Whenever I try to load anything or even play pinball it may take 5 minutes …

I have a "Wunders" MP3 player. At least that's what it says whet I start it. I dn;t know what happened, one day it simply shut down and wouldn;t open again. I updated it's software, but now instead of 256 MB as it was before, has only 128. What hapenne …

I'm almost too embarassed to post this problem as I am an IT professional supporting +a network of users over 2500 strong covering EMEA! I have a second laptop which I bought in January 2005, and it just won't stay on any longer. I have done everything possible and even …

On Friday morning, the electric went off for a very short amount of time. My Gateway is plugged into a power surge protector. Monitor works on another computer but goes into "analog power save mode" within seconds of rebooting offending computer. On startup, the fan runs and runs and runs …

i'm using an armada m700 laptop, i noticed that its getting hot whenever i am using it and it is also hanging. I also noticed that the fan is not functioning thus it hangs when it is used for 30 minutes or more. I disassembled the laptop and put thermal …

Hi i just bought a new hard drive mother board and processor. Its running a Intel 865GV MSI but it did not come with a sata driver. When i called the guy he said Intel MSI doesn't need 1.But i cant seem to install windows on the new pc. Where …

Hi all, Currently, I'm looking for an upgrade for my graphic card. A card that is below $100 and have better perfermance than my *NVIDIA Geforce4 MX 420* and can handle the game graphics such as world of warcraft. My computer model is Dell Dimension 4550 with 1GM ram and …

Hey all, Long time reader -- first time poster. I have a Toshiba M40 Laptop (canadain version) and as luck would have it 1 month after my warranty expired... bam, the computer refused to work. First off, I dropped the pc a while back, and as a result the DVD …

inspiron 2200, bios protected password. How do I reset or remove that password. ultimately the cd rom has failed and I need to change the boot sequence to boot from usb device to install os

Just a quick question really, if you wanted to go sli, say with a xfx 7900gt would you have to buy another 7900gt from the same manufacturer (xfx in this case)?? or does it not matter? thanks

Hello all, I have an Asus p4p800 MOBO, with 2GB Corsair duel channel RAM and a EVGA Geforce 7800GT CO vid card, All my hardware components have been in use for about a year now, no problems. When i turned on my computer last night i smelled a funny burning …

OK I have a 2-yr old comp I bought from Frye's electronics, a unit they built themselves that I cannot get to start up. 2 weeks ago, I had a harddrive problem and when I attempted to have it repaired the shop advised me that I needed the original WinXP …

i currently have a amd 3000+ and am into gaming. should i upgrade to the 4000+ cpu if im into gaming or should i stick to my 3000+ until some great cpu comes out.??????

About 2 weeks ago, hubby opened the case & changed the master & slave on the burners. Since then the computer will start booting up & will shut down before everything has finished loading up. It always gets to where we can see XP logos, often the entire desktop. Sometimes …

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way of finding out what type of RAM you have on the computer? Finding out how much you have is everywhere but the type, I just can't seem to find it.

hi all of a sudden and without any tweaking or anything of the sort, i can't print anything on a previously perfectly good printer, and i get a message asking me if i want to install a printer. the driver is installed, i've checked that, and i've tried adding the …

Hiya, I got a new sony Vaio ([COLOR=#0000ff]Sony Vaio FS515H Pentium M 740[/COLOR]) today and set about installing wondows xp professional. Everything was fine. Then I tried to instal a tv tuner but had to keep restarting. Next I know the laptop loads up but freezes on the xp welcome …

[B][COLOR=darkgreen]I have an old Fujitsu MPD3084AT 8.5Gb hd that I had planned on either putting in the kids computer as a slave, or loading Windows on and keeping as a backup in case they crash their 40 Gb WD again. The problem is, when I install it in either of …

It'll read a couple, like Roller Coaster Tycoon, or The Sims, but if I try to make custom made ones, it'll be like "No Disc Found" or sometimes it'll find it, but when I try to burn it'll get an error right at the end, and the disc is now …

I have a similar problem to the person whose "kids did it"... My wee fella's only 5 but somehow after he got up early and tried shutting down the PC with the "on" button... found a message asking if I wanted to continue shutting down because other people were logged …

Hi Everyone. I'm brand new here, I have bought a used, refurbished GX150 I found on Ebay to replace my daughters dead comp, It came without an operating system. My plan was to put the HDD from her old comp in it and she would be good to go! When …

Hello everyone, I have a hand-me-down notebook, specifically a Toshiba Portege 4010. I got it from someone who's workplace was upgrading and didn't need this one anymore. After digging around on the Toshiba website, I found out this laptop is 4 yrs old. I opened it up and it has …

[B][COLOR=darkgreen]Ok, I KNOW there are a couple of guys out tere rolling their eyes right now, but REALLY, it's NOT MY FAULT!! The other day, while I was AT WORK, the kids were playing on the computer and it suddenly shut down on them. The exact details are pretty murky, …

Ok, I am running into a problem here folks. I bought a ATI Radeon 9200 PCI Bus card for my comp as the guy at staples told me it was one that should work in most older comps. I have a emachines W2646, Intel Celeron 2.6g, onboard Intel 82845 Graphics …

Hey, I recently obtained a tv card from a surplus sale. It's also a capture card. I was wondering if there is any free software that I can get to capture live tv and stuff. Your help is appreciated

Hello. I bought a new case and placed my older system in it. Dissapointingly, it shuts off at random and also shuts off when i attempt to play games, or use an graphically intensive programs. However, i reinstalled my old system back to my old case and everything is working …

ok guys im kinda new here and am not really tht good computer wise as in like the innards but i have this very big problem ive had a dell demision desktop 4600 since 2003 i really do like my computer and rarely have problems with it also i havent …

Alrighty. First up this has been going along for some time and my mum is 100% convinced that my computer is making her computer go slower, and she is automaticly right because she gets her temper going when I try to protest against it. Okay, my computer is running in …

hi everyone! I have a problem with my pc, when i plug the power chords to the outlet, the power supply of my computer will work at first then i will shut off automatically... What's a matter with my power supply, please help me with it God bless!

This is my first post here and all of you people seem very knowledgeable, so here it goes.. I was surfing the web, then suddenly my computer shuts completly off, like someone cut the power. I restarted my computer and windows began to load. I got all the way to …

which one is the best? i have seen many people talk AMD is a better catch for gaming than going for intel based CPUs. which one is better? Has anybody experienced this?

What is a 3.5" enclosure that is supposed to be a very good one. I want to make another external hdd for my friend because he is going to store and transfer videos for football films to watch and move around from computer to computer. I have used 2.5 enclosures …

Hi all Not sure if I'm in the right place because I'm not a techie, but am happy to open pc and have added memory & network cards etc at work. I have a problem with pc at home and wondered if anyone had any advice. When i press the …

as most of you know, i have a new computer...i managed to fix most of the older problems...but now i am in quite a predicament...i have a Cd ROM drive...but the computer doesn't know that...as a matter of fact...it's as if it never existed...my computer doesn't have any CD ROM …

Hi All, Does anyone know where i can get the compaq smartstart software from, its for a compaq proliant 1600 server with a smart 2dh array controler? cheers spikes

All of a sudden , every time i type half of the letters on my key board came up as numbers....anyone please help me?

My computer is hooked up to an EPSON STYLUS CX3200. It is connected by a USB001 port. The computer says that the printer is hooked up, but it will not print. if you have any ideas, please say so. TepB

Hi my name is Chris, I want to add RAM to my Mothers computer, but i dont want to screw anything up... So what i have is a Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 PC, with a 8.06 GB Hardrive (Thoughts of upgrading) with a ASUS motherboard. 66 Mega …

Hello. Here's my problem... I hope I gave enough information. A few days ago, my computer running Windows XP Home started randomly shutting itself down. It's happened while using IE, Call of Duty 2, in safe mode, on the select user account screen, right after loading my user account and …

Really stupid question...where is the power button on the Toshiba Tecra 8100. I borrowed from work but can't turn it on...

hello everyone and thank you for reading my post. Here is my question lead: I currently have a MSI K8N Neo2 platinum board with 4 slots for dual channel RAM. I Currently have two slots populated with 1GB (2 x 512MB) sticks of RAM. QUESTION: IF i bought a 512MB …

Well where to start... First off right now i canot get my computer to start. It says boot error, please restart and select a boot device or insert boot media and press any key to continue. Now this has happened a few times in the past, so i didnt touch …

WHAT is bottlenecking?

Hi, at the moment i am running:4x512mg kingston ram (2gb), amd 3800+(939), 580W psu, asus a8n sli, 200gb hd, + xfx 7800gtx extreme edition. I am wondering if the cpu is bottlenecking the systems performance at all (when playing games etc.) and if so what new processor would be appropriate??? …

I have a sony DW RW-G120A drive that only recognises DVD+R formats but not DVD-R is there something I can do so my drive recognises both formats. Also I have an intermitent problem where I insert a disk into my D drive and it won't read any disk at all, …

hi , i am in serious trouble.my pc restarts when i enter yahoo chat rooms or when i try sound recording with mic. i sent the error report to microsoft's site and every time they replied that the problem is with the systems audio driver (realtek HD audio). so i …

hi there, i have recently got my computer a new hard drive, because my old one got damagaed and unfortunately didnt work. i have 2 local disk (C and I) but 1 hard drive i think. it was originally drive C, but due to some partition problems (computer technician said) …

I can't seem to figure out how to install my new hard drive onto my computer. It's a Seagate 320 GB 7200 RPM. Are there any good tutorials I could use to figure it out? I've tried looking but haven't really found one to suit my needs.

Hi. I had my Radeon X800 Gto for a month and since i bought it, i noticed it kept getting hotter and hotter as the weeks went by. The last temps i recorded when it was working properly was 55C idle, ~100C load. I bought an after market cooler for …