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i rencetly broughta new priccesor and motherboard . i always get the corrupt o rmissing message c:\windows\system32\config\system error so i reload xp no help cant get into recover mode as my xp cd does not have it and manufactuers one doesnt either. thing that puzzles me is it only happens …

I have a barcode scanner (UF-101 PS/2 keyboard wedge). Was working fine one day, the next it won't read anything. (Shines the LED light on the barcodes, but won't "read" them). So I bought a new scanner (POSX Xi200, also a PS/2 keyboard wedge), but it doesn't work either. Tried …

Well, I used to have a Geforce Fx 5200 256mb Card. I just decided to update to a Geforce 6200 512mb DDR2 AGP card, but ever since I did that I have been having major video problems. I cant play my games at all now, it worked fine earlier but …

I bought an I/O Magic USB 2.0 Enclosure for 3.5" Hard Drive to use with my new HP running Windows XP Pro. My old W2000 machine died last week and it was time for a proper burial. The old machine was IDE and the new is S-ATA. This enclosure worked …

The stroy goes: I just bought an 80gb sata HD from western digital, a copy of win xp pro sp2 and installed the os, formatting for NTFS. Installed all drivers for video card (ATI Radeon x800) and audio (Soundblaster 24bit) from the web, of the most recent version. Also install …

My Moms Computer is old, but it has been upgraded a couple times already.....and the hard drive needs to be upgraded soon as you can see below. So what i have is a Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 PC, with a 8.06 GB Hardrive, with a ASUS motherboard. …

Am I doing something wrong? I've instaled the driver and everything, but whenever I try to print anything windows displays this message "Printer status cannot be displayed with the port that is currently being used." can anyone help me? I really need to make it work this weekend.

Hello. I recently installed my current motherboard to a new case, but i have no sound in my speakers all of a sudden. Everything else seems to be in working order. The speaker is plugged in the back, i checked my drivers, checked the system volume contol. Im absoloutely stumped. …

Not shure if this is the correct place for this but here it goes. I got my son a CD-RW, but recently its not been working, when ejected the tray hardly comes out, ive opend it up and what i think, is that when ejected the part with the laser …

I upgrade and repair computers on a daily basis, but I am most familiar with Intels, Got a dinosaur AMD-K6 3Dprocessor today trying to upgrade, little confused. Would anyone recommend a good book or website?

[B]Model:[/B] Gateway 7405 GX notebook. [B]symptoms:[/B] starts and works fine on battery power, yet not on external power. This is a recent occurence. It just started yesterday to be exact. Other then the AC adapter being faulty I'm at a loss for explaining this. Although, I fear that the adapter …

I just installed a new Asus Premium SLI motherboard.... I have been having the usual problems, but just when I thought I had it figured out and I was installing my programs, the computer decided not to recognize my DVD or CD drives. I have four dvd drives. two of …

Hello I felt the rush of electric current (electric shock) to my body when I touched the back of the computer case. Is it normal to have electric current flowing through computer case? Thanks

My 13 year-old son is taking computers in school and decided to experiment on my Inspiron 8100 (they will have to take apart and put back together a computer as part of the final exam). Unfortunately, something didn't work out and when I press the start button, the green lights …

hello. my friends hard disk drive is not accessable after it full to some extend, can u help me. thanks

My newly acquired used Thinkpad T23 had been running great til this AM. Yesterday (for the first time since I've had it) I ran it for an hour or si on battery, then shut down normally. This AM it would not start under AC. Press the start button and the …

right....today i fitted all my components together but when i pluged the power supply lead and turn the power supply on it makes a litte scratching noise and the fan in the power supply spins for less then a second and stops . however there is a green light ON …

A couple days ago, I found that my computer had a virus (my homepage kept switching to about:blank and a little search window would pop up if I tried to google anything). Spyware Stormer found "NetObserve" and seemed to remove it, X-Cleaner found "Iefeats" and couldn't remove it, and in …

Hi all I am nishant, an electronics engg. my PC has been in dire straits ever since i bought it an year ago. specs are: intel original 915 mobo,512mb ddr ram, 80 gb sata hdd, 3 ghz processor with hyperthreading technology.. first was the issue that this mobo needed 400watt …

hi, i'm using a HP F70 17" LCD flatscreen monitor that i've had for a few years. recently, the cable that came with the monitor became damaged and the picture would go from red - blue - purple. i could still see the picture, but i knew i had to …

Hi, Just wondering if someone can help me with updating my ram. I have been doing alot of reading up on it and im more confused now:confused: . I attached my computer specs. I have 512 at the moment. Should i just add another 1gb? Should i go for a …

Hi guys this is my problem and I would be gratefull for any advice you can give So far we have tried installing windows xp and when asked about partitions that we had already put in place, we tried to delete the d: partition, it went through the process but …

I'm looking for a MicroATX format Socket 478 motherboard that has onboard PATA RAID. This is for a middle-end gaming/entertainment rig. I can't find it! SATA RAID is everywhere, and the closest I can come is a PCI RAID card. With limited PCI expansions, I'd rather keep it on the …

I recently have "crashed?" my computer....:cry: . it happened when i was closing internet, just msn and then AOL mainframe. then it froze.. so i rebooted manually with the on/off button. and window will not load properly. It first appears up to the start up screen, with 5 options : …

Hey guys, Im trying 2 re-install winxp and when it goes through setup it displays a message saying "setup was unable to read from or write to drive c: If a virus scanner is running, disable it then restart setup"? I disabled everything and still wont work? and tried to …

I am trying to fix a computer that won't start hardly at all. Sometimes it takes right off. I have change the power supply and power switch but it made no difference. Does anyone have any ideas.

Can anyone help me? Iv been trying to boot from cd but i cant press anykeys to allow it to boot? and cd it first priority in bios?

hi. how do i know whether my motherboard has a PCI or PCI express slot. i dont have AGP , but not sure whether its PCI or PCI express

I'm planning on buying a computer before I go off to college this summer and I'm not sure what the best way to go about that is. I'm looking for a computer with at least 512 MB RAM and a 128 MB video card, so I can play middle of …

All righty then... Dell Opti.GX1 (yep I know, a dinosaur), suppose to be W98, shows NT 4.1. Purch. on ebay for a steal. Assured it worked. Yeah, right. Well. I did only pay $5.50 . Sounds normal. No unusual beeps. Inside appears secure & proper. [B]1)[/B] F2 gets you into …

Ok, so I wanted to help my friend out with her computer that was messing up... cleaned out spyware and all that, then was installing SP2 and it bluescreened... did a hard drive diagnostic and it found a bad sector.... it gave the option to fix the sector, so I …

I have a Toshiba M35X laptop I would like to upgrade. I would like to know if I could replace the celeron M cpu,with a Pentium 4 M. Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello guys, did you ever heard about hardware card (I think it goes into PCI slot) on which you can sav operating system files so that even If you delete some system files on system partition (where Windows is installed) every time you restart system files that were deleted are …

My toshiba laptop has a black screen. It is on but nothing at all on the screen. It all started by trying to add a modem driver. The screen turned blue with a bad pool caller error and now nothing. I know it's probably not worth it to fix - …

Hello, Firstly the machine in question is a Defcon(never heard of it either) ATX It consists of:- PSU model ATX-350 MOBO model L7VMM3 ver 1.0c CPU model Pro3100A+ (soldered on athlon xp 2000+) RAM model Spectek 256MB pc2700DDR (only the one) CD R/RW drive model GCE8525B Floppy Samsung model SFD-321B …

Hello, Recently, i have been thinking about changing the look and style of my case. I've found some good looking ones but I need to know how and what are the steps of case switching. Would any of you guys please lend me a site or teach me about case …

hi ok ive spent the last three days of my hols trying to fix my computer, and its actually working now but i had to reboot the whole thing. but the thing is everytime i turn on my computer it still asks for the reboot cd ( it used to …

Hello, I just recently registered on this website as i have a problem. i used to have a nvidia geforce 5700 graphics card and i just recently updated to a nvidia geforce 7600 PCI-express graphics card and a 2.8ghz ASUS motherboard. All of my games worked fine before i got …

:sad: All I have is a green light beside my power button.It is a windows 2000 Pro.The fans don't run,1 fan runs for maby 2 seconds.Floopy doesn't run,nor the cd rom,they have no power. The hard disk is ok,I tried it in another computor.:) Could some one please help me.There …

Hi A few days back I ran a cell-phone related applications and it installed 2-3 new drivers. I did not have to restart my system but windows created a restore point. The applications worked fine. Late that evening, I restarted my laptop and while it was shutting down, I happened …

why when i want to install the Windows XP on compaq computer... i have this error message. "Out of range" Please help me...

My hppavillionze1250 freezes erratically. I have tried reinstalling the OS and that has not cured the problem. Using Windows XP. Thanx

hey i just built a new comp i have an Asus A8R-MVP deluxe mobo and it was working fine but after a few days when restarting for installs and updates it seemed to hang everytime and i eventually found that clearing the CMOS by switching the jumper allowed it to …

Hi, Can any one of you help to sort this out? My microphone produces kind of a noise which really disturbs me. I tried the mic in several ways.. using the Soun Recorder (sndrec32). It seems all my audio settings are correct. I'm suspecting it to be a hardware problem. …

Can you use SATA CD and Hard drives along side IDE CD and Hard drives??

Hi, I need help!!! My old Dell Latitude cpX tries to start up but shuts itself down after 4 seconds. Sometimes it tries to start again on it own!! :evil: Any ideas? :idea: I've tried booting up docked, undocked, battery in / out, DVD drive in/out, floppy drive in/out. I …

I was on my laptop today and the plug came undone. no big deal, I plugged it back in and fired it up. The screen, however, was barely readable. Very dark but there was a picture in there. Any ideas how to fix this or what it means? is the …

Greetings! I can't get my CD drive to work. Perhaps after reading the issue someone could either help me out or point me in the direction of a previous post answering the question. When I put a CD in the drive, the system tries to read it but fails, and …

I currently run a fan based cooling system, and my room is unnaturally hot. I've wanted to change it to a liquid cooling system. Can the heat sink on my processor be removed? Or has the thermal gel between the two bonded them together? (I custom built my computer myself. …

Hi, just joined here after hearing how good the help was! I've just started having a problem with my MP3 Player, it is this one: [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-512MB-RED-MP3-PLAYER-REC-USB-PEN-DRIVE-FM-RADIO-UK_W0QQitemZ9730662510QQcategoryZ80019QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting[/url] The problem is that I've deleted all the music off the player, yet it still says there is 394mb of used space, there are …