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I had my motherboard droped nothing cracked nothing broken, it kinda landed on the power adapter and bent the dc jack, ok so thats what happended, however it ran fine at the time (until the battery died) so i decided to solder a new dc jack onto the motherboard, so …

Firstly, I don't know any of the lingo, so bear with me. I have a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop that worked great for years--it is an older one. I came to the conclusion somehow that my hard drive needed to be partitioned(that may be misspelled), so I thought I knew …

I have a small office where we have several workstations. 7 to be exact. Two of the monitors have been giving me fits lately, [b]the first one...[/b] An Envision EFT-720 started having some difficulty a few weeks ago, it would *zapp* the display, it would collapse from side to side …

Hello all- I was trying to hook up an external ZIP drive(SCSI) to my old W98 machine. I didn't have the software disk for that drive, but that drive had been hooked up to that system before and worked fine. I couldn't figure out why it didn't work, so I …

Ok, been having this problem for quite some time now, but every once in awhile my mouse will just "not be able to click anything" it will still move but yet when i click it, no response!! Any ideas????

I hear everyone is waiting for dx10 but dont know whether it is a graphic card, diect x driver for games, a new cpu or what. Could someone please inform me what it is in computer newbie lingo. thanks greenhouse

Just had to install new hard disc due to hard disc crash and decided to install xp Home at same time as new disc, everything fine, all hardware looks okay EXCEPT my sound card. Registered okay, drivers loaded okay, no complaints from XP home but no "&£(*$)(% sound. All leads …

Hi there everyone. One of my older computers which for some reason i use more then the other computers so i decide that i should fix it up. Here is the specs of this computer right now (This is a oldie but it works fine) Computer: Operating System: Microsoft Windows …

Hi All, I have just built myself a new computer. One of the final things I need to add is some more RAM (as I currently only have my old 256Mb of RAM in there). I want to add an extra gig for now and was wondering whether it would …

I have a Gateway laptop. Up until a few days ago I could listen to CD's, watch movies & burn info to CD's. Now it won't read anything. It says the disk is full when there isn't even a disk in it. It won't burn anything. I checked the devise …

Hi I have had a Trust [EMAIL="SpaceC@m"]SpaceC@m[/EMAIL] USB Lite (Version 1.88.0.0) for 6 years and it has worked ok on dial up all that time. I recently switched to broadband and now the cam won't work. I get white screen and applications (yahoo/MSN/Netmeeting) dont seem to pick it up anymore. …

I have the cd that the motherboard comes with the msi cd. I put it in and there are no drivers for for the sound. I don't know where to get the drivers from and i'm to dumb to find the model number. Can someone help me? Thanks Trigun

I'm trying to fix someones computer. There problem was after Windows(XP) loaded and they clicked on their name to log on, it would restart. The first obvious problem is that they bought an eMachine computer to begin with. I thought it could be the Power Supply. I went ahead and …

Is it possible to put an OS on a external hard drive:?: :?: :?:

I have a HP ZE4400 Pavilion. When I turn it on it ( I hear the fan running etc) it shuts of and on 4 times then stays on the 5th time every time. The screen is blank. I get no key response either. I called hp ha ha and …

I installed my new HD, inserted my Windows XP CD and started the computer. My BIOS reognized the new HD correctly, the CD started working fine... I chose to make a partition. It was about 49% done and I realized I did not chose the right size for the partition. …

I have an older emachines c2280 that recently died. First it wouldn't power on at all, so I replaced the power supply. Now it won't go into POST or anything. It's not even sending a signal to the monitor. I'm thinking the cpu or motherboard? Any ideas would be helpful.

Help, Ok the machine would not boot up last week. Thanks to this web someone said "shake" the machine or "drop it 2-3 inches". Unwillingly but a last resort I did the drop method. GREAT it booted up!! And that's how it has been over the weekend. So on Monday …

can you have 2 pci-video card installed on one computer. If so, do they add the memory, for example: one is 128 mb and the other is 256 mb is your totall memory now 384 mb???? and what about one pci and one agp card????

Hi, Can I increase the size of print on my moniter? I do not have good vision and it would helpt to have the print larger. Thanks to the forum for helping me. I already got one problem solved yesterday!:cheesy:

I installed a 300 GB Samsung internal hard drive as a slave, and it doesn't show up normally under 'my computer'. I can find it if I right click on 'my computer' - 'manage' - 'device manager'. It shows up under 'disc drives' - 'samsung 300'. When I click on …

My computer shut down on its own, and when I tried to restart it, I got the message "operating system not found." So, what do I do?

hi every1~! I am in need of an external HD as I want to keep an archive of my old data. So I was wondering if you could recommend me to the one that is not very expensive but relieable. I think about 40-60 GB of space would be great, …

Just a couple days ago; my Presario 715 started acting up. Whenever I pressed the power on button the green light came up but nothing happened after that. I could hear the sound of one of the drives for a few seconds but that's all I was getting. From an …

[QUOTE]The printer driver you selected is either not compatible with your current version of Windows, or it may not be available. Select a compatible driver from the list, or contact your administrator for help.[/QUOTE] I am setting up our new server. When I try to install this printer on Windows …

Hi, I have been using this desktop PC for over 2 years.It dint have any problem/ issues until it showed some weird behaviour over the past few months. I never switch off the power,this is because -incase I switch off the power. It's hard to get my computer ON again.I …

Hello everyone! My PC was working for few hours last night. After I came back to finnish some work, I found it turned off. I tried to turn it on again but all it does it starts and I hear fans working for about 4 seconds and then it turns …

I have brought a Seagate 250gb external USB hard drive to make backups with. One of my computers, a Dell Dimension 2400, will not boot if the drive is connected. THis makes it impossible to backup using Norton Ghost 2003. THe drive does, however, work on another (though newer) Dimension …

I just got a new laptop about a week ago and I noticed that there are some issues with the keyboard. When I use the left shift button and press p, double quote, question mark (maybe a few more buttons too), it becomes backspace. (it begins deleting previous characters) If …

I have a dell latitude laptop and I would like to connect my Compaq moniter to it so that I have a bigger screen. How do I do that? Thanks in advance for your help!

About a month ago my power supply went out and killed my motherboard with it. So after getting this fixed and putting in a 500 watt power supply with dual fans, the computer was running great again. Then about a week ago my computer shut off without warning. I let …

I recently bought a radeon 9550 (256 mb) for my computer. It replaced my old radeon 7k (32 mb). Well it occasionally, after maybe 30 minutes - 1 hour, it restarts by itself. Also, when I play video games, I only play a few minutes of it then my computer …

[size=2][color=Indigo][font=Comic Sans MS]My husband has just bought an iMac G3 333mgz, with a broken CD Rom Drive. We know that to load Mac OS with an internal drive, you press the C key on start up, but how do we go about it from an external USB drive? :o[/font][/color][/size]

Well, I recently got an iLo monitor from Walmart in December, and there are two extremely annoying things going on with it. 1- It makes a really annoying buzzing sound, the kind that quickly drives you insane. It never goes away, and it's been doing this for a while now. …

hi guyz, I've recently built my PC from scratch (took a while too hehe), and i went with the option of not putting in any floppy drives at all, as i thought i won't be using it anymore since i can back up all my bigger files onto cds & …

Hey all, I'm in the process of choosing parts for a new system I plan to build, but I always get horribly confused when it comes to choosing RAM. I'm planning on getting an AMD 64 3800+ processor. My first question is would it be better to take advantage of …

Have e-machine t2692 / xp home ed. Originally had 250w power supply. System died. Replaced with 300w power supply as recommended by e-machine. Everything came back up with the following exceptions: speakers don't work (I can live with this) none of the usb connections work (4 back & 2 front) …

I don't really understand which socket is compatable with it. A site said: "Only compatible with new Intel 965 and 975X socket 775 Motherboards (Older 975 boards are not compatible)" Are they all socket 775? Most importantly, which one is best? Thanks. sorry for being stupid, I'm doing this for …

My computer worked fine one night, but in the morning i went to turn it on and it wasnt working. I built my computer with a friend, i have a [I]ibit IS7 motherboard[/I] and a [I]pentium 4 processor[/I]. This happened once in 2004 and i took it to a computer …

In the attached link there is a performance comparison between 32bit and their parallel 64bit softwares for different CPUs(under Windows XP 64bit). As we can see passing to 64bit brings to an improvement up to more than 100% !!! [url]http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1959&page=24[/url]

Last night after I shut down my computer, it started making a clicking noise (more so than a beeping noise). Now it won't start up :( I'm not very hardware orientated, so I'm baffled as to what's wrong. The mobo fan, psu fan and graphics card fan all run when …

my pc often hangs after i disconnect from dial up connection using the agere systems sv92pp soft modem i hav acompaq presario sr1720 il and i have downloaded the appropriate driver but still i hav aproblem . it happens when my isp drops the connection. if u want to see …

I have a Radeon All-in-Wonder 256mb agp card and an Acer al1916 lcd monitor. The problem I'm having is if I have to restart for any reason, ie. downloads, updates, etc. , the system will shut down but the monitor says no signal. The only way that I can get …

So I have a main drive which is a SATAA or ATA drive. Im not sure! Im installing a new IDE drive which is just a replacement I got for my old drive that died. When I attatch my new drive, I get a message on startup to choose the …

Ok here is the problem i have, If there is a next page available. for example if you do a google search, don't find what you want so you press back and try again. the next page button will be highlighted because it has a page in cache....well anyway the …

Historically I have had about 18.5 gigs of space left on my hard drive, give or take. Curiously, last week, I noticed that the hard drive space was down to 17.6 gigs and today I have noticed that my hd space is down to 16.9 gigs. I say Holysmokes! I …

my Viewsonic A90F has had strange white flickering lines near the bottom for about 6 months now they're worse right when I turn the monitor on, but I'm still unable to expand the screen any lower than about half an inch above it's physical maximum I've turned off all electronic …

Hi all, I bought this [URL="http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/desktops_Q2_W8_dimen_3100c_D073C5A?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs"]Dell Dimension 3100[/URL] last week, but it has one of those useless built in graphics cards (even though it's a 128MB one). I want to pruchase a new one. But from what I can tell from the image in the owners manual, it looks like …

How do i install my graphic cards power connecter? It has a side with a big black pin and 2 different other pin connecters. where do i plug them ect.:eek: as my comp is haveing power difficulties and i cant im sure i havent connected to the power supply properly. …

On my computer, i'm kinda getting annoyed because when I turn on my computer, it comes up to a screen that says the motherboard name and graphics logo. I customized every other part of the computer and want to customize this screen. I have the newest firmware to the BIOS …