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| | I recently bought a new pc with an onboard video card. In xp and in the BIOS, i see that it has 128MB of video memory, but vista will say i have only 16MB of vram, so i can't turn on all the cool features in it. Does any one … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram video video-card |
| | This Pavillion 7955 was given to me by a friend who told me the hard drive died. When trying to boot it shows a message that the boot disk is bad. I put in a new hard drive and got the same message. I tried a new connecter ribbon with … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | I made the biggest mistake of my life when i purchased my Area-51 770. The overheating is outstanding- unfortunatly my video card was already shot by the time i knew there was any issue. I have a 3500$ Laptop sitting here rotting. I would love Love LOVE to know where … Hardware display laptop video video-card |
| | My graphics card has been overheating i think or getting to the point of almost overheating... When i turn my computer on even when i have the entire left side off and a huge fan blowing in my monitor will show thin weird lines and dashes of either florecent green, … |
| | Hello, I recently bought a new power supply box(400 watt), I am using a radeon 9700 pro and i plugged in all my IDE cables and power cables to my drives(with the new power supply) and the power connector to the radeon, but when i turn on my computer my … Hardware display ide video video-card |
| | I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphics card. I am having trouble getting it to work with my computer. I have removed the drivers on my previous card. When I put this new card in my computer, it won't boot up. The screen just goes black. Is there anyone that … Hardware display |
| | [COLOR=Black]message[/COLOR]I have a Mac G5 which I have had for one year. Also am using Tiger. Problem: recently when I turn on the computer I get a noise that sounds like I have a cricket. This not happen all the time. Yesterday it did and it would make that noise … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello everyone. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop that only has a floppy drive (no optical drive). To skip a really long story which isn't relevent, here's my problem now: I installed Windows NT 4.0 onto my laptop's hard disk using a desktop computer (with a laptop hdd to … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | My computer is less than a year old and all sorts of problems have been occuring... Recently my computer will start but there is no graphic or display and the computer says once at the beginning "System failed mediator"...which i have no clue what the heck it is talking about. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video |
| | OK, I have a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop that had a loose power connector. I soldered in a new connector (I'm experienced at doing this). It now powers up and passes the Compaq diagnostics utility. But, it doesn't recognize the hard drive. It sees and reads from the CD-ROM so … Hardware hard-drive ide laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | [B][COLOR=Red]Hello all, I'm new here, my name is eddie. I have an IBM T22 that the liquid screen has shadowes streaking across from left to right. the color is effected because pictures look awfull. I don't want to buy a new puter if I can fix this. Does anyone know … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
 | I am having issues tryin to boot my puter OS is Windows XP Professional. I had issues and found out it was a faulty mouse afer spendin $100.00's on new parts. I am gunna build another puter with the extra stuff lol. Anyways I cannot seem to boot this thing … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware windows-xp |
| | Recently I've become concerned about the heating issues my laptop has been having so I did some research. Turns out Im using a disproportionately large amount of memory even when Im running nothing (Firefox with 2 tabs open and Google Desktop). It says 70% memory usage. If I turn everything … Hardware google laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi, I have a hp laptop (about 14 months old) with CD/DVD drive. It doesn't read CDs. I can see the drive on my computer, but when I open it, it shows a blank CD. Rarely it opens and writes CDs . But most of the time when I try … |
| | This problem is quite extensive and I *love* to elaborate on it as much as possible to receive the best help I can. It gets real old posting the same problem on different boards with no luck with the tips provided. [B] Here's the problem: [/B]Since it was manufactured, I … Hardware display gaming posting-games video |
| | does any one know hot to set administrative tools settings to the default settings??my computer is not working properly after it got changed Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | My system sports WinXP Pro Svc Pk 2, 512 megs of RAM on an ASUS MB. I am not a neophite computer person, but I'm not familiar with the inner workings of firewire; am just beginning the journey. I have a Pinnacle systems firewire card with two ports. There is … Hardware pci-card video video-card |
| | While i was working on my other computer it turned off, i had been on for awhile so i figured it might have over heated so i left it alone for a couple hours. When i tried to start it it sounded like it was about to start up fine … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have been playing WoW recently and me and my friends have been chatting on yahoo. I just turned on my computer today and there was no volume. I am signed into msn and whenever someone signs into msn my comp makes a beep sound. I did some fiddiling around … Hardware pc-peripheral  |
| | Hi Friend of mine has been using this laptop (Toshiba Satellite A10) for sometimes and then it couldn't go into windows. We tried those icons on the screen (disrk,cd,floppy etc) but it gives us a blank screen with a cursor (dash) blinking on and off. This goes on forever. (what … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | can anyone assist,i was trying to repair my Tiny compute,it no longer would reboot,tried a small harddrive with windows 98 and it rebooted,when it asked for ram disk etc,i put the dvd drive back in,when i restarted i no longer have graphics and the monitor response light stays orange and … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have a NetVista with a 700Mhz CPU and a 64mb ram stick. According to the manual, it supports DIMM (3.3 V, synchronous, 168-pin, 133 MHz SDRAM) combos of 64 MB, 128 MB, and 256 MB unbuffered nonparity for a maximum of 512 MB. There are only 3 RAM slots … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi, Im new here, so Im not sure if this is the place that I post my problem. Its just that I didnt see a post button anywhere else? However, My problem is my keyboard. When I hit the letters U,E,R,D,F, and M they immediately open up windows to another … Hardware first-post pc-peripheral window-manager  |
| | I recently took apart an older HP Computer and took out a Maxtor Hard Drive (20 gig). I wanted to put it in my newer computer as a second drive. The hard drive has Linux installed on it and is set so Linux is the only partition. The newer computer … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | I have a P4 2ghz box running XP h ed; the mobo is made by Elite Group (ECS); BIOS build from mid-2002. Box assembler Wintergreen via Tigerdirect. mobo video is Radeon 7000 with VGA connector. I need to run a 4-year-old Apple LCD monitor with DVI connector. I bought a … Hardware apple motherboards-cpu-ram pci-card video video-card |
| | How do I find out the maximum RAM I can put in my desktop computer? I have a Pentium IV with a D845PT motherboard. Currently, I have 2 512 MB DDR SDRAM DIMM chips in there. Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hihi..... im new here and my notebook has encountered a very serious problem and i need everyone's advice here.... i've searched through the forums and i cant find similar problems....hope u guys can help me out.... this is my notebook's spec: Twinhead Pentium 4 Mobile 1.7GHz 192mb DDR Ram 30gb … Hardware knoppix troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi guys, I have a SATA hd having windows XP installed in it. After that i used PATA hd for a while and now i want to use my previous hd..i.e the SATA hd. But when i connect the SATA hd , the system is not recognising the presence of … Hardware storage |
| | Hi, Im new here. Im having a bit of trouble with a homebuilt computer which was previously working, but is not anymore for no reason that I can see: gigabyte k8triton nsc -939 amd 64 3000+ 1g ram sata2 wd hd nvdea 5200 (ill add more if needed) Anyway, Im … Hardware first-post ide troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I put in a new motherboard and hard drive in my computer. I had some data on my old hard drive that I wanted to try and copy to my new hard drive before formatting it. So I conected my old hard drive with a USB to IDE cable to … Hardware hard-drive ide storage |
| | I have a 4 year old Dell Computer that i would lke to wipe completely clean and give it to my 5 year old niece. I believe the computer picked up a viruse about 6 months ago because now when I try to turn it on, it won't boot up. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | I've got an Avaratec laptop. The "T" Key works, but you have to push it harder than the others. Is there a simple fix for this? Jeff Hardware laptop pc-peripheral |
| | hello i have an emachine model w2247 and use microsoft windows xp 2002 service pack 1 and i just added new ram to my computer and when i booted up it said new hardware found pci simple communcation controller and i tried to install it but it said unable to … Hardware microsoft-windows pci-card |
| | An iron was plugged into the power strip that was plugged into a ups. The ups got overloaded immediately and the fuse tripped. I pushed it back in and let things cool. Now my computer will not boot. The DVD drive lights and the fan turns on, but the front … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | ok, i have a sony vaio, and ive had it for about 5 years. Its worked great, now, not good. I turn it on, and it will say sony, then goes black, then says "disk error" press ctrl alt del. Any guesses on what I should do? Thanks so much. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello: I am hoping someone has gone through this before and would have some tips... I have a Compaq Presario S4010CL (2.4 Intel Celeron, 40G harddrive and 1GB of RAM) with Windows XP Home Edition. I had a Geforce FX5200 before taking it out during troubleshooting. A while back, the … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card windows-xp |
| | Ok, having some problems here. I have an old Dell Optiplex GX260. I had to reformat the stupid thing and i've gotten everything back up and running except............. i went to the device manager and under "OTHER DEVICES" it has an exclamation point next to "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller". … Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Hi there! :cool: Im new to this forum, and I was wondering if u guys could help me with this. Im building a new CPU. This is my first time building a CPU system. So, Ive done some research and here is my final complete configuration. Im building a budget … Hardware ide motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My sons school sold all their old laptops for $20 a piece. I bought 2 for the hell of it. I got windows 98 loaded fine but can't get any sound, and only 2 and 16 color. They have no software for them. I can't find what the motherboard manuf. … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hello Everybody! Im Having Trouble With My Monitor It Won't Show An Image. I Disconnected It N Pluged It Back In But Nothing. Please Somebody Help Me...... Heidi Hardware apple-hardware image video |
| | Hi there, I'm not to clue'd up on the technical side of things and have just had a pretty serious problem with my computer (at a seriously bad time). Basically I was using my computer, nothing special just doing my usual work, and it totally freezes. It doesn't crash often … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hey guys, i'm really lost atm and could use some help, any help! System Specs: Asus p5nd2-sli deluxe intel pentium d 830 3ghz 1 gig corsair xms2 667 creative audigy 2 hitachi 400 gb HDD 2x Maxtor 200gb HDD Asus Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX Here is what went down. Everything … Hardware flash peer-to-peer troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi everyone I hope this is in the correct forum, my appologies if not but I couldn't work out where to post. Really I just wanted some advice. I have just been given a laptop. I've never owned one before but can see the advantage of having one, especially for … Hardware first-post laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi everyone, I've recently come back to UK and pulled my trusty G4 out of storage to use again. Everything booted up great after 18months downtime, and I was really chuffed when it all went ok and got to the log-in screen. Howevere the smile slipped from my face, as … Hardware apple-hardware storage |
| | I am looking into purchasing a new graphics card for my Notebook, it's a Dell Inspiron E1405. I want one that can at least handle higher end PC games, so I don't have to turn every graphical setting to "low", problem is, the E1405 is an extremely mobile laptop and … Hardware display laptop video video-card |
| | Hi All, I hope someone came accross this problem. I booted from a MiniPE boot CD to recover few GIG of undeleted files. Once everything is finished the DVD drive opened and the PC hang. so I switched off my PC and I've rebooted normally. What's happening now is so … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Does anybody know an online store or company that sells computer parts in bulk? Thanks Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have 4 hard drives that I want to connect together and either make them run as one large drive or individually. For each of the drives I have a device that connects the the IDE and power slot and outputs them both to a single parallel female parallel port. … |
| | hi i have HP Pavilion 8612.its a pentiumIII with 600Mhz.it has (64+128)MB RAM and 40GB HD. I have win XP installed on this system.Now the problem is that whenever i connect to the internet my system hangs someytimes within 5 minutes or sometimes after 30 minutes.i have tried many things(i … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Ok I have very little of a clue as to what I am supposed to do, or if it is even possible. I am using a laptop dell latitude for school and was wondering if I would be able to hook up an old computer tower to the laptop to … |
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