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Hi there, Earlier this year I had a problem with my computer. When I was using it to play games and perform other quite CPU intensive tasks it would become sluggish and laggy. Usually a restart would fix it for a while. The problem got worse and worse until it …

So I have a HP Pavilion Dv8000 that I am fixing for a friend. I am cmoputer savy enough to take it all apart and put it back together, but I'm stumped. His computer sometimes shuts down a few minutes to few seconds after staring up. If it makes it …

hello ,my Compaq V2000 model is melting the power cord where it plugs into the motherboard ,laptop still works ,any ideas as to why it getting hot enough to melt/soften the plastic tip and finger grip of the power cord .

Sir,What Is Wrong With a Computer When the Screen Goes Black But the Lights & Computer Stay On? My Laptop, Compaq Evo N610C ,turn on but screen remain black. I connect laptop from back port with extra monitor and laptop is working with extra monitor but still laptop screen is …

Sir, I have Andriod QMobile Noir A8, I am facing folder problem as: I create new folder and put some applications in it. When I restart my phone then I found that folder empty. All application can be seen outside that folder. What should I do to resolve this issue?

Hello, My name is Jeannot Thewissen. I want to sell my computer and I want to know what is the value of my PC. The specifications are: - Thermaltake v3 Black (tower) - Ms-Tech 650Watt PSU - AMD Athlon II x4 645 CPU (4x 3.1Ghz) - 8GB RAM DDR3 1600 …

I am creating an android application .. in my app.. one of the activity contains 2 radio buttons..i have 2 questions for it... 1. How to select only one radio button at a time, what code will be written? 2. How to decrease the size of the radio icon (Circular …

I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with an GeForce Go440 video card. After I did so, my display settings were changed. What I found is that I can set the screen resolution to 1600 x 1200 and the display will take up the entire screen, …

my desktop is not working..if I turn on..theres is no display..and after a few second the fan suddenly stop... what is the problem of my desktop plss tell me???

friends i want to buy the things as i said above, so while buying this what factors should i keep in my mind and what questions should i ask to the dealer?

Dell optiplex held on bious logo , i remove hard drive and opticle bt problem still , after this i remove bious cell and remove main power cable for 10 mnts . But it still on bious logo . Whats problem of helding on bious logo ?

How can i instal windows Xp sp 2 32 bit on core i7 ? I have tried many time to instal windows xp but not succeed

Its a Dell Inspriron 531s I got this screen right before it boots the BIOS but hangs there. I checked the Battery and it was fine. But when I turn on the computer I get the ONE short beep from the BIOS but it hangs. I have changed the mother …

5160 Dell loaptop fails to boot past say 75% cant enter setup/ safe mode/ nouthing as the laptop will not do anything but hang up idears please. have tride replacing Ram modgel + H disk still no go fan runs MB clean no dust :)

To day i m checking a motherboard intel dg41rq with core to duo . This board continuesly beep for ram , ram already instaled , i checked many rams on this board but problem presist . I have tried to reset bios to fix this issue but fail , i …

Guys how to remove write protected for the pendrive Is there any tool which will do this? Or any other option to do? Please help me out Thank you :)

What is the current, commercially available technology for mobos, RAM, graphics cards, etc for someone who's about to purchase a state-of-the-art kit. I'm less concerned with brands than architecture. For example, is Haswell where it's at, or has it been superseded? Remember, it what's already out there to buy that …

Can any body share with me deep level mother board repairing tutorial ?

Looking for final year project related networking share any idea if you have thank you

i have 3 ram each of 1024mb. 2 are ddr2 & 1 is ddr3. my motherboard suport both of them but i cann't set all. motherboard bios says for this setting to need to set jumper setting but how?

Which is the best avo meter for checking motherboard components ? How can we check resistencs , IC's , Diodes & transisters usin AVO meters ? Motherboard Main can b repair able ?

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After installing new ram into my Qosmio x300 the screen doesn't display anything :/ The laptop had 2 RAM sticks in it Both of the RAM sticks were 2GB 533Mhz PC3-8500S I took them out and added one RAM stick with 8GB 1066 MHz PC-8500S

My eMachine Laptop screen is splitted into 2.. the other one half looks darker.

Hello Community, I've been thinking about buying a phone I've chosen these phones to choose from: http://www.jbhifi.com.au/phones/nokia/lumia-520-black-prepaid-sku-411577 http://www.jbhifi.com.au/phones/samsung/galaxy-express-4g-grey-sku-418996 http://www.dicksmith.com.au/unlocked-smart-phones/samsung-ativ-s-windows-8-unlocked-smartphone-dsau-em5132 http://www.jbhifi.com.au/phones/sony/xperia-acro-s-sku-91231 https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_16GB?id=nexus_4_16gb http://www.harveynorman.com.au/optus-nokia-lumia-720-windows-8-phone-pre-paid-mobile-red.html The funny thing is currently I don't have a mobile phone so I'm not sure what is a good phone and what isn't; the thing is I don't …

I have a very simple question. Can you run games off of an external hard drive. I play World of Warcraft and many other games. My computer, which is a laptop, only has 40gb of space. I don't have anymore room for patches or anything else. So I was wondering …

There was a thread with this title "dell d610 won't power up w/ac adapter but it will power on with the battery" two years ago which was never resolved. It involves the power adapter light going out when it is plugged into the laptop. The laptop works fine off battery …

hi friend this is with reference to my sandisk's 8 gb pen drive which contained my lots of important data is not opening, this is showing the error that "there is problem in starting 4#RFADRHH.ini requested module not found". can u pls sombody help me to resolve this, will i …

ACER BINSPIRE 1 D270 netbook...just fitted new HDD and attempted to boot from usb after changing setup boot order ,and got REALTTEK PIEe FE family controller series v1.27 PXE-E61 :media test failure ,check cable .......message ...does this mean the HDD conection is no good or what...as setup recognises a HDD …

Hi to all, I am having 1.75 GB of RAM on my 32-bit PC. The speed of computer is very slow for first 15-mins. What should I do to increase speed. Please suggest me, I am very new in this thing. Thanks.

In a story this week by [URL="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,655422,00.html"]German news magazine Der Spiegel[/URL], I was surprised to learn that German book publishers are actively avoiding the eBook market, fearing it will eat into their print publishing business, instead of seeing it as an obvious new market for consumers to read their books. …

Hello everyone. I would like to know if there is a factory default configuration for the WD My book world NAS. I am helping a friend that has one of those in their office and the web interface states that the capacity is 1TB but nowhere in the gui did …

I have just purchased the zalman Z11 Plus, I need to ask a few questions: My motherboard is: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A78LMUSB3/ , There are 3, 3 pin fan connections in the case; Are there any fan connectors on my motherboard? My case has USB 3.0, My motherboard doesn't, what can I do …

I have this cache latency graph and I am trying to figure out how to find the cache block size for L1, L2 and L3 caches from it but I cant find anything on how to do so I was able to guess the total cache size though.  …

My cousin's computer (vista)keeps shutting off at random time, one minute, one second, five seconds after turning on. Even while loading safe mode, it shuts off. I put thermal paste on the chip with no results. Already checked RAM sticks, connections, tried to turn it on with basic drives connected …

Hi guys! I am a laptop user and uses my laptop mostly for gaming. While using my laptop, I placed an electric fan at the back, directly blowing air to my unit. It is effective and this kept my laptop from lag. The problem is when I am gaming at …

I have a Microsoft wireless 5000 keyboard that I want to use on my smart tv (the mouse USB is plugged into the TV). I have already tried many suggestions such as ctrl+shift+shift, shift+6, Lshift+Rshift+Lctrl, ctrl+shift+shift+?, and none work. Please, can anybody help?

I'm having a problem with no screen but it has all lights lit on the top in the back but no hdd activity or light lit or flickering. Does not power off & on like some do & tried it with the hddd removed. Something has to be causing the …

I dropped my inspiron 1150 (windows xp home, pentium 4), and after much fiddling with it and a $40 call to Dell, ended up needing a new hard drive. Before I installed the new drive, on boot up it would go to the Dell logo, and even let me reinstall …

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I have inherited a brand new pc from a friend and have a question about sata. The mobo has only one pci-e slot and that is being blocked by the video card. I need a connection to my external hdd enclosure. The mobo has a single free esata port and …

My computer took a hard fall yesterday. All of the USB plugs that were plugged in crashed to the inside, (we can hear them shaking inside), and the monitor plug broke. (The screws came off, the plug came out, etc.) We tried to plug in a TV screen with a …

Hello friends, I am having a HCL PC in my home with configuration of 120GB HDD, basic graphics memory, Core2Duo processor and with 1 gb of RAM. Now I am planning to do some upgrades to it. First of all, I am planning on DVD writer(already out). Then to the …

I am looking over my cousin's laptop he did something to it I am trying to figure out what as he wont tell me. THe laptop starts up but then freezes up on the toshiba start screen and I can go no futher. I can't acess the laptop it self. …

I delete all my files in my USB. Can I get it back? help me pls

Hello I want to buy a mouse n my budget is upto 500 Sugget me

Hi, I'm using an ESX Virtual Drive and basically I want to allocate data to a VM Drive from unallocated space within the VM Drive due to lack of space. I've done some research and found this great software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpOhiywWJw#at=65 . What do you think? Is there a better and …

Everytime I open a new page in Windows 8 I get an advertisment pop up screen. How can I delete this virus?

I had an iso image of a game on my computer, but I deleted it like a month or two ago. Ive been trying to recover it, because the backup I made was somehow corrupt. Ive tried several recovery programs, but I have not been able to find the file. …