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| | Ok, so I read the "My PC Won't Start" thread and I still can't get my new computer to start. Installed the motherboard, video card, one memory, cpu w/fan. Plug in monitor and keyboard. When I plug in power supply a light on the motherboard goes on. When I press … Hardware flash troubleshoot-hardware video video-card  |
| | I'm very desperate right now as I'm not very computer savvy, and I'm hoping maybe one of many of you can help. Basically, I was playing a game, when suddenly, my computer froze completely. Note that the computer is only 2 weeks since purchase. I then manually shut down the … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Ok so I was told to buy a new power source for my NVIDIA Graphics Card because I only had 250w. I bought one with 500w. I think thats more then enough, but I think I saw an artifact Im kind of scared to play my games because I will … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | i have a question 2 ask i just bought a new motherboard LGA775 GA-8I945GMF anh when i finished assemblem it nothing happen just a black screen appear the power is on but sccreen not appear and i dont no what wrong whit it plz help Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram  |
| | Ok, I found that my computer has 3173 viruses. The anti-virus client AVG didn't do anything about it, could not heal the items nor move them to the virus vault. Scared to shut the computer down I left the machine running for 2 days before a power failure killed it … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | my friend gave me his notebook computer bc it was broken. when you plug the notebook in to charge it up it wont. what could be the problem here and is it fixable. it is a hp pavilion ze4200. thank you Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello guys, i'm a first time poster, but i have to say i've come by many times for help with my computer troubles. The trouble i'm having is in choosing a new video card. I bought a Dell Dimension 9100 a few months ago, and found out it had a … Hardware microsoft-windows pci-card video video-card |
| | my notebook charger will not charge my notebook. is there a part i can just replace to fix it Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | So, it looks like I'll be getting a new motherboard after my first motherboard went bad in my computer. And before I do this, I want to back up the 50GB or so of things I've downloaded as I'm not sure if I'll lose everything when I'm forced to reinstall … Hardware hard-drive microsoft-access piracy storage  |
| | If u guys figure this out i will give u a cookie... Ok i bought some new ram two 1gb DDR333 CL2.5 stuff... [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...9382&rd=1&rd=1"][COLOR=#22229c]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...9382&rd=1&rd=1[/COLOR][/URL] When i put it into my pc.. and started it a loud long beep occurred... (which means motherboard couldnt find any ram) this is my motherboard … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have had this freezing for the last two weeks. I have updated my power supply, ram, graphic card, all drivers, patches, directx9 etc. Pc World tried for three days to fix the problem, no good. BF2 freezes as you join game. I have just tried a new sound card, … Hardware pci-card |
 | Hey gang, got an old notebook monitor. Was wondering if there is a way to rig it up to work on a PC. What I'm after is a dual screen display for a workstation. Just wondering if anyone has tried this before and if there were and fires that I … Hardware display |
| | Hello, I just got a new hard drive. I mounted it in my computer. And connected it to the SATA ports on the motherboard to the drive with the SATA cable. When I turn my computer back on it doesn't see that something was put there. I tried connecting the … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | I cannot figure out what type of motherboard I have. I tried the crucial system scanner, didnt work. It said 'pmg we cannot detect ur motherboard lollerz BUY OUR MEMRY NOWZ' And it also reported that I can hold 4gb of RAM, when my manual says I can only hold … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram perl |
| | :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: HiI HAVE TWO PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first problem occurs when I run a virus scan. I contacted EZ ANTI VIRUS and the company said that this problem is a MICROSOFT problem because I ran a scan in the … Hardware c++ troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello I have a problem with a laptop. it hangs on something and then when i try to reboot, it wont reboot except in safe mode. the first time that it happened was just after i had updated windows, and i thought that the update had caused it. this is … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I'd like to hear opinions on what the possible options are for diagnosing this problem please: I have a Gateway laptop that I recently purchased from eBay. The laptop was fine, but one hot day it locked up and I dropped the battery out of it to to turn it … Hardware laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My ASUS "P4C800-E Deluxe" MoBo has 2 SATA connections and 2 SATA RAID connections. I would like to use 3 SATA hard drives, in a [U][B]non[/B][/U] RAID configuration, with this MoBo. Can I connect the third HD to one of the "RAID" MoBo connectors, and have it work, or are … Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | i was posting my problems in the virus board, but since that's seemingly not the problem anymore, i thought i'd start one here and see if i can get more responses. anyways, here's my problem. my computer will not reboot into normal mode or safe mode. all i get when … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware windows-virus |
 | Now this is really weird. I have an IBM R40 laptop, several years old. All of a sudden (today), the screen backlighting goes off after 18 seconds. I can get it back on by moving the screen on its hinges (fore and aft), it comes back on for 18 more … |
| | Hey Everyone! I am Jacob, I have worked with computers since 1975, however other than a year obtaining a computer network certificate which did entail some soft and hardware class, I am mostly self taught. I found a Pentium II Dell V-400 at a garage sale that worked, however I … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | hello all. let me begin by stating i know nothing about computer hardware because i never experienced any problems till now. my toshiba satellite p35 laptop went dead on me last week. i wasnt doing anything or recently installed anything out of the ordinary. i received a blue screen error … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi! I would appreciate any advice you can give me. My daughter's laptop works just fine if I only open the screen about 3 or 4 inches which means it can't really be used at all! She said she didn't drop it or anything. The problem is if I open … |
| | Hi Ive recently bought a "GeForce 6" graphics card for my PC but have been having problems starting my graphics card. Ive inserted the graphics card (AGP Slot) into my computer correctly and followed the instruction manual which states that obviously you have to insert the graphics card into the … Hardware display |
| | Hi, I'll start with my system specs: CPU: AMD Athlon 2.2 GHz rated at 3.1 GHz RAM: 1024 mb Vid Card: ATI Radeon 9200SE 128mb AGP I am looking to buy a new video card in order to play the newest games such as Oblivion, FEAR, etc. My video card … Hardware display video video-card |
| | Hi all, I have a compaq M300 that I bought used less than a month ago.It has XP Pro installed and the battery held a charge for a few hours.Someone wanted me to demonstrate how to disconnect the docking station but I do not think it was powered down completely … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Okay... this message is likely to be long. But bear with me. If you get bored, just skim straight through to the technical stuff. My dad (with the assistance of his neighbors and myself) is trying to build a new computer. This one, the one I'm typing on right now, … |
| | ok, i seem to have run into my own little problem. i'm building a computer for a friend, and i already have all the hardware put together. i also have Windows XP SP1 installed (he wanted to wait till his next paycheck before he picked up the Windows disk since … Hardware flash pci-card troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
 | Hi people. Another wee problem hope you guys can help again. I recently bought a 256mb ATI RADEON 9600pro (encore edition). I installed the graphics card to play Battlefield 2 with which it ran fine for a month or so. My pc developed some crashing problems and I had to … Hardware display hard-drive operating-system  |
| | I know this must be some settting that I didn't do. I got a mad dog - DVD writer drive - Installed it. Now my CD drive :rolleyes: will not read any thing - to open it you have to right click on the drive and hit edject - anyone … Hardware storage |
 | hi, can anyone help me out with disk cloning? i've never really used it before and i'm getting a bit lost. i have a system with an ata133 HDD. i have just installed a new scsi system. so what i want to do is copy everything from my c:\ drive … |
| | I am a complete novice at fixing computers but can anyone help. We had a mother and father of a storm Thunder and Lightning my computre did start after but slowley this morning it just wont power up it trys but just wont boot up Help Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I reformatted my C drive, due to some major errors and what not. And before I did it, I was sure to save all the files I wanted on my other Hitachi HD (120 GB). After I did that, I went ahead and reformatted my C drive, to a clean … Hardware storage |
| | Ok, for some odd reason my secondary "slave" hard drive just messed up on me. It doesn't show up on "My Computer", "Device Manager", and BIOS. and it makes my Primary "Master" not show up on BIOS only. and before it stopped working it, windows xp said some thing like. … Hardware hard-drive queue storage |
| | Ok yall, here we go. I have a Sony VAIO model PCV-RZ20 desktop. I have had the computer for only about 2 years now but I have downloaded and done so much crap to it I decided it was about time to do a full system recovery back to the … Hardware operating-system troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I found that this actually seems to be a reoccuring problem with Dells on here... I have a Dell, it's pretty new, a little less than 4 months old, (but about 3 weeks past its warrenty expiration, go fig) it was running fine until about a week ago when I … Hardware storage |
| | My toshiba P30 won't boot at all. The power light goes on, fan works, dvd work fine, harddrive doesn't spin though. Total black screen. I tried an external monitor, same result. The harddrive LED doesn't flicker as it does usually when the harddrive is accessed. This problem started last night. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video |
| | I'm trying to install a used 40 gig HD. It is recognized in the bios but when I try to format it says Can't access hard disk, I tried to use fdisk with a startup disk and got the same result. Can I assume it is shot. Hardware storage |
 | OK got a 120GB hard drive, bios see's it, windows XP is installed to it all is fine. On SATA 2 is a 300GB I wanna use for storage. BIOS sees it, windows doesn't. I've installed the chipset that came with the motherboard. What am I missing???? Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | I checked the temperature of the cpu using a temp. software... it displayed 80c... but when I push the cpu fan against the cpu, the temp. reduces, if I let go, it increases... I checked and found two side holders of the cpu fan are broken. I held it for … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | ok so i bought this Dell Latitude D266XT it is a Pentium 2 266mhx MMC-1 processor I bought a P2400MHX MMC-1 processor to put in it, the processor works great but now i get an error message when windows wants to boot up that a file was corrupted and i … Hardware hard-drive laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, I have a very annoying problem here, it's like... I have a Intel D845WN motherboard, 256 MB RAM(133Mhz), nVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 Pro Graphics card... I had a 1.7 Processor, but I replaced it with a 2.0, which is not supported by the motherboard. Now the computer shuts … Hardware email troubleshoot-hardware |
| | PLease help!! i unplugged my pc for one day while building a new desk. Then today i hooked everything up and plugged in the pc to the wall . When i turned on the swtch ion the back the light on the power button began to flash as well as … Hardware flash troubleshoot-hardware |
| | this machine turn on and start to boo then says indalid disk. But has no disk in it. Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | So.. Here's my series of insanely unfortunate events... I have had this machine for three years - never a problem besides the fact that the fan? something always ran and made a noise when it was on. I have an T2685 emachine.. It's finals week and I have 5 days … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I am trying to diagnose a problem with my ASUS A7N8X machine. It has 512 Mb RAM, an AMD XP 2100+ chip, and a Chaintech GForce 4 MX 440 video card in it. The machine runs Debian Linux 3.1r1. I rarely shut this machine off, as it runs a BOINC … Hardware debian troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | Is there anything out there that will sit on my desktop so I can monitor CPU, memory temp in real time. I have tried bginfo from sysinternals, the way it looks is exactly what I am looking for, but it does not monitor temp. [url]http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/BgInfo.html[/url] Does anyone know of anything … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I am new to the [URL="http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=456060&pid=587455566&st=0&#"]hard drive[/URL] world, but would like to purchase a [URL="http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=456060&pid=587455566&st=0&#"]portable[/URL] external hard drive to store music and video files. I will be on the road for long stretches (work related) and thought this would be the best way to take my entire cd collection with … Hardware hard-drive laptop pc-peripheral video |
| | The dorm next to my son's was hit by lightning and his computer now will not start. Other computers in the dorm was are OK including his roomates. After using the reset the power light is comes back on, and when you push power to boot, it starts with normal … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Well, I've spent the last couple nights trying to install my a new 300 GB SATA on my ASUS MOBO without resolution. I've looked high and low on this forum for help, but none seems to hit my problem just right. Here's my system: MOBO: ASUS A8V Deluxe 200 GB …  |
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