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Hi guys, i have a custom built P4 3.4ghz, 1024ddr, 200gb Western Digital SATA drive. Due to some error i could not load windows so i removed the hd and formatted it in another pc. When i put it back to do a fresh install of windows it says Primary …

Well, what was turning out to be a fun day got ruined. I was going to go out with my laptop and "war walk" i guess. I get all double layer dressed because its pretty chilly outside still, open up my laptop all ready to go, turn it on, i …

I have a presareo s6500NX machine, windows XP 2.5 speed, 1 gig ram. I need to take images off VHS tapes to still frames Jpeg. Do I need to get a video card with RCA jacks like on back of VHS players? I do have a USB jack but, how …

I'm upgrading an old pc with an MS-6368 Motherboard. It's gonna get some new PC 133 SDRAM (old 64m + 256 m) And a new HD. It's got a 950 mhz Celeron. But what video card should I stick into It? It's supposed to be cheap. This is about what …

i really need help here!!! cud sum1 plz tell me why does a white faded strip occurs on the rightside of my laptop!! and wht cud i do o get rid of it?!? can closing the laptop abit roughly be the cause of it? and can this strip occur after …

Hello everyone I currently have a pretty decent computer running except for the video card which came with the motherboard. I have just recently started playing Final Fantasy XI on it and it works...Okay but I plan on playing RF online pretty soon and I just know my video card …

I recently Installed a water cooling system into my pc and when I try to boot the computer the case speaker starts producing a really high pitch scream. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Last night I was working on my computer and thought I smelt something burning. The CPU temperature was fine. I shut the system down for the evening to let it cool down. This morning I tried to turn the system on, but nothing. This board has an onboard LED light …

hello. for some time now (about a month) i have noticed that my monitor is darker then it's suppose to be. i have to up the brightness and contrast to 100 percent AND go into my NVIDIA control panel and up the gamma to 1.31 to get it bright anough …

Hi!! I brought a unbranded :o flash mp3 player. Due to some problems, I formatted it using windows format tool. Initially it had 512 MB memory, now it shows only 256 MB memory. WHat should i do?? I dont have the software of the device Please help

My computer will not turn on. First, let me tell you that just before this problem occured my daughter, in frustration over our internet service being interrupted, decided to unplug and replug everything on the back of the computer (including the power cord). I have checked the wall outlet and …

Help me…all solutions are welcome. Please read explanation carefully… Yesterday, my computer system was working as normal and very good. It was raining, so I turned my system off – regular shutdown. Then proceeded to turn off my surge protector, now the system is off. I return home after 3 …

I have two 80g WD drives that i have setup into a Raid 0 right now on an old computer. Well i have a new laptop and want to turn that old computer into a linux box to play around with. So i was wondering if there was a external …

I have two external firewire drives which will no longer mount on any computer. When I run Disk Utility to verify them, it says: Checking HFS Plus volume. Invalid B-tree node size. The volume needs to be repaired. Volume check failed. Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972) …

I got this gateway computer from someone its a p4 2.17 ghz 512 ram. He gave it to me because it would not turn on. So i took it home and open the case and i reset the power supply since there was a reset button and it turned on. …

my 2 1/2 year old G4 iMac will no longer read DVD movies or music cds. when a disc is inserted, it spins the disc around for maybe 10 seconds, makes a few quiet, quick 'purring' sounds then ejects the disc. however, it will still recognize and respond a blank …

why is it i have a celeron M 1.3 GHZ processer with 256 MB of RAM but the properties only say i have 248 MB. some one please help me this is really frustrating thanks in advance

First, Thanks in advance all ye with much more knowledge than I. Toshiba Satellite Laptop 2455-s305 Working fine today at lunch. AVG ran a HUGE update at lunchtime whilst I browsed. Fine when I left, computer was still on. Came home after work, about 4 hrs later. Nothing! Absolutely dead. …

Hello all, was hopping to get some help with this card.fast rundown of what I have here..its a NF7-S 2.0 Motherboard +2800 AMD using AGP for card..I had a IT-4600 128mb card and the fan went so I sent it back to Nvidia, They sent me back a 6800 OC …

i have no idea if my comp is affected by virus, but something is terribly wrong about it. its sometimes okay and sometimes messed up. :sad: well the problem is it will suddenly turn off, start again, show the HP screen and go to a black screen with a cursor …

This is the classic debate. Which graphics card is better? The ATI or nVidia? I am going to have to go with the nvidia becuase I have tried out both and have a very good reason to go with nvidia. My ATI's both had problems with overheating and just general …

I have a serious problem. When I first started using my new comp, there's no problems. But slowly the problems start to surface. When I open a game such as mmorpg like MapleStory or offline PC like Insaniquarium, my screen starts to flicker at random spots and hang my whole …

Hi, My Father and I own a videography business in South Florida. Lately, we've run into 2 problems with one of our computers. We have two computers in our office, both of which we use for work. They were built together, so the parts inside are exactly the same. A …

A friend asked me to help him install a second hard drive that already contains a ton of data on his computer. I suppose he wouldn't have needed my help if everything worked like it should. Anyway, here's the fun stuff: It's a Dell Dimension 8200. The master hard drive …

Right, I've just started a new course and part of the requirements is to have two networked PC's. I built my current PC from scratch so this time I'm going for the complete system in one fell swoop! I've been looking around, and I'm getting very confused by what's right …

So I recently bought a new vid card... xfx Geforce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card to replace my Geforce3 Ti somethin or other.... My mobo...Intel® Desktop Board D865GLC [url]http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d865glc/index.htm[/url] From the specs it seems to be able to support the card...I have a 512 RAM, 480W psu. …

Our laptop was working fine, then my 2 year old daughter stood on the case. After that it wouldn't power up at all. When you plugged in the AC adapter a light would flicker on and right back off, if you blinked you missed it. After doing online research and …

I been having problemss with my Toshiba laptop after it crash. I have tried reinstalling the system's operating system with the Toshiba recovery disk, but half way through the process it stop and a window come up stating "Cannot Read File"... what can i do... I am running a Toshiba …

Hello. I've just bought an Asus TA210 case, which in general I am very pleased with, looks nice, etc. etc. (apart from the sticking CD ROM stealth bay). I didn't get any form of documentation with it, just a case in an Asus box (I bought from a computer wholesaler), …

Hi, I have just returned from a trip overseas and left my iMac wrapped up in the attic. When I got it down and left it to acclimatise to normal room temperature for 2 days it wouldn't start. I can hear the chime sound and then the spinning thing comes …

Has anyone here bought one of the new Intel-based macs? How do you like it? Is it noticably faster than an IBM G5?

My brothers' pc has worked fine for a year or so,but just recently he has had boot problems, so while i look into it i thought i'd post on here to see what you guys think in case i get stuck.If i find the problem in the mean time i'll …

Hi, I have a 2 year old ASUS P4P800 motherboard machine. that just started to have a problem. It stalls in the very beginning of the POST(no beeps). the screen says 'American Megatrends' 'Testing NVram.....' that's it. Does anyone know if this failure is a motherboard problem or can the …

I have a my brothers pc with a motherboard that's damaged. I need to save some data from the hdd and i'm wondering if there is a way of doing it with my pc. His hdd has winxp on it. My pc has 2 hdrives, 1 is a dual boot …

i have a p4 with intel 915 glvg mother moard,i have ony 1 fan that is on my processor ,can i instal more fans ?if yes then how?pls solve my problem. :!:

Hello people Recently I just bought this [URL=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141167]Ram[/URL]from Newegg for upgrading another DDR333 PC2700 512MB Ram to my computer.. Ive been researching for a long time and most of the ppl from other forum say i can use both on my comp they match up.. Here are some of the …

I built my own computer about 7 months ago and i come home and it shut off while i was gone. I go to turn it on and it wont boot. The power led comes on when i turn on the power supply but when i go to turn on …

Maybe someone can help me... I just built a computer, very first one... when I power it up, it'll show the first screen prompting me to hit delete to enter bios. however, it just freezes on that screen. can anybody help me? asus doesn't seem to care too much. They …

[COLOR=Blue]My Windows ME cant restart[/COLOR] returns to dark screen with tiny dash on the top each time I restart.

Ok i have 2 sticks of Corsair ddr 512mb - VS512MB400 Now when i first had some i just bought the one stick on its own, and i thought it was great 512mb from 256mb. But i noticed it start to slow down during games at weird times. I have …

Can anybody tell me what graphic cards(of at least 128 MB) are avavilable there for toshiba satellite A15,or for satellite series,or for any toshiba one,or for at least notebooks. I tried the search on google and froogle and remained unable to find any graphic card upgrade for laptops of more …

Hey all. Someone I know just bought a second hand PC with a 10 GB hard disk. In the same order they bought a 40 GB HD, but the PC, which is a Dell GX110 (I think) only has one drive bay. The system came preinstalled with XP Pro but …

when hooking my g/f's laptop up to our TV to watch movies and stuff we can't get any sound to come through the TV. I know we had it working once before but it's been so long ago I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. It's a Dell XPS …

i installed 256ram and how do i find out if i installed the ram correctly thanks

Hello All, I'm a new Mac convert- recently got the new Intel core duo desktop - trying to connect wirelessly to the internet. I have a MR814v2 Netgear router- I CAN connect only when the WEP is disabled, but as soon as I turn on WEP (128bit), the Mac cannot …

I need to get a new sound card as I am building a new PC from scratch but Im not sure what to get. Does anyone know of any really good reliable sound cards. Iv been looking at the Audigy 2 ZS platinum from creative labs and some reviews of …

Hey I've posted in the past looking for a better AGP ATI card but I've got some funding now and want to make the switch to PCI-E. So the question at heart is: Whats the best nVidia card out there? I remember sometime around november people where drooling over the …

Well it finally happened, after 3 years my computer finally went. Aparently the motherboard shorted everything out. I upgraded a bit. I had the option of getting a ATI Sapphire Atlantis 9600 with some pretty good upgrades with 256MB DDR. The other one, that I'm testing out now, is a …

Can somebody please help me i recently purchased an ati radeon 9550 graphics card but when i went to install it i found out there was no place for me to put it on my motherboard i have plenty of open pci slots but no agp (ithink thats what its …

Hey Guys, I recently got a new Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 6800 GS GPU (PCIx). Now when i try to play any game the system restarts. My over all system config is Asus P5LD2-Vm Motherboard (Socket 775, Intel 945G chipset), Patriot 1GB DDR2 Memory (512x2 Dual Channel), Intel 4 processor (3 …