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| | VGA ATIOEM|RADEON 9800SE is the name of my video card. I installed the drivers and then put the card in and everything started up fine...and got to my desktop and it told me there was something new and it found it and everything and said i needed to restart my … Hardware pci-card video video-card |
| | So when I boot up my computer, my 128 mb Mad Dog Dominator card's fan goes nuts and spins super fast, making quite a loud and annoying noise. It speeds up and slows down seemingly at random, though never going to an acceptable level, amd then goes away after 10 … Hardware display |
| | Dear friends, I have a Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop. Since yesterday, when I boot up, the full screen shrinks to about 75% of the normal size. Why? How to bring it to the full 15" screen? Thanks. Gene |
| | Hi, I just recently built a new computer and here are the specs 2 Gigs of DDR Ram Geforce 7800GTX video card 2.0 AMD Athlong 64 Processor My problem is, whenever I am playing high graphics games IE WoW, BF2, Battlefront 2, Starwars Galaxies, after a while of playing the … Hardware display video video-card |
 | I've personally amassed a decent collection of older Macs. I love these little boxes-- I can still make them do all kinds of things, as old as they are! I'm curious if there's anyone else here that loves the older Macs, or maybe just still uses them. Here is my … Hardware apple-hardware debian laptop os-x |
| | I reveiw the previous posts and none could help me figure this out. AC power light is on when plugged in. After pushing the power button I here the the drive attempt to spin, then nothing else. The power light stays on but to movement could be heard inside the … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video  |
| | hi all. i have built a few compters in my time but im no expert. i just bought a new case for my current pc.last night i started the transplant,i pluged everything in as i normally do but this time when i went to start it ,the hdd and cdrom … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, I am having problems with my PC and this time when i switch it on, instead of going thru a normal startup process, there are messages that says " Novell Netware Ready Firmware V1.00 (940810) (c) Copyright 1991 - 1994 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. VIA PCI 10/100mb Fast … Hardware novell troubleshoot-hardware |
| | hi. i was just wondering if someone could help me please. i have recently bought 3 lcd monitors off ebay, 1 panoview 550, 1 panoview 600 and 1 compaq tft450. with all three of them there was no power supply but we have found it out so we hooked them … Hardware display |
| | Hey guys, just a quick question. I got the Asus A8N-SLI motherboard and it's got the AC97 soundcard (or something like that). What I want to know is does it fully support 5.1 speakers or at least so I could hear "where the people are coming from" in America's Army. … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My processor is an athlon 2.1 ghz 1800+ I believe but for some reason belarc and my computer specs say it is only running at 1.4 ghz my motherboard is an Aopen AK79D-400MAX and according to the PDF it is capable of running processors faster than 1.4 ghz. Does anyone … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram pdf |
| | i am planning to buy a gaming mouse and i am stuck between the Logitech™ MX518 Gaming-Grade™ Optical Mouse and its razor equivalent.which do you guys think is better. Hardware gaming pc-peripheral |
| | Hello, still some time to wish a happy new year.. im new on this forum, im just installed a new dvd burner in my toshiba laptop, 5205, and i get this error. IDE #0 error, at the startup of the computer then it ask me for my disk system. - … |
 | I'm trying to put together: MOTHERBOARD MB ABIT® IC7-G i875/ICH5-R chipset, Socket 478, 800MHz BUS, ATX format, Intel® P4, audio, Gigbit LAN on board CPU Intel P4 - 2.4 GHz 512kcache socket 478 - 800 FSB RAM DDRAM 512MB PC400 APACER® CL2.5 HD MAXTOR® DiaMaxPLUS® 160GB 8MB CACHE SERIAL ATA … Hardware audio motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My computer has worked fine for the past few months, but all of a sudden it has started restarting randomly. Sometimes it will boot into Windows and run for up to a few hours, other times it will restart during the Windows loading and sometimes it won't even POST. The … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have an IBook G4 933 and since it was brand new it randomly freezes. I sent it back to Apple and they have found no errors and suggested installing more memory. I installed 512 Mb RAM and it suddenly stop freezing. Two year later (February 19th) it freezes again … Hardware apple apple-hardware  |
 | I'm buying a new PDA phone (Not that I ever had one). I have a Cell phone and a PDA, and I think it's time to consoladate. I'm looking into the following two models by Verizon and MS Windows: [URL=http://palmtops.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=palmtops&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fvzwshop.com%2Ftreo700w%2F]Treo 700W[/URL] and [URL=http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=570]Audiovox PPC-6600[/URL] I find that the Treo is … |
| | Hi All, new to forum. I've searched previous posts and cant find a similiar problem so I'm getting really worried. about 5 seconds after booting my computer it powers down. I have disconnected all the drives and PCI cards to see if I can isolate the problem but even with … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | When I flashed the bios using Compaq's SP file in XP, I received an error message "Unable to write block 4". The computer then shut down and will not post. I can get a new bios chip and have it written, but I need the binary file with 512K. Compaq … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi folks, I have just built a new system (specs below) and I've hit a snag. Since I put it together, the system will not shut down when it should, so I decided to get chipset drivers and BIOS up to date. The motherboard came with BIOS 1005 installed so … Hardware flash motherboards-cpu-ram windows-xp  |
| | [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-CUV4X-REV-1-03-INTEL-MOTHER-BOARD-W-P3-CPU_W0QQitemZ6849910024QQcategoryZ42006QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] this link is to a pic of a mother board thats somthing like mine if you look at the top left hand side of the board there is a small brown dual input slot in between the the long white one and the longer black one to the far … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have a 1998 CTX EZBOOK laptop. When I turn it on I get an error message that reads "Operating System Not Found". When I insert my Windows 98 CD I get the same message. When I inserted my CTX Restore 98 CD I gotthe message: "Checking HD partitions... Invalid … Hardware laptop operating-system troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I am working on a compaq presario 700, when it powers up it runs fantastic. However, once you shut it down it will not start back up. This does not happen all the time, it happens about every other time. It is getting power, but aparently not to the board. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I had a problem with my mobod and sent it in to gigabyte. They said 3 weeks turn around and it is now day 32 and no mobod. I was wondering if all places are that way or is there another company that will get it back to you faster. … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hello, I'm having a problem with my computer startup. When the computer boots it stops saying FDC error, press F1 to continue. I get that it means Floppy Disc Controller error, but the funny thing is I don't even have a floppy disc drive. I have a feeling that this … Hardware storage |
| | Hi! My eMachine wont boot and hard disk wont run. As soon as it turns on it beeps 1, 3 times, 3 times and 1 more. The lights on the CD and DVD flashes and in about 30 to 40 seconds it goes off. What happened prior to this? I … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi guys, I have a gateway computer. My problem is that the monitor does not display anything when I switch the computer on, even when the LCD indicator is on. It all started when the display started getting shaky and warped, threatening to switch off. I then switched off the … Hardware display |
| | I apologize that I'm not a user that logs on very often. I've been doing this close to 30 years now, I just haven't kept up with newer tech. I have an old Compaq with XP Pro installed and a new WD 250GB drive which was working fine. In the … Hardware first-post ide laptop troubleshoot-hardware windows-xp |
| | I have just swapped out my mobo for a foxconn NF4K8AC with Athlon64 3000+ cpu and geforce 6600GT 128MB PCI-E graphics card. The graphics card, cpu and mainboard fans spin up as do the CD/DVD drives and harddrive but the system simply emits a series of single prolonged beeps :sad: … |
| | Hi, I've got a Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP motherboard with Realtek AC97 audio on board. I installed all the drivers, also the latest updates of them, but I won't hear any sound... When I play a file with winamp it just starts playing but I won't hear any sound. In the bios … |
| | I am looking to purchase a new computer (old one took a dive but HD is ok) the new one has SATA drive with XP media suite and the old one has 2000 on it can I just plug the old one in to the ribbon and be good? :o … |
| | :mrgreen: Well. I've been all around the web trying to troubleshoot and figure out what the heck i've done wrong here. But this site seemed to be one of the better places to go ahead and register for. I recently ordered 2 512 DDR400 sticks of Ram to switch out … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My Dell died yesterday. I have tried everything I could think of, but no luck. A few days ago, when it was running, I received a system message saying there was no space left on the hard drive. I thought this funny because a couple days before I had checked … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have recently formatted my hard drive as i was having problems with windows system files. But now, when i try to re-install windows, i can not create a partition larger then 129GB when my hard drive is 250GB. I triede to install windows once just on this 129GB partition … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | Custom built AMD about 3yrs old, never a problem! I was doing some online gaming the other day and it restarted all of a sudden, didn’t POST, lights and fan came on but no monitor. Also the case switches wouldn’t work, the only way to get it to restart was … Hardware first-post gaming troubleshoot-hardware video |
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| | I have a g4 400 running os9.04 that i would like to update to tiger 10.4 without loosing 9. I have many older apps that i would prefer not to update. Should i , can i install a second internal hard drive with os 10 and go back and forth … Hardware apple-hardware hard-drive operating-system |
| | Not to long ago i built my custom pc. AMD 3500+ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard GeForce 6800 200 GB SATA Seagate Hard Drive Corsair (TWINX1024-3200C2PT) (2 x 512MB Matched Pair) 1024MB DDR RAM (Ebuyer Code 52471) My problem is with my RAM, i was testing some new stuff out on … Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hello everyone. I'm currently using an ATI Raedion 9600XT. As you know, its outdated and sorely needs upgrading. Now, I still use AGP 8x, and really dont' want to go about upgrading just yet to PCI-E based mobos. I was at Best Buy today and saw the X1300 on the …  |
| | Ok guys I have a serious problem with my computer Here are my Specs: AMD Athalon 2200+, 640MBs RAM, 1 40GB HD(master), 1 100GB HD(slave), I bought it from Fry's Electronics about 3 years ago The Problem: The computer was running good for those 3 years, but it kept getting … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | [FONT=Arial][SIZE=1]Hello all. I'm new here and need some help. My CPU fan needs to be replaced. My CPU fan is "JMC/DaTech Model 0925-12LMB." I contacted Dell and they assigned a unique part number to it and refer to it as the "CPU part#___" instead of referring to it as the … Hardware first-post motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Does anyone know of a place(online) that sells cool pc cases that have a lot of brackets for fans? Or a specific model which supports excellent cooling? Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My computer will run with cdrom and HD set on cable select. However the cdrom is the master and the hd is the slave in the bios. I have tried setting both jumpers to master and using 2 ribbons and the bois sees only the cdrom as primary master but … Hardware storage |
| | I have, through an ill advised keystroke, started the Flash Recovery in my Bios. It has been running for more than 3 hours. So I have a few questions: Is this normal? How long should a flash recovery take? Is there some way to stop it? and do I want … Hardware flash troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | I need a bigger hard drive but I only have 1 bay. Can anyone tell me how I can copy the data across? I read here [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33915.html[/url] that HD's come with disks for this. I bought my desktop from dell years ago - would it still come with a disk? … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | Four year old Athlon 1800 XP, Jetway 866 AS Ultra mainboard, running well when last shutdown. Now refuses to POST, and no code beeps, also dead monitor screen. All drives and fans have power on. Have tried the usual, removing cards and memory sticks, and reseated CPU with Arctic Silver, … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I built a HTPC100 with a FoxConn 760GxK8MB motherboard and a Sempron 2800+ CPU a few months ago. The machine was set up to go into standby mode after 30 minutes and it had been doing that just fine for months. To wake it up, I would just press the … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, i have started building my first computer yesterday with the following... AMD athlon 64 3200+ CPU Corsair dual channel 512x2 (whatever lol) Asus a8n-e mobo nvidia 6200 OC PCI video card Seagate HD SATA X-Infinity case Anywho, After installing everything, I turn the computer on and the LED's light … Hardware pci-card troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
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| | Hi i just want to know the difference between different RAM types. for example pc800,pc2100 or whatever what does it mean? coz i have a pc with 2 64mb pc800 RAM, i dont know if SDRAM or something else. i like to upgrade as you can see 128 MB RAM … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
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