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Hello, This is probably a stupid question, but can anyone tell me how to determine the fastest RAM that can be used with a system besides going to a website like kingston.com and looking up what they recommend? In the past I was told that the FSB speed is what …

Hi, I am looking for some advice and was wondering if anyone could help me out. I am currently building a new PC. I am using some of the parts from my old pc e.g. graphics card, sound card etc, but I am getting a new motherboard and processor among …

Just out of intest are you and AMD person or an intel

Hello, I currently have a motherboard with no SATA support so I may buy a SATA controller but I want to know do you get the same speeds out of a SATA controller than you do with a motherboard with SATA ports.

So here's me, 3 days and about 20 dvd burn attempts down the line and I STILL can't burn more than a couple of hundred mb reliably. I'm using Nero Ultra edition after my Instant CD/DVD refused to believe I wanted to burn a DVD rather than a CD (God …

My Sony TRV 480 has both USB2 and i link capability I have used the USB2 to transfer ( 450 kbps); looks good to me However I have "heard" that firwire is optimal; Is this true ? I do not have a firewire card; I do not wish to invest …

Well, the problem usually happens when I try to open a movie (.wma, .avi, whatever) or even browse a folder with movies. The symptoms are pixelated screen (reminds a TV, or like having the screen set to 400x300 resolution), only a part of the upper-left "view" fits into the screen …

So I am trying to put an IDE Hard drive in to my new computer that has a SATA hard drive already installed. But the geniuses at Dell only put one ide port on my motherboard and the eide cable that runs off that one controls my cd rom and …

Hey all, Went to a local computer show with a friend. Working on building him a ccomputer. Any ways, he got hold of an HP pavilion 7850. The machine had been caught in a lightning storm and the only pieces that worked were the Processor, Ram, floppy and cd-roms. The …

Hi there, I have a computer which has been working fine for a long time (4months) but up till last wednesday it has started to freeze. What is strange that is it freezes at and after 1:50pm. After this time the computer keeps freezing every 5 mins. I have scanned …

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Hello there, everyone! Anyway, to the point: a friend of mine just bought a computer (a clone) and after three days of use, something weird happened. Once his computer reaches the Windows XP login screen, a prompt appears stating that Windows can't find Explorer. Also, it suggests that one reinstalls …

me and a frined what to get 2 laptop computers. what brand should we get? they need to be able to run programs for school. we also what to be able to run a net work beweent the 2 and we what to be able to run a games on …

Help! Am building new system for my mother and she wants to limit cost so would lkie to use her old grapics card listed in title. Can anyone please tell me if this card will work on Epox 8KDA3J mb? Thought I saw when I ordered board that requires 1.5v …

Hi everyone, I am currently trying to repair an older computer. The computer has no operating system on it and I am having difficulties putting one on. I just got the BIOS updated to the most current version. I have been tinkering with it here and there and I was …

I have an older ibm thinkpad......im having problem when starting the computer as the monitor seems to have a mind of its own and just illuminates when it wants to......it seems to come on very dim if at all and then will randomly pop on......just yesterday the monitor just flickered …

Ive just recently built my own pc, and i then wanted to use the harddrive from my old pc. I placed it it fine and everything, got the data from it i needed and then wiped it clean, made a new partition and everything seemed fine. The problem i get …

I'm going on a very boring, 3 hour trip. My laptop battery will last me long enough that I can have a computer during that time, but I thought I'd ask first, is this a bad idea? Could bumpiness during driving crash the harddrive, or cause other damage to the …

Okay, so before anyone asks... I HAVE read the sticky at the top of the forum and tried everything possible to no avail. The story so far: Several days ago I was using my PC as I do without any problems at all, it had been running smoothly as it …

I have just read another thread sort of in relation to this but my situation is a little different. A couple of months ago I decided to plug my cable tv's providers RF cable into my capture card. Thats where it basically ended. Everything except the RAM module and chassis …

HP Pavilion ze4500. Worked fine, then the next morning it lights up with power but fails to progress through any of the boot. The cd does spin--putting in the XP cd, the cd lights up a few times but it will not boot from the cd. Have tried the reset, …

Since no one ever replied to my previous post [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33862.html[/url] , I am rephrasing and refining my q....plz ans this time ULTIMATE HARD DISK SETTINGS - brain racking question Respected Tech gurus and dear forum members Here goes the situation: I have one INTEL 865 GBF motherboard As far as …

Hi there, I have a RAID system that my friend is trying to set up & trying is the operative word :( He installed XP In fact he's driving me up the wall refusing to ask for help. Is anyone an expert on how to create these new systems. The …

Please guide me - confused with SATA PATA Primary Secondary master Slave...!!! Respected members and gurus, I am a non technical person and am only good at using computers for my finance jobs and NOT configuring it. From last three days I have been reading and reading and reading about …

:?: Northgate Laptop,,power On = Cooling Fan,,tries To Read Disks (hard & Cd/dvd/rw) But Will Not Boot,, After 2 Attepts Nothing Just Cooling Fan ,,chk'd Processor Good Connection Any Other Ideas Help Plz

Hi, My pc keeps crashing and im not sure whether its a RAM problem or a virus prob. Im running AMD Athlon XP2500 1.84 GHz and 512mb RAM. Im a multimedia student and my computer constantly crashes when im tyring to do my work. Especially when im using adobe products …

Hi Friends I run the CD ROM and there are 'jumps' and other imperfections in the music, making for an unusable copy. Is this a sign of the lens on the original drive failing? The read-drive is a LITEON LTN485S running at 8.91 average speed , the write-only drive a …

when ever i save data to a floppy disk it always tells me to format the floppy when i click format a message comes saying its unable to format and the disks are brand new Can anyone help me plz?

Hi everyone, new here.. I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with my PC. This is what happened... I had just shut down a game because the sound was crackling, restarted, and my computer froze after Windows loaded. Nothing would work, no mouse, ctrl alt del, nothing.. So, I …

Why can't anyone make a every growing HD? I mean it's been shown by the ever bigger HDs that the current HD format we manafacture can hold much more then what we currently have out on shelves...so why hasn't anyone thought to develop some system in which there's a HD …

I ain't gonna tell you the whole story, 'cause it really doesn't matter now. The thing is, I got this old PC from someone, and, because I like some old games that won't run on my P4, (yes, I tried DOSBox, I love it, but it doesn't run all old …

I replaced the ram with another 256mb. The computer starts up, but it shows nothing on the monitor. the light on the monitor stays yellow instead of green (when everything worked fine and while i was on the computer the light was green). I could actually see the smoke and …

Ok well heres the problem, i got a logitech mx700 mouse and it didnt come with the ac adapter for the cradle. Should, or can the mouse still charge by the usb when my comp is on, and yes what should i be seeing ?

well assembled a PC..i connected everything and the power supply is 100% working and i connected all the led and switch connector in the right position!..and if i press the power button it doesnt start the whole pc..the power supply is 350 watts for amd 64 3200+...i dont really know …

My Presario 2100 was recently sent to a local shop that deals specifically with notebooks, because it had a cracked LCD and I wanted to see if they could drop it into a new case. The decided that the charge would be $1200, so I asked them kindly to return …

I'm having trouble with a Sony laptop. When I try to power it up, I hear something powering up but the screen remains black. On rare occasions, it will actually boot up but will freeze up a few minutes later. Took it to CompUsa for repair. Here is what they …

I am using a Globespan virata tera 100u usb modem to conect to BSNL Broadband. whenever i on the pc it says "ADSL Modem not responding" and "Error loading DSL Loader". i uninstall and reinstall then it works fine. but when i on the pc then the same cycle. i …

boots up shows memory plus shared memory and doesn't boot further.what can the p :mad: roblem be

I have had this problem ever since I bought my PC a few months ago. When playing games like Battlefield 2, World of Warcraft etc, my computer will randomly freeze, and my monitor displays a 'No Signal' message. It has also been known to display an 'Out of Range' message. …

Hi everyone, A number of questions. 1. On some motherboard they state that the motherboard is 800Mhz DDR FSB. Does that mean that the motherboard is only compatible with processors that have FSBs' of 800Mhz and below? 2. I have seen some new processors with these terms celeron 2.4G - …

I just built a amd 64 box and i tried starting it up for the first time and it turns on long enough to beep once, then cuts off. It's not the power supply, all the jumpers are right. I tried everything, what could be causing this?

to anyone that can help, saw the threads about this issue but the scenario i encountered is a little different. it happens on and off. I have a 3 month old dell dimension 3000. the problem happened a couple of days ago in the morning. i turned the pc off …

Recently I was contacted to service a family member's computer as it was faulty. I was hoping the cause of the fault would be fairly obvious. I've serviced a number of PCs over the years and usually found it to be relatively easy, or at least the problem would present …

I have a pc100 Parkard Bell when I removed 128mb dimm it stated pc133 so purchased and installed 2x256mb dimms but system is only showing them as 2x128mb Ihave tryed flashing bios with both updates from Parkard Bell but no difference can anybody suggest anything that won't incur further costs

i recently built myself a new system which seems to work ok, but i cant get my floppy drive or zip drive to work. i have a SATA hardrive connected up and working fine, a CD-RW and DVD-ROM drive on one ribbon cable (CD-RW set as master, DVD as slave), …

Hi im adding another 256mb RAM to my sempron 3000+ which already has 256mb ram as xp is pretty sluggesh at the mo. im new to this and wondered if anyone could give us a bit of advice. my current motherboard is MSI AMD sempron 1.8ghz L2 128kb current RAM …

I have a NOKIA 446X Pro 19" monitor. It has been used on a computer with Win98. Video card is a Diamond Viper V550 with 16 Mb of RAM. I will be doing a major upgrade to a much better computer with WinXP etc but would like to keep the …

I built my sistem with good enough parts to run all current games, and probobly for some time they will be able to do the same. However, at runtime, a few applications will lock up if I run them more than once per log in (like I use it, quit, …

HI i had my dell inspirion notebook for over a year now and never had problems with it starting on before. But recently like the middle of september whenever the monitor is moved or the slightest touch to the monitor is made for example if i try to move my …

I literally pulled this laptop from the dumpster. Seems like an interesting project. The confuser displays symptoms similar to the no power issues and fixes listed all the web with some twists. Plug it up to AC with a battery I get the plugged in led and the battery charge …