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| | Senerio: Went to turn on the computer and it just didn't power up at all. A storm had went through and the electricity was lost but the computer wasn't on at the time. The computer is connected to a surge protector. But the computer will not power up. So, replaced … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, I have a presario 2100 that I Have owned for about a year now... recently when I would power off, when i rebooted it took forever to post... if it even did, then very sluggish until the windows screen, then all was fine...Well recently it did its normal anticks … Hardware first-post laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have a burn mark on my screen, and it seems to get bigger and bigger. I don't know why it's there. I know about ghosting, but my screen saver is usually running if my computer is idle. The only thing I can think of, is how I run it … |
| | Ok Im a senoir in highschool and Im off to college soon, I talk to my admissions rep. and he suggested I get a G5 Mac, but the problem is that I don't think a monitor comes with the G5. Can anyone tell me if a monitor comes with one … Hardware apple-hardware  |
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| | Hi, I recently had my PC shipped from abroad. When I went to plug it in, I 'may' have left the voltage setting on the PSU at 230V instead of the 115V of my new locale. At some point I switched the voltage to 115V and plugged it in, as … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram pc-peripheral pci-card |
| | Just today, my computer overheated, and since i have turned it on, one my computer loads up, and i turn my speakers up a bit, there is a noticble ringing sound, I know its not my speakers because i can also hear it in headphones, any ideas? I have a … |
 | My Problem: Computer occasionally turns self off in games (such as warcraft 3, neverwinter nights) We think it is something to do with too much power usage by the graphics card in rendering, we suspect the graphics card because the computer never turns it off normally, it only happens (that … Hardware display operating-system pci-card video video-card windows-xp |
| | After reading numerous online reviews, which I think is an awesome way to evaluate a product, I've seen worst and best cvase scenarios repeated for a number a product. Let me know if this thread is a bad idea for the subject, but am curious what are the top 5 … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I swear, this is the 5th Sony SDM-S71 monitor i've recieved through warranty because all the ones in the past developed this odd discoloration problem. once again, this monitor has an onset of the problem. basically, the monitors will work fine until one day all the black or dark colored … Hardware display video video-card |
| | My logitech mx300 mouse keeps freezing on my screen whenever I download music, then i have to reboot my computer. I used LimeWire,Morphous,iMesh and when I DL music.......like 20-30 minutes in or 10 min into DL or not at all sometimes my mouse freezes and my whole computer the same,then … Hardware pc-peripheral windows-xp |
| | Hi I came across the site via a search for my model. I've yet to get it to determine the full extent of condition, but it is a Toshiba Satellite 2435 S255. Looking at various online reviews, several problem areas have been pointed out, along with the fact, there are … Hardware apple troubleshoot-hardware |
| | My dell 3000 won't power up after a thunderstorm. The computer was on during the thunderstorm and suddenly died. Could you tell me how to check if the problem is due to the power supply or the motherboard? Thank you very much! Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | i have spilt some coke on to the laptop keyboard i need the way to remove the keyboard from a packard bell easynote k5285 all apears to work fine apart from the keys some times when you press the c key you get a Cc at the same time and … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | This morning my computer just stopped working - I turned it on and the screen wouldn't light up - it just said "No signal"! It was working fine last night - I'm not sure what's wrong with it. The power button on my computer won't even light up anymore either. …  |
| | Ok so I recently got a memory dumb error, completely randomly to my knowledge. From then I could only bott up in safe mofe, i removed the graphics card drivers then it loaded fine in to normal mode. Reinstall them, back to the memory dumb. Anyhow I figured out a … Hardware display window-manager |
| | Hi there! I'm new here. I already tried posting this in the PCI/Peripheral Device Forum and recieved no answer yet. My problem: I have a Compaq Deskpro-EN PIII-550 10GB-HD 192MB-RAM WinXP Pro When I install a PCI Firewire host adapter card (3x 6pin external/1x 6pin internal) my computer will no … |
| | Does anyone know if there is a way that I can either A.) Get around T&L or B.) Get software or hardware that will give me this. I can't upgrade my notebook card and it doesn't support T&L which is needed for a game that I want to play. Any … Hardware display |
| | Hi I have AMD Athlon "Barton" XP3000+ 333fsb (socket A) CPU on Abit AN7 nForce2 Motherboard. This worked like a dream until one day i noticed that one of my games was running slow, so i thought i would check and see if all the computer was working properly, but … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I currently have a [30 GB Ultra-ATA/66] and I was wondering if I'll have any problems upgrading to a [250 GB Ultra-ATA/100]. I'm not familiar with hard drives, but as far as memory goes, I understand that type of memory is dependant on the memory speed (e.g. PC133). I was … Hardware storage |
| | i just got the ati all in wonder x600pro and abit aw8 64bit mother board and ddr2 667 memoryand itel p4 with ht 3.7 with 1066 front side bust and in windows 64bit can't install the ati drivers and went to ati web site and the 64 bit drivers did'nt … Hardware display video video-card |
 | OK, very long story, so I'll try to make it quick (I've posted a lot of questions lately...sorry!) Computer is: Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-LA (AGP 8x, 3 PCI) CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.16GHz RAM: 512 MB Power Supply: (just added) Seasonic Supersilencer 350W Current Video Card, Added: BMG (NVidia) GeForce4 … Hardware display hard-drive pci-card video video-card |
| | Recently the LCD screen on my Gateway Solo 5150 Laptop went black. I took it to a repair shop where they replaced the inverter board that supplies power to the LCD lamp. The unit worked very well for a couple of days and the problem re-appeared. I took it back … |
| | Right, basicly sent my computer away to be fixed and the buggers formatted my hardrive as part of the process. They tried to migrate it onto a new hardrive but the image wouldn't ghost(not entirely sure why as of yet) so I have two hardrives one with virtully nothing on … Hardware image storage windows-virus windows-xp |
| | I just set up a fairly expensive Belkin 8 port kvm switch at work. When i fired it up, I noticed that the video had degraded somewhat. The monitor looked much brighter and washed out, slightly fuzzy and the text was not as clear. Almost like when you go from … |
| | when i play command and conquer geners zero hour and counter strike i get pink ares under the angre mob in C & C and in the map train station map in CA the air duct in the top is pink and black pixels and it is realy bothers me Hardware display  |
| | First off I will start with my system. Dell Dimension 8400 3.4 Ghz Pentium 4 550 w/HT Seagate Barricuda 160 GB HD (ST3160023AS) 1 GB Dual Channel PC3200 (2 DIMMs) 400Mhz NVidia GeForce 6800 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Now when I use this PC, doing things that require a … Hardware audio hard-drive storage video video-card windows-xp  |
| | Okay, I've gotten irritated enough with this to find a forum and post here. The initial machine: K8N Neo2 Athlon64 3200+ 1Gb Corsair XMS Radeon 9600 (Sapphire) 450W PSU 2x SATA HDD 2X PATA HDD Thermaltake Xaser III case Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS Buffalo Wifi card DVD Writer I ran it … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | OK, I know it sound very stupid : I bought GATEWAY 450ROG but I don't know what video card it has got, could someone explain me? Is it possible to upgrade it? Hardware display video video-card |
| | Hi all, I was thinking of going wireless with an old Sharp laptop. I can't give you a full system spec, because my uncle gave it to me as a backup when my desktop crashed! Here's what i can give you: Windows 98 Pentium 3 processor ............ and thats about … |
| | Ok, My Palm Zire syncs fine with my PC at work but with my Mac at home it does not. I keep getting "File Locked" errors. I've taken screen shots of them. I got some suggestions from Palm that did not work. Here is what they told me to do: … Hardware apple-hardware |
| | Hey everyone... I'm gonna get a new com but I would like help on the type that I should buy. I like to play The Sims2 (if u have heard of it...) and am not sure what type of Pentium, speed, RAM is suitable and won't cause any lagging in … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram multimedia |
| | hey guys yesterday i put a cd rom in my cd drive and the cd broke in bits in the drive half of it came out when i ejected it but now it wont open the light flashes but nothing happens, when i start the computer the boot up menu … Hardware storage |
| | Hello all, I've recently put together an older computer for my mother. The computer will POST, and it recognizes the sound card, hard drive and recognizes the video card. However, after post when it is going to load it goes to a blank screen that says: "Press A Key To … |
| | Please be patient because i am a newb !! What ive got and the problem the problem: A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard XFX GEFORCE 6800 PCI-E 128MB DUAL DVI Seagate Barracuda ST3200822AS 200Gb AMD (Venice) Athlon 64 3500+ Corsair (TWINX1024-3200C2PT) 1024MB 350W PSU and 500W PSU Well i have a complicated problem … Hardware display motherboards-cpu-ram pci-card |
| | hi, Im new to the board, have a dell inspiron 4150, been running for a couple years with no problems. lately, been having problems powering up the computer with my ac adapter. I figured that it was becuase of the crimped ac cord as it had no probems starting with … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hey guys, my old PC's motherboard firied! but I wanted to save my files that were on my hard drive, so I made it a slave on another computer. now I cannot acesses the files on the slave due to them being password protected. I have tryed setting the jumpers … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | Hi, story so far: I have a 6340 ver:1 motherboard (it says so on my Motherboard) with two 128 MB sticks of RAM. I recently got a 512MB stick - its rated 64M x 64 - I used the Crucial.com scan to tell me what memory to use (shown below). … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Here is my hard disk. [color=black]It's a Western Digital Raptor WD740GD. It is the world's fastest SATA HDD and is absolutely stunning! Unfortunately, its only 74 GB and now I have to choose between lots of games and dual booting Fedora core... [/color] [QUOTE][b]Western Digital Raptor (wd740gd) 74 GB Hard … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | anyone who can help me....running a w2k server farm and just had our backup domain controller go down! fortunately there was no major apps on that server, just data that was able to be restored to another server. had DHCP on it but is now hosted on the 1st domain … Hardware storage |
| | My Sound Card is really screwed up. It was working fine until a few weeks ago, when I put in a new keyboard. From then on, whenever I use an application that uses sound, a message pops up that says something like "No Sound Card Detected. Program will proceed without … Hardware audio pci-card windows-xp |
| | man this is complicatid all da sections and all I got sum difficulty with a keyboard. theres a unch of buttons on top of it and dey dont work. anyone can help? its driving me crazy thanx man Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Hi, I have a hard disk that has some issues and I was wondering if there's a program out there that would show me like a inside of a hard disk and then have different keys on the surface to represent good and bad areas of the hard disks surface...is … Hardware storage |
| | Ok, let me see if I can explain my problem without causing too much confusion! :o I recently bought a new computer. My old one had a regular old monitor (whatever you call the big, chunky, fat kind!), with a 16" display, and everything looked great. My new monitor is … Hardware display web-browser |
| | Hi all,this will be my first Thread so here it goes.i have a XFX Nvidia Geforce 6800GT video card and it will not play Max Payne 2,i have installed new drivers and directx c and it will not load past the still shots intro all this card is living up … Hardware pci-card video video-card |
| | Hi folks, My friend's got a Sony Vaio PCG-FR315S - 2.66 Ghz Pentium 4, 512Mb RAM, 60Gb HDD, running XP (not sure whether its Pro or Home edition). 4 weeks ago, he installed a wireless network card and it's been working OK since. It was working OK last week on … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi i have tired three different sound cards in my machine, and none of them have worked. i have even tried the sound card on the motherboard but that doesnt work. the mother board is a gigabyte GA-8IPE775-G, and there are a few things in device manager that arent installed. … Hardware audio multimedia troubleshoot-hardware windows-xp |
| | Please be patient because i am a newb !! What ive got and the problem the problem: A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard XFX GEFORCE 6800 PCI-E 128MB DUAL DVI Seagate Barracuda ST3200822AS 200Gb AMD (Venice) Athlon 64 3500+ Corsair (TWINX1024-3200C2PT) 1024MB 350W PSU and 500W PSU Well i have a complicated problem … Hardware display pci-card troubleshoot-hardware |
| | My problem is similar to many problems in this forum. My system will not boot or beep with my X800 pro in. I'm building Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 mainboard 3000+ Athlon64 X800 pro 256MB PCI-E etc. I have decided the VGA card is most likely at fault since i can boot the … Hardware first-post pci-card troubleshoot-hardware |
| | hi all, basically due to virus's on my computer i have been forced to format my computer. before i formatted i had the latest drivers from nividia , now i can only use the very oldest ones. i have a nividia geforce 4 mx420 64mb. i have tried the forceware … Hardware display |
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