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| | I have a gateway select K7-950 problem started pc would run for aprox.45 mins. then shut down longer I left it unplugged longer it run. If did not unplug hit power button 15 -20 times it might restart. Called gateway they were no help he checked all settings said no … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | my computer always do not shut down properly whenever i go online.the screen will juz turn black and then hang there. but if i did not go online, my computer will be able to shut down properly. why is this so?? Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, My friend has a Sony combo drive, the CRX 320 EE. Supposedly, this drive, as a CD writer is a 52x32x52x drive. Trouble is, when I put in a 52x CD-R disc (Moser Baer 52x CD-R), nero detects it as a 40x disc. The CD is a 52x CD-R. … Hardware storage |
| | Hey fellow geniuses I've got 2 RAM sticks --> 512 mb @ 400MHz --> 512 mb @ 333MHz Here's the problem. When I install the RAM sticks individually one at a time, the computer starts up fine. But, when I install both of them, the BIOS gives me three long … Hardware asp ide motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi all...last night I had 51 disk errors in the event viewer, I think it's time to get another hdd, my question is which one and how big? I have a Maxtor 40GB now and still have 80% free, so I'm guessing that I could get by with a 80GB … Hardware storage  |
 | My PC has problems booting sometimes, as of recently. It gets past the BIOS stage, but then I just have a flashing cursor in the top-left. [I]I have tried removing:[/I] All USB devices HD IDE and floppy cables The new PCI card I had, and sent back, as I thought … Hardware ide pci-card troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Last night I was installing my amd athlon 64 3700+ to my ASUS K8VSE Deluxe mobo and my mobo starting giving me an audio error: system failed cpu test. So I removed the cpu and tried booting up and the mobo said "no cpu installed" . I assume that the … Hardware audio motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi guys I'm trying to install windows xp on my toshiba tecra 8100. I have an external floppy drive which I've connected. I rebooted the laptop, and pressed 'a'. It read the floppy, and I created a brand new partiton using fdisk. That was fine. Then it asked me to … Hardware laptop operating-system storage windows-xp |
| | i have winxp,service pack2 . CD WRITER .HL-DTST CDRW GCE-8400B when trying to drag files,folders from c;drive to e:drive..and ready to write to cd..i got a message "please use a writable cd or r-w" and i use all blank cd's. i used to have roxio,with this program i can write … Hardware storage |
| | i have an a8n sli premium board that wont boot. I was overclocking my memory when bios crashed while saving. after that pc wouldent boot. power was flowing as all fans ect started spinning, i can hear the harddrive going through post, its a sata hd hardware is a8n sli … Hardware audio first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Can anyone maybe tell me why games like unreal tournament 2003 and unreal 2 and all games of that kind won't work on a celeron? I'm thinking about upgrading it with an old pentium 4 or a pentium 3 or maybe buy a AMD motherboard and cpu. Maybe someone can … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Ok, my step-dad bout an Aten UC-910T Usb Ethernet Adapter a few months ago. My computer crashed about a week ago and he seems to have forgotten if ther even was a driver disk in the first place. I've go to Aten's website and cant even find anything about it. … Hardware pci-card |
| | Hi, I need some help with a computer my friend let me have. They had lightning strike and the only thing they noticed was the power buttons led wasnt working, but after a while the whole thing went dead. They took it to a company that charged them $80 to …  |
| | Hi everyone, I have encountered some strange hardware problems lately, and usually I was able to make the machine working again, on just my own, but now I stumbled across something I cannot understand, so I would like to adress to all you pro's: :o First my harddrive stopped working … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I am building a new computer and have never made more than the one partition. I would like to partition into two partitions. One strictly for the os and the other for all else. Does that seem like the correct thing to do? Where is the best place to go … Hardware hard-drive storage  |
| | Is there a program that will show my cpu temp without having to go into bios. Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Alright now. I have a P4 3.0ghz processor with a Asus p4p800 Deluxe mobo, 1gb of ocz ram, a GeforceFX 5950 ultra, audigy 2 zs platium pro, wireless netgear g adaptor, floppy drive, cd-rw drive and a dvd drive. I havent changed anything recently but my computer will turn on … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
 | Hey all don't know if I'm posting in the right area or not. Feel free to move it if I am. Anyways I'm looking to upgrade my ram to a Corsair Model # VS1GBKIT400 and was wondering if it is compatible with my Via P4XB-S Motherboard. I'm having trouble finding … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hello, I have recently aquired a Gateway 700gr - p4 550 3.4ghz 1g ddr sata. The machine will not post. Fans come on but nothing beyond that. I have tried removing the peripheral cards one at a time and nothing. The only reaction I get from the machine is when … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I will try to make this as short as possible. I bought a new flat screen monitor (Samsung) for my Dell desktop. When I hooked it, the computer comes on and starts to hum along, but the LED light on the monitor starts to flash. Called Samsung and they told … Hardware display flash video video-card |
| | Before people start hitting me with routine solutions, I've already updated my video drivers to the latest, I've checked all the connections, I've moved the power cord away from the monitor cable, and there aren't any non-FCC items around. Now that thats over with... My monitor, a 21" IBM P275, … |
 | not sure where to put this, so feel free to move it. I was thinking about taking the workings of a small refrigerator out and cutting a whole in my case for the vents, and cooling down my case with refrigerator workings. I know it wont be air tight and … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | This is a store bought system. The system was booting fine. Then the last 2 months it would boot successfully 4 out of 6 times without the scandisk error messages. Now it will not boot at all. No post, nothing. Product recovery CD-Rom that came with system does nothing either. … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware |
| | i have a system with P4 2.4 ,512 mb ram, intel 845gvsr motherboard, 80 gb sata samsung HDD, the problem is that everytime i play a game the screen freezes and later crashes into windows. thereafter shows the message that the '.exe' file of the game encountered problems. it even … Hardware display windows-xp |
| | Hello, I have just tried installing a [URL=http://safecom.cn/code/sub/category.asp?prdid=175&subcatid=9]Safecom LAN card[/URL] in an Intel pentium III 550mhz computer but it doesn't seem to be connecting to the computer, ie. as if it's not plugged in to the slot. The only other PCI card in the computer is a graphics card and … |
| | I tried to post this earlier; no go. I am very new to the Mac world. Purchased airport extreme card online, tried to install it myself. When I tried to power up my iBook, nothing. Black screen. Had to remove the airport extreme card to make my mac operational again. … Hardware apple-hardware first-post |
| | Hi everyone, hope you can help solve a perplexing problem with my new machine. Last night I experienced a series of no doubt related problems that have left me unable to power up. Machine is XP Home, Pentium IV 3.2, 1024MB DDR Ram, 200G HD, 256MB Geforce FX6200 graphics, Soundblaster … Hardware hard-drive printer troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello all, My monitor has suddenly begun cutting completely off (no power at all) after a few minutes. (I have an old Optiquest V95, 19 inch) When it cuts off, if I wait long enough (20 minutes or so) I can restart it. What is wierd (and possibly irelevent) is … Hardware display |
| | i have a plextor 121032A which used to work fine, but a few weeks ago the computer had a nervous breakdown and when i got it running again i could no longer write to a cd from windows explorer, it can still write cds it's just windows itself that can't … Hardware storage |
| | Hi there, My brother got a eMachines T1862 but altho it seems he had droped it. so there was a part broken from the motherboard so im going to look for a new motherboard and just put that in there. Now this is the Computer how it was [IMG]http://www.emachines.com/products/images/emachines_t1862_main.jpg[/IMG] Specifications … |
| | Hi, I need some help with a computer my friend let me have. They had lightning strike and the only thing they noticed was the power buttons led wasnt working, but after a while the whole thing went dead. They took it to a company that charged them $80 to … |
| | Lately when I'm playing WoW,CS, or sometimes just browsing the net my computer will freeze and sometimes restart. When it freezes the graphics freeze but on my headphones I hear a bit of static. When it freezes and shuts down it does all of the above, then the screen goes … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
 | I have a Presario 2100 that I’m trying to fix every thing seems to be in good order have not taken it apart yet to look at every little thing right now if I press any of the muti media buttons on top of the keyboard it looks like its … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | OK i am new to this so bear with a newbie. I have 2 hard drives with diffrent OS XP of the master ans Lindows on the slave. For some reason it the BIOS will not see the two HDS's and then after a restart it will and it will … Hardware storage |
| | This is more like a survey but still is a question. What do you say the best temps for keeping components are? This is for a temp/fan controller I have and would just like to get the experts input on this. Example- the hard drive, I don't want it to … |
| | I have a MSI K7 Pro (MS6195) motherboard, and my computer has been intermittently stopping in the POST. When this happens the LED display on the motherboard indicates that the problem is occuring at the initialization of the floppy drive controller. Can anyone tell me which chip this is in, … Hardware display first-post motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hello Group.... I've been getting this message SDRAM at DIMM#:1 every time the system boots and the MODEM PCI is installed on the mainboard. If I take it out, the system boots with no problems, no messages, just rigth and straight to the OSs as it should be! But...sometimes it's … Hardware pci-card |
| | is there such a thing as a 2gb memory module for a laptop? i got a laptop off ebay the other day, in the item description it said it could take 2gb of memory, but there's only 1 slot i don't need 2gb of memory, but i don't like being … Hardware laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | would it hurt anything if i left the side of my computer case off? it gets really hot in there and it helps cool it down? any reasons why i shouldn't? Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Can someone tell me first: what i need installed on my pc's to go wireless. My o/s is Windows xp on laptop and windows 98 on desktop.I have regular dial up services. I want to be able for both of my computers to be online at the same time or … Hardware laptop pci-card windows-xp  |
| | Hello. I have a presario 700z ,the machine boots fine I think, what I mean is I hear it but I don't see it..I swapped out a working good screen and still same problem.. is there a video chip somwhere or is the whole mother board fried?? TIA Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video |
| | I have recently been putting a computer together. I started it as a barebones system and it worked fine, got through POST. I added my cd drive, and it would get through the IDE check, then the computer would shut itself off, but the LED light on the Mother board … |
| | I have just upgraded my pc with a new 64 bit proccesor case ram and motherboard. The only main thing which is orginal is my Gforce 5200 fx. I know this card is loads of rubish but it was not when i brought it, anyway. I have spend all my …  |
| | I have a Dell XPS Gen 2. No other problems with machine. My CDRW/DVD is a Samsung CDRW/DVD Sm352f writer. I cannot delete any files written to a RW cd. I have removed and reinstalled Sonic Record now along with Sonic DLA. Writer will write to CDRs with no problem. … Hardware pc-peripheral |
 | Is overclocking is safe on R9800pro & is it realy make difference in gaming? I m going to overclock my MSI Radeon 9800pro (just bought 4 days ago) bcoz i m not getting good performance from it. What r the advantages and disadvantages of overclocking. From where can i get …  |
| | I have a Dell5150 and I'm running XP. I bought a IOGear 250GB hdd. I put all sorts of files on it. Then one day I try and use it, it tells me that the drive is not formatted and asks to reformat now. I've not yet reformatted it. Upon … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | Hello everyone I am new to this. At some point I was under impression I know a thing or two about computers until this. New build Asus A8V-Deluxe Amd 3500 2 gigs ram X800 pro Sound blaster zs Problem is I am reusing WD 120 IDE + I got creative … Hardware ide troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello there, I have a IBM Thinkpad 390E, when i bought it, it came with an AC Adapter and a battery that was completely dead... So i bought a battery and loved it... Well i bought a car adapter for my laptop, and when i was reading all the diffrent … Hardware email laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I need some help with a problem that has been bothering me. Whenever I turn my PC on, after the screen where the BIOS is accessible, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor on the top left. From here, I am not able to do anything - cant … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware windows-xp |
| | I just built a computer (not sure why, just wanted a spare computer to play around with.) I plugged in all the cords, plugged the monitor and computer into the wall, and pushed the power button. The power light came on, the fans spun, and... nothing. The monitor just showed … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
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