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| | [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I want to format my PC but I am curious to know if there is any difference between DOS formatting, Windows (while installing) formatting or quick format.. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Could someone give me an answer please..[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Thank you,[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] … Hardware storage |
 | :rolleyes: my gate way gp6-400 is doing some wierd stuff. it has a intel p2 500mhz processor.the frt. hhd & power lites come on & stay on when i plug it in. the floppy won't lite up, & i know for a fact the hhd won't spinup either. no beeps … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | :rolleyes: i use my webcam on msn messenger, when i installed it it worked great :cheesy: but now every time i put it on it freezes up all the time :( this doesn't make for good viewing at the other end. was wondering if it was anything to do with … |
| | i just got an xfx 6800 but its not performing as well as id hope. It got 2600 on 3d mark 2005 and 6332 on 3d mark 03. It should be scoring at least 3000 more on 3dmark 03. Im using the latest omega drivers because the nvidia drivere made … Hardware display |
| | Hi everyone. Ok I have a simple question....... sorry I don't know if I posted it in the right forum or not. Anyways, I have a Dell Dimension XPS Gen 4 and need a ribbon cable for my cd/dvd disk drives. I am unsure whether I need a "68Pin" ribbon … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram  |
| | After a conversation with my very knowledgable local supplier.. I walked out with a vague impression that you could for instance, hook up a v fast dual proccessor pc to a G4 via a high speed network connection .. and, while working in OSX on the G4, use the pc … Hardware apple-hardware hard-drive |
 | On MSI Radeon 9800pro 128 MB I instaled Fraps for checking my framerate in games. I was just surprised, when the game start (GTA sansandrees, Medal of honor-PA and NFS underground 2) the frame rate shown by the fraps are 60-117 and when i start palying game then framerate suddenly … Hardware display  |
 | When I start a computer in my lab where I work ... it first detects all the drives ... and then it says the cpu is either unworkable or missing ..... When I press F1 ... it then starts loading windows ... but the windows restarts before reaching the login … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | I have just bought MSI Radeon 9800pro 128 mb 3dCard by replacing my old Fx5200 card. Is this a good card (R 9800 pro) for playing new games on medium sttings. MSI RX 9800pro-TD128 (Model) Memory Interface = 256 bit RAMDAC = 400Mhz Memory = 128mb P. Pipelines = 8 … Hardware display windows-xp |
 | I bought a new power supply (and 6600GT vid card, and a gig of Corsair paired RAM) for my HP a420n computer from newegg. (Alienware it ain't :lol: but it'll work for me.) Its a Seasonic Supersilencer 350W. But I just read a review that made a point to say … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | i need some help with a pci card i just bought. i am not exactly all knowledgable when it comes to computers, so ill try to explain this the best i can. i bought a geforce 5200 fx pci card to put in a new computer i just got. i … Hardware display pci-card video video-card |
| | A while back, Catweazle posted: "That HP Pavilion has an Asus motherboard which is specially made for HP. There is a BIOS update available here. I'm unsure if the update adresses the problem you are having. It will contain previous updates, but the only item mentioned is a logo problem. … Hardware display |
| | When i turned on the computer, it beeps 3 times. The first time was a long beep and the last two deeps was short. And the screen was blank, and i could hear that the HD is working, sounds like it's booting ok but the screen was blank. What's problem? … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I am trying to install a 120G IDE hard disk in a computer that currently has an SCSI 10G drive with the o/s on (connected to the SCSI input on the motherboard) and also has a SCSI pci card with a 3 Hard disk RAID connected to it. The problem … |
| | I put in the CPU , and the computer powered up but the monitor we nt into sleep mode right away.Fans work, cdrom light comes on , no hard drive light , no floppy light. ( BEEPS ) Beep- beep,beep,beep. BEEP all sound alike , short beeps. so i guess … |
| | I have a DFI Lan Party UT nf3 250Gb mobo and ever since I first booted it up, it has not recognized any network adapters except firewire. 1304 conncetion is the only one listed in the network adapters tab in device manager. Is this a hardware issue, or is there … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hello, I having a problem with my Flash drive. It is an LG 2.0 256MB flash drive. I noticed that it is no longer possible to write or read to it. I receive the message " the disk is not formatted". If I try to format it using windows XP … Hardware flash storage windows-xp |
| | Hello, I'm having a problem with my 1GB USB flash drive. My PC will recognise the drive but when I try to access it I get "please insert a disk into drive G:". I've tried to format it but get the same message. It says 0 bytes are on the … |
| | [B]I just reformatted my PC and installed windows XP Pro. Everything went fine and the computer was working. Suddenly my USB mouse broke so I have to change the mouse. Unfortunately there was no USB mouse available so I shut down the PC and plugged in my PS2 mouse. It … Hardware pc-peripheral windows-xp |
| | Am new to inside computer works. know all there is to know about software, but hardware is another story. I recently purchased a Serial ATA hard drive, and went to install it, but the cable inside the computer had a different connector on it. From reading on different sites, I … Hardware hard-drive ide storage |
| | I just installed XP on my computer. I did a fresh installation, not install it over an existing OS. Now my sound card won't work. Everything looks like it should run when I looked in Control Panel. But still I get no sound. I even deleted the sound card in … Hardware pci-card |
| | Hi. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I just couldn't figure out where else to post it. Recently, my computer exploded. Well, not literally, but it was older than dirt and finally gave out. However, I have a pretty new DVD drive in it. I was … Hardware first-post laptop storage |
| | i don't know much about computers but i am having one built for me. my question is: can i get a sound card that has DD 5.1 with an optical output and hook it up to the optical input on a DD audio receiver? from what i've seen it looks … |
| | Did you know smoking near your hard drive will reduce your hard drives life by 25% no joke a proven fact. :-X :-/ :o :( Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | :eek: I have a toshiba tecra 8100 600meg, 128MB Ram Recently installed a QSI-SBW242 dvd-CDRW drive. After having a lot of troubles with an IDE#1 error (which i solved with the help of this forum) the drive finally seemed to work properly. I can burn everything i want, read every … |
| | I have Asus motherboard P4s8x, and one hard drive.This is what happens when I try to reinstall winxp .The windows setup screen appears and loads files. The next screen says welcome to setup and offers three options . 1-to setup XP press enter. 2 To repair XP press R 3 … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | I am building five computers for a school to save them some money. I have tried different cases and they are not created equal that's for sure. You do get what you pay for. I have come to like the antec line with their nice ps and good build quality. … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | hi ppl , i m new to this forum ,..... i own a pc config is : intel pentium 4 1.6 ghz intel 845dwn motherboard sb live audio card nvidia riva tnt 32 mb display card samsung svo411n 40gb hdd asus witer drive samsung rom drive .....et..al OS : win … Hardware audio display first-post ide troubleshoot-hardware |
| | i'm not sure if this item has ever been adressed but, i can't get the disk drive on my g4 to open....i press the button(top right corner of keyboard) and no response....i tried rebooting and still no results. Any suggestions on how to solve this even if just temporarily are … Hardware apple-hardware |
| | Over the past 2 months my HC Pavillion 533W has developed a mouse pointer icon that regularly has the hourglass icon appear next to the pointer. This happens every 5-10 seconds, the hourglass goes away with no apparent harm. Is doom on the horizon? How did this ghost get in … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Just built a new 64bit system and my graphics lag like crazy. System specs: Cpu: Amd64 3400+ Newcastle (not overclocked) MoBo: DFI Lanparty n3 250gb HDD: WD 74 GB raptor 10,000rpm OS: Windows xp x64 680watt PS GPU: Nvidia 6800gt 256mb I'm starting to think its a directx problem so … |
| | On the new computer I am building the system fan has a 2 pin female connection. No problem for the motherboard but I want to connect it to a fan control with 3 pins. Can I just fit the 2 pins in to match the red and black wires or … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram  |
| | Hi ya all. I've been asking around about this for months all sorts of different place and no one seems to have a good answer, I really hope you can help. Is there a way to connect a laptop hard drive while still in the laptop to be used by … Hardware hard-drive laptop storage |
| | I'm a semi-technical ditz. You should know that right away. I can, at the same time, do a lot. And not much. I use my computer mostly for emails, and writing projects that involve viewing .pdf files. I'm starting to learn PhotoShop, slowly. Want to learn how to retouch and … Hardware apple apple-hardware laptop mac-software pdf |
| | I don't want a computer with a window side panel and I don't want some crazy looking design. I want a computer that will hold back as much noise as possible. What is the quietest one out there???? Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Ok, I am gonna try and give as much info on this as possible, I have a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion XE783. I have 64 mb of RAM, and I am attempting to upgrade to 256 mb of RAM. I went to this site [url]www.all4memory.com[/url] Someone from this site recomended it. So … Hardware email motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have just gone and brought the above proccessor and a new Motherboard and new ram and case. I am still waiting for the ram atm, so the pc has not been started. I was wondering when i added the heat sink which come with the Processor it has a … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Next day after the lighting i turned my computer on and it didn't work. I knew the grafic on the motherboard was gone (burned by lighting). I though to by a new computer but all my important information were still on hard disk. So I got a new parts: Motherboard-Chaintech … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware windows-xp |
| | I have a p 3 IBM and it will do nouthing. I was wonderig if it could be the mother board. when i turn it on nouthing , no beeps, no lighttts , no fans, no noise.the mother board in it now is ,ASM P/N 00n5242. does anyone know where … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have two cards ATI Radeon 9200se and Geforce Fx5200.Both are of 128 mb. Which one is better.I want to replace one of them. One more thing i also want to buy a good 3d card (better than ATI 9200 and Fx 5200) but i have a limited money so … Hardware display |
| | Hello. I have a Toshiba Satellite 2450-S402 (Pentium 4 1.6GHz). Today, I accidently spilt a glass of coke all over it (bad idea...yep!) and managed to mop most of it up. I removed the keyboard and dried all underneath it, and took off every compartment I could, most were dry … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello, I have a Dell 4400 with a Maxtor 80G HD that I use as my system/boot drive. Last night I installed a Maxtor 200G HD to be used as storage for video (master/slave configuration). Now, the computer does not recognize either HD in BIOS (I had to boot up … Hardware storage video windows-xp |
 | This is a wee but worrying - I have recently finished building my pc, using a Pentium 4 Prescott 2.4ghz Now, I know that prescott has been dubbed "preshott" and that it is known for getting VERY hot, but 80 degrees is very dodgy. My case is a bit dodgy … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | New to this forum - curious to see that someone else is having the same unusual problem on almost the same day! Just installed new 120GB HD in original iMac. Formatted disk as specified for OS X (first partition 7.45 GB). Verified disk etc. using disk utility; no problems. However: … Hardware apple-hardware hard-drive os-x |
| | Does anyone know what is causing the cpu fan to stop. When it does the cpu overheats and shuts down the computer. This just started and it has been running for over 6 months with no problems. Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | A friend gave my family a 2 or 3 year old Mac Powerbook G4 when they moved away. We have two PCs(which we understand much better) and we would like to transfer the 2500+ songs on the mac over to the pcs, that way we can put them on ipods, … Hardware apple-hardware |
| | Hi guys, everything was fine until the latest install of XP. Since that time my sound card cannot be found. I tried to install all sorts of drivers, some of them complain about some errors and do not go through. What do I do???? this is the sound card - … |
| | I recently installed Windows 2000 and now my Hard Drive light stays on all the time and the system does not recognize my second hard drive. No physical changes were made to the computer only installed Windows 2000. Whats up? Thanks Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | I recently assembled a computer and installed windows xp home edition (32bit) for media purposes. I already have another computer at home with XP 64 pro but I have been experiencing so many problems with my drives that I just decided to build the other computer. I am using a … Hardware display first-post video video-card windows-xp  |
| | I have a Logitech model: M-CAA42 mouse which works ok most of the time, but I'm getting tired of dealing with the cord, this mouse also lacks any features other than right and left clicks. I'm thinking about buying a cordless mouse, but I need an education in just what's … Hardware pc-peripheral |
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