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Hai Friends, i have a problem with my keyboard. Right side ie, [COLOR=Red]numslock side of my keyboard[/COLOR] is not working it gives a beep sound...when i press numslock... remaining part works well...so plz help me on this issue ----------------------------------------- Live and Let Live

I have a celeron 800 Mhz with windows 98 Second Edition This machine starts only at day, from 1am to 7am it stops in the Bios Screen it says Intel Celeron (tm) - 1.06 GHz (its overclocked) Checking NVRAM <-------(sometimes takes more than a minute to appear this) 262144KB OK …

Recently built machine that was working before being transported into a new case. The problem is that when we press the power button, the fans twitch and then nothing happens. Keyboard and LAN both show that power is being received, yet the system will not start up. Thanks. If more …

I'm trying to rebuild my Dell Dimension 2100 Desktop. I'm very computer illiterate. I want a desktop in addition to my laptop for when I go to college. I'd like for it to be pretty fast, have lots of memory, and be about as good or better as a new …

I am a tech novice, so I'll need a bit of help here . . . I want to upgrade the RAM in my Compaq X1000 notebook from 512 mb to 1 gb or more. I have 2 slots which are both full (256 mb each). I am prepared to …

Dear members: I just would like to know should i put a failed/failing hard drive (30gb ibm internal hd) in external enclosure as slave so i can get the data off (its been a month since it has failed)

My comp is not up to date wich you may find obvious when i tell you the specs later. And since it is not up to date I want to get it up to date. But I don't know if I should buy a whole new comp or get more …

First of all, please forgive this long post. I want to give details of my dilema, in hopes of getting an accurate response from someone who might be able to help. I posted this originally in the Win XP forum, with little or no input on the problem. I am …

When I try to power on, the cd and dvd flicker but no power on. I then turn it off and wait a while, try several times and it turns on. Power supply?

I have an Armada 7800 that just won't start up. When I connect it to the AC socket the battery starts charging and the fan starts to blow but when I try to power it up the green LED's light up but nothing happens. I have checked all the fuses …

I have a P3 with an old matsonic 7016s MB. Just yesterday I was installing a aureal vortex 8810 under WXP. THe Sb was detected by xp and suddenly it hangs at desktop load. I guess it is trying to retrieve the drivers or something. this only happens with the …

i have cleaned my machine, run a new reg unbridge REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run] "RunDLL"=- ran register fix help i hate this s email [email]tdrwn@yahoo.com[/email]

My Compaq Presario 5716 is out of warranty and I tried fixing a hard drive problem but I erased both partitions and now I can't get the System Recovery/Restore CDs to work. I get a 'runtime error 6300' after hitting ENTER once. So the computer has absolutely no Operating System …

:sad: [COLOR=Magenta]Hello everyone!! Im new here and Im having a problem with my computer. Im running off of Windows XP home edition and my computer keeps freezing up. Ill be searching the web or listing to music or even around my computer then all of a sudden it freezez up …

Hello all, I'm currently trying to resolve an issue with a corrupt registry. I have a fix from Microsoft where I have to use the Recovery Console from the XP CD. My only problem is that Bios will only let me change the System Date/Time and or create a Password. …

Any ideas on this one chaps, trying to get pics from friends hard drive onto mine. Fujitsu hard drive, set as slave, connected to my PC after disconnecting my slave drive. My PC will not boot when attached,but when pressing f8 I can start windows normally.PC will not recognizedrive as …

After fixing my own computer shorting troubles, my friend's custom has a newfound issue relating, apparently, to hard drives. One day, approximately a month ago, his computer shut down during a defrag. He had a Quantum Fireball 14GB (IDE, naturally), and I found it unsurprising for the drive to have …

i just installed a new MSI P4MAM2-V motherboard with the VIA chipset and onboaord Vinyl AC97 sound but no sound is comming out! I installed all the new drivers! I remember calling circuit city with this problem in my old mobo and they told me to go to device manager …

ok, my friend gave me a laptop to try and work on, as im decently good at fixing computers(desktops :-/ ), the screen is so dim that you can barely see it, so, first solution i think of, replace the inverter card, so i go and buy a new inverter, …

I have a MSI K7 Pro motherboard with a PC mounted LED display. This is a vertical display consisting of four LEDs inline, locateded just below Serial and Parallel ports. When the computer hangsup during startup the top two and bottom LEDs are green, and the second from the bottom …

my graphic fan sounds as like it is speeding up and slowing down and the screen looks like a tartan kilt (artifacts) i think is the word so took sidepanel off and had a mooch. it was still spinning fast touched it hot as in 3 or 4 seconds burning …

Hey. I've recently had so much trouble with error messages on one of my two computers that i decided to re-format the drive - yep, i know, pretty stupid but i'd tried everything. I now can't connect it to the internet because it's saying that it doesn't detect any network …

Hi. Recently my computer started to make noises sounded like a plane noise and happens whenever i turn the computer on,and it is quite loud so i usually hit or slap it in order to make it stop and it worked. anyway,i dont think continuing to hit it would be …

I have asus's new sli board and an enermax 600w sli power suply. 1 stick of 512 ddr and a nvida 7800 gtx video card and amd's 64 3000. Ihave checked all the connections more times than i can count, they all seam to be in place. The problem i …

APC UPS Model Number undecided - Final decision awaited...!!! Thanks everyone for putting forward their opinion about UPS to my previous post. I have read all the posts over and over again and finally have decided that I will purchase a UPS from APC. Now again...few more questions though...???? A …

I installed that flat out game and i loaded the update and the graphics looked like crap. I thought it was just with that game but gta / call od duty and all my others games looked messed up. So i formatted my pc and thought it would of fixed …

I have a huge problem I'm hoping someone can help me with or I'm off to Best Buy! I purchased 512mb RAM for my Dell Dimension 4400. I bought it at Office Depot after they looked my computer up on their system to give me the right one. I opened …

Scenario: I build and assemble an ATX machine with some decent components, but definitely not the most potent of powers: [COLOR=DarkRed]--------------------------------------- -LGA775 Elitegroup 865PE-A7 Motherboard (800Mhz Bus) -Pentium 4 HT @3.00Ghz -512MB PNY Tech DDR400 Memory -420 Watt ATX Power Supply -PCI (ouch) PNY Tech GeForce FX 5200 ----------------------------------------[/COLOR] After... …

Help, Got up tis morning and had the ntldr file is missing. went to microsoft and followed their direction to load the files. now I get the ntldr is compressed. I trided the expand req. but it will not expand it. beentrying eveything I can think of but nothing is …

I love new computers, even if they are refurbs. I took delivery of a refurbished Sony vgcrb30 XP home, 512 ram 200gb hd yesterday with 90 day warr. (now before you all say use the warranty, I'm currently trying but living out here on this rock in the middle of …

Hi i just regitered. No, it not the beep codes! When letting my CS 1.6 Dedicated Server runnning for a good amount of time it will freeze, what ever is on diplay on the monitor will deform, and just beeps for like "di do di do di do" and soo …

Can anyone help I have the oddest problem on my PC. I am running Windows XP with SP2 and have IE6. The problem is when I go to [url]www.porsche.com[/url] and try to run the Porsche Car Configurator web page, the page loads up and says done at the botton conner …

I've had this Hell, er, I mean, Dell, for three and a half months. It was working wonderfully until I decided that I was going to give the computer to my g/f as a gift, so she would have something a tad more powerful than the Celeron-riding Compaq she has …

Alright, so this is roughly the problem (and pardon me for not being very clear, since my monitor won't turn on, I can't remember exactly what it said): The computer is supposedly not very old (but who can you believe, right?), it's a Pentium IV processor with a newer monitor. …

I have an IBM thinkpad P2 laptop with 128mb RAM, onboard graphics etc running WinXp Pro. My problem is that i am not getting any signs of backlight on it unless i press Fn and F7 (button that changes between laptop screen and external monitor) a number of times. even …

My system works fine with monitor A. When I try to turn my system on with monitor B, XP starts to boot up, freezes, and then I get a No Signal from the monitor. If I start my system with monitor A and then switch over to monitor B when …

Hello Everyone, My mother bought a used pc the other day and asked me to look at it and possably advise her what she needed to update it and get her ready to go online hassel free. I looked her pc over and had her buy a hard drive as …

First off, here's my system: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum AMD 64 3200+ 939-Socket 4x Kingston 512MB DDR-400 PC-3200 Sony DVD 16X Western Digital 120GB Serial ATA Radeon X800 XL/Nvidia MX 4000 My case is from compusa and is a generic ATX case with a 400 watt power supply (which was …

Hey guys. I bought this computer two years ago. It was mediocre, but i never had problems. About a year later, I upgraded to be able play high end games. It runs near-perfect on almost all games, but it developed a flaw, and it is becoming more and more frequent …

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I am looking at this one for a friend. It is a Dell Inspiron 2500 running WinXP Pro. POST is OK, but it gives an "Operating System not found" error after POST on some occasions, boots normally on others. The OS also gets unstable at times. I was told that …

I just built my 4th computer from components. Had it running, added a CDROM and floppy drive. Computer no longer boots. When turned on, fans run and a long beep starts after a few seconds. Have disconnected every component including all but power switch and internal speaker. Still have same …

Hi there all im new here so bare with me I bought this ati radeon 9800 pro gfx card becoz i wanted to play battlefeild 2 and the game dosnt support geforce 4 4800 ti se,i have the catylist 5.6 drivers and had origonaly install the drivers from the disc. …

Yesterday, after the internet went out for whatever reason, I came back to find my PC off. Naturally, I pressed the power button, and nothing powered on. Problem. So, I thought it might be the power supply. I don't have considerable experience, but I have a case fan with LEDs. …

I'm not really sure what's going on but every so often my computer will shut down and reboot, it's done this for a while and has been A problem for a while now.

There comming out! In my local Best Buy and CompUSA adds they're selling some pretty sweet cards for less than $150. AWESOME!

my system randoly restats then i get a blue screen. it seems that its only when i am playing a game. i think it has to do with that sound card issue the realtek ac'97 or somthing like that..please help

Hello, I just bought a new Pioneer DVR-109 Burner and fully reinstalled my computer. I see the Dvd Burner in the Bios but not in windows (XP Pro SP2) and either in the Device Manager (their is no CDROM or DVD Device section !!!!) And the strange thing is that …

I need to know if a Serial ATA-150 hard drive works with a Serial ATA II motherboard.

I have a little problem. I have decided to upgrade my pc but now the problem is: what kind of motherboard. I have some idea but i dont know if i need one with an AGP slot or PCI-E slot. I have bought quite a good AGP graphics card about …