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hi, this is my first post here i hope someone can help me, i was burning some data and audio CD's for a friend at work then when i got back home it was dead, the driver doesn't want to read any kind of CD, data,audio or DVD... nothing! i …

Computer Toshiba Tecra 8100 model no. PT810U-229P7 running W2000 O/S Worked great for past 2 months of daily usage. This morning nothing on screen and no boot. Power is good from both the inverter and from a fully charged battery. CPU fan running and can open cd tray. 2 lights …

My Sony Vaio laptop is driving me mad. When i turn on the laptop the bios operates and the backlight comes on the instant window XP is started the back light goes off and stays off. Any ideas would be great Thanks David

Hi, I have a laptop with a dead lcd screen. When I put a bright light on the screen everything was there and seemed to be working fine. Is the problem my ccfl or possibly the inverter board? If the the problem is in my interter board would I be …

My CD/DVD Rom is continually running, and doesn't show up as a drive anymore. It's an HP running Windows XP. How can I uninstall it, and reinstall it (drivers?) I have a recovery drive only, and no recovery CD. It runs continuous, with the led light glowing orange instead of …

Hi, i got this computer like 6 months ago. i got it from [url]www.ibuypower.com[/url] when i first got the computer, the fan didnt work, until yesterday my friend came over and told me that the professor will get burned down if the fan does not work. today, i called ibuypower …

Hi all, I was wondering how safe it is to exceed the recommended refresh rates on a monitor? I currently have a Viewsonic G220fb with an NVidia Ti4200 card, and overriding the refresh rate of 75hz to 100hz (at 1280x1024) via the Nvidia control panel. I'm finding that 100hz is …

I have installed a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard and only one hard drive. On start up, I get a message that says No Array defined. In Bios, it is set to look for RAID, then ScSI. If I change that setting, will it fix the problem? Thanks.

Hey all, I have a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 ATA 160GB to use as a master in this new computer I'm building. The BIOS recognized it name and all, so I figured I had no problems...Well, I went to install XP, and before the partitioning/formatting tool came up in setup, …

I built my computer around 6 months ago and it was running just fine untill about 2 weeks ago. Before these problems started I hadn't made any hardware changes for well, right around 6 months so I doubt that has anything to do with it. When the problems started I …

Hi, I am totally new at configuring my own desktop. I live in Vietnam and cannot ask advice in the shops because people don’t speak english (and I don’t speak vietnamese). I will use for developing purposes (Visual Studio.Net). I have set up the following. Is this compatible or I …

I've just recently added the above graphics card & when I plug my camcorder into the firewire port my PC doesn't detect it. When going into the Device Manager it says that my IEE 1394 device has a 'Code 10 Cannot Start' error, this also applies to the WDM device. …

hi, i recently bought an intel 3.0ht intel 865gbf mobo(supports 800 mhz fsb) kingston single stick 512 mb ddr(400 mhz) [U]my problem...(im using CPUZ software)[/U] [list]the cpu fsb is only shown as 199 mhz whle the bus speed is shown to be 799mhz...???why fsb 199mhz ONLY? [url]http://img299.echo.cx/my.php?image=capture061320050007553wp.jpg[/url] ram frequency is …

so I bought a extra Harddrive for extra storage I opened my PC (finally) found out there is NO SPACE WHATSOEVER to place an extra HDD ok screw it, I'll just lay the new HDD on the bottom & try not to shake my PC to much PLUS the original …

My monitor - a Viewsonic E70f has developed a pale green patch in the top right corner. The green area is only faint but it has appeared since I installed a new video card. (Chaintech nvdia GeForce 4200 128mb), The monitor is only a couple of years old. Any ideas? …

hi all ..could really use some help im thinking of installing a single sata harddrive to replace my run of the mill hard drive but i really dont know where to start or is it a worthwhile upgrade all i do know is that i have two ports on my …

my hardrive shows in post, shows in device manager, but does not show any where else. eg My Computer, Disk Defragment it does not show in all these things.

Hey, I dunno if i have the right forum but im having a problem with my monitor refreshing itself. What actually happens is the screen goes black and then reappears.. much like as if you changed the resolution in the display panel but it occurs usually only when a video …

Hi all.. my computer has this really weird problem of dying on me after a night of intensive gaming. Usually it hangs, so i press the restart button on the CPU. after that the CPU emits 3 beeps periodically, and my system doesn't boot at all no matter how many …

Can anyone help me with this issue I need to remove the bridge battery long enough to let the PC drop an administrator Password so I can reinstall an os on the machine As the unit is now it is useless because it can't find the os I bought it …

I'm having trouble with one machine on my network. It will not allow any user inc administrator to do anything with the printers & faxes. There are currently no printers installed. I'm wanting to install a printer and i get the following error a box appears with the title Printers, …

Hello, I wanna buy a desktop however i'm fed up with cheapest solutions which cause problems very quickly, does anyone s got any suggestions about a good quality price desktop ? i thought about dell... Tx :?:

Gives bios msg can not find ntldr. (not sure that's exactly it--machine not here now) think hd has failed that metal ball sound any way i can get enuf access to copy files onto another drive? thank you for any suggestions

I have a Sony ATAPI cd burner and am unsing B's Clip 3.11. I am using Win 98se. It has worked fine for years. Then all of a sudden it won't read a cd. When one is inserted, which know to have data on it, B's Clip want to format …

I installed a demo of EA's Battlefield 2 on the PC earlier today and ever since the screen has been, well messed up. The game crashed at startup complaining about the grahics card. The icons are now huge. I've switched res and this does solve the problem but the screen …

Hello, I'm glad to find such a cool place, where us "noobies" can find some help. After all this is my first post. I have a small, yet annoying problem concerning Windows XP Home Edition. Let me start out by telling you some 'bout my current gaming setup. AMD 64 …

Hi, i have a computer that died a slow death on my sister. For about a month it would randomly shut down on her, and would not restart for a long interval afterwards. (A number of hours.) Naturally, she couldn't give me any specifics about what she was doing any …

I am in need of a new hard drive for an Dell Inspiron 4100. Is it better to order it through Dell or could I go with one from somewhere like Circuit City? I know I need at least 7200 RMP's and ATA-100, but what else should I be looking …

Okay I'm a bit new to all this. This is what I have: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Two 256 MBs or RAM (I don't know the brand) Radeon 9600 XT 256 3 Hard Drives - 2 are Western Digital and the other I don't recall ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard This …

How good are they? I do know one good thing is that they come with a lifetime warranty. You can't beat that.

to thongispector, i went on the sites you recommended and E-bay in the UK, i found some cheap motherboards but they were either socket7, mine is socketA, or they had sddram slots, the ram chips in my pc just say ddr on them, will they work in sddr slots? also …

I'm having some trouble trying to burn dvd I'm using nero reloaded with a ricoh dvd+rw/+r I think it has something to do with the drive as when there is no disc in it shows it as a dvdrw but when I insert a disc it reverts to a cdr …

Hi, I'm having some trouble getting a Compaq Presario 1247 to start up. It sat for a few months and when I tried to start it only the light indicating that the power chord was connected would light up. I took the battery out, unplugged the power, and started all …

I was looking at processors at eBay, and found a bundle including a Asus A8V motherboard with a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ socket 939 processor, the add stated that it was a 2.2GHz, but when I went to Tiger Direct to price the two items, their specs show it as …

ATI now has their own answer to Nvidia's SLI... [URL=http://ati.com/products/crossfire/index.html]The Crossfire!!![/URL] That's cool!!! It's supposed to kick SLI's butt. :D What do you think?

I found my computer all of sudden was making an alarm-like noise (through an internal speaker) when I came home after work, and the monitor would not turn on. When I opened the case, the CPU fan and heatsink had snapped off the cpu and were just hanging loose. Now, …

Hello Every one, I've a user's computer running windows NT and Baskspace key is not doing any thing. Any advice is appreciated. Sai

Heres how it started out I left my computer on last night went to school and got home around 3 PM. turned off my pc. turned it back on a few hours later to listen to music. 30 mins later my computer just retarts on its own. ok? not normal. …

Hi guys...it's time to do a little spring cleaning to the insides of my computer, and my question is about using presurized air to blow off the boards. A friend of mine who worked building PCBs for a major corp. tells me that I run the risk of creating static …

hey, so my zt1000 died. sometimes it will half boot up, most of the time it won't at all. all the lights come on, but no sound no screen. when it does actually boot, most of the time it won't make it past the windows xp splash screen, and when …

When I built my PC, and had everything hooked up, I tried to use both my optical drives and got a BSOD talking about a Machine Check Exception. Disconnecting one of the drives solved this. I looked around and discovered it is because my power supply is too small. However, …

I 've had a flat screen monitor for about a year and recently it has been acting really weird. The screen would flicker and the desktop setting is "out of bound". It would flicker and the settings will be back to normal and then flicker again and it would be …

I have an Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb card. I recently decided to disconnect my extra case fan at the back. It has worked normally for a few weeks. Yesterday when I turned it on, it got some way towards loading windows (I saw it at the grub bootloader stage) and …

Help me... I don't know which DDRam is combatible to me... Here are my specs ... --------[ CPU ]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU Properties: CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 1400 MHz (14 x 100) CPU Alias P68, Willamette, A80528 CPU Stepping D0 Instruction Set x86, MMX, SSE, SSE2 Original Clock 1400 MHz Engineering …

There was a thunderstorm on Sunday. We heard/saw lightening hit across the street and a subsequent pop came from somewhere in the back of our house. Since my computer was plugged into a surge protecter as well as turned off I thought nothing of it. When I went to start …

Hello Everyone, I am in dire need of help for my laptop. Its a toshiba satellite. I started having problems right after i installed dreamweaver on it. Actually, maybe a day or two later. The symptoms sound like a hardware problem, so i'm not sure if that installation was a …

Originally Posted by caphrikorn12 hi!! im new here, i just search for some1 to help me out with my computer problems, im from philippines. i just wanna ask if my processor is defective or what, this what just happened, i have a p4 2.4ghz ecs motherboard 256 ddram. my pc …

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]I do have 11 computers and I am having some power problems it goes on and off so I have decided to buy a 2000 Watt Ampere Accumulator.. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]What I need to know is that is there anyone who knows how much electric power does …

I don't know what caused it but a high pitch sound is heared through my speakers when my cpu is ''loaded'' or the drives are busy.I know it's normal but the volume of it is inexplainably high and annoying!It may be a malfunction of the on-board sound chipset... Any ideas?

I'm thinking about buying a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939 processor for a computer i'll be putting together. When looking at the specs the FSB did not have a number but instead said "integrated into chip". I'm not sure what that means and not sure what kind of RAM …