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| | I'm still in the throws of making a decision regarding what board and processor to use...specifically, whether to go with a socket 754, or the 939. The first thing going through your mind when reading this is probably "what are you giong to use it for"? I'm not into games, … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram video  |
| | Everyone knows about them. People call them "Value Hard Drives". If you dont already know what i'm talking about, there the 5400RPM drives. I baught a 60 Gig Western Digital 5400RPM drive and its doing fine. Seems like a good drive to me. I also read that they were just … Hardware storage |
| | I just got a new XFX Geforce FX 5200 128mb video card. For some reason, when I put in my new card and turn on the computer, the monitor shows nothing. It is as if it does not recognize that my card is in. The monitor works fine with the … Hardware display video video-card |
| | Please help with advice if you can. My less than 6 month old flat panel g5 running 10.3.9 won’t boot up. The chimes sound, screen goes grey, and the gear spins and spins until the screen goes black and I see Disk0s3:I/O error /etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory Disk0s3:I/O … Hardware apple-hardware email hard-drive storage video |
| | HiFolks.I have a problem with a G3 power Mac.I bought a Quicktake Camera 150. I installed the soft ware ok.Every time I try to connect to camera diolog box comes up not enough memory to connect. On the apple menu It says Built in memory 128mb. Vitual memory 129.Largest unused … Hardware apple apple-hardware  |
| | Lately my Xp monitor has benn having these 5 second blackouts wehre the screen will go black for 5 seconds and then coem pack to the preavius picture. IT will do this three times until the screen goes black for about 30 seconds and then the computer reboots it selft. … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | Its dead. Had no problems then this morning attemtped to power the system up and nothing. Any ideas? Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi guys, Today i decided to delete files i didn't need and for some reason i deleted a folder called SonyUSB which i thought was for my old digital camera but it turns out it was for my CD rom and DVD rom or some crap..I dont fully understand. I … Hardware storage |
| | G'day!here's the problem. I was listening to music on my comp and it suddenly froze,i then thought it was just lagging so i just wait a few sec than it crash,the screen turned off and fan and everything stopped but the light on machine still on,i than press restart than … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | Hello, I'm posting this on behalf of my brother. He was using some kind of crack to get a program he wanted when his computer stopped working properly. He thought he had some kind of virus and for some reason removed his E drive to see if this fixed the … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hey there new to the forums. Ne way i just got another CRT and i want to add it to my PC i have a Geforce 5900 256 with a DVI and a VGA now my main CRT is connected to the (blue) VGA and my new CRT to be … Hardware display |
| | Hey all says the new face! Systems specs Athlon AMD XP 2500 KT600-A K7FSB 400 ECS 1x512mb Infineon 1x256mb Kingmax(both DDR400 PC3200) Audigy 2 Gigabyte x800pro 40gig 7200 Sata ATX-320W/P4 PSU My problem started when i started upgrading my comp(which ive had now for about 2years). The board, 40 gig … Hardware gaming hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I want to buy new parts for a computer in the next 2 month. I was looking at the radeon X850XT but was wondering if it would be too limited by the CPU. If I bought a P4 3.4ghz or 3.6ghz and 2GB of DDR2 533mhz RAM, would the video … Hardware display video video-card |
 | A friend of mine has a VA3000SNA case, where the two fans are rated at 21dB. However they make a noise like a hurricane, which is amplified by the honeycomb grille of the case. The grilles will be replaced, but I'd like a fan controller to lower the speeds slightly … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Just built a p4-3.2ghz,Abit Ic7-max3 mobo, agp gfx 9800xt,windows xp pro os. when going thru initial set up had no issues with monitor coming on on boot up. Now if i'm lucky monitor boots up first time or else I have to shut it down with the pwr sw and … Hardware display first-post windows-xp |
| | I just purchased a very good Logitec webcam (3 weeks old worked fine ) and all of a sudden I have blue and yellow horizontal lines flickering across ruining the picture. I have not cahanged anything other than ms updates... I have tried turning off other peripherals but cannot find … Hardware pc-peripheral webcam |
| | ok heres the deal we got 3 g4's and each one is not detecting the hard drive two of them we are trying to install linux on and one im trying to install G4 Mac os X yet its the same the hard drives have been changed the cables aswell … Hardware apple-hardware hard-drive os-x |
| | Hi everyone, I have a home pc with following motherboard Motherboard Name Intel 915GAV HT technology I use windows xp...(service pack 2 properly installed) problem: unable to load AUDIO driver...????????? I am a very basic computer user who knows how to surf net and check emails... I will be grateful … Hardware audio motherboards-cpu-ram windows-xp  |
 | I bought a Cool Colors SOHO tower. It has an LCD panel up front for the temperatures of the computer etc. Every now and then it will repededitly (spell?) beep at me. The temperature sensors are hooked up to the master hard drive, VGA card and CPU. The beeping tells … Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | When starting my fujitsu amilo laptop ,windows xp will not run rather an error message pops up saying Isass.exe unable to initalise. The computer then shortly afterwards shuts down. I have tried re booting windows however during the re boot the computer shutsdown roughly at the same time. Please Help! Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware windows-xp  |
| | ok im hoping maybe one of u clever ppl can give me some advice, ive got an old IBM T22 thinkpad laptop, the damn thing just wont behave rationally, sometimes it boots n sometimes it doesnt, sometimes it runs for 3 hours before crashing sometimes the moment it boots up … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | -My PC is a HP Pavilion a510n 3000+ with a 120 GB 72000RPM Ultra DMA HD -I just bought a Western Digital 120 Hard Drive I want the new Hard Drive as a BACK UP ONLY to store extra files & whatnot thing is the manual is not very specific … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | Hello everybody. I'm Raidy and this is my first post here. First and foremost, I apologize if I'm putting this in the wrong place. It seems like the best fit, but I'm a bit unsure =). Now, I'm a bit irritated right now considering I just spent about 400$ on … Hardware display first-post |
| | I have a brand new P4 3.4ghz with a gig of RAM. Was exiting a game last nite and suddenly it just froze, I tried restarting it and now all that happends is the fans and lights go on but no beeps or anything on screen appear. Any ideas what … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | hey yll, it seems 2 be a simple but rather irritating prob.....k here goes....the green light or power light doesnt come on,though everyting else(read- CD rom, monitor,fan)are turned on..... and yeah it does take ages nearly an hour for the green light 2 flash ,but once tats on its smooth … Hardware flash troubleshoot-hardware |
 | Hi, just curious. By going into DOS and typing oh say: [code] Format C: [/code] and then answering yes, does that make the format ntfs or fat32? Thanks in advance, oh and whats the useable memory loss after formatting in FAT. Hardware storage |
| | hi, incase u remember me, im previously "omw" got a new ati radeon 9600xt 128(maybe an entry level card for some)...instaled catalyst 5.3. result was very chopppy performance. ive an old p3 1ghz 256 mb ram, 200 watt pwr supply. surprisingly the performance of my mx 440 64mb was better … Hardware display video video-card |
| | Okay Guys Please help me out wit this (For those who dont know the whole story go to the old post) AT: [url]http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6141-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=96492&messageID=1095726[/url] I No Longer have a Compaq Computer. Now what i have done is Bought this MSI K7N2 DELTA2 MotherBoard and case.I did buy a new in the … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | hi all - i am new to this forum but have an urgent question. I am an mac user by nature, but my question relates to a pc (my mothers actually). the pc in question is (as listed in its system requirements) AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor 128 MB RAM system … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram pci-card |
| | Hello, I recently bought a 250gb hard drive to use in a disk caddy as a removable back for my other two 120gb drives. When I went to format it, I could only get 127gb. I found out that this could be due to my BIOS and unable to find … Hardware hard-drive ide storage  |
| | Computer is 3-4yrs old PIII-500MHz, Win98SE OS. When I attempt to power up the computer, everything appears to load as it has in the past. However it never gets past the Windows logo display. I have attempted to boot in safe mode (same issue). I am able to access the … Hardware display laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | For about the same cost, I can get either the previous version G5dp 2.0, or the current G5dp 2.0. The difference is in the max RAM slots (8GB max vs 4GB max) and the 64MB video card vs 128MB. I do graphics with big files (no video) using PShop and … Hardware apple-hardware video video-card  |
| | Hello all... I have a problem with my laptop battery not wanting to charge all the time. I have one or two ideas and what to run them by some other folks and get their opinion. Background info: Toshiba Satellite 3005-S304 - (1 GHz machine with XP home installed) I … Hardware first-post laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I recently had a problem with a hitch hicker, after dealing with the main problem I was left with a couple of small problems which I've been able to track down. A friend suggested that I try "System Mechanic 5" to run down the remaining problems, I did, and while … Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
 | After booting up in ME I get the message "Hpsom has caused an error in OLEAUT32.DLL. Hpsom will now close" Can anyone tell me what this means please? Everything seems OK although the printer (HP) seems to take ages to start to print when required, and the system crashes - … Hardware pc-peripheral printer |
| | Okay Guys Please help me out wit this (For those who dont know the whole story go to the old post) AT: [url]http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6141-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=96492&messageID=1095726[/url] I No Longer have a Compaq Computer. Now what i have done is Bought this MSI K7N2 DELTA2 MotherBoard and case.I did buy a new in the … Hardware first-post motherboards-cpu-ram video video-card |
| | Ummm, I dont really know whats the problem... I bought a new Bytecc Aluminum 3.5" HDD Enclosure and installed my 200gb ata100 drive in it. I plugged it in and the system recogized a USB Mass Storage. The drive is already formatted with over 100gb of stuff. I cant see … Hardware storage |
| | My computuer case front speaker wiring is listed as such: mic in-, ground, spkout r, return r, mic bias, spkout L, return L My motherboard wording is as such: 1.mic, 2. gnd, 3. ref, 4. power, 5. front audio r, 6. rear audio r, 7. reserved, 8. no pin, 9. … Hardware audio motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | If any of you had to decide between buying a "Intel P4 3.6E 1MB (560) 800FSB LGA775" for CAN$ 537.00 and a "Intel P4 3.4GHz 2MB (650) 800FSB LGA775" for CAN$ 527.00. What would you choose and why? The first is running at 200mhz faster but has half the cache … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I have a Gateway laptop 9300 solo series that has a very wierd temper. When i have the external power supply hooked up the computer it will lock up so I turned it off. On power up the Gateway logo will come up and then beep which is normal then … Hardware hard-drive laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | So i have an Asus A7N8X nforce2 board that is upgraded to the latest bios (1010) and has the latest PCB (2.0). Everything on Asus's site says my new athlon 3200+ barton 400FSB should work on this motherboard. I popped out my old 2500+ barton, stuck the new one in, … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | can anyone please help or advise, my pc kept crashing mostly when i was on the net, BIOS error was the most common message. so went to mercury website (motherboard manufacturer) printed out details to reset & update bios. basically it said use flash file on CD, save BIOS which … Hardware flash hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware windows-xp |
| | I just put this together, here are my specs: Chaintech MPM800-3 motherboard 512 DDR400 RAM on-board video card Pentium 4 2.26 processor All seem to be installed correctly, the computer starts up and all the fans and everything starts, but it doesn't seem to want to work. I've tried resetting … Hardware first-post troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | Hello, I am not much of an expert in home electronics and I was wondering if you can be just a little kind to recommend me the right product for my needs. You see, I was actually looking for a voice recorder so I can record dictates. I was searching …  |
| | :mad: i have an asus a8v motherboard and i'm trying to set up xp on my new western digital raptor wd740 hd but xp doesnt recognise the hd. so is anyone out there who can tell me have i got the wrong parts, is there a strange install/setup prior to … Hardware storage |
| | I have attempted to deal with the two white plastic bits that are under the pad, but am hoping there is some kind of sequence of things to do that get the pad back on top of the letter. I know I can type without the pad, but I'd rather … Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Heres What I am Running: - Soyo Dragon Lite P4x400 (already updated BIOS) - 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 Processor 533/400 MHz - 160GB Seagate Barracuda Harddrive (Partitioned into Drives C(100 GB), and D (50Gb) - 512 MB DDR Kingston Ram - 128 MB DDR ATI 7200SE Video Card - Sony … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card windows-xp |
| | I have just tried to connect my Laptop (Toshiba Satellite with a 32MEG Nvida GForce 420 GO Video Card) to my TV and I have an image, but it is black and white and I am unable to get it to color. I'm connecting through a SCART connection which has … Hardware display image laptop video video-card |
| | What is the difference between F.S.B & bus speed of a processor what actually happnes when the hard disk jumper setting is "upper 32 gb" what is the difference between 40 conductor & 80 conductor data cables that we use to connect hdds to the motherboard & how does the … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hey everyone, building a new system here w/ a 3.4Ghz P4, ASRock 775i65Gv MoBo, 1Gig of Pc-3200 Ram, 450 Watt Rosewill Power Supply. My question is, why does the machine shut off 3 seconds after it turns on? I can press F2 to go into setup, and I can tell … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
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