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Hello, Im having some strange problems with my keyboard, and mouse :S Randomly, when I am typing or highlighting, i encuonter this problem: Everything is in Caps, when I try typing numbers it shows the symbols, I cannot de-highlight things after I have higlighted them, when I click a link …

hey all, i was wondering what ppls opinions of trackballs were, do u think there still good? do ppl still buy them, or are they just too different and no1 gets em anymore, or, if u have a trackball, how is it? tell me watcha think, im thinkin of gettin …

My PC wont shutdown whether i use the shutdown menu or by keeping my finger on the power button.... It seems to have shutdown but when i move my mouse or press a key on my keyboard my pc goes back to the desktop. I have recently upgraded my memory …

Lately I have been having some problams with my pc, I built this new and 64 system and have a $80 520watt PS that is good, so it cant be coming from my OS, but sometimes when I plug a USB device in the fron USB ports my pc restarts, …

just installed second sata hdd on my machine (jetway kocab board) but the machine wont recognise the second drive.any ideas?. the machine is running fine otherwise

Hello, I have killed my machine and I need your opinions! I recently tried upgrading my old Advent 3206 machine by putting in some new SDRAM. I am sure that I bought the right ram but when I tried putting it in my computer I don't think I must have …

I have a gateway computer and it wont fully turn on. i turn it on and it runs, the lights on, the cdrom drive works but i cant see anything on the monitor, it doesnt fully turn on

I just bought a amd 2500+ barton processor. I am not sure what to set the fsb jumpers an my board to. My options are 200, 266, or 333. I thought it would be 333 but then I saw some sites said 266, some said 333. I'm comfused.

Is it possible to have 768MB RAM on a computer?(eg. one 512MB and one 256MB card). I know its possible to use 256/512/1024MB. I tried 768MB in my PC but it wont boot up. Im guessing i have to get another 512MB RAM.

Hi all, I have a problem with my toshiba tecra 8100, i misplaced the original cd and also formatted the system, now when i try to install win98 original from external cd its getting installed and at a later stage it shows some vxd error. What should i do. can …

Recently bought 9600xt graphics crd and more RAM, now have 768mb (P4 2.8ghz) so i can play new games like HL2 and Far Cry. However i keep getting flickering lines on the screen with both games and sometimes slow down!! I need some help, i havent installed any drivers on …

Would anyone happen to know if the Ultra X-Connect 500Watt Power Supply is any good? Is Ultra good with Power Supply? This is the one where you plug only the cables you need. I was just wondering is anyone had any comments on this product.

I have a Microstar K7-Pro (MS6195) mother board in the computer that was given to me, and I had two goals in mind: 1st was to increase my RAM to 768MB, and 2nd was to install a DVD burner. I've found three new sticks of Kingston PC 100 for $120.00, …

I got my MB and proc. running finally, just reinstalled winxp pro. Now whenever windows is running and I let it go Idle, either the motherboard or proc. is shutting down my board. the power light is on, but everything else is shut down. Anyone know why it would do …

Hi, I've got a Comapq Evo laptop and the 'function' key is locked on whenever I boot up Win 2k. All keys type with their special characters, although holding in the Fn key reverts them back to normal - wrong way around! I can temporarily fix this by plugging in …

i have an Abit kx7-333r which won't boot after there's been any tampering with the bios, in fact, you don't have to change anything in the bios at all, just "save and exit" and it fails to re-start i've already flashed the bios with the latest version, but no joy …

I have replaced my old hard drive (HD-O) with a new hard drive (HD-N) because the operating system was corrupt and could not be repaired without erasing HD-O according to Dell. HD-N now is working fine with MS XP. However I can’t get the computer to recognize HD-O (tested and …

Does it hurt performance if my ram is 400 mhz and my amd 2200 processor runs at 133

Is there a website that a person can go to and find out drivers for a modem and how can you get info if you don't have original package the modem came in. I there a # on the modem itself that will tell me the manuf. and model? Any …

Sorry this is not much of a conversation point. I've bought two seagate 19 gig cheetah drives off e-bay over the last couple of months, for my ageing but lovely 7300/200. I got a connector thing with the first one (and its working fine). My first dumb question is what …

:sad: I am about to hall my hear out! Someone please Help. I have a new ASUS P5GD1 and a new SATA drive. The MB only has a Primary IDE controller (Blue), NO Secondary. It has a Primary and secondary RAID controler and 4 SATA controllers. I have 120mb Seagate …

I Have Recieved A G4 From My Late Aunt But Now Cant Get Into Mac Osx Or Even Get The Cd Out Of The Drive. Is There Anything I Can Do Because I Dont Stay Near Any Mac Dealers And I Would Really Like To Use The G4. Please If …

Hi, newbee here, I wish to fit an additional drive to my PC and make it the boot drive. The drive adverts seem to specify SATA or UDMA133, but I don't know which one to buy? My PC is over 2 years old and the XP Device Manager show my …

Hope someone can help. Have a Logitech 4000 webcam which records video sound but when camming in yahoo cant get any sound. Would love to be able to chat to friends rather than typing. Have tried switching between USB external microphone and built in microphone - no luck. Any ideas …

Yesterday, out of the blue, my G4 started making a very loud humming noise. I had several programs open, nothing froze but I was unable to shut down from the Apple menu so I rebooted from the harddrive. The sound was gone and I have not heard it since. However, …

what are the major differences between the amd athlon 64 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+, 3700+ etc? and can the amd athlon 64's be overclocked? Also, this is not a cpu related question, but i thought i would save space, can you put any hardrive with a socket 754 motherboard?

Hi i hope that i have summited this in the right area,sorry if i havent, i would just like a little bit of advise, i would like an apple as my next machine and i dont want to spend a too much on a new system, i have read a …

You see, I just recently purchased this mac, and when I got it, I plugged it in and nothing happened. Im used to the beginning of macintosh when you hear the "ahhhhhhhhhhhhh" but this one is just "beep". a fast beep and then nothing. The computer just sits there, its …

I have been trying to gather the info to puchase more memory which will be compatible with my mother board. I have a Microstar K7 Pro mother board, and as I understand it, I need to stay with the following specs. PC100, 168-Pin SDRAM, configuration of 32x8, DIMM type: unbuffered, …

I am trying to solve an on going problem with an AMD 1.8 system. I have a new Radeon 9200SE card installed and a new Optiquest Q95 monitor, running XP Home SP2 with 256MB Ram. I probably could double the RAM but the system is not running any high powered …

help please i was on the computer the other day and my baby unplugged my multi plug which has my monitor and computer with some other things in it and now when i turn on the computer and monitor the monitor is really dark ive tried to reset the settings …

I have a tnt2 32mb agp card. works fine, but cant handle newer games. So ive purchased a fx5200 by pny (pci card). I want to run both cards, but i made a silly mistake when installing the new card. I kept my tnt2 in ( as primary) I installed …

Ok i was rebuilding my computer, and got a 40gb harddrive from my friend for only $10, I was trying to set it up as my secondary slave drive, but I coulndt figure out how to set the jumpers. I just left them how they were and connected it up, …

Im in the market for a case and i liked the look of it...does anyone agree? Also, is the powersupply good quality and is the whole thing way too overpriced? :confused: [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=558331&Sku=T925-2012[/url]

I’m at a loss...I built a system that functions perfectly. Except...when it is powered down it automatically reboots in about 3 minutes. I've seen this with win 2000, but this system has XP pro + all updates. It's a complete new build. No recycled parts. In the bios power management …

OK just recently I was messing with my partitons on my harddrive and my computer messed up. Now I am trying to get my computer back to normal, but I'm having a little trouble. I rebuilt my computer, all I did was move around some of my harddrives and floppy …

i have two once identical dfi motherboards, one needs a fan blowing on the northbridge to work (at least i think that's the reason it's working now) is it possible the northbridge was damaged JUST enough to cause it to get too hot to run properly without extra cooling? the …

Hi as you can probably see I am a newbie so hello to everyone!! :D My question, Has anyone ever heard of or know anything about this laptop, FIC (first international computer) Model: Cedar I had it given to me a few weeks back it's about 1998 or 1999 maybe …

Hello, I'm in need of: -advice -and a new case hehehe (hence the topic!) Basically , at the minute my bog standard case is to small now, I have to keep a hand drive in there without a place for it! Yes I know not the best solution! - I've …

I have a Jetway motherboard with a Celeron 1.7 gig chip and onboard video card. We had problems a while ago with the display freezing up. Eventually the screen would not display during the boot process. Right now we are trying to install a new hard drive and install Windows …

How much benefit does the 90nm give over the 130?

My question is why 939 over 754? What are the actual benefits?

i have a memory question. i have a 478 socket northwood with a gig of pc2700 single channel ram. The new boards im looking at all seem to run duel channel. I have heard that some are backwards compatable and will run both duel channel and single channel, but is …

Hello forum ppl, Im in the process of upgrading a computer. Heres the new specs: Athlon64 cpu asrock k8upgrade 1689 motherboard maxtor 80gig SATA hard drive. (along with other things that arent really related to the problem) when i tried to install windows xp with the third party SATA driver …

I needed to update my firmware to my dvd rw because of issues that were said to be causing problems with my computer. There was a firmware for a benq 1620 which is what my model was so I thought. I installed and now it screwed everthing up. My computer …

How can I dual boot from 2 hard drives? One will run Xp Pro and the other Linux(Fedora). I want the XP one to auto load after like 10 secondsbut have the option to load Linux instead. How can i do this? I have a 70Gb Seagate and a 250Gb …

I need to find out what issues others have been having with their 939 motherboards. I need to find a stable board that is proven and compatible. The last two boards I have used has had an issue with either the ide drivers or something. My first board I had …

I just custom ordered a system and while on new egg I took a glance at the water cooling systems on there. My question is, how exactly do they work? As an electronics student (for future computer design as hobby) I'd like to know. To me, from the pictures it …

Just built my own computer. Has a Intel Desktop Board D865GBF, Intel Pentium 4 Processor 3eGHz, 800 System Bus, 1MB L2 Cache, MM # 868015 The computer turns on, all the fans come up, and I believe the Hard Drives start. However, When I plug in the Monitor nothing happens. …

I have built pcs in the past, no issues. For some odd reason, I now am having a bit of an issue with a new build. Have an Epox socket939 board, athlon 64 cpu, new Antec 380 power supply. OS is Win XP MCE. Installed fine, runs fine. Boots without …