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I have a gateway laptop and when i turned it on the screen goes black and wont turn on. Its charged so i tried one more time and it came on but then turned black again but when i hold the power button on it stays on but when i …

Hello, My network card is blocking half of my GPU fan is this okay? The GPU is the Radeon 7770 - club edition, There is no other configuration i can have the cards on the motherboard.

Computer powers up, but no power up beeps. Fans are working and can hear all my drives spinning up. Tried reseating all the cards and RAM. Lights on keyboard come on then go off. No display or anything after that. Tried a different motherboard and still the same problem.

Good days to all Please give me a good opinion. I have a laptop Acer 6920g. Recently i observed that everytime i open it not in use for several hours in other words COLD START it always freeze sometimes re starting. Its like 5 seconds from the start. When i …

I'm planning on building a new desktop probably in about a couple of months or so. I haven't been as updated with the newer parts and technologies as I was a few years ago due to changes in priorities (haven't lost love for computers though). I need suggestions on what …

I am facing quite the predicament. The computer I am currently using will not boot because, as the title says, there is "no boot device found." When I check the BIOS settings, however, the HDD is recognized under the "Drives" menu. The only problem is that it is not recognized …

Hey! I am making a new gaming computer (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QLYy) and I have heard that nVidia is much better. I'm not going to use more than one monitor, and if I do, it'll only be two so the lower memory is too important. Which nVidia card should I get that's around …

:?: Could someone here please guide me. I just bought a brand new Toshiba Satellite P25 Series Laptop a couple of months ago. The past two days I have been seeing this one vertical line flickering and disappearing on the screen. Now it has become constant and is light blue …

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i have a toshiba satelitte p845-s4200 i wan to upgrade my processor becaouse the clock speed of my processor is too slow my processor now is: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3317U CPU @ 1.70GHz, 1701 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) i wont to upgrade Intel Core i5-3470 Quad-Core Processor 3.2 GHz …

please tell me why my monitor if going to be discolor day by day?

i have a E63 nokia mobile phone. it doesnot connect to the pc by trying various methods. Please help me to solve it.

Hey! I am making myself a [new computer](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QsWu) for gaming and recording. What do you think about it? I also used [this](http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine) to calculate the wattage. Should I change the power supply? Thanks System Type: 1 physical CPU Motherboard: High End - Desktop CPU Socket: Socket LGA 1155 CPU: Intel …

Hey guys! I'm selecting the parts for my new gaming desktop and I don't know too much about audio. I'm using the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H ATX LGA1155 Motherboard and I don't know if I should buy a Asus Xonar DG 24-bit 96 KHz Sound Card. I tried looking at the audio …

Hello, Hi can anyone help me please,I have problem on my dvd-rom.This is the model TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223Q SAMSUNG SUPER WRITE MASTER...my problem is when i am going to insert a dvdRw and then i am going to burn using only the windows burner...it will not burn the files, after …

My pc has two hard disk drives. The primary hard disk has become corrupted(or it has got some virus so that pc turns off abruptly). I have win 98 installed in the slave hard disk so i can run win 98 when i disconnect the primary HD. Is there a …

please my laptop power on light remain ember or orange even if the laptop is off, please can somebody help me out thank you.

There is no writing on my computer and it keeps doing crash dumps. If I click on a window it will open a white screen but there is no writing. Is this a virus? Can I restore?

The Internationale Funkausstellung is not a jazz-fusion music event. Nope, the [URL="http:// www.ifa-berlin.com"]IFA[/URL] is apparently the world’s largest consumer electronics show these days, and it runs until 6th September in Berlin. Once over the disappointment that the only music was Muzak-alike piped hell, the race was on to discover the …

.JPG "align-left") At a whopping 33 pounds, the Laserjet Pro 400 M425dn is certainly nothing compared to the massive printers you'd see in major offices or computer labs, but comes packed with everything you'd need for your small business or home office. While the printer strangely focuses black & white …

Where can I find one. My board has a two pin led and my case has a 3 pin female plug. I can't find one. Anyone know where I can get one.

I have a desktop that im running windows 7 on and I had a keyboard for about 3 years and it died. I got a new one and instaled it and it reconizes it but it still does not work. I have tryed 3 more keyboards and they dont work …

I have not turned on my laptop for about 2 months because I didnt have a charger, i charged it last night and it wouldnt turn on, even the fan wasnt running just the power light and the hard drive light blinking rapidly I thougth it was because the battery …

Hi you all. I am new to the world of PC building and this would be the first PC I have ever built. I used a website called pcpartpicker.com and came up with the following build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NV30. I thought it would be well suited to my needs, and the website …

Hi, I have an HP Envy 4 Notebook PC with model 4-1080ee It was working fine last night but when I woke and turned it on this morning, suddenly it's showing a very dim screen. It's still working okay in the background and if I look closely, I can still …

l have a crushed laptop drive that is partitioned into two. The C drive is completely unreadable while the secondary drive l can open and read the files but l cant move them from the drive even if l try open and save as for some of them. Any ideas?

Hi. I had 2 HDD in my pc. Today I installed a new HDD in my pc with other two HDD connected. I booted with my default HDD in order to format the new HDD with Win XP format utility. XP isn't showing the actual size of the new drive …

hello iam haveing a very serious problem i have windows 7 in which i waz not able to boot i reinstalled the winess dedows 7 but my other partations are not able to open its shows access denied both partation have same problem d and e please help me

Hi I have a bad sector and cannot log in to the netbook I have a zoostorm freedom netbook and when I start the netbook it always goes to repair and then restart and repair so I did a disk check on advanced options none of the advanced recovery methods …

I have an external HDD that works on any other machine I test it on, except mine. It was previously working and recently I needed to use it and it didn't work. It appears in device manager, not in disk management. A drive letter might not be assigned to it, …

My usb key is not being recognized by my laptop. When I plug it in it says insert disk - also it is indicating that there are 0 bytes. Can anyone give me a solution for retreiving my data?

Hi, I have a 1 TB external harddisk. I guess I have virus on it. The files are being shown as .exe files, none of them are opening. I tried scanning the HD, it had no effect what-so-ever. Is there anyway in which i could retrieve the data. Please help. …

Hi there, i am having a problem with my 1tb seagate goflex. it can't be detected on any computer. moreover, i can hear a ticking sound inside it. is it safe if i open it? if not what should i do to fix it (if it can be fixed)?

Someone borrowed my Seagate 500mb Portable HDD and then suddenly the only thing I can see in it is a shortcut of itself. My portable hdd is divided into 200mb and 300mb, both is the same. I tried to show all hidden and system files and here is what i …

was seeing some movie sunddenly there was a power cut and after turning it on ......in the bios...HDD is dectected bt not the size...as there was data in the HDD...didnt do anything...so got a HDD (older one) installed XP.....installed getdataback....icare recovery.....diskgenius....n some more....the 500GB HD just shows as 8GB HDD …

What is this "write protect" and "card present" on the SD card? Are these pins on the SD-card or are they some feature of the SD-card?

Hi guys, I have a similar problem: Just bought a new PC, installed everything and using onboard graphics, everything is OK. If I plug in the graphic card, the computer doesn't start. The display don't turn on, the keyboard / mouse lights neither. The Fans are working (even the graphic …

HOW DOES A COMPUTER CONTROL TEMPERATURE BY ITSELF.

My apologies if I missed something like this already. I cannot find anything quite fitting. And this work computer keeps closing this page on me. At home, I have 2 laptops both running Windows 7, a Lexmark wireless printer that worked fine last week. Now it won't print, but it …

I have a MacBook Pro and I am trying to print on my DELL v305 all in one printer but I cant seem to find a driver. I found one on the DELL site but after I download it my MacBook says it cant read the file. Help!no

At just half a cubic inch in volume, 1.62 inches long, weighing half an ounce and coming complete with a built-in clip and little else to spoil the minimalist aluminum design, the smallest digital music player on the planet goes on sale this coming Friday. The surprising thing about this …

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MY TOSHIBA SATELLITE A105-S4334 THE SCREEN IS BLACK WHEN STARTING LAPTOP. REPACE THE BATTERY, CAN HEAR THE FAN GOING AND THE LAPTOP IS ON.

Hithere, I need to take 12v DC from my computer to feed an amplifier. I know there is some red and black wires . But my question is 1.) is there enough current to feed my amplifier( may be 2 or 3 A). 2.) is there any problem to my …

Currently we are utilizing Motorola Droid Maxx phones within our corporate environment. So far we have not had any major problems with the phones or Android OS, however with the availability of malware for the devices I am concerned with security risk. Is anyone else currently supporting Android OS within …

I want to buy a printer with scanner and xerox please give me suggestion .............

Trying to find a way to get rid of the "HDD password" problem on a gateway nv53, I took the CMOS battery. After putting it back, I rebooted the machine. The HDD problem remained but I put in a blank HDD and a linux CD and now the pointer won't …

Hi guys, I just built brand new computer. For some reason, I am having problems installing ANY type of operating system onto this computer. These are the specs of the computer: ----------------------------------- *GeForce FX 5700LE 128Mb DDR w/TV-Out & DVI 8xAGP *ECS NFORCE3-A (1.0A) Socket754/nForce3 250/FSB1600/A&L/ATX Motherboard *AMD Socket 754 …

Hello I am having a problem with my phone i updated ultrasnow 2.2.7 and after that the whole screen went white i switched off the phone and now it wont switch back on i have tried holding the home button and power button but nothing happens i have tried charging …

Problem fixing back cables on tha motherboard WS10105 after servicin my CPU