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err, if a mobo only supports up to 333fsb, and the cpu is 400fsb... are they compatible?

Hey, a couple days ago i was working on my step mothers computer installing more RAM (256MB) I turned the computer back on and seconds later i smelt burning metal. I quickly unplugged the computer and opened it up and removed the RAM I had just installed into the PC. …

I am trying to install windows xp on my external hardrive (80gb western digital 7200rpm) so i could boot off of it later. i am 100% shure that this is possible i just dont know how. it is a usb HD. the first thing i tried was to put in …

The scanner actually is working, but when I press the button, it doesnt do anything except just stay powered. It is a HP PrecisionScan, ScanJet 4200C. I downloaded the update to make it work while using XP, then i restarted and it still doesnt work. It used to work with …

Hey there guys. Yesterday during a really bad storm, I was at work with my mom. We got a phone call from the alarm company for my house saying that the shocks had gone off and the police were called. Thinking that lightning struck the house, I went home to …

I am replacing a Gigabyte mb with one by MSI. Seems like the last time I did this I had to boot in safe mode and edit the registry to remove some lines related to hardware drivers. Such a long time ago, I can't remember what I removed. Seems like …

I can't get this motherboard to setup my cpu properly. It's an Asus P4SP-MX & a 2.8Ghz 533Mhz. When I go to boot up it goes into “bios safe mode

I upgraded Windows Me to Windows XP and my CD burner, Lite-On LTR 48246S is not recognized by my CDRWIN burning program. I installed the Lite-On myself and have used it for months, but I have lost the installation CD for the burner. It seems as if a driver is …

I just was assigned a Toshiba Satellite 8250 laptop with XP as a work computer. I need to find a way to dim the brightness of the display at night. There are no external controls, f keys or control panel methods and I was told by the computer savvy previous …

my floppy drive will occasionaly make grinding sounds and wont even take a floppy disk all the way in so i figure it is time to get a new one. how compatible does it have to be for your computer. i have a toshiba satellite 1105 (laptop). thank you

im sorry to post so many things on video cards but i found this card VisionTek Xtasy 9200se 128MB DDR PCI Video Card is this card just has good has the ATI Radeon 9200se? and it says directx8.1 but it should suport directx 9.0 right?

"Invalid" system disk...." I installed a second Maxtor 5T040H4 HD. The specs say that I don't need to set a jumper to make it a slave. When I bootup I get the following message: "Searching for Boot record from Floppy..Not found Saerching for Boot record from IDE-1..OK Invalis System disk …

I have a 200GB maxtor that pisses me off Maxblast v1x sees it and can work on it. Maxblast 3x doesn't even see it. I can't see it from a command line I can FDISK it somehow (seems to work) but it doesn't change anything Scandisk doesn't see it BIOS …

Hello All, Recently I got my PC back from the shop. A vicious virus attack locked everything down, even offline, and I discovered that all my programs were wiped out. I have restored everything lost, and the machine seems to work OK. However, what I am discovering is that I …

Greetings. I've just got myself a new Toshiba Satellite 2450. It has got a combo-drive bundled plus more stuffs. I have questions about the softwares bundled with the notebook. For example, there's a cd writer tool - Drag N Drop, is it alright if I replace it with Ahead Nero? …

Greetings. Err, refering to the above subject, I get the following message whenever I startup my computer:- [QUOTE]CPU is unworkable. Check CPU Soft Menu. Press F1 to continue.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure what went wrong. When I press F1, it can still load Windows and I can still work with my …

I just received a modware kit and thought I would try installing it. I turned off my computer, unplugged the power cord, removed the case, and installed the fan. I wanted to see if the fan would work, but didnt want to reattach the case, so that if it didn't …

Please guys, I really need help here. Last night I was using my computer and it was working fine. There were zero problems. Naturally, I switched it off and went to bed, it shut down fine. This morning, I go to turn it on, and it sits on the dell …

here's what I have, 1Ghz AMD Athlon 10GB HDD - primary master - FAT32 40GB HDD - primary slave - FAT32 Windows 2000 Pro the problem: It just happened, probably by a virus of some sort... my slave drive suddenly disappeared, there's this unknown device that show's up on the …

:cry: This is my first time to post here.. my problem was my computer a pentium III 550 mhz. but it is always boot at 366 mhz only. so, i always found myself on cmos setup. everytime i turn my computer on it always go to cmos setup and configured …

I have been considering for sometime between two possible boards for my new system. The [B]Asus P4C800-E Deluxe[/B] and the [B]GA-8KNXP(rev 2.0)[/B] and after reading the threads on both boards at various forum sites, I am still at a loss for deciding, and hoping someone could answer some of the …

Windows, nor bios, will detect the usb hdd. It's 250gb, the cable plugs into a usb port on the computer and a usb 2.0 on the hdd. There is definitely power to it, and everything is connected right, so whats wrong?

Hey all just got hold of my first working mac. I don't have a monitor but this G3 has S-video connections. So I pluged it into my TV and it works. My questions are A: how big of processor can I put in it? B: What is the highest amount …

My keyboard wont let me press more than 3 buttons at a time (windows) and 2 at a time (most games) is this a driver problem or just my poor a$$ keyboard? cheers

Hey guys, My grandmother's computer keeps rebooting itself. My dad and I can not figure out what the heck is wrong with it. When he told me what it was doing my first thought was the Sasser virus. So we went and looked it up on the Microsoft updates page. …

hello eveery one i have a problum last when i working on my computer it was ok i shut down it , next day when i start my computer i don't start post. but it aslo gave me no beaf or any other information , i chang my cpu. then …

Hello, I am new to this forum and apologize for the double post (wrong area). I have an old PC with a bios/chipset that can only see 8.4 gigs. I added a Promise Ultra66 card to get over the 8.4 gig limitation. I have an unformatted Quantum fireball 20 gig …

I have a KDS monitor, about 4 years old. Works well except it sometimes changes color tone. A white page may look a little yellow and changes back to looking whiter. I checked all the cables, for cuts and tightness. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Hi….I need some help. I purchased (motherboard, cpu & cpu adapter card) from a local merchant. He told me just hook up my hard drives, ect & I would have no problem with a smooth boot up. He was wrong! The first error message I get is (cache memory failure, …

Please help me i'm desperate, i do not know what tipe of bios has my notebook "clevo hundyx 5600n" and i think i make a mistake in updating the bios and now a have no sound in spite of drivers who has installed very well, in device drivers everything is …

Does the coating on my monitor screen affect the picture quality. I washed the screen with windex and i'm not sure wether i damaged the coating. All the coating is is anti-static right? Nothing I should worry about for image quality? I have a NEC Multisync FE770 Flat screen monitor …

I've got a PC, with a new Biostar M7NCD motherboard, It was working fine until today when it rebooted itself on me and then every time I go to turn it on it just sits and beeps at me! It Beeps for 1sec, then nothing for 4sec, then beeps for …

We need a fairly robust printer to work with 9.2 The spec pg, & reviews for samsung mono chrome laser ml 2150 says it runs on "mac classic" and osx. Samsungs many pgs of dept's doesnt readily give an email so i couldnt ask the following- Does the above printer …

Hi new member, I am doing some repairs on an LCD monitor. I need to know if it is the inverter or the backlight. The screen will come on for a second and then shut off you can still extreamly dimmly see the picture. Any sugestion will be great!

As of recently I got athlon +2800 xp and a asus 17n8x-x motherboard. From knowlage from sources it is said that it's actualy speed is 2.2GHZ. When my computer starts up it says its 1.25Ghz along with some other useful tools that tell your computers speed. Maybe i misunderstood what …

I have 2 PC's, which have the same symptoms. 1 is an Acer Aspire 266mhz and a Packard Bell, old. Both stopped displaying the desktop and and both have an onboard graphics card. Is there a way to fix this? I have read about updating bios and info from the …

Hello, All right. Here is my little issue with my CD/RW. It's been workin' fine for quite awhile, then it starts not seen the blank disks, except a very few of them. Let's say, 90% of the time it dosen't seem them. I've gone through about 2 Spindles (100 CD's), …

My screen has a dark hue from when I turn it on. When the computer starts, my monitor is dark and the colors never fully come in after it has got to the desktop and warmed up. I can leave it on to wait for the screen to fully materialize …

I just installed a new hard drive on my G4. Now the computer will not recognize my new monitor. When I boot the computer the green light comes on the monitor but then it goes into sleep mode. How can I fix this. Okie

about 2 weeks ago my computer started to run rather slow on some games(even the simplest of them) and its been running slower then normal. When i check my cpu performance it is normally running around 50% performance when i dont even have anything runnin! I tried seeing what programs …

Is it possible that I buy a PCMCIA usb 2.0 card for my laptop and then it'll work? I just want one because I currently don't have any usb 2.0 ports on my machine. Thanks.

I've installed a Liteon LTR-52327S CD-RW drive (jumpered as Master) in a CoolMax Enclosure (CD-509-Combo, USB2+IEEE 1394). Panther system profiler recognizes the enclosure as either a USB or Firewire device, but fails to recognize the drive. It never appears on Desktop or in any app (e.g.,iPhoto). This model drive is …

Hey, I have no idea where to post this, i am sorry if it is no where near where it should be....its just I am a graphics designer and I have Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and now I cannot load it up because it says i am out of disk space …

hi everybody, I have an old computer stored up in my attic. Its from 1994, a P1 200 Mhz. For shame, her battery had run out. So I had a new computer. And it was forgotten, until now. Now my question is: are all CMOS battery's the same?

Hi, i'm workin on a pc that was in some sort of flooding, i'm not sure how much water was involved or what got wet. but since the flooding there has been alot of problems with the pc. i am wondering if there is any sort of sofware out there …

All my other games are having porportionatly the same problems. When I got this new card, I was expecting something a good deal faster than this, especially since one of my friends can run that FarCry game at medium quality with a video card worse than mine. Another can run …

[COLOR=Black][COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2]I just bought a brand new 120 gb 7200rpm Samsung SATA Hard drive to replace my 80gb Maxtor 5400rpm ATA Hard drive because it was acting up and i decided to get a new one. Anyways, i just got it in the mail and to my dissapointment i have IDE …

I came accross this forum while looking for help with my KDS Avitron 21" monitor. The particular thread is this one: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5042.html[/url] I have about the same symptoms, except after flickering for about a week, my monitor just stopped showing the picture, instead of having the picture in swirls. I …

I have the below hardware configuration and I have tried all the possible drivers for my graphic card but it didn't help.Same problems with all 3D games : When playing 3D games, the game suddenly quits to desktop without any error messages ! So what's your comment ? * GIGABYTE …

I have just blown my 4th monitor in 4 years. The first one (came with the computer) blew in 2 weeks. The replacement blew in a few months. The third one was from a different manufactuer and lasted a little over 1 year. the fourth one was from [b]another[/b] manufactuer …