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So i bought a new 22" LCD - LED backlit - monitor for my new buiild, and i'm facing a horrible case of buyer's remorse... So the problem with this monitor is that: 1) Not much information on it on the web - makes me suspicious 2) Not a very …

Hi all, I have a Acer Aspire M1641, that wont boot, normally. I turn on the the power button, the light comes on, and no display on the monitor. Its not the graphics card, which i'll come into later. At first i tried many methods to figure out what went …

I've never encountered anything like this and have no idea where to begin to troubleshoot. What happens is when I turn on the computer, it will show the motherboard (gigabyte) splash screen, then cut to black and monitor says it's going to sleep... meaning the display signal got cut right …

is new mid china tablet with andoid 4 and when you switch on the tablet after the andoid avatar picture is look like that is loading to log in but after 1 hour nothing change at all its stuck i try to reset but nothing again please help me to …

The problem with the 1 gig scan disk memory stick is very real and needs to be solved by the factory. the psp and any other reader will not read the card after it has been corrupted. I have had this problem and tried to reformat the card in every …

ok guys... this is what happened! i have a Acer Aspire One Netbook and the screen had a bunch of lines in it so i ordered a new one and changed it and now my netbook powers on but nothing. i pushed the power button and the light comes on, …

I have an HDTV (37" I think, not sure of the native resolution on it) and I want to be able to hook my external hard drive up to it so I can watch the movies and shows I've ripped on it. Now I could do this through my laptop …

Hi every body, I have a dell laptop inspiron N4030 with these information : Intel core i3 M380 2.5GHZ Originally in my pc manufacture put a 2 GB ram , yesterday i bought 4GB ram and hooked it in my laptop so now my pc detect 6GB ram in system …

I have a Hp Laserjet 3030 all-in-one and it just started printing almost solid grey over the whole page. I tried changing resolutions and other settings, ran the printer's own cleaning cycle a couple times, nothing changed. Even on draft mode it still covers the page. It's not perfectly solid, …

Well, I've had my Gateway laptop for a while now, and I've never had any serious problems with it. Today, out of nowhere, the cord just stopped working in the middle of charging the laptop. I felt it, and sure enough, it was very hot. It's been very hot like …

Hello everybody i have a serious problem i have a pentium 4 system and after some day we start my computer but it cannot display the screen shot on monitor we check ( change a new Ram, Hard disk, CD rom, and change a new VGA, and change a new …

Time and Date reset in win 7, every day it happen some time when i restart the system...i replace a new cmos battery but it won't help..

What is thin clients ?????? need the information

I recently got a hp Pavilion g6. It already had Window 7 installed and Direct X 11 installed. However when I try to play Warcraft in it I get the error message Direct X is not supported. And when I did some searching it says that Pavilion g6 doesn't support …

Kinda desperate right now. I've searched a dozen forums and whatever solutions I find there have not worked for me. Right now I'm getting 100% cpu usage and is kinda making my computer drag, and in some cases shut down. At first I started noticing this problem when playing Left …

Windows XP - Computer 1 & 2 - IBM Netvista ThinkCentre's P4; 2.8 GHz Problem: Computer 1 (Windows XP Home) copied photo's from 2gb SD card using Lexmark Pro200 printer with SD card reader to Easygo 4 GB flash drive (verified that the photo's were there.) Computer 2 (Windows XP …

Hi Although my PC detects my disc drives and can play from them when I try to write to the RW drive I get a message "No disc detected". I am using Roxio Creator LE Dell Edition. I have cleaned the laser carefully using methylated spirits and a surgically clean …

I have a Gateway GT5032 and it won't post, it does not beep or anything!!! Specs: RAM: Installed: 1024 MB 400 MHz (PC3200) DDR memory (two 512 MB modules) Expandable to: 4 GB CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor 4200+ * 2.2 GHz * 2000 MHz front side bus …

I bought a brand new Toshiba Laptop on 5th April. Worked well for the first day now I can't boot it up. When I push the power button the power light and the internet light come on and it sounds like the disk draw wants to open. Then nothing. I …

My Systemax is around 9 yrs old it worked fine when I put it into storage the last few years but when I recently got it out and plugged everything in it just beeps intermittedly like every few seconds. I put the startup disc in and an emergency boot floppy …

Hello everybody please tell me How to format a write protected usb . we format in windows 98 and windows xp and we use a ghost bootable CD and try to formate in boot time But it cannot formate. i know many virus in my usb but when i attach …

Which is the best mainboard for core i7 processor system?

Hey all ! I have a Dell Inspiron, mini 10 laptop with Windows XP, and a Gig of RAM, updated to SP3. One day I went to updrade the RAM in the laptop from 1GB, to 2GB. Should be simple.....NOT ! Ya have to take the motherboard out to do …

Hello guys! Im Ron, I would like to ask....what would be a great System Unit or better a laptop that can handle softwares of art?Photoshop, animation, autocad,etc..???I'm thinking of buying PC or laptop that is used for gaming but i will not use it for that...Is that okay? Are Computer …

hi i wonder if anyone can help , i was fixing a friends old sat pro because the hard drive was goosed. i put a partition on the hard rive as he cant afford a new one as yet, this worked fine... i then started installing xp on it and …

Hello, thanks for reading. I have recently noticed sound only coming from one speaker. I have done the obvious diagnoses and determined: [LIST] [*]both speakers work fine (on another PC using the same set-up); and [*]it is not the operating system (Windows) - I booted a recent Ubuntu Live CD …

Basically for a while, my video cable has had a DVI adapator to connect my screen to my nvidia graphics card in my computer tower. I was on the train 2 days ago, and my suitcase flew off the luggage rack and the front of the tower cracked. Obviously when …

Greetings, My friends noutebook Emachines e528 felt down from a table and now he has the following issue: Check cable connection! PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM Operating System not found I tried to take out the computer battery for some time, it didn't resolve the issue. Another advice was to …

My laptop turns white color with small line, while i switch on my laptop, the screen turns white color with small lines and i can't continue further laptop model:dell inspiron 1545

I have a 2 month old HP Pavillion G6 and it turns on fine and i can log on and every thing but it keeps randomly making a beep sound and then the screen turns black, the computors still on but the only way to get my screen back on …

My comp has the following specs...shouldnt it be able to run pretty much anything?... Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 ghz CPU 6 gb RAM NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 260M 1 GB It is manufactured by ASUS so Im assuming it has an ASUS motherboard... It is having serious trouble playing even …

Hi, Objective : To successfully remove the memory chips from a RAM stick and reduce its capacity. (Ultimately be able to scale down a 2GB memory stick to a 1.5GB memory stick) - A 200 pin SODIMM DDR2 SDRAM !!! I would like help from RAM experts on this forum …

I am trying to make an Alarm system which involves an Infra-red circuit which is connected to the serial port on the PC and generates a signal when motion is detected. The signal is to be read by a Java program and an e-mail sent to the client. Does anyone …

Hello everyone. I'm VERY new to forums so please bear with me as I will undoubtebly irritate a few with my lack of proper forum ettiquette and never-ending paragraphs... my humble apologies if I offend :) ... I recently acquired an old 1GHz IBM Thinkpad Laptop (not sure exactly what …

Hi, I changed my video card day before yesterday from ATI 4650 to 6670, and then I had problems while switching on my computer for a few times, then it got sorted. Today, windows informs me that my computer is running slow, so it wanted to switch of aero interface. …

I have a problem with my PC. I have Asus A8N-VM CSM motherboard. It had 512 ram and it was bit slow. I cleaned the disk and did defragmentation. Then I unclicked the programs which were making my comp load up slowly. I only kept the antivirus on and unclicked …

Hi. I recently purchased an asus P5KC motherboard. My problem being, after several attempts to rectify the problem and several forum posts, i'm still unable to get the damned thing to boot. I've tried everything from a basic setup consisting of just the CPU and a stick of ram to …

I am updating my personal computer's hard disk to an SSD drive soon, and I see there are two main types of drives, SATA II and SATA III. My computer's motherboard was made for SATA 3GBPS, will a SATA III drive still run on it?

Hi all, For starters,i have looked at other forum posts on this site and used the recommendations there for this problem I have and no solution had seemed to help. I have a dell xps m1530 laptop, about 2.5 years old. It has handled very rigorous situations, like intense gaming, …

Hello, I've download a manual here (ms-6701) butt it doesn't explain the post error beeps. A friend of mine asked me to check her pc, when i startup the pc it gives me a post error beep (one long beep, small pause and one long beep, etcetc...). So i searched …

HI there, I have 2 spare sticks of RAM of 2 gb each that I would like to put in a dell studio 1535. Now the problem is that according to the crucial website [url]http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=1F7BCCE4A5CA7304[/url] this dell laptop takes this memory: Part Number: CT867777 Module Size: 4GB kit (2GBx2) Package: …

i dont know if i placed it in the correct category,but im puzzled because my computer after startup doesnt have the icons only the wallpaper.. what the hell just happened?

hey! im looking for a microstar international MS-6701 mainboard manual, chipset is a SiS 648 if that helps! ive looked high and low on the internet with no luck but im hoping someone has this manual! thanks in advance (i posted this in the right area.. right?!)

hi all! i have a serius problem with the USB keyboard. I've installed Ubuntu but when the OS choosing menu comes up, the keyboard doesn't work, which make the ubuntu worthless :( I have installed ubuntu before, on a previous netbook running windows XP and then the keyboard worked without …

Hello, I had all my work on my USB stick, however I lost it and someone else found it. The thing is that I think that this particular person has transfered my work onto his laptop. Is it possible to check if any file were transfered from my flash?

First of all I've never posted on one of these before so hi there. Second hopefully somebody can help me. I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930 SB monitor running on an NVIDIA GeForce 5600 in XP. The monitor has developed a fault where is is now covered by sort …

Hi, The motherboard fan is making too much noise after the pc is turned off for more than a hour....the noise stops after pc is used for 20-25 minutes. I have checked the temp and fan speed, when making noise the temp is : 25 and fan speed is 1320 …

Hi, My name is mark and I recently bought a pc (Windows XP) from a friend and I checked for space etc and thought instead of just clicking on each program and uninstalling them one by one I thought I should try to restore the whole pc and start as …

Sorry if this is going to be a bit long winded but I'll start from the start of this problem. I recently brought two 1 gig ram sticks and put them in my pc, and I know this was a stupid thing to do and I don't know why I …

Guys. I need help. I got a problem here about these newly-bought flash drive. Let me tell the story. Last days of December, 2011, my sister bought a new [I]Transcend JetFlash V30[/I] 8 GB USB Flash Drive as a gift for New Year's Eve. Then two days later, when I …