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in the last post I told[QUOTE]hello my friends, 5 months ago my pc used to turn off automatically from 5-6 hours Later my pc's LCD broke and I changed my LCD. Then my pc used to shut off 1-2 hours or some random lines and colours come on the screen. …

I am trying to fix my mom's laptop. It's a dv6000 series hp. It was running slow and having problems. then I took it home and it would boot poorly and I did a system restore. it now wont boot. I tried to wipe the drive and reload the os. …

My Dell Latitude D630 power button stopped working after I had removed the keyboard to replace it. Turns out the one sent to me was incorrect, so I put the old keyboard back on to wait for a new one. I put the power button cover strip back on and …

Does anyone know the printer commands for a Brother MFC-J435w printer? I want to use Microsoft's Generic/Text printer driver in Windows XP to print to this printer. Brother's customer service department has not been helpful.

Hi, Hello, can i ask something?.I am planning to buy a new HDD for my laptop samsung R530 T4400 dual core.because my old HDD will not install properly the window 7 and it will show black screen after it's restart...can you help me please what HDD should i buy and …

i installed battlefield 1942 and when i click to play the black screen with battlefield shows up on the desktop then in a few seconds it goes black and a message box comes on that says "input signal is out of range please change settings to 1280 x 1024-60hz". my …

True or False, with Justification: " The compiler writer is intimately aware of the details of the processor implementation?"

Hi all. I am seeking a little advice regarding my Dell Studio 540 which over the past few days has developed a hardware fault. When I turn the unit on I receive a series of 8 beeps and the screen remains blank. Following the beeps, the unit makes all the …

hello everyone, My friend gave me this great E228WFP monitor.But it has this inch wide horizontal line in it. [url]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5610/img00009201201082021.jpg[/url] [url]http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/8313/img00008201201082020.jpg[/url] [url]http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/963/img00007201201082020.jpg[/url] As you can see, line is bit transparent. I am pretty sure its technical issue, i still can dark line even after i turn it off. My question …

I researched and couldn't find anything close. I have a Yoshiba Satellit A105-S101 laptop. 1 and 1/2 year old. Intel Celeron M380 1.6 ghz. 512 mb DDR 2 533 SDRam. Video ATI Radeon Xpress 200M with shared video 128mb. 60 gig HD. cd-DVD writer. Realtek ALC 861 sound card. Windows …

hi there, I've looked at other responses but I'm not sure they help me, I'm hoping you can. I have a Seagate desk external hard drive which I store in my safe as it holds all my photos of my kids. I took it out today to put more files …

Ok, for once I have a question rather than a possible answer... My client's laptop is an old HP Pavilion ze4600. When he brought it in, the LCD light was on, but the screen was black. I assumed it had crapped out trying to resume from hibernation. I hard-powered down …

this just started happening w/in the hour, so I'm kinda still alittle in panic mode... but upon boot up my compy will randomly freeze anywhere from the bios screen to the desktop I think there may be a static leak somewhere, but I'm looking for other possible options... IK a …

Heres the story: Last night my Compaq laptop was working perfectly fine. At that time it was not plugged in and the power cord was disconnected from it. A couple hours later, I go to the laptop, push the power button, and find that nothing at all happens. Nothing turns …

I removed all devices from the motherboard but the cooling fan runs for approximately 3 second then stops turning. "6 volts" is printed (on motherboard) near the fan assembly, but it measured 5 volts instead when I checked it. Is this typical for this model? I was unable to find …

Im looking for anyone with any ideas on how to print an 8.5x25 inch form with an oki Microline 8810 printer. I had another form that was 22 inches where i was able to set up an Epson fx driver that allowed me to print it without a problem, but …

I just built this PC and everything seems to be running fine, well as far as i can tell without being able to see anything on a monitor. The fan on the graphics card is spinning but when I plug the monitor I cannot get a signal. I cannot plug …

Hi all, I have an hp d330 desktop which i use for all my works and college projects. Today i have experienced problems with the cooling fan. When i switch on my pc, the fan moves for few seconds then it stops. And i get an error "512- Chasis fan …

Hi, My Acer Aspire 1800 laptop only starts up when the battery is in. When the laptop starts up the "power light" and "battery loading light" turn on. In Windows I can see the battery is loading so the AC Adaptor and the AC plug on the motherboard seem to …

I have read the other posts on the w2888 trouble and am asking to verify what I believe has happened. This machine is my kids machine so there is nothing to lose on the hard drive, the kids play games and surf on it and it wouldn't power up for …

Hi, I need some help on how to slave my hard drive sata from my laptop into my desktop,because my laptop hard drive is bad so i need to slave this into my desktop so that i can still recover some of the data...but when i looked at in my …

My Notebook,I can't reinstall the system.After the XP-CD running, it show"ican't found the GHOSTXP.GHO".But the XP-CD in my friends PC is running OK . Why? I am enwholesale. help me! I don't always play my China tablet pc ,I want my Notebook

Hello, I have Dell vostro laptop which has 2 GB RAM. It has one more slot where I can add 2 GB more so it will become 4 GB. I want to use my laptop at maximum possible speed. I am planning to take my laptop to computer shop to …

Im planning an HTPC build using the ASUS AT3IONT-I motherboard. I would like to use the Silverstone MILO ML03B case. The issue I'm seeing so far is that the case comes with 2 USB 3.0 front headers, and the mother board doesn't have an onboard USB 3.0 header connection. I …

Happy new year friends, I have been having a provlem with my pendrive saying its write protected i have visted variouus sites and usb formatter Tried to format with windows setup and unix commands Tried to reset windows keys BUt no avail plaese suggest me some ways

Hi everybody, I am desesperate : I want to build a custom computer on which i wanna install any OSx version. I researched on ALL HACKINTOSH DATABASES I can buy only one of these motherboards : Intel DG41WV Intel DG41CN Intel DG41KR Intel DG43RK Intel DH61SA Intel DH61WW Intel DH61DL …

You may consider this a stupid question but i am curious and want to know If i take off the fan of my cpu and put on it a teapot with water in, will it heat it enough to make coffee or tea ??? Thanks

Hi there my computer refused to power up recently The fans started spinning the lights came on but I had no beep codes and nothing on the screen not even the post screen. I needed a new comp quickly and so got a new motherboard,Ram and CPU. Once plugged in …

Hi, I recently spilled red wine onto the keyboard of my brand new Dell Inspiron 1525. I switched off as quick as I could and left to dry but as you could imagine it didn't apprecaite it and would not turn back on afterwards. I left it for a week …

Earlier today, I unplugged the power cord from my machine to move it to a different room (the machine was running at the time). When I plugged the machine back in it did not respond and would not charge the battery. Slowly, the battery began to lose its charge, and …

Hi, Im having trouble booting this desktop. It gets to the Windows XP logo with the black background, and then it goes back to this: floppy diskeet seek failure drive 5 not found: parallel ata, pata1 (pri ide slave) strike f1 to continue f2 to run to enter setup utility. …

I am looking to buy a graphics card and was looking at VisionTek Radeon HD 6950 Graphics card (only because this one should go pretty cheap) but it is currently bricked. This is the exact wording of the person, "This graphics card is bricked meaning a bios flash gone wrong. …

I am working on a friend's computer. They have an Acer Aspire M5640 desktop with Windows Vista Home Premium. They initially called and told me the system would not boot. When I took a look they turned it on and the monitor said "no signal." There is no splash screen …

There was a paper jam in my hp P2055 laserjet printer. Of course, this is not a big news. However, after clearing it the printer is still complaining "jam in cartridge area" and gives advice how to fix the things, but the problem is, there is nothing extra visible any …

Hello everyone! I just bought new PC with 60GB SSD and 2TB HDD. I use Linux (Mint 12 distribution for PC) and the rest of my family uses Win (7 Home premium x64). I installed Win on SSD, and Linux on a smaller partition on HDD. Unfortunately I cannot boot …

Hi, Ive installed a new A8V Deluxe with existing operating system winxp on a Maxtor 6y160po drive was working fine for a couple of days then began freezing in windows I decided to update all drivers from the supplied Asus disk when I returned it had crashed. when I bootup …

Hello, so I am building a pc and the processor is the 2nd gen Intel core i5 2300 (2.8ghz), now here are the memory specifications.. Specifications Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 32 GB Memory Types DDR3-1066/1333 # of Memory Channels 2 Max Memory Bandwidth 21 GB/s ECC Memory …

[B][COLOR="Red"]HP workstation X2100 does it have SATA connection on the motherboard ?? I have just got an Xtream dual storage box and it comes with a SATA port to attach to a PC ...and I am not sure if my old HP workstation has a connection socket on board !1 …

Hello there! Recently i've got a new monitor (Philips Blade 23" 1080p Full HD) And i've been wondering: Is it possible to run EyeFinity with 2 of these monitors (not 2 more, just 2) So that instead of 1920 x 1080 it would be 3840 x 1080? (My graphic card …

I'll start by listing my system specs: Motherboard: BIOSTAR TH67+ LGA 1155 Intel H67 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard Graphics: VisionTek 900338 Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 …

my pc restarts its self before it gets start .no warning signal appers in my monitor and before i can acsses my acount it restarts automatically.i have bought a new ram of 2 gb but it doesnot work the problem remains the same

A friend asked me to look at their Dell Inspiron 1525 (Vista OS) because it's not starting up. Here's what happens. When you press the power button, a black screen flashes with the Dell Logo. Then immediately the laptop powers back off. The 'on' button remains lit but the fans …

Hi Guys, I wanted to get some feedback on what the community thought about this: I am a web developer who needs something that is portable, and powerful. The air seems to be perfect for what I need. However, all the people I have talked to has said go with …

Is there I way I can have the rear speakers(where I have 2.1speakers) and front (where i attach my headset) working simultaneously? I tried connecting the headset to one of the rear jacks as front speakers but it didn't work. The speakers have a jack for headset (Arctic Sound 2.1 …

Hi I'm having a few problems with my Dell PC. Basically, when I turn it on, it boots normally. However, in less than 5 minutes, the two monitors either turn a solid colour or vertical stripes appear, causing the computer to be completely unresponsive (ie ctrl-alt-del does nothing, the keyboard …

Basic Info Operating System MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3 CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 59 °C Windsor 90nm Technology RAM 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 373MHz (5-5-5-18) Motherboard Albatron K8NF4X-AM2 (Socket M2 ) 40 °C Graphics W1943 (1360x768@60Hz) NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Hard Drives 195GB Seagate ST3200826A (PATA) …

I have this weird problem in my PC that I am encountering, last week, my PC runs fine, everything is a charm, then suddenly when I powered up my PC this Tuesday, then waited and when I was on the Desktop for a few seconds, it suddenly restarts without warning, …

Hi Guys, I have a 9301 Laptop which whilst using it (just on internet) the screen went multi coloured almost as if it had crashed or there was an issue with graphics card - not sure. I then obviously had to power cycle it, but was the screen remained black …

I built this computer 5-6 years ago. It has only frozen maybe 2 times and crashed maybe 3. What I mean when I say wont start is, It turns on motherboard lights come on, all fans work, everything seems to be going normally but it stays in high run mode …

I have LG Monitor Studioworks 500G which flickers most of the time. Actually i am keeping my monitor without it's base round stand. The screen lools like rain is falling across the screen.