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HI, I was working on my laptop for few hours (just surfing/chatting)..and suddenly now screen went blank... and wont comeback... i tried rebooting it but still no avail.... it wont show even the initial bios setting.. i tried to connect it to desktop monitor still blank.. but hard drive light …

Gateway EL500C desktop. Runs XP. No idea what else is "on" it, have not been able to gain access, other than opening and looking. [U]Started with[/U] a whisking noise inside at start, and she inquired around, ended up buying and sticking in a [U]new hard drive[/U]. Novice mistakes were made, …

First let me apologize for my lengthy post im about to make. Let me explain my situation. I recently took a weeks long vacation to florida, in which i had my computer turned off. Upon returning home i noticed the power had went out. And all my computer lights and …

Hello today my gpu went bad. Simple as All i need to know is what actualy went wrong. I was playing SC2 and then my screen went all funny. I restarted my pc but the problem is still here a day later. Below is what my screen looks like.(Attachment) Sorry …

We have all seen the commercials for the NeatDesk Scanner, promising to organize all of your old receipts, business cards and documents by making a searchable database of them. I personally am always skeptical of any “as seen on TV” product, but this is a product my wife has actually …

Hi, I'm looking for a budget PC so I can run Skyrim and future games such as Mass Effect 3. I've had a look at building myself the current spec I was looking is this: Motherboard: MSI 870A-G54 £65 PSU: Ocz ModXstream 500w £48 CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 …

I have a hp dv2000 series it's my experimental laptop was working fine when i unplugged it and since then only power light comes on have checked all the connections by opening it up but could'nt seems to get it working i have quiet a bit of experience disassembling and …

i recently purchased a 512mb SanDisk Micro Cruzer jumpdrive. when i first opened it up, i inserted it into my computer at work which runs on XP (sp2). i was able to transfer files to the drive. so when i got home that night, i inserted the jumpdrive into my …

Hi, I bough a CD+RW Optical drive. I cannot find information about what SATA it is. Is it SATA 2 or SATA 3? Thanks LG GH22NS50.AUAA 22x SATA DVDRW Drive

Hi, I'm trying to play Skyrim on my laptop but I don't think my video card is good enough as my FPS averages out at 10. Just wondering if it is possible to upgrade the video card easily or am I looking at an impossible task? I'm running: [INDENT] ------------------ …

HELLO DaniWeb, it's been a couple years, sorry for that. Anyways,so here's the story.I was attempting to backup a client's SATA HD by hooking it up to my PC, which uses an IDE HD for the master, and after hooking it up it took an usually long time to boot, …

Does anybody here have some experience calling a web service from android? Please help. Im using ksoap2 android 4.0 thanks for any info.

"STOP 0x0000008e" error message during Windows XP setup Any help?

Long story short, my little cousin turned on the computer, don't know how long it was on but when I found it there was no display. It's a compaq presario originally had windows ME but it was upgraded to XP. Since I plugged the screen to my laptop and it …

I have a usb (with the other end cut off), and I noticed that it is not recognized by the computer. I am wondering how I could make it so that the computer recognizes it. I will eventually make a wireless connection to a camera (security camera) for my room. …

I am looking for a reasonably priced computer for sale (to build). I built one last year but pretty much returned everything in the end / tiger shipped half my items doa, short story short, I switched to newegg. I have been watching the new am3+ with amd's 8-core cpu …

sense my old motherboard fryed im headed to frys today to get a new one. I dont know much about motherboards and was planning on getting something like the 750i. I would much apperciate suggestions duo core 2.13 gtx 260 4gb ram

[ATTACH=RIGHT]22851[/ATTACH]Thought Apple had the tablet market sewn up? Think again. And it's not Android but apathy that's the problem according to new research. Yep, if you thought Apple had the whole tablet computing market sewn up tighter than a zombies' mouth, you would be wrong according to newly published research …

im planning to buy a graphics card.. as of now, i have none. iv seen the specs of ATI radeon HD 6670 model, and i like it... but a few queries remain.. mainly compatibility oriented. [B]my system:[/B] CPU- 3.2 GHz AMD Athlon X2 250 2 GB DDR2 800 MHz ram …

Hi Guys, I have a Samsung P28 I just got from a company I deal with, if I fix it its mine. When I press the on button, I hear the CD Drive and thats it. Re the set of lights up over the keyboard, the right most light [ …

Which will be better Dell(Core i3/2GB RAM/250 GB HD)or(Core 2Duo T6600 2.2GHz/3GB/320GB) having same price? Please help me choosing one of among these two ?? Dell™ Inspiron 15 New Laptop Intel® Core™ i3-330M (2.13Ghz, 4Threads, 3M cache) 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM (1 x 2GB) 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive 15.6” …

Have any of you ever seen this before? The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention. Scenario: The Desktop Window Manager responsiveness has degraded.

Hi,This is my first post,I bought a second hand Samsung p29 laptop on ebay with the hope of fixing it for my son,It powers on fine but and you can hear the cd spining,but rarely does the screen turn on,I first thought it was a loose conection to the screen,but …

Good day sir, I'm a computer technician and I have a patient: Dell Inspiron 600m. The first problem is the Bios Password which I removed manually by disassembling it. After removing the Bios Password, the second problem is the Hard Drive Password which I removed it through Password Generator. The …

I would like to know what kind of CPU architecture I should choose for creating my first operating system. I personally would like to give it a go with trying out a RISC type CPU, but if it's better to try it out on an x86 or some other type …

Hi, I want to unlock huawei EC156 modem given with tata photon plus. I need change sim card to access other network provider data plans like airtel, aircel etc... please help me Thank you...

Hi, About 1 and half years ago purchased a computer , firstly it had -intel pentinum processor, 1 GB Ram and asrock G41VS2 motherboard . it was running properly. After a month i changed processor to Core 2 Duo E7500 and ram to 2GB. within a month my computer started …

i am fixing a computer and backed up files on the drive then reinstalled the os, after the reinstall the harddrive started to make a clicking noise and wont boot, is this drive broken now? all i did was reinstall the os and take a few files off. am i …

I have a HP Pavilion p6234f with an Intel GMA 3000 on board video on an Intel G33 motherboard. My issue is that I need dual outputs, use a monitor and projection system (it is for our church), so I bought a GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 64-bit card. Installed the …

This is not really a hosting related question but if you had a netbook with windows 7 and the child forgot his password to get into it since they were on a punishment where they lost it for a month and the password suggestion does not ring a bell to …

Why not charge my laptop into the power? Power indicator light has been flashing...

I would like to upgrade my power supply, in my HP Pavilion a630n, which has a 300 watt unit from factory.So I can upgrade to a good graphics card. I have a 8500GT with passive cooling right now, I would like to upgrade to a 8800GT if Possible. Thanks John

i dont know much bout computers, but i need help fixing one i was messin around with the pins in my computer (award something or other, with a p3) when the processor fan sparked and stopped running.. and started smelling bad it worked but the fan wouldnt turn, so i …

Hello all, I have been programming for about five years now and am finally looking into getting my own computer. :) The deal is I need a cheap computer ($100 - $800 about) that can handle programming (C++, Java, Python, Web Dev, some minor Game Dev) and college life as …

I am facing this problem regularly and dont know what to do about it. Sometimnes there is no problem and goes on for weeks. Sometimes It happens so frequently that while working all of sudden Monitor goes Off. Sometimes it doesnt come back and I have to turn off PC …

I have a 1.5 terabyte hdd with windows 7 loaded on it but recently got a ssd drive and installed that as the system drive. All worked fine for a few weeks, but i plugged my blue ray player in and i think what happened was the paging files were …

As well as being Editor-in-Chief and Community Administrator here at DaniWeb, for the last 20 years I have also been a freelance journalist (writing for national newspapers as well as being Contributing Editor of PC Pro, the best selling computer magazine in the UK) and am fortunate enough to have …

Hi...I have done everything including the hokie pokie with my vaio laptop and it will not turn on :-( A week ago I CTL ALT DEL to lock it, came back to it 2 hours later and it was lifeless. It was on the charger with battery in. I have …

I have a laptop toshiba Satellite M305D thats running vista home premium thats only 4 months old. I was using it fine on Sunday night, my daughter went on it Monday morning, still fine. she said it was running slow, so I told her to shut it down. She did, …

ARM's ASM is a breed in it's own. AMD and Intel, although different, have more closely related assembler than most. Someone mentioned the other day that AMD is just an Intel repeat, basically copying engineering designs and repeating them with reduced cost (as they don't pay to have it designed, …

Hi friends, Please help me on this problem which i am having with my computer for 3 three days. I am using a Samsung Syncmaster 773s 17 inch CRT monitor with the following system. OS - Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service pack 3 (32 bit) CPU- Intel Pentium …

It may win the prize for being the research with the most surreal title, but the 'My dog ate my iPad' report comes with a very serious message attached and one that business would do well to listen to. The full title of the independent research report, commissioned by SecureData, …

I have a hp dv6000 laptop. I can barley see everything. Thought it might be a backlight. Was on the phone for 4 hours plus with HP and tried everything. They quoted me 422.oo to replace the backlight. So I bought a new screen. I installed it and it does …

My Gateway Solo 2150 has a problem which I've concluded is a dead CMOS battery. When it boots after being without power, it shows the date and time as being midnight 1/1/2000. Supposing that I do need to replace the CMOS battery, does anyone know how to open up this …

I'm unable to get any new USB devices to work with my Fujitsu laptop. Devices that I've been using for a while (such as keyboard, mouse, printer, ext. hard drive) still work. Whenever I try to connect any new device (mouse, USB stick, ext. hard drive) it immediately recognises what …

My uncle is coming to the UK from the US for Christmas, and I've asked him to get me the Kindle Fire, which comes out in November over there, but there is no UK release date. If he buys it for me there, and beings it home to, will I …

I am putting together a new build with a hyper 212 plus and some corsair vengeance memory that goes right beside it. The problem is that the hyper 212 extends slightly into the 1st slot of memory. The vengeance memory is way too high with the heatsink on it. What …

Hi, I have bought this dell vostro 1015 laptop one and half year ago. Day before yesterday my windows xp hanged and I was unable to shut down. So I pressed power on button for few seconds to switch off my laptop. Now my laptop is not starting. I see …

I have a problem. My computer broke down and then I reinstalled Windows (XP). Since then my computer dosen't recognise my graphics card. It still works, but cannot display 3D anymore. Do I have to update the driver? I don't know, I tried it ,but I need to know the …

Hi. I have a Sony VAIO desktop with a Remote. I want to move this remote to my Sony VAIO laptop. They are both running WinXP. How do I get the software/drivers? Thx.