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I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, and a couple of weeks ago the speakers stopped working. I have checked the volume settings and they're fine. In the Device Manager, I can't tell which of the entries would contain the driver for the speakers. Under "Sounds and Audio Devices", everything …

PC won't switch on at times and if on, randomly switches when it feels like

I have a Sony Vaio, VGN-CS320J, laptop with Vista installed. The computer runs fine BUT, the lower half of the taskbar has a pink and green , horizonal, active bar ontop of it. That makes it hard to read whats on the taskbar. Whats strange is that the pinkish/greenish bar …

I have a Presario 2100, and like everyone else, i have a power problem. Mine seems to be a bit different though. The ac light comes on and the battery charges fine until I press the start button. Then the light goes off imediately and the system boots and runs …

I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 with Windows 7 I bought this laptop in December. In order to ensure that my laptop is in tip top shape and is performing well, what steps or rules should I follow.

A friend of mine sat on his ipod nano(4 gb silver model) and now it won't turn on.Any help highly appreciated as I am clueless about apple devices.

Have dell computer that someone shut off as it was rebooting due to a power surge. Now it will not boot at all. It freezes as it comes to the dell logo boot screen. Any suggestions on to what is the problem and perhaps a way to fix it.

I have a intex fm-tv tuner video capture card which is apprx. 7 year old. It is used only twice or thrice in these years. I have tata sky satelite at home. I want to make parallel connection from that satelite tv to my laptop using this tv tuner card. …

this crappy computer doesnt want to work! working on my dad's computer and it bluescreens randomly at 15-20 minutes! have no clue but my friend thinks it is the mobo. just replaced ram and upgraded it and upgraded video while i had it open. no blown caps on the mobo. …

I understand that this forum is the Motherboards, CPUs and RAM area, but my question is a bit more vague than that but these components are what matters most to me. Im a teenager and I am looking to buy myself a computer or laptop (Preferably laptop) for me to …

I did see this thread before, but since it was an old post, decided to start a new one. I have a Toshiba Satellite A85 Laptop. Battery, charger and port are all fine. Cleaned fan and heat sinks applied new heat sink compound to CPU. Laptop CPU still runs at …

Alright, my Thinkpad T60 decided to stop booting. I've tried all the obvious already. Anyway, when I start it up, it shuts down in 3 seconds. All the lights act normal, but no display. To get it to boot again, I need to remove the A/C and the battery. When …

Hello All, I have 1 TB External Hard Disk. So, I have Partitioned it into 3 Drives. For this, I have used this Approach : Using fdisk, I made two Partition, and then using 2nd Partition, I divided them. By doing this, All Partitions are PRIMARY PARTITIONS. Now, In all …

I was planning on upgrading my desktops video card... so my question is how do i pick the right one for my desktop? what do i look for and such.. thanks

For the past one week or so my system suddenly restarts, i get a message "system has recoverd from a serious error, cannot decide whether its a hardware issue or software plz help me in this matter. This is the error message iam getting. [IMG]http://picturespk.pk/images/rgh1308487791y.jpg[/IMG]

Hello guys! Please help me. I bought a PC case fan and currently installed in my rig. 100% working. Here's the problem, every time i turned on my pc it appears [B][U][COLOR="Red"]"Unknown BIOS Error Code=410e"[/COLOR][/U][/B] Is it the pc case fan that i installed? or any software issues?

Hullo, I've just been given a second hand/pre-owned Motherboard/CPU. And as it is potentially better than the one my daughter has I'd like to try and get it up and running. Some info:- Motherboard - Imperial G 20020828 (this is the only info I can find on the board). CPU …

This unit has an Intel CPU, onboard video, a free PCIeX16 slot and a free PCI slot. I bought a new PCI video card and I also swapped out the monitor for a known good one, but i still get the NO SIGNAL from the monitor. I also reset the …

Hello I have an intel celeron processor that uses an asus motherboard. I need to buy a new motherboard and need to know what kind of socket the processor is, and what kind of chipset i need, if ya need more info just tell me.

Hi, I urgently need some IT support for my PC fan controller. I bought an Fan Speed Controller from a vendor, They offered a good item but do not offer the instruction to install. Should anybody give me some tips how to handle it? The item I bought is from …

Hello, We have a hp desktop, it's about five years old. I replaced the fan about a year ago and have recently opened it up and cleaned it out. Today when I try to turn it on, the fan immediatly runs loud and hard, then after about 30 seconds the …

please, I'm having challenge about VGA.but the system will boot but can not boot but can not be seen .please assist me.Thank for your co-operation

[U]System specifiacation.[/U] Processor p3 933 mhz. 512+265 Ram. 40 gb harddisk. Microsoft Xp Operation system. It is 8 years old. When i am working intermedietly system is getting hang. I formatted full hard disk and re istalled OS also. Again this problem is continuing. While formatting and installing OS , …

IS it possible to connect a hardware keylogger inside UPS(uninterrupted power supply) connected to a computer? As far as i know, hardware keyloggers can be connected to ps/2 keyboards , usb keyboards and on mother boards is it possible to fix hardware keylogers inside UPS also??

Hi there. I was wondering if somebody could help a noob out. I own a Dell Dimension 5100 with 512MB Ram. Using CPUz, it tells me that I have two 256MB PC2-3200 (200mhz) sticks in place. Can I remove these and boost it to 2gb with 4 512MB PC-4200 sticks, …

Hi guyz.. i recently got a new gpu i.e. radeon HD 6770. This card is quite powerful and runs most of the recent games in at least middle range. Or so i thought..! When i started the first game on this card, which is POP3 the two thrones, i was …

I have recently purchased the 'Iriver ihp-120'. After putting music onto it I try to eject the device by clicking on the 'Safly Remove Hardware' icon in the system tray and click on stop and it says "Device 'generic volume' cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again …

Hey all, This is a bit of a theoretical question. If my PSU puts out x amount and I wanted to fit a GFX card which would take more power than the system uses in total would it help if I disabled an unused piece of hardware? ie. If I …

[ATTACH=RIGHT]21960[/ATTACH]Apple thinks that the Samsung Galaxy Tab looks a lot like the iPhone and the iPad, from the appearance of the device right down to the packaging it comes in. Now it seems that the courts agree. Well, one of them at least. The Dusseldorf District Court in Germany has …

Symptoms: Laptop boots up and dies in about a minute User had previous trouble with keyboard and had removed and reinserted it before. First 20 seconds of boot attempt is met with that loud "stuck key" repeating sound. Removed keyboard. System began booting without sound, ran for a minute, shut …

I have a secondhand Intel motherboard DQ965GF that I am trying to install it has a 3g CPU and 2 g RAM with a serial DVD drive and an 80g hard drive. If I try to boot install Windows 7 I get “can not read from CD code 5” When …

Yesterday my Toshiba laptop crashed, i pulled out the HD and plugged it into my desktop in an attempt to retrieve some data. To make space for the laptop HD I accidently removed the Desktop C: drive HD (mistaking it for another), when I plugged it back in I found …

I bought an Nvidia 6200. It came with drivers on a disk, but I have win7, and it only supported Vista and XP, so I went on the site, and downloaded new ones that work on win7, but they won't install unless the card is in. I install the card, …

Hi, my friend's pc stopped working. technician told that motherboard and smps is damaged. rest of the things in that pc is-p3 processor, 512MB sdram and 40GB ide hard disk. Now my friend is planning to buy a new SMPS.Motherboard, Ram and Processor. his doubt is, does the old hard …

i appologize if this is in the wrong section. Lately my computer fan has been turning on and when it runs it is very loud. I let my copmuter sit over night and i turned it on and within 10 minutes the fan came on and is loud as can …

hi guys ! mine is a sim prb . my old 40 gb sammsng drive shows in bios bt not in drive manager. lookiing for help. some imp data in there.thnks

Hi there, I just bought Dell XPS 15, with 500 GB HDD I have habit of using 3 partitions. One for System, 120 GB 2nd 190 GB 3rd 190 GB But now, there is hidden recovery partition of 13.4 GB, C of almost 200+ GB & Another of again 200+ …

HP G61 PICTURE>>> [URL="http://www.it-echo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/HP_G61-511WM.jpg"]http://www.it-echo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/HP_G61-511WM.jpg[/URL] LAPTOP IS IN GOOD CONDITION. NO INDICATION LIGHTS, I PLUGGED IN BATTERY CHARGER ONLY THE TINY WHITE LIGHT ON THE SIDE WHERE ITS PLUGGED IN COMES ON. I REMOVED THE BATTERY, STILL NOTHING, TRIED HOLDING DOWN THE POWER BUTTON... STILL NOTHING. PUT BATTERY BACK IN AFTER …

I e-mailed ccompaq and they told me to take out the battery and unplug the battery cord and then hold the power button down for 45 seconds. I did this and it still doesn't work. What else can I do?

hi,My Compaq presario does not read CD & DVD

I recently built my own computer (for the first time), and have been keeping an eye on the temperature of the CPU since the computer was first turned on. The temperature of the CPU tends to range from around 50C by the time windows has loaded (this is from a …

My PC was running fine. Then happened that there was no signal to LCD , Keyboard , Mouse. I took everything out , cleaned Motherboard from dust. Then it was working fine. Then after a week the same problem has ocurred , I have tried everthing which I done previously …

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This seemed like the only logical place to ask, but how can I make an 8-to-1 multiplexer with only basic logic gates (not, and, or, xor, nand, buffer, nor,xnor ) ???

Due to some reason, my computer was not able to start up and it ends up with Safe mode Safe mode with networking Safe mode with command prompt Last known good config Start windows normally which none of the option works above. attempt format with the Operating System Disk(For installation …

Hello, I hope I can explain the problem well. My monitor is a CRT. The ghastly black lines/stripes emerged just today, gradually by a few secs. When it happened, the quality of the picture lessens a bit and stayed on like that. Its something like this, [img]http://www.myimghost.com/getimg/montor.jpg[/img] Not an accurate …

I have a computer and when i turn it on the monitor does not come on i know that the monitor is working because it is the same monitor im using. so i wnat to know ir it is the video card is the problem and if or how to …

I'm not sure if this is in the right forum, but anyway: I have an Acer Aspire 5742G Laptop and the headphone port has started to act funny. It doesn't send audio to the left side of my headphones unless I hold the headphone plug slightly down. I've tested it …

Hi there people, I'm looking to build a system that will be primarily used for what is effectively P2P filesharing, via FileZilla. Also I want to be able to share the items stored on it via a LAN. Build budget of as cheap as chips.( and don't mind using older …

It's running XP Pro, everything seems to be connected fine. Recently I'd opened the case up to remove an old CD-RW drive that was malfunctioning, but I fixed the drive and returned it back to its original spot, and it worked fine. But today when I turn on the power, …