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Howdy all, i have a dell inspirion 5100. It was not powering up at all so i took it apart and came up with this. I can get it to power up ONLY when i unplug the connector for the front lights and mouse. The screen powers up and i …

I Have a Packard Bell Imedia 2215. I have been running this with 2X1gb RAM for the past 2 years when all of a sudden I had the blue screen of death. I had a computer expert come out and told me that it had blown one of the RAM. …

I have a Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 Wolfdale 3.06GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80571E7600 I am looking at a BIOSTAR P4M890M7SE LGA 775 VIA P4M890 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard My question is do they match will they work together? also do the north and south …

I have an Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 Wolfdale 3.06GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80571E7600 with a Intel BLKD945PLRNL LGA 775 Intel 945PL ATX Intel Motherboard - OEM and 2 gb of ddr2 RAM and a gigabyte 8400 Gs graphics card when i connect it all …

Well isn't this just great 4 big assignments are due by the end of next week, and my PC decides to not charge anymore. It's a Dell inspiron 1545. The specs do not matter. I believe i know the problem. It's the connectors that the charger plugs into on the …

Dear Sir/Madam, My computer is restarting sometimes automatically, when i double clicking on media file or run a program etc (But not every time). Earlier, i thought, it was because of some strong virus. So, i formatted the c drive and try to installed OS(XP Prof SP-II) on my PC. …

Hi, I'm working as a software engineer, i'm using a laptop in office use, for 8 hrs continues, my laptop has 3 - 4 yrs of old, it producing more heating, cant able to keep my left hand, that much heat coming, what shall i do? any health problem will …

Hi i need some help with a problem i have encountered. i recently acuired a laptop from a freind and it works great, but the keyboard got ripped up by a cat or something. this laptop is an acer aspire 5720. i then got a keyboard off of an older …

I've P3 Desktop which starts by pressing F1 key of a PS2 keyboard. For a reason, I tried to start the PC with a USB keyboard, but I failed to start Windows as the keyboard was not activated & I failed to press the F1 key. Can anyone please tell …

I'm working on this computer for a friend. It's dead in the water; won't turn on. I bought a new power supply hoping the simplest fix would be the answer, but no, no life. So, the next thing to check will be the RAM, then the processor; can't think of …

My laptop keyboard doesn't work at all unless I go into control panel and change any setting, such as cursor blink rate. Once I click apply, the keyboard will work again. Unfortunately it will stopp working again and I will have to go back in and do it again. If …

my Dell insprion 1501 was showing a messag everytime i turned it on "Battery nor recognised, system will be unsable to charge battery" However, i pressed enter, ignored this messgae and it was fine. the other day i turned it on, had the same message and this time it didnt …

HI Friends here some problem. I have Pc with AMD Processor and i want to change my Processor. Is it possible to change my processor without changing my motherboard? reply please Thanks in Advance!

Hi, I have the machine mentioned above. It has a power on BIOS password enabled. I have removed the keyboard and unplugged the RTC battery (Real Time Clock). This had no effect. The question is... Does this machine have a CMOS battery? And if so, where is it? And if …

i am using very basic webcam.whenever i chat with my friends online, comparing to them my webcam is very worst .their cam are very good in clarity. please suggest me some good webcam.

recently i have updated windows 7 from windows vists since vsita occupies all my HDD space in to trash . after that once it was done it tells me to "consider changing the battery" but actually the battery is completely full . what could be the trouble in my laptop

This is the hardware section so I guess I wanna try something. I have a spare Surfboard modem sitting around my house, anything I can do with it? I mean turn into something useful... I try to look stuff up, but can't find anything that calls my attention. Any ideas …

Im am hopfully going to order my custom PC soon, but was thinking about watercooling. A few questions arose but I was able to solve most of them except.... My case can support watercooling but I found an external triple radiator thing, short story is the thing would look bad-a** …

I have an old computer, of the brand Cisnet. When it boots up, it flashes a screen with a series of numbers on it and some other data for about a second. I managed to take a picture of it, and the numbers are the checks of all the hardware, …

Hi My 19" MAG LCD monitor does does not display anything. After boot up, it displays for a few seconds and then goes black; the same happens when I switch the monitor OFF and then ON. The problem has got nothing to do with system unit because when I connect …

Hi I am new on this web and I bought a Seagate freeAgent go External hard drive I found it helpful so I Purchased another one Now after a few months the Second HD stopped being shown in my computer It was working fine plugged it in my laptop copied …

hi.. i have asus k42d laptop..bt last two days it creates lound beep sound randmoly.. i scaned my laptop bt no virsus found.. i worried if laptop get some serious hardware prob.. reason for i could not find from internet... only reason that i knew virus... bt no virus in …

I have an ASUS mb, A7V8X-X. Does this board handle low or high density RAM? And is it non-ECC? I have 3 - 512 units of PC2700 RAM and I want to max it out to 3 gigs. I have an AMD Athlon XP 2600+. Is there a better processor …

Hi and here it is in a nut shell. Desktop PC fan always comes on with the normal quick push of the power switch but sometimes the mobo doesn't. When it happens I'll hold the swith in till the fan goes off and then try to fire it up again …

Okay, I was downloading some zip files some while ago while at the same time, I'm also extracting downloaded zip files on my hd. By accident, the zip files that are still in extraction, I managed to click delete on them. The programs started to hang, then froze, which left …

i have pc analyzer when i plug into pci slot it shows E8, E9 code what it mean

Hi. I have been having issues with this laptop for a while now. I bought it to fix it up but am not able to so far. It is a powerbook g4 and I have replaced the bottom case, 2 new chargers, battery, cd drive, extra ram, and the screen …

I have a Sony Vaio K45 running Windows XP Home. When I boot up the machine randomly boots up with the desktop segmented into 4 separate desktops all showing the same desktop. Only the top left is a full desktop. I don't know if this is my video card going …

I have WDC WD1600AAJS-60PSA0 ATA HDD. I can use it as a second (storage) drive, but I have [B]problem to install any OS[/B]. I have tested it with Ashampoo HDD Control 2 and this is log: [Harddisk 1 ; Modell=WDC WD1600AAJS-60PSA0 ATA Device ; Size=160 GB ; SN=WD-WMAP95554491] Physical Drive …

Hi, I had a catastrophic RAID failure and was hoping for some advice on next steps. A couple of years ago, I purchased an Addonics mini-tower with a built-in hardware raid controller and filled it with hard drives and set it up as a RAID 1 array. I used this …

Hello everybody, I'm glad that I found this place! Over here at our office, there's a computer which completely spontaneously decided not to work anymore. Nothing at all has been changed in its configuration, neither hard- or software. Right now, after switching it on, I see OR a nice graphical …

Hey everyone. Recently one of my friend's computer gave up on her. P III 677 MHz , 128MB ram, 30GB maxtor drive. I know its ancient, but if all you do is type documents and listen to music and ocasionally watch a movie or 2 its good. It was a …

Its possible to install any Operating System using the pen drive.??

I work for a railroad. We use a brand of data recorders to log events on the locomotives that write the data to SRAM cards (PCMCIA format). The trouble I am having is that new laptops don't come with PCMCIA slots. I need to find a device that lets me …

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My Dell Dimension 9150 worked well yesterday but today when I turn it on it freeze during the POST, the status bar under the Dell logo on screen go up to 95% more or less, emit a constant beep and the Diagnotic Lights 1 and 4 light up. I unplugged …

Sony has confirmed that it will stop manufacturing and supporting floppy disks from next year. That's it, there will be no more. This tells the technology community a number of things. First, if anyone actually cares about this then the end user community, and particulary the home worker, are further …

Hello All, My external hard disk(WD) of 1TB was fell down from the desk. Now the thing is, when I tried to connect it, I asked for formatting, So, I denied it. Afterward again when I tried to connect it, its getting detected, the white light on HD was blinking, …

I just got an external enclosure so i can get info off two of my old hard drives. It is working great, but i can't access my old documents (Documents and Settings\Owner). I think I might have had a password required at login on my old computer. is there a …

Hi to all I have a flash drive of 64 mb Samsung. Last month i formated it using the format utility of its manfacturer CD. And that's it........ its size decreased to 32 mb. I tried my best to recover its size but all in vain.... I tried the format …

Hello everyone, I have a problem regarding my hardware not detecting my CPU. I am using an intel pentium 4 computer using windows xp home edition. The problem is, since 2 days ago, After I would boot up my PC, my mouse (which would normally turn red) keyboard (which would …

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Ok, I have this monitor, made by Dell. What happens is when I plug it into a computer and start it up, it looks like it is going to start, by changing from an off screen to a black screen. Then the power LED just blinks. I know it is …

Hi folks, Just bot an old G4 power PC dual processor - 1 GB each. This might be the mirror door. It was working for a while, but now I'm getting the "panic- were hanging in there" message at start up. I tried everything BUT now it looks to me …

I have read the sticky's but it did not help my problem so here goes. okay, so i will start from the beginning. I have a fairly old computer and I bought a graphics card for it (ati hd4730 to be exact). I did not know that this video card …

I have XP My DVD driver will not open. Do i have to upgrade a driver for this? Is it free? Where do I get the driver from? is it something I can fix it myself? Is it something on my computer & can I fix it myself? I am …

Hi using full hd TV as monitor but flickers even when refreshed. It also has the annoying habit of not recognising any changes made when rebooted forcing me to reconnect the old monitor and follow the whole procedure again. Embarrassingly I am using and old dell optiplex gx620 whilst awaiting …

Hey, Here's the story, so today I decided it was about time to clean my computer out of all the dust so I unplugged everything and proceeded with doing so. After replugging everything back in the speakers had stopped working. I tried a few things in a attempt to solve …

I'm at a loss - I've killed 2 Gateway laptops in the past 10 days and have no idea what the issue is. One is an M-Series w/ Vista and the other is a NV-Series w/ Win 7. The problem happened when I unplugged them and took them someplace else …

last week i bought a new tablet laptop ,when i shut it down it will cost at least ten minutes why did my new tablet shut down so slowly ?:sad: