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Yer, I have a Dell GX 150 (BIOS ver: A01). Of recent, the PC always have problems booting up, it's like for some reason can't seem to recognise the Drives (harddrives, CDroms) connected to it. And since it can't recognise them, it definately can't boot. I have tried reseting the …

[B]Hello, I'm very new to this whole buying components and created your own gaming PC. I've managed to come up with a list of components and am looking for advice on what to buy. [/B] [COLOR="Red"]Here's what I've got: - Coolermaster Elite 334 Case - Corsair 4GB(2x2GB) RAM - BeQuiet! …

Help! My wife's laptop hasn't been working right for a few days now. She turns it on, it sounds normal at first, she gets the screen displaying the Dell logo...sometimes it says "Resuming Windows" and there's the Windows logo. Then she gets what sounds like a small chirp from inside …

Hi all. I had a comp. savvy person flash my extra wireless router (WRT54G v8) with DD-WRT I think so I could use it in other rooms, like a bridge I guess, but I'm basically just using it instead of a wireless adapter. It's been cable connected to my HTPC …

My Linksys router has been flashed with DD-WRT and been using as a wireless bridge. Suddenly I can't get internet anymore so I'm trying to access the settings, but I can't get past the username & passord. Someone else flashed it for me and must have entered new ones. I …

I have a laptop--Gateway P-6860fx. The operating system is Windows Vista. I was using my computer. It froze. I hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE. This message came on-- Logon process has failed to create the security options dialog Failure-Security Options I clicked OK. The screen became blank. The computer was unresponsive. I unplugged …

Hi All I hope this is something simple as i am very reliant on my laptop. I have it all plugged in but none of the lights on the laptop are working...Im hoping its the cable that has blown up or the battery... can anyone help? i cant think what …

Hello Am thinking of buying an ATI HD 5670 card, but I know ATI is used for AMD PCs, while mine is an Intel one. Buying and using an ATI card on Intel will cause an issue? Also I currently have a 7600GS of NVidia, and needs only to be …

Compaq C500 laptop won't turn on. When I plug in the charger the charge LED lights solid for just a millisecond, then flickers.I completely disassembled the unit, down to the main board. I removed the charger port from the unit and plugged the D/C charger into the port. I then …

Hi: I was wondering if anyone has ever run across an issue like this. My HP Pavilion a210n machine powers up to the HP screen with a constant beep. I'm aware that this is a BIOS error. The blue HP screen gives me 2 options install | safety mode - …

Hi, I'm looking for a new multifunction printer that is capable of printing a minimum of 300 pages a day of colour and b&w, which also is not very expensive for replacement ink cartridge/toner. The budget is approx. £200 for the printer, not including ink supplies. The 300 pages a …

why is that my T3104 emachines desktop only recognizes IDE drives connected to the IDE2 chennel on the motherboard. Currently there is a 100g hard drive, and a dvdrw drive connected and I cant add anything else. Tech support is no help

Morning All, I have a customer who has bought a computer with Athlon iix4 Model 635 on a Biostar GF8200E motherboard. This cleaverly alters the processor speed dependant on useage to save energy. The problem is that customer needs to fix the processor speed for a music application he is …

I have a 4-yr-old Sony Vaio laptop with a Blu-Ray player/CD burner combo. It stopped playing a few months ago and my laptop is out of warranty. Besides, the dealer where I purchased it is 90-minute drive one way (I'll never do that again!) I'm running Windows Vista. The device …

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]undefined[/FONT]Recently i intstalled WINDOWS 2K Pro and since then my sound card hasnt been working please help me!!!

The right click on my laptop has stopped working properly. You can drag and highlight things with it but no normal right click functionality. This occurs with the touch pad and when a USB mouse is plugged in also. No problem when in administrator account. All settings are default nothing …

I have unfortunately dropped my sony vaio from about a foot and a half and now it won't start. When I press the power button the LEDs go on, something clunks around a bit (as you can tell I dont know what I'm talking about), but that’s it. No fan, …

Dear all i am a novice in hardware aspect, due to my study i need to master this part. my question is what is internal RAM and exteral RAM, where is located in motherboad? seconde one is what is off-chip and on-chip? where is located in motherboad? thanks a lot

A young kid came to my garage (house) where I have all kinds of computer things, he respectfully ask me to help him fix his computer, I know he doesnt have money to repair the Laptop and it is a nice Laptop, when I checked it out my eyes popped …

yo guys im looking for memory testing software that can point out which dimm is faulty when testing multiple dimms at a time.. anyone that can help out please..?

HI! I would like to know if ever I'm going to change my RAM and HDD, do i need to reset the setting of my bios? or it will automatically reset? Please i need your advice! thanks in advance

We have recently shifted to new house and after shifting whenever i start my Computer it continuously restarts so what may be the problem?is the problem with the hardware?

The devastation is horrifying to see, all the videos, pictures... awful. On a tech note, I wonder what kind of effect this will have to pricing and availability of products from our friends in the East. Memory, LCD panels, Blu-ray, Sony, Sharp and others affected already, see here: [url]http://www.channelnews.com.au/Hardware/Industry/P4L9C8M3[/url]

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 …

So I am wondering if it is possible to use 1 Solid State Drive for just the Windows Operating System and another 7200 RPM hard drive for programs like Microsoft Office, Steam, or even Firefox. Basically any application and document. Like make the 7200RPM hard drive the "Program Files" while …

I am adding a secondary hard drive to my dell tower. I am wanting to duel boot Windows XP and Slackware Linux. I currently have only Windows XP on my computer, but I am not sure what formating it has on it. My question is: what format should I use …

Every so often my computers connected by ethernet cable or wireless to a new Cisco Valet router stop connecting to web sites with the message in Firefox "Server Not Found/Problem loading Page" problem only started when I added the router. Problem resolves temporarily every time I reboot the router. After …

Hi : I have a client's computer in which I can not get the specific drivers for the video card to work. I have disabled the drivers and windows established generic driver for the video card which works ok. I have scanned or viruses and spyware and still nothing seems …

first let me just say Im not sure where this should be posted. I checked the forum and didnt find anything related to this. ok so Im recently new to servers. Im currently working on Dell PowerEdge 2850's. when they post part of the post shows that they either detect …

Hi, My Sony Vaio VGN-FZ38M wont boot up, it just freezes on the logo and then says no operating system found, it was dropped yesterday and that is when the prioblems began, from searching google i read that my hard drive might be shot but BIOS recognises that the HDD …

I'm designing my own custom case that will have all air inside the case being filtered. Does anyone know where to get a high powered fan that generates as little noise and static charge in the air as possible? After completion I'll share all specifications and pictures with whoever is …

Are there resources you recommend that describe how a computer [B]RAM [/B]works? Thanks.

does anyone have explanation for intel core 2 duo full architecture?

First, my desktop's relevant specs: MOBO: Intel DP43TF RAM: 6 GB DDR2 HD: 2 x 1TB, 1 500 GB. Blu-Ray Reader/Writer. Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8 GHz. -- A while ago, I replaced my PSU. The older PSU was a cheap one that I got as a "gift" …

So I inherited a Sony VGN-S170 (PCG-6C2L) laptop. It randomly shuts-down, regardless of the activity. First, I thought it was the damaged DC power jack - replaced it, but still shuts down. The battery is completely dead - won't do anything on just battery power, so I've ordered a new …

I was about to order a PSU from A-Power ([URL="http://a-power.com/product-6131-342-1"]http://a-power.com/product-6131-342-1[/URL]) I need a new PSU to power my GTS 450 card. I am not a gamer, I just want to watch HD movies. The sales rep told me that this card will not work because it is not efficient enough. …

Well i noticed this a day or two ago and got pretty worried, because i dont know anything about it and it looks really wierd. Sometimes someplaces the pixels "fuzzyfy" themselves and get really blurry, it appears in different places and get clear when i restart the program or select …

Hi Everyone, I am ready to pull my hair out. Have a 301 keyboard error on another computer and figure it is a missing or corrupt driver, but unable to do anything on that computer. Which leaves out going online to fix. Have any of you experienced this before? Thanks …

Hi there!! I have some hardware experience and never seen this. My problem is that I have a computer that sometimes, after i press Power On, starts the fans and after 3-4 seconds shuts everything down... The fans stop working but the front light keeps turned on. I have tried …

I'm running short of USB ports and could change my keyboard to connect via PS2. 1) Do I have to reboot to use the PS2 connection? 2) Would there be any disadvantage in using a USB flex hub?

A friend brought me a laptop with an unknown history. Its Intel Celeron Vista Basic... beyond that I dont know what's in the machine. When I try to turn it on it goes from the TOSHIBA screen where I can boot to an error message relating to winload.exe status 0xc00000e9 …

I have two related problems that I really need help with: Problem 1 Somehow my registry in Windows XP Pro SP2 got corrupted - it's giving me the following message: "Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" So I've gone and done the …

Good day... May pc hang a few minutes i turned it on... after i restart it i just ok... what could be the problem... Could it be the Mother board?

I build and fix laptops. But I got my first mac laptop. It is a Powerbook G4, it has an easy fix but I was wondering if I can put a drive like that into it. Is this possible? Or would there be complications like driver issues, or should I …

Hello, Just yesterday I picked up parts for a new computer that I'd planned to build. I had a couple of friends over to help me out. It went quite well considering none of us have ever built a PC from scratch before, only upgraded certain parts and so on. …

i bought a new Western Digital 3TB HDD, i format with the WD format software that came with the drive. now it only shows 750GB. I have used the westerd Digital smartware and still only a 750GB, i have used windows disk manager. there are no other partition, or non …

I never liked Intel compared to AMD but lately I have used a few intel processors in laptops (older ones). The speed might be like 1.8GHz but it compares to like 2._GHz to amd cpu's... I want to build my own ultimate computer. I was going to use the AMD …

Hi, I have a HP laptop that I'm having a problem with. The laptop turns on but the screen is black. I connect the laptop to the tv via s-cable, I can see that the laptop is working. The monitor is working also but there is no light. I can …

I have a Medion MD5000 computer that I removed the CPU (I've done this 100's of times and never had a problem) well i do now. I replaced the CPU and my computer turns on the HDD, CD/DVD, Video Card all have power, but the monitor, mouse, keyboard and anyother …

I have an HP dv6837cl laptop. The original hard drive is a Samsung HM250JI which crashed and needs to be replaced. This hard drive is now more difficult to find and I've seen instances of others on the web who have also encountered issues with this HD so I'm even …