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Hi all, I had may HP laptop for about a year now when my display started showing vertical coloured lines and finally went blank. I took it to HP and they changed the display. It worked fine for about 2 months and now after about 10 minutes on the screen …

Hello, I have a media center desktop PC for like 4 years, and yesterday a blue screen came up a few times about a hardware and software problem. Then today it does the something. I was going to look around the computer when it was on. and was looking for …

When I switch on my pc, my fan on my cpu seems to be switching on then after three seconds swithes off.When I try to turn on my pc after that, nothing happens.After I unplug the power cable from my psu and plug it back in and turn it on, …

My Presario R3000 laptop recently got a virus and i would like to restore the system back to factory settings. I have already backed up the files i want to keep and have been trying to work out how to do this all evening and night without success. Can anybody …

Hi, I was surfing the web looking at what technology is around then I found the below link and quotes the following: [QUOTE]how fast do you need it? because the magny-cours amd 12 cores come out early next year, and with an 8 socket motherboard you'd have 96 cores, whereas …

Does anyone know around how fast an SSD is? I mean is it comparable to 10K HDD? Is a 15K HDD faster then an SSD (especialy 6gb/s)? This is just a random post, just curious because of the high prices.

I can not see the screen on this computer. I bought it used yesterday hoping to just turn it into a small home server this week but without it working I am no where. When powering I do NOT here any post beeps, and I even took out the ram …

Gateway Laptop M675 doesn't boot. the light at on button comes on I can hear the fan and the hard drive. screen just black.

Hi I have an apple powerbook G4 1.67GHz 15" Screen etc.... (a1138). I bought it and am working on it (fix computers here and there) I had to replace the bottom case because it had a few large dents (one was by the charging port so I had to buy …

Hi I have an apple powerbook G4 1.67GHz 15" Screen etc.... (a1138). I bought it and am working on it (fix computers here and there) I had to replace the bottom case because it had a few large dents (one was by the charging port so I had to buy …

Hi Folks, I've added two pictures of my set-up. It's a XPS 8000 with a BLU-LED LCD Samsung BX2450 Monitor. The only problem with the PC is the low powered power-supply and cheap graphics card. To be precise, 350W PSU and a weak 512MB ATI HD 4350 Graphics Card. Do …

I have a compaq presario v5000 that keeps on turning off. I am fixing the laptop but everytime I go to install windows 7 the computer shuts off. I have tried new ram / new hard drives and etc But everything fails The computers fan works when it comes on …

Ok, i have a 1.0 GB memory card and I don't know where to plug it in to add songs on it. Any help?

I'm considering the purchase of a webcam and curious to know if it will work when I email friends in Europe (I'm in the U.S.)

I've recently bought an android phone called Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade). its currently on android 2.1, and i was wondering if there ia an update available for it to go to 2.2 or 2.3, and if so how do i do it? I dont want to root it, so …

Good day, Hi! I'm Philip. I've got a mobo and vga compatibility issue. My current mobo is Gigabyte GA-8I915ME-G and I plan to buy a PCI-E vga card ATI HD4670 1Gb DDR3 / HD4670 512mb DDR3 / HD 4650 512mb DDR2 What PCI-E vga card can you suggest that'll be …

I have a T23 IBM Thinkpad Laptop with 512mb RAM and a 1.13ghz processor. just today(11-5-07), this morning, it was working fine. The most recent things i had downloaded were a few music files(.mp3) and i had installed updates with THinkvantage's System Update. (I had yet to reboot my computer …

I have a dongle cable that converts a serial port to a USB port. However, i can't find the drivers and i can't remember the manufacturer. The numbers on the cable are: AWM E89980-A SUNF STYLE 2725 Can anyone help me? I need help as soon as possible. Jeremiah

I recently brought my Desktop from Singapore to Australia.. now it can turn on fine, fans spinning LED lights on and such, but when i connect to a monitor, it doesnt show up on the monitor. I have tried removing all the RAMS and troubleshooting it, but that doesnt work. …

Hi. I am trying to figure out how to use remote desktop on my windows and mac computers within my home network first and then move on to using it remotely from outside my home network but i am experiencing some difficulties. First of all, i own a mixture of …

Hi all What I would like to do is be able to answer the phone from my computer with the head set that is conected to my sound card. I have searched the net but all I can find is diagrams for self build interfaces. Is what I want possible …

I was helping my uncle look for a new computer and since I usually like Dells I decided to check out their site. Seems they aren't selling any core 2 quad systems anymore. I'm wondering why this is? Are the the new core 2 duo systems suppose to be superior …

Hello everyone, I have a new, self made computer, with an AMD Athlon x2 240 2.8 ghz processor, and a gigabyte motherboard. Everything worked fine until a few days ago. I was watching some super-HD video on youtube, when my internal speaker started beeping in a semi-continuous manner. The beeping …

hello experts i have a problem that my DDR2 RAM some time work properly and some time create display stripe problem. then i restart 5 to 10 time then work normally if you have any solution please advise me.

Hey guys, How long is a file, such as a jpeg, in memory, after the file is closed? Let's say I open a jpeg file in Windows preview, or Previewer on Mac OS X, then I close the previewer program. How long is that jpeg in RAM? How can I …

It powers up but screen is blank. Fan is blowing hard.

Hi all,I have a problem getting back into my bios settings as i have no display,I was in the setting in Primary Graphics Adapter and changed it from internal to pci which was wrong but now i cant see my screen to be able to get back into Bios settings,Please …

Hello, I have a Acer Aspire 5920 that currently has a 15.4" display, which has very low contrast and and low resolution(1280x800). I just recently had my old 17" Toshiba crap out on me, and it has a absolutely gorgeous screen, high contrast and the resolution is (1440x900). Now what …

i have been thinking about getting an portable hard drive for my laptop as it fulled of game and and stuff and is now running slow i wanted to know is there a portable hard drive you can put game on it like sims3 ond sims2 or is it not …

BIOS, CMOS Battery Replacement Problem Started 2/6/2011 I replaced the CMOS battery on my DELL 8300 the other day. I'm running XP-Pro, SP 3. Since that time I have not been able to access the BIOS setup screen, or any screen involving the F keys. I have read many articles …

Hello! I have an Intel Pentium 4 (I think) 2.6 Ghz processor and it has the Hyper-Threading option in the system's bios. I am worried about some electro-migration I read about if I were to Hyper-Thread it. It's code name is (I think) "Northwood" I want to know if it …

Hey, I have recently noticed that some of my games run ratter poorly, specially the new ones. For example the dragon age origins 2 demo runs on low graphics :S Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz (Overclocked to 3,2 GHz) Ram: 3GB DDR2 RAM Motherboard: MSI P35 Neo(MS-7360) …

I have a Dell optiplex 150 windows XP operating system. I get the dell logo screen fully loaded and that's as far as I get. I can access the setup screen. I opened the CPU in setup and it tells me that the CD Rom Drive is not installed and …

Hello everyone i need some help! I have an Acer Aspire 5051, now when i try and turn it on, the power light comes on, fans kick in as normal but no screen just black, the hard drive light is constantly on though. It will turn on with the power …

I have a Dell Latitude D610 that will not power up with the ac adapter but will fire up with the battery, when I plug the ac adapter into the jack on the main board the green light on the ac adapter goes off which I've read means a short …

The Problem; I updated bothe the driver and firmware for my Optiarc BD ROM BC-5500S, Blu Ray player, in My Sony Viao VGN_NS295J, and now my computer will not recognise the drive at all. I have looked about and there seems to be some discussion about the drive and three …

I am hoping some one can shed some light into my world. OK heres my problem, My computer kept going No signal when it was in high use playing games like starcraft2 or watching web videos, at first it was once every two weeks, then it continued to get worse …

Hai, Im am using nokia e51 I want to set email notification my phone, but the problem is when is set password in phone it is leaked by some spyware in my phone. This happened two times. If i had set my gmail in phone the very next day gmail …

I just bought the new Saitek Cyborg keyboard for my macintosh and i was wondering if there was any software available to support the 12 programable marco keys?

[B][COLOR=red]HELP PLEASE[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=black]When I put my laptop on it stated:[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]Primary hard disk drive 0 not found[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000](F1 Repeats the No bootable devices line again)[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000](F2 takes me to Dell Computer Corporation ([URL="http://www.dell.com"]www.dell.com[/URL]) [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]Page 1 of 7 Dell …

Everytime i turn my computer the computer freezes after 5 minutes its turned on. The second time i turn it on no freezing occurs. Do any of you know what could be causing the problem and how i could fix it?

Is there anywhere I can buy or some way that I can disassemble a usb device so that I can build a circuit or something on it. I would like to get the part that you plug into a computer and build a motor speed control circuit on it possible …

Hello I am new here in DaniWeb and I am currently studying Computer Science at my local University. I have a pretty old laptop and I want to upgrade but I do not know where to start ... my budget would be 300-400$ MAX Laptop: Laptop Gateway W350A My current …

Hey everyone. I was thinking of setting up two monitors, with a seperate keyboard for each running off the same computer. I want to be able to have seperate programs running on each and control them each seperatly from their respective keyboards. first of all I was wondering if this …

Hello Crew, I currently am working on a Sony Vaio VGC-JS230J all in on machine. The hard drive is bad which is the root of our problems. I need to disassemble the machine to reach the hard drive but I have small experience working on the sony all in ones …

My Dell studio xps 16 notebook turns off without any warning randomly.Sometimes it can be kept on for 2 days straight while sometimes it fails to do so for even 30 minutes.I installed a software for checking the temperature,and found out that it was always below 65F and was rarely …

can anyone tell me how to start my computer its stuck on insert boot disk an i dont have a boot disk

Hi all.. I have a Sony Viao VGN- FS315E of a friends. It seems to have problems booting to the O/S, I get as far as the Sony logo screen, then it freezes, if you leave it for a long time it'll come to a page that asks do I …

Hi, I am planning to buy a laptop and confused on which one to buy... 1. Lenovo Y560 (i3 proc) 2. Hp Pavilion DV6-3056TX 3. Sony Vaio VPCEB16FG which to buy from the above.....( i chose Lenovo Y560 but heard build quality is very poor..duno) If there is any other …