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Hi, I'm confused as to what DDR RAM I can upgrade with. [URL="http://i55.tinypic.com/mlidn4.png"]MotherBoard[/URL] [URL="http://i55.tinypic.com/jkwug7.png"]Memory Controller[/URL] [URL="http://i51.tinypic.com/25qu8up.png"]Currently installed RAM Modules[/URL] The motherboard specifications indicate 400 DDR... but my motherboard seems to be 3.3V indicating it's made for SD RAM, and it seems to currently have SD RAM installed. I am pretty …

I've started a [URL="http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20110127025920867&board_id=1&model=P5N7A-VM&page=1&SLanguage=en-us"]thread[/URL] on the Asus forums, but thought that maybe this community could be helpful as well. First, my machine: ------------------ [INDENT][B]Motherboard:[/B] Asus P5N7A-VM [B]BIOS version:[/B] 0519 4/29/2010 [B]CPU:[/B] Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W [B]Memory installed:[/B] 4096 MB [B]Memory type:[/B] OCZ ReaperX HPC 4GB (2 …

I recently received a used Toshiba Tecra 9000 from my brother. It has several problems, but I'm only bothered by one. I"ll list all the problems though. 1(the one that bothers me). I've been using Ubuntu Live to test/operate the computer, but recently (last two days) it has started freezing …

I bought a new hard drive from newegg and it arrived today. My boyfriends the computer guy, and he installed it for me. However, after we turned it back on it is telling us it "is not accessible access is denied." I googled it, and I tried both going to …

hi all hope someone can help. my girlfriend has a toshiba satellite pro the other day she desided to tell me her avg ran out and was not protected so i installed a new 2011 avg unfortunatly she got a virus called windows scan i tried everything poss to get …

Hi I am writing this for my little sister who needs a bit of help with her external hard drive. The other day she took out dad's external disk from her old computer and put in her own external to copy over some images, but on her external she could …

I have a Hp Pavilion running windows ME. The Cd rom is only recognizing certain cd's. I can put certain cdrw's with files on them in the drive and it will read them fine. But I can put other (same brand and type) cdrw's in there and it will tell …

HI I googled "ram forum" and here i am :) Im just looking to upgrade an old computer for my niece. It only has 128 mb of ram! The comp has two slots and im thinking to upgrade to 512 mb(the max it will hold) Im a bit at aa …

hello i have this Hp Pavillion machine, its is somewhat new and when i was working on it one day, it froze, and when i try to turn it on it just beeps , a long beep for like 10 seconds, and another long after that and it goes like …

I have a problem with my pc .. My pc start and completely on .. After comletely on. They doesnt work just hange.... Ram and power supply working properly....

Hi, I'm having trouble getting rid of my USB to serial driver so that I can install a new one. I have deleted the device in device manager so that it shows up as the generic Usb to serial device. But when I am in the update device driver and …

I have recently bought a second hand Dell Latitude D610 laptop but the previous owner does not know the BIOS security password, so I cannot go into the BIOS and change the boot sequence or activate the new wireless card I have bought for it. I have tried various methods, …

Hi, I have got a hp pavilion dv5000, when I turn on it the screen goes blank. Power led glows, I hear for a few time the fan, disk led flashes intermittently and also I feel that the DVD player tries to load. If I try to click on caps …

Hi i have a E71 TVB china phone, my problem is that it won't allow me to access WAP i used my network providers GPRS/GSM data but the phone itself won't accept the codes. what do i do to get my phone to access it WAP feature? BTW: my network …

It happens to everyone. There computer breaks down with all there music on it!!! :eek: Well i thought I would send out this tutorial to explain to people on how to get there music off there iPod back into there computer. 1. Once your computer is up and running DO …

[B]Can anyone tell me ??? .How should I download the lancard driver of toshiba with system model C650 !!! .The Lancard Hardware ids is the following !!! .let me know anyone .any help would be highly appreciated [/B].[Code] PCI\VEN_1969&DEV_2060&SUBSYS_FF1E1179&REV_C1 PCI\VEN_1969&DEV_2060&SUBSYS_FF1E1179 PCI\VEN_1969&DEV_2060&CC_020000 PCI\VEN_1969&DEV_2060&CC_0200 [/Code]

I have, in the past, argued that the iPhone is more of [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22077/1168/"]a games console that happens to make phone calls[/URL] than the other way around. I admit that I had my tongue in my cheek when I penned that particular piece, but there is no doubting that the iPhone …

i have a problem! When I switched on my laptop every thing is okay, but screen show blank.... I attached my monitor but same here. help me! Em in grade trouble... thnx

The wireless headphones work like this: A base (wireless transmitter) connects to the desktop/laptop using USB. And the headphones get their signal from this base. Now this is OK if I'm using a laptop/desktop. But it's much less convenient when I'm using a tablet, because while the tablet should be …

Help! My emachine is dead. I mean really dead. It will not do anything! When I plug it in, I do see one green light on the MB, and an almost inaudible (decreasing)whine. That is all. I emailed the emachines support, but they were little help. They kept telling me …

Hi I have a toshiba setellite pro a100, CD /DVD rom is working fine, but i am not able to boot from CD/DVD rom. any help is highly appreciated Thanks

why is it that my ram is running at 200mhz when there is only 1 stick and it can tun at 200,266, and 333? How can I change it?

When I restart my crt monitor it goes black, but the mouse cursor is still showing.When I manually restart my pc the monitor works fine.Should I be looking out for a new monitor ?

I am working on a friend's computer (Dell Inspiron 1525 3 yrs old) and it won't boot. I've tried reinstalling Windows Vista to no avail and it won't boot from the cd either. I am now running a DST short test on the hard drive and it has been reading …

Hello can anybody help me. I loaded server 2008 on my laptop. I tried to load windows 7 on to my laptop. But it would not load. So i downloaded a free program for wipping the hard drive. Iused it and now my hard drive is locked. What shpuld i …

I was messing around with the menu's of my computer, and I changed something, and now I have no display. When I reboot the computer, I get the Window's logo on startup, then again no display. I know I changed something in the menu to cause this problem. I have …

Exactly my main board is MCP61PM-am rev 1.0a. I try to search on support for beep code but they don't have the code for continuous beep, I seach other place they say this main board is awards type and cont can try to reset the settiing.so i tried switch jump, …

I am facing flickering problem. Am using Fedora12 and it occurs almost thrice a day when flickering starts keyboard n mouse both dont work Restarting is the only option i checkd d cables they r fine I thought d issue might b wid RAM or Motherboard Can anyone help me …

I know everyone says an i7 is more than enough power, but I am looking at an upgrade to my primary computer, and I am unsure of what I should upgrade. Right now it handles the load pretty well, however it chokes up particularly when running multiple VMs. Primary uses …

My roommate walked away from her laptop, and when she came back about an hour later, it was off and wouldn't power up. The little light that says your plugged in doesn't even come on. Likely culprit?

I have a PC that I built about two years ago and it will not boot. When I power it on, nothing happens on the screen, the fans work, lights light up, and then the computer beeps. The beeps are two long beeps followed by a short beep, then it …

Hello, good morning. :) I got some questions about the RAID 2, 3, and 4: 1. In RAID 2 and 3, if the parity disk is damage can I still recover the files? 2. In RAID 4, if the ECC disk is damage can I still recover the files?

hello all, my wife turned on her computer today and the monitor was fuzzy. You can still read larger letters but the small stuff is to fuzzy to read. I tried a new monitor and same problem. Any thoughts on were to start, I'll be hones I don't know all …

hello and thanks for taking the time to read this. i have a gateway mx7120 and it will not turn on. when i hit the power button the laptop tries to turn on (i hear the usual noises and beeps) and then after 5 seconds it shuts itself off and …

For background, my computer first refused to start and the RAM had to be removed and put back in. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread340069.html[/url] The problem, now is that the video fades. At first, when working on getting it running last Thursday it faded in and out. I went away for the weekend and …

I am working on the following computer and have had a interesting thing happen. The video display for the monitor started to shimmer. It is a flat screen monitor. The name of the monitor is Samsung. Machine name: DUSTY Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 …

I have a Dell Studio 1555 laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium and a Dell BH200 bluetooth headset. I had been using the headset with my laptop for the past 18 months without any trouble but since the past week or so, I am having troubles connecting it to my …

Another one of my friends called to come an look to see what was wrong with his computer. It is a home built computer built in July of 07. Here is the problem. I went and checked it out and this is what happened. I turned it on and just …

the drive d partition of my hard disk all of a sudden takes a long time to open. im using windows vista home premium.i have defragmented it but to no avail. the problem still remains.please help. i fear that the hard disk is about to crash. any help is greatly …

i had a old lg monitor which i tried to connect yesterday in my comp n bang i only see a small horizontal line 5 centimeters in the middle of the screen with the logo of windows xp loading n rest of the up n down parts are covered with …

Hi, i have been reading some post about this but it seem we need to list some information to have the respone answered. first off this problem happen because my ipod shuffle kept getting a I/o error when i plugged it in. but my computer would not read the shuffle. …

Hi just recently my desktop gave up on me took the the shop the guy said something wrong with the motherboard could cost £200 my previous one ram 1 GB So now i need a new desktop my background web developer so i use alot web software, photoshops and so …

I run a 2.6 ghz celeron,2 gig memory,400 gig harddrive,windows xp home The problem I am having is there are timme my pc will sound like the harddrive rocker arms crashing and it will freeze the pc. I have replaced the harddrive twice now and it does the same thing. …

Hey guys, first of all if this is the wrong category than I'm sorry but I really didn't know where to post this thread. Anyway I recently installed ubuntu on an external hard drive and it was booting up fine for a while, but later on the pc starting taking …

Hi everybody... I was woundering If i could upgrade my laptop's graphics...I currently have a NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 (UMA) Tech specs: Laptop: Presario F700 (F730US) [B][U]Product Specifications[/U][/B] [URL="http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01150100&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN"]http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01150100&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN[/URL] I really want to know what I can upgrade, I want to use better graphics so i can do some gaming. …

Hi Have had a problem with the Tecra, hoping for some assistance. The screen froze whilst surfing on the internet. The only way I could switch it off to force it to shutdown by keeping my finger on the silver off switch for a few seconds. It did switch off. …

Ok My problem, My 3yr old X205 Toshiba with Phonix bios is asking for a bios password.My account is admin & never has had a bios password set. Press on switch,bios splash screen comes up then goes to password request.This is not a windows pass request but a bios pass …

[ATTACH=right]14395[/ATTACH]Microsoft [URL="http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/04/13/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-specs-and-perspective/"]released a couple of phones[/URL] on Monday, Kin 1 and Kin 2, supposedly aimed at teens. Kin 1 is shaped like a hockey puck. Kin 2 looks more like a conventional smart phone (but it's not). The only thing these phones appear to have going for them is a …

I just bought a Maxtor Maxline III 250 GB SATA-II 300 HD to put in my Sapphire PURE Crossfire motherboard, and even though BIOS detects it, the operating system when I try to install Windows, does not. Now I've tried several things: Frist I ran Maxtor's diagnostics program powerMax, which …

I have a 17" BENQ monitor that is slow to start after being shut off for a couple of hours. The monitor LED blinks but the monitor takes about 5 minutes to light up. However, if the PC is started up after being shutdown for a short period of time …