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i have an Asus M4A78-VM mobo and, by chance, the keyboard isn't detected. The device manageer shows the HID of my USB Keyboard with a yellow exclamation point and i have to install the driver manually. It's really annoying for me because i can't setup a user password because i …

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I was hoping someone could guide me in the right direction. I need to image 1000 notebooks but I'm not sure how I should go by doing so(fastest and most efficient way). How much should I charge per image? What kind equipment will I need to use and so on. …

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I've been messing with my desktop for a while now trying to figure out why it keeps shutting off. I have an HP Media Center PC, 820 Pentium D, 2.8 Ghz. I have replaced the mobo (cuz I was told it was bad), have a new power supply (cuz the …

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hi. can somebody helping me, i have a hp pavilion dv6500 lcd screen went blank.but it works with external monitor i therefore suspect the lcd screen is faulty.i have replaced the lcd screen,display inverter and screen cable, still have not resolved the issue.i now intend to replace the system board …

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I have a compaq 2200 and have not used it since July. I put another battery in; the power was low which is strange as it was plugged in. This battery charged and I did a few things. I then got a blue screen that said windows discovered a problem …

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Hey guys, I am having some issues with my PC. My main drive with my OS is SATA, as well as my DVD-RW. As of this morning, I received a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" message when trying to turn on my computer. I checked my …

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Hi, My friends computer is dead. It shows the error "Dumping physical memory" and after the restart the BIOS is now not detecting the hard drive. Please help! Thank you in advance. Love and Peace, JK

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guyz am sorry i took so long to come back, i dnt know where i can find a ginuine memory stick i got three 8gigs sticks but all not working all locked and they freezes all pc's amusing almost 5 pc's at work and all of them cant format the …

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I just bought a nice new laptop the other day, but I am faced with a quandry: My old computer has a cooked motherboard, yet I need to get my old files off the damn thing. Now said old piece of crap is an Acer M3802, it has Intel Quadcore …

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I disassembled an Asus A7S-A1 2 nights ago for a BGA reflow. Following reflow I inserted a stick of RAM, had the heatsinks re-seated with fan, attached the power button to motherboard and then connected the battery to test if reflow attempt was succesfull... good so far but heres where …

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To anyone who might have the solution: I am having the same problem. I've tried to use USB to paralel and USB to serial and then serial to paralel, both in XP and 7, in laptops, but unfortunetly i didn't come with any result, i.e. my 25 pin dongle isn't …

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Hello! Wish this is the corre May I please ask your advice. Am planning to get an "Standalone TV Tuner" however I do not know a good brand for this... I see Kworld brand in almost every store I checked. Your comments and suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks a lot!

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I'll make it more clear. a network card is unique in the whole world by it's mac address. the mac is unique in the world, unless it's cloned. what's similar to mac in usb that makes it unique?

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HOW do we tell the "on board sound card" that computer memory XXX is talking to it! many thanks esdel

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Myself and my uncle has the same model laptop. He asked me to look at it as it would not boot up properly. This indeed was the case, It seems it was full of virus's and spyware. I managed to save his files/pictures and then load up the recovery console. …

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My Daughter has many GB of music on my Sony Portable Hard Disc where itunes plays and catalogues it successfully. Can I now put 20 GB of MY MUSIC on that same portable HD and get MY MUSIC catalogued by itunes SEPARATE to hers? MY MUSIC is .wma files, played …

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Hi anyone help please, we have a Dell Inspiron 1525, was working fine then power started to flicker, it would go off then after a short time come back on again, this went on for a few weeks, then went off all togeather, not a scrap of power, green led …

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Hi, Please could you help me with this problem. I have purchased a laptop for my son from (wish i'd bought new) Ebay (my advise, don't collect an item offering shipping it voids your paypal protection, apparently). Originally we were experiencing a problem with the battery not taking the charge …

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The machine is a Gateway GT5404 w/ Pentium D Processor 915 dual core each @ 2.8 GHz---2 GB RAM---and the problem is an Intel GMA 950 (82945G Express Chipset Family). Works fine for surfing but not gaming. I have a PCI Express slot available. I have installed PCI cards in …

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I have a peculiar problem with my Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. Its as if a random Key on the machine is permanently pressed, and if I open a program like Word, that key automatically generates characters. I thought it was some dirt or foreign material in the keyboard and vacumed …

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The broken machine is a Dell Dimension E310 No O.S. installed yet 512 Megs Memory (two chips) On-board Video, Sound, Ethernet, ports, etc. Intel Pentium 4 Processor The machine won't start -- at all. Neither the CPU nor the PSU fans come on. The four diagnostic lights on the front …

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Please help. I reinstall the window, but I don't have the driver CD. So I download some driver in the ibm website My laptop is thinkpad t42 2378 I download some driver including BIOS, and I run it without knowing that I shouldn't set up or update BIOS. I restart …

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Dear Community, I hope someone could give me a few pointers to help me out. Basically, I have an e-Machines PC. 3.2Ghz, 2 E-IDE Hard drives. I normally leave the PC running overnight. We awoke the other morning to find it switched off. Hitting the power button caused the hard …

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Hi anyone help please, we have a Dell Inspiron 1525, was working fine then power started to flicker, it would go off then after a short time come back on again, this went on for a few weeks, then went off all togeather, not a scrap of power, green led …

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Hello there!!! I wanted to announce here that the new iOS 4.1 version that apple released some weeks ago, cause to very many WiFi problems. users report [URL="http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1390"]at this forum[/URL] that indeed the iPod indicate that it is connected to the internet but when the user try to access the …

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Fatal System Error, subtitled 'The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet' is that rarest of finds: an IT security book that is not only informative and fascinating, but truly gripping from start to finish. This newly published made for Kindle edition is the cheapest …

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Hi, I have been advised by an HP chat technician that My laptop (Vista, 32 bit, < 1year old) a. will not access more than 320Gb via USB b. will not accommodate more than 320Gb internally Both he attributes to mother board limitations. Now (b) I'm willing to accept, althought …

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Today when i started my pc,, all the display was greenish... I tried the RESTORE and DEGAUSS button on my monitor, but it didn't help?? pls tell me wat to do??????

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Hi, I have a Toshiba SP10-554 with German Windows XP and a European AC adapter. I have a problem in that something has happened to my laptop while I was moving apartments - it was safe in a backpack that wasn't dropped or anything, but now the LCD won't light …

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im running on windows vista home premium, 32 bit. my gateway laptop is a t-series which i forgot the model and I'm unable to find the model name here in the net. but the model no is w350A. I had this for 2 years already and this problem started 2 …

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I have an Acer Aspire 5633WLMi and since this morning it does not want to boot itself up, I have tried inserting the boot cd and it does not ask me to boot from disk. Instead it will ask if i want to start in safe mode, start windows normally …

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Hi, not sure where best to post this, since it concerns both a mobo & HDD I would like to know if this HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1Tb [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822148433[/url] [url]http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=7227b5b72fbce110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD[/url] will work on my Biostar P4M80-M4 motherboard. [url]http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/content.php?S_ID=246[/url] I know it has 2 SATA ports, but to be on the …

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Hi there gang, newbie here. Thanking you in anticipation of help. Am an ex engineer from the valve and magnetron days of radar so please feel free to get exceptionally 'tecchie if you feel the need! Bought a used HP 15" flat screen and 12-15v power unit from a breaker, …

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I have ploblem with the video card driver it say Bad video card drivers! ----------------------- Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode. This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers. --- BEGIN ERROR REPORT 7fe0271 -------- Generated 11/4/10 6:49 PM …

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hhey guys , I keep getting computer freezes and crashes when i paly video games. I have winodws 7 , I also have a new HP P533 with 3.0 gig athelon II and 5 gigs of ram and an hd 5570 ATI Radeon video card with 1 gig ddr2 ram. …

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Hey guys, Ok having a BIG problem with my laptop. It's a Toshiba Satelleite A20, purchased in December 2003. Just before Christmas (so Dec 2005), the screen started shaking, so that nothing was viewable anymore. Then the bottom half of the screen (only the bottom half) would sort of white-out …

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I am using intel 845G motherboard(2 GHz). On my ram, DDR333 is written, what does that mean? does that mean DDR1, DDR2 or DDR3?? i want to buy a new ram. which ram would be compatible for my motherboard. and what are the other factors that i have to look …

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I have a LaserJet 3390 that won't pick up paper from the tray. I hear it grinding and spinning for a few seconds (normal sounds) but then gives up with this message "no paper pickup". I can manually feed with tray 2, which is single sheet fed. I've opened up …

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Decided that I'm prolly going to make a custom computer soon. Just wanted to make sure all of these parts will work together. Also anything im missing would be nice too. Motherboard - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138186[/url] CPU - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115221[/url] Video Card - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102873[/url] Wireless Network Card - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106039[/url] Ram - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277[/url] Case …

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I hear you all here talk about a lot of "partitions" when talking about hard drives, backing up data, and reinstalling windows. What is that, exactly, and what does it do?

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Hi there. My Mum's laptop is practically unusable. It will work for anywhere between 20 and 80 minutes, and then one (or even a combination) of the following will happen. a.) Blue-screen of death (BSoD): Physical dump of memory b.) ATI graphics card driver will crash, screen resolution drops to …

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I've replaced various keyboards before. But I can't figure out how to removebthe bezel in this model. Detailed instructions greatly appreciated. Thank You.

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This is not a matter of typing msconfig (I can't get to that stage) or hitting F8 (?) My windows xp lost all drivers. when I checked the hardware it was blank. As such I couldn't connect to email, copy/ burn folders to CD or DVD or attach any USB …

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Dear friends ! I have a HP Compaq nx6110 Notebook PC. It comes with IDE Hard Disk. There is a problem in the PC that it is not detecting both the Hard Disk and CD-ROM. (I checked in BIOS setup and also when I want to install new XP, it …

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i have a lab top where the hard drive has been corupped and now the os is not loading up on it at all but there are very important files that i need to get off the hard drive, does anyone have any ideas of how i can do this, …

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I have a Compaq Armada M700 with a Pentium 3 750mhz processor (256mb RAM). The computer was working fine until I pulled the battery out to see what size the battery was. I was thinking about going ahead and getting a new battery since it was the original battery that …

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I tried to download Adobe Flash Player 10 and got a security alert saying I have a Trojan so I turned off the machine. When I tried to boot it back up there was just a blue screen so I initiated system restore by hold 'Alt' and repeatedly pressing F10. …

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I have a custom built PC that I had stopped using probably a year ago or more. Randomly it started freezing at the motherboard splash screen and making one long endless beep. Well, I decided to try and pull it out again for tinkering. It doesn't make the beep anymore …

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Hello, I am Siddharth . Can anyone help me finding how can we program BIOS . PLEASE reply or mail me on <email snipped>. thx sid

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I dont know if this is the correct forum as my question spans different forum topics. As a personal project I intend to build myself a decent spec (can't afford top spec) gaming machine. Below I am listing the components that I am thinking of installing, and the price I …

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