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Heres the problem: When i turn on my computer and the monitor like always, it says "no signal input" on the monitor and the light goes orange. and After a while the computer restarts itself. over and over again, no beeps. I tried checking the wires and cleaning my computer.. …

dell inspiron just quit running. and did nothing at all. i checked the power supply and fount that there was no 12 v power anywhere. replaced it with a new 300w unit and all the voltages are present but nothing hsppends...nothing at all

i had alaptop which had dvd writer,it was working well but one time it stoped writing dvds but it could burn vcd.then i went and buy an external dvd writer,when put it on that verylaptop it did the same like the other internal dvd writer,i formated the laptop and i …

Yesterday after using my laptop and noticing it was kind of overheating I decided to turn it off. But since I forgot to do something I decided to turn it on again(it was still kind of hot). When I turn it on I notice the screen is still black after …

There is an acknowledged problem with the Samsung NC10 netbook and other of their netbooks. Mine was about 3 months out of warranty. Problem: Screen goes blank at higher brilliance levels. Disclaimer: The following will work but is not a repair! The logic and troubleshooting might be a good laugh …

My brother already posted about this a while ago here: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread99367.html[/url]. He's not so technically savvy. Anyway, this has been gathering dust until it was given to me recently. I don't have the charger for it right now, and there's no power in the battery. I was going to purchase …

Hi, I've been looking on various forums on how to fix this issue but with no luck. I can't seem to find anything which refers to this specific problem. It is not a Windows 7 software issue as far as I'm aware. The screen on my computer will sometimes go …

Acer TXsomething(can't remember the rest of the name, other than it is a TX) Windows XP Home Edition 512mb RAM Ok, My desktop is completely screwed, literally. The screen won't turn on, and I mean it won't turn on, its completely plugged in and screwed tight. When I press the …

First thread and only semi-tech savvy so please bear with me... My daughters HP Pavillion 6700 (6835nr) is past warranty and over a year old. It will not boot properly. I can access some set-up menus but everything I try does not allow me to start the Win Vista system …

i have a hp pavilion dv2000 that won't boot up,when i plug in the adapter it shows that it actually is getting current because the led which indicates that the adapter is plugged in lights up but when i press the power button it does not come on,i tried removing …

I have my friends computer to reformat for him, so I went round to his yesterday to pick it up and it was on, so he shut it down etc. I brought it back to my plugged all the writes in, monitor, power, keyboard and mouse, turned the power switch …

Hi all, I'm trying to setup two pan/tilt/zoom webcams, one for my bro back in NY and one for myself here in CA, so that we have two way audio and control of the cam at the other person's location. Since each webcam will be behind our routers I'm trying …

[B][U]BACKGROUND INFO[/U][/B] The last few weeks I have been dual monitoring from my lcd monitor to my hdtv. LCD was connected via dvi and my tv via hdmi. To my knowledge, my pc has two graphic cards, both ATI Radeons. One I believe is on the mother board, ATI Radeon …

At just 25, [URL="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/aaron-levie"]Aaron Levie[/URL] is a youthful CEO. His company, [URL="http://box.net/"]Box.net[/URL], is a cloud-based storage and collaboration solution. He originally conceived and developed Box in his dorm room with a friend when he was just 19 years old because he was simply looking for a way to solve a …

Hi All, I am having a very bad weekend. I am having problems with a HDD, so on Thursday I when out a bought a new HDD to go in the bank of 4 HDD's. To add this new drive to the computer system I also got a 7 port …

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with Windows XP, SP2. I just got a blue screen with the following error message: <<Hardware Malfunction NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error The system has halted>> The computer still boots and this error message comes after some time. What can I do …

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16308[/ATTACH]Coming soon from Samsung: a new tablet computer designed to compete in the iPad market. Running the Android operating system from Google, it will be smaller than the iPad, with a 7-inch screen instead of the iPad's 9.7 inches. The release is currently scheduled for third quarter of this year. …

hi I have a U.S.Robotics MAXg USR5417 PCI Wireless Network Adapter - 802.11g that I have recently installed in my computer (I am using my parents computer) and I am using it with my parents router. The router is a GT704WG that they got from verizon. They are connected through …

I dropped my laptop and it hit pretty hard on the ground. Now when I go to turn it on it has to check the disc for file failuse. Once its done and boots up I can't click or do anything. Programs won't open up, I ry to hit ctl …

Our old PC finally died a slow, agonizing death. So we replaced it with a new PC, which has an S-ATA hard drive. We need to retrieve the data from the old IDE drive in the dead PC (I'm hoping that the reason it died was not due to a …

Hello there I have this question. I have a PC with an old Pentium 4 and Windows XP installed on it. This PC has only 512MB. The Windows explorer's window gets really slow, almost stuck, whenever I browse "my images" folder inside of "my documents" folder. This "my images" folder …

I just hooked up a netbook to a monitor, and then tried to close the netbook and it turned off. How would I be able to shut the netbook without it turning off?

Hi, I have a problem with my PC, I searched online and in the posted threads but I couldn't find a solution, or I couldn't find an exact matching case to mine. The PC is assembled and was working fine, until all of the sudden it shut down without any …

Hi This is my first post, and I have a question for you all. I just purchased a previously enjoyed IBM ThinkPad R52 laptop (which should arrive in a few days. This is an older laptop, but it has pretty well all the basic stuff I'll be needing in it. …

I need information on how to go about replacing the mother board on an HP ze1115. My repairman told me it needed a new mother board but I could buy another for less than what he was going to charge. If you could list the steps and vendors where I …

It worked normally yesterday, but when I tried to start it up this afternoon , I got no response (not even the power light). I have no idea what to do D: I tried pulling out the batter and also the "f7 + f8 power" thing, to no avail. Please …

Hello, I have an Emachines EL1352-01e. I just bought it a week ago, so it's brand new. Comes as: AMD Athlon II X2 215 Dual-Core Processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, and comes with a NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE Integrated Video Card. How do I know if I have a …

This started a couple days ago. The laptop was working fine until then. I dint know what went wrong. I closed it before and the next time I opened it, it wouldn't open. It just stayed the black screen and the lights flickered blue and then it just stopped doing …

My friend has an Advent T9306 and the problem is that when i plug the PSU into the motherboard the light turns on for the power switch but does not go off until i switch the PSU off. when i press the power switch nothing happens. no fans spinning no …

[B]why my pc won't read 1gb ram, my motherboard is ECS ddr2 533, when i put 1gb only 512 mb showing in the system memory, what does it mean, please help me how to solve it.[/B]

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FS8900 Laptop that suddenly won't boot up. It was working fine one day, and the next day without warning all of a sudden it just won't boot. When you hit the power button, the power light goes on, you hear the DVD drive initialize, the …

Hello folks, I just built my self a quite good computer, after 4 days I finally made it start! All fans are working, graphics are OK, 4 CPU leds showing it work proprely are on, no problems on hardware side. But when it starts I first see a moboo splash …

I have a Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5TB HDD. Seems as if my computer is on its last legs! It's very frustrating as I've spent the past week organising so many files and making it a perfect setup. (I reformatted a week ago.) I have Win 7 x64 installed, but it …

I have a Dell 8400, with Xp. It was purchassed in 2006. I was having lock up problems and was told by Best Buy that my OS was bad and needed to be reinstalled. I formated my hard using the CD that came with the computer and reinstalled windows. Now …

I have a 2005 Dell Model 8400 that WILL not reinstall Windows XP Pro from the factory disk. This machine was sent by a friend to a local NON Dell repair shop after a Windows crash. The friend did not know how to reimage. The repair shop gave it back …

Hi, My friend has just bought an Asus K52JC laptop. This laptop contains an onboard Intel video card and a NVIDIA 310 graphics card; it runs with Windows 7, 64 and has 4 Gb Ram. He wanted to use only the NVIDIA card, for gaming purposes. So, I went in …

Use a [B]Titanium G 4 867[/B] with[B] OSX 10.5.8 Leopard[/B]. After upgrading to Leopard operating system from Tiger I began having issues with my [B]ITunes[/B] hanging up on me. I don't know if this was a coincidence that this started shortly after installing Leopard or not. This problem arises when …

From about three weeks ago, on only my most heavily used email account (it has around 75,000 emails in it and gets around 200 emails each day), I was only able to download 4 emails at a time. Then it would stop. I would click "Get Mail" and it would …

my computer just hung the other day. so i decided to restart it and when i did it would find a bootable disk.so what could be the problem . please assist

I have a hard disk which is 80gb in size, but when I open disk management I can only see 74.5 gb. can someone help me know why?. And is there a way to fix that? And is my hard disk dying? I have tried to run chkdsk but nothing. …

Hi there to everyone. I have a big problem with my pc and I need HELP!!!!!!!!!. I have an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard with two HD S-ATA raid 0 configuration. My mobo faulted today, so I've replaced with another identical motherboard which just have an usb port faulty. Now I …

few days ago my brother-in-law brought me his computer with problems. It is an hp pavilion a6519fh running Vista with a 500 MB seagate 7200 rpm hard drive. When I powered up the computer it would take me to a screen with the option to do a bios setup ( …

Hello, all. I'm a relative amateur when it comes to all things IT related so I'm hoping I can find some much needed assistance here. I'll get right to specifics. Motherboard: MSI G31TM-P35 Chip: Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 Dual Core RAM: 4GB DDR2 Power supply: Dynex 400W Monitor: Dell …

[B]Hi Folks, I am a new member & after a quick look around the site I think I will gain some valuable advice & learn some stuff in areas where I only have basic Knowledge. My problem at the moment is a dead Mobo, I purchased a "bundle" from Maplins …

hi, Plz help me out. i want to buy external laptop battery for IBM laptop. plz suggest me where shold i buy.. i need to buy from that which provides warranty of at least 1 year + after sale services

I've had this computer for several years. My wife uses it and recently acquired a virus that forced me to take the hardrive out, connect it to my own PC, and run a virus scan to clean it. When I reinstalled it, the computer would no longer turn on. NOTHING …

hi there, Which are the best motherboard available in current market??? along with the company ratings???

I was uninstalling a program using ADD/Remove....system hanged....and it now not booting. When u power on the PC, it comes to a screen which shows safe mode etc....but selecting any mode it goes thru the entire cycle...shows the windows image and comes back to the screen showing safe Mode, Start …

My computer will power up but when it gets to the place where windows start it stalls. Before this happen I got it started in safe mode but after 2 tries in safe mode it quit starting. Once a message came up that said Nvidia GeForce not working. Please help.

When I use the windows experience index test, my computer ALWAYS freezes when it gets to the CPU part. I have tried multiple times,and it always happens. So I decided to try another program. I did the 3dMarkVantage test, and the graphics tests did fine, the first CPU test finished, …