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READ IT ALL BEFORE YOU START ************************** A possible workaround for the IDE #1 ERROR when using a Cable select (CS) drive in a Toshiba laptop. Once this modification is carried out the drive is accessable for flashing as a master/slave or region free (RPC1) subject to the F/W being …

I'm running XP on a Acer Net Book. I could not boot into windows XP. Screen said:" Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file." so I press F8 try to boot into safe mode but …

Hi, My lap top has suddenly decided to display a black screen and nothing else. I'm doing the following: [LIST] [*]I plug the the power lead in and the power led and battery led both light up. [*]The power button has no effect, can't switch off with this. [*]The hard …

GUYS, help me! my father pc having a problem.. it appear this message: searching for a boot record from SCSI.. not found insert boot diskette in A: press any key when ready. i can no longer go to starting window... and im not familiar with the programs that was install …

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My monitor displays so dark that I most can't see anything .when i play CS,I can't see the one in dark corner.Can anyone help me?

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Hello I wonder why my laptop does not recognize its LCD screen, ie on Windows, for example, only I get the external display that I have connected. I put a little situation. -An external monitor works. Therefore, the integrated graphics card on the motherboard works. "The bios works (from an …

I have bought an assembled PC from a shop which supplied motherboard ASUS P5KPL AM-PS They have supplied only one DVD rom drive but i want to have two different Dvd rom drives.They say this motherboard does not have option to fix two Dvd rom drives (cd drives) at one …

Hey all! I'm in a conundrum. My handy upgraded-to-death PC has finally met it's demise, due to a very stupid hot-swap error on my part. I've been collecting gift cards for Best Buy from various point-earning programs and I've got about $400 worth. (I can spend more than that, just …

Hello, I have a Gigabyte motherboard Model GA-8VM800PMD-775-RH Chipset VIA-P4M800 Pro, Intel 2.6 GHZ Celeron processor,I have 2 cd/dvd drives,4 harddrives,2 gig DDR memory,Radeon X1650 series, Running windows xp home. I am wondering if I can upgrade my power supply from 300 to 750 watt? If you need the model …

Foreword: As the first manufacturer of HD data recovery tool aimed at firmware repair, so far ACE lab already released 3 versions: PC3000ISA, PC3000PCI and PC3000UDMA. ACE Lab has a large number of clients since its first PCI version till latest UDMA. However, to thousands people, the product called PC3000 …

when I press my power button 3 or 4 time (on off) or some time more then display show in monitor. when I press 1st time then the pc start but no display show in monitor. when I off it and then again on it ( 3 or 4 time …

Yesterday night I turn off the laptop, today at around noon I go to turn it on and it seems as it is going to start, all the lights fire up the hdd light flashes just once, checks the cd drive, then nothing. screen stays blank the whole time. power …

[URL="http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2010-08-16-ir-release.aspx"]Dell announced today[/URL] that it has reached an agreement with the California based data storage company [URL="http://www.3par.com/index.html"]3PAR[/URL], to purchase the company for a total price tag of $1.15 Billion.[ATTACH=RIGHT]16668[/ATTACH] Dell hopes that this move will help the computer giant cut its own data storage costs by as much as 50%. …

Hi I have managed to establish that my Dell laptop 6400 does not have a problem with generating display data. Connecting an external monitor provides a perfect picture. There is data going to the LCD screen but it is very dark. A web search suggests that I replace the inverter. …

Hi, I stumbled on this forum looking for an answer to an issue I faced with my laptop today. My laptop was running slow and shutting down due to overheating by itself so a friend recommended I clean out the fan and heatsink. I opened it up (unscrewing the bottom) …

Hi, I have a 3 year old Dell Inspiron E1505. A few weeks ago I noticed that my battery was nearly dead and wasn't being charged by the laptop, despite having the AC adaptor plugged in (and the battery was cool to the touch, so no power was even going …

I'm not the greatest hardware person in the world. Overview: My "test" computer is an HP of some sort...I'm not too fond of HP .. my casing is long gone, and is bare metal now.. and don't remember what type of HP it is... so calling HP would be pointless. …

"the device is not ready" Any Ideas Appreciated Unstalling and reinstalling in System Devices didnt help.

I have a new Toshiba HDD, MK4026GAX 40gb, and it works perfectly in most laptops except in my Toshiba Tecra 9100, when i fit it I get IDE #0 Error and can not get any further. I have been told that it works in Compaq laptops because the firmware is …

Hi all... just after some help with my monitor. When scrolling it shows some yellow or purple lines. I have included a screenshot. When I try another monitor and cable the problem is still there. When I try running the graphics off the motherboard instead of my radeon 9800xt the …

Placed laptop in sleep mode before bed and woke up to find only the A/C plug light on. When I push the power button, the green LED on the button itself lights up as well as the front power indicator. It only stays lit for about 1-2 sec before turning …

Hi, My PC works well while booting from HDD but freezes at different instances each time when trying to boot from CD. I tried changing CD Drive but the result is same. The bootable CD is also working well in other PC. Can it be corrupt BIOS or hardware fault?

[B]Can anyone nhelp me with my laptop? When I try turing it on it will turn on but the screen turns black also when i put light at it it will show alittle of the screen. help? and my laptop is a gateway[/B]

I have a laptop HP Omnibook xt1500, it was working good, but I presses fn+Q+B and now the laptop does not boot at all, leds are on, but not sound, nothing at all, I have tried to reset the laptop using the hole on the back of the laptop,but did …

which would provide better performance 2 gigs running at 200mhz or 1 gig running at 333mhz. both would be in a 3ghz P4 dimension 4700

[QUOTE][U][B]Date changes on it's own to year 2075 after few hours-- Dell STUDIO ONE 19 [/B][/U][/QUOTE] [B][U]Solution/work around..[/U][/B] 1) Click on Start . 2) Click on Run . 3) Type MSCONFIG 4) Go to [B]Services[/B] 5) Disable [B]Dell OSD[/B] Can check here for more updates on this issue : [URL="http://idell.110mb.com/index.php?p=1_154_Date-changes-on-it-s-own-to-year-2075"]link[/URL]

Hello, I plugged in a PS2 mouse to my Inspiron 8000 laptop which made the system freeze but when i rebooted all I got was a white screen. No HDD activity or HDD light. More or less dead other than a white {off white} screen. There have been no problems …

Hi! Thanks in advance for any help! I recently installed xp pro sp2 on a new wd hard drive. Yesterday, it shut down for no reason....restarted several times and came back up. The last time, I got a boot failure message. When I use my cd and start the recovery …

the caps lock blinks, the power and hard drive indicator come on, the hard drive spins up...then it turns off. Never posts, no fan comes on, no bios screen appears. What can i do? (the keyboard is missing 15 keys lol)

Hi, I'm after a digital camera. I need a) a high resolution (12MP minimum) as I do a lot of cropping and b) it needs to be rugged, reliable and likely to last a while. I'm looking into this - [url]http://ubuyhardware.com/p~p-1848567000~b-402~Olympus-Stylus-Tough-8010-14-Megapixel-Digital-Camera---Silver.aspx[/url] - do you guys think it'd be appropriate? Any …

I was wondering if I could connect a DC Motor to the HDD_LED pins of my motherboard. THen when the computer is turned on, it will turn on the motor, every-time the Hard Drive is accessed. This could then be used to do some cool stuff! Is this possible, and …

Hi, I have been doing a ton of research on overheating, and still cannot figure out what is going on with my stupid computer. About a year ago (when it was about a year and change old; just out of warranty) my computer started acting up. It would shut down …

[I]my printer won't install properly, i don't know what i'm doing wrong? i have done everything it says to do on the installation wizard but is still unsuccessful.. please could you help me? thanks :)[/I]

Hi, I need Help, i want to upgrade my CPU for my Laptop from single core to dual core processor.Is this possible? if it is pls. reply to my post Here are my Specs Model: ASUS K40AE CPU: Sempron M120 RAM: 4 GB Graphic Card: ATI 4200 256 MB Ram …

Hi, I have recently disconnected all the connection everything to clean MY PC form dust particle. When i joined all those again my diagnostic screen shows everything none... Like "Primary Master:None" , Primary Slave:None" , after that it says "DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" , i …

I have a ECS RC410-M Rev 1.1 motherboard running a Pentium D 945 3.4 ghz processor, it has ran well for over six months, now everytime I connect a USB device that is 2.0 it connects at 2.0 high speed, but after a short time of use it reverts back …

Hey, I hope this is in the correct place and that someone will be able to help out. I have an old computer, where I installed ubuntu 9.10 on and it told me that my 80Gb WD hdd was failing imminently. So I went and bought a 500Gb SATA hdd …

plus if I mouse over MSN messenger it disappears and I cannot gfet this to load either. I have virus scanned, defragged and regedited to the ends of my expertise and in some cases well beyond, but cannot seem to get this problem fixed. Upon logging into the computer, MSN …

[ATTACH=right]16534[/ATTACH]Alcohol remains off limits, but it looks like Saudis will still be allowed to feed their Crackberry addiction after all. The Saudi government had said that it would begin blocking Blackberry's instant messaging services on Friday - claiming that by not being allowed to monitor messages, the popular devices and …

[ATTACH=LEFT]16524[/ATTACH]A new utility app, officially released August 6, 2010, makes it possible for Blackberry users to get more life out of their battery by allowing them to decide how to use the remaining power left before recharging. Instead of hearing warning beeps and seeing a screen that doesn't show how …

Hi All, All of a sudden I woke up yesterday and found that my laptop would not start and there was no lights either,so called Dell care center and was told that mother board has konked off and needs a replacement with prohibitive cost.The charger lights show green led while …

Hi guys, I bought Acronis True Image 9.0 build 3677 a few days ago and I'm having problems. Trying to create a secure zone and apparently all I did was create 50GB of unallocated space on my hard drive. Acronis support had me run a chkdsk C: /r. This came …

Specs: Shuttle AK32A Motherboard Kingston 256MB RAM Maxtor 20GB HDD Nvidia GeForce MX440 500W PSU Amd Athlon CPU It's a custom-built PC, and when I powered it on for the first time, all the fans came on, the HDD's spun, and it seemed to be recieving power. But, I get …

Just replaced motherboard, cpu, ram. Knew enough to set bios to cd/rom to first. Now it won't boot up, won't start windows normally, and won't go into safe mode. It just repeatedly restarts. Other info: using the old ide cable from cd to hdd to motherboard. Asus manual recommends a …

thanks, Pls help; I have a DELL Inspiron B130 LAPTOP with a black screen. [I can't run windows XP anymore] When I run an extended test in the diagnostic menu, I get one page showed: the device (dvd) was detected by Delldiag, maybe you need other diagnostics to test. (before …

my laptop is not opening, but people suggested me to get a new one, but all of my savings are in there... what is another way to get them?? if i am going to buy a new laptop?? thank you!!

Hey. Well, my computer seems to have power, because two fans are turning inside of it, but since i had the computer ive had troubles with the power, at least i think. Everynow and then it used to just turn off and shut down, requiring me to actually remove the …

Mobile phones are constantly evolving and improving to the point that they are akin to the PC market of the mid-nineties, when it seemed as if your desktop was horribly outdated six months after purchase. Bag phones became brick phones, which evolved into the iconic flip phone. The advent of …