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hey guys, me and the techs here are having a bit of an issue. We have a customers notebook. Old hardware but runs decent. It does not show the post screen when you turn it on. The cpu is fine, we tried multiple cpus so we know that isn't the …

Hello, I have been wanting to buy an external hard drive for some time now. I'm now wondering which one I should take. I'm looking for one with 1.5-2TB of storage capacity. Now what I think is weird is this: For a LaCie 2TB drive I have to pay 219€ …

hello friends ? i am going to start a computers company.. We will have to tight up with intel in india ? can you tell me where in india intel manufacturer branch is located or any other computer manufacturing branch ? thanks in advance ?

I have an 8GB philips gogear and the screen does not turn on. I tried plugging it into my computer and tried using the wall charger. THey both work, the mp3 player doesn't. I have taken this mp3 player apart, down to the screen, battery, and motherboard. I'm wondering if …

I want to put Ring tones on my Cell phone its a Sprint Lg lx550 it has a computer cable and expandable memory. it has blue tooth but my computer doesnt. I know the songs I want I just dont know how to put them on my phone. and i …

I have a Dell Dimension E521 that won't turn on when the power button is pushed. There is an amber light that is on the AUX Power LED on the MOBO that is lit. I pulled the Power supply unit strip going to the MOBO and did a paperclip jumper …

[ATTACH=right]16413[/ATTACH]A former sales director with the Taiwan-based Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation has entered a plea-bargain in a San Francisco Federal Court related to charges of participating in a global conspiracy to fix the price of thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, according to the [URL="http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2010/261080.htm"]Justice Department[/URL]. Under his plea agreement, …

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I want a portable reader with which I can read pdfs. That's all. I am a poor college student, so price is a huge factor. Help! Thanks in advance.

Ive used this site in the past, and Ive received excellent advice. My cd/dvd drive isnt working for some reason. The drive isnt listed under my computer, and it doesnt open while windows is running. The weird thing is that I can open it during the startup. Ive tried opening …

How do most NAS drives deal with multiple users opening/editing a file at once?

It's not in the stores yet but in Europe at least the anticipation is hotting up for the [URL="http://ww.nokia.com"]Nokia[/URL] N8 smartphone. It's causing excited ripples for two reasons: first it's going to be seen as the first time Nokia has come out with something serious to combat the iPhone in …

Hello :) Recently i was running into some problem which had Windows freezing upon start, so i decided to give it a go and reinstall from the CD. I set my CD/DVD-Rom drive as first boot device in the BIOS, inserted the Windows XP CD and restarted. It came to …

hi all i have a medion lap top but i turned it on today and the screen is grey with red,blue,green vertical lines on it plug in an external monitor but it is still the same. but when i plug the charger in the screen went back to normal for …

Research In Motion (RIM) held an event in NYC at 11 AM EDT today to announce a new device previously referred to as the BlackBerry 9800, but now known as the Blackberry Torch. The real excitement however is the BlackBerry 6 OS. RIM hopes that their revamped focus on multimedia …

Okay so the GPU on my laptop (nvidia card), has gone bad and I have confirmed this with Nvidia (cause Dell would have been a headache). Anyway I needed to turn it on to get some stuff off of it, and decided to put this temperature program to see what …

I have an HP Pavilion dv4000 laptop that recently has been abruptly shutting off. Generally it will work just fine even if I have it on all day going between active and standby modes. However, I have found that doing certain tasks or running certain programs, particularly converting files (either …

Hi Guys and Gals!! I'm looking at purchasing an MAC G4 800 MHZ here in the USA the thing is I'm moving to the UK in September will this work with 240V @ 50hz when USA is 110V @60hz ? I think it will work with just a new power …

Laptop was working fine when it was shut down and put away. Next time out I got the Acer splash screen (press f2 for start up) and laptop froze and had a constant beep tone. Pressing f2 did nothing. If I turned off the power and held down ctl-alt -del …

On Sunday an [URL="http://www.tra.ae/news_TRA_Announces_the_Suspension_of_Blackberry_Messenger%2C_Blackberry_E_mail_and_Blackberry_Web_Browsing_Services_in_the_UAE_from_October_11%2C_2010-180-1.php"]official statement[/URL] was released by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) confirming that certain mobile features for the BlackBerry device including mobile email, messaging, and mobile web browsing will be blocked by government authorities. [ATTACH=right]16330[/ATTACH]The ban will officially go into effect beginning on …

The same hacker behind the iPad jailbreaking software “Spirit”, and the iPad port of Flash, has released an easy to use jailbreak solution for the iPhone4. Comex and his cohorts have created a website that allows users to complete the job with a single swipe of the finger. [ATTACH=RIGHT]16317[/ATTACH]Users of …

[ATTACH=right]16313[/ATTACH]More smartphones could soon be headed to Kandahar, Baghdad or other hotspots where U.S. Troops can use a little technological assistance - not to be able to Tweet or check for the latest news from their brigade on [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story299599.html"]Wikileaks[/URL] - but for communicating with the locals. DARPA - the Defense …

Hi Can anyone please help. My mouse has stopped working, I have tried 2 different mice and nothing. I have tries USB ports and the other one (sorry, bit thick) It stopped after I loaded a new game do you think its the game? Look forward to hearing some suggestions.

Hello, I have a Dimesion 3000, P4 2.8 GHz that is dead. I was going to try to replace the power supply in it. It has a 250 Input 100-120 /6A 200-240 /3A output +5V 22 A Max ect.. Do I have to replace this with the same one or …

i have a dell dimension desktop e310. it was purchased in 2005 & runs window xp media. my video driver is an intel chipset 82915g/gv/910gl. i have gotten this display error several times over the past few days after attempting to play a game i downloaded. the trial version from …

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16277[/ATTACH]First came the smart phone. Next comes the smart camera phone. Thanks to [URL="http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/"]researchers at Stanford University[/URL], your smart phone's camera might eventually have a plethora of its own apps that are more advanced than even the iPhone's limited inventory of camera apps. "Camera manufacturers used to ignore phones because …

I purchased a D610 Latitude for my daughter and while she was using it I dropped a large popcorn tin and it landed on the cord in 2 places simultaneously and instantly lost all power. AC/DC = nothing. No lights, fan or anything else. I know this dosent matter but …

Hello, my hard drive has a really weird problem: When i turn on my computer normally the hard drive will make mechanical clicking sounds, as if the "reader head" was hitting something over and over again. Then a few seconds later the sound will stop, but my pc wont find …

Right this is a big one, I have been tasked with seeing if we can move our calls that we store on DVD RAM to disk. The machine used to record calls is a Nice Mirra V2. I tired pulling out a drive and putting a disk in, connecting it …

Hi Daniweb people, Hopefully someone can help me here! :-) Having a strange problem with a Packard Bell Easynote A8 laptop. A family member has asked me to fix it, but i'm clueless as to what the problem could be. Basically, this laptop has sat unused for about a year, …

Hi, and thanks to all to can help. To make the story short, I have a Dell Latitude, and the power button stoppen working. Upon inspection, I found that the power button board itself was broken. This was confirmed because none of the caps lights, etc didn't light up when …

built my first comp.have biostar g31-m7 te mobo intel pentium 4 cpu 630 3.0 ghz 800 mhz 2mb spektek 2gb ddr2 ram,will beep continuosly without ram installed no beep or signal with it.monitor works with other comp fine.can some one help please??

When I turned on my laptop, the usual blue Dell logo screen (with press F2 to enter setup) came up followed by a blank screen where the cursor is at the top left flashing, the hard disk light is permanently on and it stays like that indefinitely. When I press …

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a way to only use the microphone on a bluetooth device while connecting the iPhone to external speakers for audio playback during a phone call? Thanks

When ever I open the task manager on my machine, it shows the CPU usage at least 46%. However, when I look at the processes, the idle process is at 96, meaning the other processes are only taking 4%. I have a dual 2.4GHZ running XP SP 3 with 2GB …

I have an E-Machine (bought in '03) running on Windows XP. When I turn on my comp everything boots, but I can't use my Keyboard or Mouse, they are frozen. I thought it was the power supply so I went ahead and changed that but still the same situation, the …

i use Dell inspiron 530 system with core 2 duo e4400 2 g hz processor. and 1 GB ram. vista home premium OS. now a days I face lot of problems during post boot up period(almost hang). when I check RAM in- computer->system it shows 501 MB RAM. This means …

what can it be,when i turn my laptop on just the screen flikker 1second and i hear my harddrive ,and i can swap cd s from my cdrom but the system does nothing

I have a Gateway MX6426 Notebook. I recently bought a new battery and power cord for it.When I got the battery and installed it,the pc came on just fine for about 10 minutes then shut down.When I tried to reboot,I get 4 red blinking lights from front indicator.The pc doesnt …

Hi, I'm new to this forum and not a tech person. I got a Dell D610 from Ebay from a guy who got it from a guy and so on....Now, I'm trying to install Windows XP and I have to change the Boot Sequence, but I can't do it as …

hello for about 2 weeks alrdy i been having problems with my laptop crashing when im playing AION online i even tryed formating the laptop and thats the only thing i got on this laptop nothing running in the background and tryed diff type of drives for my video card …

I recently put a pci card into my Medion desktop to enable it to pick up wireless. It's the first time I've opened it up and the card went in fine. Everything was working before hand, but now as soon as I plug the computer in and turn the power …

my computer's been acting weird lately. whenever i try to turn it on by the power button it won't turn on. After i hold the power button for about 9 seconds, i press it again and it will turn on. but as soon as i get it on.. it turns …

Hi, Please bare with me as I am a computer novice, I have just inherited a Dell computer with windows 98 when I turn on the computer it works fine, it brings up the start screen with all the icons etc however for some reason I cannot connect a keyboard …

Hi! The LCD screen of my laptop has stopped working. Now is blank. I think it's the flex cable, the connector on the motherboard I think it's broken, as this only has 29 pins and I think you should have 30 pins. I would like to give me their opinion. …

My computer is Gateway P-6860FX. This problem started in the beginning of July. Sometimes I hear a loud noise. I believe it is the fan. It appears to be coming from the left side. Suddenly, the fan becomes very loud. Is this a problem?

I got a new computer running on Windows 7. It read my USB for about 5 weeks untill it just would not apear in computer. Every thing I own is on my USB, because I don't have anything on my computer because it has not disk space! I have to …

A lot of rumors began circulating about the possibility of a new Kindle on the horizon after the popular Kindle DX seemed to suddenly be sold out on Amazon's web site some time ago leading to the speculation that Amazon had a new version in the works. Wednesday those suspicions …

Last week, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story299002.html"]Indian officials unveiled a $35 Linux-based touchscreen computer[/URL] to the dropped jaws of users holding tablets 16x as much. Capable of web browsing with JavaScript and Flash support, word processing, video conferencing, viewing multimedia content, reading PDF files, and housing USB ports, Wi-Fi, and 2GB of storage, its …

[ATTACH=right]16216[/ATTACH]Intel revealed a new fiber-optic interface yesterday, capable of transferring an entire HD movie in a single second. Curious, considering they've yet to release their relatively modern [URL="http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm"]Light Peak[/URL] technology that transfers data at an already astounding 10Gbit/sec. Their new interface ups the ante five-fold, and opens the door for …