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Bear with me as I'm new to this! This computer was built by a friend of mine about 4 yeas ago. Been working sweet until the other day, there was no signal on the monitor!! - Have opened up the computer and the fan on the video card (AGP) is …

When I turn on my computer, the power light turns on, and I can hear it starting up like normal; but the monitor, keyboard, and mouse make no response. By this I mean, nothing is displayed on the monitor, the laser mouse doesn't turn on, and the lights on the …

I recently put on my laptop and when it booted up ok the screen was dull as if the battery was low but the icon said it was charging. It remained at 2% and never rose up to full charge. When I take it off mains power the screen brightens …

I just bought a refurbished Toshiba Tecra 9000 Laptop. It works fine except when I try to use it on battery power. When I try to boot it with batter power I receive this message: NMI: Channel Check / IOCHK . Anyone have an idea on this? The battery charges …

I have two external hard-drives on my XP workstation. After starting the machine last week, neither of the drives showed up in the system. I discovered by clicking on <Safely Remove Hardware> that the system thinks that they are drives with removable storage. I did the following: 1) plugged them …

Hey everyone, I have a Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-115 drive and its giving me horrible results. I am also using an HP Pavillion 7855 desktop, which originaly came with a DVD-ROM and worked fine for 2 1/2 years. That DVD-ROM is in peices, but I hope to get this one to …

As of now I'm still using my 10yr old IMB desktop with Windows XP It has a 2.2Ghz Intel Celeron and 1.5GB of RAM The thing is getting old though and the original hard drive is only 72GB and pretty much full making everything run a bit slow. My hard …

Dear Frineds; I need the USB to serial cable pin assignment ASAP. I have Notebook without Serial cabel.

A friend has an older laptop which uses PC2100 DDR-266 200 pin SODIMM's. I have a P2-5300 DDR2-667 200 pin SODIMM left over from an upgrade. It looks to me that both are keyed in the same spot on the RAM so I'm wondering if my DDR2-667 RAM would work …

Greetings all, My laptop monitor just started to show blurring in narrow horizontal bands - i.e. when reading text, one line is sharp, then the next one is blurred, then the next one is sharp, and so on for the whole screen. Scrolling up and down shows that the blurred …

Hi all.I am having trouble with my Dell M90 laptop.When I power it up the monitor lights up but no image appears.Both the CPU and graphics card fans don't come on.If a cd is put in the drive it spins. About 2 mouths ago I had the graphics card repaired …

I am looking to upgrade my RAM, I have a dell optiplex gx620 and it has the standard mainboard serial no: 0F8101 , I am looking for someone who really knows what they are talking about to let me know that this item on ebay will work ok (assuming it …

As the ispiron has no screws to fasten the vga connection, does anyone know anything else that can be done to prevent disconnection apart from not moving the laptop?

Hi Guys, I have a DELL OPTIPLEX 745 and I accidentally pulled out my Graphics card while my computer was on and it crashed. It wouldn't switch on, the HDD was just making a slight noise and then it stops. Eventually it was switching on but was giving an error …

Hi all, I wanted to upgrade my current PCs Graphics, so went and bought a new card. Made sure it was the right connection etc. After opening the case for the first time ever, I pushed in the card. But then had this urge to clean the CPU, undone the …

I'm a huge fan of the president. I loved how his campaign used social media to help drive him to victory in 2008. I think he's generally a smart, well-informed and extremely articulate man, but today he said something incredibly stupid about the iPad and I have to say something. …

Okay…I give up. I’ve got to ask for some help. I recently re-installed XP Media Center on my Dell Dimension E310. Now, whenever I re-start I have no sound. And when I go the Control Panel, I get the “No Audio Device” with all of the selections grayed-out. And I …

Can someone tell me the difference between a 478 pin PPGA FC-PGA2 Package, and a 478 pin PPGA processor? Thanks

I have a proble related to my desktop computer that restarts again and again after login with 5,10,15 minutes . what is the solution for this problem?

I've been having a lot of problems with my desktop recently. It all started when i got a new graphics card. For a few weeks the screen would sometimes be kind of wavy for a few minutes and go away. A week ago it started shutting itself down and i …

It powers on and freezes at the Gateway Logo. The fan runs continuously and to turn the laptop off I have to hold the power button down for about 5 seconds. Before this started it was working perfectly.

Was in the middle of installing Windows 7 on a pc. Power outage and 1 hours later when electricity came back everything looked fine. windows even finished installing and i typed i my username/password for new account and then switched to my other desktop because i had stuff to do. …

Hey, I am totally screwed up people. Yesterday i don't know what happened suddenly to my PC that i was surfing a random site and suddenly my screen crashed. I am on a 1024x768 resolution since 6-7 yrs. on my same monitor. I tried restarting it was working nicely until …

PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5-750(2.66G)8 mb LGA 1156 P11020 MOTHERBOARD: Asus p7p55d le 2000/crossfire P8690 MEMORY: Corsair 4gb xms3 1333 (2ddr3 x2) P6800 video card: Inno3d 9800gt 1gb ddr3 256bit/hdmi P5830 SUM TOTAL VALUE: P32340 The price is something expensive for me i would like to have my motherboard cheaper any …

Hi, Dell Studio 1535 cooler always starts, even if the system is not warm up. Plus mouse and keyboard work slowly. shut down computer, wait (2h.), but still the same. Checks the system load and temperature - all the norm. What happened?

the problem i have replaced my knackered dvd/cd drive with identical model no,[uj-820b] which i purchased from ebay.when booted no ide error appears, then windows loads but no drive shown in my comp, nor in device manager.then i check bios there it is detected.if i put into standby mode drive …

I finished putting together an Asus P6T system last night and started it up. It started fine and went through several re-boots as it downloaded new drivers. I shut it off and now it won't start. The only thing I did this morning was to tie the power lines running …

[ATTACH=right]14692[/ATTACH]Apple's feeling pretty good about itself lately and why shouldn't it? It sold [URL="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/03/apple-sells-one-millionth-ipad/"]a million iPads[/URL] in the first month. That means iPad sales reached a million units twice as fast as the original iPhone. The revenue spigot remains wide open and I'm sure investors are happy, but Apple has …

Hi, I've recently bought a new laptop and whenever I play a game my laptop crashes after about 30 minutes, after the first crash it then happens more and more often, sometimes the game will exit to the desktop with no error message, other times I will get a blue …

i have kingston 4gb flashdrive. when i saw in the my computer, the name of my flash changes to removable disk e:. when i click its properties, it is a raw file. when i scan to an antivirus , it says one object scan. i dont know what is the …

Is it possible to overclock a laptop MMC-2 processor? If so, how would I go about it? I have a Gateway 9300 and I find nothing in the CMOS setup that would allow me to do this.

[ATTACH=right]14585[/ATTACH]Google took an interesting step this week when it [URL="http://googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com/2010/04/update-on-nexus-one-partnerships.html"]announced on its Nexus One blog[/URL] that customers who want to use the Verizon network might be more interested in the [URL="http://phones.verizonwireless.com/htc/incredible/"]HTC Droid Incredible[/URL] instead of its own Nexus One. I've never hidden my disdain for the Google Nexus One strategy …

I have a Western Digitial 1TB 10eavs ext USB HDD. I am currently running Windows XP Sp1, (no I have hardware issues with SP2 and it gives the vaio mxs10 the BSOD with no OS... but that is a totally different issue... back to the point.) I have slow USB …

Hey all, tl;dr - As soon as power cord is connected to computer and the PSU switch is flicked the computer will start turninig itself off and on. No response from the monitor, even when the off/on cycle is stopped. What is this usually a symptom of? Where should i …

Hello all, I have a Alienware m9700 Dual Video cards/Dual Hard Drives/2.4 ML-44 Processor/ 2GB Ram. I was replacing the old LCD with a spare one when I saw a small spark under the inverter. When I turned the laptop on it booted just fine but no image on screen. …

Gateway M305CRV cpu heatsink removal problem. I am replacing the power jack and disassembly was was going great until I couldn't remove the fan-heat sink. The top edge of the cover is under the copper on the heat sink making removal impossible. How do I remove the fan/heatsink? It seems …

start up and programs run very slow!!! tried everything !!! help!!!

Hi folks, seen a few useful posts around here ... I have an Inspiron mini, excellent little machine, but after joggling around in a train froze while on and would not shut off. Removed power & battery but when switched on cannot seem to recognize the 16 GB solid hard …

My computer will not recognize the mouse or keyboard. I have plugged both into another computer and they work. I tried other keyboard and mouse in this computer, and they wont work. The light comes on in the mouse, but it wont move the cursor , but light will not …

[ATTACH=right]14667[/ATTACH]I've often discussed in this space, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story255079.html"]the ongoing battle[/URL] among the technology titans--that constant struggle to find the missing link to control the computing world. This week, HP made its move when [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/hp-buys-palm/"]it purchased Palm for $1.2 billion[/URL]. On first blush, it looks like an incredibly stupid step, overpaying for …

Hi, I have an HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop that I have been using since 2007. This morning when I turned it on it was working fine for a minute then it just shut down and would not start again. I could hear a clicking sound a few seconds apart. When …

hello . i'm in a serious trouble , all of my backup partiton is not accessable now . i have windows 7 64bit and the problem has shown when i formated my pc today, all of my pics and files and everything is lost ! :( please what can I …

What's Apple up to now? Yesterday it became public that the company had acquired [url=http://siri.com/]Siri[/url], whose sole purpose in life appears to be to make [url=http://siri.com/about/]Siri[/url], a free iPhone app that helps you find things and make plans. To [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjpVAB06O4&feature=player_embedded]watch Siri in action[/url], it does look pretty useful. But why …

ok..... i dont know if this is the right place to post this but i dont know and anyway heres my problem when i turn on my computer it gets to the windows loading screen with the blue bars moving across the screen and just sorta stalls there and continues …

Hello, I am running a Dell XPS 420 Intel Core 2 Windows Vista and the display monitor will turn off and when you try to turn it back on it says "Entering Power Save" on the screen and then the screen will go black. And no matter what I do, …

I airfreight a flat screen hp monitor. On reaching the destination, the monitor came on but the display was unsteady and at times switch off and on intermittently. Please how do fix this error. Thanks Gabriel

I have been trying to install a floppy drive to my HP PC. There is a FDD connector on the motherboard, and I've power the drive with 5V supply. In the BIOS, I have changed the floppy drive setting from NOT INSTALLED to 3.5" FLOPPY and saved the settings. On …

I recently did a RAM upgrade for a friend's Acer Aspire AST690. We have had a hell of a time getting the proper RAM, and we ended up getting several chipsets sent out that were incompatible. Finally, I purchased some RAM from 4allmemory.com that was guaranteed compatible with the system. …

Hello, I have Windows XP Home Edition. I am getting a message when i turn on my toshiba satellite A65-S1026; it says "we apologize for the inconvenience, etc." and gives me a number of options to start up. None works - no matter which i select, i will get a …

had computer appx 1.5 yrs and battery lasted bout 1.2 yr then nothing. purchase a new battery on ebay for $30 that had a charge on it when it came. when it went down it would not charge back up. I was sent another battery and the exact same thing …