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| | I just replaced the mother board in my bosses computer, old one was dead (bad caps) what do I need to do to boot the machine back up? Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi everyone, and I want to say I am happy to be here. Here is the problem I am facing. I have Sony VIAO laptop about 1.5 years old. My son was downloading and installing some video game for his psp. The game is leagal and so on. After that, … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware windows-vista |
| | Computer was working fine and I was moving the ethernet cable from one port to another and when I reattached it the computer just switched off...and on restart was beeping constantly. I took out the battery on the mobo (to reset it) and it will restart fine and seems to … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card  |
| | Hi. I have recently reinstalled windows on my pc and have noticed that exactly in the middle of the monitor the colours change shade. It only minimul but it is noticable. To explain more clearly the whole left side is a lighter shade than the right side so it looks … Hardware display |
| | Hey guys, I am going to write a paper comparing 3 hard drives and I am looking to figure out what would be 3 good hard drives to choose for this. What 3 hard drives would you suggest to write a good 5 page paper that creates some debate and … Hardware storage  |
| | My gateway mx7120 won"t boot up. Blue screen with error message that reads "STOP: ox0000007E (ox80000003,ox8053331E,oxF7A6550C,oxF7A65208)" The computer has a system recovery on hard drive that you can access with f11 key. While doing this, a box appears that says "System Restore environment is incomplete! System Restore reinstalls the environment." … |
| | my laptop monitor displays with a thick black portion that covers about one quarter of the screen. but when i press down on the screen(top right hand corner) it displays well only to show the black portion again when i remove my hand(i.e stop applying pressure) Note attachment :shows the … Hardware display |
| | I was having boot up issues; figured it was virus/malware-based, and ultimately pulled the hd to slave it elsewhere and do clean install. Upon putting it back in, I get a green light on the MB, next to CPU fan, but nothing else happens. I tested the PS with a … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware virus-malware |
| | I have an Inspiron 6000 that will start to come on. The cap locks light blinks 9 times and then turns off. I'm sure that is a "post" code of some type, but can't find any documentation of that on this model. Thanks! Laura Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | So hear is the story. My friend moved and when he went to conncet his PC he said it wasn't working. He had another friend come over who started making all kinds of BIOS settings to get it to run. The PC powers on fine, POSTS fine and you can … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | Ok, So I bought this gateway laptop a year ago, and the warranty ended a few days ago. It is a MD2614u. This does not happen all the time, but most of the time. When I hit the power button, all lights come up and the screen turns on, but … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | i have a friends pc with xp pro x64 on it .and my friend tried to repair with an xp home cd ,now when i bootup it loads the win xp logo and after that it says starting up xp pro and it just hangs there and keyboard turns off … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
 | [ATTACH=right]14158[/ATTACH]I love my iPhone. It's a cool device with lots of free and low-cost apps at my finger tips, but I've been wondering lately if some of these Apps are a good thing. I mean, why do I need a dedicated New York Times app, for example? Why doesn't the … |
| | Hello to all I have an Acer laptop and for about 4 years i never had a problem until yesterday. When i'm trying to open my laptop is shows nothing. Just black screen. The power works fine. The power button lights up and when i press the eject button on … Hardware display hard-drive laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | This processor is 498 MHz with 240MB of RAM. Running Windows XP. I am not able to run video such as YouTube on this machine, but the audio comes through. I am using another IBM with 966 MHz and 512 RAM and it handles all the video very well. Is … Hardware audio motherboards-cpu-ram  |
| | Hi. I hibernated my laptop last night, and it won't startup in the morning. When I try to startup, some LEDs light up (WiFi flickers for a moment, then the Caps Lock, Num Lock, followed by Hard Disk LED which flickers for a moment, then the DVD check). The screen … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | So I get a used CUP, A dell GX260 older but okay computer. I went out and bought some RAM and installed it myself no problem, worked fine. Next I wanted a new video card, so I get a VGA Geforce 6600 pluged in into the AGP slot start CPU … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware video-card |
| | i have an asus p4sd-vx oem from sony. It origionally came with 8 usb 2.0 ports however now they are all reading slower than that either usb 1.0 or 1.1. I know this becasue of my pen drive it recognizes as a high speed device in a non highspeed port … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | hi there,hope you can help. i have a dell demension 4600 pent 4 xp sp3.1.5 gig ram 80gig hard drive:).i came home to find my pc was making a clicking sound and wouldn't do anything except tell me to press f1 or f2. f1 did nothing and f2 took me … Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi all, bought a sparkle 9600 GT the other day to use with the dual outputs so I can use my PC monitor for work at my desk and watch movies on my TV in bed. I installed it on my MSI K9VGM-V mobo and hooked up both screens to … Hardware pci-card |
| | Nvidia yesterday began shipping the [url=http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_480_us.html]GeForce GTX 480[/url], with double the number of processor cores previously available at 512. The card is intended to to permit smooth playback and editing of 2D or 3D content, including animation, games and videos. The GTX 480 supports Microsoft DirectX 11, Direct3D and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physx]PhysX[/url], … Hardware display image pci-card video video-card |
| | My computer recently went dead and i took it to best buy and the geek squad said the problem is my motherboard which they wont help me out with. I dont know much about motherboard and compatibility so can someone help me out with recommending a new motherboard for my … Hardware audio troubleshoot-hardware |
| | After turning on my Inspiron 6000 recently, a black screen appeared with the following message at the top "****MANUFACTURING MODE: LEVEL [67]**** Press Fn-X to return the system to normal running mode. I have tried hitting the "Fn" key, "-" key and letter"x" key simultaneously and separately and in the … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | As the world awaits for the release of Apple's Next Big Thing, developers are putting the finishing touches on applications to be ready for iPad's April 3 ship date. And Apple is getting ready too. The company yesterday began accepting submissions for iPad App Store, its online application outlet for … Hardware app-store apple apple-hardware ipad iphone |
| | I have been trying to repair a Dell XPS M170 and have been hit a dead end that i cannot get through. I go to power it on and my LED lights light up for 5 seconds and then the machine shuts off. The monitor does not light at all … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I am slowly growing out of my hard drives on my server. I am running SBS 2003 and I have 2- 160 GB hard drives running in an array. I would like to replace them but I am not sure how I should do this. If I replace one of … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | I have a HP that the hard drive quit. I have a E-machine that the hdd is good. It is formated in ntfs with XP. When I put it in the HP I get a disk read error. I put it in another E-machine and it will boot up fine. … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | I have a Compaq Presario CQ60-211DX Notebook PC and I'm unable to burn any music files to cd, and i have been using the same brand as always when burning music in the past, when I inseert a cd it states please insert a blank cd...can you please help me … Hardware storage |
| | Hello I have a Fujitsu Lifebook Series N6010 laptop. BIOS VERSION 1.17 E. The RAM in my computer is 2 X 512 MB. DDR SD PC2700 333MHZ CL 2.5. Unbuffered non ECC RAM Seeking the advice from the website Crucial I was let to believe that the following RAM spec … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I'm working on an old pc (actually 2 machines) that runs medical diagnostic software that uses an internal cassette drive. It's connected to an EISA card. The software requires a hardlock key (dongle) to run. The problem is, I can't get the software to recognize the cassette drive. I've changed … Hardware storage |
| | ok this is what i have: Intel duo 2.53ghz 3326MB RAM Geforce 9500gt card now the problem i have is, when i play games a short while into the game the graphics go all weird. funny coulers and even in the menu screen it sometimes give strange stuff. it is … Hardware display |
| | Do laser mice wear out? My logitech wireless laser mouse is about a year old and has become hesitant and occasionally, won't work at all. Later in the day, it works fine. The only thing I've learned from installing new batteries, cleaning USB connectors, cleaning lens on laser, etc. is … Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Computer: HP Pavilion HPE150-t (right out of the box) Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 940aw I am currently typing on my first computer, a Dell Dimension 4550. I just took the computer out of the box and hooked everything up, including the monitor. I turned on the computer, and nothing came up … Hardware display |
| | Hi, I will try and make this brief and to the point. My home built system (which has been running smoothly for 2 years now), has just recently experienced some major difficulties. I had been running Windows 7, and put the computer to "sleep." The screen went blank, but the … |
| | My monitor has started to go black about twice or more every minute. It lasts for a few seconds and then comes back on again. Sometimes the mouse freezes. Sometimes the desktop becomes garbled when I open a new window. Sometimes the screen goes continuously blank and only comes on … Hardware display video video-card |
| | Hello everybody, Every time I turn on my pc after around 5-10minutes my monitor is giving me the no signal or cable connected message. I can't do anything to make it work again. I have to close the pc wait 15 minutes then i turn it on again, it works … Hardware display video-card |
| | I have a NEC varsa5000 laptop which is out of order.The display is ok.I want to use the display as a monitor.technology is unknown to me.Help me with schematic of display conections.Mother board circuit description will be most helpful for me.If you have the knowledge about the technology, pl.help me. Hardware display |
 | Can somebody please fill me in on what "Bad Clusters" are? I have an external hard drive that has bad clusters on it. I have tried about everything I could think of to recover them, ran programs, re-formated the drive pulled the partition out and re-loaded everything and it still … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | new member 1st post here. A custom PC i started putting together in november last year still isnt any closer to being finished after spending almost triple the amount it should have cost me. I have read the sticky My PC wont start and as far as i know ive … Hardware gaming troubleshoot-hardware |
| | My presario2135us stopped responding to anything. After I plug in new ac adapter the computer seems to get power but the power light just pulses like its stuck in standby mode. I can hear the fan come on when it gets warm but I can not get it to boot … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I bought an open box Hp computer from circuit city before they went bankrupt, and I didn't know that the bios had been password protected. Now I need to access it, does anyone know if they used a standard password for all of their stuff, and what it might be? Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi all, My laptop will simply not turn on. I took it to a friend and he had the same battery that I use and his battery worked on my laptop but would not charge. Thus, it can't be battery problems so I think it has to do with the … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | I have been taxed with a project to get a system that was running under NT to run on a XP professional machine. I have two ISA DSP boards one is a master the other a slave. I have isntalled the programs and all looked good and like it was … Hardware pci-card |
| | hi guys, please help me out with my SATA hard drive, i accidentally removed the case covering the pins on the hard drive and they are now exposed, am scared of forcing them back on the cover because they are so tiny and fragile. is it even possible to replace … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | Hi, I was cleaning up a friend's computer and decided to schedule a disk check for bad sectors from the Tool section in the C:\ Property window. I told him that next time he boot up his pc, the scan was going to start. When he did that, the scan … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I recently acquired a Toshiba Tecra 8200 laptop with no operating system. I have tried several times to install Windows XP Pro from a CD but it will not boot up from the CD. The screen says PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable, but the only cable attached is the … Hardware laptop operating-system troubleshoot-hardware |
| | i look around but i only see answers for other systems... i have an Acer ASPIRE (1)ne AOA 155-177 Model#:ZG5 No external disc reader PXE-EG1: Media Test Failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM. No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key i have no external disk … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi can anyone tell me before i order online if my acer aspire laptop charger is faulty or if my acer aspire laptop itself is faulty, What happened is i went to turn my laptop on and it powered up then turned off, Then i tried again and it did … Hardware laptop motherboards-cpu-ram |
 | i have a prblem and please help me identify what is the problem. while i open games like cabal online, warcraft III, or even 3d live pool, also when watching video, browsing pictures, and worst is even when i'm just browsing the net., my screen flash and the graphics will … Hardware flash motherboards-cpu-ram video-card |
| | I have a Sony VAIO PCG-8P1L laptop that only says "OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND" on boot. BIOS still tells the correct time so I don't think its the CMOS battery. I tried to boot to CD (Windows, Ubuntu and diagnostics cd), but I don't get an option for boot order … |
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