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Apple has this week released a software update for the iPhone which addresses a total of five security vulnerabilities. But not, it would seem, the small matter of a year old glitch which could turn your iPhone into a spyPhone. First the good news, Apple has released [URL="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4013"]iPhone OS 3.1.3[/URL] …

well i have been burning my dvds videos with nero 7 ultra edition and i never have had a problem but, yesturday i was burning a dvd copy and it was half way like 60% done with the dvd. and then it said that it couldnt read the data it …

Hello, I am looking for an adapter that converts a parallel port on the computer to a USB port. I see plenty of the ones that work the other way around, e.g. convert a USB port into parallel for use with printers. A serial port to USB port is an …

I keep getting "not communicating with printer message". Lexmark support hasn't been helpful. I do not have the initial disk. I've unplugged, disconnected, uninstalled, etc, and nothing seems to be helping. Any suggestions? Rikker

I need to know some information about what I can possibly upgrade my video card to as I obviously dont want to waste money on a card that will not be compatible. I am currently using a Gateway model GT5694 desktop, I am not 100% if this is the correct …

Hi Guys, I have just joined this forum so I am a newbie to all of this so please bare with me on this. I am not sure iof this is a graphics or motherboard issue. I have a very strange issue with a customer of mines PC, its a …

I have an Acer 5920 laptop that recently had a bug in the boot sector. I wound up reinstalling Vista on another partition to be able to get back to the original installation that came with it. Now that it is back working I noticed that only 2G of the …

Hi, I have just installed a Frontech TV tuner card in my computer, I am getting the picture but their is no audio. I have tried everything but it still does not work Any any one help me out? Thanks, Major2major

Hey all! My brother's computer is making some random beeping sounds lately (it's like the motherboard's speaker's sound). It only occurs while he's playing games though. And it doesn't even happen with all games, but just some, which seems awfully strange to me. It usually starts like a minute or …

Hey guys. Ive got a (less than 4 years old) lenovo laptop. The HDD on it failed (click of death) about just before xmas. I replaced it soon after and that one is now showing 4kb of bad sectors a few months on. Makes me rage. Is it something i …

Hi iv got a SATA 500GB internal HDD in my PC and when ever i start up my PC it will keep changing the storage size thats free.for example when i finish using my PC i have around 10GB left when i restart it the next day or if the …

I had a hard drive disappear from bios and no boot. I got hold of a PClinuxOS2009 CD image and it works as an operating system from the read only CD Download and burn for free. Use a non rewritable disk!!! I booted from it and set to and had …

Hey I got 16gb usb drive which is somehow only 6gb now! I tried to format with windows formatting thing. I hope my stick isn't broken I don't want lose my 16gb! [URL=http://img716.imageshack.us/i/sieppaa.png/][IMG]http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2213/sieppaa.png[/IMG][/URL] There it says 7,7gb + 987kb is unreserved how I reserve I can't click them with mouse …

I have a great project and the code is done but now I need a big computer. The specs are as follows Ram: 32GB CPU: Whatever GHz Harddrive: 8TB Video: 256MB etc. but Does anybody know when the technology will be available to have 32GB of ram with a price …

in my bios, the hd is recognized but it says optical disk: none. i just installed a new hd and set my bios to load cd rom first and then hd, so i could install windows on it. but it skips the cd and goes straight to hd, which doesnt …

I have Win7 and using FF with Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. The problem is that the mouse wheel stopped working (it won't scroll the window any more, or just scrolls intermittently for very short periods of time) but everything else works as expected. Changed the battery but that did …

i have a toshiba tecra laptop of which doesnt boot at all. power led shows up but when power button is placed nothing comes up rather than hdd spine noisy, what might be the problem?

Bought a second hand Toshiba laptop and wont boot, keeps on asking for HDD password. Am stuck...

I'm trying to get my friends PC up and running again. I've read forum posts on this problem already. I can't solve this issue. The PC is a Dell Dimension 4600 with an 80 gb Maxtor IDE drive. I've tested the drive...it works in an external hard drive case on …

PLZ GUYS IM DYING HERE...IV HAD THIS PROBLEM 4 A WEEK AND I HAVENT SOLVED IT YET IM RUNNING A WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2, I FORMATTED MY PC AND I LOST MY SOUND CARD DRIVER , AND I CANT FIND IT ON THE INTERNET PLZ HELP....THE SOUND CARD IS …

Not sure if this is a virus or spyware issue... but my Sony Vaio desktop is shutting off about 5-7 times a day, seems like something is causing it to crash... It shuts off when the computer isn't being used as well. Any idea what might be causing this? Any …

I had this problem before, press the button and nothing happens, then my brother was messing with the switch and all of a sudden it started. Worked fine for 6 months and yesterday it stopped, all of a sudden. I opened it, played with the switch, moved it around but …

First let's get something out of the way - I love the iPad. Every other blogger has shared their opinion so for me it's the eReader that does about ten times as much for only 150 per cent of the price. It's also the first games platform that's going to …

I have a Advent computer that is around 3 years old running on XP. Today it completely died. When I switch the machine on the green power light comes on, as does the orange HD light comes on, and so does the green light on the DVD-RW drive. The fans …

Please help....I have a flat screen computer monitor and it recently developed a problem. My computer monitor has a large black spot on it that is growing larger. I was moving and I had my computer and the monitor in my car. I tried to pad the monitor as much …

I bought a Sony VGN-NW25m Notebook about 10 days ago and it has developed a keyboard problem in that the character that is displayed is not the one I key in - I press 'p' and a * appears. Two questions:- 1) Should I just take the laptop back to …

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I am working on a GT5656. The system was downgraded from Vist to xp. When the tech performed th downgrade, he first deleted all partitions. Now the owner wants to restore Vista, so I ordered the disks from Gateway. During the restore I get Gateway Error 0x2001100200001005. I assume that …

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Hi any help with the following problem would be greatly appreciated as I have a deadline with my work!! (argh!), OK - I have an Advent laptop that has a dead screen, on starting it appears to start fine - I get the windows starting sounds all the right lights …

I need help. I have a Hp desktop about 5 years old now I have a 17" hp lcd monitor. Well when I boot my computer on the monitor will turn off and on and so quick that i cant even log on. Sometimes I can get it to stay …

Hi, First-off: I'm fairly amateur at repairing hardware components of computers, but I know most of the basics. The Problem: When I turn on my computer, it turns on but the monitor goes immediately into Power Saver Mode (the usually green light on the monitor turns orange). I know this …

I have some problems with usb all of my folders are manipulated i found this is due to usb virus, i want to know the perfect usb scanner which avoids this kind of virus. Yesterday i cleaned up the whole operating system.

My Compaq Armada M700 laptop has been giving me an error message that says "103 Charge Circuit Failure" right after the "bootup" message, before Windows starts, and the battery is not charging (right now it's stuck at 88%). I Googled around and most of the messages I found said that …

Hi, I am hoping that one of you experts will get me out of the mire. My old Dell CPx laptop XP disk got corrupted and would not boot. I booted from a floppy disk and used FDISK to format the internal HDD. Now I need to re-install XP on …

Hi guys, this is my first thread and partly the reason why i joined up on this awesomely helpful website. I am alright with computers but not to the extent where i could build one from scratch so here's the deal. I am looking at a new computer and i …

Ok... So a buddy of mine had a problem with his HP Pavilion 700 Desktop PC. Upon examining the machine, I was determined that the issue must be with the power supply (no fan's running, no activity other than a lite sequel from the power supply). I ordered the power …

my laptop is giving me problems the fan runs and stop and makes noise and the machine goes off without any warning or signal that it is going off until i leave it for like 30 minutes before it works for some time and goes off

I own a Gateway 450ROG laptop. the problem all started two weeks ago when i was using it and a popup balloon said low virtual memory. Next time I went to start the laptop it would try and start up but I would only see a black screen, a faint …

Are there any portable mp3 players which have the option of crossfading between songs (a la Winamp) as well as the ability to play songs with no break between them? The latter feature would be helpful, for example, with techno mixed albums where all the songs are premixed together. If …

I have a Gateway MX8711 laptop and it has started to have problems. Upon turning on the machine the light comes on to show it has power, I hear the fan start up but the screen never comes on. I turned it off then tried again and it booted up, …

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I have a bios that is a "bad bios" it won't stay where I put it. It changes the boot drive. It changes the video back from pci to the on board graphics. I gave it a new motherboard battery but it didn't care. It's an old E 2100 that …

I just got a new CPU, installed drive from old CPU into the machine and it shows up on disk management, but not in 'MY COMPUTER'. I have no access to all my old information there. Old drive is FAT32, new drive is NTFS, both are already formated. Any suggestions?

Hi guys, Silly question here... Ive just changed mother board and when i shut down system, it automatically turns on again. The on/off button does stick slightly but i was just wondering if by mistake did i by insert leads( + -) on motherboard the wrong way... Could this be …

hi guys i need to change the cpu fan on my gateway ml3109 but i cant find a repair manual

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hi, i recently moved my pc from one room 2 another and when turning on everything began to run as normal for about 5-10 secs bios page ect.. until smoke came from inside and then nothing all went dead, i disconnected lead @ plug then psu. the fuse has blown …

I have a laptop that has been through hell and back recently. Long story short, my HDD crashed last month and I bought a brand new one to replace the now dead one. I lost everything and was unable to recover anything. I had a bit of trouble installing the …

Heya All [B]Back Ground[/B] I have a Toshiba P100 Laptop, that also has a few other things wrong with it including sporadic green and red pixels that are not screen or graphics card related. *as both have been tested/replaced* Included inase it was relavent Now this has been going on …