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need scymatics to an old excel 2000 slot 1 and socket 370 board please can enyone tell me where to find one?

I am working on an emachine EL1200 - 06w and it will not go past the log on page. It will let me click on a user name, then goes right to logging you off and saving you settings. No matter which name I chose it does the same thing. …

I have an HP Pavillion XL753 that the motherboard went out on, and I'd like to get a new one. All I know about the original is that it's and Intel Celeron, socket 370, chipset 810. What will work with it? Thanks for the help.

Computers are becoming commonplace in homes and offices around the world. The problem is that most people know so very little about their computers, that when something goes wrong, they do not know how to begin the troubleshooting process. The ugly truth is that we could opt to call the …

Forgive me if any of my lingo is incorrect as i dont know a whole lot about computers. So here is the deal, i could turn on my computer and all the fans would turn on and i would get everything of a new start up except anything to the …

ik heb een hele oude toshiba 210 cs laptop en ik heb hem geformateerd met ms-dos maar nu start hij geen boot menu meer op, en hij geeft alleen aan ongeldige systeem schijf gelieve geldige systeem schijf te plaatsen. heb van alles geprobeert maar niks doet het. kom wel in …

Hi, my maxtor ext. hd which has been working well, has suddenly started to flash lights when connected to the power supply. The green light in the case is flashing and the green light on the power adaptor. The light is flashing fast and the icon is not showing up …

Hi to all, I am using an inkjet printer from 5 months and now i want to know that how can i make my printer work longer?what care should i have to take for it?

I have a machin, its mother board's LED is on but do not work any thing. I have replaced Processor, RAM,Hard even battery but not working. Please tell me about this problem.

[COLOR="red"]I really hate my computer when it keeps freezes. I almost got pissed and almost kicked my CPU. So please, help me out. Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 12/14/2009, 08:41:08 Machine name: MARK-078A4CCB9F Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) …

I bought a big-box-store computer with the intent to upgrade the video card as funds allowed. But, funds didn’t allow, so I cheaped out and bought a lemon. :rolleyes: The computer specs are as follows: Computer: HP a420n Pavilion Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-LA (AGP 8x, 3 PCI) CPU: AMD Athlon XP …

Hello everyone. After leaving the computer for 2 days turned off, I found out it won't post. The PSU feeds power to everything, fans, HDD, ram, GPU, but it won't post. I haven't changed anything, this happened suddenly. I'm using it normally and shutting down, and then two days later, …

I have a hp laptop which is about 2yrs, the problem is that no matter for how long u charge it, it never charges full. Is it that the battery is weak or some other problem. Please can somebody help.

In my pc there ic 1 problem & problem is when i start my pc this is give me 1 error & error is "CMOS SHEKSUM ERROR-DEFAULT LOADED" please give me any solution. i m changed my battery also,but problem is as it is ?

My laptop does not turn on plugged in or not . press the on button and it light up but shut right off.

I have recently upgraded the memory in a friends computer and now the browsers crash all the time and every once in a while the whole pc crashes and reboots. From what I can tell the motherboard is a pc chips M925 series p400. I had 256 of SDRAM and …

hi, im new to daniweb but i dont know were else to turn I have posted this same thread on intels community and 200 veiws later, no one has gotten back to me with any possible solution. last month i had given my friend a Gateway 500x desktop computer as …

please help! i just joined this forum today and i've been browsing for a while, trying to get help and see if i can solve this by myself, but i have no idea what most of you are talking about. i keep randomly getting a blue screen that says: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL …

I have a gateway M1625 and about a month ago it started acting funny. Anytime I turn it on, the LED lights up and I can see the CD ROM light on but nothing appears on the screen. Someone suggested the CMOS battery be changed but that didn't solve it. …

Thanks to new firmware (v.1.3) released last Thursday, Dell's Lifecycle Controller now works with system management tools from BMC and Microsoft. Most reports that followed Dell's Thursday announcement focused on the speed and capacity of its EqualLogic storage arrays, not on the software used to manage them. While improvements to …

Today when I start the system, I found it has not started but it continuous beeping. so what can be problem?

Had a laptop which I had to get give back to the company I was contracting with, so I removed the Hard Drive and then got another laptop and stuck the original HDD I had in that to save me time in rebuilding another laptop. Both laptops are Dell's but …

My son needs a new phone, so yesterday at my suggestion, we took a trip to the local AT&T retail store to get a look at the options up close and personal. Instead of eager sales people trying hard to sell us phones, we found they preferred to send us …

This laptop was working fine, all the sudden it shut down. I took the hard drive out and put it back in, I took the battery out and put it back in and the computer started again. Then after a while using it, it shut down again, this went on …

I used to keep up with all this back in HS but ive been so out of it for so long I have lost touch with all the new hardware. I am currently running a core 2 32bit laptop with 2 gig ram and I am thinking its time for …

Howdy, I want to buy a printer but I have no experience which type of printer (Inkjet or Laser) and which brand and it's model is suitable for my needs. I will tell you what I want to do with my printer and you can recommend me the perfect one …

I recently had a home server go down that was running a raid 0 array. The motherboard went out and my backup isn't current. Is the array recoverable? There are a few articles out there that discuss array migration, in this case would I be looking at essentially a array …

Recently I changed my motherboard from gigabye to a newer model of gigabyte brand.since then I have'nt been able to listen to any type of audio from wmd 9.0 but the video comes allright.went to device manager everything is okay but the error message says that either i dont have …

Hi Everyone. I have a laptop R61 Thinkpad IBM, when i start Windows its freezes and give me blue screen with a msg and even before i finished reading the msg it reboot the system constant. I even try to run full diagostic tool the is nothing wrong with it …

My computer shuts down on a whim. The only way I can get it to do anything afterwards is to hard shut it down. I have Reg Cure and Norton Correct on it, cannot find the problem. I also have Norton Virus - but no viruses are showing up. I …

Hi there, Alright so I have multiple issues so I'll try to explain them as clearly as possible. Please help! - It started out as a virus from a supposed "Anti-virus software program" but it was actually a virus. Originally I could log on but couldnt get onto the internet …

Background: My sony vaio laptop VGN-B100B fell down with a big impact and the LCD cracked - the screen was filled with dark black and solid white areas of various shapes. The Sony phone rep said the B series shipped in 2 configurations - XGA and SXGA+. Originally it had …

Hello guys I got used and problemaatic subj, but in a perfect cosmetic condition. Trying to bring it to life. While working with biggest problem - died backlight CCFL lamp - I turned notebook on partially disassembled fnd with disconnected touchpad. And now, after assembling and connecting touchpad back, it …

My friend handed me his laptop today claiming it was dead and that it would not start and work. i turned it on and found that it was in the middle of a fresh windows installation of windows xp home sp 3. i called him and asked what he had …

I have Toshiba Satellite A40 with Toshiba SD-R2412 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Optical drive. I have to change my optical drive due to lens failure and I bought TEAC DW-224E as per recommendation in Toshiba Notebook Manual provided to me. When I insert and turn on laptop, I get IDE #1 error message …

Hey guyz i cant install any driver for my Gfx thats newer then the one on the CD it came with which is very old, ive downloaded and tried many, what happens every time is that my pc restarts right at the end but before it finishes installing, and yes …

Hi everyone, I have a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. Recently I had what seems to be a common problem with this particular model in that it would not properly boot up. I sent it in to one of my mother's coworkers that works with IT, and she got it up …

I tried swapping a formerly working VA-10 Abit to an Emachine T5026 case, when that mobo proved dead except for the light near the PSU connect. Now, when the Abit was in that eMachine case, I used a Compaq S3000Z switch to test, aligning the power terminals, and the case …

my hp beeps twice and it displays nothing but it will be on pls help me out

Ok, I am the family tech guru, so my extended family brings all their crap for me to fix for free. My aunt brings me her laptop, which had been run over by a car and the lcd was completely shattered. However, the external VGA port worked for viewing on …

Hi, I have an old hp laptop, it's an HP Pavilion ZD7010US Notebook PC, when I plug in the power cord, i have to fiddle around to get a (for lack of a better word) connection between the laptop and power supply I was wondering if anybody could point me …

Where can I get one and how much cost in the UK WHY did it fail after 1 year and 2 months since new. The reasonable expectation (basis of UK law) of lifetime even of plain sleeve bearings is 35,000 hours Many thanks Any suggestions or ideas John

My Gateway Laptop is acting very funny. About 2 months ago I reformatted it, and itwas running perfectly. Then just the other day, I turned on the machine, watched the "gateway" screen, then watched the "Windows XP" screen (where there is a blue status bar or whatever) then....the screen went …

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1. I had an NVidea 7600 GT PCI-E card with 256 MB and my performance rating in Vista was 5.9. I recently upgraded to an NVidea GeForce 9500 GT PCI-E with 1GB and now my performance rating in Vista is 4.8. How …

I have a 320GB signature mini. It has pictures and music on it but I am unable to access them. What can I do to get these back?!

Does anyone know what type of motherboard the Vostro 200 Slim has? If I can Figure that out, i can find a compatible video card, any help? thanks, Asian .:EdiT:. if it's a PCI Express, does that mean its compatable w/ all PCIE cards? sry, i haven't messed w/ hardware …

Whe the power button is presed on our Dell desktop, nothing happens. Everything else is still on, including monitor, printer, etc.

hey guys , i got this problem and searched all over the forums to find a solution but no luck here it is My desktop computer wont start its abt 2 years old... was always working fine.. then one day, after i ran all my antivirus for the day and …

Is it possible for me to change the case for my Dell XPS 400? I want to buy a new case but I'm not sure if I'd be able to. I have 2 GB of RAM, an Nvidia 9600 GT, and a 2.80GHz Intel processor.