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| | Hello! everyone!.. I am probably the oldest poster on this forum!. Besides a few others that I belong to!. I am herein joining in an attempt to find out why my darn CD-ROM and my DVD-RW all of a sudden disappeared from my XP Explorer. BIOS sees it fine. When … |
| | Hello, I have a Dell inspiron 600m and I ran into this issue last week when I suddenly cant boot up my laptop. A cranky noise from the compartment made me believe that the HDD had crashed and I therefore replaced it with a new WD - EIDE, PATA, one … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | I bought on e-bay a second hand compact desktop pc case, this was advertised as being without its psu. It arrived in the post and I discovered that the psu is no ordinary format. The special psu for this case has a narrower case to clear the processor heat sink. … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | My PC boots normally under light load for nearly 1 hour if I keep my PC OFF for nearly 1 day. It may run smoothly for more than 1 hour but I never checked it. (I can play songs, movie, browse internet simultaneously).If I restart the PC, it freezes. And … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Yesterday my computer crashed, showing a blue screen that said there was a problem with the hardware, to restart and try again. Well, I restarted and now the computer only makes the sound of the Cooler constantly, the leds of the pc and disc drives turn on, but nothing appears … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | I bought a closeout of PC barebones, several GX270 and GX280s, the 270s are harder to figure out when not working, however, the GX280 appear to directly suffer from bent PGA775 pins on the motherboard, unlike the straight pin on CPUs past, these appear much harder for a user to … |
| | I have a Dell Inpiron 1150 with the 14.1 in screen. The hinges over a periood of time broke and eventually the LCD cable was partially exposed. After several more weeks, the cable finally tore some and display worked at times depending on how i position the screen. Now I … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
 | We've been hearing about an Apple Tablet for such a long time now, it feels like it should exist, yet it doesn't. With each Apple event, the rumors are so vivid, we actually believe them. Then the announcement comes, the shiny new ipods and Mac Books and other equipment are … Hardware apple apple-hardware apple-rumor ipad |
| | [my computer used to work brilliantly but just the other day as i was trying to boot the screen was blue and nothing else please if someone knows the solution to my problem kindly help] ikhabi Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | What is the shelf life of cartridge?Does any one have idea on this ? please suggest me. Hardware pc-peripheral  |
| | my father bought one p4 computer from our family friend for my educational purpose. the computer has worked only for the first day next day computer's keyboard stops working after some hours windows doesn't start then the our family friend came and we also put earthwire. then he installed new … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hi there, I'm new to the site and have been having a problem with my Presario 2500 laptop (Compaq). When I turn it on it starts up normal and all, I get the windows logo with the loading bar beneath it. As soon as it goes to switch screens to … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hey everyone. I woke up this morning and turned on my computer and everything worked fine. I realized that my computer was displaying the wrong date and I remembered my old computer's BIOS having an option to change the system date. With that, I restarted my computer and opened up … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video-card |
| | Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 8100. I was having troubles with it starting. It would boot up and get a screen that said it could not locate a boot device. It would not find the cd rom drive or locate the hard drive. This is after an extended … Hardware first-post hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hi, I'm no hardware genius so I hope I can communicate what I'm wanting to do. I currently have two HDD on an ASUS P5K SE motherboard and a 500w PSU. I have three partitions on the first (500GB) drive, C: (Win XP Pro), D: (Documents), E: (Somewhere to put … Hardware storage |
| | Hi I bought a new laptop which came with windows 7 pre-installed. I am supposed to have a 500GB HDD space, but when i view "Computer" which also displays the available size, it says i have 11GB of 40 GB left! but i have a 500GB hard drive. when i … Hardware hard-drive storage |
| | Ok here is the what has happened... In the past few weeks, I have noticed that everytime I start my PC I have to change my CMOs. It kept telling me that it couldn't boot from the Floppy drive, the thing is my PC doesn't have a Floppy drive and … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Dear Sir, I have recently reinstalled Windows XP on my PC, having Intel D945GCNL motherboard. When I am installing the Drivers all the Drivers are installed normally but Audio Drivers are not installing from the Driver CD, it gives a message that the audio failed to install. Please let me … Hardware audio motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Mike Elgan, the veteran technology journalist, mused last week in a [URL="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141437/Elgan_7_reasons_why_e_book_readers_make_lousy_gifts_this_year"]Computerworld article[/URL] that eBook readers would make lousy gifts. I don't necessarily agree with all of Elgan's points, but it got me thinking about how useful a one-trick device is for users. If you think about it, we began … |
| | Hi I'm looking for some help with a computer that appears that has video card problems (internal) I have a computer that when connected to a monitor wil start up but nothing will appear on the monitor and a 'no signal' or equivalent message appears. I've narrowed down the problem … Hardware display video video-card |
| | Hello i am having a problem with my friends computer. When I boot the computer everything seems OK and the windows loading screen comes up, but then it says "Setup is being restarted" then it goes to a blue screen and says "STOP: c00002la fatal system error". There's no valuable … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware  |
 | According to a new survey of London taxi drivers, an average of 10,000 mobile phones are left behind by customers every single month. If that total is not staggeringly high enough, you can top it up with another 1000 iPods and memory sticks if you like. December is the worse … |
| | Hey all! So my buddy just gave me his "dead" laptop. He pretty much gave up on it because it won't boot up. He says it was dead, but I disagree with him. I am guessing it's a power issue at some point. I know that it is getting some … Hardware laptop operating-system troubleshoot-hardware |
| | the other day, i dug up my old hp pavillion 6640c with the intention of turning it into a basic ssh server. i hooked it up, and turned it on all seemed well except there was no image on screen. so i tore it apart. it currently has: motherboard (asus … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
 | Hi there I have a problem with my home built PC. I was working away everything fine, then I couldn't get the mouse pointer on screen to move (mouse basically stopped working) then everything simply went dead. Shut down completely. Not sure if the mouse dying first is relevant but … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello, i recently decided to build my own computer. I have everything assembled, however when I turn the computer on the monitor displays a "no signal" message. I have recently exchanged the motherboard, video card, and processor for the same model. And when i took it to the computer store … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware video video-card |
| | Hi all, First of all, thanks for this great forum and I apologize ahead of time if this is maddeningly incomplete; I'm trying to work on a machine for a friend of mine. So, here's the dealio: I was told in a very generic fashion that this Dimension 4500 would … Hardware flash troubleshoot-hardware |
| | i have had trouble diagnosing my computer because many problems may have occurred at once. it started a few months ago when my monitor would randomly change colors and shapes after warming up. you could see the mouse move, but it did not look like a white arrow, it was … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram os-x window-manager  |
| | my friend brought me her laptop and it has a problem, i cant enter the bios, as soon as i press the buttun the bios demands a password befor starting that she forgot, i would like to clear the password but i cant seem to find the battery, or a … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | what are the meaning please give me cos thats my assignment in my studies in IT Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | *** Hardware Malfunction Call your hardware vendor for support NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error *** The system has halted *** I experiencing the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH huhuhu!!! any one help me pls... I am using DELL DIMENSION E520 Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I've been employed to fix a friend's PC troubles and apparently his monitor automatically goes into "sleep" mode whenever the CPU is turned on. Once it passes the initial loading stage (Where the "DELL" screen shows up and the loading bar fills) it goes into sleep mode. I've tried removing … Hardware display microsoft windows-xp |
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| | hello all, i am facing this very annoying problem with my OS. My Win XP Prof SP1 does not detect USB mass storage devices. but on the other hand i have a usb mouse,scanner,printer all working good... so i know that the usb slots are all proper. todayi tried connecting … Hardware flash printer storage troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have a brand new Microsoft IntelliMouse - Wireless Optical Mouse 2A. I keep getting a message on the screen saying the battery is critically low - replace as soon as possible. I have replaced the batteries with new ones and if I look at the IntelliMouse Program the battery … Hardware pc-peripheral |
| | Help me plz. My laptop's(HP pavilion dv5115nr notebook pc) f8 key is not working. For this im facing difficulty to setup win xp to my laptop. i tried everything possible that i can. searching net via google, asking HP to provide solution, asking people to tell me the solution and … Hardware laptop troubleshoot-hardware  |
| | Hello I spilt some water on my Acer laptop and it all seems to be working fine, apart from the screen is really dark, you can still make out the stuff on desktop - just about. From what I've found out i'm assuming that it's the backlight thats not working … |
| | I am stumped, I searched everywhere and tried a bunch of things to no avail, so I'm hoping someone would know the answer. I have a pretty old PC with an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard that I’m trying to give a second life to. There are a total of … Hardware first-post hard-drive ide storage |
| | I am having an issue with my computer starting up. It will power up, I hear the hard drives spinning, the fans all come on including the CPU fan. But I get no visual, no beeps. I tried to wait out around 5 min or so to see if it … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I had an Intel D845GVSR "Sea Breeze" motherboard which seems to have got fried. I need a replacement one but cannot find one in UK so far. Have gone through the internet but no luck. Can anybody suggest a compatable board. I have a 2.7 celeron chip and the board … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I just installed a new motherboard onto my case, got the cpu in, and all the connectors connected (I think?), but the computer won't turn on. hard drive, ram etc, are all installed, I really don't know what to do. please help me. thanks. later then. Hardware hard-drive motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | Hello all. I was wondering if someone would be able to help me. I have a Maxtor 100 gig external harddrive which isn't being read by windows. Basically, I'll turn it on, I hear it start up and all...but it is just not showing up in My Computer. At first, … Hardware hard-drive troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Mike Elgan, the veteran technology journalist, mused last week in a [URL="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141437/Elgan_7_reasons_why_e_book_readers_make_lousy_gifts_this_year"]Computerworld article[/URL] that eBook readers would make lousy gifts. I don't necessarily agree with all of Elgan's points, but it got me thinking about how useful a one-trick device is for users. If you think about it, we began … |
| | how to restore my hp dv1000 to factory settings, no cd here, and i tried restoring to a previous date, please help Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | I have just had to replace a DVD/RW drive.and now I cannot get the monitor to show any onscreen display.I know that the Pc is running, as it goes through its cycle as it starts. But nothing on monitor. I have tried the monitor on my other pc to try … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware |
| | [B][/B]Hi, I have Upgraded 2 GB Ram, But In MY COMPUTER Properties & SYSTEM INFORMATION Its reflecting only 512 MB. I tried refixing the RAM's but notworking & checked the Other working system RAM's it shows 512 Only,can some one suggest the Solution. Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | hey everyone. I have a problem.I have laptop 5150 from dell and today I started it up and when the windows xp finished loading an error with BLUe screen. where running a symptom tree test and so far I have the following found SYSTEM MEMORY MARCH A TEST ERROR CODE … Hardware ide laptop troubleshoot-hardware |
| | Hello altogether, a couple of weeks ago I updated my linux-system and copied the ISO-Image on an USB-stick so that I can boot it. It did work though, but now I don't have a clue how to format it back to a FAT32-system. Any idea? Thank you! Simon Hardware storage |
| | i've got 4x2GB Kingston 800MHz mems, and i'd like to kick them up a notch from what they're currently running at, 1066 possible? CUPID says they're running at the following: DRAM 400mhz, command rate 2T, fsb:ram 5:6, with the timing at 6,6,6,18, 52 for latencies and delays. i'm using an … Hardware motherboards-cpu-ram |
| | I was just reading about the different types of cables used to connect components of computers. When it comes to serial ports and parallel ports, parallel ports are faster because they send several bits of data simultaneously. Therefore, it should follow that parallel ATA is faster than Serial ATA. However, … Hardware storage |
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