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This has to be the most bizarre excuse for voiding a warranty ever, but according to [URL="http://consumerist.com/5408885/smoking-near-apple-computers-creates-biohazard-voids-warranty"]The Consumerist[/URL] at least two Mac owners have been told their Applecare warranties are no good because they smoke. In both cases, we are told, the Mac owner concerned took the matter up with …

DELL inspiron 8200 - displayNVIDIA GeForce4 440 GO I was installing microsoft office 2007, after the system rebooted, thescreen whent black, the laptop is runing, i can turn on and off capslock, you can see some light on the screen, a connected a externalmonitor, but does not work, i managed …

my destop was working fine and i shut it down every night like I always do by clicking turn off. The next day we tried turning the pc back on and the monitor came on but the brainbox will not power on at all. what do you think is wrong …

dell pc bios don't see secondary drive after every reboot hi guys ,,i have a dell dimension 8200 dell pc 768 rdrm bios version A09,xp pro sp3 i unplu pc to clean pc by inside...then when connected the problem started.i had the same problem like 2 years ago,forgot how to …

Pretty much anywhere you live, it would appear that the iPhone consumes at least 50% of all mobile data traffic. Whereas the Android has a little catching up to do with just 11% of that mobile data bandwidth consumption. Of course, the iPhone entered the restaurant first and is already …

I have gone out and downloaded the driver for The GCC Elite XL 20/1200, I did the download of Elite20Win2K file, unzipped and kept on hard drive, went to control panel to add new printer. all goes well except when it gets to the completeing of the add printer wizard …

I have an HP M7160N Media Center PC with an Asus P5LP-LE mobo w/an Intel chip. I'm trying to find out which heatsink will be compatible. On my current heatsink (which has a fan inside it), there are these numbers: P/N: Z9H741K007 & S/N: Q5223C. My current heatsink also says …

Am having the following error on switching on the comp. , anybody has got a clue on how to safely flash the BIOS. --------------------------------------------------------- "Award BootBlock BIOS.V1.8 copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc BIOS ROM checksum error Detecting floppy drive A media... Insert system disk and press enter" ---------------------------------------------------------

my laptop wont turn on, it turns on for 3 seconds then restarts, and it just keeps repeating, i dont think its my ram or anything, what could it be? please can someone help.

on my laptop the screen is visible but very dark. its not the brightness settings, so i imagine perhaps the bulb has gone but would love someone cleverer than me to confirm this, or suggest what i should do next. funny thing is that when you turn the laptop on, …

I know the 1150's have a power jack issue, we've fixed a huge amount of them. The one problem we haven't figred out is this. After some repairs to the power jack, the laptop will run on battery, it says that it is charging BUT, it is actually running off …

my questions are: 1) is is possible to install a RAM like this: DIMM_A1(blue) populated DIMM_A2(black) populated DIMM_B1(blue) ------ DIMM_B2(black) ----- but the two RAM is not Identical.. 2)how about this one: DIMM_A1(blue) populated DIMM_A2(black) populated DIMM_B1(blue) populated DIMM_B2(black) ----- the RAM at the blue socket is identical, but the …

I NEVER turn my computer off! For if I do it takes 20 restarts (2 hours") to get it going again This is a NEW problem, after many years OK I changed the mouse I changed the keyboard I changed the power supply Always the same - at random, 90% …

At a time when prices are being driven down across the spectrum of electronics, one company clearly has avoided this trap: Apple. While others struggle to squeeze profits from a market that is becoming increasingly commoditized (sub-$200 netbooks anyone?), Apple maintains its edge and its hefty profit margin. It got …

We just put a new battery into a Compaq Presario 710US. The system sees the battery there but indicates that the battery is at 0% of charge and is charging 0%. It does not charge. According to the meter on the battery if is at at least 25% charge. Any …

I have a old desktop computer that I want to fire up and get the specs off of so that I can sell it. I do not have a monitor at home. I only have my laptop. So, my question is: Can I someway connect the old computer to the …

My computer turns off completely at times while i'm working on it. It sometimes goes 48 hrs without stop- ping and sometimes it stops after 30 min use. I bought a new battery, but the problem is still here. I then bought a new power cord, but again the problem …

I have a t22 ibm think pad,never had a problem with it.Now I try to turn it on and i get nothing.Just the battery picture lights when i press the on/off button.I have several extra batteries and tried charging a new one ,same thing.DEAD.Any suggestions? you can even e-mail me …

I just got my whole system built and at startup i get 3 beeps (ram problems) This is my first socket 775 build with ALL new equipment No display on monitor 3 Short beeps Swaped the 2 Dimm's in each channel Specs.. •Intel D955XBK motherboard (ami bios) •Intel Pentium D …

Hi all I just bought my new AMD Phenom x4 and a new mobo. I installed Everest Ultimate just now and noticed that the sensor report is the following CPU 78 C Core 1 37 C Core 2 37 C Core 3 37 C Core 4 37 C Cooling Fans …

Hi guys, Recently, my mainboard became faulty and I sent it for a replacement. When the board came back, i fix back my AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ cpu and i applied a new coat of thermal compound. I then installed the game Borderlands and my PC kept turning itself …

Hi all I just installed my new motherboard, along with RAM and Processor Motherboard: [URL="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782#"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782#[/URL] Processor: [URL="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168970/show_product_reviews"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168970/show_product_reviews[/URL] Ram: [URL="http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=4B84BC76A5CA7304"]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=4B84BC76A5CA7304[/URL] I have had a problem in that I cant get windows to see my drives in "My Computer". I had first of my DVD/RW Writemaster SH-S222 which is seen in BIOS …

Dear sir, please tell me how to solve a nokia 1100 charging fault?

my drive cannot open on double click.pls help me & solve the problem

My Dell Inspiron 1526 won't restore after hibernation. After a recent Vista update the laptop was placed in hibernation mode before the normal 'restart to complete update' process. After a minute or so i press a button expecting to see a logon screen, instead the monitor was off, blank screen …

I am a software developer and I own a desktop as well as a laptop. Mostly I use the desktop as it is better in performance and has a better configuration then the laptop. But when I have to give a demo to the customer I have to take my …

hi all, im definately NOT a techie, so PLEASE bear with me. i have an older compaq armada model #1750. when it starts, it only lashes the compaq name & then goes all greyish black. a friend had been doing something with its bios & this helped for a while …

looking for an experienced team to help us with enhance our our concept in the edutainment line. We are interested buying interactive screens - hardware and software, kiosks computers etc. Our intention was to have an interactive screen where kids can answer questions which are science or general knowledge based. …

Dear friend, Very recently I have connected my Samsung SyncMaster 940NW to Gadmei external tv tuner card and everything was ok except bad picture for low signal quality. Then I connected set top box to it and it improved the picture quality but at the same time horizontal bars of …

charger works,battery works but wont charge not evev with battery out. any suggestions please??!!

Verizon made [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NKnDRPFKU"]an ad[/URL] making fun of AT&T's 3G coverage (and it's manliness). AT&T wasn't happy because it suggested their 3G coverage was spotty. So [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/atandt-sues-verizon-over-theres-a-map-for-that-ads/"]they sued[/URL] saying the ads were misleading consumers, and anyway they had way more customers and their customers loved them, and Verizon just couldn't handle …

Hello, I have a 4 year old gaming computer from Ibuypower. It was kind of dirty so it has noices when it's running. So I bought a duster but I didn't know you shouldn't spray it up-side down. So I did it.. About 2 weeks later, the ethernet plug on …

please help i just got a dell d610, been working fine. plugged in charger then a bang. charger light still green but wont charge or boot up at all its dead. i tried charging with battery out and tried swapping memory etc but nothing no life at all. battery is …

It looks like there are 3 fans (2 on the bottom and 1 in back) on my compaq presario 2500. Two of the fans (1 on the bottom and 1 in back) don't seem to ever come on. It seems like as a result the last fan starts running within …

Hi all. Bear with me, I promise this will be hardware related in a minute... I'm working on a project for which I need to generate some FSK. I'm doing so by using a sin(...) function to calculate the values along the wave for N periods of frequency A and …

Hi all I am thinking about upgrading my PC. At the moment I am looking at just a new motherboard and a new Processor and DDr3 ram Motherboard: [URL="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782#"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782#[/URL] Processor: [URL="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168970/show_product_reviews"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168970/show_product_reviews[/URL] Ram: [URL="http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=4B84BC76A5CA7304"]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=4B84BC76A5CA7304[/URL] I am only thinking of 2GB of RAM now due to lack of money but I will …

i have a brand new dell inspiron that after first set refuses to complete post.Dell cant seem to help but they promised to replace the mobo but the pc is with me in jamaica .i have tried almost very thing

My colors are becoming more pink/violet ? Does anyone know what is the problem? I tried to make a screenshot but on other displays the colors are as they should be. I tried moving the wires here and there but the same things remains. I have a samsung 940NW, Geforce …

Was giving a HPze500 laptop and now it will not reboot and says no operating system can be found. I get a black screen that says it tries to reboot and then a message "PXE-E61- Media text failure, check cable" shows up and it goes directly to Operating system not …

how does computer component communicate with each other. pls i need the full explanation

While most reporters and bloggers today are trumpeting the fine showing by chip-maker AMD in the semi-annual list of the world's [Top 500 Supercompting Sites](http://www.top500.org/list/2009/11/100), for me the real news is what AMD has planned for next year. In the first quarter of 2010, AMD is scheduled to begin shipping …

I can see my second hard drive in Device manager but not in 'My Computer' I have been facing this problem for quite sometime. I can see the drive on Disk Management but not on “Mycomputer”. On Disk management the drive States "UNALLOCATED". I've tried everything possible but to no …

Hello- OS is Win2K prof Printer is on network with Linksys Wireless G router off Roadrunner modem I have an HP officejet R65 and it prints fine in B&W but in color I'm only getting pinks. I ran all the troubleshooting stuff and changed the color cartridge but got the …

I have a serious problem, my laptop gives me some safemode options, but no matter what I have done so far, it always ends up rebooting in some way. It started after I did a manual shutdown when it froze while the antivirus BitDefender was updating. Any ideas?

I have just bought the new Call of duty advance warfare game for PC. Damn thing loads but subtitles are pixilated. I have a Radeon X1300 card fitted in my Dell machine, motherboard 0wg864. 2.4 gb Intel core2 duo processor. Would the purchase of an upgraded graphic card help. if …

I have a Gateway system that has the OS in a protected partition on the hard drive and you use F11 to do a system restore. In the process of recovering from a system crash I lost the functionality of the F11 key during the boot process. Everything is there …

I have a rather annoying problem. My PC is rebooting a lot, without giving any BSODs. This happens when I'm moving large files, when playing certain games and sometimes when streaming videos (although this could be due to other reasons and just coincidence). There are no reboots when I leave …

I have a 1 year old dv9920us laptop that is refusing to boot into Windows Vista. The Vista "loading screen" appears, but the marquee doesn't and the laptop is perpetually stuck in this state. I was able to boot into live Linux and access my hard drive form there, so …

I've got two hard drives on my computer and one of them is missing. It's the one where I keep all my music/videos/pictures etc. I can see the shortcut on the desktop but when I click it it says: The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'Seagate (G).Ink' refers …

My laptop hasnt been working for the last 6months and ive finally decided to try and fix it. The laptop will turn on and the light is green to show its on, but the screen just stays blank? The laptop is ACER aspire 3690. Thanks RN