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AMD athlon 64 X2 7750+ (2.7 Ghz and 3 MB L2+L3 cache), ECS A740GM-M motherborad, 2GB PQI DDR2 800, GeForce9500GT, 500W PS my computer doesnt boot. the monitor displays nothing. what's wrong? help me please. thanks.

Can anybody tell me .Why i am getting error . F:/Is not Accessible.or Incorrect Function.Kindly let me know the idea.any help would be highly appreciated.

Hello, I am new and appreciate being here: I Purchased a brand new ATI HD4350. The machine I am putting it in will not boot when It is inserted. (running XP Pro service pack 3) The machine is a IBM Thinkcentre Model M51 #8141. I was wondering if the card …

I was just trying to get a recomendation on what size power supply I needed for my system. AMD Phenom XII 940 3.0 GHz /w. factory heat sink GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-UD4H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB 2 Sticks of DDR2 1066 2GB RAM Western Digital …

Hello I have an antec power supply. When I turn on the computer it seems to start powering up but then I get beeping. It one long beep followed by 3 shot ones the the computer shuts down. The Monitor starts to turn on, the hard drive does as well. …

Hi, have had my Dell desktop PC with XP for about 5 years. a couple of weeks ago it started to randomly switch off after about 30 minutes of use. The problem has become increasingly worse, and it now only stays on for a couple of minutes. There is no …

Hey folks, I have a fujitsu/siemens laptop with an SVideo out socket on the back of it, i plugged an svideo cable into it then the other end into my TV (the white, red and yellow end). i then started browsing my AV channels but no picture. I went into …

i bought a new computer recently. it has a nvidia 9800gt graphics card. it comes with a little device that allows me to connect from dvi i to vga then to my monitor. i hooked all of that up the turned on the computer, but i cant see anything. i …

I am having a similar problem, however when i do click the start button on my compaq presario, the compaq logo, COMPAQ, appears on the screne, the fan starts and what seems to be the processor, and then it goes dead, switches off Help!!

I got home from work to find my pc off. A storm had just passed through so i thought the power had shut off for a time. I started it up and i couldnt connect to the internet, so i restarted it. Thats when my problems started. All my computer …

I have an Intel iMac G5 24”. I purchased it nearly 3 years ago. It has always been disappointingly slow, especially when working with Adobe CS but in the past few weeks, almost everything I ask it to do results in the spinning beach ball of death. Now it has …

Hello. Every time I turn my printer on it does a test page. Wasting lots of ink :-( ... Any ideas how to stop this? Thank, John

my PC turned off suddenly

My Dell Desktop stopped working. There was a loud noise like a fan, could not switch it off, so I piulled the plug. Any ideas. Chris

Hi Fellow Daniweb IT members, I am currently thinking to buy the Dell inspiron 546 MT with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 5200+ (2.7 GHz and 512Kx2 cache), and the 64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium, 6144MB Ram, 640GB Hard drive and a 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card. …

Hi, I have a 4 yr old lcd monitor that when you turn it on it flashes the content of the desktop but that's all will not stay on the power switch light goes from green to orange/yellow ,any ideas ,don't know the history on the monitor ,like if it …

Hey ppl, so i've picked out 2 video cards that i want to get for my pc. 1Gb xfx geforce 9500 and 512Mb xfx geforce 9600...im wondering, would the 9600 still be a better buy than the 9500, because of a faster core clock rate? would the 9600 out perform …

Hi peoples, Does anyone know whether this is a problem with the video card? please see attachment. (2 pics of my desktop) notice the vertical lines on the screen? specs: Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Video card driver: vga, ver: 5.01.2600.0000 Mother board: M2N - SLI Deluxe CPU: AMD …

Dear friends, i dont know where to post this question. i was writing a program using glut library in c++. i compile and run program. but there was a bug in the program that halts my system. i restart the system and system works fine for half of an hour …

I have messed with computers for years. I can tell I have nothing on any of you. But, as many times as I've seen this problem since i've been here, I must point something out, and it seems if anyone can explain this , it would solve alot of peoples …

Hi, I have a problem - my dog ate the power cord to my new blue ray player. The cord is not detachable from the player and the plug can't be fixed with electrical tape. I talked to the manufacturer's support and they told me it would cost me $160 …

I have a dell inspiron E 1705 with a nvidia geforce go 7900 gs. I believe the problem is with the graphics. I have recently downgraded from Vista to Xp pro. Everything worked great for the first 10 hours. Now i cant boot into the operating system. When trying to …

Hi I wonder if anyone can help. I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with an Intel Pentium 3 processor, 601 MHZ. 128mb of RAM and Windows XP Professional. I bought this cheaply recently on EBAY just as a project to play around with. I have never worked on a laptop …

a few months back i noticed the light for the power button had stopped working, but the comp turned on. this happened on and off. a short time later, the button stopped starting my computer reliably. but heres the strange part...i could press the button and the comp would start …

Hello folks, I need some advice. Looking to upgrade my cpu, mobo and ram and I'm starting with the processor as it's the most important item to me. I'm steering away from the extremes and i7's due to limited funds. Was thinking possibly lower end quad core or upper level …

Hi all, I just upgraded a 5 year old HP Pavilion from 2-256 MB ram to a generic 2-512MB ram and had to reverse them in order to install alreadt a bad sign. I statrted the PC the first time and nothing happen, I statrted it again and it did …

greetings! i just bought a new samsung 320gb 3.0gb/s HDD. unfortunately, i didn't know that my MB only supported SATA-I. i connected the HDD to 2nd sata(primary) slot, turned on my computer, but when i checked my bios it said that it didn't detect any hard drive. so i placed …

help me please... my nightmare begin when I smell something fried from my power supply, then suddenly my PC went off. I try to buy the new one, and I install it. first try switch on my PC, my monitor didn't response. I try to unplug my video card, clean …

Hi everyone I have a INSPIRON | 510m. my memory was x2 256Mb DDR-333MHz-CL 2.5 PC 2700[COLOR="Red"]U[/COLOR]-2533-0-A0 i bought 2x 1Gb Samsung PC2700[COLOR="red"]S[/COLOR]-25331-z DDR 2700 CL 2.5 i changed the rams,the windows started up,everythings were fine suddenly it restarted with a blue screen and it couldnt boot up the windows,i …

i have a gateway laptop that was installed windows vista business 64bit though its has no partition i have tried several partitioning tools like paragon ,partition magic etc at no luck please assist me what to do

hi, another problem!. i have a computer that has worked flawlessley for years, all of a sudden it wont turn on. for a while it would do several power cycles and then turn off, but now it turns on but will not load the post screen or anything. the computer …

hi everyone! my gateway laptop got the blue screen of death a couple of times. i pulled the battery and plug and recharged it. the most recent time i did that was last night. today i open it and it wouldn't start it, it was waiting by the blank screen …

I wonder if anybody can tell me what my problem is. I have a dell Inspiron 9300 and it was working fine until a couple of days ago when I was working and without any warning about 5cm of the screen suddenly turned white in vertical strip from top to …

Hello i have two sli bridged 8600gt nvida xforces they work perfectly fine with windows xp but in device manager they show two video cards under display devices. The problem is one of the video cards has 1gb of ddr2 ram and the other one has 512mb of ddr2 ram. …

Hi, I am have had this laptop for 3 years now and suddenly yesterday it decided to die on me. When starting up and getting to the VAIO screen it goes black screen and says "Operating system not found". Using either F10 and/or F8 to get to recovery mode doesnt …

My Mobo is an Asus P5B Deluxe, Processor is a Core 2 Duo E6600 and RAM is dual channel OCZP800R22GK. This computer has been running for 1 1/2 years without a glitch. But I recently downloaded CPU-Z and it's telling me that my 800 mhz memeory's bus speed is presently …

When I push the button on my computer to turn it on, nothing comes on, no fans, harddrive, NOTHING. So, the button basically doesn't work. When I have the power cord in and open the PC up, there is a light on the motherboard on, so the cord is fine. …

I'm running a Gateway desktop and recently my computer began acting strangely. Any time I try to run a program or executable, it asks me to select with program to open that type of file with (as if it doesn't associate a program with the extension .exe). Also, only an …

Hello. I have an HP Pavilion 4500 laptop and it won't turn on. I've tried everything to get it to turn back on. There are no flashes or beeps or anything when I hit the power button. Also, before all this came up, my charger wasn't charging correctly. It would …

[url]http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=k8vga-m[/url] The details to the motherboard are listed in the link above. ok the issue is that the 500GB SATA hard drive is not listed in the bios. I have verified that the drive is in fact a good drive by installing it into a different computer. now according to …

I have a toshiba Tecra S1 laptop running windows XP. I am unable to boot it up. I get 2 short beeps, 1 long beep, a pause and 3 short beeps. Then the beeps start all over. This does not happen each time I try to boot, sometimes it just …

Dear Peers, My PC does not start by pressing the power switch on mu CPU. It was working fine..and suddenly shut down and never start again ever since. On pressing the power button, no indication is shown, nor any LED glows..its just dead. I noticed the tiny yellow LED on …

my computer specs are as it is SOny dvd/cd drive 1 TB Seagate 2 9800 PNY GT cards nvidia 680i sli lt mobo q6600 2.4ghz stock settings truepower quatro 1000 w power supply 1x2gig stick Xm2 Corsair ram (heatsink edition) my monitor is a samsung 932b 3 days ago while …

Hi. I'm considering myself VERY lucky because my Sony Vaio was starting to act up (Display driver would quite functioning now and again, and PC would not always boot first time), so we got everything saved to an external disk drive, bought a new PC and I now have that …

Hi, is it possible for a monitor to be suddenly unable to display 1280X800 res in games? it's a hp 530 laptop with intel 945 chipset....until one week ago I had no such problem...thank You

the monitor doesn't display anything, but the CPU and the monitor power on very well. so please help me, i tried to remove ram for sometime and put it back thats when it worked and after switching it off and on again it does the same problem,then i removed motherboard …

Hello I’m new to building a computer so I need all the help I can get. The problem is the computer doesn’t seem to find the hard drive, when it starts xp setup and it comes to a point to hit enter to start loading files I get a message …

I have a windows XP computer and it has gone to the blue error window. I cant use the mouse or get it start so cannot download a programme to fix it. Its a very old computer that I acquired with no discs etc with it, but its worked perfectly …

It's a 350 watt PS. When I plug it in, and it's not connected to anything it doesn't seem to fire up. Shouldn't the fan turn on even though it is not connected to any computer peripherals? I hooked it up first to a computer and it didn't fire up …

I Have sound from everything else but not dvds...I have checked may differebt forums etc and have found nothing to help, although it appears I may need a codec? Please help..thanks alot!