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My monitor is dark, I have played around with the brightness and contrast buttons but it doesn't work. I have also changed the monitor to see if it is the monitor that is messed up. But does the same thing. I have read that it may be the video card. …

Hi everyone My pc's pci slots not working from one week ago. My mother board is ASUS M2N4-SLI and I use one modem card and one ilink card on these slots. But now no one of them don't detected by winXp SP3. Would you please let me know what has …

I was busy on my pc when i started hearing funny noises and sparks from the power supply box in my pc then while windows was still running and i quickly pulled out the power cable so im worried about my mother board it doesnt show any signs of damage …

Crap, I spelled "advice" wrong. Won't be my first, nor last, error today. First, apologies for breaking the rules right off the bat. I don't have my notes or the dead Shiba at this house - I'm moving. I searched through the threads, and found some promising leads for download …

What does it do? On my P4P800 it goes as high as 256mb. Does it affect my ram 1024mb. My video card is 128mb If I set it to 256mb, what will happen? And anything at all that you know, please ...

Anyone with a clue to how to start troubleshooting a dead HP laptop motherboard? Component level of course. I have a scope and basic computer hardware knowledge.... Thanks for your help

Hey guys, uhh I have this error on my Toshiba Satellite A135-S4666 laptop and using Windows Vista Home Basic. I just recovered it with the recovery disk provided. I did a full disk recovery then when it finished I restarted my computer and it said "Missing Operating System". Anyone know …

I have a Dell that came with Raid 0 (I'm pretty sure) that had two 149g HD's. One just failed so I put a replacement in (500g as I couldn't find any 149gs). Bottom line is I want to install XP on the 500g to just run like normal on …

I've never seen this before and I wasn't able to find any information on it in the 10 minutes that I checked so I thought I'd check here. What I got: ASUS M2N32-SLI DLX WIFI AM2 2- EVGA 8800GTX in SLI I think that's all that's relevant. The problem is …

Hi, December last year I had two 2.5" HDD's fail, the original Seagate and a replacement Toshiba. I sent the first to a data recovery company, who told me the plate damage was so bad there was no chance of recovery. I didn't bother sending the second, but as the …

Hey guys, i am not really a computer pro so i dont much about it >_< if you can take a few seconds read over this and help I'll be really appreciated! the problems is when i start my computer, the lights on motherboard lights up and we can hear …

Hi guys, first off my pc is running on an Asus K8VSE Deluxe w/ am AMD 64 bit processor. My PSU was a Thermaltake Purepower ATX 12 V with a Max Load of 420W. 1 Gig of Memory and a Radeon 9600 256MB gpu. Well about a year ago I …

tMy Compaq desktop lost video after plugging ipod into the front USB port. Monitor works but says it is not linked to anything. The power light is on on CPU and fan on power supply is running. The board looks fine. What did I fry? Steve

I have a gateway DS Solo 9550 Ls Laptop and my power supply seems to be broken, it wiggles around in there and will not even turn my computer on, my batt. is obviously dead. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to pay someone to …

HP Pavillion a1410n with Samsung SP 2004C HDD. Would like to make Seagate U6 ST380020A the master drive and Samsung the slave. Seagate jumpers set to master. Not familiar with slaving SATA drives, especially with non-SATA master. Please advise.

I have a VGN 260.The laptop does not start when i press the power on switch.If i keep doing it repeatedly it comes on after number of attempts which is frustrating. i have replaced the RAM with a new one as suggested by local Sony Service.Still the problem is not …

Hi Folks, I am new to this so please excuse if I am off protocol. I am trying to fix my wife's laptop. The monitor started getting "reddish" a few weeks ago intermittantly, then blank intermittantly (of course needed reset to ever come back from blank). Now it displays only …

okay, so my new motherboard has 4 slots. I have both 2GB and 1GB chips, 3 2GB and 1GB to use up. Will it matter which slots they go in? Actually, I believe I'm looking at dual channel, two slots. Given that, Can I leave one channel empty and have …

Not really a border, the display from the computer is about 1 inch smaller all the way around than the TV! I can't figure out why or how to fix it.

Helllo all. I have a custom built pc which was working fine untill today when i decided to clean the massive amount of dust that had builtup. I un-plugged it, opened and cleaned it, and put it all back together. However, when i turn it on my monitor stays blank. …

Hello, I want to know about each every part on motherboard or can say to study motherboard deeply. so is there any book which include such a description or any website which describe motherboard with diagrams(pictures) of all parts.

My system ( CPU 2.40 GHz & 512 MB of RAM ) hangs as I open more than 50 tabs in Mozilla Firefox. I want to open approx 500 tabs for off-page SEO work ( Multiple sites ) at a time in Firefox browser …..................... Should I increase its memory …

Hi, I just replaced my 2.4 Ghz Intel Celeron CPU with a P4 Prescott at 3.2 ghz like 2 hours ago. It idles at like 48 degrees Celsius. I played half-life 2 for a bit and it went up to like 60-62. I didn't put any thermal crap on it. …

The laptop turns on beeps twice and then displays the following message Press <F1> to resume, <F10> to Setup. I tried pressing both and nothting happens. it just stays on that screen. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

I recently bought a 17" LCD flat panel display from Dell. I noticed that there is a cluster of 4-8 pixels on lower right corner of the monitor that are brighter than the rest of the screen. However, these brighter pixels can only be seen when the screen is of …

I have someone who asked me to look at a machine that won't turn on. I opened the case and the motherboard light is on yet nothing happens when the power button is pressed. I mean nothing happens, no fans, no lights, nothing. I have taken the power supply out …

I played with the monitor settings in windows xp on another computer to fix resolution. I unselected driver for monitor now i dont have any picture after windows loads. Any answers on how to fix? Computer is a Dell, dont know what model as i just got it.

What is a good reliable company to get replacement LCD screens for laptops?

First of all I didn't really know what forum to put this under, so if this is the wrong one, my apologizes. Now that that's done, to my issue. I have a Dell Laptop it's an Inspiron E1705 (9400) and I lent it to a friend for a few months …

My Optiplex 260 was upgraded with memory and an additional HDD. The upgrade caused a CMOS change; that change apparently interefered with systems settings established when an AGP Graphics card was added to the machine 3 years ago. Result: This Dell Optiplex 260 computer would not POST or boot. The …

Every time I play my installed games, my unit keeps on restarting. Is it because of the Video Card? Please help me...

I moved to another place recently and in the process I moved my PC as well. The monitor may have been turned up side down or side wards in shifting process. I hooked up the computer at the new place and as soon as I turned on the PC.. There …

Hi I'm an educated novice at computer problems. I'm having a problem booting to safe mode. Hard drive started not recognizing boot file-NTLDR- now I can't get safe mode to initialize. All help greatly welcome. Thanks D4100

I have a compaq desktop pro workstation its windows xp 2000 professional and when i went to turn it on this morning it makes this clicking sound and just shows compaq and wont go on so i tried to boot it and it said that it failed and check cable. …

I just would like to ask if the Sparkle 9400 gaphics card is good for gaming. I heard that it was meant for multimedia purposes like HDTV and all those stuffs but is it also capable if high graphics when it comes to gaming? like can I play Crysis in …

monitor wont work. if lightning hits video, could video card have a short or something? i alternated two monitors and they have power just no signal & there are no software problems. The screw in inputs that go to the back of the computer for the blue monitor cord to …

Anyone have idea of such Alarm which can be based on PC speaker, when new user enter into my website then this Alarm produce voice. Waiting for experts answers.

hi guys mine computer running ok but while i try to work on multiple appilcations like adobe PS & winamp 0r corel draw it perfoms very slow . In task manager cpu graph increases very high if iam playing song while working on other software ,song plays like driggled effect …

hey...i have an Inspiron 2200 laptop that wont boot. when you press the power button, the 3 lock leds stay solid for a few seconds before the laptop turns off again. The Hd Led does not turn on. it happens that when i squeeze the area below the mousepad (above …

A few weeks ago I had a lady bring in her new HP and her old, dead, giant desktop. She was obviously a heavy smoker, as EVERYTHING was covered in not just dust...but solid dirt. Like it was carpeted. I switched her data to the new computer, she left me …

I use my external hard drive to store and share movies, TV series and music with my friends. Lately, however,I have been unable to access folders on my external hard disc when I use it on another computer other than where the folders were created. It says "Access is Denied". …

does not passing windows logo testing affects the performance of the graphics card?

It's a problem I've had ever since I got the AC97 C-Media sound card. Well, not really a serious problem, but very irritating. When I click the Slide-bar on the Volume Control, instead of sounding the "Ding" from the speakers, I get a "Beep" sound from the PC Speaker. How …

I hope i'm putting this post in the correct spot The problem: I had a computer that needed formating, and so i Formated it. I used a seagate utility (it takes about 8 hours to format!) that i had used before for this same computer.Every thing went normal, it installed …

I'm scared to turn my computer off. The last time I did, it didn't want to start when I pressed the start button. Nothing happened. Finally, after pressing, and pressing, and punching with the tip of a pen, and pressing some more (and praying a whole lot), it 'clicked' and …

I Have A 3-Year old Gateway Desktop Computer. I Today Bought A 1Tb HD, 4 Gb Virtual Memory And Windows Vista. I replaced The old HD Set The Memory Cards In Place. And When I Closed It And Hooked Everything up. Everything responsed except the PC won't Start up.

I am planning on getting a new graphics card because mine is abit outdated right now, geforce 6200 turbo :p, anyways I know I can obviously support nvidia cards which is what I plan to get, although I'm not sure about the power supply and some other things, also maybe …

I've been getting some random shutdowns while playing hardware intensive games (like crysis) lately. The computer simply shuts down and I have to wait a while before it can be turned on again. I've been monitoring the temperature of my components and here are the results (all at full load): …

I am attempting to fix my brothers computer due to a couple of trojans. However; when i turn on the computer it beeps at me and i get no signal on the monitor. Can someone please help me. I have done this before for others but this is the first …

I am using windows xp operating system on tecra 8100 laptop. All of a sudden it stopped working. There is no sound of any fan, but lights come one such as power battery and the last light to the right. And nothing else! Nothing comes on the screen. :mad: Can …