Hardware Forum

I'm new to this forum, and I don't really know too much about computers. I do know enough though. I am in the process of building my own computer to support my needs, and I would like some suggestions on the best kind of RAM that would do well for …

Hello all, Please help. I just upgraded my Dell deminsion 9100 2.8ghz pentium D with 4GD ram and a new Nvidia 9500 graphics card. All was working great. then I went to turn on my PC a week later and nothing would happen. I unplugged the PC and waited 10 …

Hi, everybody, nice forum. I've been using computers since 1965 (programming with Fortran!)...probably before a lot of you were born. But I've primarily used Apple computers for the past 25 years, although I have used PCs too, and right now my grandson's PC is having a peculiar problem. I found …

first i apologise for this being my first post i built a pc about 2-3 months ago the spec is below nvidia geforce gtx280 1gb graphics card 2x 500gb maxtor hdd AMD phenom 9950 quad core cpu corsair 4gb (2x2gb) 800mhz ddr2 asus m3n72-d i have been using the machine …

My machine will not post to bios, nay even beep. The trouble started when I plugged in a Sony Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1 20GB MP3 Player in a front USB slot. During operation the player (slot) stopped working. After I shut off my machine, it won't boot or post. I check …

OK, basically, I want to confirm a problem with a laptop... The laptop is kinda 5-7 years old, runs windows xp sp3...and this winter had a hard drive change... The owner came to me with a BSOD problem he got on the laptop, and told me his hard drive got …

I have a Gateway GT5018E with Microsoft Medica Center 2004 Service Pack 3. The drive works sporadically. I spoke with Gateway, and they said replace the drive. Took it in for a new drive, and did not fix the problem. The repair specialist said he repaired the software. I have …

I have a dell 1000 Laptop it wont let me boot unless it have a bios password. I try taken the battery out and still nothing I even try the backdoor still nothing can you pleasseeeee help me

Whats up guys & girls i have a sony ar150g with a 17" hd screen and it had those color lines going from the top to the bottom and now just last night the whole screen went black i have no idea what to do about it? the laptop turns …

Hi, I bought my HP pavilion lx 2000 in August 2008 and everything was working fine until about a month ago. It started seriously overheating and would turn off at random times. I'm assuming this was not good for the hard disk and all of a sudden a couple of …

Hi I am trying to upgrade my video card so I can play the Sims 3, but I'm having the hardest time trying to figure out what kind of video card I need, Dell Tech support was no help so I was wondering if anybody could I.D. what kind of …

Hi to my great family at Daniweb !!! I have a Toshiba Satellite A105-S1712 laptop , with a 1.6MHz processor in it and I'd like to find out how big of a processor I can put in it. The processor thats in it now is a Intel Celeron M 380 …

The dreaded blue screen. I've got a windows xp and here is the deal. When I start windows normally I get the Unmountable_Boot_Volume blue screen. I can't open in safe mode, it simply starts and stops at the same place. Where it sais system32/DRIVERS/agp.Cpq.sys. Everytime it stops there. I have …

I have a problem with my tv capture wdm card when i saw it in device manager having an yellow exclamation mark on it. In properties the details shown are: [B]Under general tab:[/B] Device status:"This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. …

I've been using a My Book 500GB hard drive as a slave drive for a while now but today it suddenly wasn't appearing. For a while it would appear on My Computer every few minutes then quickly disappear after it went through the files for a few seconds so I …

Hi - I installed windows XP onto a scsi drive via a pci hdd host bus adapter card but bios , while detecting the adapter controller, would not detect the drive as a bootable option. My guess is this card is a oem with boot option disabled (I have read …

Hi, I have a Packard Bell Easynote W3 Series Laptop and need to upgrade my graphics card or replace my system (which I dont really want to do). Is this possible? The card in it at the minute is an ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Thanks in advance.

It does go to BIOS SetUp and runs cd-rom when I insert operating system installation cd. The problem is: when i start the laptop, there's very strange noice going around the hard disk and it shows the following error in red "Hard drive not installed... If operating system not found... …

Hi, on our network we have 10 printers, half are the HP4200dtn model, and the other half the HP4250dtn model. On larger prints (5 pages +) it seems to stop printing after so many pages and print out the following error message, then followed by pages with a single line …

A "small white transparent circle" keeps popping up at the mouse pointer blocking my mouse clicks. It also has arrow signs that keeps moving my screen up or down,left or right. I've done everything. Pulled off the mouse connection and inserted it again. Changed my mouse settings and back again. …

First, thanks for this great forum with so many helpful people! I know responding to people's troubles takes time and effort you could probably be spending elsewhere! Last night, my laptop was working fine. At one point I came back to it (after it had been sitting on unused for …

I've had my computer running on this haddrive for 3 years with no problems, but recently I bought a new harddrive and deleted the partition off my old one, but the new one wasn't the proper type so I returned it. Upon plugging in the old harddrive and trying to …

I'm going to buy a PC in a couple of weeks and I'll most probably be using it for 3-4 years. I don't know whether to choose a Core 2 Duo with a speed of 3.0 GHz or a Quad which runs at 2.4 GHz. I'm uncertain because I understand …

Hello everyone: I think I fried my RAM memory Stick by removing with out shutting Power off. Would that make my CPU to beep and not reboot.

Hi My daughter has a Dell inspiron 1501 and has just bought a new charger. When I plug it in and switch on it says 'Battery not recognised' After doing diagnostic tests I got the following error codes 4E36:0749 ivalid AC adaptor reported and 4E36: 0122 reporting disconected charger. The …

I have an HP dv2911us. Everything is stock in it--haven't changed a thing. When sitting idle on the desktop screen, I can hear the fan turn on and off about every 3 seconds. I'd really like the laptop to not make as much noise. What can I do? Thanks.

Hi, i really need help and i think its a simple problem im just not really good with hardware. I have a 20" samsung syncmaster, an awesome screen, however the colors are all messed up. I tested the screen on my laptop and works great. So the problem is in …

Running a Dell E310, Windows XP, 160 G hard drive, external 500 G My Book, Xp partition is 117 G of 160, only 55% full. When running Chuzzle, Ma Jong, mmorpg's, email, basically anything every 10 - 30 minutes it freezes/won't respond to mouse or keyboard input, won't update screen, …

I have an odd problem. My Epson Stylus Pro 9000 was working fine and then one day it just stopped working and only printed overlapping lines. I tried printing through both the computer and the printer's own utilities, but I got the same result each time. Any help would be …

Hello, I just wanted to know if there is any site where i can get drivers for the following motherboard: M848A by PC-Chips. It's pretty unusual and im finding it hard to find drivers for the devices connected to the motherboard. In particular i want a site where i can …

I have a dead Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop, I am a TV technition, so am familiar with most of the power connectors. The suppy connector to this laptop is different from anything I have seen before. It has an outer ring that is negative, an inner ring that seems to …

hi, i have a computer here which i cleaned with a computer dust spray. my family member was complaining it makes a lot of noise. i noticed the pcu fan was so dusty, i cleaned it with the spray. when i was done, i started the computer and i get …

I accidentally put agp in the title instead of pci the slots are actually pci. I have an ASUS p3v4x motherboard with a p3 800mhz processor. The issue im having is there is no signal going to the monitor at all. It just happened out of the blue the monitor …

I Just made an account here so I could hopefully find someone who can help me I'm running Linux Mint on my HP Pavillion(though I don't think it matters), my keyboard has been having issues, nothing too big that makes it hard for me to type, but when i press …

hi guys, i have this problem on my pc..i got two ddr2 same brand and same specs.. my problem is, if i both plug-in the two memory sticks on the mobo..my windows will be unstable.. it will auto reboot..even if i'm just browsing the internet.. to isolate the problem..i plug-in …

I understand this is an old machine... but it just died the other day. i am troubleshooting it for a coworker but am a little stuck. after posting, it would go to a blank screen that says "strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility" and no other error …

Hi My hp Pavilion dv4-1117nr laptop that I got 3 months ago (160gb 2 gb ram and 2.2 core2 duo processor) screen that is monitor has been off that is not dispalying anything but the sound continues and internet speed decreases and system gets hot while I watch movies. The …

Hi all, I'm currently trying to resurrect this machine for a client. I have tried 4 different OS disks including a Dell recovery drive, and in all cases, as the machine starts copying files, it fails the CDAUDIO.SYS file then about a hundred others, which appear to all relate to …

Hello! A family friend recently installed a Dell AIO printer onto a Vista Home Basic machine. The machine is 3GB RAM with an AMD Phenom triple core processor. The printer was working fine until the other day it just stopped printing. The Dell software says the printer is offline but …

Hi I tried to use new branded “R-Driver III” USB 2.0 TO SATA IDE CABLE device with Laptop HD IDE and Desktop HD IDE (once at a time) but it did not show me the HD , although I checked Disk Management (each one at a time) I thought the …

My hp got left on over night and the hard drive is gone, I replaced the hard drive and been tring to restore my system, I finally got windows xp on floppy, cause my cd or dvd drives were not reading in bios, now I turn on the pc and …

Hello :) I have a problem with my computer startup - when I turn the power on sometimes after counting the ram and processor it just freezes for no reason...occassionally it starts and goes into XP as normal and when it does the computer works fine. I've tried changing the …

I've had this laptop for a while, and recently two keys popped off. I wasn't worried about the first, but the second is the Z key and not exactly something I can just work around. The one of the retainer clips prongs broke off and so I'm trying to figure …

I know that refresh rates are not supposed to apply to LCD monitors, but there is still an setting that allows me to set it in Windows' options. This setting does seem to have some effect, but since LCD's don't really refresh, I am wondering what the setting is doing. …

Hey guys. I bought a Laptop car charger the other day at a garage sale for a couple bucks. Since it was an IBM product and I had an IBM laptop it may work. There is only one issue. It's a 56 Watt charger and the laptop has a 65 …

So I have two different USB midi controllers that I use...the only problem is that they both show up as "USB Audio Device," so the first one that gets plugged in is "USB Audio Device" and the second one is "USB Audio Device (2)." This means that I need to …

My Compaq Presario 710us stopped working suddenly. Can anyone shed some suggestions.

Hello Everyone I just got a old Computer from my gf family. i got it for linux and who can turn down a free computer. It has been sitting for a while in there garage but was covered up and taking care of. They took the HD so i put …

Can someone please help me with repairing a PC power supply. My supply quit and I have been only partially successful. I found a burned out resistor on the board I replaced > a 5 watt 20 ohm and a bulging cap that I also replaced. When I try to …

I recently bought a new system (Gigabyte EP45-UD3P Motherboard, Nvidia 8800 GTS 640mb ddr3, 2x 2gig Transcend ddr2 800, Core 2 quad Q8200 and a Coolmaster 650 PSU) and when I switched it on it did not do any thing... I thought it would be the PSU, so i tested …