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Hello, I'm having the same problem but a week prior my computer started acting funny. The monitor would blink erradically every now and then and sometime either come back to the screen i was on and have color squares everywhere and nothing on the screen would work or the monitor …

I'm trying to install the Rapid Rails that came with a new Dell PowerEdge 1850 server into a standard square-hole rack. The Dell Rapid Rails are just a little bit too short, about 1/2" or so. Are Dell Rapid Rails meant to install only in Dell-branded racks? I don't know …

Hi, i am facing a problem from a very long period i.e when ever my computer boot up so it gave me the option CMOS LOW BATTERY,i replace the cell twice but this problem is exicit. Now when i put the new cell then 1st time my compter run but …

Hi, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop that I'm having problems with. Yesterday I turned it on and after a few minutes, my mouse froze. Restarted and freezing happened again. Restarted once more and now screen is black. When I start, I can hear the fan kick in, the …

I recently bought a Dell Latitude at a flea market. They didn't know the BIOS password, and I assumed I could pull the battery and reset it. Wrong. I noticed that several people have come to this forum and received help. If there is any way you can help me, …

Processor: Intel Core2Duo E8400 3.00 G Hz MotherBoard: Intel DG43NB Memory: ZION 1X2 GB 800 M Hz PSU: i Ball 400w HDD: 320GB Western Digital with IDE interface I bought my system 6 months ago, from then, I was having problems. System hanged frequently, vertical coloured lines appered on the …

After installing [URL="http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Desktops/Q_21832132.html#"]XP SP2[/URL] my Mesh computer will no longer boot, either normally or safe mode. Continual BSOD MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION Stop: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x8054D5F0, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F) Machine ran fine until SP2 install. Have now tried to re-install win [URL="http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Desktops/Q_21832132.html#"]XP[/URL]. But get the error "Setup did not find any [URL="http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Desktops/Q_21832132.html#"]hard disk drives[/URL] …

I have a laptop with a Realtek HD Audio driver, tho im not sure what kind of sound card i have, it wont give me a definite name... anyway im pretty sure i wont get "true" 5.1 sound on this thing, but i was also wondering if i would be …

I have just built the pc this weekend AMD Phenom II x4 940 cpu 4gb corsair ram MSI DKA790GX Platinum mbd with on-board ATI Radeon 3300 graphics Saphire Radeon HD4870 gpu Antec 650w modular psu Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO PWM Fan 1tb samsung hard drive - new 250gb maxtor …

I just installed a new PSU on a working system. The new PSU has more power than the one I replaced (550 W vs 520 W). When I close the circuit to the PSU, the green LED on the Motherboard lights up. When I hit the power on button, it …

I'm new here.. I have a 2yr old Sony Vaio VGN-TX17GP bought in KL, upgraded to 1GB RAM. It had windows XP. I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 & erased windows XP. After unsatisfactory results with Ubuntu, as the sound was gone, the F3, F4 function keys did not work & Ubuntu …

I'm planning to buy a decent directX10 graphics card for my PC. But I'm confused which one would be the most effective?? I mean both in terms of Price and performance. I have budget around $100 to $150

I have a Gateway 3018 and the other day the screen went off. Now it will not come back on. When I press the power button the power light comes on and the busy icon will flash once. The fan will come on after a few minutes. I can also …

I've just bought an external monitor for my laptop and use an external mouse and keyboard but because of problems which may be unrelated I'm wondering whether it is okay to have the laptop closed while it is operating? It takes up much less space that way when I don't …

I used the recovery disk for my HP Pavilion a6000n and it seems like the cd-rom stops working after awhile. It will start the recovery and sometimes make it to the second disk but then the disk just stops spinning and wont do anything after that. I've even let it …

Hello About a month ago I was beta testing Win 7. It worked fine for a while and then the keybord and mouse went off whilst I was using the pc. So I restarted the pc. Now the pc wont start and I get a message "keyboard error or no …

Went away for the weekend and switched off PC at powersocket. Come back and swtiched back on and there is a blinking gren flashing light at the front, near the start button. There is also a blinking green flashing light at the back under the power cable. Other than that …

I've posted this in PCI problems as well so apologies if you've read it before I've got an Asrock K7S41 M/B with a Duron 1300 processor and 1400 mbs RAM running WinXP Pro SP3, the machine has just the regular stuff with no cards currently or previously installed. I'm trying …

Im upgrading my graphics card for gaming and just wondered if my power supply was good enough My system- AMD 64 X2 2Ghz 4Gb RAM Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX+ I have a 550 Watt power supply

Hi Guys, I have a Dell Latitude D630 and the SATA HDD crashed. I accidently purchased an ATA/IDE HDD as a replacement (cannot be exchanged - dodgy dealer!). Is it possible to fit this into the D630. I am aware the the D630 ATG has a SATA/IDE storage controller but …

I am a real Newbie. I am 69 years old, I've never had a laptop and just got an iBook G4 12 inch screen 1.33Ghz on E-bay. It arrived today. It has an administrator with a password. I read in the manual it can be changed by MAC OS 10.4.2 …

I have an ASUS P5B (non-delux) and I am trying to update the BIOS to be able to use the Wofdale core (1333) but I'm running into a huge problem. I don't have a floppy drive. I have read about others using a bootable CD that brings them into the …

I JUST UPGRADE MY PC TO: MOBO: DX58S0 PROC: I7 CORE 920 6GB OF DDR3 1 TB HD SEAGATE SATA 2 nvidia Geforce FX 9800 GTX+ EXO POINT OF VIEW 512 MB I HAVE TWO OP SYSTEMS INSTALLED : VISTA ULT 64B AND XP PRO 32 B i updated the …

Hey, I recently got the yellow light of death and was wondering, since my ps3 is out of warranty i have to pay $150 to send it in to sony so that I can get a refurbished one, can I fix it easily??? Because I wouldn't want to take it …

please how do i set my mother board to allow me use the front sound earpiece.

Ok, so the usual problem : when I try to boot up laptop it just runs the fan and blinks the HDD light a couple of times while the screen remains w/o output. If I put a CD/DVD into the drive it spins it around otherwise doing nothing. I tried …

I have a six year old Compaq laptop with problems of the the screen blacking out when it is moved . . . so I just bought an Acer V173 Monitor and attached it via VGA sockets. Whilst the Windows XP background screen comes up, no icons appear or access …

Hi to everyone. I had some problems after changing my motherboard processor. My motherboard was a S-series Gigabyte GA-m57SLI-S4 rev2.0 and the processor amd AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6000. I bought a Phenom 2 940 to change the current one but i didn't check the motherboard support list and i …

My computer has stopped functioning.When i press power button even led is not working. How can I check whether the problem is with power supply or any other component?

Alright guys... I'm not a complete moron when it comes to computer hardware, but I feel like one now. I recently bought parts to build my new computer: Mach Speed Motherboard MSNV-939 Athlon 3200 CPU GEforce 6200 256 mb PCI-Express Video Card SATA 160 GB Hard Drive 400 Watt Power …

i have no sound on my laptop i have re installed windows xp but still no joy no errors in device manager tried usb speakers now at a loss any help gratefully accepted

The other day I made a huge mistake using my laptop while I was feeding my 2 month old daughter, and she so happened to get sick and then spit up all over the laptop keyboard. Seeing that this was a liquid type spill, I immediately unplugged the laptop and …

I just got a new maxtor drive ( 320gb. ) but windows only see 31.gb what can i do?

I just received an Inspiron 8000 from my father in law. He said it has never run on battery power. He believed he through out the battery with the packaging. He did not of course. it has a battery in the primary bay. It is the right bay. bios sees …

In CD writing is performed from inner to outer of CD. How is it done in hard disk?

I recently ordered an EVGA Nvidia Geforce 260 GTX and I didnt have enough 4-pins to adapt to the 2 4-pin to 6-pin adapters needed to plug in the card. so i went and got a couple 4-pin Y splitters and now i have enough to at least plug my …

I have an Advent 5431 and inserted a Buddy Holly DVD which will not play, will not eject manually nor when "instructed" by the computer. Any ideas of how I can get it out without using a can opener? Dave (dranoel2009)

I just had the experience of finding out that the router and wireless card that I bought a few years ago will only support items in warranty. D-Link. Otherwise you pay dearly for the help. Do all the manufacturers do that now? I know some hardware companies only offer e-mail …

I want to get Fallout 3 for the PC, but I don't know if my current graphics card is good enough (ATI Radeon X300). What is the cheapest graphics card that I could get to still run Fallout 3 on the highest setting? I don't know much about graphics cards.

What is the meaning of my portable hard drive beeping all of a sudden, and then I get an error box which says something like "the file H:/yaddayadda failed to write. Data has been lost." This has never happened before, but it has happened 3x in the past 3 days. …

hey guyz, by mistake I clicked format for the drive D, but after just about 15 secs after it started i cancelled it, now whenever i try to open this D drive it says "u need to format the disk in drive D before u can use it", is there …

Hello, I currently have Dell Optiplex gx270. Computer's specs are: Pentium 4CPU, 2.8Ghz, 2.79 GHz, 512MB of Ram, FSB: DRAM is 1:1, DRAM Frequency: 199.5MHz, Memory Type: DDR, channels: dual. I'd like to expand my memory to at least 2GB but don't even know where to start. Do I go …

I'm new to this list, so please bear with me and forgive any dumb errors that I make. I've got an IBM 365XD laptop that had a main board problem. I've replaced the chassis with another 365XD chassis. All seems to be OK but it will only boot into suspend …

I am not sure what a video card is. Yes, I know it is a pci or agp thing that can share or have own memory. More mem the better. I know some have svideo or composite. But isn't a video card just some way of seeing what the computer …

Hiya, This problem struck me yesterday and I have experienced a similar problem before, but I suspect it is the PSU that's a little out of date this time. I'm on a different computor now, but when I start the other one nothing shows up on the screen, at all, …

i hope that i have posted this in the right place but i need a little help. My problem is that i have a Sony DCR HC90E mini DV camcorder that i wish to connect to my mac and edit the video's however when i connect the machine i can …

Hello Friends, I am a new member of this community & I need your help in selecting Graphics Card for my PC. My PC Configuration is as follows, .................................................................... [B]- Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 – 2.2 Ghz - Intel Original - 945 GCNL Board - 1 GB DDR-2 RAM …

Hi, I am working on upgrading Compaq pro EM series desktop for a co-worker. I was adding a second HDD and 1g RAM. After plugging in the HDD, the computer stopped working. Every time I boot up it takes me to the Compaq splash screen with an option to hit …

I've got a Pentium 4 machine - the exact architecture is GenuineIntel x86 family 15 model 2 stepping 7. (I'm running Windows XP Pro, version 2002, Service Pack 3 with no problem.) This is a 32-bit machine, right?

Hey guys jusxt needed some help, i have a ASUS M51Sn laptop SPECS= Intel core2duo T9300 2.5ghz 2gb ram 9500m GS Nvidia geforce graphics 512mb 15.4x LCD 250GB HARD DRIVE So far i have turn of all unused services , features,etc, All the reg tweAKS AND SO-ON, oh YEAH I'M …