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So I recently bought a whole bunch of computer parts in hopes of making my first build. Specs: Intel LGA1155 DDR3 1600 ATX BOXDH77KC Corsair Vengeance Blue 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B Intel i7-3370 Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155 BX80637I73770 GeForce GTX 550 …

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When booting up my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop the fan starts but then quits after about 5 seconds. The system starts up nicely (OS starts up) it just doesn't have a fan anymore which basically renders the laptop useless. I already tried to clean the fan with compressed air and …

So, i have a DDR4 4gb RAM with 1866Mhz installed on my laptop. Then i plan to add DDR4 4gb RAM with 2400Mhz. What will happen?

Person wrote - "I can see it happening and found many cases of mobile explosions specially much frequent in Rajasthan. I can say it started there and now i am hearing from mumbai also. There were many victims died of this in last one and half month. It is not …

So my new Asus UX305 has just arrived. I charged the battery till full and I'm now using the laptop. I'm planning to switch it off very soon, and then it occurred to me, do I have to break in the battery, or can I just use it as normal …

i just bought a microsoft wireless keyboard and the question mark and coma are both È how do i swap it back to the english version of the keyboard. its driving me insane not being able to use question marks. thanks

Does anyone know of an HP Printer driver for windows 98 that will enable me to map to and print to an HP Officejet 8610 printer connected to a machine on the network that runs a newer OS? The 8610 does not have a 98 driver.

If you are using your iPhone XS as a music player, then you probably know how to transfer music from computer to iPhone. The default way of transferring between your PC and iPhone is by using iTunes. This is the most common way of sharing music and other media to …

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I've following configuration PC. It goes crazy sometimes. All cabinate fans starts running crazily & display goes off, still I can hear audio like songs or movie audio. After switching the power it becames normal. **configuration** 1. **CPU:-** Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz 2. **Motherboard:-** Intel DH87MC 3. **RAM:-** …

Hey people I have just recently purchased an Advent ERT2250 Laptop and the function (fn) key seems to be constantly on. This means i have to hold the fn key down so i am able to use some of the keys on the keyboard properly, if i dont hold the …

Hello I've been facing this issue since today, whereby my TwinMOS Micro SD HC Card is not being detected by my Samsung phone, and when placed in the adapter and inserted on PC, again the latter is not detecting it at all, although in the Device Manager I can see …

I have a Dell Inspiron 620 desktop. I was working on iTunes when the computer froze. I couldn't get it to do anything. I ended the itunes process in task manager. Everything still froze. I turned the computer off for a bit. Turned it back on and all that came …

I have Lenovo Ideapad 320 i7 8550u 8th Gen laptop it has below display adapotrs AMD readon TM 530 Intel(R) UHD graphics 620 I want to add two or three external monitors but it has only one HDMI port, Two USB 3.00 and one Type-C 3.1 port how can i …

i am trying to add two external monitors to extend screen on my toshiba laptop through vga and hdmi port . But only one is working. i cannot detect second monitor. if i plugout one other is working then. how to add two monitors? display card is :intel(r) hd graphics …

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I'm wanting to build a new computer but I'm having trouble, it's been a long time since I've built one and my head is starting to spin just looking at the options for motherboards. So you know what I'm working with this is my empty tower -> NZXT Source 210 …

Hi i have a problem with the print screen button. When i press that button my whole system is freezing. The only thing i can do is restart pc by hand. Since two weeks i have a new key bord it´s the Logitech K800 with setpoint installed. some info from …

Hello, I was playing a game on my PC (NFS Most wanted) when I heard a fan starting up noisily. All of a sudden the system tripped off. When I tried restarting it, only the light on the CD-ROM was blinking, even the power button light did not light up. …

Hi I am unable to complete an installation of an Officejet 6000 inkjet printer on a home network Dell 690 workstation running . Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit workstation. The printer had been previously connected to a Windows XP Pro 32 bit OS Dell PC. The HP CD wouldn't install …

Hey, I'm new to the forums but fairly experienced when it comes to computers. I've got a Dell Dimension 8400 and a 2001FP monitor. When i boot the computer up, the video card's fan is spinning and the computer seems to power on fine... except for the fact that there …

Hi, bought a gaming PC tower (with a top class nVidia graphics card) for the kids, Xmas, but sent it back cos of a couple of probs. It's arrived back with me and some problems persist. When I switch on and boot-up (I assume it's booting up, as I can't …

Hi, I wanted to setup dual monitor, before trying to purchase I looked up at few articles and forums and most of them had language suggesting it is easy and straight forward. I visited 4 stores and they wasn't sure what they are talking about, 2 of them directly denied …

Hello, Am currently facing a problem with my home PC, whereby upon switching on, all the lights switch on normally (HDD, DVD-drives, PSU), then just seconds later, it switches off by itself, and again some seconds later, starts to switch on by itself, but again goes off (in a loop). …

Used two different tvs, one has hdmi and rgb in, and the other has pc in (vga?) and hdmi, use two different cables and nothing. I have not used the pc in with audio yet (a double sided vga cable with audio for monitor), was wondering if I even need …

Hello, I do not know a lot about computers, so I know this is a long shot. However I really need advice! I have just got a new computer tower (its second hand) and a monitor from a family member. Both monitor and tower were in full working order before …

Recently, my Dell wireless keyboard just stopped working. I tried changing the batteries, but nothing. The weird thing is, the special keys like Refresh and volume control still work. My dad thinks it could be a virus. What should I do?

Hi everyone, I appreciate this may not be the best forum for such a question however this is by far my favourite forum as everyone is so friendly and helpful thus i do not want to go anywhere else, but let's get to the point. I am currently looking to …

Hello, I have had this PC I built myself for almost a year now (probably a little more than a year, I lost count. Lol). LITERALLY this morning I was on it messing around with a friend, then just a moment ago I tried installing a some case LED lights. …

hi i have an ASUS F8vr note book and when i plug in my friends keyboard through the usb connector via the ps/2 to usb converter it works. but when i connect mine the same way the keyboard light flashes up(the num lock, scrol lock and the cap lock) and …

I want to create a symbolic link betwee a folder on a network and a folder on the local drive using the following command; > mklink /d "\\<networkName>\<folderA>\<folderB>" "C:\<folderA>\<folderB>\<folderC>" I get the error; The file or directory is not a reparse point. I did some searching online and didn't find …

I have been downloading old kid's readio stories and trying to burn them onto mp3 CDs for my daughter. The problem is that when she plays the CDs on the mp3 CD player in her room the tracks are not in order. I have edited the meta-data and labeld every …

Hello, I have a USB flash drive which was working properly for months, but today, when inserted into a workstation, it is being opened in read-only mode, whereby I can read and execute files on it, but not add anything to it or modify a document from it. Tried to …

Hello Daniweb Community, I thinking about upgrading from my laptop to a desktop the main concern is either if I should buy one of build one. So as the title says this is mainly if I was going to build one. To start off, my main concern about building one …

In Andrioid OS mobile, if you drag from top there will be many unread notifications, it is said that they are called push notifications. But in my mobile i am getting many such spam notifications every hour like movie updates etc, which are not required for me. How to disable …

HELP!!! No beep on my motherboard when i remove the RAM & HDD, i tried another RAM & HDD from another computer but still not working. I checked the RAM & HDD if its working on another, it works, i replace the wires(SATA especially) but nothing change,i also replace the …

I have an HP 7600 tower. When I try to commect a microphone, the Recording tab on the Sound window says "No audio devices are installed." Right clicked to show hidden and disconnected devices. None found. Troubleshoot recording could not find the trouble. Speaker Driver tests as the current driver: …

How can I tell if my emachines monitor is the problem or if it's the cord. The monitor (which is about1 1/2-2 years old) all of a sudden quit working so I bought a new power cord (in the meantime I used an older monitor) which worked for about a …

Hello reader! I've been working in a laptop with 6GB RAM, i5, 500GB HD and I can't take it anymore! What I mostly use : 1. Office Package (word, excel, powerpoint) 2. Visual Studio 5. Eclipse 3. SQL Server / Analisys Services / Management Studio 4. Adobe Package: PhotoShop and …

Hi, I was hoping someone can help; I want to animate a scribble effect using CSS & SVG. I have an SVG graphic but it appears limited as to what CSS animation can do, that wouldn't otherwise require me to manually cut the SVG graphic into pieces and do a …

Hello I am currently facing an issue with an HP laptop running Windows 10, whereby the following keys are not responding at all when typing: R, T, F, G, V, B. Sticky keys and other similar features have been turned off. Any fix for this issue?

my mac(2011) 13 inch running windows 10 has a weird fan. it turns on when in regular use like browsing online or word processing, having multiple windows kicks the fan on in a long but almost silent hum. at random times it is high pitched and very loud. is there …

My brothers laptop recently died, I believe due to a failed hard drive because when you turned it on you couldn't get out of the BIOS. I unscrewed the laptop's bottom from it's keyboard and replaced the hard drive but now it won't even turn on at all, I can't …

Hello, just wanna try my luck if you can help me, i got my new ps/2 keyboard just a week ago ill cut right to the chase, so this week my keyboard is automatically backspacing for no reason, so i tried opening my keyboard.. blow some dust,cleaned... then plugged now …

I have a Dell Inspiron 3520 laptop and am using a USB Mouse. Cannot disable the touchpad. Downloaded the Dell utility to turn it off, and upon booting up it turns it back on. I've tried uninstalling drivers in device manager (touchpad, PS/2 device) checked the BIOS (couldn't find it). …

[COLOR="Red"][B]The other night I put my Dell Inspiron 1501 on hibernate (it was plugged into A/C adapter and wall) and went to sleep. When I woke up the next day, I went to use it and it wouldn't turn on. No lights, no fan noise, nothing. The AC adapter is …

I have a 20 gig drive in a firewire enclosure. It works. I bought a new 80 gig drive to replace the 20. I put it in the enclosure. OS X 3.4 Server told me that I needed to initialize the new disk. Disk Utility opens up. It sees the …

Hi everyone, A friend of mine lost a laptop the other day and unfortunately, there was no way to locate it . It got me thinking about solutions for locating stolen laptops or for that matter, most electronic hardware. Most of the solutions that I've come across e.g Adeona at …

I am having my friend USB, which contains the error while Formatting, copying, deleting, renaming, moving files from it. The error is `"The Disk is Write Protected"`, I don't Know why this all happens? I try to repair it with the google help and find some common solution and tried …