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I'm attempting to install a SATA HDD into my system, but no success. The system consists of: MoBo: ECS PM800-M2 CPU: Intel P4 2.4G Mem: 2 Gb OS: Win XP Home, SP3, all updates, still fairly fresh and clean, runs well Security: MSE Primary HDD: 160 Gb WD1600AAJB, 95Gb free …

lenovo 8113-jcg 2GB RAM 160 HDD Pentium D 925 (3.00ghz) Flashing cursor appears on start up after Lenovo splash screen. Problem has occured after serveral tests... - Faulty ram was changed and tested on other machine. RAM 100% works. - Possible faulty HDD. Replaced with brand new HDD. - After …

just yesterday, a customer brought a desktop computer to my workshop. and after all the troubleshooting i did, i found that each time i remove the processor the system will power up but when i put back the processor, it will power and within 5 seconds it's off again.i have …

My job is completely virtual. I need dual monitors, with seperate dispays, for the next level in promotions. I have two of them. Yes, they are slightly different in size. I bought a graphics card; Diamond Stealth S60 RADEON 7000 - 64 MB-PCI dual monitor support. The box say 98, …

So i've been having my pc for 2 years now.Here is it's speccs: OS : Microsoft Windows Xp HE SP3 CPU : Intel Core 2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80Ghz Ram : 1gb Graphic Card :Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT 250mb MB : Asus P5L-MX When i got my pc i could …

Hi people, I need experts to answer this one as I have tried just about everything to resolve this problem, maybe someone can help. I'll explain what I have done to date. I built this computer a year ago using online info which I later found was erroneous. I have …

I have a year and a half old Sony Vaio notebook that just developed a problem. It boots up normally but then when you click on any app, the timer spins and spins and the program never comes up. Control-alt-delete doesn't work at that point; the hard drive LED doesn't …

My six month old NV52 laptop Gateway computer will not start. The front light for power lights up blue but the machine will not turn on when the on switch pressed. Totally dead. I've tried unplugging, removing the battery, pressing the on switch for 15 seconds and trying to restart …

My 7 year old Intel 32 bit motherboard passed away. I'l like to replace it with a 64 bit motherboard, processor and memory and still run my Xp Pro hard drive and DXD/CD. Here's the big question: will Xp boot up on the 64 bit hardware? I'm assuming I'll have …

Hello Daniweb yet again I have returned! This time with a rather weird issue... My latest custom build PC has 6Gb of Corsair RAM, but my copy of Windows 7 Pro x64 says "6.00Gb (4.00Gb usable)" Any ideas? I have gone through the internet to look for various solutions but …

OK, now i know your all gonna say get a new computer, but at this moment, its not possible. I went and threw another processor on the motherboard (which i also cant find the spec for to know if it was ok, but it works) and then tried setting the …

Hello, I own a samsung ml-1640 laser printer and after refilling the toner cartrige the printer needed a counter reset because it had reached the 2100 pages limit.I tried to reset the printer either by shortcircuit some mainboard pins or by software(solutions that worked before :P)but nothing.As i tried to …

READ IT ALL BEFORE YOU START ************************** A possible workaround for the IDE #1 ERROR when using a Cable select (CS) drive in a Toshiba laptop. Once this modification is carried out the drive is accessable for flashing as a master/slave or region free (RPC1) subject to the F/W being …

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when I press my power button 3 or 4 time (on off) or some time more then display show in monitor. when I press 1st time then the pc start but no display show in monitor. when I off it and then again on it ( 3 or 4 time …

Hi, I stumbled on this forum looking for an answer to an issue I faced with my laptop today. My laptop was running slow and shutting down due to overheating by itself so a friend recommended I clean out the fan and heatsink. I opened it up (unscrewing the bottom) …

which would provide better performance 2 gigs running at 200mhz or 1 gig running at 333mhz. both would be in a 3ghz P4 dimension 4700

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the caps lock blinks, the power and hard drive indicator come on, the hard drive spins up...then it turns off. Never posts, no fan comes on, no bios screen appears. What can i do? (the keyboard is missing 15 keys lol)

Hey. Well, my computer seems to have power, because two fans are turning inside of it, but since i had the computer ive had troubles with the power, at least i think. Everynow and then it used to just turn off and shut down, requiring me to actually remove the …

I have a Gateway MX6426 Notebook. I recently bought a new battery and power cord for it.When I got the battery and installed it,the pc came on just fine for about 10 minutes then shut down.When I tried to reboot,I get 4 red blinking lights from front indicator.The pc doesnt …

Hi, I'm new to this forum and not a tech person. I got a Dell D610 from Ebay from a guy who got it from a guy and so on....Now, I'm trying to install Windows XP and I have to change the Boot Sequence, but I can't do it as …

I recently put a pci card into my Medion desktop to enable it to pick up wireless. It's the first time I've opened it up and the card went in fine. Everything was working before hand, but now as soon as I plug the computer in and turn the power …

Hi, Please bare with me as I am a computer novice, I have just inherited a Dell computer with windows 98 when I turn on the computer it works fine, it brings up the start screen with all the icons etc however for some reason I cannot connect a keyboard …

hi all, I need to assemble powerful computer to work in 3DS MAX and Adobe premiere Can anyone help me to advice what motherboard, what graphig card does i need. if possible pls write with series of this hardwares thanks beforehands

Hi, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-NS10L laptop, and i haven't a clue what has happened to it. It was running windows 7 upgrade, originally on Vista. Have owned it for just over 18mnths, no problems, and just under a year on windows 7. It is very very empty in …

Help you Techies please .I have owned a Dell Inspiron 2500 for 4years and now it has just decided not to start.... 1 > mains attached(new tested mains supply)/battery installed (new battery) no lights on. 2 > no battery and mains attached ,no lights..... HO HUM ....what now... I have …

I bought a graphics card a few years ago and recently my monitor developed a habit of not showing the display. Remobing and reconnecting the monitor cable a few times solves the problem. So yesterday, this happened again and I decided to temporarily switch to the on-board display adapter. After …

I have an ACER LCD screen that fell off my suitcase this morning and cracked. I have been trying to find a replacement screen, with no luck. Have tried screentek, mpdparts, toledo computer, agparts, etc. with no luck. Does anybody know where I can find a replacement screen for my …

Hello i am new in this forum so if i posted this thread in a false topic please dont flame me.Anyway i have this pc: acer Aspire 5920g which cost me 2000 euros.I bought it one year before.I read many threads in the Internet about this laptop and every one …

Hello Everyone.. I am working on a Toshiba Satellite P305D-S8834 that has no power at all. The client decided to work on the laptop while there was a nasty storm in our area. He said he was just putting in the login password when it just went off - it …

Hi All, I have a Compaq Presario 2170US notebook which has been serving well as a paper-weight the last few years. I am attempting to refurbish it, but when I took the keyboard out, I accidently broke the little plastic piece that holds the ribbon in place in the ZIF …

Hi all, hope you are well. I own a Toshiba p100 notebook with vista business. The GPU is an nvidia 7600 geforce go and I have noticed that the fan for the GPU only spins when booting up. The moment Vista begins loading, the fan stops and doesnt come back …

Hi i have a dell Optiplex F160 and the hard disk is locked and i do not know what the user or master password is. Does anyone know what i can do to unlock this drive or somehow reformat it? thanks

i have been using an external usb keyboard on my laptop. i do this cause my laptop dose not have a keypad. i have a gateway running vista home. when i take off the keyboard it is as if my function button has been reversed. example if i push m …

My laptop is VGN-CS17G . It automatically shuts down as soon as i switch it on. I am not able to view its first screen. It just shows the safe mode option screen. [email]piyushisgenius@gmail.com[/email]

My son dropped my laptop today. I have an Inspiron 1545 which, now will POST and I can get through BIOS setup with no problems. But, all it will do when trying to boot id give me the microsoft screen with the sliding bar. I'm running Vista Premium (well, was …

i use my laptop to go on xbox live with my xbox through ethernet, it was working well until one time i took off the ethernet cable and put it back in a while later. Since then, whenever i try connecting my laptop to my xbox it just wouldnt show …

Hi, I'm new to this forum, and had already run Belarc Advisor to get info on my computer before coming here. Now I just wish I could read it. I think it's the same info I'd get with cpu-z too though. Dell Inspiron 1100 running Windows XP SP3 2.4 Ghz …

So I am using a big screen Astar tv for a computer screen. The problem is, on the right side there is about 1 inch of space where it is unaligned and thus there is an inch on the left side that isn't on screen at all. I wouldn't mind …

Recently I purchased a 750a sli xfx motherboard. Also purchased a 125 TDP x4 3.2 ghz phenom processor to go in it. My question is that it stated that it would run this processor and I have checked several sites stating that it would. I have tired the easy overclock …

Would like to install xp on latitude c400 but cannot change the boot order. Up and down work, enable and disable work, there is no primary password, no admin password, no hdd password. Setup is accessed with FN-F1 and appears normal. The boot order will not respond. There is external …

Hey everyone, This is my first post so please bear with me. I've had my own build desktop for some years, but last week the CPU died, it would start up, only to fail. So I'm thinking of getting a new motherboard and CPU, and was hoping for some recommendations. …

I recently built a computer. Here is the hardware I am using. CPU- Intel Core i5-660 Clarkdale 3.33GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Power Supply- Rosewill Xtreme Series RX750-D-B 750W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91 Hard Disk Drive- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 …

Last night I turned my laptop back on after it was off for approximately 2 hours. It started, loaded up to the desktop screen and then stopped. It showed the desktop design but none of the icons, start menu, toolbars...nothing. It worked fine the 2 hours before. I contacted Dell …

Not really sure if this is the appropriate area but I just couldn't put it on windows... ^^'' Anyway, is there anyone willing to give me a hand as to restore a register I accidentally deleted? Specifically for the HDD Protection by Toshiba for an M900-00R006 laptop. Before anyone else …

Hey guys, I have had a problem with my laptop where when started up the screen remained blank however i fixed this problem via a post on the forum so thanx for that.... ....but now when the laptop is booted up it goes to the Toshiba screen where you can …

i have Toshiba NB 205 netbook. It is pre installed with license windows xp. The problem occurred when i tried to install windows 7 to the unit using pendrive. After formating the main partition leaving the recovery partition, the laptop does not boot anymore. I tried to use the recovery …

Hi. I know what a physical and virtual cores are but in terms of performance is there any difference between a physical core and a virtual core? Lets say you had two processors and for the purpose of this example they were identical except one was a quad core without …

Hi guys, I just bought an Iomega 1TB external harddrive for my home laptop( I us eit as adesktop because of space). My friend who is computer savvy told me that I should have it on (ac power) all the time and it should be connected all the time. I …