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My mom's mobo got fried cause she installed her ram wrong, this caused an arc and fried it. I was curious, her comp had a P4 2.66 in it and mine has a very modest 1.8 (it's 5 years old). Doing some research on my motherboard I found that it's …

Hi there, I'm a univ. student and recently moved back after the winter break. I brought back my machine, a 2.4ghz Athlon XP, 768mb RAM, Geforce 5700 LE, and set it up. I've been using this machine for about a year without any major troubles, but after about using it …

I've been looking at buying an external hard drive to back up my main internal drive. So many different interfaces, USB2, firewire etc. My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe and has an external SATA plug at the back ( am I to assume that this plug is what is referred …

Hi, I have a question about replacing the case fan in a Dell 4550, and hope someone can shed some light on [I]how it works[/I]. I searched a bit, but didn't really find anything describing my problem After my PC shutdown with the, "Fan not working, press F1 screen on …

Hi everybody. i tried searching but did'nt find my problem. im kind of frustrated right now. i have a sony vaio laptop model: pcggrx560 after pressing power button LED lights would turn on, fan spins, harddrive starts but after 5 to 6 seconds fan would stop spinning but the lights …

(Running Windows XP on Compaq Presario V5000) Hi.. First of all, I've already done some troubleshooting, so this may help with your thoughts on the problem. My LCD screen is not working properly. When I turn the laptop on, I can see a dim one-time flickering at about the time …

All of a sudden my computer turned the picture the wrong way round...i have to tilt my head 90 degrees to the left to read the right way up. HELP!!!PLEASE?

I have posted already about my faulty, i thought, HD on my HP nc6000, But the more i play with it, the less i think it is. To start with it kept just freezing, and had to be shut down. also, it would not power up, you had to push …

Hi, i have a problem with my hp and xp. I scanned my system for viruses as usual, and noticed spyware at c:\temp. I booted my comp at safe mode, and deleted the whole temp and temporary internet files folders, and booted. Now it doesent run Windows at all, it …

Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a NC6000. It keeps freezing while in the middle of working, not on any one programme, could be anything, and after 3 mins, or half hour. To rule out O/S errors, i reinstalled XP on it, it all went in fine, was running …

i have a samsung ide hd, this morning when i booted up it wouldnt detect the hd in the boot order, hard rive wasnt listed my hard drive is the only thing on the wire... its not connected to the cdrom or anything, just the motherboard and yesterday it stopped …

Hi I have an eMachine T1840, running Windows XP Home, that appears to be dead. When powering on all three keyboard lights and all tower LED's flash on and off quickly. I have tried replacing the poweer supply and the machine still behaves the same. My biggest problem is that …

This is my first build, and it's been a disaster so far. My setup: GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ Antec earthwatts EA380 ATX12V v2.0 380W Power Supply A-DATA 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Scythe SCNJ-1100P 120mm Sleeve …

i just newly bought a desktop, already built (last time i tried to build one it didn't work out), but 3 days later it crashed on me. i'm not sure wats in it, i know its an amd athlon 64 dual core 4000+, 1 gig ram, asus motherboard m2n-e sli, …

There is an amd processor that I believe to be oddly priced (But what do I know) here is a link [URL]http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=33334904&source=EWBBASE&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=33334904[/URL] Of course I have no intention of buying it. :)

Hi. Hope someone can help me? I'm quite IT literate, so normally don't need to ask for help, but hey, here goes... I use a Dell, with a Dell Monitor. 19" CRT. Now then, I was in Google Earth - was working fine and have had no problems at all …

Trying to upgrade the wifes P3 700 PC to allow efficient downloading and some level of multitasking so decided to go with a P4 2.4 GHz w/ 800 FSB as I built this box for my gamer son a few yrs back. Decided to try INTEL mobo (rather than usual …

hello ppl i have a laptop with only one partition 60 gb i need to divide it to 2 parts can i do it without loosing my files or back up

I have two hard drives, a C: drive and a D: drive. The C drive is a Maxtor 2F040J0 (I think) and the D drive is a Maxtor 6E040L0, however, they may be the other way around. I recently bought a new motherboard and processor and installed them and connected …

I'm currently trying to fix a Compaq Presario 5140EA (athlon 1.3 ghz) because the OS was being weird. So i formatted the HDD, installed XP, than it has to restart the computer ( you know the routine) but from that point it gave errors. After a while i found out …

Hello All. First off, glad to find this forum, it's very comprehensive. I have a ASUS A7V8X LA Kelut GL6E VIA KM400A VIA VT8237 motherboard, it's amost four years old now. About two years ago the NIC card stopped working, so I bought a new ethernet card and that took …

Hi all i've just bought an old Wingman Force joystick (the big grey one) from eBay and i'm having big problems getting it to work on XP. whenever i plug it into my USB the PC blue screens and restarts. the joystick works fine in windows safe mode. from this …

I am rebuilding my pc and have bought everything new except the RAM. I don't get anything from the onboard video. The mother board and CPU are new as is the power supply. I remove the ram and I get no indication that the pc cares. No beeps or nothing. …

A week ago I build a new comp. Worked fine, decided to go legal and purchased several licenses of Vista. All installs have been flaky, mainly with power. So I got tired of Vista and went back to XP. The machine in question was fine, XP installed fine. Everything looked …

Hello all,working on a gateway laptop,the lcd jumps and has small white horizontal lines that don't go all the way across, but come from both sides,all over the screen ,like static interference,laptop would eventually lock up .but will work and keep running when hooked to my desktop computers monitor.I have …

I just bought a new Antec Earth Watts 500 power supply. I just installed it last night and I started hearing a noise (kind of like a cricket sound). It goes on for about 8 seconds then stops for a split second then 3 short cricket sounds and then the …

Alright... I'm wondering if anyone has seen this type of thing before. I've got a Dell L800R that has been completely wiped clean for os re-install. When I power up, I hold down the <del> key to enter setup... the dell logo shifts to the top of the screen, the …

Have new GE wireless keyboard and mouse. Keyboard routinely skips lters or adds too many leters, even spaces or returns are often ignored or multplied. Have gone to properties and tried several adjustments in key delay, or speeeed to no avail. Any answers anyone?

I recently built a system, specs - Asus M2N-MX MoBo, AMD Athlon 64X2 3800+ CPU, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb Sata HDD, LG Dual Layer DVD-RW. When I first put it all together, I couldn't install XP, (it kept throwing up cannot copy file errors during copying files process). Thats all well …

I have an issue with a new IDE HDD that I'm trying to install. I have been running from the SATA drive that was already installed in my comp. Now I want to add an IDE drive, I tried master, slave, master w/ slave, both plugs on the IDE cable, …

I'm literally using Word to insert each one of these letters...so let me get to the point. Brought my pc home from uni & now I’ve reconnected it all & keyboard doesn’t work:S . Lights flash when I plug it in, and have a faint light as normal, but it …

Hi! I know you have probably answered this question a thousand times however I have read a thousand replies and not sure if I still know what to do. Problem::::: I bought my son another hard drive Seagate 320 gig to be a slave to his his comp of a …

I am builng my fourh Machine. Everything Went well until start-up. it takes about 4 minutes. Everything runs fine once booted. Oh1 and it only boots if windows XP CD is in drive. Done the CMOS bit, changed the boot sequence to floppy/HDD/CDROM, but the S*D still boots using CDROM. …

Hey i just transfered a new motherboard into my`computer and since then i have been having numerous problems\ 1.i cant boot with my windows xp disc 2.the windows xp thats currently installed that was installed when i had the old mobo is playing up reall bad unusable. 3. i can …

This is a puzzling problem. I put this card in, and it works fine for five years. Then, one day, it quits. -I get the boot screen - I get the "Windows is Loading" screen but as soon as it loads into the windows environment, the monitor goes into standby …

Cant find a similar problem posted Have 2 x 512 mb pc400 Dynet ram cards and both run fine on their own in either of the 2 slots ( a little slower of course), but both running together the Computer crashes or the programs shut down. Pentium(r) 4, 3.0 ghz …

Am trying to install a 128mb ram in the second slot, but when i restart the screen goes blue with error message "Dumping physical memory to hard disk" what am i doing wrong?

I am trying to start my PC by pressing the power switch, but it doesn't start-up. As long as I keep the power switch pressed the power and hard-disk LED's at the front of my Cabinet keep blinking, but the machine doesn't power on. This used to happen earlier too, …

I am attempting to build a rig with the following setup: C2d 1.86ghz ASUS P5L-MX LGA 775 Intel 945G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard 2GB Corsair Value Ram 320 WD HD ATI X1650 Video Card Roswill 480w PSU This is a budget build so as you can see with the above …

When I pit a cd in the cd romand try to open it in "my computer", "my computer" doesn't respond. This is in the HP computer that crashed and burned a few weeks back.Have gotten it back up and running and this I hope is the last problem I have …

Hi all I am in serious trouble. i am not able to access my c: drive(when i open my computer it is shown like ([B][COLOR=red]Access Denied (c:)[/COLOR][/B] wherever i click on the icon it says c:\ not accessable. Access Denied. For this drive the sharing and security tab in the …

i might be buying a 8800gts. i am not sure if it requires cooling.i do understand that the minimum power requirement is 400W but i am not sure if it requires extra fans or cooling. Will my pc actually heat up if i dont put extra fans or cooling.

Could someone please educate me on this matter. I have googled it and have found nothing. What is the difference between memory modules with black chips on one side and black chips on both sides? I have 4 identical memory sticks...only difference is the number of black chips. Two of …

My laptop recently crashed (by the way, thanks again to those of you who responded to that post =] it works now) and so i was looking into the area of external hard drives for back up between my desktop and laptop i don't really know much in the hardware …

Have a hp computer that has gone toes up. Think it is the hdd, but not sure. here is what happened. turn the unit on and it started to spool up then went into recycle mode. wounld not load up windows. tryed to restart in safe mode, nothing there, would …

Has anyone done this and if so what kind of problems am I getting myself into? My adaptor board is due in on Monday, it is a Rosewill RC212 4xSATA +1XIDE R .Any advice on setting it up!

Hello I have a Samsung VM8000 with windows 98 as an operating system. When I put any audio or installation disc's in the cd rom drive its reads it and an orange light flashing up on the cd drive which obviously means that it is reading the disc, when suddenly …

Ok, Well what happened is I bought a used computer that was better then my moms....It was a desktop case, but the motherboard was compatible with my tower case. So I installed the used computers motherboard into my moms case and as soon as I plugged it in I got …

Hi all, My fiancee's machine decided this weekend to not power up anymore, but I've been out of the repair business for some time. The machine does not reach POST, and the fans won't even spin or twitch. Process so far: - Disconnect all drives - no change - Remove …

Hello. I need some help, please =) I have integrated video graphics and I would like to know the correct way to disable it so I can install a video card. I know to go to device manager, right click, then disable, but what I would like to know is...what …