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Is there a way to keep the computer from going to sleep mode so I can technically use it as a desktop? I mean, having the laptop hooked to an external keyboard and monitor but with out the computer going to sleep mode when I bring the laptop's screen down. …

Hi, I just want to ask some help,I already bought new HDD mobile seagate 320GB 5400rpm, when i unpacked now the plastic of my newly bought hdd seagate,...i saw my hdd mobile their is a black rubber on it,form like the hdd shape,and i was so confuse because my old …

Hi there, I have a dell xps 17 (L702X) with 4gb RAM (2 sticks of 2gb each) and I want to add an extra 8GB (another 2 sticks of 4gb each) so to get to 12GB. Now, the laptop allegedly has 4 slots and at the moment only 2 are …

Hello, I'm having an issue with my desktop. It's a custom build and has been running perfectly for a couple of years. Last week whilst playing a game the machine died... Completely. As it died I smelled a brief but strong burning smell. After this the machine would not boot …

Hi, Hello, can i ask something?.I am planning to buy a new HDD for my laptop samsung R530 T4400 dual core.because my old HDD will not install properly the window 7 and it will show black screen after it's restart...can you help me please what HDD should i buy and …

True or False, with Justification: " The compiler writer is intimately aware of the details of the processor implementation?"

Hi all. I am seeking a little advice regarding my Dell Studio 540 which over the past few days has developed a hardware fault. When I turn the unit on I receive a series of 8 beeps and the screen remains blank. Following the beeps, the unit makes all the …

hi there, I've looked at other responses but I'm not sure they help me, I'm hoping you can. I have a Seagate desk external hard drive which I store in my safe as it holds all my photos of my kids. I took it out today to put more files …

Ok, for once I have a question rather than a possible answer... My client's laptop is an old HP Pavilion ze4600. When he brought it in, the LCD light was on, but the screen was black. I assumed it had crapped out trying to resume from hibernation. I hard-powered down …

this just started happening w/in the hour, so I'm kinda still alittle in panic mode... but upon boot up my compy will randomly freeze anywhere from the bios screen to the desktop I think there may be a static leak somewhere, but I'm looking for other possible options... IK a …

I just built this PC and everything seems to be running fine, well as far as i can tell without being able to see anything on a monitor. The fan on the graphics card is spinning but when I plug the monitor I cannot get a signal. I cannot plug …

Hi all, I have an hp d330 desktop which i use for all my works and college projects. Today i have experienced problems with the cooling fan. When i switch on my pc, the fan moves for few seconds then it stops. And i get an error "512- Chasis fan …

Hi, I need some help on how to slave my hard drive sata from my laptop into my desktop,because my laptop hard drive is bad so i need to slave this into my desktop so that i can still recover some of the data...but when i looked at in my …

You may consider this a stupid question but i am curious and want to know If i take off the fan of my cpu and put on it a teapot with water in, will it heat it enough to make coffee or tea ??? Thanks

Hello, so I am building a pc and the processor is the 2nd gen Intel core i5 2300 (2.8ghz), now here are the memory specifications.. Specifications Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 32 GB Memory Types DDR3-1066/1333 # of Memory Channels 2 Max Memory Bandwidth 21 GB/s ECC Memory …

[B][COLOR="Red"]HP workstation X2100 does it have SATA connection on the motherboard ?? I have just got an Xtream dual storage box and it comes with a SATA port to attach to a PC ...and I am not sure if my old HP workstation has a connection socket on board !1 …

Basic Info Operating System MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3 CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 59 °C Windsor 90nm Technology RAM 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 373MHz (5-5-5-18) Motherboard Albatron K8NF4X-AM2 (Socket M2 ) 40 °C Graphics W1943 (1360x768@60Hz) NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Hard Drives 195GB Seagate ST3200826A (PATA) …

I have this weird problem in my PC that I am encountering, last week, my PC runs fine, everything is a charm, then suddenly when I powered up my PC this Tuesday, then waited and when I was on the Desktop for a few seconds, it suddenly restarts without warning, …

I built this computer 5-6 years ago. It has only frozen maybe 2 times and crashed maybe 3. What I mean when I say wont start is, It turns on motherboard lights come on, all fans work, everything seems to be going normally but it stays in high run mode …

Hi all ! I have a Compaq Presario SR5610F desktop computer, Windows 7 and 5GB RAM. I bought a video card for the computer. Its a Galaxy GeForce 210 ( 1024MB/MO DDR2 HDMI+DVI+VGA) I put the card in the computer and fired it up. The computer automaticaly found and installed …

Gateway EL500C desktop. Runs XP. No idea what else is "on" it, have not been able to gain access, other than opening and looking. [U]Started with[/U] a whisking noise inside at start, and she inquired around, ended up buying and sticking in a [U]new hard drive[/U]. Novice mistakes were made, …

Does anybody here have some experience calling a web service from android? Please help. Im using ksoap2 android 4.0 thanks for any info.

"STOP 0x0000008e" error message during Windows XP setup Any help?

Long story short, my little cousin turned on the computer, don't know how long it was on but when I found it there was no display. It's a compaq presario originally had windows ME but it was upgraded to XP. Since I plugged the screen to my laptop and it …

Hello all, I have been programming for about five years now and am finally looking into getting my own computer. :) The deal is I need a cheap computer ($100 - $800 about) that can handle programming (C++, Java, Python, Web Dev, some minor Game Dev) and college life as …

Hi friends, Please help me on this problem which i am having with my computer for 3 three days. I am using a Samsung Syncmaster 773s 17 inch CRT monitor with the following system. OS - Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service pack 3 (32 bit) CPU- Intel Pentium …

I have a hp dv6000 laptop. I can barley see everything. Thought it might be a backlight. Was on the phone for 4 hours plus with HP and tried everything. They quoted me 422.oo to replace the backlight. So I bought a new screen. I installed it and it does …

I'm unable to get any new USB devices to work with my Fujitsu laptop. Devices that I've been using for a while (such as keyboard, mouse, printer, ext. hard drive) still work. Whenever I try to connect any new device (mouse, USB stick, ext. hard drive) it immediately recognises what …

Okay so a few weeks ago I started using my HDTV as one of my monitors on my GTX 285 graphics card. Then one morining I put the system to sleep woke up to turn it on. All of a sudden a fan (which I am almost 100% sure is …

Hi, I have bought a fan which is similar to the one shown in the attached image, however, there is no direction whatsoever on mine on how to place it. Is the best position to have the "open" end of the fan pointing inside the casing or fixed to the …

what Ram Storage does core 2 duo processor supports thank you :)

I want to install 4GB of RAM into my computer but the manufacturer said it could only accommodate 2GB..... What would be the consequences?

hi there) guys please tell me - how to solve this problem - open get access to data on the microSD usb adapter which doesn't want to shoe itself in my computer window (to be useful for ordinary windows user ))) big thanks in advance)

I have been given acer 5100 and pressing power button it light momentarily and goes off. It will not boot anything, until I press power button and then hold down F9 or F10 keys then it will boot as usual and things goes well. I have even upgraded the bios …

I really want to put a new video card in my computer but I have no clue where it is. HEre is a video I put: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_J2URmAeHI[/url]

Hi there, I need to format my samsung nc10 netbook, it doesn't have the cd driver so I wonder if I can format it by running the windows cd from an external cd driver. WOuld that work or will the installation abort? thanks

Hi, as the title states my vaio does not want to boot from my USB even though it is set to boot from EXTERNAL DEVICE in the bios and EXTERNAL DEVICE is the 1st boot priority. Where the screen that shows the message "windows is loading files" is supposed to …

First of all, sorry if this is the wrong section. I've been looking over the forum quickly, and this seemed the right place. Anyway, I'm looking to replace my current laptop with a more game-capable one. For a while, I've been looking at the Sony Vaio series, but the graphics …

I have a western digital external hard drive, brand new, 1TB I have one desktop with a windows 7 64bit OS, and a laptop with a windows 7 32bit OS when i plug the external hard drive into either device, an icon pops up in the task bar that says …

I am in the process of building a new computer to replace my 7 year old Compaq. I've never actually built a computer before so I wanna make sure that my parts are compatible. According to a friend of mine the processor I've picked (with due research) is a newer …

Hello ,I have a friends 14 mnt old HP G61,when plugged in only light that works is one next to the power cord connection,power and charge and hdd led on frot of laptop do not turn on when plugged in .so it does not turn on . here is what …

Latley for the past week i have had to reset my router because i wake up in the morning and see that the internet connection has been disconnected for some reason. It just happened an hour ago and i went the the event view and saw this in the warning …

hello guys my pc blacks out after few seconds a start up but the motherboard shows that its receiving power so i don't know the exact problem

Hi Fellows. I have a confusing problem of Samsung laptop which uses Toshiba MK2555GSX internal hard drive. I have encountered a problem when i tried to start the machine and it respond with a message "cannot find hard-disk, press ctrl,Alt & delete to restart". i thought it could probably be …

ok, here's the deal: working in a Dell Inspiring 518. looked into all kinds of info and ran a shot test on the power supply and all sources and tests pointed to a dead motherboard. so I went and got a new mobo. made sure it was the same exact …

Hi, Not sure if the this is correct area to post this but here goes. Awhile ago my computer stopped recognising my DV Camcorder. Couldn't tell you when or how, it just stopped working Yesterday it finally got the better of me and I tried again and realised the my …

Hello, I have installed windows 7 and the sound is crackling. I tried using winamp and windows media player, two different headphones. I tried going to device manager and on sound device click update drivers, but it said that drivers are up to date. One interesting thing is that in …

My computer shows disk read error, i have tried to restart the pc for several times but still the same error, trying to reformat the pc still it can't read the cd. Any help please?

How to protect a USB pen-drive from being formatting please reply soon if you have an answer I have tested bit-locker , drive encryption but it's useless

3 yr old Systemax, XP Pro, Intel mb, dual processor, Raedon 300 graphics card, won’t boot. I have a 3-year old Systemax mid-tower computer. I was reading a web page, when my mouse became an animated hourglass. The computer was completely locked up and unresponsive to keyboard or mouse. Ctrl, …