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I have a Gigabyte MA790X-UD4DP socket 3 board with AMD Phen II X2 550 cpu, 2 x 2 Gb Kingston ddr2 ram and ATI 4750 1gb card and OcZ modstream power supply, all less than 12mth old. Suddenly went black screen on me and now won't boot up. Won't even …

My friend has an HP Pavillion and recently the computer stopped booting to windows. When you turn it on it just shows a screen with a flashing command prompt-style cursor. I was able to get into the system set-up and re-arranged the boot order and therefore could boot a Windows …

My outlook at times does not receive all e mails, in addition, it held on the password section...The ISP told me that I should look into un installing outlook.. Is there any type of thing/program that FIXES it or can someone advise how to un install and re install? Thank …

I have run into a very strange problem with Microsoft Word. Here's the background. I am running Microsoft Office Professional (fully updated) on a machine with the Windows XP Home (fully updated) operating system. My wife has a folder on the desktop where she keeps her business correspondence. This folder …

When logging on to internet I get the message "The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." with the following details. * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. * If you are unable …

This is very annoying, and it only recently started happening, and I'm not sure why. Everytime I go to open a new link by right clicking it, and pressing "open in new window", the window that opens, opens the webpage, but the window size takes up the top 4th of …

I am running XP Home on a motherboard with code M811 VER 3.1 using an AMD Athlon 1.33MHz chip with a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367-8235 chipset (I think!?) I have run Belarc Advisor & got info below; Board: VT8367-8235 Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 09/10/2003 …

... is missing or currupt: \windows\system32\config\system Having loads of problems with my Compaq Mini 700 Notebook. My OS is Windows XP Professional Home Edition. Tried numerous times to reset it from the F10 Bios area but this is the message that keeps coming up. What to do?

hi My environment is windows xp professional and internet exploror7. i am having problem during surfing internet, my web page automatically changes to another site, its happened if I pause for some time to surf net. Looking for your help thanks

HELP ME, I accidently ended explorer.exe (my shell) in Task Manager. I went to New Task>explorer.exe>run and it only opened windows explorer but did not open my shell.

Hi I am having trouble installing Windows XP on a new hard drive while connected to a computer i have and was wondering if there were a way to install it using a usb storage adapter for an IDE hard drive? The computer is a dell optiplex sx260 (workstation computer) …

I'm trying to transfer files from my old pc to my new pc. Both use XP. I have a crossover cable. I need a site to go to that has step by step instructions if possible. Thanxs

hello can you help me please, my windows media player there is no sound anymore after i change the visual style and theme look like windows 7, can you help me with my windows media player to get back the sound....hoping for your positive responds....thank you in advance...

Please help me what to do after i plugged the new seagate barracuda 7200 - SATA HDD 250GB[ST325310AS] as bootable for XP professional OS. I had got this new HDD as replacement from seagate. So i need what to do if all i plugged the cables into motherboard, then putting …

I've noticed some inconsistencies in the way different Outlook version handle the file creation and modification timestamps for saved attachments. Whenever my coworker (running Outlook 2007 SP2 on Windows XP) saves an attachment, it is timestamped using the moment that the attachment was saved to the file system. However, whenever …

Hi, My name is Melanie and I installed sbcyahoo on my computer. For some reason my internet option is frozon on MSN Homepage and will not let me change it. How do I do that. Plus, I can`t get sbc yahoo page to just pop up unless I go to …

I reformatted my desktop with having backing up the drivers so I installed them manually. How can I assure or check if my drivers are right for my devices? My monitor specifically the graphics are not in good condition after I reformat the desktop so I suspect that there is …

Hi, I have a problem with Windows Media Player that has recently surfaced whereby when I watch films on it (doesn't apply to CDs or DVDs of TV shows) background noise, such as dogs barking or music can be heard and sound effects on the menu also, but the characters …

The W3C validator site is not working right for me. A few other sites (but not many) also say the file I sent is blank. Other sites are working with no troubles, and receive uploads normally. The facts: - Two different computers are doing the same thing. - Both computers …

Hello, I am system administration newbie. I am responsible for installing and configuring Windows XP on 14 computers that need to be 100% identical. What I want to do is install XP and configure it based on what I need (usernames and passwords, no firewall, no windows search, set the …

I got a computer to repair that would not turn on and boot up. After manually connecting the hard drive and removing the viruses the computer now works. But, after another virus scan more viruses where found and removed now it seems the computer is working faster and better but …

Hello; I recently started having a problem on my Dell E1505 laptop running Windows XP-SP3, where multiple internet browser windows start opening by themselves ramdomly. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm using IE8, Firefox or AOL Browser, the problem keeps happening. There are times where it won't happen for …

unable to play certain movies on my media player its saying i need a decoder, seems i have to buy this decoder, could some please help me to find a decoder free for my media player 11 tvvm :)

Make: Dell Inspiron 1720 Howdy, I have a windows vista laptop that has started to have some odd behavior relating to power. When the laptop is plugged in (cord to wall) and the battery is in, the laptop will shut down within a few minutes. If the computer is running …

I am installing windows 7 my hard disk is 250 GB can anybody suggest how much should be the participation for c drive....

I have recently installed Windows XP Professional on my Thinkpad 600x. Everything in the installation went fine, I've installed a small amount of software (Firefox, Photoshop, a couple of audio players, Avast antivirus), and I have dutifully installed all of the updates, including Service Pack 2. Unfortunately, the machine has …

Hello, When i use windows explorer, when i try and "right click" or cntrl-C to copy windows hangs up and it says "not responding" in the top left corner. Then it crashes and restarts. I tried reloading XP from the hard disk (never had a copy of XP on CD) …

Hello, I recently learned a new batch command and I was wondering if I could make a batch file from at root batch file... Ex: [CODE]echo pause>\test.bat[/CODE] This code makes a batch file that has the command pause. Now would I make a multi-line batch file using this code? Ex: …

DEARS, I have searched lot for whereabouts of mouse right click menu in windows and registery as well but not found any where.please help me to find it.

Hi, In my PC i installed audio drivers, but i am not getting sound when i was playing any audio files Thanks, Sreein1986

Are there any Fax Modem yet that runs on win 7 O/S 64 bits. It seems to be none out there. Will appreciated any clues on it.

two days ago I formated C:\ partition (which have both data & win-2003srvr) and installed winxp. the old partition was fat32 and new is NTFS. now the problem is that I a folder named "Contact Center Docs" required by the management, as it contains importnat information. can anyone help me …

I have just been curious if anyone else has had this problem or anyone would have ANY possible idea to a solution... Okay, the problem is, when i go to Google and submit a search it will take me to a results page, and if after i go through a …

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[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/forum1.html"][/URL] I have a laptop that I dropped and my hard drive started making noises. I ended up having to buy a new HD. I loaded windows xp home. I loaded all my software and updates from windows update. I have done this 3 times now and when I visit …

When windows start up visual studio just-in-time debgugger dialog box comes showing that unhandled win32 exception occurred in onrsd.exe[1400] and agntsrvc.exe[1344]. Do you want to debug yes or no? Why this comes?it gets my system slows at the start up. i am using Windows XP service pack2 installed with DOT …

Hey guys sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum im a 1st time user and im DYING for some help here! so here's the problem...I have a HP dv2500 special edition laptop which runs on windows vista,and up untill a few months ago everything was working fine, then …

I'm staring an Acer laptop, it just stops at windows is starting up...and it ends there.

every now and then when i start up my Dell desktop running windows vista, it gets to the black screen with 'micosoft corp' and the scrolling green bars, but just stays on this screen for ages i end up holding down the power button and restarting again, this causes the …

hi, i have partitioned my pen drives using acronis Disk director , but the windows not accept the second partition, and its shows an error as the this partition is not enable, if i try to assign a letter to that partition how to enable that one? tks in advance

I have windows xp and am having problems loading software of any kind. I can hear the whirring noise and the light blinks, but nothing loads. Can someone please help? Thanks, Mary

Google has just released the beta of its brand new web browser called Chrome. I have used it a little bit now and I really like it. All of the extras it offers are very cool, but the best part as far as I've seen is the AMAZING speed that …

this may or may not be a problem related to Vista, but this hopefully someone will have an idea on this... I have a Vaio laptop running vista, it started having problems starting up, so I diagnosed it as a faulty HD and replaced it. Managed to copy the partitions …

suppose i lost my USB / FLASH DRIVE and someone any person got it my USB / FLASH DRIVE , and i dont know about that person , there is data in my USB / FLASH DRIVE so that user obviously want to format my USB / FLASH DRIVE , …

Iam not able to start Vista either in Safe Mode or Safe mode with networking or Safe mode wiht command prompt, or using any other methods. Not able to use the Windows Vista bootable disk to reload the OS, not able to use any other Windows CD But able to …

I started my computer this morning and I find that I must have deleted something nesessary. I was changing my video and TV to a different one and messed up when I deleted the other one. I have REIMAGE as my backup but I copied my whole computer and I …

When My comp starts up the commit charge sits around 300 however when i go to use any prgrams it increases alot. Im thinking it may be RAM because i got 256 mbs of it *in the process of upgrading* but when i use firefox it uses about 60,000 mem …

Microsoft got some good news this week when new data showed they had gained market share on rivals Firefox and Chrome last month. It might very well be a temporary data glitch, especially when news came out today that [URL="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/070110-ibm-employees-use-firefox.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2010-07-01"]IBM was recommending that its 40,000 employees use Firefox[/URL] instead of …

My first post on Daniweb!!! I need to convert some audio files from WMA to CDA format. I guess I must be very old-fashioned as I can only find converters that go the other way; I suppose most people have ditched their CD players in favours of iPods ..... but …

My wife's laptop running Windows Vista suddenly can't connect to the internet through the LAN cable by which she is attached to our wireless router (she doesn't have wireless facility in her computer). I've tried several cables and know they are working, the router is working since I'm getting a …