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 | Download the Sony drivers from the US site one more time. Then go to the Windows System Device Manager and delete the existing ones... then install all the new drivers. If you don't remove or disable the old drivers, then do a clean install of all the new ones, you … |
| | Your computer will have been made in the last year, in most cases and was more expensive than the average bear. You can see the slot by taking off the case cover. Or you can give us the brand and model and we can tell you. If there is a …  |
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| | Most commonly in that model, the hard drive has gone bad, and is easily replaced. Did they give you the recovery disc set that comes with it? If so, buy a new hard drive - $50 to$90 depending on size ( I like the Seagate with their five-year warranty ) … |
| | You can install a NIC card quickly, easily, and cheaply... $14 to $20. If the device manager in System gives you trouble, disable the old Network interface in the device manager. Then install drives from the new NIC in the PCI slot. Often in WXP, Windows will automatically install the … |
| | On the inspiron, if you over drive the speakers, they will burn out without you knowing. They are extremely cheap and terribly fragile. Just replace them. About $11 at Wal-Mart. |
| | I can't read whatever is in the red bar. Can you type that out for us? Generally there should be no conflict between gmail and messenger.  |
| | Try removing the CMOS Battery (in a little rack on the motherboard) looks something like a coin - a quarter but thicker ) Then wait 11 minutes, and reinstall. This will reset your BIOS, but it will also require some additional setups of clock, and etc. This should work for … |
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| | The life of an external Maxtor is about a year, in our experience. If you cannot detect the drive so that it shows up in your BIOS or in the hardware list of Windows, it may be trouble. You can remove the drive from the case and try it in … |
| | This error is Common with HP PSC all in one printers, and is very difficult to remove. HP is not helpful in posting clues, or in providing downloads to fix the problem. One must totally remove the old install, including using a registry editor such as RegClean to remove all …  |
| | There is a large download at the Nero site which dramatically updates Nero 7. Have you examined that possibility? |
| | I don't think anybody can help you without the online manual. Have you tried to access it using a friend's computer? You can also print it wthout downloading it. |
| | Defective hard drive. Replace. I recommend the Seagate Momentus or the Western Digital Scorpio. Lots of places, such as [url]www.zipzoomfly.com[/url], [url]www.directron.com[/url], [url]www.newegg.com[/url], [url]www.tigerdirect.com[/url] have them. The seagates have a five year warranty. You can buy an adapter for $5.00 at [url]www.geeks.com[/url] that will allow you to possibly save the data … |
| | Your hard drive is a dead duck. With a lot of luck, you may be able to rescue some of the data using it as a slave in a desktop with a simlar drive and dragging the data across. But if the power chips or a plate is broken or … |
| | Commonly, this can be ANY hardware problem ( hard drive, power supply, modem, case fan, cpu fan, floppy drive, CDR, CDRW, or DVD, sound card or NIC - any component getting eletrical power from the system ) as it is designed to shut down if trouble happens. It is also … |
| | Re: Old OEM drivers REmove and write down all the componets, with their part numbers and the digits on the largest chip, then go to [url]www.driverguide.com[/url] |
| | Why not stick with 10.4 until the bugs get worked out with 1.5.1? What is the reasoning about moving ahead with the very latest thing. I have a full featured Mac Pro on order for my latest upgrade to Adobe CS3... so would like your perspective. |
| | Sounds like a typical set of driver problems, to begin with, then a hard drive problem. What was the reason you upgraded? Was it not working correctly with the set already installed? It is likely that the hard drive is bad. If not, it is certainly corrupted badly. I would … |
| | Take a look at the trouble-shooting guides for both the motherboard and the cpu. There are fixes for most problems of this nature. It is usually a setting or a pin-out. You may have to spend some time tracking down all the options in the on-line manual, but I suspect …  |
| | You will need a new video card... a good one... most integrated video systems do not go higher than 1040 or 1152. Though some very few will do 1280, there are none that go higher. |
| | They are deletec in the format process, then new ones are brought from the restore disc set. |
| | There is an inherent design flaw in the Dell Inspiron 1150 that has been widely published. Suggest you do a Google search for "Inspiron 1150 problem" or "Inspiron 1150 failure". I would call Dell tech support on this one. It is my understanding they have some fixes, and some replacements. … |
| | You have a failed hard drive. Replace it. Then put your old drive into a desktop computer jumpered as Slave with the main drive jumpered as Master. You can then recover the data with recovery software or do a drag and drop. |
| | Are they designed to work together. Have you checked the websites of both manufacturers to look at the online instructions? |
| | Replaced the motherboard and that changed nothing? Something needs to be re-thought here. Please restate what happened, giving the model number and the bad memory as wells as the correct memory. It sounds as if you have had a major cataclysmic event... strange, even for the mistake you made... A …  |
| | First thing I would do is talk to Gateway Tech Support while it remains under warranty. |
| | The backlight is extremely difficult to get and very expensive unless you know where to go, with prices ranging from $75 to $150. Sony will charge you $150 to fix it. If you go to a local technian, be sure they have real experience on the Sony VAIO laptops. You … |
| | Four pin? Is this a Molex plug, with a square shape? |
| | Good equipment. Knowledgable approach to troubleshooting the rig. Sounds as if you have a bad hard drive, or that you overheated the CPU and fried it, you have a bad CPU fan, or a bad power supply. First, reboot in safe mode, by repeatedly pressing the F8 key about once … |
| | Don't you have the Compaq Presario 6000 recovery set? If not, buy it from [url]www.hp.com[/url] It is about $27 including Fed Ex shipping. Takes about three - four days. |
| | Hard drive went bad? That is a decent laptop, without the total failures you find in Sony VAIO or eMachines. I would test your hard drive in another machine, or put it in a desktop with and adapter to see if you can get the data off. Refurb hard drive … |
| | If you don't have the manuals, get them online. You need chipsets and drivers. Do you have those? Start with the motherboard, cpu, and cpu fan. Get them right per the manual. Then add the memory. Now you need the VGA card. If your components are working properly, you should … |
| | What happens when you plug it in without those other devices installed. Don you still get the little icon with the Green Arrow in the taskbar at the bottom that says "Safely Remove Hardware" when you pass the mouse over it? I do not understand why it has to be … |
| | Hard drive is shot. Get a refurb on [url]www.tigerdirect.com[/url] or a new one at [url]www.zipzoomfly.com[/url]. If you have the Dell recovery disc set it is easy. Otherwise, you will have to buy the recovery set from Dell for about $40 |
| | The optical drive is now the most failure prone of any component in a computer. If you have a year or more of use, it is probably dead, or if you have six months of heavy use it could be. Try this, which works for a lot of users: [url]http://ai,ja/prg/req3.htm[/url] … |
| | Give us more details about brands, models, OS, ages, memory, etc. |
| | Your only easy choice is to restore windows. We have never seen USB ports fail on the board series, but sometimes Windows will foul up, particularly if you are using Windows 98 or Windows ME... and a reformat and reinstall fixes it. |
| | Re: RAM is Halved Usually this is a motherboard error or a socket error. But sounds like a stoopid tech error. Motherboards do sometimes have failures that cause this. Often not fixable. Look very closely at your memory module. Remove and reseat the memory. Try another borrowed memory module to see if the problem … |
| | There is absolutely no difference between the OEM W98SE and the W98Se sold with your computer - None. Except in the drivers. Go to the manufacturer of your computer or to the manufacturer of your motherboard, download and install all the drivers, consider updating the BIOS, and you will have …  |
| | Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management -> then righ click on Local Disc -> Change Driver Letter and Path. |
| | Laptop speakers blow easily when over-driven. Try external speakers for a test. If they sound good, your other speakers are bad and need to be repalced. |
| | It is only possible on a very few motherboards, and we would need to know the brand and model of the board. Usually, you cannot do this, but on a 400 MHz, it can be possible, if it is NOT a celeron. But you are asking for trouble, due to … |
 | You may be able to buy an external unit that would work, but it would be expensive. There will be nothing that will work with a Sony laptop PIII for internal use. |
| | Re: PC won't boot up It could be so many things. First try booting in safe mode, by pressing the F8 key every second as soon as you push the start button. If still no signal to the monitor, you have a bad hardware component that can be power supply, motherboard, hard drive, cpu, cpu … |
| | Too complicated for a useful online discussion, perhaps. Windows XP MUST be installed first, on some machines, then the Linux partition added. When this is not the case, the problems you describe can present. But there are a hundred other reasons for failure, including a bad hard drive, bad memory, … |
 | If it is not detected by the computer, you may need a computer whiz to fix it. Adjusting the BIOS settings should fix it, but since there is valuable data involved, I would get some help. |
| | To have them fail in both machines is too astonishing to be a coincidence. Has somebody been diddling with your computers? If they are USB keyboard and mouse, or wireless ones, the failure rate for those is so high it is laughable. If they are regular keyboard and mouse with … |
| | A good basic PCI video card with any type of memory, up to about 32 MB will work. You should be able to get a good used one for just a few bucks. It would be absoluely absurd to spend more than $15 to get a quality used card. We … |
 | Lightning is terribly distructive when it comes down the phone line. The modem can be destroyed by very small amounts of lightning voltage. But if everthing else works, I would assume the new modem is just improperly installed and he needs somebody locally who knows how to do it. Modems … |
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