I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467 that I upgraded to 2x2 gig of ram (paired set). Have run the laptop several days and now suddenly won't boot up. I've reseated the ram and removed battery, and it booted right up and worked fine. Shut it down, left it for an … |
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Nvidia has recently admitted that there is a problem with their Nvidia GeForce 8M Series. Symptoms include either not being able to display anything, or having colored lines across the screen. [url]http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/08/nvidia.html[/url] |
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my father bought one p4 computer from our family friend for my educational purpose. the computer has worked only for the first day next day computer's keyboard stops working after some hours windows doesn't start then the our family friend came and we also put earthwire. then he installed new … |
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Hi All, This morning my Gateway M520 powered down out of nowhere and subsequently happened several more times and then wouldn't start up at all until I left it sit awhile. After turning it back on and being cautious I found the power plug was extremely hot. In the little … |
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My Dell 4600 is 5 years old. The first problems were with the CD drives were not working properly and it was recognizing a CD drive that does not exist. It began saying that the PC was unstable with Roxio present. I deleted Roxio and that did not help. Then … |
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my ram memory decreased from 512MB to 256MB when i changed my hard drive, what shall i do? |
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Hi i was wondering if anyone can tell me if there is a way to get my xp to boot. Found a error message tellin me to run chkdsk , but before i could do tat it crashed again and wont let me open windows ..just keeps goin in a … |
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Okay so I just picked up my laptop and discovered that next to the left hinge, on the back of the lid, there's a big crack! What method would you recommend to patch this up? A simple epoxy job? I know this is an incredibly simple question but I wanted … |
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What can cause a motherboard not to start up. I just need to know it works so what does it take for it to work at bear minimum. I just want to see a light flicker or a fan spin... somthing. |
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PC is a DELL Dimension E520 When I turn my PC on a yellow light flashes at the start button, the green light does not come on and the PC does not start up. I cleaned everything inside the PC and when I removed the cooling housing & the grey … |
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I am also experiencing some 'computer won't turn on' (fans run, but no post, in bare bones configuration). Having a volt meter, I decided to check to see if voltage was being suppled by power supply. With fans running and power led flashing, checked red & yellow leads of component … |
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So my stepmom had got an emachine a while back and her exhusband took it and missed it up....so he said he would get it fixed....so when he returned it...the tower would not power up....so she got a new power cord and still nothing....so than she opened it up and … |
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I just got this computer (not from a store) and I noticed that the damn thing wouldn't turn on. so the first thing I thought was that the power supply was shorted I checked for the light on the back of the power supply to kick on when I plugged … |
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hi guys i have a emachine 210 running xp home,,the problem i have is it wont start at all,,power supply is there but nothing is happening also the cpu fan is running all the time i need help im new to pcs this is doing my head in thanks in … |
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I recently fried my MB and have decided to upgrade to new MB going from AMD to Intel CPU in the process. Can I simply move my old Boot drive to the new system? I realize that I will have to update all the drivers, so I was planning on … |
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Can anybody tell me if transcend JM800QLU-2G (240 pin, 800 MHz) ram would work with intel S975XBX2 mobo? Atleast mine is not working at all. My pc never shows any display with 2 modules of the same RAM installed. Is there a way out of this. The board is working … |
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Hello fellow techies. So here is my dilemma. I am slapping together a new computer, and I need a little help diagnosing why my CPU is overheating. Here are my specs. CPU INTEL|C2D E8500 3.16G 775 45N MEM 2Gx2|CORS TWIN2X4096-6400C5 HD 640G|WD 7K 16M WD6400AAKS WIN XP PRO X64 CASE … |
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i have formatted and reinstalled xp pro and now have found out that i have an 80 gig instead of 40 gig hdd and cant get the partition back to 80 gig as i didnt use the hp windows anyone have an idea how i can reclaim the extra 40 … |
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Hi I just found this forumn and has quite a bit of useful information hope someone can help me out I was just given an Hp a210n tower problem is when I push the button on the front nothing happens the fans will not turn on but the LED on … |
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Hey, Are any of the brands of memory considerably better than any of the others? Should I worry about that, or should I worry more about the actual memory I'm getting. thanks. |
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I have an HP desktop pc , a1640n media center addition with an Intel 1.86ghz dual core cpu . I would like to upgrade my cpu to the fastest one supported by my motherboard . I know that my front side bus will run at 533 mhz , 800 mhz … |
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Hey, I'm a first-time builder, and I just have some questions about what components to get. 1. How many watts do I need for my power supply? I know there are calculators for that online, but I'd rather get a rough estimate from a human. I'm getting an Intel Core … |
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Need help guys! There was a power surge in my place while my pc is running. The pc restarted and won't start. When I try to reboot my pc, same thing happens, the windows xp logo will appear but after that, the screen will just turn into dimly lit blank … |
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Well, My problem is I don't know if im going to need a new hard drive or not. I've tried a restore CD but they didn't work. It says it has something to do with not finding the D Drive which is where the recovery stuff is saved. Will I … |
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Hello, i would be grateful if you could answer a question for me. I have the above laptop, which has an 80 gb hard drive. Is it possible to upgrade the hard drive? and how would you go about doing this? Thank you very much. |
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I just replaced a hard drive that had gone bad (I think) as I was getting a "bad hard drive, backup and replace" message. I tried several options but decided it was best to just get a new one. The problem now is that I get a "Master Hard Disk: … |
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Using XP I have a 6.4Gb hard disk C which is full except for 200Mb. When I sum the size of each file and folder in C they total about 4Gb. I could sure use the missing 2Gb. Can some one point to where I should be looking. I used … |
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Hi all. I have a 500gb external freecom harddrive. This had been working fine until today. When i turn it on i get the connection beep and it shows up in Device manager as working fine. BUT it does not show up in Disk Management or My Computer. This coincides … |
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My Hp Pavillion was exhibiting symptoms of a dying power supply--it would boot but only stay on for a few minutes, then flash morse code that it was dying. So I got a new power supply (LONG painful story for another time but avoid buy.com unless you KNOW you won't … |
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:( dont know if am posting in the correct thread...hope u guys will help me out.. recently got a pc & installed every thing as per the mobo drivers cd...except for sound card. the audio in device mgr dosent show yellow but on selecting sound/video & game controllers there is … |
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