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 | If you can recognize the basic components on a pc board, know how to trouble shoot the basic components with a DMM, and have some through hole soldering skills you might want to try fixing this. If you don't, I would recomend that you pay someone with the proper skills …  |
| | Usually this type of file can be deleted in the safe mode as previously posted, but if you still can't delete this file you may be infected. Have you scanned this file with your AV and spyware & adware programs? If you need help getting into the safe mode let … |
| | Re: Help!!! First of all, this may not be the proper forum for this, that really doesn't mater. What does is you have a problem and have asked for help. Have you run anything else, like spybot search and destroy, ewido security suit, or ad-aware? You can google these and download them … |
| | If your problem is that the tray for your CD won't open, look just below the tray for vey small hole (usually about an inch from either corner), if you insert something like a paper clip in there you should be able push against a release bar, then gently pull … |
| | It would help to know what kind of computer or motherboard you have, I have a MSI which recently had the same beep sequence while doing the POST, and mine was indicating a hard drive problem. |
| | A suggestion regarding donating the computers...a friend of mine has built and given computers to a local public school, and in order to keep the school system from reallocating the computers, he gives them directly to the teachers.  |
| | You night also try downloading and running this: [url]http://www.ewido.net/en/[/url] |
| | I have a Logitech model: M-CAA42 mouse which works ok most of the time, but I'm getting tired of dealing with the cord, this mouse also lacks any features other than right and left clicks. I'm thinking about buying a cordless mouse, but I need an education in just what's … |
| | I have a friend who has a Dell computer, and recently he has been getting error messages that when I check them out at Microsoft said that he had the virus MaxDoor. Microsoft went on from there to explain how to remove it in the registry, and warns up front …  |
| | Hi all...I had to reformat my computer last week and have just about everything back on line as it should be, but I'm being inundated by pop-up messages telling me that it's urgent that I use their product to repair everything from the registry to my hard drive. If you're … |
| | Amen to that Catweazle...I just spent the last several months trying to track down a bunch of small problems that got bigger as time went by, only to have the computer fail to boot one day. After reformating I now have a smooth running machine. :cheesy: The down side of … |
| | I recantly had some problems and wound up reformating, and afterwards the POST would stop and give me the following message: Pri Master Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and replace. I'm using the computer now, and haven't had a hickup since I reformated, does this message mean that I … |
| | I'm just about to rebuild my PC and have been told that my 300W Antec might not be powerful enough for my new build. I've had no problems with my Antec, but a friend tells me that they're not as good anymore. I would greatly appreciate some information on current … |
| | If you download this it will provide you with all the information you should need about your computer specs. [url]http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dleverest.html[/url] When the program opens click on computer, and then summary. Please tell us what it says for CPU type, and mother board name. If you look to the left there …  |
| | I have a MSI K7 Pro motherboard with a PC mounted LED display. This is a vertical display consisting of four LEDs inline, locateded just below Serial and Parallel ports. When the computer hangsup during startup the top two and bottom LEDs are green, and the second from the bottom … |
| | Have you tried troubleshooting it in add/remove hardware? |
| | I've recently had a random problem with my computer hanging in the POST, I eventually found a LED display on the motherboard and was able to match that configuration to the diagnostic LED function chart and found that it was hanging at " intializing the floppy drive controller". I disconnected … |
| | Recently I've had a intermittent problem starting up, once in a while when I turn on the computer all I get is a blank screen, the PSU and CPU fans are running so I know it's powering up, but if I try to reboot it nothing happens. I usually wind … |
| | Google it, the answers are out there! [url]http://www.baber.com/cases/cases_carriers_ide.htm[/url] |
| | What kind of motherboard were you thinking of using with the Athlon, and what kind of budget did you have in mind for it? If price is no object I would have to think about the AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, it is exspensive... but check out this link. [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050603/[/url] On …  |
| | It looks like I'm about to purchase a Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard to up grade my computer which has a 300watt power supply, and I'm tying to find out if that will be enough. Are there any other compatability issues that I should be aware of? I do appreciate …  |
| | I have a friend who is running XP, and when he goes to startup the install wizard anounces "Found New Hardware" and lists two programs that he had tried and uninstalled. When he looks for them, they aren't to be found in search, add/remove hardware, or add/remove software. Can someone …  |
| | Do those continue to show up in search after being deleted? |
| | Re: XP shutdown What did you format and install, and was this before or after the computer started shuting down? |
| | I was poking around my computer with Everest and found a suggestion that I should upgrade my BIOS, it even provided me with a link for the web site. Is there any danger in upgrading the BIOS, and how would this enhance my computer? |
 | Try downloading Everest Home Edition, click on computer, and this will identify most everything from your mobo to your CPU and chipset. [url]http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dleverest.html[/url] |
| | Re: Fan Problems Hi Cdot...in your description you state, "after a doing that for a few seconds it will just die", are you referring to the fan or the computer? |
| | Dosen't your AV provide you with a means of deleting the infected files? |
| | Mine died recently and I found this deal on the NEC 3520A: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152039[/url] This was selling for $63.00 around last Christmas, now it's going for $39.99 plus $4.00 shipping. |
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| | I have tried to download a free trial of Nero 6.0 Ultra three times now without success. This download is 33MB, and takes about three hours to complete. The first two times I used Firefox as the browser, and the third using IE. The 2nd attempt simpley stalled about halfway … |
| | Using Nero express, I was trying to copy a short video using the Video CD option, and a message came up explaining that I would need MPEG-2 in order to do this, why they would offer this option without that capability is another issue for another time. I found a …  |
| | I have Nero 5.5 express which came with my CD-RW, and am now realizing that it is basically a teaser and will have to purchase the 6.0 ultra to get the whole program. I have one friend who has the Nero 6.0 ultra and swears by it, and I have … |
| | Are you looking for an argument of just slumming?  |
| | I have a CD-R, and was given a CD-RW, and would like to set them up as slave and master. I know about the jumper on the rear of the units, and the data and power cords, but what do I need to do to coordinate the two? I removed … |
| | I installed a CD-RW today and went to the local Staples to purchase some discs, and very shortly there after I found out that I needed an education. Are the blank discs called media? My CD-RW is 52x32x52x, does this mean that I need a specific blank disk? What sort … |
| | I was reading a thread regarding a yellow exclamtion mark, and it reminded me that I have two icons on my desktop that have yellow question marks just to the right and above them, what do they indicate? One is for my printer, and the other is for microsoft XML … |
| | Re: Missing IE By lost the IE, i'm guessing that you mean the icon on the desk top is missing, if that is the case there is an easier way to replace it. Click on start Go to search Type in Internet Explorer Click on search In the search results you will find … |
| | I went to veiw some pictures, but the CD's tray wouldn't open. I went to add/delete hardware to troubleshoot the optical system, and it appeares to be ok. The green LED comes on when I try to access the CD, but that's it. Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional CPU … |
| | You might find this link useful for a start. [url]http://www.basichardware.com/overclocking.html[/url] |
| | I just finished downloading Adobe 7.0, which also included their photo ablbum 2.0 much to my surprise. What I'm about to ask may be a dumb question, but this download took two and a half hours and I just want to make sure I don't do something that I'm going … |
| | Hey Kiel...no you don't have to go with the same PSU, as a mater of fact, it looks like your 12v rail's max was 8A, that's kind of puny. As for manufacturers, I'm biassed toward Antec, you can count on getting what's advertised with them. Some manufacturers will rate a … |
| | After some recent problems with Firefox I'm now looking at other browsers, and it seems that Avant is getting a lot more downlods at Download.com than Firefox. The total downloads as of 06/19/05 are: Avant 98,394 Firefox 66,894 Opera 17,141 Until I googled browsers I hadn't heard of Avant, but … |
| | Hey Kaiking...it looks like you have two memory slots with a total capacity of 1GB of RAM. The other information you need is that it is 184-pin PC2100 DDR-266 DIMM As to how much more do you need, I would add another 512MB. If both slots are full, that would … |
| | I recently switched to Firefox as my browser and like it very much, but I'm having problems downloading from some sites. I had tried on several occasions to download an owners manual from the Samsung USA site only to have it stall every time. I went back to OE and … |
| | I have a reoccuring annoying pop up which is located next to the clock. When it pops up it has an envelope similar to what you would see holding the dialogue in the Sunday funnies, and it reads: Local Area Connection Network Cable Unpluged When this occurs a small televison … |
| | In the Outlook Express, the pricacy level can be adjusted to accept or block cookies, with the OE being part of the integral system, does this mean that it controls the privacy levels when using othe browsers? |
| | I was browsing ebay last night, and at one point I found that I couldn't do anything without getting the response that I had timed out. After closing Firefox, I tried to check my mail and received an error message telling me that I was unable to connect to the … |
| | I was looking at processors at eBay, and found a bundle including a Asus A8V motherboard with a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ socket 939 processor, the add stated that it was a 2.2GHz, but when I went to Tiger Direct to price the two items, their specs show it as … |
| | Hi guys...it's time to do a little spring cleaning to the insides of my computer, and my question is about using presurized air to blow off the boards. A friend of mine who worked building PCBs for a major corp. tells me that I run the risk of creating static … |
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