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HI there. im doing a home study course in pc repair and upgrading and i am stuck on one particular part of my course, entitled 'hard drive theory and practice. :sad: i have looked in the text book and i cant find the answers in there. i've even tried looking …

unlikely that you'll be able to editv these as they are system files and are most likely to be read only. do you have a win me disk? might be worth looking inside that in win explorer and seeing if theres anything with those file names listed in the restore …

i use registry mechanic. no probs as yet.

ok heres mine 1. paradise city - guns n roses 2 bo rhap - queen 3 money - pink floyd 4 my brother jake - free 5 cant get enough of ur love - bad company 6 i believe in a thing called love - the darkness 7 where the …

i've looked at the thermal take cases and they are quite smart but not what i myself would want really and truly. im using a jeantech achilles case. go to [url="http://www.jeantech.com"]www.jeantech.com[/url] for more info.

go for a Jeantech case and build the PC yourself. that way you can put in super quiet fans and upto 4 hard disks and optical disk bays. you also get two 3.5 inch floppy drive bays. ideal for a floppy drive or media card reader. it honestly depends on …

[QUOTE=simsd]I have a Jetway motherboard with a Celeron 1.7 gig chip and onboard video card. We had problems a while ago with the display freezing up. Eventually the screen would not display during the boot process. Right now we are trying to install a new hard drive and install Windows …

unlikely to be RAM cos you would get lots of beeps presuming that you have the internal speaker wired in correctly. firstly i would check that your internal speaker is wired in properly cos without this you wouldnt have any beeps. bear in mind though that the internal speaker is …

[QUOTE=rodmansju]yes, but if the PSU works on one board and not another, logic dictates that the board, not the PSU, is the culprit. Im up, running now for a while, so no worries[/QUOTE] it can be a number of issues but in this case you are both right. sometimes it …

thanks for the advice thong inspector

can anyone help me? I have an IBM thinkpad P2 laptop with (i think) 256mb memory running win xp pro. yesterday morning i made an attempt to boot it up while it was plugged into the mains adapter. Upon turning it on i got nothing at all on the screen …

maybe someone can help me with my problem then. i've made a new thread for it

hi there. I have just recently built a computer for my younger brother. it is running on 256Mb DDR ram, amd sempron processor and motherboard and 40Gb hard drive. I have installed Windows xp professional edition on it. the problem is that whenever my brother installs and plays a game …

what internet software and internet security are you using. i block all pop ups and java scripts by simply configuring NIS 2005 correctly and by running a virus scan and live updates twice a week.

[QUOTE=Sphyenx]Wait, it couldnt be sasser, lol. Every AV picks it up. Also I dont thinmk sasser is a boot sector virus. It could be a problem with some hardware, (maybe). but Definatly windows. Well thats BOD for you. Good luck removing the problem. Hint, i know formatings a bit*h, but …

its sounds like theres a possibility of a driver conflict somewhere thats causing the problem.

try upgrading your video card drivers. you can do this by going to the video card manufacturers website and downloading driver updates. Failing that, if you have another machine that operates absolutely fine with no display problems, take the video card out of the sick machine and place it in …