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As far as I know, the Emachines EL-1200-05W can only take one PCI-e but limited to 1X so your choices are very limited. Only a few manufacture that actually make something like this. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DELL-NVIDIA-QUADRO-NVS-285-PCI-E-1X-Graphics-Card-/250932209622?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item3a6cb9a7d6

Most likely causes could be your XP installation has hidden corrupted entries or bad drivers, this can cause the upgrade to freeze, next are the drivers, again, if there are some hiccups during the upgrade due to drivers issues, it will hang, lastly, a direct upgrade from XP to Windows …

May sound stupid, but have you connected the PCI-e power cable to the video card ?

I am not even sure if you are serious or not, if you are, then the answer is a simple no, back to the point, the memory slot for a ZG5 is 1GB, and it max out at 1.5GB in total, the BIOS can address 2GB but theres no way …

Try Logmein for OSX, the client can be either PC or Mac based.

Get a USB Enclosure and put the dead laptop hard drive in it then plug that into a working computer.

Its somehow disk related, be it the drive, controller, or the drivers, first try to do a Repair using the XP CD, failing that, a repair install.

Defrag your hard drive first, then try burning as a lower speed.

Almost all SATA hard drive will work with the R530, changing it is also easy by removing the back plate and bracket. Best to use a 7'200rpm drive for speed. As to SSD, these are solid state drives, using memory chips instead of plates to hold data, as memory read/write …

You will need a router to allow multiple computers

I assumed you are using XP from the error code, first try booting from the XP CD and then choose Repair, then run a CHKDSK on the drive, it could just be a simple case of file corruption causing the hive to died. If that failed, you can try using …

You will need to remove all nVidia drivers first, this included the original nVidia drivers that came with the PC, they are clashing, once done, reboot and then install the new drivers and choose the option 'Remove all previous settings'.

Its a very common problem with the DV range, you need someone with board level experience to find the faulty IC and replace them.

Download the ISO , burn to a CD then run a memory test. [url]http://www.memtest86.com/[/url]

If you want to futureproof it for a while as theres no such thing as futureproof, then go the AM3+ route, personally, if you were going for the Bulldozer, you would be better off going the 1155 route using the 2500k and 2600k, 8 cores may sound great, but its …

First try doing a System Restore back to a few days prior to this problem and see if it help or not.

The memory on teh video card has nothing to do with the memory on your system, as long as your motherboard can take the PCI-e card and your power suplly can cope with the power, some 6670 required a 6pin I think, then you should be ok.

I remembered this one from few years ago, the onboard hardware is really Broadcom rebadged, the beta drivers for Windows 7 actually worked quite well with it, but for some unknown reasons, it stopped working after RC1 or RC2, the best you can do is to find the Hardware ID …

Try this : Right click in the task bar near the time display and you will get a pop up menu. Click on properties. Under system icons to always show, check volume. Click Apply.

Software can't fry hardware, to a point, unless say a program were to stress the CPU or GPU so much it overheat, and without enough cooling, it will burn the components. In your case, most likely a hardware fault, try changing the video card, if not, might as well get …

Go for the i3, its a far better CPU overall, the speed dont tell the full story as to how much better the i3 is when compared to a C2D.

My first thought is reinstall with the latest video drivers, then try running without any screen saver and see if you hit the same problem again, even though I think its something related to memory leaks but so far never really found the true answer to this one.

The software registration should have nothing to do with SP3 or SP2, something else is causing the error, most likely a registration database error on the G-Data side, your best option is to contact them and ask tjem to reissue you with another licence, as long as you have the …

On the older series, please try F11 during boot.

Sadly the clicking sound is the sound of death for most hard drives, yes, customer will have to get a new one.

Change your global folder settings to show all hidden files, this can be found within your Control Panel

You can use some utils around to force delete or delete on reboot such as this one http://expertester.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/how-to-delete-locked-filefolder-in-windows-7/ Personally I use a bootable Ubuntu USB pen and delete the problem folders/files under Ubuntu.

Nothing on the market can bulletproof a system, I work with lots of workstations using various AV software, ESET is a good one but cost a bit to purchase, Avast by far has the best features and speed, one of the best feature is the Boot-time scan. other than that, …

Try giving the wired network just an IP address and subnet , without any gateway, the IP address must match the home network range for this to work.

Yes, a faulty or unstable USB Host controller driver can cause the ports to act weird, I only saw a machine with same problem few weeks ago, try removing the USB ccontrollers and then restart for it to detect again.

You can't, the shell predefined the UI settings to a point that most can't be change, for me its not so much of nostalgia, more like I just love the simplicity of my XP 64bit. The only way to do what you want is to use something like Stardock but …

My first guess would be a faulty hard drive.corrupted partition, closely follow by virus infection. First try using your XP CD and boot into repair mode and then run a CHKDSK Then download a copy of AVG Rescue CD ad burn to CD or a USB stick, boot from that …

You have 2 options, the green one is actually the AGP slot, which is a lot more powerful than the white PCI slot (in bandwidth wise), you are also limited by the height as the SFF only takes half height cards, the nearest I can think of is the HD-3450, …

Your USB circuit could be fried, and a faulty USB can actually cause the BIOS to halt, I have seen a number of machines where the USB ports are broken that caused the same effect. not sure if you can actually get into the BIOS and disable the USB but …

Virtual memory is just what it is, viryual, it doesnt exist in a physical form, it uses the hard drive as a way to hold/page your physical memory so your computer can hold/work with more workspace than what it really has, games software will look for physical memory only so …

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL and look at your processes tree, list by CPU usage and see what is using the most resources first.

You need to check your wireless password, just because you are getting a perfect connection doesnt meant thats the internet, thats just the connection from your computer to the router, normally if the password failed, you wont connect, but in some cases, it will show a connection, but never connects …

Can you get an IP off the router ?

Dont waste time, a leaking capicitor can cause endless random and unknown errors, best action is to replace the board.

Even if you have a corrupted file system or damaged hives, your screen should still show something such as BIOS loading info and file not found etc etc.. so what you posted could meant hardware fault.

Without writing a dictionary about it, NetBIOS is not really a networking protocol, it were used widely in the days of Netware to transport traffics, as the world get more IP friendly, this protocol got pushed aside, nowadays its still in use, but runs over TCP/IP instead to provide some …

Use your Vista DVD and boot from that then choose Repair startup problems.

Use a working computer with internet and go to www.dell.com , under support, type in your service tag number and t should list all the drivers for the model, sownload to a CD or USB pen and then install it on teh Dell laptop again.

We use Acronis to image the drives onto a RAID6 storage server, when we do need to access the data or even software that needed to access them, we tranlate them into Virtual machines, as the storage server are part of the network, the working image once restored as a …

You can look under Hardware ID in your device manager and use the code to identify the make and chipset type.

Not totally clear as to what you really want to do here, but to use the command line feature, just click START then type in CMD to open a command box, or use VirtualBox to install a virtual Linux OS to give you full Linux abilities.

A normal XP repair install does NOT destroy your data or programs, but if there were any hiccups durring the process, ie, bad hardware causing the system to crash before its done, then you will have a hard job getting the thing going again, so its always best to save …

Can be anything, but my first guess would be the hard drive, so do a CHKDSK first before proceed to a MEMTEST, sometime a bad software driver or hardware driver can also cause the system to hang at random.

For the back, point the fan out to extract the warm air inside the case, normally the side of the fan with the round label is the direction of the air going out.

Looking at the number of VM and process, I personally would aim for a dual quad based machine with at least 16GB, as to storage, with that many VM running, RAID 5 or RAID 6 may be a better option. Coming to the NAS, never been keen on software based …