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I've just bought a transcend 530 8GB pen-drive. I was trying to make it bootable using ubuntu startup disk creator. I've selected usb flash drive as first boot device but it isn't detecting anything. I've done it the same way before using different pendrive(which i lost). I've also tried Unetbootin …

Hello everyone! A month ago I bought my new computer: Intel core i5 3570k Gigabyte z77 - d3h 8Gb 1600 corsair Samsung ssd 830 Seasonic x650 Sapphire 7950 I have a problem that I don't know how to resolve. It started a week after I bought the computer and till …

I just put a new hard drive in my 2400. However, powered on or off, my monitor power button glows amber whenh plugged into the tower. Monitor is eMachines 21" flat screen. Tried reseating memory. Still amber. Any ideas? eMachines docs say amber means system is in sleep mode??

my pc w/intel p4, 3.00 Ghz, 3Gb ram, 60 Gb Hhd(not proven to be running, yet), no O/S yet, formatted HD wiped with sys mechanic, tryn to boot from cd rom (windows oem XP pro sp3), turn on screen imm says " Intel Boot Agent FE v 4.1.10 PXE-E61:Media test …

I just got G5 PPC Mac the user who gave it to me claims that it "died during an update. It will not boot from the CD. It was running 10.5 and I have the disk. Using the C key with 2 keyboards. I booted into the open firmware using …

When I install Server 2008 on vmware everything works fine and when I start everything loads fine too. When I have to restart and just restart it happens. It loads and stops at the boot screen and I dont know why. I read it could be because I'm using a …

I am writing a java netbeans platform application that alerts end users when certain dates, conditions are met, etc... So I want to give the option when the end user installs the program of whether or not the program starts when they log into the computer or not. I also …

Hy guys again,i have this problem with my desktop computer,im using vista home premium,it came this bootmgr is compressed,pressctrl+alt+del to restart,i cant do nothis since i lost my vista cd,im asking if there is another way to be fix this without the recovery vista cd? thank you again...

Recently I had a new motherboard installed to replace my old one that overheated. The new motherboard is a MSI H55M-E23 that has an Intel core i5 650 chipset installed. After getting all the drivers to work, I then installed my old XFX Geforce 9500 gt (512mb gddr3) in the …

Hi everyone I recently built a new computer (Intel Core i7, SSD, etc.), but decided to keep my old setup for general use. The specs for the old computer are as follow (minus the graphics card as I installed this into my new PC): AMD Athlon X2 5200+ MSI KA780G …

If I am not able to boot my Linux system? What are the Steps to resolve it. hi im new to linux so i need answer for this ...please help me out thanks in advance

greeting.. i have notebook compaq 510 yesterday i using windows 7 so the system reserved is created then today i decide to change back to windows xp sp3(for some reason i have to do this) but my windows installed as H: not C: then i can't install graphic drive(require 47MB) …

acer aspire 4220 laptop screem goes blak after many blinks of lights and not off even with power button and also not booting.

Dear friends, I'm trying to "Write" Chrome-OS.img to a USB flash which is of size 4GB, Booting Chrome OS from a USB flash. I'm using "win32diskimager-binary" to do that. The problem is when I try to "Write" the image, this error message appears: (Writing to a physical device can corrupt …

As the title says, my motherboard won't boot up but randomly boots up by itself! Now a detailed explanation. Firstly my motherboard is [Asus P5GC-MX/1333](http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5GCMX1333/). When I first got it, I had a 20-Pin PSU of 300W and I've used it for about 2 weeks. Then one day, when I …

hi i wonder if anyone can help , i was fixing a friends old sat pro because the hard drive was goosed. i put a partition on the hard rive as he cant afford a new one as yet, this worked fine... i then started installing xp on it and …

hi all! i have a serius problem with the USB keyboard. I've installed Ubuntu but when the OS choosing menu comes up, the keyboard doesn't work, which make the ubuntu worthless :( I have installed ubuntu before, on a previous netbook running windows XP and then the keyboard worked without …

Hey guys, i'm trying to compile this piece of code with nasm in Ubuntu. It's a boot loader for a simple operational system i'm doing as a university project. [CODE][BITS 16] ; 16 bit instructions [ORG 0x7C00] jmp word load db "ONYXDISK" ; OEM Label String dw 512 ; Bytes …

Hi there, I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but I am currently working with an HPC machine for business use and it is currently running Ubuntu 11.04 (I have yet to update due to software incompatibilities). Anyways, some of the users would prefer to …

0x0000007B 0xF789E524 0xC0000034 0x00000000 0x00000000 ^. My setup options for BIOS seems different than what I read on others. I use a custom built intel core quad CPU. My keyboard works for setup and only setup/boot menu, I can't even pick safety mode on the screen that you choose options …

Just want to see if there is a thing to turn oh "Test" to binary/base 2 stuff. This: [CODE]muffins = 12+16%2[/CODE] I think is sortof what I'm looking for but it chops of whatever's bigger than 2.

When I try turn on my computer, it starts as usual until it gets to the enter password screen.. where it only stays there for a few seconds.. then a blue screen flashes with a lot written on it, but not long enough to read anything it says.. and the …

Hi all, I have a Pentium 4 with hyper-threading on my Slackware machine. Currently I am running the non-SMP 2.6.24.5 kernel, but I want the option to be able to boot with the 2.6.33.4 SMP kernel as well. I already have Lilo installed on my computer and have a large …

In setting up an embedded system, a Linux box needed to have a read-only root partition. However, the OS must be able to write to certain files (the drive was partitioned into /, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var with the only read-only being / ). So I created symbolic links to …

Hi, after a while of searches I have decided to ask the community for help. This [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/windows-vista-and-windows-7/threads/134057"]post[/URL] is the closest to mine, however it's been inactive for a while. Here is what I did prior to the problem. (I've had my computer for a very long time, so new hardware …

:( I have an HP Pavilion dv5000. It was purchased 5 years ago. I left this laptop on last night (without the power adaptor in) and woke up to it turned off. I thought it was because it did not have anymore power, so i plugged in the power adaptor, …

This clears up once windows launches (which is the odd part) ... but on initial boot - before the splash screen and until the windows logo pops up - the screen is so fuzzy/distorted as to be unreadable. I'd reflash IF I COULD SEE THE DAMNED THING WELL ENOUGH TO …

I could not find a thread addressing my direct concern. I'm hoping the community can help me with this before I have to send my laptop out for a 2 week turnaround time. >_< My Acer AS3820T freezes on boot screen. Does not load mobo bios and doesn't allow me …

I bought a lot of RAM, 20 sticks, for some desktops that I'm rebuilding. Rebuilding as on upgrading, as most or all work. I put in 2 1Gb sticks (Samsung k4h510438b-TCB3) into some d51s desktops. The max should be 2 1gb's at or around 333mhz but the computer would not …

Hi, I was installing windows 7 on my compaq presario cq40 when it restarted. After shutting down, only the compaq page shows up. Nothing else shows up. Only the fans run. whatever key i press, a "beep" sound comes. i tried removing and replacing the battery. Please help!!!