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| | i received a compaq presario 1920 laptop for free today. i have no idea if it works, and i have no charger. it has a strange 4-pin charger port, and i would rather see if it works before i spend cash on a charger, so does anybody know what voltage(s) … |
| | Hi can anyone tell me before i order online if my acer aspire laptop charger is faulty or if my acer aspire laptop itself is faulty, What happened is i went to turn my laptop on and it powered up then turned off, Then i tried again and it did … |
 | Hi, I was getting an intermittent high pitch hum from my PC as though something decided to kick in (fan?) with more revs. After replacing my 17 inch monitor (burnt out) with a new 19 inch widescreen, I now get the noise continually, and the text appears to be a …  |
| | earlier today i was using my gateway (read, ultimate crap) laptop on plug power, as always (i like to save battery for car and plane) and it worked fine, as always. i packed it up to bring it to new york, try to turn it on here - and it … |
| | Hi, my acer travelmate 2420 will only power up when i hold the charger near to the laptop but i am unable to tell if this is the charger tip or laptop pin is the problem. Have you any suggestions? |
| | Hello all, Im new in using this forum, so please pardon me if im asking dumb questions. Lately, i've been doing some bittorrenting. Because the files are large, so i leave my computer on overnight. Of course, i know to keep the machine cooled and giving it some break every … |
| | What is the correct fan for this laptop i can not find it anywhere sony vaio pcg-9b3m |
| | I have a Intel Core 2 Duo E 8400 cpu, and one day ago i installed a new fan that pumps air through a pipe to the cpu (almost directly, because the pipe is slightly moved to right than the proc and i couldn't fix that). After this i saw …  |
| | Hi Guys, I have a 775 Motherboard and Intel 3.00 Duel processor. As many of you are aware, the processor heatsink has four legs which you have to press into the four holes in the motheboard. I have tried this with two heatsinks and the blooming legs just keep popping … |
| | My Amilo has the same problem but it has it whenever I try to install any kind of operating system, I need any suggestions that might help! I have noticed however that the laptop gets quite hot and fairly fast during installation. But when the laptop has a operating system … |
| | My HP Pavillion Laptop has been overheating for a few months, the fans seem to be working but extremely slowly, I hear them and feel hot air on my hand when I put my hand right next to the one back vent. I downloaded speed fan and my core temperature … |
| | My Compaq Armada M700 laptop has been giving me an error message that says "103 Charge Circuit Failure" right after the "bootup" message, before Windows starts, and the battery is not charging (right now it's stuck at 88%). I Googled around and most of the messages I found said that … |
| | my laptop is giving me problems the fan runs and stop and makes noise and the machine goes off without any warning or signal that it is going off until i leave it for like 30 minutes before it works for some time and goes off |
 | Hi guys, Silly question here... Ive just changed mother board and when i shut down system, it automatically turns on again. The on/off button does stick slightly but i was just wondering if by mistake did i by insert leads( + -) on motherboard the wrong way... Could this be … |
| | hi guys i need to change the cpu fan on my gateway ml3109 but i cant find a repair manual |
| | Heya All [B]Back Ground[/B] I have a Toshiba P100 Laptop, that also has a few other things wrong with it including sporadic green and red pixels that are not screen or graphics card related. *as both have been tested/replaced* Included inase it was relavent Now this has been going on … |
| | I'm not sure if anyone can help with this one, but I'll give it a try. I took my cpu in for service about five weeks ago. The optical drive had gone out, and I had warranty left to replace it. The shop I took it to did a diagnostic … |
| | Hey guys, i have a 2.6 GHz dual core processor, MSI G31M3 V2 Motherboard and 9800gt GeForce Graphics Running on Windows 7 Proffesional. It's quite a good machine, but lately i have noticed an odd behaviour. when i shut down the pc, everything shuts down completely but all the fans … |
| | hi i am looking for a guide on how to calculate the amount of power needed(the wattage of the power supply) to run a pc smoothly. especially pcs with a vga card. and here is an example of the spec: cpu:q8400 mobo:ASUS p5g41mlx ram: 2gb x 1 and 1gb x1 … |
| | I am runnong Intel with a Pentium 4 cpu 2.40GHz with 2 GB of Ram and recently had a problem that once fixed suddenly I have a whole new group of problems. If I boot my computer up with my Portable HD connected to the USB it tells me Invalid … |
| | I was using my Dell Computer that is about 3 years old yesterday. I walked away and when I came back I Pushed enter to wake the computer up and the fan starting running hard and loud. Then it was followed by 2 short beeps then paused then 2 beeps … |
 | Some 22,000 Acer Aspire Notebooks are being recalled because, according to the [URL="http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10103.html"]U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission[/URL], they represent a burn hazard. Mainly because they have the potential to melt. Hot laptops are nothing new, of course, but generally speaking the seat of the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry929.html"]fire risk is often to be … |
| | hi, i have a compaq computer which has a dead power supply.I have tried to repair and replace it with a 24 pin atx power supply but it does not work.It has an atx motherboard but the power supply are not compatable. It is a pentium 4 intel inside.please advice. |
| | speedfan it says gpu-40c temp1-29c :angry:temp2-89c temp3-35c core-30c what is temp 2 and why is it so hot i really need to know as im worried |
| | My laptop was plugged into my charger, and it fell off of my couch. Ever since it fell off, the charger won't plug in correctly. It doesn't feel tight when it plugs in. And it won't charge. What could be the problem? And what is the best/cheapes/easiestt way to fix … |
| | Hello, Just found this forum, very useful info. I'm not a huge tech guy, but I can follow instructions quite well. I'm just trying to get my wife's computer to behave. 2 things, It is getting dog slow and it occasionally turns itself off with a black screen stating that … |
| | Hi members........................................................................................................................ my processor is core 2 duo 3ghz, and my processor fan makes noises hissing many times and i fear that processor will go out. any help to avoid these. wires are aligned well for air flow already 3 cooling fans in cpu how do i exchange my processor … |
| | Hi All, I have a Gateway Portable SOLO 5300. I need to get the case off and I am having problems with one spot. Right above the phone modem port I can't seem to get it loose. I can't see any clip right around that area. Does anyone know what … |
| | hello, i have a dell inspiron 1000 running xp. the problem is that my laptop keeps randomly shutting off while on battery power.when i plug it back in i get this message "battery recalibration warning,your battery needs to be re-calibrated press f1 to boot to os or press f6 to … |
| | how do you replace a noisy fan and know which fan to purchase my computer model is not listed on any of the sites that sell replacement fans thank you |
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