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| | I have an IBM Laptop circa 2004. I have moved to a mountain climate in Linden,Arizona. The temperature can be from 0 degrees at night to 30-35 in the day time. The inside temperature in the mornings is maybe 50 degrees. When I turn the laptop on it spins with …  |
| | This is my FIRST day here... I am working with a Dell computer about 5 years old... The computer will NOT recognize the cdrom/dvd combo drive after an update from Microsoft screwed things up.. The drive letter doesn't even show.. Under Device Manager it shows it as NOT installed.. Since … |
 | Hi, I am about to set up a dual boot configuration on my machine. I plan to install osx on my pc, with windows 7 being the most used partition on the machine. I would like for windows to be out the outside of the hard disk so I may … |
| | My computer is a bit of a Frankenstein - I bought it in 2002 but have replaced several parts of it over the years. (Motherboard was replaced under original warranty, new hard drive about 2-3 years ago, new RAM a couple years ago, new DVD drive last year, etc) It …  |
| | I have an Acer Aspire one, ZG5 laptop. It was given to me because someone tried to flash the BIOS and now the laptop will not boot to the hard drive. After the Acer page shows,it shows a blank page after a currsor blinks 3 time in the upper left … |
| | My computer restarts itself after some time of use. It's not a virus problem or a bad on my hard-drive. What should it be then? |
| | I have a Toshiba p205d that is over 3 years old. My computer went into hibernation overnight and when I tried to "wake it up" the screen remained black. I turned it off and back on got a quick flash showing the toshiba start up page and then black. I … |
| | Theres a light on my motherboard that is lit does that mean its not the power supply? What could it possibly be, hard drive, CPU or the tower? Nothing at all happens when I power up. Thanks for the help. Its maybe two years old I bought it from ibuypower.com. |
| | Hi, hopefully someone can help me with this, since there seems to be dozens of threads similar to my situation yet unintelligible to me. So I recently did a fresh install of Windows 7 Professional x64, and in the process decided I would install Ubuntu to dual boot on the …  |
| | I have an approx 5 year old Western Digital Scorpio 80GB hard drive (model WD800VE-75HDT1) that came in a laptop that I no longer have. One day the drive stopped working. I took it out of the lappy and slapped it into a USB enclosure. When I connect it to …  |
| | I recently upgraded both my mobo, cpu and ram. The new mobo and cpu are 64-bit. When I try to boot into my old hard drive, it does not see any operating system and wants to load cd/dvd. I had previously used a 64-bit Windows 7 install disk to install … |
 | The USB plug in on my exterior hard drive is broken, how do I get it fixed, can not take back to WalMart, although i have a warranty,I have too much stuff on it. |
| | Hi everyone! I am still fairly new so am learning the ups and downs of threading. I have over 200 computer games from Big Fish. I keep about 20 on my computer and the rest stays with Big Fish and are available whenever I want to reinstall them. My ?....I …  |
| | Hi, I was trying to use my friend's hard drive the other day, but my Windows computer would not recognize it because it was in a Mac file format. I'm now trying to create a program (simple cli), pretty much a file folder, but that would be able to read … |
| | hi i really want to turn my 1tb seagate external hard drive and my 500g seagate hard drive (both formatted to fat32 because I also run a ps3) into network accessible drives , but i need to do this as cheap as possible as I am a full time carer …  |
| | I have been working on this laptop and only receive 2 options, one to repair and the other to start windows normally. The message states that software or hardware installation was done incorrectly. Either option takes me to a black screen where no activity is heard. I have tried the … |
 | I'm sure threads don't have to be all about problems so, I was wondering when I delete my files, where does it go? How does the hard drive regain its space? I read somewhere that the OS just ignores it but I wanted to make sure and if we used …  |
| | Hi there, I need some solutions or hints to my problem. Currently, I am taking over an application that was developed by previous programmer. The application is a desktop based and installed in a network drive. On my pc, which is in domain A, I could run the application flawlessly. … |
| | Hey, I tried to swap a hard drive form another computer with Windows Vista Home Premium onto a Gateway dx4200-09. After hooking the hard drive up to the dx4200 it powered up and the power light flashed slowly blue. The screen/monitor didn't respond, I tried another monitor and it didn't … |
| | Hi there, Everyone: I have a dead HP zv6000 laptop that just died on me after I tried to replace the CPU fan late last night. (replacing it required me to remove the thermal mount, replace the fan, and then put the thermal mount back on - among numerous other … |
| | Vista Home Premium X64 I got a virus that seems to have messed up my OS pretty good. I clean my system regularly using MBAM and Super Anti Spy Ware, and was using Avast AV. But my system got a nasty virus. I currently can't explore my system files without …  |
| | Hi, recently i noticed my hard drive runs for like few mins and then it calms down and does this all the time my pc is on,(keeps going on and off and u can hear it also it runs pretty hard) i have windows 7 ultimate, |
 | OK, lately my computer has been going Threw allot of issue's, first of which for some reason Microsoft Silverlight was no longer installed and would always give a error when try to reinstall,after 2 weeks of correspondence with Microsoft(trying this and that and anything under the moon) like a fluke …  |
| | Hi, I have a network set up at home with 4 computers, file sharing works fine between all of them, i bought a 120g usb2 Maxtor onetouch external hard drive for one of the computers recently and it works as i would like however when i try and share any … |
| | hello i am havinf some problems, which a critical warning message about my hard drive being full or something and really has resticted my computer in normal mode, wont let me open hardly any softwares etc. i have runned hijackthis and got a logfile, i need to know which files … |
| | I recently replaced my power supply on a dell 9100 Deminsion. I purchased the 600w one and installed it a day ago. Upon installation, everyting seemed to boot up like normal... fans running hard drive spinning, and what not. (I am not technical at all and for that I am … |
| | So I bought a rosewill 2-port USB 3.0 superspeed PCIe card and a mybook usb 3.0 WD hard drive and got all of them installed today and I am not having the transfer speeds that everyone claims you get. I hooked up the add-in card and plugged it into my … |
| | I am trying to make a card class that has a bunch of functions to make it possible for the AI to judge what cards can be played. The card game I am working on at the moment is Rummy by order of my brother. I made a 3 pointer …  |
| | hello guys, i really have a problem in my laptop.... whenever i tried to open NetBeans IDE, a blue screen then appears with some messages in there...then it will reboot...then i go to the disk manager then storage, i could not found any hard drives in the list...the fact that … |
 | I partitioned my computer to have one 950 gb partition and one 50 gb partition. I'm trying to backup my computer to the 50 gb partition, but once it hits like 30 gb free hard drive space it says there is no more room for backup. I need to know … |
| | Hi Guys, I have a toshiba L300D laptop, and a couple of days ago the harddrive just gave up, i knew it had a large amount of bad sectors so luckily had all the necessary data backed up. However, i have decided that having to replace the harddrive gives me … |
| | I've been reading some of the topics on here, and I'm not sure if anyone has the specific problem I have. I own a Sony VAIO PCG-K23. It's four years old and has only stopped working once due to an overheating issue about six months ago (has been working fine … |
| | Hi All, i was wondering if anyone could help, we have a RAID failure and we decided to install a new SBS 2008 server from the sbs 2003. now the problem is ew just got ur data back on a hard drive and i was wondering if i could plug …  |
| | the Toshiba P305D-S8900 I am working on has a no start problem. It seems to power on and there is hard drive activity but nothing on the screen. It failed to start again after closing it one day.I ran into this problem on a Dell I own and discovered it … |
| | I'm trying to reinstall Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit on my Dell INSPIRON 15 laptop. I have moved all of the files and folders that I would like to keep off of my computer, and was planning on simply overwriting all the leftover data with the Windows installation. So I … |
 | Sorry you guys but I had to go out of town and may have missed your response. Old habits never die. I used to use a CD-RW, or DVD-RW to save pictures to…I think they call it packet writing, because I never save to my hard drive. But this particular … |
| | I have a windows vista that wont boot or startup. It started when I was on the computer, doing something, and then my computer just froze still. I waited for a while to see if itll unfreeze because I did not want to start over. Then it took too long … |
| | Hey guys, So my my computer started throwing up a BSOD error message upon startup which forces it into an endless loop of startup and reboot. This even occurs when trying to launch safe mode. To get around this I have decided to do a system restore using the windows … |
| | Hi every body, I have a big problem, well my problem is i have a collection of .PST file in my hard drive now i have to write a programme using vb.Net to READ .PST files ! basically i need to be able to read the content of the .PST … |
| | Hi, My two-year old Dell Dimension 2400 died three days ago in the middle of computing -- The notorious blue screen appeared and saying physical memory is dumped. When I tried to reboot, it says 'primary hard drive disk 0 not found'. In BIOS it says 'hard drive (device unknow)'. … |
 | [ATTACH=RIGHT]18505[/ATTACH]The HP Elitebook 8440w should be called [I]work-mobile[/I] not workstation. The word ‘workstation’ implies you are stationary at a big, powerful computer. Not if HP has something to say about it. They've successfully taken the workstation concept and combined it with what a mobile user expects from a notebook. This … |
| | Hello, I have been trying to learn assembly code for PPC on a Mac OS 10.5. I have wanted to see how, when compiling a c program, GCC uses libraries on the Mac to insert instructions to perform functions such as malloc(), write() and printf() in a way that is … |
| | Hiya, For a while now i have had lots of problems with my pc so i tried to reinstall vista again. But somehow i ended up with 2 windows vistas when i started the machine up! So my question is....can i totally wipe everything of the hard drive and reinstall … |
| | I have flight simulator on a external hard drive how to i delete the game and release the activation code. |
| | So, I recently got an MBR virus and after (and partially during) removal I began to get frequent BSOD's and freezes (as in, no debug info simply stop doing any operation), and those BSOD's didn't provide any useful debug information (no message in all caps such as "IRQL NOT LESS … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Emachine won’t boot. When power is applied, the keyboard leds and the hard drive led blink. That’s it, no output to monitor, no beeps from cpu. Through troubleshooting I have found I can boot by removing the CMOS battery and power to the hard drive. When I have these removed … |
| | I have an Acer Aspire E700 desktop, currently running Vista Home Premium with SP2. I'm in a pickle. My system files have become corrupt; I have done 3 different attempts to do an in-place upgrade. Nothing seems to fix the problem. I have been working with a Microsoft Tech who …  |
| | i just got my laptop back from my cousin and this ultra defragger thing keeps popping up along with warnings saying ram memory usage at critical high,ram memory failure,cant find hard disc space,hard drive error,damaged hard drive clusters,private data at risk,hard drive not found,missing hard drive, and it keeps telling … |
 | Okay so I was pulling some hair off my motherboard and bumped the powercable that connects the PSU to the Motherboard (not the 4 pin one, the bigger one that is like 16-pin) any way the system all of a sudden just shut down all I can think is that … |
| | Receive messages saying that XP Machine is low on Virtual Memory. Not sure what to do. Machine has 60GB Hard Drive and 1024 MB of Memory. Would appreciate any help. Thanks. |
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