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I was given an E-Machine with a ASUS motherboard (P4S533-MX). The computer will not power up and the green stand by light is on as long as the cord is plugged in. I tried clearing the CMOS. I put a new tested power supply and unplugged the CD Rom. Only …

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I have thrown everything at the search redirect (most commonly takes me to shopica.com) I have found some things running everything anti-virus/spyware/malware I can at it. PLease help!! My hijack this is pasted below. Thanks! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:00:39 PM, on 11/3/2009 Platform: Windows …

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I have a T3042 e-machine, my computer will suddenly crash and go blank and make this alarm noise that sounds like an english patty-wagon and shutting it off doesn't stop it I have to unplug it and wait until it finally subsides. I thought it was because my old hard …

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I have this message appear when ever I turn on my computer. My external hard drive is not allowing me to save any files to it though I can view & open all files. I'm wondering if this file has anything to do with it? I'm running windows XP. The …

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hey guys, im new here and this is my first question. my pc runs a bit slow and im sick of trying all those system care products that people claim to work. ive tried so many but it just seems worthless. i know my best bet is to reinstall windows …

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Hello everyone, hope I am posting in the right place. Yesterday evening my son was playing flash games on the pc. Logged off normally and today Window Vista automatically goes to temporary profile instead of going to our profiles. None of our files are present but can be locate on …

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I was wondering if anybody would know? I have an old computer with a bad hard drive and nothing else wrong. I also have an xbox with a cd drive problem but a good hard drive. Is it possible to format the drive and use it?

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ive got hung up problem, my mother board is sata 300, also hard drive, i can run some of the program like surfing, its just hung up, when i open some application/network...., i tried cleaning up the processor, vedio card but same result.....,,, what could be the problem?

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As the title states, mbam.exe is deleted from my hard drive even when I newly install malwarebytes, I'm getting many popups, and every antivirus website "cannot be displayed" I will put up my Hijackthis file. Thank you so much for the help! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved …

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Hey, im putting together a cheap computer, but i want to make sure the motherboard and processor will work together. (Mostly powerwise like 125v or ect) Thanks in advance [B]Here is the build:[/B] Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core …

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I was formatting a brand new hard drive the other day and my computer froze up so I just shut it off. Now the new hard drive is not being detected in BIOS or in Windows. When I go into the BIOS setting and try to auto detect the hard …

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With the hope of sorting things out, I've reinstall the Windows XP Professional in which I'd formatted the hard-drive as well, but am still getting the following error messsages, in the blue background, as follows: 1. UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME Part of the entire message saying: Disable BIOS memory options such as cashing/shadowing....... …

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I just had the hard drive replaced...at times I get the HOURGLASS followed by the Thums up icon, pages become non responsive...I find myself going to task manager to close them.. My question/concern is where or what to look into on this, the browser, IE 8 should I go back …

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HELP PLEASE!! I got 2 partitions C and D. C: is my main drive. Both have OS installed. A week ago, C: is not starting up. Since then, I'm using D:. When I was trying to retrieve a file stored in C:, a message appeared saying C is not formatted …

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I have a Sony Vaio Laptop that I purchased about 1year ago. It worked great for about 6 months or so. I purchased a new laptop around that time and haven't touched it since. I would like to sell it now and when I went in to test it and …

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Hi friend has just given me his PC to look at as its broken and i mentioned that i had an interest in fixing dead machines. The machine is a fairly new packard bell machine with a 3.06ghz P4 processor. It will not load past the packard bell bios splash …

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I just built my own computer system using a Biostar MCP6P M2+ motherboard and an Athlon 1.8 GHz processor, I followed the instructions in the quick setup guide and the manual which i downloaded but the system will not boot into the BIOS, in addition the power light does not …

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Hello, I had been having some monitor distortion issues on my Dell XPS m1210 so yesterday I downloaded the nVidia GeForce Go 7400 from the Dell support website to see if that would fix it. Now I have even bigger issues. Upon restarting, I was left with a black screen …

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As stated in the title, my laptop, upon powering on, loads the bios and takes me to a screen saying: "No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility--Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." Naturally, I press F5. CPU Time Stamp Calibration Test Passes PM Timer 1 Passes …

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First off, thank you for reading this and helping me. OK, so i feel like a sucker because I saved a lot of money by buying a refurb Toshiba R100 and was so proud of myself, but my older bro was like you're gonna have problems with it. I didn't …

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Please Read, it is related to this forum section. System Specs: CPU: Pentium D (dual core) 3.2Ghz Video Card: Evga 8800GTS 320MB Superclocked Ram: Kingston KVR667D2N5/2G (one stick of ram) Motherboard: Asus P5QL/EPU Hard Drive: 250GB Western Digital (IDE) OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition 32bit PSU: 600w OCZ SilentxStream …

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I'm brand new to the video editing world and I'm getting desperate. I made a decision to begin making my own DVDs for my seminars and students so after lots searching/shopping I invested, what for me is a small fortune, in a state of the art system. Until three weeks …

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Sony Vaio VGN B100B Intel Centrino 1.6 GHz Pentium M 725 855GME chipset 1GB + 512MB RAM DDR333 Some days back, my Sony Vaio laptop (model VGN B100B) screen blanked out all of a sudden. Now the laptop does not boot though it gets power. On power up, the DVD …

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Some people like to get their free Microsoft products by adopting the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4255.html"]eye patch and a parrot approach[/URL] via sites such as The Pirate Bay. Some of us, however, rather like the idea of getting Windows 7 totally free, totally legally, and direct from Microsoft for good measure. Yes, I …

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Hi there, I am a newbie here and any help solving this particular problem would be apprecaited. I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 unfortunately was dropped a day ago. Know it wont work, when you switch it on its pwer like turns on for one or two seconds and then …

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I have an XP Windows pc that won't boot past the windows logo screen. It also says no hard drive installed when I try a windows recovery. Is this a sign of a dying hard drive? How can I fix/repair this and how can I copy the programme files to …

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I have 20 or so hard drives that have accumulated over the years. We're in the process of moving to a new facility and my boss wants me to index all the drives and create basically a printed inventory of whats installed on them as well as all the Word, …

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Hi, I am quite new to the world of computers and am looking for some advice. I have a Server which is networked to 5 other machines. On this server we have private databases etc and i would like to password specific folders or indeed the whole hard drive of …

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My laptop will not turn on completely. It powers up but I keep getting this message. IDE #0 Error Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082) Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13(021015) PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, Check cable PXE-Mof : Exiting PXE Rom Insert System …

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I am getting errors in my action listener brackets that I do not get, can someone help me please?? My buttons are not working, not sure what's happening. plus when I try to write [code] newGUI();[/code] I get another errors saying it cannot find the symbol, but my method is …

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Hey Daniweb, I a 13.3 inch Macbook Pro (5,5) running Snow Leopard that I would like to triple boot Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 on. I am running an 80 GB Intel X-25M as my primary drive and I after I have the three operating systems installed via …

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When I turn on my computer, it would say NLDR missing Press ALT CTRL DEL to restart the computer. Does anyone have an idea? I tried recovery tools but when it gets to 77%, it would say that the file is corrupted. I also tried to format the hard drive …

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Hello All, I’ve got a new Samsung NP-NC10 with NoteBook that had XP installed. I replaced it with Vista Ultimate, only to crash it as won’t accept Vista. So, I reinstalled XP and system drivers from the Reload discs. The NoteBook then functioned correctly. However, the C: Drive was renamed …

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Strange.. I installed everything on my motherboard, everything is perfectly set up and when I turn the power switch the fans and everything starts moving for a split second and then turns off.. 3 seconds go by and the fans start moving again, then it stops... and on it goes. …

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I have an old Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop that is extremely slow. It will eventually load up Windows but then it becomes intermittently and periodically unresponsive. You can move the mouse around and it will do nothing (for say 30 seconds) until the hard drive light turns on and it …

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hey people i have a small problem with my xp.. now this has always been a smallish problem with it but now its getting way worse. the system is just randomly shutting off... like if i leave it on for a night it usually will be restarted when i wake …

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I have a dell 8300, XP, and i tried to install a new 120gb hard drive as my master and make my original 60gb as a slave. I wanted to image my original, put it on my new one so I can format my original and start adding stuff i …

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My hard drive on my old desk top crash out about a week ago and i was wanting to know how can i fix this? I have tried restarting the machine and it keeps popping up "No OS Found" and i tried to install ubuntu 8.0 with failed attempts and …

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Is there anyone out there has had experience or can advise on the following problems I am experiencing with my Acer 1644. The laptop went into standby mode and blue screened, I have tried to boot up in safe mode with command prompt. I would say before going any further …

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I'm confused on what to do here, and I'm really afraid to try anything without asking first because I know that I can easily mess up my system. I have Vista installed on one hard drive, and I just bought a new hard drive and installed Windows 7 on it. …

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i have 3 pcs in the network but i cannot share harddrive of one of my pc all 2 are shared but the in one pc only my document is shared other are not .so tell me how to share the hard drive ?? i cannot get the sharing property …

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i've been using the same pc for more than a year now. sometimes it does happen that when i turn on my pc, it powers up but doesnt boot. nothing happens then and i eventually have to turn it off and then on.. doing this a few times makes me …

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In no way am I new at all of this, but I recently drug my dad's old laptop out of storage about a week ago, and I wiped the hard drive and installed Ubuntu on it so I could try it out, but I looked at all his stuff on …

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I am wondering if there is way to save sent by vb.net email to a specific folder on hard drive as sent email containing exact information as it appears in lets say Outlook Express' "Sent Items" folder. I'd like this saved "sent" email copy to include attachment if any. This …

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Hi ive been given a friends hard drive to recover some data from as his machine recently died! i said id have a look but it seems as though the drive is completely dead. Ive plugged it in as a slave on my machine and it powers up (loudly) and …

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hey everyone, just signed up here cos i've realised i know much less about pcs than i thought i did... i thought it was about time i upgraded my OS from windows 98 but didn't want to pay any money so borrowed my parents installation discs for Windows ME. i …

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ok, i recieved this computer from a friend that said his computer just wouldn't turn on one day. he said it was probably the monitor so i took the cpu and the monitor to test it. the monitor works fine on my computer so i tried his computer on my …

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Hi all I hope this is the right section Today I entered [CODE]df[/CODE] and noticed that my hard drive was 80% full. I checked my home folder and my files came to 7.3GB but when I viewed all hidden files it comes to 40.6 GB. I realise they belong to …

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Dear Gurus I was running on 80 GB Samsung (SATA 2) HDD on my PC P4(3GHZ) with Intel MOBO 915 GAV with XP sp2 1GB RAM on it till yesterday perfectly I got a new 160 GB WD (SATA 2) HDD for Upgradation when I installed the nu HDD to …

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A couple of weeks ago my computer began to either freeze or reboot several times a day. I noticed that it occured especially during some tasks, such as moving large files from one partition to another. I opened my case to observe if anything was wrong. I played around in …

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