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| | Windows Defender has been reporting this trojan for about an hour now. I use eset's smart security center and it has not found any trojan present in my computer. I cannot start up spybot s&d at all (renaming spybotsd.exe doesnt work). I also cannot use the hijackthis program without renaming … |
| | I am using XP with a dial-up connection. Recently it has been running very slow, then today it stopped working. I can connect to the internet. My microsoft and avast updates performed perfectly. But no browser will work nor will my email. I IMMEDIATELTY get an= message saying it cant … |
| | Ok, so yesterday my computer was basically in the dump, it was crashing every 10 minutes, and i couldnt do much of anything on it. So i ran Memtest and received 54000 errors... this morning i reinstalled windows cleared the hard drive and now the computer runs better then ever, … |
| | Hi all, I was recently given one of these laptops and told 'if you can fix it, you can keep it'. Happy days! Anyway. The BIOS reports that there's no hard drive attached, the drive itself makes some odd noises during the boot process, and then the computer eventually reports …  |
| | Hi there wonder if you can help? i've got a dell pc when started shows dell icon bar but then just: no boot sector on internal hard drive no bootable devices strike f1 to retry boot, f2 for setup utility Been into utility setup and checked all settings are on … |
| | Hi everyone !!! I have a Dell Inspiron 5150, with an A38 BIOS , a 2.8 GHz processor and a 60GB hard drive in it. I know that it calls for PC2700 RAM, up to 2GB. I want to know , since PC2700 is so expensive, if PC2100 will work … |
| | I have a Dell E510 desktop running Windows XP and recently got the WinPC virus. I googled the virus and came across directions for removing it with malwarebytes. The computer was freezing around 10 seconds after startup, but will operate fine in safe mode. All malware/virus scan/spyware software shows the … |
| | Hi ! I hav two HD 1 Ide & other sata both 80 GB. I installed a third sata 250 gb segate HD but it dosent show in vist . I hav XP on drv 0 and Vista on the other. I tried many times changing the cables etc but … |
 | Hello, please, i am developing an application which is initially working fine but i later copied it into an hard drive to another system which am currently using but the problem is that after copying it, any image i add into it will not display at runtime. i mean the … |
 | I'm new to this forum, and I don't really know too much about computers. I do know enough though. I am in the process of building my own computer to support my needs, and I would like some suggestions on the best kind of RAM that would do well for … |
| | Hello all, Please help. I just upgraded my Dell deminsion 9100 2.8ghz pentium D with 4GD ram and a new Nvidia 9500 graphics card. All was working great. then I went to turn on my PC a week later and nothing would happen. I unplugged the PC and waited 10 … |
| | OK, basically, I want to confirm a problem with a laptop... The laptop is kinda 5-7 years old, runs windows xp sp3...and this winter had a hard drive change... The owner came to me with a BSOD problem he got on the laptop, and told me his hard drive got …  |
| | Hey guys sorry am not exactly sure how to explain my problem so will try my best to explain best I can. First off my keyboard started to open up my web browser useing the control key and a few other keys although never noted them as it was mainly … |
| | Hi, I bought my HP pavilion lx 2000 in August 2008 and everything was working fine until about a month ago. It started seriously overheating and would turn off at random times. I'm assuming this was not good for the hard disk and all of a sudden a couple of … |
| | I've been using a My Book 500GB hard drive as a slave drive for a while now but today it suddenly wasn't appearing. For a while it would appear on My Computer every few minutes then quickly disappear after it went through the files for a few seconds so I …  |
| | It does go to BIOS SetUp and runs cd-rom when I insert operating system installation cd. The problem is: when i start the laptop, there's very strange noice going around the hard disk and it shows the following error in red "Hard drive not installed... If operating system not found... … |
| | First, thanks for this great forum with so many helpful people! I know responding to people's troubles takes time and effort you could probably be spending elsewhere! Last night, my laptop was working fine. At one point I came back to it (after it had been sitting on unused for …  |
| | This may sound like the install from hell, but I'm still trying. I wanted to try out Linux after a *very* long association with windows, but to say I'm having problems would be an understatment. Let me go through the whole sorry tale, and my question is at the end. …  |
| | Running a Dell E310, Windows XP, 160 G hard drive, external 500 G My Book, Xp partition is 117 G of 160, only 55% full. When running Chuzzle, Ma Jong, mmorpg's, email, basically anything every 10 - 30 minutes it freezes/won't respond to mouse or keyboard input, won't update screen, … |
| | Hi I'm new here and want to say hello to everyone, but I need help. I believe my PC recently got a virus. I've tried to start it again and it won't boot. I can get into the BIOS but can't figure what to do. I have the OS disk … |
| | I have just installed a new main hard-drive (c drive) how do i get my computer to recognize it |
| | I have some very large old files on my external hard drive which I am compressing to archive. Too big to go on DVD and I want to keep them together even though I haven't accessed them for a very long time. I am using SmithMicro Stuffit/dropstuff at the moment …  |
| | hello all , thankyou for your kind welcome, it is nice to know that there is somewhere i can maybe get some good help. my problem is with a 200g barracuda 7200.7 sata hard drive that will do nothing except hum and get hot when hooked up to my pc. … |
| | Hi, I want to partition my 160 gig so I can install and dual boot linux. my hd is fully formatted in ntfs and has winxp installed -- I don't want anything to happen to windows. Are there any recommendations for good partitioning software? btw -- I might buy a … |
| | hi, i want to know how to check system spec (command line) in linux like right clicking "my computer" in windows and click on "properties" some system i know i can do #cat /proc/cpuinfo but how do i check like how much ram the machine has? some system i can't … |
| | My hp got left on over night and the hard drive is gone, I replaced the hard drive and been tring to restore my system, I finally got windows xp on floppy, cause my cd or dvd drives were not reading in bios, now I turn on the pc and … |
| | Recently I got some type of virus that locked up my desktop background and flashed a warning sign indicating that my computer was infected and that I should fix this with a spyware program (a link which led to some no-name program that was all part of the virus). Also, …  |
| | Hi I am Denise and I have just got a iPod touch for mothers day and I can not get itunes to install on my computer..I just rang iPod support they said it was a windows problem and when I rang Window they wanted to charge me $80.00 for support....... … |
| | Hello! I appear to have a slight problem. Also, I am fairly confident that I am posting in the correct forum but apologies if I am not. I am running a MacBook on my home wireless network, and I also have a wired PC running on the network. I want … |
| | Here is the situation. I tried asking this question on Macrumors but no one could help me. I want set up a Raid 1 array with my MBP laptop's internal hard drive and an external hard drive. I want to leave external at home and only take the laptop on … |
 | Hi, I have been trying to find a way to get my databases on two external hard drives plus one internal hard drive but I just can't find a way to place each database on a separate drive. The only thing I have come across is windows junctions but can't … |
| | Hello all, This is my first post on any forum so i'll do my best to give you all the necessary info. First of all, it's a dell inspiron 530s running vista home basic. After doing some updates about a week ago, upon reboot, the pc no longer booted into … |
| | I have a Dell M1730 laptop (expired warranty <sigh>) A few weeks ago I rebooted the machine and the video wouldn't come on. No bios no nothing. The machine does seem to be booting, or at least there is some disk activity, and it does acquire a network address. It … |
| | Hi, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop that I'm having problems with. Yesterday I turned it on and after a few minutes, my mouse froze. Restarted and freezing happened again. Restarted once more and now screen is black. When I start, I can hear the fan kick in, the … |
| | Hello, My computer was infected with some sort of virus/spyware yesterday. The original exe file that kept on popping up was "sew4xwe9.exe" which I've tried to remove in both Registry and executable file. The virus disabled both my "hidden files through folder option" and "editing the registry". I was able … |
| | My laptop has Winxp home edition Os. I realised that i had the brontok virus in my system so i scanned it with Kaspersky Antivirus. while scanning the Antivirus notified me that it would stop the process explorer.exe because it was infected. when i clicked OK my destop went blank …  |
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| | Hi, I hope someone can help. I just purchased an HP a450y computer without a hard drive or video card. I place a WD 500GB HHD , new BFG GeForce 7300 GT 512MB AGP card and 2 stix of 1024 PC 3200 memory. I'm trying to load win XP Pro, …  |
 | I'm doing tech support and I want to be able to reset XP passwords without reinstalling XP but I tried the Linux boot disk that is supposed to reset the password and the drivers load but then it doesn't show any partitions for some reason (I'm assuming it doesn't have … |
 | I have just built the pc this weekend AMD Phenom II x4 940 cpu 4gb corsair ram MSI DKA790GX Platinum mbd with on-board ATI Radeon 3300 graphics Saphire Radeon HD4870 gpu Antec 650w modular psu Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO PWM Fan 1tb samsung hard drive - new 250gb maxtor … |
| | I decided to have a second hard drive/disk to my PC. In the process my purposely formated my original hard disk which was running WIN98 for sometime. My new hard disk is installed with WINDOWS 2000 professional. I have configured my new hard disk has the primary and the old … |
| | Hi all , I'm new to all this , so bear with me . My friend has XP and the drive is partitioned into 3 separate sections. C drive is 10 Gb , F drive is 10 Gb, and the rest is annotated "Everything Else" which is 60 Gb, I … |
| | Due to problems I decided to re-install XP Pro and formatted my Hard Drive. When I ran the installation it got as far as "Installing Devices" with 34/35 minutes left to run and then stopped. I have tried both XP Home and XP Pro with identical results. Following advice from … |
| | Today I was copying a file from my laptop onto my USB external hard drive when the transfer froze and I had to cancel it. The file is still intact on my laptop but the unfinished copy created on my external hard drive does not seem to want to be … |
| | Hi - My machine over the last week is behaving really slowly. I'm running Windows XP Home Edition 2002 Service Pack 3 Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz 2.9 GHz 512 RAM I have AVG installed that I run virtually every day - I've cleaned the hard drive and defragged. With no … |
| | My P-3 500mHz Gateway running Win98SE has lost its "Desktop" line in the list of folders under C:\Windows\ - how may I restore it? In DOS mode the C:\Windows\Desktop\ appears with its files intact but looking by using Windows Explorer the "Desktop" line does not show up. I first noticed … |
| | I've seen a post about this virus on your website. So i downloaded Hijackthis and will post my LOG. When I turn on the Computer which is running Windows XP and has Symantec Anti-Virus, a lot of Symantec Proxy Email Messages start popping up saying that my Spam Mail can't … |
| | Alright guys... I'm not a complete moron when it comes to computer hardware, but I feel like one now. I recently bought parts to build my new computer: Mach Speed Motherboard MSNV-939 Athlon 3200 CPU GEforce 6200 256 mb PCI-Express Video Card SATA 160 GB Hard Drive 400 Watt Power …  |
| | I received a PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) which has had the hard drive formatted(?). Will not boot, just flashing '?" screen. I can go to OF screen via 'com-z' keys, but am stuck there! Is there any way to recover/restore the OS without buying a set of OS install disks? … |
| | I have a Emachine that I have replace the power supply and new hard drive and it turns on then shuts down or it won't power up at all.I am out of clues of could be the problem....Help |
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