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 | I'm purchasing a laptop at the end of next month, and I want to be able to install 32-bit Vista on it. Currently, I'm looking at a Toshiba Satellite M60 laptop with the following specs: CPU: Intel Pentium M Processor 760 (2.00GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB) Ram: 1024MB (512MBx2) …  |
| | I know the standard way to hook up a hard drive is to hook it up to #1 and the dvd to #2. I have a hard drive and 2 dvd drives. I talked to someone and they said the fastest way for the setup to work is to set … |
| | I just got a new maxtor drive ( 320gb. ) but windows only see 31.gb what can i do? |
| | Name J, like the man in black I am using this as a question forum as I do not have a lot of tech experience. I have have simple question: I rebuilt my computer using an old (ish) hard drive, tower and power supply, everthing else is brand new. now …  |
| | What is the meaning of my portable hard drive beeping all of a sudden, and then I get an error box which says something like "the file H:/yaddayadda failed to write. Data has been lost." This has never happened before, but it has happened 3x in the past 3 days. …  |
| | I'm new and just joined I have very little experience at this stuff but I have a problem that maybe someone can help with. Does anyone have a Toshiba DVR recorder RD-XS54SU? the disk reader just crapped out! and we have a ton of unfinalized disks and a full hard …  |
| | I got a virus in my computer these are my simptoms Fire fox shutdown I install some antivirus and they dont update Internet does not run with an antivirus install Also could you recomend me some good programs to protect my computer Thank you in advance This is my hijack …  |
| | Mrfix my it guy dropped dead recently, i'm 65 years old, have 4 different computers, one will not boot up, not in safe mode or any mode, as soon as it goes to load up windows it shuts down. I have the original xp professional cd, but don't know how … |
| | Yesterday morning, I was using my computer, then turned it off and went out for a while, when I came back home and turned my computer on, nothing happens except for the powering up. It does not reconized that anything is connected to the motherboard i.e. keyboard, mouse, monitor. Hard …  |
| | Hey guys jusxt needed some help, i have a ASUS M51Sn laptop SPECS= Intel core2duo T9300 2.5ghz 2gb ram 9500m GS Nvidia geforce graphics 512mb 15.4x LCD 250GB HARD DRIVE So far i have turn of all unused services , features,etc, All the reg tweAKS AND SO-ON, oh YEAH I'M … |
| | Hi, I'm getting parts for a notebook I'm going to build. I want to do some gaming on it, so I need to know it has reasonable parts. I'm pretty sure the hardware is good for gaming, but I wanted to double check before I buy all of the parts. … |
| | I finished putting together my first computer, im semi-experienced with it and am pretty sure all the hardware was installed correctly. i tried installing windows xp with a "windows xp reinstallation disk" but that gave me a blue screen about halfway into setup. i then reformatted my HDD and tried … |
| | Hi, how would I get the temperature and percentage of load for my CPU, GPU, and other things like the hard drive? I'm on Windows XP. Is there something in the Win32 API or what? |
| | For the past few weeks, I have noticed slow boot-up times for my Vista laptop. More recently, I have had terrible boot-ups and I can't figure out why. I turn my computer off through Vista and it is fine. When I power up, using the power button on my machine, …  |
| | Hello, firstly thank you for being here for dupes like me to come to when all hell breaks loose. I have a toshiba laptop/paperweight. I am not sure why it has done what it is doing, but I will try to explain. When i try to power up the system, … |
| | Hi, I've been using a mac for a long time, but still find myself to be somewhat computer illiterate...i bought a new 120 GB SimpleTech portable hard drive and when i plug it into my g4 powerbook, its not reading it...ive tried plugging it into my desk top (also a … |
| | I would be most appreciative of some help. Thank you in advance! First symptom I saw was google searches redirected to go.google.com which returned spam results in a new tab. I also find that all of the sites I would access for assistance like mcafee.com are blocked, though I can … |
| | I'm using the following link to learn how to pass VB string arrays to a C/C++ dll for editing. [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/118643/EN-US/[/url] The problem I'm having is, where is the vbapi.h? I've searched my hard drive for it and found nothing. I've also searched the net for where it could be possibly … |
| | [B]Problem:[/B] After installing Windows Vista Ultimate on my self-built computer, I have encountered an issue with the display of Windows Vista Ultimate. [B]Hardware:[/B] Bios Version: Pentium 4 V88 P1.60 Prescott Motherboard Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00Ghz Processor Speed: 3000Mhz Microcode Update: F34/13 Cache Size: 1024KB Total Memory: 2048MB … |
| | I'm really hoping for a solution before I kick this machine out the window :rolleyes: This is a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, BIOS v.A06 (yea I see there's an update available but it's been fine till today), 512mb ram, 20gb HD, Win XP Home SP2 (with all updates). I started … |
 | My computer blacks out randomly. The screen goes back and it acts almost like its in sleep mode. The hard drive seems to stop but the fans are still going? It does it at random times sometimes 10 sec after login sometimes 2 hours. It does it while im running … |
| | We're wondering has anyone seen this type of virus/worm before? Our antivirus software (AVG-8) was not able to detect it. It occurred on an XP pro-SP3 workstation, (on a LAN, with internet access). The virus installs the following software, spontaneously: MS SQL server 2004, SQL server native client, native support …  |
| | Microsoft's Virtual PC creates its virtual machine hard drives in VHD files, and Windows 7 can now mount these directly so you can access them in the host system. Click Start, type diskmgmt.msc and press [Enter], then click Action > Attach VHD and choose the file you'd like to mount. … |
| | I purchased a 500 GB SATA Seagate hard drive, first it showed up in the BIOS and also in the disk managment snap-in, after I preformed the format for my hard drive it no longer appears in the BIOS or disk management snap-in but it still appears in the device … |
| | Hi everybody, I'm planning to upgrade my Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit to either Windows 7 Ultimate beta or Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I ain't quite sure if I could upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit. Can anyone help me out here? Anything I need to know before I go … |
 | I have a 120GB USB hard drive, if i install games on it, will they be slowed down by the fact it is USB? |
| | I just got a virus last night that would not let me log on. I had three users on my computer. Two were my roommate's, which didn't have their files marked as unshared. Mine however, I did not want to share. I got a new hard drive and loaded windows … |
| | I shut down my pc yesterday and turned it back on today, I presssed the power button on the tower and the pc makes the hard drive sound and starts whirring but i see a black screen and it just keeps making booting up sounds without actually booting up. Also … |
| | My zonealarm popped up with this one on me today after visiting Dell to pay my bill. I have been researching it and come across this forum hoping someone would be able to help me. I downloaded quite a few programs today because of it. Spyware Blaster, ATF Cleaner, Malwarebytes' … |
| | I really have a problem with my pc, when i try to on it, it wont boot past the hard drive, PSU fan spins. but thats it. but SOMETIMES, it ons! i really have no ideas wads wrong. Had resetted BIOs, changed RAM. still the same problem. PLEASE HELP! Lenovo … |
 | I have a problem with the CD Rom and I hope there is anybody who knows what is going on and how to fix it. I have a laptop HP Pavillion dv 5218nr. It originally had 80 Gb hard drive but recently I bought a new 500Gb hard drive. When … |
| | i got this card installed a couple days ago after wiping my hard drive only had this problem with Fable so far but when ever a in game movie plays my computer restarts. My computer amd athalon 3100 2.20GHz 512mb ram |
| | When your system crashes and you manage to rescue files from your hard-drive they are usually automatically named FILE####.chk and you don't know what file is picture, what is program, what is video etc. I only used ACDSee (older version) because it recognizes media files automatically no matter wrong extension, … |
| | Custom built PC been working great for 3 years, then it stopped booting up. Well, that's not entirely true, but I'll explain further. Basically you push the power button, fans come on whirling but the HD light never lights up, and nothing comes on the screen. I get no beeps …  |
| | i have two e-machines one being etower /c633cd and the other emachines 270 .The tower has no hard drive and the 270 has no mother board so i tryed taking the hard drive out the 270 and putting it in the 633 but it starts but just get blank screen … |
| | I have a computer that started freezing after a few minutes from being turned on. The OS is Vista. I have tried reinstalling Vista as well as XP on both the original hard drive and a new hard drive. During installation of both OS's it froze. I would retry and … |
| | hi, I first had this problem when I installed a new game: rome total war. it installed fine then wen playin the pc just turned itself off. I was going to reinstall windows anyway so I started to do that. booted the machine from the cd rom an started to … |
| | I saved a few stored procedures in SQL Server Management Studio. The default Save location, which I accepted, was C:\Documents and Settings\BobLewiston\My Documents\SQL Server Management Studio\Projects. (And yes, each stored procedure was in the form of an .sql file, and I assigned each file name root to be the same … |
| | Hi all, Can anybody tell me how to retrieve hard drive information in vb.net . I try my best search in google but not getting the appropriate information. Its urgent. Thanks in advance. Regards G_8306 |
| | I have 1 XP desktop, 1 Vista desktop, 2 Vista laptops & 1 network external hard drive. The 2 laptops are on the network, but they don't see the external hard drive. The vista desktop gave no problems.  |
| | Hi all. SHut down my pc as usual last night and this morning it wont boot up. When i turn it on the dell logo screen comes up and the pc freezes. It doesnt respond to f2 or f8 or f12 so cant enter bios or safe mode. Have pulled … |
| | First off I didn’t know if this should be in dead machines, or monitors. This problem doesn’t really fit in either, so I’ll post in both and if a mod wants to lock one because its not in the right area I understand. Ok, so this isn’t a big deal … |
| | I’d appreciate any and all input re an automated backup solution for our small office peer-to-peer network. We have 5 PC’s, 3 running XP Pro, 1 XP Home, and a Vista Home laptop, which often goes home with the director. Our needs are pretty basic: Daily, incremental backups of MS … |
| | Hi all! This is my first time posting on this forum. Very new to forums altogether really, but recently my second PC got a horrible virus. The background was changed to "WARNING viruses and spyware have been found on your computer. please run a spyware check", my CD rom drive … |
| | I have an HP Pavilion dv9000 notebook and it is about 2 years old. About a week ago, it started having problems booting up. I would close the lid and it would go into standby mode, but when i would open it up again, the screen would stay black. the … |
| | I've got a laptop which won't start. When I hit the power button the fan spins once, I can hear the hard-drive kicking in then there's two short faint 'beeps' and the hard-drive sounds like it kicks back out... This happens with the power removed or in and with the … |
| | Windows Xp crashed for some reason earlier and my external hard drive that I had hooked up to it wont work now. The power light comes on but I dont even get the 'bong' sound from putting in a USB device. Does anybody know any ways to troubleshoot this or … |
| | I was trying to put a second hard drive in my computer which already has a 250 gig sata drive instaled. The one I was trying to put in was a 80 gig IDE that i recovered from a bad computer. Well it did not work out because my computer … |
 | I was called in to work on a machine running Windows XPHome SP2. It is HP hardware, about 5 years old. 1.5GB RAM. Was running well until the owner uninstalled a previous HP AIO (HP PSC 5610 All-in-One) and installed an HP C4599. He ran the typical install, and did … |
| | I installed a new Western Digital 120GB SATA hard drive on an Intel motherboard. All is well. Then I installed another WD 80GB SATA hard drive. BIOS recognizes both hard drives. All is still well, except Windows does not recognize the second hard drive. Ideas?  |
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