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| | Hey Everyone! I'm preacher219 and believe it or not I'm still new enough to laptops to be naive. I have an old Dell latitude Cpi R400gt laptop that I bought for my son to use when he was in college. While cleaning out his old room I found it stuffed … |
 | Hey, I just recently ran into a problem compiling a C++ project (no, I didnt mean to put this in the C++ forum). I got an error saying that a certain header file couldn't be opened (I had compiled with the same file before). I looked up the error and … |
| | Hello. I am new to the forums. Ran across the site as I was researching for a possible cause to my problem. I run Windows XP and last nite as I was removing some old programs that I don't use to free up some Hard Drive space (i was running … |
| | I have a three+ year old Sony VGN-S260 and one day out of the blue it did not start. Some times it will start just fine, but others it will not. The symptoms are odd because the led lights that display battery, wifi, and hard drive are lighting up as … |
 | I have a dell xps400 with an HL-DT-ST DVDRW DL burner. I am using Roxio Creator IO Dell edition, that came with the computer when i purchased it new 18 months ago. It is a 3.2 gig with 2 gig ram. Lots of hard drive space avilable. Prviously I have … |
| | I have two Thinkpad R50s', one of which I cannot reboot as it's a victim of BSOD. Question: can I simply take out the hard drive of the downed computer and put it in the other to check to see if it's okay?  |
| | All too regularly, when I try to safely remove my USB external hard drive I get the dreaded message that a file or process is still accessing it. I know that there are huge numbers of posts on many different forums about this problem, and I have spent hours trawling … |
| | Ok i need help please. This is driving me insane. Here is what going from beginning. Processor fan went out on my motherboard so i shut computer off and waited for new one to arrive. Well i installed new one and then computer would not come back on. the power … |
| | I pulled a Gateway hard drive and installed it into an older Dell I had. The built in Ethernet did not connect to the internet when I plugged in the cat 5 cable. I put in a Belkin card and I got a "Fatal Error" Message. "No lan board found … |
| | My daugthers Pc has a 20gb hard drive, and windows sent a message, hard drive running out of space, used the clean up utility to gain space. so I did, but only got back a few hundreds mb, and still low on space. used ccleaner and SBMAV CLEANER too; helped … |
 | Hi [B]Simple problem Drive C is running out of space. Easy solution buy a new hard drive and copy everything to the new drive. Simple? a nightmare![/B] I have bought a larger HDD a Seagate 250GB and want to use that as a replacement for my existing 60GB WD HDD. … |
| | My gateway laptop last week decided to not start one day. I would hit the power on nutton, the hdd would spin for 3 seconds, then shut down, then wait 3-5 seconds and spin up for 3 seconds, then shut down for good. The screen never came on except one … |
| | Gooday. I have a spare hard drive I would like to add to my computer. This spare hard drive has either xp or 98 already on it. Will it be ok to use it. My existing hd has xp. |
| | hi all, I posted a message yesterday asking for hrlp on pages on loading and that my hard drive space was shrinking anyway after some research i have managed to sort out the problems i installed thye new version of IE 8 and switched off the protected mode it seems … |
| | hey alright, my laptop has been overheating lately and i tried to clean it of dust, while opening the compartments, i opened the one for my hard drive, unknowingly, and i didnt touch it or anything just pulled it out half way, and put it back. started up my computer … |
| | Hello My HP crashed the other day and i bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP home every thing working fine started to load my programs that i had lost and i have rebooted it a couple of times in the last day. but today i got a new … |
| | I have aN ASUS P5N32 SLI Premium Mobo ,with Win XP Pro,E8400 processer, OCZ 800, 2048x 2Seagate barracuda 320 mgb Hard drive and I am wondering what would be a decent graphics card? |
| | I recently got a virus on my computer. Where the time was, I had noticed that it was in 24 hr format & there was "virus alert" right next to it. I tried gettint to my control panel, however it was not there. I checked for virus numerous times & …  |
| | Hello to the great folks at Daniweb !!!!!!!! I bought my first laptop, a IBM ThinkPad 600, with Windows 98 on it. Not much of one but I didn't need much for just surfing the net in the livingroom. I bought it used, $20.00 and had a dead cmos battery … |
| | Hi, I have just bought a new Mobo, and to my horror there is only 1 IDE slot. I have bought a Sata PCi card with a IDE slot on it.... I have a hard drive and 2 DVD RW, What is best, the hard drive on the PCi card … |
| | Hi! My PC does not boot but all fans are working(including video card), hard drive makes sound on start up, and so does optical drive. After turning on the PC the Hard drive LED lights up for quite some time. And I do not have to prolong pressing the power … |
| | Hello everyone I had to reinstall winxp and changed the boot settings, but now i can't change it to boot from hard drive instead of CD rom, it will not let me change any settings at all. I have Dell Dimension 4500S and the Bios version is Dell Computer Corporation … |
| | My computer died a couple of weeks ago , so I decided to rebuild it. Here’s what I used : Asus M2A-VM motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ cpu 2 gig A-Data DDR memory Here’s what I had from my old machine Maxtor 40 gig IDE hard drive WD 160 … |
| | i went to restart and all i got was a blue screen and a F1 at the botton and a F10 at the bottom and then i locked up and could do nothing.. i took out the hard drive and put it in a enclosure kit and tryed to get … |
| | Hi, A friend and I are planing to get new eMachine computers and we want to add the hard drive from our old towers as slaves in the new tower so we can access our files and bookmarks. My old computer is a 9 year old Dell and hers is … |
| | my ram memory decreased from 512MB to 256MB when i changed my hard drive, what shall i do?  |
| | Hey, I just recently had a windows xp partition fail (blue screen of death), so i decided to just get a new SATA drive and install a new windows xp pro partition. After restarting the computer 20 times to set the slave and master drives for SATA, i tried to …  |
| | Hello, My Windows XP Pro SP2 setup gets through formatting my hd(500gb) and all the way down to Installing Windows but once the install bar gets to about half way and says installing devices my comp restarts and it loads up to this point and starts to install and then … |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 2400. It has been working okay for about a year. Today when I got home from church the window's XP blue screen of death was up and I had to reboot. No big deal, it has been happening since shortly after I bought the computer. … |
| | hai, i am using HP pavilion dv2124 computer -windows XP - using Western Digital USB external hard drive -160 GB which is working nicely previously since yesterday my computer not recognising the device what i should do can any body help me |
 | I have a main C: hard drive, plus a secondary drive. The 2nd hard drive is G: and is connected to the proper place on the cable that plugs into the mobo. I can open files on the G drive if there is a shortcut to a file or folder … |
| | My hard drive D (Recovery only has 23.MB left and I keep getting a popup about it. My son tells me that because Microsoft has partitioned its hard drive that it cannot be cleaned. Is that right and does anyone know what I can do to get some free space … |
| | Just built my first system in a long while, and it has not resulted in immediate success! All of the fans come on, along with all the case leds etc, and the hard drive activity light flashes on for a moment, with a solid light on the motherboards led. There … |
| | Must have came in Music Software install, It's bad , located in windows/system32, also came with micro antivirus2009, I think it has invited friends. Please help. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:08:27 PM, on 10/11/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16705) … |
| | im trying to install my western digital hard drive on windows 2000 |
| | I had linspire on a hard drive. I partitioned it, formated it, and it boots with "grub loading stage1.5. grub loading, please wait. error 17". How do I repair this? |
| | I tried to search for answers to this problem on this forum and did not find any, so I am posting my question here. Please note that I am a novice user. I have a Compaq Nevo800v laptop computer running Windows XP. I am using a Compaq Wireless 110 LAN … |
| | Hi, I have recntly been having problems with my laptop recognizing my external hard drive, When the hard drive is switched on, the usb input sound happens but the device displays the 'busy' light and is not displayed in 'My Computer' and is therefore unaccessable. I have tried using it …  |
| | Here's where I am at: This Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Wont Show Desktop or Allow explorer.exe to be Launched. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Operating System:Windows 2003 Web Browser:Internet Explorer 8 (Upgraded during this round of trouble shooting after being told that IE and Explorer were tied to each other) Memory:4GM Networking:100BaseTX Hard … |
| | Hi All: Dell support has confirmed my worse fears--the registry error I had meant that my hard drive is dead. As I go to install the replacement drive, is there a way I can connect or access the hard drive through another computer (boot as a secondary drive) and access … |
| | Hi i am new here and trying to fix a relative's computer First it would not boot windows so i had to reinstall the boot files from winxp cd then once i was able to boot i ran over 6 scans from different companies (avg8, ad aware, pc doctor) i … |
| | On my son's Laptop there is a file called C:\winbkup which at 3.70GB takes up a quarter of his hard drive. Can this be deleted, or will that completely mess things up?  |
| | Actually I forgot , can you guys let me know what is SATA(Serial ATA)? Is it simply a data cable providing an interface between motherboard and Hard Drive that has a higher data transfer rate than other cables and is used for Server level computers. Or it is a seperate … |
| | PC powered down last night after 4 hours of inactivity, as it usually does. Went to start it up this morning. Case fans spin up, as does processor fan. Hard drive spins up. HDD LED is solid red. Absolutely no BIOS/POST/Start-up text on screen, and no error beeps. Completely blank … |
| | Hi, I am running a Windows XP Professional platform with SP3. I've disabled Indexing Services. I've swept my system for spyware using PestPatrol. I'm running AVG firewall and AntiVirus. Taskmanager shows infrequent program access of programs and usually sits at 99% idle without giving me information as to what programs …  |
| | Hello all, I took the processor out of my old Dell Dimension 8300, thinking about upgrading it with a new CPU and hard drive. I should have checked the prices first, I know. So I put the old one back in and now it won't do anything, just a plank … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario Laptop 2200 It has power when turned on othind displays on the monitor? I am not sure if it is maybe a hard drive or monitor? Any ideas? Thanks a lot Wayne |
| | I came home one day and found my computer off which it is always running, come to find out that i had a cpu fan go dead. went to the store and bought a new one and put it on the cpu. all the lights come on and the fans … |
| | Hello all, I hope someone can help me with this predicament I'm having. Now, I could get all new parts to build a new machine, but I'm leaving for a job overseas in two weeks and it would not be worth it for me to fix a new machine at …  |
| | Ok, i got a message from daniweb just as i was getting bored, so i decided to come check it out again ----------------------- <--- SYNOPSIS ---> ----------------------- I know that many times in my own job i get complaints about slow running pc's and viruses and spyware and everything else.... … |
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