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| | I recently upgraded my computer with new motherboard, memory, cpu graphic card and hard drive. After assembling, it started up and worked great. Later, I got the really bright idea of trying to add some of the old DDR memory from the old computer into the DDR2 memory slots. I … |
 | I will quote the article and [URL="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/tech-tips-for-the-basic-computer-user/?em"]link [/URL]to it:[QUOTE]Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User Last week, I wrote an entry on my blog that began like this: “One of these days, I’m going to write a book called, ‘The Basics.’ It’s going to be a compendium of the essential … |
 | Hey i have recently found a problem im not sure what its to do with but when i go to the start menu and go to the quick programmes that i use reguarly such as itunes i click on it and a box comes up with a loader saying windows … |
| | Good Day All I need HELP please Toshiba Satellite M40 WinXP Service Pack 2 The computer starts to boot up for only about 5 seconds and then dies. Fan works, CD works, battery works, hard drive light flashes once... So far I have removed both RAM chips and placed them … |
| | I have an Emac and older Imac 9.2 which has 6gig available on its hard drive. How do I go about using this older Imac as back-up storage for the Emac if at all possible so that I increased memory on the Emac. Please keep it simple ... I am …  |
| | I have a dell laptop that I had win 98 on, It's like 500 mhz with 128 mb of ram. I installed win xp pro but it ran very slowly (I know cause of the ram), Anyway I uninstalled it and formatted it then tried to load another os on … |
| | Hi, I have created a site in Fireworks CS3, i go to export and export the file as HTML. If I open the file from my hard drive in Firefox it works fine however if I open it in [url]http://localhost/[/url] the dropdown menus dont work. I get exactly the same …  |
| | I have this file named Blocks on my hard drive that only appeared after a full system restore. It takes up a lot of space and I was wondering if I can get rid of it.  |
| | My computer was getting fatal errors for about a week now, getting progressively worse as the week went by. It would keep doing physical memory dumps and what not, but would always work on the second or third boot-up. Last night it completely died and just went to a blue …  |
| | I have an old VHS camcorder connected to the vidoe input of a WinTV PCI card. I want to develop a simple program that will, at regular intervals, grab stills from that video source and save them to my hard drive. So far, I've been unable to find anything free … |
| | got ubuntu harried heron on CD and ran it several times love it! finally installed it after setting up new primary partition with win 2000 and ubuntu each 32 gb Everything works fine except when I boot into ubuntu I need a password and never had the chance to select …  |
| | I have a Dell Inspirion 531s desktop.I want more storage.A friend left me a Hitachi model number HTS542525K9SA00 5400 rpm 250 gig laptop hard drive.will it work on my computer.It uses SATA connections and I have empty slots on my motherboard to connect extra hardware and I have the correct …  |
| | [COLOR=Blue]I am about to order parts for building a new PC and I am a bit confused as to which set up would benefit me the most. I am looking to buy on of the following motherboards (I've not made up my mind what one yet): ASUS P5WD2/premium Skt 775 … |
| | I've been looking at numerous threads throughout the internet, and have found, and tried nothing that has worked for me yet. So this is my first attempt at a post to try and get some much needed advice. Ok here it goes... SPECS Motherboard - ECS K7S5A Processor - 1800Ghz … |
 | I just recieved a computer from a friend. It is a PII 300mhz with 64 megs of ram, 3.2 gig hard drive. My question is how do I identify my motherboard. I have a feeling it is a very good board. It has an Award Modular Bios v4.51PG (29-may-1998), on-board … |
| | I've got two hard drives from broken down computers and would very much like to access the files from them ( pictures mainly ). Which is the best way to go about this? is buying an external case and connecting via usb the best way? both PC's they came from … |
 | Hey howdy doo, I'm trying to get a PC to boot up and I keep getting the same thing it just gives me a [COLOR="Red"]blinking _[/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]What would be a reason for this?[/COLOR] ?????????????????????????? [COLOR="Green"]I tried a different hard drive Swapping the PIII Processors Swapping ram all from a working … |
| | I have a gateway solo 2500 i bought from eBay, it did work when i got it and did for about three weeks then crashed, it just wouldn't boot back up, i remember i was using it and i closed the lid so the baby wouldn't play with the keys … |
| | turn on computerand i get windows starting up then goes blank and restarts on it own all the time i have tried everything i have packard bell with windows xp it keeps going into start windows normaly and all the others tried alll them so looked thru the manual and … |
| | I recently had to get a new hard drive - now when I put my SanDisk 2.0 GB memory card into the slot to look at photos, every single time, my computer freezes up. I am running XP home edition - and this never was a problem before I got …  |
| | I have previously had no problems backing up my C drive and occassionally restoring it using Nero 8 BackItUp. Last time I tried to back up the C drive using Nero I had a string of failures. I then installed Acronis True Image Home 11 and was unable to back … |
| | I have a 1 year old HP DV6500 laptop with Vista premium. No issues until several weeks ago. May be related to updates since it just started occuring? When laptop goes into hibernation/sleep by itself and is pulled out of this mode the following occurs (manually putting into sleep appears … |
| | I have two hard drives with XP installed in both and I want get rid of XP on one. I don't know much, I formatted the 2nd hard drive with the Windows XP CD and it installed XP along formatting. I ended up having to pick from 2 options all … |
| | Hi, I've got a removable hard drive I loaded at of my stuff onto. And after plugging it into my TV via the usb connection to watch a film from it (which worked briefly) Then after plugging it into my computer and I seem to remember at first I could … |
| | My original HD crashed. Restored backup on new drive. Some corruption on backup. Ran chkdsk /r from repair/restore windows CD. This finished and indicated all repaired and restored. Rebooted and windows (Dell 2400 desktop OS XP 2)) gave me choice of starts. I choose safe mode. Bootup proceeded to user … |
| | Ok here goes, I have been working with this computer for like 2 weeks now, every time i go to install windows it will go through formatting then when it goes to the installing the files needed at the boot screen sometimes it will go thought the whole process and … |
| | I can't start up my computer at all. I got a new SATA 500gb HD and installed it, BIOS detects it. I am trying to install windows XP on it but it keeps freezing when its loading everything, although sometimes i can get to where you press S to load … |
| | Ah. Yes... Another dead machine I'm afraid... When I start my Compaq Presario 6000 series desktop all I get is something like "Disk read error press ctrl, alt, delete to restart." There was a blue scream of death but it was too quick for me to note the code and … |
| | Okay, so here's basically what happened. Most of this was fault on my part.. So I was trying to clear a virus that kept reappearing in my computer, so I deleted some system files, believing them to be malicious. What I didn't know was, I think some of them were … |
| | A while back i bought my computer with an 80 gig Hard Drive in it. I was for and is still used for Gaming. But a bunch of bad stuff happened to it, and some how after i fixed it all i was left with was One 10 gig Hard … |
| | Hi everyone. I'm new here, a friend of mine suggested that i come here and tell you all about my problem so that you can try to help me. Thanks in advance, and here goes: Laptop: I think i have a spyware type virus on my laptop. I don't know …  |
| | HI PC Guru's, I've got a stack of old Dell Optiplex GX1's (I hate the antiques but they seem to work with a program we have running here) that I'm swapping a good hard drive through each of them. Some have easy fixes, but I ran across 1 of them … |
| | Hi, My name is Mike. I have been collecting and using used Macintosh Computers for about 10 years. I have everything from a MacSE running System 7.5.3 to 2 G4s Running the latest OSX software. But it gets better... ALL of these computers are hooked up to a home network …  |
| | Needing help from you Guru's Here's the deal my son calls from his moms house and says his computer keeps going to the safe mode screen so I pick the PC up & sure enough no matter what you do it stays at safe mode screen if you try to … |
| | Hi, Have a iqon pc that was working all ok one day and then turn it on and nothing. I have stripped out everything all cards, disconnected CD_Rom, Hard drive etc and removed memory. No Beeps when memory removed ? Have nothing on the screen at all and keyboard not … |
| | Had a e-machine brought to me, was told it was garbage. Installed a floppy drive, booted to 98 startup disk, fdisk(fat 32), formatted drive and started with win 95. ran setup, said it was rebooting , then it hung during "starting windows for first time", Sigh, so I finally found … |
| | OK, i built a new computer, and it was the 5th one i built, the first 4 i built had no problems at all...and still dont after 1-2 years of use... Anyway, this one keeps getting the motherboard burned...at first i thought it was the video card thats burning, so … |
| | Hi Hope you can help – I’m just about ready to throw the thing out of the window. I built this computer 4 years ago and have had no problems, until last week when it started freezing on the post screen (the one that usually flashes on before Windows starts … |
| | I had a previous thread and have resolved it for now but I am looking for some advice on problems with my HD. I had a dual boot system and my primary hard drive was a Wetern Digital 80 GB and my secondary was a Maxtor 80 GB. Before my … |
| | hi, my sony vaio notebook.. i was use well. when i shutdown few hours later when i am try to turn on just power light is blinking and hard drive get power but notebook fan or screen doesn't work. how i am available to solve this problem. |
| | I currently have two hard disks in my computer: c: - running vista operating system no problems - Primary master - (80gb) d: - completely empty - Secondary Slave - (200gb) And obviously a dvd drive (Secondary master). My aim is to put XP onto d: as it is blank. … |
| | The swivel broke on Gateway Tablet cx2618 running XP and for some reason the laptop wont boot up at all now. Before I submit it to Bestbuy for service, I would like to get as much as my info off as possible. It takes bestbuy three weeks for repairs. I … |
| | I got a Toshiba satellite a105-s100 laptop. It has 2 memory cards in it right now. Both 256. I bought 2 2gig cards and put them in. When I start the laptop the power button lights up I hear the hard drive start then three little lights around the keyboard … |
| | I wanted to confirm that why does a Computer running WinXP OS automatically restarts? Does it restart because of power or voltage fluctuation in Power Supply or there could be other reasons as well? One of the hardware technician in my area told me that even bad sector in a … |
| | Hello, i am new here in this forum,and I always visited in this thread and reading those post will help me a lot to fix some problem related in computer, but then till i experience this kind of problem and i don't even know on how to fix it .My … |
| | HEy Gang I have a UWAVE motherboard with 3 pc133 ram sticks128mb ea, I was able to boot from a cd and format the hard drive in both fat32 and ntfs, at different times, but both time as it restarted there would only be a blank screen shown. no beeps … |
| | I have run into a very interesting, not to mention frustrating issue when trying to start up windows. It all started when I was transporting my pc in the back seat of my car. It may have gotten bumped around a little. Now when I try to start it up, … |
| | [QUOTE=natalieb;229428]Hi, Hi I have PC with 1.7 Ghz, and Intel 845GVAD2 M/B. I face problems of not detecting hard drive, cd room, and LAN card. Such problems occur daily and I cure them by pluging/unpluging the device and cables. [LIST]I want to confirm wether It is the problem on mother … |
| | MY FRIENDS, iM TRYING TO DO AS ASKED. BUT MY COMP IS A BOOKERS ORIGINAL. OKAY I CLEANED MY HARD DRIVES DID THE MALWARE TRICK. BUT I GOT PROGRAMS IN ADD AND REMOVE THAT CANT BE REMOVED. I WAS ABLE TO START MY COMP WITH OUT USING THE ABORT BAT … |
 | I have the following system configuration: [LIST] [*]Ultra aluminus midtower case [*]Ultra X-Pro 600watt APFC psu (80 PLUS certified) [*]Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L Motherboard with F4 BIOS [*]Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 with [B]stock cooler[/B] [*]PNY 2gb ddr2-800 ram [*]120gb hard drive [*]HIS Radeon HD2600PRO Ice-Q 512MB Video Card [*]Single 120mm rear …  |
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