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| | Hi guys, It sounds common as muck but I'm really stuck on this problem and have been for weeks, despite having been on the phone to Netgear for hours. I have a home network running 3 computers off a Netgear DG834GT ASDL Modem Router. I have one wired PC (running … |
| | My Toshiba Sattelite A55 S26 has been working like a champ for over 3 years, For some reason it has failed to boot today. The F12 key does nothing, before I buy a new hard drive and start from scratch anyone have any ideas? |
| | Hello experts here! I got a odd problem here, and really need your kindly help... Recently I have discovered that my computer went down, I supposed my primary master hard drive may died, because I can't hear it spin when I turn on the computer... so I took the 2 … |
| | Hi, If there is anyone out there who can shed light on why this has happened and more importantly how to fix it I will be forever in your debt! Basically, I am a student photographer and have taken loads of live images of gigs at a club. The club … |
 | Allo-ha, friendlies! This was a custom-built job completed at the end of last year. It had been working absolutely fine, booted up with no probs at all at least three times already today. No internal changes. The only change made was to plug a dvi-vga cable into the extra monitor-out …  |
| | Hello All, I thought I would try to post here as I am stumped with this problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite M45-S359 Laptop. It is in good condition and worked perfectly for about a year with no problems until last week. Best laptop I have ever owned. Last week … |
| | Can someone help? Trend Micro PC-cillin is giving me messages that I've attempted to open dangerous Web sites, although I haven't tried to go to those sites. They include codecservice1.com and us01.xmlsearch.findwh. My HijackThis log is: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:22:51 AM, on 7/18/2008 Platform: …  |
 | I'm getting a list together of what I want for a pc... can anyone help with compatibility/suggestions for hardware? Ok, this is what I'm going to get (I'm doing up a new list completely based on compatibility) for a motherboard/proc: Asus M2A-VM AMD Motheboard CPU Bundle - AMD Athlon 64 … |
 | I removed the CMOS battery trying to clear charge but now I get this message when I try to boot: CMOS Settings Wrong CMOS Checksum Bad CMOS Display Type Wrong Unlock Keyboard Press F1 to run Setup Press F2 to load default values and continue ================= This system was my … |
| | I was having difficulty with an extremely low framerate on a new MMO (Age of Conan). One of the suggested fixes on the AoC forums was to download the updated nVidia drivers for my 7200 video card, then download a program called driver sweeper, run driver sweeper with a checkbox … |
| | I have an old 366 MHz clamshell Indigo iBook, and it's got OS 10.3.9 on it. There's a Firewire port on this clamshell, but no DVD, so to try and put OS 10.4 on it I wanted to use Target Mode, which seems to be pretty straight forward, and use … |
| | Hi can someone please explain to me how to install a software application in linux? i have a cd with asterix on it. i am reasonably sure that i would be able to install it once i have it on the harddrive(i attended an asterix course recently) but currently the … |
| | I got a nasty little virus so I deleted my hard drive but I restarted my pc before it finished formatting (STUPID) now I cant format it at all when I go into set up windows XP it believes the disc isn't in the machine when it is. Can anyone … |
| | my computer is a compaq presario with xpsp3 and 256 ram. i used driveimage xml to create a backup image of my hard drive C:. do i also need to make a backup of my hard drive D:? i thought the D drive was specifically to make a "one time" … |
| | My gateway 500sb computers hard drive recenlty crashed as in, its toast. I now have another hardrive- Western Digital 400- 40 gb. Now when i start to install windows XP it says "No hard disc found, please make sure it is connected blah blah blah." I made sure it is … |
| | This is probably going to be long but I'l try to explain as best I can. I broke my laptop about 2 months ago, and according to my friend who fixed it, my harddrive had "clusters'. my hard drive is a SATA 80gb with 2 partitions: 1 for OS and … |
| | I recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp pro. After putting on all my data and programmes i released i had no sound on the computer. There is no icon on the taskbar and device manager at the sigmatel high defination audio codec there is a question mark. … |
 | Which of these PCs is better (both have: ultra aluminus midtower, ultra xpro 600w, dual 120mm fans) Option 1 (AMD Based): * Asus M2A-VM Motherboard * AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ overclocked to 3ghz with 1mb cache * zerotherm butterfly cpu cooler * 4gb corsair twinx 800mhz ram * 500gb …  |
| | Ok I wanna play this game and its a culmination of a long desire to upgrade my new computer Called Age of Conan...My budget is about up $500 heres the requirements Required OS: Windows Vista/XP Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV RAM: 1GB RAM Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: … |
| | Hi, this is my pc configuration: intel p4 3.4ghz asus p5nsli mobo 4gb 667mhz mem 1 maxtor 60gb hdd ide 2 seagate 250gb hdd sata dvd-burner asus 512mb 128-bit graphic card my problem is that couple of days ago i tried to set up my seagate hard disks as raid … |
| | During the boot process (W2k, 500gb maxtor hd, 1gb ram, 1.8 ghz AMD), computer launched Checkdisk to repair a problem, which it had done once before a month, or so ago, successfully. Not the case this time. Checkdisk was unable to fix the problem! I tried to reboot, but Windows … |
| | Hey, Nanino here. Recently, after a power outage, my computer's keyboard stopped responding to anything. I've tried multiple keyboards, but none of them work now. Though when I connect them the num lock/caps lock/scroll lock lights all blink then turn off, which makes me think the keyboards are still recieving … |
| | I have a major problem. Spybot Search and Destroy had finished scanning my computer (Dell Dimension e520 running Windows XP service pack 2). I then clicked on it to fix the problems it found, and started doing something else on Tradestation. A short time later, a message popped up on … |
| | I'm planning to get back into Web Development after a 6+ year leave. I know that I want to do .Net development and I know that I will be able to re-learn everything pretty quickly, but I need a laptop that is capable of doing development work. I'd appreciate any … |
| | Hey guys am not bad with computers but so far am unable to solve this promblem. I reinstall windows xp but so far none of the audio drivers i used work. this driver causes the system to restart "WDM_R200" the board is a gateway e-4000 and the audio drivers on … |
| | Hi, I have managed to set up my domain using windows server 2003 with the domain controller installed, and then i have sucessfully managed to connnect all the other computers to that. My question is thought, how do i get is so that all of the users save to the … |
 | Hi everyone, Have a strange problem with my dual boot. Vista and XP are both on the same hard drive. Vista is partition C: and XP is partition F: Vista was installed first, then I added XP. Used easyBCD to create a bootloader allowing me to choose which OS to …  |
| | ok ill start from the start. my login was taking longer than usual and usually wen this happens the net wont work but dw about that for now. so during the login i press the restart button on my computer. so after it just keeps searching to boot from cd … |
| | Please help. Stein's posting on how to reformat a hard drive was most helpful. I was able to complete it and install windows XP. Immediately after light use, the computer froze and I did a hard shut down. Now when I turn the computer on, the monitor displays nothing. I … |
| | Hi everyone, I am new here and I have been trying to fix this on my own for a week now... I am not very experienced, however I've read through some previous threads and tried a few things based on previous advice to other unlucky people with the same symptoms... … |
| | Hello guys, I have a VAIO laptop that came with Vista and other Sony SW I ran Killdisk and wrote "0"'s to entire hard drive. Tried to load XP Pro, and after a minute of loading drivers, it asks if I want to load Windows. I select yes, and it … |
| | I have just purchased a 400 GB USB hard drive. I have "ghosted" my Drive E containing Vista using "Acronis True Image", and I am tring to boot from this external drive. I have reconfigured the BIOS to boot from this first, but it does not work. I get "NTLDR … |
| | hi i figured that posting on a forum would get me better advice than my friends who know nothing about computers. i have an acer travelmate which is my pride and joy, and lately its just been getting slower and slower, when i click to ope a programe my hard … |
| | I am trying to repair my friends notebook. He dropped it off his house (I didn't ask). It is in perfect physical condition. It will boot from the bios but after like 5 seconds or so it just goes off. I removed the hard drive and it still does the … |
| | Hi All, First I'll give you the specs. Its a brand new computer I am building with all brand new parts. AV3A XFX 650i SL Ultra OCZ 1 GB Dual Channel DDR2, 2x1024mb, PC6400, 800mhz PD925, 3.0Ghz, 4MB cache, 800FBS, Dual Core Socket 775 WD 320 Serial Hard Drive Sanyo … |
| | Okay.. first off.. I came home from work and my roomate used the pc.. I had firefox loaded, but I guess they used IE.. I get home and there is 10 IE boxes open.. w/ the lil spill about "you have been infected" press okay to scan or something another.. …  |
| | Hey everyone, This is my first post here and I must say that I'm very happy I found this place. Well here is my issue. Yesterday my mother was cleaning my room and managed to strike the side of my PC case which happened to have a side USB port … |
| | My PC is having problems...and by that I mean it crashed and wont turn back on (dead). Basically...it gives off the burning smell when you take off the case. I tried taking everything off the Motherboard (even the CPU), and just plugging in the Power Supply to it, and a … |
 | I am building a htpc and using a ecs elitegroup nforce 6100 mobo and I think it might have died. The fans spin, the ide drive and the hard drive spin and so does the fan on my graphics card. However it wont light up the network lights when I … |
| | Will running FIXMBR in the recovery console affect the data that is on a drive or should the drive be backed up as much as possible before doing this? |
| | Hello everyone I am new to the site with what it seems to be a common error with this model. I own a Compaq Presario 2100. Its been thru a 13 month deployment in Iraq recently. Needless to say I am encountering a Boot up error. My system will not … |
| | Hey, I was using my computer, and it was working nicely and normally when it freezed for no apparent reason. I had one program running at the time...the mouse was working alright, all its functions were still there; same with the keyboard; except the mouse was invisible. The pointer was … |
| | Okay, aside from the snide topic, I'm sitting here working on a computer that has been shown some SmitFraud, SpyAxe, and Vundo love, and I noticed a startup item in msconfig called buritos.exe. Imagine my curiosity. Turns out, googling buritos.exe turns up NOTHING. I know, I'm shocked and amazed, but … |
| | Hi there Some one monitoring my computer. I don't know how but some one can see my messenger conversations and knows when I'm online on net. I suppose I have monitoring software in my computer. I formatted my hard drive, flashed bios, but seems this software not removed. Where it … |
| | Receiving these messages...Error Message on Start-up... RUNDLL: Error loading C:\windows\system32\irnffkpc.dll...and another for njkdqtbd.dll I can not find these files to remove them. C:\WINDOWS\System32\alg.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe C:\Documents and Settings\Chris\Desktop\Utility\Registry Booster.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\SearchProtocolHost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = [url]http://www.comcast.net/[/url] R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = … |
| | Hi guys Ohk this one I havent spent some time on yet but I can tell that this is not gonna be a good one.Ohk problem is a friend of mine has a Gigabyte mobo and is experiencing a the following when starting his machine [COLOR="Green"]Scanning BIOS image in Hard … |
| | Hi. My version of windows has been running slow lately. For example, when I try to alter the wifi network settings, it slows to a crawl. Also, my wallpaper has been locked to a fake bluescreen due to a virus. The virus involved a program called Antivirus XP 2008, which …  |
| | hello, this is a small tip or how to on the following if you have ever crashed a computer namely xp, and wanted the data, have you ever thaught of just putting it as a slave on another computer? well there is one problem with this, xp protects certain things … |
| | Yeah. I am not sure the policy on here about talking about this kind of stuff so forgive me if I am not supposed to but I am curious about something. Any someone gave me this older Compaq computer that is a Deskpro EN 733mhz, Pent III,128 meg of RAM. … |
| | Hey, I have a maxtor 150 gig hard drive. Its running on xp system with 1gig ram so pretty decent. I was working on something and then the system crashed so i restarted. Then it did a system check on E drive (the external hard drive) The drive was normally … |
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