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Hi I just installed a new hard drive on my laptop and up graded from windows xp to xp professional. Trouble is I can get internet through a LAN cable from my wireless router but no wireless. My laptop can connect to my network but cannot obtain an ip address. …

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I formated drive and partitioned the drive, installed windows xp and is back to it's old self, but if I change bios settings to boot from hard disk as first boot device instead of cdrom (for instaling win xp) I get a "boot disk failer" error. If I have it …

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Hey, I'm diligently trying to install a SATA hard drive (Western Digital 160GB) with my ASUS K8V SE Deluxe and the damn thing wont recognize it at all. I can only connect it with a SATA cable (no ribbon option, which is what the previous HDD was) and the motherboard …

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i was given a dell desktop computer that had the hard drive wiped clean, I installed the windows xp disk in the cd drive and it statred loading the operating system. while it was loading for about 5 minutes i had the great idea to wipe the dust off the …

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Hello good folks at Dani Web !!!! I hope I'm posting this in the right place, if I'm not, let me know and I'll repost it where I'm supposed to. I have a Dell Dimention 3000, Windows XP Home, 2.8GHz, 80 GIG hard drive A friend of mine gave me …

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Satellite 1135-s1554 laptop will not boot up from battery or power supply. The first time the error came up was in Sept. 06, since then it has been operating great. The first signs of trouble was the lcd screen display was garbled and you could correct the lcd display screen …

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I have a Dell Precision 360 desktop. It works just fine in every way, except that at the beginning of the boot process, right after the bios screen, I get a message that says: "Primary drive 0 not found. Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup …

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hello everybody once again thanks for your help, i just finish cleaning up my laptop and its running smooth, i needed help with my other pc here is a copy of hijack this, once again thanks for the prompt response this site is the best i will donate soon Logfile …

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Hey everyone, I've recently become the owner of a PowerBook G3, and decided to put gentoo linux on it. I'm forced to use BootX to boot to the installer. I can boot to the kernal, and BootX recognizes the ramdisk. However, partway through booting, the process sticks with the message: …

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Here is the story on what has happened. I was (stupidly) trying to download a TV show from LimeWire. It downloaded really quickly, which should have been my tip off. Doh! I don’t know why, but I opened it. AVG 7.0 caught that it was a Trojan and isolated it. …

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hello everybody thanks in advance for all of your help, here my situation, my nephew use my computer and i think he dowloaded a virus and now im having a few problems i need to know if i am infected here is a copy of my hijack this file, please …

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I started Python, imported Tkinter assigned Tk() to root, imported snack and initialized it. i then made a sound object, read a sound from the hard drive and then played it. i couldn't hear any sound though. any idea what the problem may be?

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last week i downloaded firefox using the link provided on the opening page of the dani web web site. But i had huge problems, as it came with sarchsave as the default search engine, which i didnt like so i tried to delete it but this was impossable as it …

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I had to do an fdisk and reformat my hard drive and now i'm having all kinds of problems I am trying to do a clean install using windows xp pro. after formatting hard drive I installed windows 98 it went through the whole install set up just fine then …

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When booting up my dell desktop, I recieved the following message "strike F1 to retry boot F12 for set up utility". I replaced the hard Drive and I still get the same message. The BIOS shows that the HD is there. Any hope for this machine?

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I have a toshiba satellte x205-sl1. I downloaded and updated the bios, but forgot to plug in the laptop and the battery died while rebooting, now i have nothing! The computer will power up and thats it no screen or hard drive nothing. Any ideas will be welcome. Thanks

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I recently had a start up problem with my Dell XPS 410 which I purchased in March 2007 and has a 250 GB Samsung SP2504C hard drive. I have partitioned the drive so my data is on one partion and the software on the primary partition. Fact is I started …

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I recently had a start up problem with my Dell XPS 410 which I purchased in March 2007 and has a 250 GB Samsung SP2504C hard drive. I have partitioned the drive so my data is on one partion and the software on the primary partition. Fact is I started …

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Hello, This is my first post on DaniWeb. I need Help with Bootcamp. I want to Run Windows Vista On my Macbook and Dual boot Osx tiger with it. I rolled back my clock on my computer so that I could run and install bootcamp. My problem is that whenever …

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my computer is about 4 or five years old and has an 80GB hard drive in it. when i right click on the C drive in my computer and click properties it shows i have 74.4 gb i figured it was just getting old but i ran HD tune 2.55 …

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Hi, I've got a Toshiba HDD2718 B ZE01 T Model MK2104MAV Hard Drive. I also have an interface connector to connect this HD into an IDE cable into my Desktop PC to enable me to load Win 95 / Win 98 OS onto the laptop HD. This connector joins 2.5 …

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can some one please help me. i got a dell as a second comp for my son to mess with. its a dell dimension 2100,pentium3,pc133 256mb,20g hard drive. this dell had windows 2000 so i formatted it,now i have tryed to install windows xp with no joy the CD drive …

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Have the above laptop, and it simply won't power on. Have done what Sony helpfully suggested and held down the power button for 15secs with and without the battery. Have tested the AC power and its reading a 19.5v. Hard drive is working ok with a 2.5" USB caddy - …

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I have a Memorex 1 GB flash drive and a Maxtor 500 GB external hard drive. Whenever I disconnect them and reconnect them, I either get an error saying "Can not find script file "<drive letter>:\nar.vbs"." or NOD 32 comes up and says that nar.vbs is a worm. I found …

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This is really a followup to a previous post that I did. Here is the situation. Lightning strike took out my dsl modem and router. No power response when trying to turn on the computer. I fugured the MOBO was fried since network card on MOBO. Got a new MOBO …

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Hey all good folks at Dani Web !!! I have a Dell Optiplex GX240, vertical standing desktop machine. Right now it only has 256 MB RAM and a 2.0GHz proc. I bought the machine as is. It came with everything original but it was missing a hard drive. I put …

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Hey guys, Looking to upgrade my hard drive, and not sure which of these two is faster- [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136260"]This 10,000rpm Western Digital[/URL] or [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822332008"]This HP 15,000rpm[/URL] What affects performance most? For example, does the 15k rpm designation mean that it can physically locate (access) any given file quicker than a 10k …

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I have 2 Toshiba A75 notebooks and they both have issues. One was onboard memory problems that I think I may have licked, but the other machine has a very strange problem. When I push the "on" button for the other machine, the fans start running, but the blue power …

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My power supply blew, which has also ruined the motherboard. I need to keep the hard drive, which has win98SE, due to some s/ware I use which I can't re- register. I need to get a new M/board, and would like a more powerful cpu such as Intel Q 6600. …

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hi I'm new to this group and I am looking for some help with my windows vista. I'm just back from two week holiday during which time the pc was switched off. I've tried starting up numerous times today and it just goes to blue screen and freezes. It won't …

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[B]My Problem:[/B] I have lots of virus & Trojan horses in my Pen drive. I don't have any valuable data though. If I plug in the drive in my USB port, the viruses do something & I loose my internet connectivity & it also occupies more space memory. Without knowing …

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Hello all I am trying to dual boot a Dell Latitude D600 with windows 98se and windows xp pro. I have partitioned and formated the hard drive and windows 98 loads ok until it gets to the following screen, Windfows 98 setup Windows is now setting up the following items: …

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I'm new to this site. Southern California is where I live. Surfing the 'Net is my number one hobby. It is amazing what one can find there. I found this site by accident while looking for an answer to how much space does email take up on my hard drive. …

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I just purchased a new HP with vista. Can I install XP onto the second hard drive and choose what hard drive to boot from? I'm finding that Vista does not support much of the software I use. Thanks for the help.

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We have a compaq presario V4000 laptop that my hubby uses for email and my 10 year old uses to play Runescape. One of the hinges on the case just broke, the LCD screen is showing lines in it and we're missing a few keys..... EXCEPT: It runs great for …

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Hello, Recently I have removed a 250GB hard drive from my old Pentium 4 machine to setup a Raid 0 with two other drives. I originally had that 250GB drive as the boot drive which worked with no problems. However, once I removed it and tried to use either my …

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I have an HP compaq nc6000 laptop. One day the system shut down on me. I tried to restart it but the only thing that happened was the light showing that power was going to the system came on as well as the fan. I left the computer alone overnight …

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I have an HP compaq nc6000 laptop. One day the system shut down on me. I tried to restart it but the only thing that happened was the light showing that power was going to the system came on as well as the fan. I left the computer alone overnight …

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Hi All I am currently using Vb Express.net 2008, MSSQL server express 2005 in conjunction with SQL server management express. I have created a database application within the express IDE, which I must say I am very happy with, as it was my first database app. I have now decided …

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I have a problem my comp starts up but no video, the motherboard light turns on hard drive reads the fans work for the vid card and everything else, and it doesnt POST either

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my hubby's computer died and can't get it to restart. it has vista on it it is a hp the hard drive just beeps and nothing. can you please help or tell me where to find help?

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Okay I am sorry if this is in the wrong area, please move it if it is. Basically my computer has been running fine, it has an asus m3e mother board 1g or ddr2, 500 gig hard drive yadadada. But two days ago I finally got a valid version of …

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Having a problem because I pulled the plug on an external hard incorrectly. I now keep getting the message: "The device you removed ____________you must first select its icon in the finder & choose eject from the file menu." Only problem is the Icon is not on the finder anymore …

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Ok.. So im still new to the computer world so be kind..Ive been looking into computer case mods.. And i am interested in making some modifications. Like a way cooler case than my current black shell.. I need to know that my mother board will fit into most cases ive …

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My comp died, so i bought a new mobo Now the lights will go on and fans will go on adn they stay on, Cd drive flashes and i can ope nand close it, but monitors not going on, and neither is the hard drive. Any reasons why? motherboards gettin …

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Philips MT5000. Spec as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6420 2.13GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB Cache Genuine Windows Vista(TM) Home Premium 2048MB RAM Memory 400GB Hard Drive Dual Layer DVD Re-Writer Drive 256MB ATI Radeon X1550 Graphics 802.11b/g Wireless Network Ready 8-In-1 Media Card Reader Switch it on - no …

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Hello everyone im in need of some serious help on my computer these days. Couple weeks ago, windows starts freezing up when i rebooted my computer. It gets to the point where it logs on to windows after a long period of time, i click to minimize my asus ai …

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I have a computer that started out with an error stating that the ntfs.sys file was missing or corrupted. I tried the guidelines in the MS Knowledge Base for renaming the file and copying the one from the XP CD. I did that about 5 times, but it did not …

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hi 2 u all im new2 this so plz be nice lol........... anyway i have no sound i go in to divce mang and i see a yellow ? on Multimedia Audio Controller and when i tryed 2 reinstall it it comes up with cant cuz windows cant find folders …

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I need some help understanding why I get these stop errors, and what I can do to fix them. I'll start with the first stop error that I'd have at random after closing an MMORPG. [QUOTE]A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to …

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