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| | Hi, i'm having trouble booting my computer up. When i try to boot it up, it shuts off by itself after a few seconds. If it goes longer, it gets to about the Windows loading screen, and then the monitor says "No Source" and then i have to reboot again. … |
| | I recently received an 80gig hard drive from my friend's dead dell computer and decided to see if it still worked. I dissected an external USB 250gig hard drive, found a parallel ribbon cable and cannibalized an old power supply for a parallel power cable. I connected the mess together … |
| | So for a while I've fighting with Windows Explorer Whenever I have a window open and I close it, Explorer completely crashes and I have to re-initialize it At first I thought it was a hard drive problem because my computer had been packed because I was doing some editing …  |
| | My computer's motherboard got toasted so I replaced it with new one. Everything is still attached just like before. The hard disc(with windows XP installed), CDROM, same 1gb DDR RAM(checked the new motherboard's compatibility and it should work fine).. etc. Now, whats interesting is that I checked CMOS setup and … |
| | If I have a hard disk with more than 50% free space, will it become slower if I consume 30% more disk space? Why or why not? It never made sense to me that more free disk space would equal better performance as long as programs aren't running in the … |
| | I've searched all over this site and found simular problems like mine but not exactly so I thought I would ask. When I turn my computer on (I have XP ) it takes forever to load and the hard drive is going ninty miles an hour, I get an error … |
| | Hi guys, I'm experiencing windows explorer error everytime i open movies folder in my external Hardisk. I tried to search google and found one person with exactly the same problem [url]http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/removable-media-drives/228830-windows-explorer-error-when-opening-movie-external-hd.html[/url] Will format the external Hard drive solve the problem? |
| | Hi, my computer has been running extremely slowly in the past couple of days. I have all the proper programs, but the errors they are deleting do not seem to be fixing the computer. Instead of a hardrive as my C drive, I have a red X. Many spybot errors …  |
| | How do I define whats in my computer- motherboard, ram, hard drive,graphic card and sound card as i need to sell it with all its internal information . |
| | Hi, Im using windows XP home edition at the moment. Recently I use bit torrent and download like 3GB files everyday which is stored in my C: drive. 2 days ago, when i tried to move the file i just finished download from C: to my external hardisk but windows … |
| | I am a novice and I need some big help. I can no longer use IE as no matter what site I try to access I am redirected to either "http:///" or "http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?p="NAME OF SITE ENTERED"&fr=chr-nick I downloaded Hijackthis and the following is the scan results. Can anyone please help … |
| | hey i have a Maxtor 80GB external hard drive and i went to use it the other day and this 'windows script host' box popped up, saying; "Loading script "F:\.MGT_reg32.dll.vbs" failed (Access is denied)" i then ran AVG and it said it was a 'VBS/small' virus but AVG wouldnt fix … |
| | Have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 1600 that has ceased to be. Green power light comes on when plugged into AC, but when I press power the power light blinks amber and the laptop does nothing. No noise, no screen, no POST, no nothing. I pulled the battery and AC and … |
| | HI! For my sins i have a vaio S1, It worked great for the first year and a bit I had it, but now, it has become unreliable! Sometimes it just will not power up! The leds at the bottom of the keyboard tells me that the power is on … |
| | Help? I have a Dell Dimension 9100. I replaced the hard drive now it wont bootup! PC lights come on drive lights come on But no screen! Monitor Power light blinks off and on. like if its not connected but it is! Can some one help me to get a … |
| | I have a 2nd HD that I would like to install along with my existing one. Do I need to install an OS on it also? If so..should I unplug the working one first. Or can I leave it in and plug the 2nd one in without causing any distress … |
| | Please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong location I am new to the site and new to working on computers. I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a 1GHZ Pentium 3 processor and I'm running Windows XP Professional with a 20GB hard drive. It has an ethernt … |
| | I'm going to build a new computer soon, and I want to keep the contents of my master hard drive as is. (With all programs, settings, and etc..in working order) Do I have to do anything special for the hard drive swap to the new motherboard? I've read I have … |
| | Hi. I am looking for vba or vb code to unassign, assign, switch, drive letter. The hard disc will be identified by its serial number or by its name. Thanks in advance. asihuay  |
 | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Turn Off Indexing to Speed Up XP [/color][/size][size=2]Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard drive it is faster. There is a … |
| | Hello everyone I need to pick some brains, I have a Toshiba Satellite 2400-103 laptop which I purchased approx 3 years ago. Everything with the laptop has been fine until last week. I was using my laptop in my office, packed it away and took it home. When I started … |
| | Hi Im at a loss to a solution for my problem ..so here goes. Having played about with he registry entries for my drives, Ive suceeded in wipeing the registry entries for them :/ (attempting to boot quicker after pen drives being added and removed over a period) I now … |
| | my hard drive strt making unusual noise i think it is time to change i bought a new hrde drive and i have a problem to transefer whole data to the new one , is any body help with thise please thank u  |
| | Can someone review my log and advise what files I would need to delete? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:57:10 PM, on 3/13/2008 Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16609) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\sttray.exe … |
 | I am running out of disk space and want to know if there is a way to use a partition software like powerquest partition magic to remove the hp recovery partition and transfer the space to my real hard drive |
| | I am using xmlhttp via VBscript to upload files to a sharepoint directory. I know there are much better ways to do this but I have several constraints that have forced this solution. I have been able to decode a base 64 file properly, write it to a file (i.e. … |
| | Hi and hello to everyone im new here and am quite a novice looking for help!!!! I recently installed Vista Ultimate over my old xp as i liked the look of vista, all is good apart from i have no sound at all. I have ttried installing drivers again updates … |
| | I have Vista and XP Pro installed on one HD on my duel boot system. They have been working for one year without any problem but since last week Win XP will not boot. When I get to the bootloader screen i still have a choice of which system to … |
| | Howdy folks, recently, a slew of Adware, Trojans, and Malware in general has left my laptop nearly useless. Google searches are being hijacked, AntiVrius software isn't working, My System Restore points have all been deleted, and all Tech Support websites have been blocked. So, I've decided just to go with … |
| | Do you have a SATA disk drive in your computer ? If so, you can squeeze a little more performance out of your hard disk. This speeds up the performance of your hard disk by enhancing write caching. However, if your computer is not connected to a battery backup and …  |
 | I have a Compaq Presario desktop PC model SR1053WM, and it has one of those power supplies that has a little green indicator light right on it, on the machine back. One day that light started flashing and the computer will not turn on. I found a good page about … |
| | Hello there, I turned on my Mac today at it says My external hard drive isn't at sound volume or something like that, it allows me to play itunes but not my protools stuff. Any help? Thanks for any help. Bmora96 |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 4550 which originally gave an error message at start up that said it could not find the hard drive. I opened up the machine and checked te connections, I see that there is power to the mother board, yet the power button is now inactive. … |
| | Hi, Im using windows XP home edition right now. Couple of weeks ago I started using torrent. When I diagnose the computer using system mechanic professional. It says "error is detected in ur hard drive". Starting from that point, my transfer speed for file (e.g. copy files, deleting files to … |
| | Hi. This is a really strange one. Sorry about the length, but there's a lot to digest. WindowsXP computer with 200Gb HDD and 2 partitions and AMD3500+ and was running well. At startup one day it suddenly started to reboot once it got to the Windows logo. Safe mode etc … |
| | So, I have a Macbook and one day for absolutely no reason it would not load the OS (Gray screen with question mark in the center). So I loaded via OS CD and I come to find that the hard drive (60GB) is dead. I called their support line, product … |
| | My grandmother has a Dell Dimension 4500S it was working very well but a few weeks ago start acting crazy. When I turn the power on, the machine boot-up ok, but after the windows XP logo appears the display goes blank and then nothing else happens, the lights on the … |
| | I am trying to troubleshoot a computer I built a couple of years ago and it is kicking my butt. After working fine for the first two years, it now stops with a blank screen after the bios screen. I have replaced or switched out the motherboard, memory and hard … |
 | Ive have been having some problems with my computer -once in a while the bottom bar with go to the original grey and i will lose all sound -when i am typing sometimes the letters wont appear and they will start to show up somewhere else (even while writing this … |
| | I have got a HP Pavillion laptop and yesterday it has developed an annoying problem. I was justing exiting an application and just nipped to the toilet, when I came back to it the windows loading screen was frozen on the machine. I reset the machine and it started to … |
| | Hey, Im a multimedia student and looking for my first laptop, Its going to need to be pretty high spec something roughly around: • Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo processor or AMD Turion 64 X2 • Windows Vista Home Premium • 1/2Gb memory • hard drive capacity of between 100 …  |
| | Hi I have a Toshiba Portege M405 Laptop that is just over a year old and just out of warranty. The problem is that about 90% of the time when I hit the button to turn it on all that happens is the power light comes and nothing happens. Other …  |
| | due to a windows problem i need to back up my master hard drive before i reinstall . I can connect it to another pc as a second HD fine, i can access my user folder in documents and settings using the network sharing option but i cant access the … |
| | I am running linux XP 2006 on Microsoft Virtual machine 2007. I am unable to connect to vista running on my physical hard drive. Can anyone tell me how to do this, I need you to help me out, please. |
| | Finally retiring old PowerPro 225 running OS 8.5. Getting a bomb on startup with message that there is a bus error. Will boot with original CD, but won't allow a reinstall, stating that the hard drive is locked. Will boot with extensions disabled, but can't get on network to copy … |
| | Mesh system built Oct 2006. AMD 64 AM2 cpu, Asus M2n32-sli deluxe motherboard, 2 x 1gb kit PC2 7200 OCZ2N9002GK Dual CH EPP 4.4.3.15 DDR2 memory, NVidia Geforce 7950 GX2 graphic card, PSU HEC 550w. My Son dragged this wreck - sorry rig - home this Christmas when he said … |
| | I have a motherboard which supports: 2 x Serial ATA/300 SATA, 1 x Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) IDE and a SATA2 Hard drive, to they make converters to connect the SATA2 to one of my existing ports listed above? Thanks in advance.. |
| | Hello everybody. First off, apologies if this thread is in the wrong section of the forums. Well, as my thread title already states, the problem that I am currently having is that my computer freezes randomly. Admittedly, most of the time my computer freezes are when I’m either playing a … |
 | Will 585 PS be enough for this system? Biostar TForce TF7025-M2 Motherboard AMD64 X2 4200+ 2.2Ghz Dual Core Processor GeForce 7800 gs Graphix Card 2GB High-Speed DDR2-800 Memory 80GB Hard Drive With 2 Stock Case Fans Basically I am turning my old gaming PC into a web browsing and dling … |
| | My school uses very old pentium 4 based pc's that run as slow as a turtle, and i am tired of it. i want to know how to over clock it without messing up the hardware, or getting caught. the specs i know of are: 256 or 512mb ram 40 … |
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