4,937 Topics
 | |
| | Hello and HELP, does anyone know what this post error code means and what it is directed at CPU, hard drive, memory, etc. What ever it is it just freezes my machine and will not let me do anything except turn it off using the power button. This is a … |
 | Good day. I'm trying to get the parts to build a desktop computer. I've got a few questions: 1. What determines what size (watts) power supply I'll need? 2. Is it better to have case fans for fans for the individual components...a fan for the RAM, a fan for the … |
| | Hello all, I have a Compaq Armada M700, and it has a rather odd problem :) When it is powered on, sometimes it will show a white screen, and make all the right noises. I know the white is the screen, as it works on an ext. screen and boots … |
| | Hello everyone, I stumbled upon the site via google and it looks great so far. Okay, as for my problem, my parents' custom PC (my old one) doesn't seem to work except in Safe mode at the moment. I came home two days ago and plugged in a used usb … |
| | OK - I have read a lot of threads - however - I have spent hours troubleshooting this - and I have it down to this - my SATA hard drive is causing my power supply to shutdown after about 4 - 5 seconds of booting up. My original power …  |
| | My computer was on in the morning and out of no where a blue screen reading "Unmountable Boot Volume" popped up. I tried rebooting, but the same screen appeared over and over. I put in my Windows XP Home Edition disk, and I tried repairing it using the steps from … |
| | My computer details: CPU AMD athlon 64 3500+2.2Ghz/512kB, FSB 1000MHz,Soc. 754/939 Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro SLI Soc939/n74/2xPCIe/4xSA II/8xH/1394b/GL RAM:512 DDRAM 400MHz apacer PC3200, cl2,5,AM1 x2 HDD: 300GB maxtor DM Plus 10 6L300S0 SA/9/7200/16mb graph card: VGA 256MB HIS Excalibur X800GTO IceQ II Turbo, PCIe,500/1000,256bit,TVout,DVI So the problem started when i start … |
| | [COLOR=black]Hello, I have a Maxtor 5000Le 80GB external unit. I am running Windows XP Pro. I've had this unit for years and it has been great. About a month ago my computer locked when booting and after checking out all my external hardware, I found out that this unit had … |
| | I am trying to load windows 2000 onto a HP Pavilion XT923. I booted with the windows cd and reformatted the hard drive and loaded the OS. Now that I have done that none of my network adapters will work, not my modem nor my nic. I looked at my … |
| | We have 64 gigs on our computer and geek squad didn't even hook it up to another computer to see if it would then and they said thatit would cost $99/8gigs for recover y and my dad won't go with it I've got things on there like docs that I … |
| | :@ My system crashed & I subsequently had to replace the hard drive. I used to have Outlook 2000. The tech guy installed Outlook 2002 when he loaded everything again. I couldn't open any regular attachments (like jokes from my friends). Okay, so after searching all over the web for … |
| | i was having problems getting the sound to work and i was looking for the markings on the mother board. i removed the hard drive and replaced it. when i tried to boot it back up nothing came up on the screen and there was no hard drive activity what … |
| | Well first off ima newb... =) i came across your forums while surfing for a solution for my dead laptop issue and your site seemed promising. the laptop is a 4 year old compaq presario 2100 and from what i understand just stopped working one day about a year ago. …  |
| | Hello All, I have, for far too long, been using a Linksys EFG 80 for network storage. I had 2 hard drives, set for Raid 1 (I think, whichever makes the one drive copy the other, not striped for speed). Anyway, the device has died and I can no longer … |
| | My external hard drive has been acting very strangely for the past few days, and I can't figure out what the problem is. The drive disappears intermittently from my system, then reappears as an "unformatted" drive, which is inaccessible via My Computer and recovery tools. If I unplug the drive's …  |
| | Hey so i think im having problems with the size of drives. my 250g drive shows as 230g and my 500g drive shows as 465g. is this normal? i know it should take of some space but really that much? and also a 4.7g dvd shows as 4.3 so i … |
| | Problem statement : My Seagate Ext HDD fan/electrics died, & I need to recover the files on the hard drive. HDD appears OK. I read somewhere that I could take the HD out of the Seagate enclosure & connect it to my PC (Dell Dimension 2400) after I had removed … |
| | Hello there,bout a year ago my pc packed up and i was gutted because i had hard drives in there that had loads of music files pictures etc.Well last week i bought myself a laptop and also a intergral external enclosure to put my old hard drives in to transfer … |
 | Hi, I'm looking to increase my storage and I'm looking into an external hard drive. Just wondering what people recommend and if they have had any problems with heat? I've tried a hard drive enclosure with one of my internal HD and but stops working when it gets hot. I'm … |
| | Hi All, I have a free version of Retropect Express back-up software that came with my Western Digital external hard drive. I like this program better than Norton Ghost and was trying to determine if the $49.00 upgrade from Express to Professional was worth it. I can't tell by going … |
| | Running Outlook 2002 on XP Professional. I have lost my .pst file ?!?! Starting up Outlook as usual, no crash or anything unusual had happen edwhen I last used the machine and now I have no Outlook. The following error message comes up.... "Unable to Open Default Email Folders. C:/.............Outlook.pst … |
| | So as I will soon be going to college, I am searching for a suitable laptop. I am going into Computer Info Systems, so I need it to be something I can program on, etc... Also, being a high school kid, I'm poor, so I'm trying to spend 500-700 bucks …  |
| | Hi Everyone, I'm new here and I hoping that some of you smart people out there would help me build a good computer. I think I'm kind of late and limited my option a bit by posting this now since black Friday is 2 days away but I will take … |
| | I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2. My primary hard drive's SMART system tipped me off that failure was near, so I bought a new Western Digital, partitioned, formated, and mirrored my old failing drive to the new one. When I swapped the drives, it brought up a boot screen with … |
| | Hi, i have just upgraded my computer to 64bit after my last computer failed on me, i think that in the process of my last computer failing, windows must have corrupt as i can't load up windows with this hard disk - i just get a blue screen error straight … |
| | So, someone pretty much gave me a laptop a while back...a dell latitude... anyway, i was using it, and on the 3rd day, the screen went white and it froze. I turned it off, and when it went to boot again, it froze at the DELL "bios" loading screen, and … |
| | I have a user's laptop which is currently running XP Media Center. In order to connect his notebook to the domain, I have to reformat and reinstall as XP Pro. One problem... it appears that his hard drive is SATA and I can't get the XP install disk to see …  |
| | I decided to try and revive an old compaq presario 2264 pc that has been collecting dust in my basement for the last 4 years. We shelved it due to a corrupted hard drive so I installed an 80GB one that I took from a dead dell computer. To the … |
| | HELLO I would like to know how i do a complete fresh install of mac leopard on my man mini. It says in the disc utility that it is a 80 gig harddrive & come up as 74.8 , i know this is normal but i just want to make … |
| | I posted under a solved thread so I figured that I would start a new one. When I open firefox it keeps opening windows that say build yahoo toolbar. I read the solution to a similar problem on this forum so I downloaded and ran the hijackthis program. Here are … |
| | Hi all! I'm a new member, working on my friend's Dell Dimension 3000. It's about three years old, and never had any hardware changes other than a wireless card install. At first, it wasn't completing booting. It would go through the opening splash screen, but then would go to a … |
| | Help...this 100% Cpu Usage and "System" (not "system idle process") at 99 is driving me nuts. I have Windows XP for home. I've checked for viruses and found nothing. I've used the "PC doctor" that came with my computer to check for problems...nothing!!! I've reformatted the hard drive three times. … |
| | My girlfriend was moving files around on her computer, nothing big, just images. She then got the Blue Screen Of Death, and so she restarted the computer. When it restarted, it gave her the windows splash screen and then went to black and sat there. I restarted it with last … |
| | I have just bought a Maxtor 3200 usb external hard drive. It is formatted in ntfs. I have two operating systems Win98SE and XPHome. Both are formatted in fat32. I need to keep them both in fat32. However, I can't seem to format the hard drive in fat32 (doesn't give …  |
| | Hi everyone I recently discovered a little about computers in my vocational engineering program at my highschool and I guess I started using my Grandmothers desktop as my lab rat and I started off by adding like memory sticks from old broken computers to hers, that worked out fine, added … |
| | Hello, I am a new member to this forum. I hope it is ok to ask a question. I have a dell 942 all-in-one printer and I am trying to set up the fax service. I have at&t dsl setup with a filter on each phone jack. It was suggested … |
| | Hello everyone! I recently purchased a new hard drive and installed windows xp. Everything was doing great until i started playing GTA. At some points of the game the screen freezes and the sound turns to a horrible noise. I also discovered that also playing videos from the web( e.g. … |
| | I was given a 'working' Gateway 600ygr but without a hard drive. Well after finding one I started to load winxp. However when it gets to the screen to actually start installing or just repair an installation, I discovered the Keyboard does not work. Nothing, completely dead. This is really …  |
| | Hello All, I have an hp photosmart m7183c desktop at home (it's my brother's) and it's been running a lot slower than usual and the temps have been high (54C idle as of today) and it's driving me crazy!! Even two system recoveries in a row have not helped!! I … |
| | Sorry for the long post, but I'm trying to be as complete as possible. I'm working on a friend's 8200 which suffered a drop. It was in a padded briefcase on an airline seat and got bumped to the deck by a guy passing by. It was powered off at … |
| | Hi everyone. I CAN NOT GET ANY OPERATING SYSTEM TO RUN ON MY OLD COMPUTER, and I suspect it MAY be video-related first of all, here are my current specs: -P3 ~933mhz -256mb RAM -30gb hard drive -CD-RW drive -ATI RAGE PRO 128 ~ 64mb AGP video memory -on-board video …  |
| | Alright, here's the deal. Don't ask me about my reasons for installing Mac OS X on this notebook, or how, please. I just need help with partitions. I have an img file that I would like to use [icode]dd[/icode] onto a partition on my harddrive. However, I have no idea … |
| | Hey Everyone There seens to be a problem with my pc and i cant find any reason for it, it was working fine just the day before and now it has slowed to a point where i cant even watch vids WMP take a long time to load up and … |
| | Dear All when i double click my any hard drive it does not open the drive but ask that which programe will open with windows show |
| | I was trying to install a Linux distro alongside my Tiger installation today. I stopped because I wasn't going to be able to install it without wiping the data off of my hard drive. Now, when I start up my computer, it has the flashing question mark folder. When I …  |
| | have you ever bought a pc with a large hard drive, and two days later , you come to find that a large chunk (about 15gb/103gb) of your new drive missing? Well, when this happened to me, i shutoff system restore, and as quick as day, i got my 15gb … |
| | I have an old IBM laptop 560X model 2640-60U. It has a Pentium 200MHZ processor with 96 Megs of ram. I have a Mobile CD PCMCIA CD Rom drive that I would like to use with this laptop. I do have a drivers floppy for this CD rom drive. I … |
| | Hey all, newbie here, have a question for ya. Machine: HP PAvillion 5218nr (2006) 80Gb HD 200Meg Ram (UG) And the ever lovely Celeron M I've read similar posts on the topic already but wonder whether there's a genuine problem uninstalling/deleting the HP system recovery partition if i have the … |
 | Hello everyone, *sigh* continous computer problems recently. I had a faulty hard drive replaced it with a 320 gb SATA seagate hard drive a little while ago(starting from scratch). The old hard drive kept refreshing; it was whirling down, then spinning, the whirling.. etc. After installing the new hard drive … |
| | ok, i have installed linux, ubuntu, everything works fine, but a few problems...my DSL wont work, i cant install any programs and it wont find my ethernet or even open up my external hard drive... is there an extention program that i can use to run .exe installations? cause i … |
The End.