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| | I have a big problem. I've got a work laptop which is not booting up telling me it needs the file c:\windows\system32\bcmlogon.dll. I can't boot into safe mode as it needs the networking element to log in, and starting in safe mode with networking throws up the error. does anyone … |
| | Hi. I have a strange problem, which I never saw before and wasn't able to find anywhere alike one. What happened at first is I got some bad spyware and lot of it... My PC got completely messed up and after installing antivirus software and removing it - through my … |
| | My motherboard stopped working on my dell & I have lots of important pictures on my Hard drive so I got a USB thingy to make it an external hard drive. I have no problems with the computer recognizing the drive or accessing parts of what is on it. But …  |
| | hi, i have recently purchased and assemblied a diy computer. The problem is that it won't boot. the hard disk i am using is the same one i am using now, so i know it works, problem with hard drive controllers? the problem is i know next to nothing about … |
| | I reinstalled windows onto my C drive which is fine. However when THAT screen popped up for me to select which drive and to where and if I want to delete etc.....well previously I had the C drive partitioned so (in my eyes I had a C/D drive) then I … |
| | Hi, Just bought a Western digital 10,000 rpm sata Hard drive that I'd like to use for boot. Motherboard has 6 ata ports + an IDE. Have an old IDE HDD as master w/ an IDE cd-rom. When I plug in the sata hard drive it isn't recognised by computer … |
| | I just recently installed a new hard drive because my old one died on me. I installed windows XP Pro and all of the current drivers I could find. Some of the components are kind of older, like my graphics card, so the manufacturer website did not have the drivers … |
| | I ran a program that replaced important system files (of course I was not planning for that to happen) so when I boot up my computer I get the following error message. When the welcome screen should come up: stop: c000021a {fatal system errors} The Windows Logon Process system process …  |
| | Weird. I saw this 6-8 months ago at a clients. I couldn't find an answer, he needed an upgrade anyway, so I took the easy route and wiped the hard drive and rebuilt everything. Now it's happening to one of my computers. If you try to run any program by … |
| | i designed a form that has labels on it that you are expected to insert value (Alphabets and Numbers) an then it will do a calculation and give you a result on that page this page contains about 200 -250 labels i want to make a "save" menu that will …  |
| | I just put a differernt HDD in my computer and the hard drive is not found. Everything I read said to make sure the BIOS is set to autodetect but that is where I get stuck. I looked a bunch of screen shots to make sure i was in BIOS …  |
| | When i switch on the computer(this error appears occasionally), it says: Pri Master S.m.a.r.t. Command Failed. Press F4 to resume I press f4 and it boots as per normal after that. I replaced my motherboard about 2 to 2.5 months ago and the HD problem started about 1 month ago. … |
 | Good day. I've read several of the threads and I've tried several different programs to remove malwares off my machine. I've ran S&D (spybot), it removed three problems. However, I have the following: 1. Smitfraud - C 2. Smitfraud-C.MSVPS 3. Zlob. Downloader.vcd My computer is getting sluggish. Spybot detects the … |
 | Windows user for over 20 years where I used DOS and the command line. Using XP and don't plan on getting Vista. New to Linux. I have an older system that is dual booted with XP and PCLOS. Bought a newer system to devote to Linux. The kernel in PCLOS … |
| | I am a total newbie and lo tech user (hence the name) so please be patient! I recently bought a second hand pc with a copy of windows professional installed but have since discovered that it was a dodgy copy. I then purchased a copy of xp home to replace …  |
| | I have a TravelMate 5520 Acer laptop. I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate and I've tried several times installing a civil engineer program called statics 2007, which use a HASP key. When I write the code of the HASP the program shows this message: I/O Error 5 P=2 C=72 Access … |
| | Hi folks, I need your help. A few days ago my system died. I had to reinstall WinXP. Previous to this I had installed a second (IDE) hard drive. Since the reinstall it's not showing up as a drive in explorer. If I go into Device Manager is shows the … |
| | Good evening everyone I'm having a rather rough problem installing vista on a friends computer. I hate to even admit that I'm having problems installing it but I told them I would try to figure it out. They came to me and told me that they couldn't even get it … |
 | Hey guys... Im kinda going through a lot of computer problems at once.. Basically, My original tower stopped working so I decided to take out my sisters old computer and use hers instead since its practically the same. the problem is : is that she cant remember the password to … |
| | Hi. My laptop has a 160GB hard drive with three partitions and Windows Vista installed on the first one. What I wanted to do is to resize the third partition from 100 to 80GB, create a new partition from the unallocated space and than install Kubuntu 7.10 on it. However, … |
| | Seagate came out with a 500gb hdd that has a 32mb cache. How important is cache size? Will it make much of a difference in speed? Would it be more important to have the 32mb cache size on my os hdd or as my video, pics etc. hard drives? Please … |
| | After I click my Windows XP accoutn to log in, the screen goes black and it doesn't load. In safe mode, I did a system restore. I restarted, no go. I went to safe-mode, clicked AVG 7.5, it loads for 2 seconds, then black screen again. CPU and Hard drive … |
| | I have been trying to reformat a hardrive with windows xp. My buddy's Dell laptop wasn't working too good and it was from his old job which had restrictions by an administrative account we didnt have the password to, so i said i would reformat it for him. I have … |
| | i tried to install a new hard drive it to my old computer because 40gb wasnt enough so i put a 20 gb hard drive in as well put it all back together and now when i try and boot it the moniter stays black. so i took out the … |
| | Recently my laptop suffered a major meltdown, the hard drive was completely wiped (apparently it required a new mother board as well, thankfully was still under warrenty) when it returns I need to know if there may be any problems reinstalling Windows XP using the key attached to the laptop, … |
| | OK, here is some back ground. I am on DSL from AT&T, running windows XP. I have updated all my drivers, with the exception of BIOS which I am leary of doing. Every few hours, at random times my computer just stops responding to the internet. I have to reboot … |
| | i just upgraded my whole system and wanted to add my old harddrive to new system to back up files then just junk old drive(old pc would notpower up) but it booted up from the old hard drive(running win 98) instead of new the new one(running xp) it did a …  |
| | I used to always be working on computers whether it was building, repairing, etc. I recently took on the job of refurbishing some machines that were donated to a local non-profit organization. There were several machines, all from the same place with the same operating system and everything. Heres the … |
| | Hi there, I've got an old Toshiba Satellite 2400 and my son pulled it off the kitchen table on me today. Now it won't turn on. I'm still getting the green indicator light telling me that power is going to the machine, however, when I push the power button, the … |
| | I'm pretty much at an intermediate level when it comes to working on PC's. I've had a couple of problems with my machine before, but this one has me kind of stumped. You see, I woke up one morning having left it on during the night to finish downloading a … |
| | Hi all, I feel that a supernatural force got me to your forum inasmuch as I am 77 years old. Some other force enables me to continue working full time and I have found that the Internet has also enabled me to pretend that I am a genius at work. … |
| | I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to reset a maxtor internal ata I can no longer boot up my machine with it plugged into my computer. It used to boot but i couldn't access the drive (The drive is no longer allowing me to access it, Its … |
| | i have installed 80 gig SATA hard drive i can only acess 5 gig in windows |
| | I believe I have the same problem as [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post449080.html[/url] The same deal happens, after I finish signing into WLM, it freezes and then the usual error comes up, and requires it to close. However, some things may be different, so I have included a HijackThis log file from after I …  |
| | I have had a look at some threads and stickies on here, and now I am slightly more worried than when I started looking round for options. I'll explain why in a bit. My PC (which I bought second hand, and was assembled by an individual) won't start up. It …  |
 | Hello to all. This will be my first post. I need some advice on what to do with a hard drive. I have a corrupt kernel file on a hard drive. The drive has been scanned several times (I slaved it on another pc and scanned with AVG) and appears … |
| | I post this question in XP because I'm trying to get a Hard drive to go back to XP on two PCs I would like to think of myself as a intelligent person but this makes me feel stupid. I have a HDD that was formated and loaded with vista. … |
| | Hi All I need some HELP. I am running WIN 2000 Server, tried to change hard drive but decided not to, I am now getting a paging file error how can I fix this. It is not booting up for me to change the size. |
| | I've contracted a couple of Trojans - one was Zlob.MediaCodec, which I think is gone now, but am not sure; the other is Smitfraud, which I see by other threads is active right now. Symptoms: white desktop background; blue icon titles; other stuff may show up that won't go away. … |
| | hey guys, im having trouble with my desktop, for some reason it wont boot up. i used it a few days ago, and it was working fine. but today it wont boot up. after you switch it on, the led of the hard drive stays on, instead of the usual … |
| | Hi, I just bought a hard drive that is PC FAT formatted. I want to format it for my Intel Mac Pro. Disk utilities is not up to the job, but I know it can be done, and would appreciate any help. Maybe there is a website with a download … |
 | I've done some intermediate pc maintenance in the Navy, but i think this one is a bit beyond me. Was in middle of playing game when pc froze. After hard boot, pc wouldnt start. No POST beeps occured. I have power to everything. I have blinking lights from activity on …  |
| | Ok, I built my own PC and it has been a rock for two years. I've since lost my copy of Windows XP, can't seem to find it. I'm getting the HAL.DLL file is missing or corrupt error. I saw one of the threads on here regarding it, but none … |
| | I bought an 80 gig maxtor hard drive, for a family computer, we had to erase it and put windows xp 5 times already, but now when we check its properties it says it only has 31.48 gigs. is there a way to get it to be an 80 g … |
| | :( Original C Drive Cannot Boot...........added New C Drive. Non Booting Hard Drive That Is Password Protected Is Now E Drive. (original C drive) I am unable to Access Password Protected Files On E Drive. But I am able to Access Non Password Protected Files on Drive E Tried A … |
| | I want to make an image of the hard drive so that if something goes wrong I can just put in the disc and restore it to like new. What do you recommend? Or is there such a thing? |
| | Hello there, Bit of an issue that I've had a hard time pinning down. I have a eMachines T2615, it's kind of old but has been nothing but trustworthy for years. Specs after a few years of upgrades are: AMD 2600+ 1.5 gig of RAM (Not sure of brand, but …  |
| | Hi, I've got a Sony Vaio PCG-GRT270 which died on me. It's out of warranty. I'm not a geek, just a user but am willing to try to fix this. The screen just went blank and when I tried to reboot it the first time - it went on to … |
| | WHere in vista do I manage the number of hard drive letters I can recognize on my PC. Problem: I attached my DVideo camera to the USB port. It recognizes that the device was attached but does not get recognize as a new drive to vista. I am assuming it … |
| | Ok, here's the deal. I have a Dell Dimension 5000 which initially came with a 19 inch CRT. I got rid of the CRT and replaced it with a 20 inch Dell 2001FP. When I connected it up initially the FP monitor operated perfectly at its native resolution of 1600 … |
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