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| | Hi everyone. ;) Got a problem that I am hoping someone can help me with. I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop that I really like. It is great machine. But last June it died on me. Long story short, I thought it had been the victim of a power … |
| | Hey there, I'm running a system that was built for me but I am not completely familiar with the specs. Its about 2 and half years old. Its a WinXP, 200gb, Asus Mobo, AMD Athlon, 2gbRAM, 400W PSU system as far as I know. Maybe a month ago, the computer … |
| | hey there, im a new person here... anywho. I have a Medion M³ director 4500 In January, I had a problem where I woke up, in the morning (I had left my computer on all night) and the screen was frozen, even the date and time was frozen, so I … |
| | I am trying to install Windows XP Pro, on a new PC. I know the disc works because I just tested it on another PC. Anyway - what happens, is that it gets through the first part fine. I create a new partition (entire size of drive) and format NTFS … |
| | I was running windows xp pro and the computer would just reboot itself for no reason. Then i wiped out the hard drive and I am trying to reinstall pro, and as soon as I get to the part when it says "to install windows press enter", and i do, …  |
| | I attempted to delete several large Video AVI files; about 10 gigabites each; message too large to send to recycle bin; ? delete; I hit"yes"; However they are not deleted,they still exist "somewhere" and I cannot access them to delete them; How do I know ; I ran two defrag … |
| | I have an eMachines desktop, an extremely basic model with Windows ME on it, that was bought brand new about 7 years ago. I had it for 3 years before it died. The night it died, a storm was coming, so, as usual, I shut it down and unplugged it. … |
| | I am having a problem with sending an email with an attachment Set msg = CreateObject("CDO.Message") msg.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing")=2 msg.Configuration.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver").Value="100.1.2.3" msg.Subject = "Test Subject" msg.From = "some@email.com" msg.To = "some@email.com" msg.TextBody = "Test Message" msg.AddAttachment "C:\files\a.doc") This works fine, but my problem is when a client/user use his computer to send an … |
| | Hopefully someone can help me with this. I have a Sony Vaio I've had for a few years and a month after warranty was up it started crashing. I haven't noticed any consistency in when- no particular programs or actions are in use everytime it crashes. Just in the span … |
| | i cannot format my hard disk because of bad sectors.... is there a software that can format it? while formatting the hard drive using darik's nuke and boot (i think thats what the software is called) using a floppy drive....but format stopped after like 90% due to bad sectors...i tried … |
| | Being this is my first post in here, please forgive me if I'm not in the right place. I have a Toshiba Portege 4010 that I bought used from Krex Computers about 7 months ago. Everything was fine - until about a month ago. Now, all of a sudden, I … |
| | HP Laptop Got an email with an exe attachment....clicked on it one second before realizing what i was doing.....3 seconds later, popups galore, and then error after error after error. Restarted, got into windows, before i could do ANYTHING, errors came back, crashing windows completely Windows XP home, sp2 btw. … |
| | I have a large music library stored as wav files on an external hard drive. All of the files were inported into itunes and kept organized by itunes. One day they are there, the next mostly unable to be located by itunes. All of the songs are still in the …  |
| | Hey all, slight hardware/Windows related problem I'm really hoping someone might be able to help me with. Basically I've assembled a new computed from parts purchased separately (all parts are working as I have tested them separately) - except for a hard drive which I have taken from my previous … |
| | My name is Charlie, nickname is Crosseyed. I'm 45, married and have two boys 14 and 12. I work as an Electrical Engineer for a small automotive solenoid valve manufacturer in Western lower Michigan. I attended Western Michigan University where I played baseball and received my BSEE in 1985. I …  |
| | Hello everyone. So I've been reading the threads in this forum for a while now and haven't really found what I'm looking for. Basically I need to install a Linux-based system (onto my Windows PC) for work purposes. According to someone who's used the software etc, that I'm going to … |
| | Last night my computer froze as I was using Firefox. Unable to shut it down normally, I powered it down. Today, I turned it on, expecting it to either come up normally or scan the disk, what it normally does. Instead, it hangs at "Initializing USB Controllers..." at POST for … |
| | 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 have reformatted the hard drive several times first format hard drive then i use dos and type sys c: system transferred as soon as i go to install a operating system it says no hard drive but in system setup it say 2.1 gb hd so im at a … |
| | I have a laptop that i use for remote recording. the laptop has in internal drive and an external firewire drive. the firewire drive is used exclusively for storing the audio files that are recorded. when the recording is finished, i take the firewire drive back to my studio and … |
| | Hi all, Im a new member and would really appreciate any help. I have a Dell Inspiron 9300. My niece was using my laptop and its not powering up anymore. She says she only closed the lid and left it. Basically When I press the power on button, all I … |
| | Hello. I have the following problem: After installing some drivers for the video card, I rebooted my computer. But after Login off the monitor went black, and its LED start blinking (like in the moments the computer was switch off). The fans and other lights from the computer were on, … |
| | I am trying to install a new larger hard drive while keeping the smaller hard drive for backups. I ghosted the existing drive to the new drive and have them properly set with the new larger drive as master and the older drive as slave. All of my data is … |
| | I have a Sony Vaio PCG-f590 laptop that has been a work horse for me. I recently upgraded the Ram (a month ago), the hard drive (3 days ago), and the OS (from win 98 to XP home, also 3 days ago). The computer worked fine for two days. And … |
| | I've been looking at buying an external hard drive to back up my main internal drive. So many different interfaces, USB2, firewire etc. My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe and has an external SATA plug at the back ( am I to assume that this plug is what is referred … |
| | Hi all. I just inherited a t30, DOA. push power button. All you get is the green lights tab lock, num lock, and battery light come on. No hard drive light, and no fan. sometimes the scrren comes on, but nothing on it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! |
| | Started 24hours ago having downloaded a few things (now deleted). If i try to run my ocmputer it crashes the desktop (no icons usable), doesnt load my computer and makes the startbar unuseable. Any open programs continue to function - sparodically - lots of crashes. Have run 3 different antiviruses, … |
| | So heres the scoop. I'm running ubuntu with kde (basically kubuntu with more packages) on a laptop with limited space. I got this laptop from my school, and i have a partition with windows xp that i need to keep on so that my school doesnt freak on me. They … |
| | I am getting a memory dump error while trying to load in XP pro. I have a K7AMA (Elitegroup motherboard, 1.3mhz with 512M Ram (which I just replaced, thinking it was bad). I ran the RAM checker and it checked out fine. This computer was working fine and then I … |
| | Hello All, I am new to this community, I am a novice when it comes to computers and I hope that I am posting this question in the correct forum, If not I am sorry in advance. I just purchased a new machine from Dell. The specs are as follows. … |
| | I just bought an HP ZE 4145 notebook computer that needed repair. When I turn it on, it comes up with an error message - PXE-E61 Media test failure, check cable and then Operating system not found. I tested the hard drive on another computer but couldn't get anything to … |
| | This machine was given to me, working slowly, and freezing in windows when it got hot. I took it apart, to get the dust out of fans and grates and what not, and now this. It powers up, and all three fans run. But I get nothing on the screen, … |
| | Hi all, I'm sure you have an easy fix for this. When I start up my computer, which uses Windows XP Home, it goes through the normal routine, then after the Welcome screen it just goes blank (actually it's blue), and my desktop does not appear. Only after I hit … |
| | I recently bought a compal not a compaq notebook at a local pawn shop and windows xp professional would not let me into windows so i tried to wipe the hard drive so i could reinstall windows but the tech who setup the computer locked everything down so now i … |
| | Hi im new to this forum but i got a problem. My new hp pavilion dv 1000 with windows xp home edition I installed Mandriva and now window doesnt work. I put in the XP disk in and try to format it but when it come up after i hit … |
| | Ok i recently went to check on my torrents using uTorrent, from a couple different torrent sites, and EVERY torrent i was seeding or leeching was gone, along with all the data that had been downloaded. movies have disappeared, seemingly into thin air because after running a thorough search i …  |
| | Recently I posted about having issues w/my Vista laptop that wasn't recieving microsoft updates and Win Defender wasn't working - after lots of attemps I eventually reformated and installed Vista and original software and pretty quickly discovered in Spybot system startup a blank entry stating: Current filename: Database status: Not … |
| | Hey everyone, A plea for sanity and help I have a Toshiba Satellite P30 Laptop. Whenever I boot, I get the following error message looping: 'Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082) For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326) PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exciting PXE ROM' Firstly, … |
| | I have wiped out my hard drive assuming that I could start fresh again. After the wipe process has been completed, I could not install Microsoft Windows since it cannot reformat my disk. The setup says the hard disk is inaccessible. I also can't run my LiveCD version of Ubuntu. … |
| | I have a gateway solo 5300 that was working fine until the other day, I was printing some things and it seemed to take forever, then all of a sudden the screen just went black, I can hear the fan and hard drive spin, the power light comes on but … |
| | I have a VPR Matrix P4, 512RAM, 1.6ghz PC (about 6 or so years old) and suddenly it starts to not come on when the power button is pressed. The problem is very similar to this one [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread43766.html[/url] My fans work though; I see the one inside turning and feel … |
| | When watching DVDs in full-screen mode (monitor is a 17" WXGA Widescreen (1440 × 900 Max Res)), I get an intolerable degree of distortion, hazy & gritty & obviously showing the digital grid. Game-playing & watching DVDs in centered small-screen mode is much better. With all the praise this laptop … |
| | After 2 weeks of 90 degree heat and being left on, I came home to my computer shut off and now it wont turn on. It is not the hard drive, I tried a new one in it and still nothing. When I press power the computer turns on but … |
| | hey can anyone help me? my dell inspiron 1100 laptop is not turning on any more, I have taken it apart since and done everything I can think of but I can't figure out how to fix it, or if anyone knows how to take the hard drive out of … |
| | My emachine has been getting slower and slower. I thought it had to be the hard drive, so I bought a 400 gig, 16 meg Seagate. Did not help. When I double click to autofill, it might take 8 seconds. Pages take forever to load, and the machine restarts itsself … |
| | hi guys i have a question..my 80gigs started to fail.... still good for me.. is like 6 years old ..well i run a scn in active@ file recovery 7.1 .. it detected some bad sectors fat's bad sectors asa well...my question is... -if make a partition where the drive is … |
| | For Christmas I recieved a Toshiba M115 notebook. I never thought I'd be on the go so much with it, so I thought it's casing would be fine. However, the bottom of the notebook scratches my arm when I'm wearing a t-shirt when I move around. If anyone here has … |
| | i have just started having trouble with my pc it will boot the motherboard settings so i can go into the bios etc. and as soon as it comes to the windows boot, it will display nothing when it should take me to the login screen for windows. i believe … |
| | help i cant open "my computer" or the control panel, whenever i 2xclick it the screen just goes blue, and nothing happens, my desktop just reappears. Also i am unable to play my game "counter strike" here is a log from hijackthis, hopefully someone could shed some light on this … |
| | I'm trying to repair my hard drive via disk utility from the install disk. The only problem is, when I start up from the cd everything freezes and white horizontal lines appear halfway down the screen. I'm trying to repair the disk because disk utility's "verify disk" gave me a … |
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