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| | A friend gave me a Dell Inspiron 5000 that won't start. Press the start button and the fan starts, there is a short burst of hard drive activity, then about two seconds later, it just stops. The power on light is still green but otherwise no activity. I have to … |
| | Okay I have a Zx5000 laptop with a pentium 4 and 1.2 gb of ram and have been having problems with it lately a little while ago the laptop kept on giving me a blank screen on boot, it would just sit there forever and nothing, but everything powered on, … |
| | my friends laptop which recently had a hard drive installed, has Auditor as the default OS. I have to select Windows during the boot process. When I first turn it on, it shows everything OK, except the last line: 02B2:Incorrect Drive A type - run SETUP has a box with … |
| | IDE Hard drive, nVidia 7900GT, 500 power supply, IDE DVD rom? I'm aware that this probably isn't the right place to post this, but I didn't see anything in the Hard Ware section dedicated to general help. I'm getting all of those tommorow (If I'm lucky) and will probably need … |
| | 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 … |
| | I hope that someone can help me with this problem. I recently purchased a ILO (L15FCBT) 15-inch Flat-Panel LCD Monitor With DVI from Wal-Mart. I’m sure it’s not the best monitor out there, but I do not need the best b/c I use my system for surfing the net, work, … |
| | First windows defender stopped working and refuses to start on start up or manually Second I can't d/l any updates from Microsoft on to the laptop. I have tried AVG, Spybot and Ad ware with finding only minor items. I also tried AVG ant-spyware and anti-root kit with no resolution. … |
| | I have posted already about my faulty, i thought, HD on my HP nc6000, But the more i play with it, the less i think it is. To start with it kept just freezing, and had to be shut down. also, it would not power up, you had to push … |
| | Hi there I have an application that I've made in Delphi - it runs fine in Delphi and when I save it and run the .exe file, it works fine as well. My problem arises when I zip everything and email it to another computer and then try to run … |
| | I have a Gateway MX6124... Recently, I've had some issues with the laptop resetting itself at random times. It got to the point where the laptop wouldn't stay on for more than 15 minutes without resetting. I checked the battery, AC Adapter, cooling fans, etc. I couldn't find any issues. … |
| | Today I added an 80GB internal hard drive to my existing 40GB on my G4 running 10.3.9 It went in, I partitioned it, it showed up on desktop, life was wonderful. But when I tried to load 10.3.9 on to it via CD drive, I got prohibitory icon. When I … |
| | I have a Samsung SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ hard drive ( [url]http://www.pcworld.com/product/specs/prtprdid,29867541/specs.html[/url] ) but I can't figure out the cables I need for it. If someone could hook me up with a link to the newegg listing of the stuff I'd appreciate it. The connections don't seem to be standard … |
| | i have a samsung ide hd, this morning when i booted up it wouldnt detect the hd in the boot order, hard rive wasnt listed my hard drive is the only thing on the wire... its not connected to the cdrom or anything, just the motherboard and yesterday it stopped … |
| | Hello all... Pretty nifty site you guys have running here. Anyway a friend of mine can't access hotmail, msn, myspace, nor hi5 and I'm totally clueless as to how to go about fixing this problem. I tried hooking up her cpu to my system and I could access these sites, … |
| | Hello, I downloaded HDD Health to monitor the condition of my hard drive and just recently I noticed that the seek time performance is showing in [COLOR="red"]red[/COLOR]. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Shore I have 7 columns first column is ID which = 08 second column is … |
| | After my PC Recovery utility got accidentally triggered and run, all my programs were still there, but the desktop had been wiped out. I thought it would wipe the whole hard drive, but it didn't. Just so happens there was one text file on the desktop I hadn't backed up. … |
| | Ive put together a new computer. Ive puchased an AMD cpu, motherboard and ram bundle about 1 year ago and have only just got round to putting it together. Im using a psu from an old machine and also a previously used hard drive from an old machine. I run … |
| | Hi I have an eMachine T1840, running Windows XP Home, that appears to be dead. When powering on all three keyboard lights and all tower LED's flash on and off quickly. I have tried replacing the poweer supply and the machine still behaves the same. My biggest problem is that … |
 | I am looking for a solution to my new hard drive. I have recently bought a Maxtor ATA/100 500GB Hard drive. I followed the instructions on physicaly installing it perfectly. My master boot drive is a SATA(Serial ATA) and my new Maxtor is an ATA/EIDE. I have installed it correctly, … |
| | I am going to build my own computer and I need some help fnding components. I need a VERY fast [U][B]AMD[/B][/U] processor (no more than $1500) I also need a very good [U][B]ASUS[/B][/U] motherboard (no more than $1500) And an excellent graphics card (no more than $1000) (Best I've seen … |
| | This is my first build, and it's been a disaster so far. My setup: GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ Antec earthwatts EA380 ATX12V v2.0 380W Power Supply A-DATA 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Scythe SCNJ-1100P 120mm Sleeve …  |
| | Hey all, I was looking in my BIOS the last night because I just got more ram, 2 1gb OCZ Platinum pc 3200, i put it in my computer and it would only read my old ram, I switched the ram and place my new ram in where the old … |
| | Hows it going guys, I'm having a few troubles with several hard drives, so grab a glass of milk and some cookies because your going to be sitting here a while. Okay. So to start the story, I was using three seperate hard drives as follows: IDE 0 - 40 … |
| | ok here goes! my cousin got a dell dimension 4600 from her mom. mom says it was working fine then crapped out so it was brought to the shop. shop said to reformat & reinstall windows. the system was failing to boot up completely. well, i reformatted the hard drive, … |
| | Okay so I kept d/ling apps off different websites for my mac till it finally said that it was too full to continue. Then my wife bought me this Maxtor OneTouch and I tried to load it. How do I increase the space on my Mac using this and if … |
| | Well here is my story, and if anyone can help me find a cure I will be forever gratefull. The other day I was surfing a flash code site and had 3 viruses attack my pc. I run symantec and it caught them. then I started getting pop up advertisement … |
| | Hi can anyone help me? i inadvertently quick formatted my hard drive, which at first has 3 partition 1 for windows the other 2 for files. but now it is 1 big ntfs partition. is all my file deleted? is there a way to recover some of my files? pls …  |
| | Background : Hi recently I took a new assembled PC with Windows XP installed on it. I wanted to install Linux on it and i did so. But after that my Windows XP os was not working fine so I uninstalled Linux. Later on I could able to work on … |
| | help me please I ran the Vundofix and of course it couldnt remove all the culprits. Hope I'm posting this right as the popups are almost crippling and I couldnt get AvG to update for me it just wanted to hang. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at … |
 | I have an old acer computer lying around It's got a AMD K6 300 in it with 64megs of ram and a 6.5 gig hard drive. My friend showed me this really cool game called HALO by microsoft. I wanted to know how to setup a game server either on …  |
| | HI FOLKS WENT TO DEFRAG MY HARD DRIVE TO FIND A RECYCLER\NPROTECT FILE LISTED WITH OVER 7GB LISTED. I DELTED NORTON SYSTEM WORKS AGES AGO. WHEN I OPEN UP THE RECYCLE BIN ON DESKTOP IT IS STANDARD RECYCLE BIN. SEARCHED FOR THIS AND FOUND MESSAGE DETIALED AT END OF THSI … |
| | I have an 80gig HD that has been partition 10gig local disk(c:) & 70 gigData(D:0 the main one been 10gig I want to un partition it to make it one 80gig but not sure what to do. |
| | I ran vundo in Windows Vista .. i got nothing to delete although windows defender tells me other wise . I ran hijack and this is the log code it gave me ... please help Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:08:40 PM, on 8/5/2007 Platform: Windows …  |
| | HELP! I had the power supply replaced and whenever the power goes out from the surge it won't power up. It has been powering up fine from stand by and hibernate. I need it to start just one more time I bought a c521 and need to transfer info from … |
| | Hi everyone....back again...it's been awhile....I am infected again by some sort of ad nasty....here's my HJT log.....thanks for the help! :) JD Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:32:35 PM, on 7/19/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16473) Boot mode: Normal Running …  |
| | I have a 500GB external harddisk formatted FAT32 connected by FW800 to my iMAC 24'. Since iMovies only provides one video track, which make it difficult to cut&paste scenes to make it look seemless, I decided to use the adobe premiere elements (which has 2 tracks) which I had been … |
| | I've just got a 500Gb external hard drive to use as backup on my PCs. I've formatted it as FAT32 because I want to use it on my Windows 2000 system as well as on my Windows 98SE system. When I come to copy directories from my Windows 2000 system … |
| | I have a Dell Dimension e510. For the last few weeks, it's been randomly restarting, usually if it's been idle for a while. This morning I turned it on, and it restarted itself after a few minutes. It did this a few times, until the length of time it was … |
| | I had been moving/copying files to an external hard drive and suddenly the following device appeared $A.G.L.M.P$. I appears to be my hard drive renamed as above. Some of my applications (OS 10.4.10 and other apps were deleted somewhere?? Some apps and data went to trash and some stayed where … |
| | hi. can someone tell me if there is some way to open or start execution of a program by typing in some sort combination of keys on the keyboard? For example if I have a program called program.exe and it is stored on the hard-drive is it possible to start … |
| | While I was using Mozilla Firefox today I got a popup telling me to download Win Anti-virus, so I closed firefox via task manager and ran Adaware. About 30 seconds into the scan I had accumulated 9 critical objects when an error message popped up telling me Windows NT had … |
| | can i connect my old hard drive with my new comp and copy files between the old hdd and the new hdd so i don't have to load os on new hdd  |
| | Morning Guys and Gals, I am not too hot in this area so would like some advice. I have a machine with loads of stuff on it and need to get it all onto another machine. Ideally i want to just make an image of the current drive and then … |
| | I get this error when booting up. This started after a floppy got stuck in the drive, and was forced out. The floppy does not work , so i can not run the system disk that came with it. I had windows 2000 on it so i put the disk … |
| | [QUOTE=hungry_for_info;407763]Can anyone help me with removing this infection please..[/QUOTE] I think I have the same problem This thing is driving me crazy. Here's the Hijackthis log. Anyway, I'm new to this and hope someone can help as my antivirus is not removing this problem. Thanks in advance. Logfile of HijackThis … |
| | Hi My dad has formatted and replaced windows xp on his computer but it will not pick up his second hard drive, it will only pick up the first one, the system was working fine untill he reformmated it . Any ideas warmly welcome  |
 | I have backed up my data from my computer to my external Hard driver (WD Hard drive) so now when I copy the data from External Hard driver to my computer hard disk I receive the Msg [COLOR="Red"][B](The Requested Sector Could not be found)[/B][/COLOR] what should I do and how … |
| | I am having a really odd issue with my notebook....... I was online playing a game when all of a sudden my mouse froze and the screen froze.....every 5-10 seconds I was able to move my mouse and could see the frames on the screen move slightly. I pressed ctrl-alt-del … |
| | Hiya everyone, I had an external 80gb Lacie firewire hard drive that worked on both my OS9 & OSX machines. Unfortunately the casing got damaged so it would not work via the firewire ports. Most of the data on the drive relates to my old OS9 G4, so I am … |
| | I cannot get Windows Explorer, My computer, Control Panel, etc. to open. I have run every virus scan I know of, as well as updated versions of Ad-ware and Spybot. I have also tried restore system to an earlier date. Now what do I do? My tech support for my … |
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