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| | I have a HP pavillion XP, with media edition, ATI Radeon X1300 video card, 64bit duel AMD processers, a new 320 Gig hard drive (previous one crashed.. no reason...new one is only a month old), and a 430 watt power supply. when i got the new HD, i installed the … |
| | Within the last 10 pages on this forum there are several threads from people with similar problems, and as far as i can tell none of them have been resolved, so that is why i felt like i could make another one. The issue with them (and me) is this: …  |
| | Suddenly in the past few days Microsoft defender AND Norton protection have started malfunctioning. Defender won't even initialize and Norton will run but not autoconnect to update. I have run AVG which found Obfustat.amz which after some research found to be a non-issue? I also ran AVG rootkit with no … |
| | I have two hard drives, a C: drive and a D: drive. The C drive is a Maxtor 2F040J0 (I think) and the D drive is a Maxtor 6E040L0, however, they may be the other way around. I recently bought a new motherboard and processor and installed them and connected … |
| | Just installed a 2nd hard drive in a Compaq Presario running Windows XP Home Multi Media. It's an 80GB but now formatted it shows only 31.4 GB with no more space available. Any ideas on how to get the full capacity back?  |
| | Hi there Cool forum! I'm just looking for some advice. I'm designing an interface for a public display as well as an admin interface that will control the output for the display. The display will feature text, images and video - both normal video files and live streamed video. The … |
| | VB6 - Email attachment not working Hi, I wrote this program to send email through VB. The email is working okay but the attachment I need to attach to the email is not being attached. See my codes below: [code] Set OutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set OutlookMail = OutlookApp.CreateItem(0) Set NSpace … |
| | Hi, I have recently got given an old computer that someone didnt want. it is running on windows 98 SE. It booted up fine the first time, but the second time, it booted up untill the windows loading screen, did that 4 a few secs, and then i got this … |
| | I acquired a Sony Vaio VGN-S150 laptop, and basically it was dropped onto a carpeted floor. Only problem now, is that it is very inconsistant when it comes to starting-up. For the most part, the power comes on, the hard drive and cooling fan start-up, but there's no sound or … |
| | I got a 2GB dat i got from my friend... i think it has a virus (my friend knows) the virus is mainly harmful, but annoying... every time i insert da pen drive wen i rite click on it from My Computer, da first option is "auto" instead of "Open" … |
| | 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 … |
| | Hey guuys MY gateway pc crashed after i was running aim, now when i tried to reboot it, it wont go pass the windows loading screen. Ive also gotten an error msg where it doesnt detect the hard drive but thats gone now. Ive tried hitting F8 and going into … |
| | Hello everyone, [INDENT]I've just joined today and have come up through the electronics industry, moving over to the IT industry where I have had experience building and repairing PCs and more recently repairing G3 and G4 Power Macs. I have just aquired a faulty G5 Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac. This machine … |
 | I just got a Dell XPS 410 desktop computer with Windows Vista. It has an Intel Core II Duo Processor, 250 GB of memory, and 2GB of RAM. Everything has been working just fine so far, but when I run certain programs, they run slowly or they don't run as …  |
| | I have a 40G I use as a secondary drive to store all my files.. I was hoping that segregating my data from my OS drive would afford myself a certain degree of safety, alas - after a power failure, XP reports the drive as a 4G "CDFS" partition, so … |
| | Hi my DVD re-writer after a couple of years of loyal service has stopped reading dvd's and only reads cd's, in fact in the properties of this drive it comes up as a cd drive. I bought a new dvd writer ( HP dvd740 Internal 16X DVD Writer ) but … |
| | I just recently changed my DSL to Cable internet, then my nightmares began..... Charter Cable Internet with brand new Motorolla SURFboard modem I have 3 computers at home (1 laptop and 2 desktop) for different purposes all 3 computers are running on XP all 3 computers were able to connect … |
| | I haved a Dell Dimension that I bought new. It was working fine until one day it wouldn't turn on. I checked all the normal things like power cord, different outlet, taking out any cards and disconnecting the power to hard drive and DVD rom. I left the RAM in … |
| | I am using Oracle9i for my applications.I want to write my data onto different Hard Drive. Can AnyOne help me oon this... |
| | Thanks in advance to anyone who can lend assistance. I am trying to determine if I have a faulty motherboard. Heres the system I put together. Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2 GHZ Processor Intel BOXD955XBKLKR ATX Intel Motherboard eVGA Geforce 6800GS 256-P2-N386-AX Video Card CORSAIR 1GB DDR2 Dual Channel RAM … |
| | Hi guys. Brand new to Apple computers as I got a "defective" G4 from my neighbor. He was going to throw it away but I told him I would try to fix it first. When I power it up, it makes a musical "greeting" power up sound and the monitor … |
| | Hey guys, I was recently running a program on my pc when it suddenly crashed. When I started my pc back up an error msg popped up saying that it could not detect the hard drive. When i restrted my pc again it still wont go to windows. It gets … |
 | i love geek jokes... they are those jokes other people wouldn't understand... lets see this one for example... [quote] A detailed explanation of sex for the computer literate and real life illiterate. Think of sex as a new protocol developed for real world communication and interaction between members of the … |
| | My brother has an older computer with only parallel ports. We have a new machine for him, but need to know the easiest way to move his files from the old machine to the new machine. The new machine has only USB --- no parallel. I have external devices (hard … |
| | Hello! I am a semi-beginner in XML, and I am trying to develop a photo directorate for my company. The only problem is that I have to do everything by hand, so though I have no problem getting data from my XSL to my XML, I have not yet been … |
| | I borrowed a friends office xp cd to load it on my computer. I need to reformat my hard drive to get rid of a partition but dont want to lose office xp. How can I back this up. I have everything else I need saved or backed up on … |
| | hello all i have an Emachines 500 is. it had wondows 98 se installed for about 7 yrs.this past spring i upgraded to windows XP.the main hard drive is 4gb in size. i had a tougfh time with all the updates and adding SP2 to the mix.i figured i would … |
| | I was use ing my computer and the hard drive made some sounds and then it went to a blue screen. I treied getting microsoft to help and it didnt halp. I was wondering if I can fix this problem. It gives me a error and then shuts down and …  |
| | Im trying to slipstream the SP2 with XP Pro and I need to enter some commands into the command line. I know how to get there but my default directory is my "mydocuments". I need to be strictly in the c:\ drive. I tried typing in the "C" prompt but …  |
| | Hi, I have a personal PC at home running Windows XP, 3.06 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 with 200 GB hard drive space and 512 MB RAM. I bought this a year ago from PC world. I have noticed that my PC took about 3 mins to start so I decided …  |
| | Maybe someone has an idea on this one: I own several Toshiba 2805 laptops - ranging from the S201 model (Celeron 650) to the faster S302 (PIII 750) models. They're working perfectly and I'm happy with them, and I wanted to install larger hard drives in them and give them … |
| | I'm having an issue with a mostly brand new machine. I bought one of those Fry's special bundles with an Via chipset ECS mobo (which I admit, was probably mistake number 1) and a Core 2 Duo CPU. Everything works great and I was even able to load up my … |
| | I'm a newbie so bare with me. I have been getting crazy amounts of popups. I've done all kinds of spyware and virus scans, even removing a lot that were found, but still the popups won't go away. Most of the popups are antivirus/spyware related. The most frequent ones are … |
| | I'm having a strange problem with my laptop. some USB-based devices (Ipod, Memory Stick) work fine, wheras others (External Hard Drive, Mobile Phone transfer cable) aren't recognised. Nothing happens when I plug them in, and having been to the Disk Management screen, they don't appear there either. Can anyone help?  |
| | well ihave a powerbook g4 with 55.89gb memory and my computer says i have used 55.89gb i have deleted all files and some of my apps and my memory is the same i ven bought another hard drive and i still can't open illustrator or photoshop it opens and closes … |
| | hello there, i just want to ask what is the difference of having your IDE CD/DVD drive in /dev/sd0 rather than in /dev/hda? my friend and i have the same kernel version and distro (Ubuntu). the only difference is, my hard drive is detected in the file system of /dev/hda … |
| | Hello, I'm running on Windows XP SP2 and have been getting BSODs quite frequently lately. The problem seems to occur randomly, sometimes even right after i get into windows, but I've noticed that it seems to occur the most when I'm running more than one type of program at once. …  |
| | An idea blatantly stolen from BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue ... [only the best radio show in the known universe ] Here are some films guaranteed to please The Computer Users Film Club: I.T.'s a Wonderful Life The Glitches of Eastwick The Pit and the Pentium … |
| | basically the external hard drive stopped autoplaying with its contents as well as stopped appearing on my computer,, so i went into administrative toolss>computer management>disk management from there i selected an option to extend volume, but i chose not to format the drive, however it did assign it a letter …  |
| | We have been gone for 16 days and in the mean time I have had the computer shut down. We came home and I turned on the computer and it started fine. After several minutes on the computer I updated Skype and after it downloaded and installed it just restarted …  |
| | Hi, I am running Win XP SP2 on a Pentium 3.0 with 512MB RAM. My PC was infected with virus as my anti virus license had expired and I did not renew it in time. I am using Avast Home Edition. I have renewed the license and scanned the entire …  |
| | I was working on a friend's Presario 2500 and I think I killed it. It had numerous problems - would not boot with a battery in it, the mouse touchpad did not work, and it seemed as if the A drive could read but not write. I used a usb … |
| | Hello, as you will see I am new, and I would like to be honest with you all and say have joined this forum for the express purppose of getting some help as I am desperate - BUT - if anyone is kind enough to help me out please be … |
| | My tecra 8100 will not start up I`ve replaced the hard drive and memory with one that was woking before. I could hear the fan , the light are on with a blank screen don`t know what else to try |
| | [COLOR=black]This is driving me nuts. It began abour 8 days ago. I had downloaded some Torrent sites (bittorrent and utorrent). Since then I have deleted all torrent stuff including registers.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Internet Explorer and other search engines have 20 Second delay when searching for a list of sites, and when … |
| | I have a 5 year old desktop computer which had workded well until the hard drive (C) was reformatted to get rid of unwanted programs, data, and a suspected virus infection. I made a 3.5 system disk and can boot from the A Drive. I would like to now reinstall …  |
| | Anyone out there know how to unlock a password from a Hard Drive 2.5" Fujitsu MHV2100BH PL - SATA Thanks, hdn  |
| | Alright guys I've been messing with my computer for about 2 months now trying to figure it out on my own and to no avail it isn't fixed yet. I had my computer crash due to a virus and when I went to restart I tried it in safe mode … |
| | Hi there. I have a ripped(correct term?) CD on my hard drive. I wanted to burn it to save space on my computer. But when I tried to burn it, Nero gave me an error saying: "Block size does not correspond to image length" It gave me two options: A) … |
| | What would cause a functioning computer to suddenly give a "disk boot error"? No new software or hardware has been added anytime recently. Computer was working fine. Sometimes the computer will boot up just fine and other times we get the "disk boot error" message. Cant seem to narrow this … |
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