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| | I just got a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I'm loving the new computer so far but have run into a couple of really annoying problems. The computer is a Gateway Laptop: T2450 Core Duo, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. First, Windows Media Center is not working the way I … |
| | Can somebody here please help me SLOW DOWN my laptop? Once in a while, it goes berserk. I have heard/read that it's a good practice to "park" a HDr when it's not needed, but I never got around to learning how, though it seemed like a good idea. As usual, … |
| | i have this old machine about 3 years old. recently it started restarting on its own. today was the worst. it restarted when power came back on, monitor wasnt getting any data(idle), the READ LED was steady at on, and it wont boot on bios anymore. everything else is spinning …  |
| | Building new system with Abit KN9 SLI Motherboard, AMD 64 X2 6000+, 2 GB of 800 Mhz RAM...a speed demon. I've also installed four Maxtor 500 GB hard drives. The goal is to have a RAID 0+1 installed. I've got the BIOs set, but am running into two problems: 1. … |
 | Hi All, first, please forgive my ignorance im very new at all of this. A friend from work built me a pc, he set it up in a raid 1 configuration, I would like to reinstall windows XP. My question is, when I formatt the hard drives, do I do … |
| | Whilst adding a new hard drive to my PC I was looking for the name of my CD rom to set this to boot first. In doing so I nudged the power cable to the CD Rom drive and lost the connection. Stupidly, I just went about reconnecting the power … |
| | wretched spybot keeps cutting across................oh well. Hello everyone. Im judych Im new here as of today. This is my first attempt to navigate and Im not doing very well at the moment. What I want to do is look at the questions and answers to do with linux removal and … |
| | Hi, I've just installed a new IDE hard drive but I'm trying to get my motherboard to recognise the SATA srives I have connected. I don't have the original CD with drivers and the Asus support site has been down for a while. Any suggestions on what I should/where I … |
 | [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Creating a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition [/color][/size][/font][size=2][color=#000000][font=Arial]This article describes how to create a Windows boot disk to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an Intel x86-processor-based computer. This … |
| | Hi! I know you have probably answered this question a thousand times however I have read a thousand replies and not sure if I still know what to do. Problem::::: I bought my son another hard drive Seagate 320 gig to be a slave to his his comp of a …  |
 | my system was running fine- three HDs and a DVD drive, i had to un hook everything to do some work and now only my first HD, the one with XP on it, works. when i first boot up, BIOS takes a lot longer than before and then i get …  |
| | I just formatted the hard drive with one partition and installed WIN98SE, 4.10 2222A. When the program boots it gets to the initial screen and then crashes the system. It has never really fully installed itself. Just prior to the boot to windows I get the error message: There is …  |
| | Hi everyone, basically I bought my Mac a few weeks ago and this is the first time I have used a Mac, had been running on PC before. I connected my external hard drive a few days ago and it said that the hard drive was not formatted with the … |
| | This is the strangest thing which has ever happened to me personally, and some strange things happen when I try to power up. I recently attached a Lite-On DVD-RW to my computer using the correct method of attaching all necessary wires (or what I like to call wires, I'm more …  |
| | Hi Guys I live on the Central Coast in NSW, Australia. My love of computers and all their problems started with the PC that had no hard drive and needed to be programmed to print on a nine pin dot matrix. Many years later I have the same problems as … |
| | I have 2 hardrives in my Dell Dimension 4500. One is 200 gig, and the other which I bought the other day is 400Gig. When installing the 400 gig I must have done something wrong because the 400 gig is only showing up as having 150 gig. Can someone help … |
| | I have read that it is possible to get software that will allow me to write from windows to a hard drive formatted for Mac Intel machines. I would like to be able to use this hard drive primarily to back up my Mac but to periodically back up from … |
| | Hello everyone I use SB Search and Destroy, started using it reciently when I realized that from the huge amount of online game lag on ontherwise great servers ment that my Microsoft AntiSpyware wasn't beeing totally true about there being 0 problems. Lo and behold I blasted 40 some the … |
| | hello, Im a newbie, and a very naive computer user. My name is judych. I live in Tasmania Australia.......... Ive had my computer for about three years now. Its a hotch potch of items bought in from different areas....and the setup is rather cute, its run well for me, despite … |
| | Ok so here is how it goes. I am currently in possesion of my own computer which has Ubuntu 7.04 on it. YAY! I did that yesterday. My little brother would like the same thing but sadly I think his is too old. I inserted the CD that had ubuntu … |
| | Hi, I am new to this site and would appreciate any help at all with this problem no matter how big or small the help can be. MSI 6787 V2 Motherboard Intel 2.4 Celeron 512 DDR Ram 20 gb Hard drive GForce FX 5200 Graphics card I am clean installing … |
| | I'm going to an art school, majoring in fashion design. Most students get a mac, but we are required to get a PC. I need something light to carry around (14"-15.4") with me in the city, preferrably 2GB of memory and 200GB hard drive because I'll have tons of images … |
| | I have an Western Digital 320g external hard drive that isn't showing up on my xp. The power light goes on but it sounded like the drive wasn't turning. So I gutted the driver assuming the case was bad. As of right know I am right. I hear the drive …  |
| | 500Mhz processor 128mb sdr ram 20 gig hard drive I need a linux OS to fit on this that is user friendly, I'm doing this up for my friend. He had windows ME on before. Any suggestions. Tried DSL (not user friendly), puppy linux (wouldn't recognised usb internet port). Slax … |
| | Hi All, A couple of days ago my computer was giving me grief (audio driver conflict) so I backed up all my work onto a different hard drive and reformated the main one. After re-installing windows xp, getting it all up-to-date and installing directX 9, plus the 77.77 Nvidia video … |
| | I was playing a game when it froze. I powered down the computer and restarted. It began to loop from the POST messages all the way to the XP splash screen, over and over. After a few times, I got a message saying : "Pri Slave Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Command … |
| | I have an older Sony Vaio laptop (PCG-FX215) that I have watched many movies on, it will no longer playback DVDs. The Interactual player does not find a DVD player - DVD Decoder missing. I do not know what has happened. I do not remember downloading or deleting anything that … |
| | Question #1 : My ibm X24 screen went black and has not worked since. I have not tinkered with anything to cause it to go black. The laptop powers on and stays on but has no picture. What can I do to fix it? (if fixable) I have win xp … |
| | In the past few weeks I've essentially bricked my laptop. XP won't boot any more and in an attempt to sort it i've stuffed the hard drive. I won't go into detail mainly cos i can't be bothered. Anyways, I'm away to go reformat the hard drive but I can't … |
| | I am working on a Gateway computer for a customer, and when i recieved the computer, i plugged everything in and tried to start it up, the cpu fan turns on along with the green power light, and hard drive light stays on, but the computer wont boot, wont even … |
| | occasionally system will not reconize the sata drive when booting up. The cure is to reload the sata raid drivers from mother board manufactor. Like you have to do when you are installing windows xp for the first time where is says press f6 to load any additional drivers. no … |
| | i have a problem.. a big one for some reason my uninstall feature went away for all my applications i dont know why but they are poof gone just look at the screen shot [URL=http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uninstalliv6.jpg][img]http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3783/uninstalliv6.th.jpg[/img][/URL] I need to run photoshop i have the legit version i bought it student price.. … |
 | There's a new version of MEPISLite out. It is called AntiX. It is based on SimplyMEPIS 6.5 and is designed to work on older boxes with low ram. It comes with fluxbox and doesn't come with kde. It has the MEPIS installer as well as some other MEPIS goodies. It …  |
| | I have a HP Compaq Presario 2100 series laptop that will not recognize the IDE hard drive that is brand new. It has been installed correctly and it is not being reconized. I am reinstalling Windows XP Professional on it. So far I have had no luck at all on …  |
| | I just reformatted the hard drive (Windows XP Pro both before and after), and I get that message to Please select an operating system. The thing is, I don't think I have any partitions (when I reformatted, it looked like there was a second partition with 8 MB on it, …  |
| | Hi, recently I decided that I wanted to break away from just using the Windows OSs, (I'm an IT graduate and want to expand my tech base). I picked up a copy of Ubuntu and decided that the best way to go about it would be to partition my hard … |
| | Hey, I really need your help as my hard drive is dead. Is there anyway I can retrive my files? I don't have a backup! When i plug the USB into any computer, it doesn't run. IS THERE HOPE? |
| | Hey, I know there are a couple threads out there with a similar question; however, this thread isn't quite the same, nor will it last long. Okay, I'm buying a laptop for college this summer.. The one I had wanted to buy went up too high in price. I'm trying … |
| | I have a client who is getting errors when he tries to install a DVD game from his DVD drives, the main error is "This is not a valid win32 app." I can see all the files from win explorer and I even copied all the game files to his … |
| | Ok this is my first time building my own system and i thought it would be fun, i got a motherboard, cpu, gpu, psu, and 2GB of ram and kept my old hard drive and disk drives as well as my PiP samsung monitor that was about 800 bucks 3 … |
| | New Computer Virus List OPRAH WINFREY VIRUS: Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands back to 200MB. AT&T VIRUS: Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are getting. MCI VIRUS: Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for …  |
| | Hello! I have just purchased a Abit Airpace wireless internet card. It works fine, and it gets the internet realy well, but it has RUBBISH download speeds. I use Steam to play my games ([url]www.steampowered.com)[/url], such as Counterstrike Source and Half Life 2, and it is downloading at under 20kb/s! … |
| | Hi When i start up my laptop i get the following mesg no bootable cd in atapi cd-rom Can anyone help with this ? have tried the f2 option and the f8 option to boot harddrive and get same mesg when reboot on f2 option and a black screen when … |
 | Below are the thoughts from a computer professional who has spent the last 10 years supporting Mac, Windows, and Linux computers in a variety of network applications. By no means will this general tips section be exhaustive -- that is what a good book is all about. I am also … |
| | OK. So I read all the other posts about mouse hesitation and the like. But none seem to answer my problem. Randomly, my mouse will hesitate, and if I try to play music or something it stops and starts. What is causing this hesitation? Please help - it's slowly killing … |
| | Hello forum I just purchased a new LCD wide screen 24 inch monitor to replace the 19 inch CRT I had. The new wide screen is a Samsung syncmaster 245BW and I have installed the proper drivers for the monitor in Windows XP sp2. I periodocally see horizontal white streaks … |
| | My system runs slowly after I reboot. To make it run at normal speed I have to leave it powered off for at least 10 minutes. This problem is not related to the operating system or the programs running. The problem shows up whether I'm running Windows XP or Windows … |
| | I need life support for a PC... I came home and found the computer in a frozen state so I proceeded to press the reset button and since then it has not rebooted. The unit powers up and the hard drives powers up and the CPU fan and case fans …  |
| | Ok this will be hard to swallow but here goes.. In 2005 I bought a brand new Toshiba Mx-35. I sold it un-used to a friend who brought it back the next day and told me the monitor went out. We hooked it up to an external monitor and it … |
| | i get these two errors when i boot my system "Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\clpbymht.dll" "Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\ytgkiqsq.dll" any advice? (last resort to clean hard drive) |
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