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| | I have a gateway laptop and it runs VERY hot and loud. Recently it has been overheating and will turn off completely. I have a cooling fan under it, this doesn't help at all. Usually happens when I am taking up a lot of memory running a high usage program. …  |
| | Hi everyone, I leave my computer on all of the time and woke up the other morning to the blinking cursor in the top left of a black screen. I have read several posts on the black screen of death. I am running Windows XP pro on 2.2 Ghz PIV, … |
| | I recently had to completely reinstall windows XP on my system. Since I had to do this I had no chance to save any of my files. Including school work and a lot of my writings. It is a shame for me to think that all this is lost. Is … |
| | ok hi,i have this wierd problem that i cant solve by myself can anyone help me please? ok here it is.I had a time when i reinstaled my windows and split my hard drive so i can have one part for system stuff and the other for junk(movies,games,music.ect.)so the system … |
| | My amd athlon 3200 system quit on me a week and a half ago. 1.5 gb ram, nvidia 6800gt, 600watt psu, 1sataHD, cdrom, floppy etc. Ive read a few dozen threads on general failures and have tried everything I've seen suggested. I guess I'm just posting because I refuse to … |
| | hi, i bought a second hard drive to day that is 250 gb it is blank. and i have tried in stalling it, ihave the jumpers rite and it is hooke up rite but my computer still only recongizes my primary hardrive. what do i do? |
| | I have a 2.5'' SATA hard drive in a notebook but it has failed in some way. I need to get my files off it. So Im wondering can I just use regular SATA cables (power and serial) to hook it up to my desktop computer to start transfering files? … |
| | Hi, I'm hoping this can be diagnosed without specs because the computer came custom designed, and I don't have the specs handy anywhere. The only way I could possibly list them all is if the computer would actually boot up. But that's why I'm here. Last night, I turned off … |
 | Toshiba laptop w/XP SP2. On any boot a window pops up explaining something could not be found and therefore not started. The "something" is ID'd as TPwrREG.dll. My guess is it is a Toshiba Power Regulator. Says problem may be solved by reinstall of ...? I have the system recovery … |
| | I have an external hard drive that will be used for backup. I am not used to the vista management and have a question. In the little box on the left it says Disk 5 Basic Online. If I right click on it it brings up the box that says … |
| | Greetings to the Group - I've been trying to delete the files in the Receycle Bin but it won't delete them. The error message says "can't delete folder is not empty". I also have some files located in the external hard drive that also won't delete for the same reason. …  |
| | When i tried to reinstall win2000 professional i got the STOP error message "Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controller. Check your hard disk drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /f to check hard drive … |
| | hi, i had a similar problem to this user: [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread70304.html[/URL] I had installed a MAxtor 'DiamondMax 10' 160GB HDD as a slave to another 120GB HDD set as the Master running Windows XP Pro with SP2 and 1GB of Ram. I have all the IDE cables and jumpers set correctly … |
| | Ok well i have a few hard drives that i need to put windows xp on the first hard drive has windows ME on it the secound one has windows 98 on it the therd one had windows 98 on it the fourth one had windows xp on it then … |
| | At the end of last summer i Rebuilt my comp. I started off by just buying a new video card (ATI Radeon x700 series 256mb AGP card). I then decided to go all out and replace everything. I bought a new case with a power suply, (don't recall the name, … |
| | Hi, A friend helped me get over problem 4 months a go and reformatted my hard drive. The problem is now I do not have a pound sign where my pound sign used to be is now the hash# character. I have tried all the keys and still cannot find … |
| | Hi Everyone, hope you can help. I've got a Compaq Presario S3000NX Desktop w/the following spec's: AMD2000+ 1.67HGz 256MB DDR SDRAM 40Gig HD The PC posts normally, no beep codes, however once the Windows load screen appears, the PC freezes. After restarting, I attempt to run Safe Mode, and had … |
| | Hello all, I'm new to this whole posting thing. I hope I am in the right section. I am having a problem with quicktime and related video files on my computer. My system runs on an anthlon xp 1800 and has over a gig of memory. Sadly however in the … |
| | Hi, I have been here quite a while and look over interesting things as time permits. I don't post much as I don't have the free time on a regular basis. I build and design microwave and satelite vehicles for network television. I get to many many news events along …  |
| | I have an HP dv5130us laptop that will not start windows because the is a missing or corrupt file in the windows file. The recovery repair will not work, so I will probably have to format and reinstall which means I will loose all my data that has not been …  |
| | I have a PC I'd like to install Ubuntu on. I burned an iso onto a CD but I dont know how to install it on my second PC. I'm trying to figure it out. When I start the computer it reads "missing operating system". The hard drive was erased …  |
| | Hi everyone! This is my first post here. I came across this site in a google search, and it seems like you guys really know what you are doing, so I hope you can help. I'm having a huge problem trying to get my new hard drive installed into my … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Hi there, I’m currently having a lot of serious problems with my laptop and would appreciate any advice.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The problem started when a blue screen of death appeared while I was away from the computer. Apart from Firefox and Outlook Express, there were no programs running at the …  |
| | help me on this people. i opened my computer this morning and found my self unable to boot my windows OS, what happens is it show XP loading then after loading it just go black and then a liite more wait it turns blue like the chkdsk then hang. so … |
 | Hi, I amhaving a problem with IE6 . For example I type in [url]www.amazon.com[/url] and I get a search site. Also I tried typing in [url]www.symantec.com[/url] and it sent my to so spyware sheriff website. Can anyone help ..PLEASE !!!!!!!!!! Thanks in advance Carl Ooooh here is my hijackthis log … |
| | Hi all. I'm pretty sure I fried my motherboard or processor. I'm probably going to leave it to someone else to fix it, but I was just wondering if it possible/advisable to take the hard drive from that machine and put it into another machine (both running XP), hook it … |
| | I think my ext hard drive is toast. First it worked fine. Then, it worked sometimes. Now, when I plug it in, it makes an "ih, ih, ih, ih, ih ..." and so on sound. Is this thing toast? Can it be fixed? Can the data be saved? Thanks. |
| | BOOT PROBLEMS, HARDWARE VIEW This is a general outline as to why machines have boot problems. GENERAL Usually if the system tries to boot, i.e. you actually see the OS's OEM logo (Windows,etc.) it's usually a safe bet that the problem is software related. At that point the system, OS … |
| | My Uncle recently bought a new mobo and processor to put into his computer. We've put everything in, and the computer powers up. Then we get a screen that says, "American Megatrends" "AMIBIOS (C) 2005" It recognizes the hard drive and the optical drives, then at the bottom it says, … |
| | Hello, I am new to the forum, hope you guys can help. I know a decent amount about computers but have been stumped on this problem for about a week. I also couldn't find any info on past threads anyway my previous computer died (the motherboard did) and so I … |
| | I'd like to know if there's a relatively easy way to make a bootable CD for SPARC platform. Specifically, I want to wipe the hard drives on some servers. I've used the [URL="http://www.jetico.com/bcwipe3.htm"]BCWipe[/URL] program on Windows before and was pleased with it, so I thought I'd try the UNIX version. … |
| | I have a dual processor Power Mac G4. I can't mount my internal hard drive. When I try to start up from the original OS X cd the drive is not listed. I can view it through Disk Utility and when I hit "Verify Disk" it reads that the hard … |
| | I got the bootable CD from [url]www.mepis.com[/url] for $14.00 and you can try this great version of Linux on your windows box without loading it on your hard drive. Have any of you folks looked at this great OS? It is fantastic and I was able to open up a … |
| | I have an acer 4504Lmi. It wouldn't start, went through steps, ordered a motherboard last night. I have one concern however. I have read in a few places that a virus can damage your motherboard. Is this true? I don't want to replace the motherboard and put my hard drive … |
| | Six months ago I purchased a computer from a friend of a friend. It cost $600 and came installed with Linux, Windows XP Proffesional, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshop CS, and Oblivion. The hardware on it was horrible, but I figured I was saving money on all the software. I eventually …  |
| | Hi, i have dell dimension 3000 [URL]http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/funkinrussell/IMG_6637.jpg[/URL] i had a LaCie 160 gb external hd [URL]http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10058[/URL] it stopped working [ even when the power was on] so i opened it and found that the hard drive was a [IMG]http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/funkinrussell/IMG_6639.jpg[/IMG] Western Digital WD Caviar SE Enhanced IDE Hard Drive WD1600 [IMG]http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/funkinrussell/IMG_6635.jpg[/IMG] … |
| | I have an HP laptop (ze2113us) that I am selling on eBay and I want to a complete restore but I don't have a HP restore disk. I guess I don't want to send more money to HP. I know the disk is partitioned (a hidden partition according to HP) … |
| | Greatings! I'm now in the community, so apologies if i skip procedures, if there is any. I did a silly thing on my powerbook G4, i change the hinge of the screen following the instruction from ifixit.com, so i remove hard drive, motherboard and almost everything. When i put all … |
| | My computer is an acer 4504LMi. It has Intel Pentium M745 1.8GHz 400MHz 2MB L2 cache. 1G of memory installed. A couple of weeks ago I got my laptop out and tried to start it. The heat sink fan runs for about 3 seconds, as well as the dvd/cd rom. … |
| | Please help, I've tried everything I can think of and I'm gettting nowhere. A magnet was placed on a laptop, the laptop presented the blue screen of death, or so I am told by the owner of teh laptop. On restarting I get a message "Corrupt.Missing hal.dll file". The Laptop … |
| | Hi, I installed Vista Beta awhile ago on one of two of my computer's hard drives. The other hard drive has XP. Unfortunately, I have a lot of software on the HD that Vista is on and I would rather not format the HD. I there an alternative method for … |
| | Hey Everyone, My sister has a Dell Inspiron 5150...The other night she spilled Coke onto the keyboard, and as you can imagine, the laptop didn't appreciate it!...Anyways, after everything stopped working, she brought it to me the next day and I opened everything up and cleaned/took out cables/replaced them, etc. … |
| | First let me start by saying thanks to anyone who can even offer insight to this problem. I have a Compaq Presario X1000 from 2003 that would not boot up for me today. It would get to the screen where there is the windows xp logo and the blue scroll … |
| | I just upgraded my whole system. New motherboard, hard drive, cpu, heatsink, ram, and video card. i was able to get through the vista install quite roughly, but whenever I boot up my computer it restarts after about 2 minutes. I was wondering if it was a power supply failure … |
| | i have had my hard drive cleaned and updated and now all of a sudden its telling me that i dont have any audio hardware! |
| | Hello, New to the board but am at my wits end so am looking for some assistance. I'll try to keep this short and sweet but I think I've tried everything. I am the "IT Dept" for my in-law's computer so need some help to fix this issues. First, whatever … |
| | I bought the Dell E521 (AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 dual-core, XP Prof sp2) system recently and it's capable with Sata hd. I added the Maxtor Sata drive and I could see it in the Device Manager but dont' see it in Windows Explorer. What did I do wrong? Thanks, |
| | Hello Everyone. My hard drive went out a couple of days ago and has just been reformatted. I have 4 computers in my house. Before I had to reformat I would be able to print from my laptop to the desktop computer upstairs. Now I cannot seem to get it … |
| | Hello, Ive been having this problem for the longest time, over a year, ive been trying to fix it myself by going to sites like this and reading post much like this one. I troubleshooted the best I can, bought new RAM, and power supply. Finally thinking i fixed my … |
 | Well I can't connect to my wireless internet as it's saying something else is being used to manage them. I tried figuring out what but couldn't find anything. In addition my Hard drive is constantly being read and make weird scratching noises (I'm guessing that's mechanical and has nothing to … |
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