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| | Hi, I was using my computer surfering the web as I was doing my paper. THen suddendly it froze, i thought because i left it on an hour or two too long. I suddently heard the hard drive like it was loading something. I forced restart (button not a + … |
| | Hi All, A couple of weeks ago my PC ran into problems with an overheating CPU. The CPU heat sink and fan had come loose (LGA 775 CPU) from the mobo. I reattached the cooler and all seemed fine. I decided to replace the cooler as a couple of the … |
| | Hi, I wish to Upgrade my PC for the future softwares going to be released.... Like Windows Vista Currently I have: [B]Processor: [/B] Intel Penitum 4 Processor 540 with Hyperthreading Technology 3.20 GHz, 800Mhz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, 90nm [B] RAM: [/B]512 MB RAM -- 400 MHz DDR SDRAM Memory …  |
| | I just upgraded from an old Athlon XP setup on a GA K7 Triton board to a Foxconn Winfast NF4K8AC with Athlon 64 3500+, brand new 450W PSU and a 256Mb Nvidia 6800 GS (GDDR3). When I hook everything up it all seems to be going fine - it goes … |
 | Ok heres my problem, and I intend to explain it in great detail so you can presume that this problem is a lengthy one. I hope someone has the courage to read through all of it and help me out. I'd rather not have to buy a new computer but …  |
| | Hello All Just wondering if anyone has experience of setting up a cost effective server for 4 workstations where files can be stored and worked on centrally... with about 6 terrabytes at least of hard drive space. I'm a photographer, so archiving of large files in raw and proccessed state …  |
| | Hello All. my laptop stopped working. I removed the hard drive and put it in an external encloser and it workes. (this confirms that the hard drive did not crash) However because I had an admin password while it was in the laptop I cannot access the admin docs/areas on … |
| | Hello, I'm having yet another problem with my computer. I've ordered it through Cyber Power, Inc and in the last 6 months I've had 2 problems with it. The last problem was that my computer wouldn't boot up at all. So they said it was probably bad memory, so we … |
 | Hey folks ... I'd like to apologize for the half hour of server downtime we had. The database crashed down on me and, even after restoring it, it still wasn't working. Turns out the hard drive got filled up by old .sql backups I was keeping. All in all ... … |
| | im trying to install linux on my external hard drive and i dont have access to burn a cd. I mounted the .iso with daemon tools to install but im not seeing a way to install it without putting it on a cd to boot up from startin up windows. … |
| | Hello everyone, I was installing Windows XP OEM onto my friend's computer. I have done this several times, but this was the first on my friend's machine. He was running a bootleg copy of XP previously and the copyright warnings were annoying him, so I gladly accepted the offer to … |
| | I am new to this forum. I am trying to Install Maxtor Diamond Max 10 100 GB SATA 150 HDD on my old AMD 756 motherboard using VIA Vt6421 SATA PCI adapter. I installed PCI driver and my operating system (2000) recognizes it as Raid card. The problem I am … |
| | Hello, My laptop one morning just didn't turn on. The fan began to spin and the power light was on. However, blank screen, no beeping as if it was POSTing. I did some research and performed a PAS alternate boot. The hard drive and scroll lock LED lights lit for … |
| | Hi the seagate momentus 5400.2 hard drive is not allowing me to access the data as it has been locked, does anyone know of any way to access the information from the disk. It stopped booting from my laptop and then i connected it to a usb bridge and it … |
| | I recently bought an IOGear 2.5" 80GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive, installed it on my Dell inspiron laptop via one of the four USB ports on the laptop itself. It set up an E, F, G, and H drive automatically and all is fine with that. Works great. … |
| | My brother has a Dell C610 with issues. Over the summer a thunderstorm knocked the electricity out. He had the computer plugged into a surge protector, however, when he rebooted the computer would not find the hard drive. I bought him a new hard drive and installed it for him … |
| | Hey is a compaq presario; it has a socket 478B, 2.5Ghz processor, 512MB Ram the problem is that when I turn the pc on the pc start the power supply the cpu fan and then goes to the compaq main screen and starts beeping the beeping pattern is one short … |
| | Hi Apologies if this is in wrong section or has been covered before! I had a prob with my hard drive and had to reformat. The only way i could access my hard disk was to take it from my laptop and put it into pc as a slave. From … |
 | I'm a font fanatic who was silly enough to load too many fonts into my Windows\Fonts folder. When I realized my mistake, I decided to move all of the new fonts into a separate folder, burn everything onto a CD, and leave the original ones intact. I even used a … |
| | A couple of weeks ago, my trusty IBM T22 would occasionally lock up and freeze to the point that the only way I could shut down and restart the machine was to hold down the power button. I suspected that the CPU was getting too hot. I cleaned the fan … |
| | Hey all, I just inherited an older chipset computer and wanted to know the maximum hard disk size I could install on it. It's in a Dell Dimension 4100...I downloaded the manual but nothing gives. Anyone out there know what the max is for the i815? I think since it … |
| | Hello I just bought a Compaq Armada M700 on ebay. It came with everything I needed but I cant get past the boot up screen. :sad: I will turn on the computer and it will get to like 120 ram and then shut off. So I took out the hard … |
| | Hi all I am using windows xp home addition ,when I boot up it begins to load as normal until I get to the log on and then it changes to a Mac OS X log on window.My son has an i pod and I suspect he has downloaded some … |
| | I am having some problems with my Dell Dimension 8100. When the power button is pushed the computer comes on. Then the Dell splash screen comes on and stays on for about 2 mins. Then a black screen comes on and it tells me the Primary 1 and secondary Hard … |
| | Recently I bought a [URL="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2268595&Sku=TSD-320AS"]320gig SATA hard drive[/URL] from Tiger Direct. My computer, a Dell Dimension 4600 had a 40gig ATA, but anymore it just does not have enough space, and I'm having problems with it... So I figured it was time to upgrade. Knowing that my mobo does not …  |
| | when I try to boot, the sounds and lights come on, but the screen remains blank. Same thing happens if I use another known working hard drive. I can't even get in to check the BIOS etc using F2. I've been working with computers for some years and have never … |
| | [B]Please Help[/B],:sad: i have just had a new hard drive installed into my Hi Grade pc, i have plugged everything back in, and for some reason my mouse wont work and i cannot do anything. has anyone got any suggestions as i am really desperate thankyou.  |
| | Hello to all you computer geeks out there! I am new to this forum, so this is my first post. I admit that (blush) this is "all geek to me". (I'm guessing you've never heard THAT before, right? :cheesy: ) I built my own computer from scratch (which was fun, … |
| | Everytime I leave my computer idle for any time, the computer restarts itself. I'm running xp pro. I only started having this trouble after I reinstalled xp on a new hard drive that I installed in the computer. Now it will come up with a error message and when I … |
| | I installed a 250gig(reads as 232) IDE hard drive into my computer as a secondary drive... and it runs CONSIDERABLY slower than my other drive. There's a different hookup... the new one uses a regular ribbon(I don't know the technical term) while the other one uses something that looks more … |
| | Does anyone have information about Proxyway and ePrompter? I used them and removed both when strange things started to happen. I think someone has and may still have remote access to my Home PC. Stuff got way too complicated for me and I took action. I bought a new hard … |
| | When I power up my Compaq Presario S3000NX I can hear the fan and the HD running then I hear single beeps about every two seconds. Also, there is also no output showing on the monitor. Is there anyone who might know what the problem could be? The Presario has: … |
| | i have a problem with my computer when i shut down the cumputer the cpu fans and case fans are still running along with the harddrive led is blinking and the fan on my vid card is still running i have restarted my computer when fans are still running and … |
| | Hello im New on here, so first of all HIIIIII i was wondering, is there a way to format a NTFS windows NT hard drive USING DOS or another NON windows xp/2k disk before the operating system starts up? |
 | I think I posted a similar thread berfore. I now have a PIII 733MHz EB, 256megs of ram, 60 gigs of hard drive space and an Asus motherboard. I downloaded and installed the Halo dedicated server software from microsoft. I can install it and start it without a hitch. However, … |
| | I installed DESlock+, some encryption software, which needed to reboot to complete the installation. But upon reboot, the notebook never turned back on. The external system lights show that the notebook, cd-rom and hard drive are receiving power, but nothing happens... no sounds from inside, no monitor activity, no cooling … |
| | Hi I posted a thread similiar to this earlier and it worked for one pic i uploaded. I tried uploading some others and they look fine when viewing them from the hard drive but when i upload them i get an empty square. this is the code i have marked … |
| | I have a brand new macbook pro and can't boot up on internal hard drive. I have run the hardware test and have done the option re-start as well as attempted to re- install osx - but still no hard drive. Do i need to give up and take this … |
| | I have an IBM NetVista personal computer 8314, and I bought a Western Digital Cavier SE EIDE 160GB which I already had Windows XP Home installed. When I put it in my IBM personal computer, the computer won't boot up. I get a message saying that Windows hasn't started successfully … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite A-25 S3072 that has power but when turned on does not boot the screen or the light that blinks on start up (KAN). I retrieved the info off the hard drive (it seemed to be ok). When I put the recovery disk in, it will … |
| | I am trying to rebuild my computer and wipe everything out making it like it was when bought new. I think the way I'm doing it im just reinstalling the program and not erasing everything. What are the steps to rebuild the computer and reload the windows xp on the …  |
| | Hello, i am a complete noob so you guys have to explain it to me. I just recently bought a new samsung sp1614c hard drive but i didnt notice that it was SATA. i found an extra power cable and the other cable to connect it to my SATA1 slot … |
| | i recently went on holiday.. it was lovely thanks =) anyway.. while i was away some smart little girl known as a "sister" decided it would be a good idea to upgrade my pc without actually upgradeing =O she installed windows xp.. ¬¬ and if your looking at my computer … |
| | My Dell inspiron 2500 starts up but will not go past the dell page if i hit f2 on switch on sometimes the message Enterin Setup appaers and stays for some time sometimes up to two or three hours if it enters setup i am asked for the bios password … |
| | I have a hard drive problem with my armada 7800 6266/t/8000/d/0/1 laptop computer. (Windows 2000 will not start) I just purchased a desktop hp 1647c. I would like to connect the laptop hd to the desktop. I need to move the data. Please help!!! specify the adapter needed and possible … |
| | Hi im new to this forum but i got a problem. i got my new hp pavilion dv 1000 with windows xp home edition. then i installed Mandriva and now window doesnt work. I put in the XP disk in and try to format it but when it came up … |
| | Hi, I bought a external hard drive recently and duly NTFS formatted it. Now, the problem is Win ME doesn't recognise it. Is it possible to partition the the external HDD into 2 such that one is FAT32 and the other NTFS? If so, would that allow me to use … |
| | Hi guys, I converted my hard drive to a dynamic disk the other day, and I've been having horrible problems with the RAID setup ever since. For some reason every time I boot up my computer now, it doesn't seem to recognise my hard drive as a boot device, so … |
| | hello all. don't know if this is the right area to post or not, but didn't see a thread for '98. I bought an older computer at a thrift store the other day (I can still return it, but would like to get it working for the kids to play … |
| | I would like to know what is a good hard drive cleaner. I want something that will clean everything so that nothing can be picked up period. Is this one a good program? [B]Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser[/B] |
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