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| | Just finished building my first computer employing an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mobo and two sata hdd's [not to be used in RAID, just one working and the other for storage] Hdd's are OEM's so no info came with them, but I have two floppy's that came with the mobo. …  |
| | :) We have a Toshiba laptop it was working just great then when we turned it on a message comes up " PXE-E61: Media test failure, Check cable" I have gone into the setup and in the main menu it says Hardrive: None When I try to select the harddrive … |
| | Hi again, It has been a while since i asked for help on here but the kids have fiddled again and i cannot fathom it out. My computer wont boot past the Windows loading screen. I have checked in the BIOS and there is no hard drive detected at all. … |
| | I NEED SOME SERIOUS HELP ! ! ! NOBODYS KNOWS WHAT THIS VIRUS IS....OR HOW TO GET RID OF IT! I THINK I'VE RUN EVERY ANTIVIRUS, CLEANER, REMOVER, FIREWALL THAT EXISTS.... CWHREDDER, NORTON ANTIVIRUS, SPYDOCTOR, ADAWARE, PANDA, EWIDO, MICROSOFTS MALWARE REMOVAL AND DEFENDER, SMITREM, THE CLEANER, PANDA, KAPERSKY, TREND, COMPUTER … |
| | My Gateway 450 laptop wont boot windows. It died before I had a chance to move files to my new computer. Is there a way to hook the hard drive of my laptop up to a desktop to get the files? Thanks |
 | I have Linux on my computer as well, but this concerns both versions of Windows I have. They both share the first of my two hard disks, with the first partition being a 10gb FAT32 (with Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition). The second parition is roughly 70gb NTFS, and contains … |
| | I recently purchased a MacBook Pro - and tried to install the boot camp software, and can't figure out what I did wrong. I believe I followed directions to the letter - but when I run the boot camp assistant - it doesn't do anything - it says installation is … |
| | Hi! to everybody.I try to setup win -xp .The setup screen appears and starts to install win-xp.It formats my hard drive,partitions it and copies the files.After that ,it starts to boot automatically.But now, the setup screen appears again and starts to install,format,partition and copy file.This process loops several time.During the … |
| | Hello to all, wherever you are. I am located on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia. Have been on Macs since my first one in 1994 bought when I was just a young fella of 68. All my friends tod me I was nuts, wasting money on a toy at …  |
| | Howdy Out there !!! name is elpasoman, from Texas well I hope theres help here cause I sure need it this the message I get when starting windows up A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER. IF THIS IS THE … |
| | I just built my computer and when I boot it up I get a message on a blue screen telling me that i need to remove any new hard drives, that my computer has a virus or that I need to run a disk check to see if my hard … |
| | I have a DVD burner on my computer. I am creating this PowerPoint show to put on DVD for my mother in law. I am using Microsoft Office 2003. I tried copying the show to DVD but would not play in the DVD player. [QUOTE]Question1: I cannot get the song … |
| | my laptop a fujitsu siemens amilo 1630 amd 64-bit 3700 ati mobility radeon 9700 1 gig of ram 80gb hard drive has recently started to shut down when playing games. my first thought was overheating but the fans are still spinning, though maybe not as fast as i thought they … |
 | [B]Haven't posted in a LONG LONG TIME Here is the problem: About 2 months ago, I bought a 200GB external HD from NewEgg.com Everything was peachy-keen until today. The thing will turn on, but my computer will not recognize it. When I turn it on, it beeps.. not just one … |
| | Hi, I recently bought a new PC from [URL="http://www.aria.co.uk"]www.aria.co.uk[/URL]. It was pre-built when I got it and I never opened it til after the problems started. Unfortunately, I dont have warranty on it so need to fix this myself. The specs are as follows: AMD Sempron 3100 754 64bit Retail … |
| | I'm also having the "Cannot find server or DNS error" problem, but only when I hit secure web sites, it seems. I can, for instance, get to Wells Fargo's main page, but not to my account. I can log in to a few sites, but most I cannot. Access to … |
| | Hi! I have a problem installing a second Hard Drive. I’m a bit of a technical n00b so be understanding! My system is Athlon 64. Original HDD is Maxtor diamondmax9 80GB. New disk is Maxtor diamondmax 10 160GB. Two SATA sockets on motherboard. Windows XP. When I unplugged original HDD … |
| | Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help. I bought a grphics card (Powercolor Radeon ATI x800) and installed it today. I immediately saw something was wrong cos I got all sorts of lines on my screen). I tried to install the card again but had the same problem. At … |
| | Have an HP box and trying to replace the 9G hard drive with a new 40G. Took out the old master drive and plugged in the new drive in it's place. Can't boot up from the XP CD, even when tapping F8. I always get the HP screen with a … |
| | I recently cleared my hard drive, and re-installed my OS. (Win XP Pro). When I tried to configure my network settings, the Network Connections screen was completely blank. Afterwards, I re-installed the OS yet again, and I still have the same problem. Any ideas? |
| | Okay, so I installed Fedora Core 5 on my second hard drive. During the installation when it asked me to set up GRUB I had the set up for FC5 and then there was another section for the drive which has Windows XP on it, so I changed the name … |
| | easy all having a bit of trouble with my laptop - the power socket has failed so i'm unable to either charge the battery or run it from the mains. it's still under warranty so fixing it isn't a problem, but there's some data on the laptop's hard drive that … |
| | Windows (fresh install so I don't know the service pack, it's out of the box) System (built myself): ASUS K8V SE DELUXE AMD 64 3400+ 1 Gig of Crucial PC3200 RAM Western Digital 39gig Raptor SATA drive Western Digital 160gig SATA drive (not raptor) Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro My problem … |
| | I am currently trying to repair a PC for a school computer lab. This Dell Optiplex will not recognize any hard drives or boot from any CD's. The only device on the boot sequence list is the floppy drive, it is acting as though it does not recognize anything else. … |
| | OK--here is my problem. I turn on the computer and it begins to boot. At random points (I have rebooted/restarted many times) the mouse and keyboard turn off and the computer stops booting. It happens when the initial startup is happening, halfway through a windows load screen, or after the …  |
| | I am going to be buying a new machine and the hard drive will be SATA. I want to transfer my storage drive from my previous machine which is IDE. (I want to run a SATA and IDE together, the SATA being the operating system drive). Would somebody be able … |
| | Hi my name is Tom. I have a p.c. for about 6 years now with Windows Me. I am relativley a layperson regarding knowledge of ccomputer technology. i can use html. that's about as advanced as i can go! ;) I don't have home internet anymore! I use cyber cafes … |
| | This is no machine to shed a tear over, cover looks more like a toilet seat, though the one I got my hands on has built in WIFI, and an Athlon processor, Power problem, won't turn on. Night's endeavors involved taking the thing apart (re service manual on HP.com), and … |
| | Hi all, Unfortunately, recently my laptop had water spilled on it by some guests who were visiting my house, and now the motherboard is of course fried. In the between time of now and getting a new laptop I need access to all the old files on the laptop's hard … |
| | I am having trouble setting up my new hard drives. I have a Dell Dimension 4600 with BIOS version A10. I installed the two new drives and restarted my computer. Now all I get is a message saying Primary Drive 0 not found. I tried to enter setup but it … |
| | Hi, just joined and hopefully someone here can help me out with something that is probably simple but i have not managed to solve it yet:sad: I have a Sony Vaio which has 20gb of hard drive. 10 gb on Vaio C and 10 on Vaio D Now C is … |
| | Hello, Can you help me. I have a iMac G3 CRT. 600MHz, 40Gb, 1Gb SDRAM. It was running nicely with Panther (OS 10.3), I read lots of scary posts about firmware disasters on upgraded iMacs so I checked my firmware and it wasn't 4.1.9 as it should have been (it … |
| | I need help. Don't know a whole lot about computers. My computer will not recognize an external usb hard drive. It was formatted and recognized in another computer right away when it was pluged in. However in my computer it does not show in Disk Management or in my computer. … |
| | I am using Dell laptop running Windows XP home edition. It worked okay until one day it stopped functioning. After doing some checking, I found out that the partition was changed(corrupted?).It was set to 'unknown' instead of NTFS. I tried to use the 'convert' command, to no avail. Later on …  |
| | So, it looks like I'll be getting a new motherboard after my first motherboard went bad in my computer. And before I do this, I want to back up the 50GB or so of things I've downloaded as I'm not sure if I'll lose everything when I'm forced to reinstall … |
| | I have a DELL Latitude C600 Laptop with Windows ME OS. It used to have a 64mb memory card which was the standard for this model and I've always had problems with it hanging and crashing whenever it felt like it - but I am a patient kind of guy … |
| | Sorry if this has been asked a million times.... but I need to get some games off my kids comp that quit working yesterday (mysteriously). What can I do with the old HD? I have a old computer to add it to if possible. Similar models one is a E-machines … |
| | Hello, I just got a new hard drive. I mounted it in my computer. And connected it to the SATA ports on the motherboard to the drive with the SATA cable. When I turn my computer back on it doesn't see that something was put there. I tried connecting the … |
| | My ASUS "P4C800-E Deluxe" MoBo has 2 SATA connections and 2 SATA RAID connections. I would like to use 3 SATA hard drives, in a [U][B]non[/B][/U] RAID configuration, with this MoBo. Can I connect the third HD to one of the "RAID" MoBo connectors, and have it work, or are … |
| | i was posting my problems in the virus board, but since that's seemingly not the problem anymore, i thought i'd start one here and see if i can get more responses. anyways, here's my problem. my computer will not reboot into normal mode or safe mode. all i get when … |
| | O/S: Windows 98 Hard Drive: 3 GB RAM: 64 MB Hijack This Logfile: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:33:02 AM, on 5/17/06 Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x 4.10.2222A) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ZONELABS\VSMON.EXE C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE C:\WINDOWS\TASKMON.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\HPZTSB05.EXE C:\PROGRAM FILES\ZONE LABS\ZONEALARM\ZLCLIENT.EXE …  |
| | Hey Everyone! I am Jacob, I have worked with computers since 1975, however other than a year obtaining a computer network certificate which did entail some soft and hardware class, I am mostly self taught. I found a Pentium II Dell V-400 at a garage sale that worked, however I …  |
| | hey everyone, i'm looking for a good hard drive shredder that's free. if anyone has any advice on good software, preferrably from D.O.D., that would be ideal. the last software we had, you were able to boot off a floppy and allow it to take over and shred the drive. … |
| | Okay... this message is likely to be long. But bear with me. If you get bored, just skim straight through to the technical stuff. My dad (with the assistance of his neighbors and myself) is trying to build a new computer. This one, the one I'm typing on right now, …  |
 | Hi people. Another wee problem hope you guys can help again. I recently bought a 256mb ATI RADEON 9600pro (encore edition). I installed the graphics card to play Battlefield 2 with which it ran fine for a month or so. My pc developed some crashing problems and I had to …  |
| | I recently had a computer repair place add a new hard drive to my system. I've had to reinstall windows XP and now I can't find some of my old information. In the properties menu of the old hard drive it says that I have 47GB used but I can … |
 | I am a little stuck here and not sure why this is happening... I have a computer running windows 2000 and when I turned it on I got the message that 1 of the windows system files was damaged and windows could not start. So I thought “ok, windows repair … |
| | Ok, for some odd reason my secondary "slave" hard drive just messed up on me. It doesn't show up on "My Computer", "Device Manager", and BIOS. and it makes my Primary "Master" not show up on BIOS only. and before it stopped working it, windows xp said some thing like. … |
| | I brought a External usb hard drive (120 gb) a little while back. it worked fine until my computer was unplugged. when i put everything back together it didnt work anymore. it just glows blue as it did when it was brand new. now my computer just reconizes it as … |
 | OK got a 120GB hard drive, bios see's it, windows XP is installed to it all is fine. On SATA 2 is a 300GB I wanna use for storage. BIOS sees it, windows doesn't. I've installed the chipset that came with the motherboard. What am I missing???? |
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