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[b][color=Red]Hi to you all, i hope someone can help ive got a iQon Intel Celeron desktop pc, with 512mb RAM. 160gb Hard Drive running on windows xp. ive switched it on and the monitor wont work apart from the power light blinking green, i tried a different monitor and that …

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[B]I recently formatted my hard drive and re-installed an old version of win 98se as I did not have win me which was on there. Since doing this I have managed to find some of the drivers for the hardware (graphics amongst others) but have been unable to get the …

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I have a pc that I desperately trying to get booted. All it seems to want to do is go into a boot loop of 2 different screens, the first a black one with little information (NVidia etc) - the second one from Phoenix Technologies, award BIOS stating the Processor …

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Hey guys, I have quite an odd problem. Occasionally (and becoming more frequent) when I start up Firefox or Opera, my monitor will simply switch itself off (even though power settings are 'always on'). Once it has done this it refuses to switch back on unless I restart the computer. …

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I bought an external hard drive for my msntv 2. Which was no surprise to me, just a wishful thinker. But my question is i can find a way to hook-up my external hard drive to the libraries computer so I can download things for myself transfer them to a …

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My specs: System Info Model : Dell Dimension 2400 Chassis Type : Space Saving Service Tag : 2W52W71 Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Processor Number Of Processors : 1 Type : Intel Celeron 2600 MHz Processors Bus Speed : 400 MHz Motherboard …

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Is it possible that the reason my laptop shuts down after a minute, or so, is because my "universal replacement" AC Adapter is rated at 65 Watts and Compaq specs 90 Watts for its original equipment AC Adapter? Maybe I just need a new AC Adapter and don't need to …

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my friend loaned his 80gb hard drive to his mate when the guy put it in his pc he forgot to change the 80gb to slave so his master a 20gb hhd and the 80gb hhd are both set as masters when he turn on his pc it crshed.But now …

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I just installed a new Motherboard and everything appears to be running smoothly. I'm using the same hard drive from my previos computer that has Windows XP Pro installed on it. All the harware is the same from pervious computer (except the motherboard), so I know that it is all …

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This week I got a new CD burner. I opened up my CPU and replaced the od CD drive. In the process I decided to see about the sound card, which I had guessed was not working because it had gotten knocked loose in a move last year. I found …

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Here are my computer's Specifications: *Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire Ready Mother Board socket 939 *AMD 64 Bit 3500+ CPU *(2x) ATI x850 Crossfire Edition 256 Videocards (I believe these are the source of the problem in some way) *Dual Channel DDR400 Ram, 1GB *Volcanic 630w Power Supply *80GB Hard Drive (Taken …

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Dear All, I was wondering why does a deficit of almost 3GB is always their when I try to find out what is the actual usage space of my Hard drive. In fact if I click “my computer

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Hi there and thanks for your great service. My computer has been a bit slower than usual and sluggish on line, plus the PC clock has jumped forward an hour about 3 times in the past couple of weeks. This all seems to coincide with an online MSN toolbar update …

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Hi, I just got a new iMac G5 with OS X Tiger, and I am unable to download MP3 sound files. When I try, QuickTime Player automatically opens and begins to play them, but I am unable to download them. These are information files, not music files. On my old …

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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 …

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Well my last motherboard started acting up, so I bought an ASUS A8V K8T800PRO. I decided to reformat my hard drive and do a fresh install of Windows while I was at it. Boothing Windows XP installation off a CD, and reformating works fine. When the installation process starts, does …

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If the copying process window is active then the copying will be faster. The strategy behind this tip is that windows by default gives more cpu time to the active application. I observed it when copying large amounts of data from one hard drive to another.

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This is my problem and Juno just sends me boiler plate, cookie cutter replys?? I keep loosing my juno info and have to restore. >This seems to happen about every 3 to 4 months. No other problems. >I started juno with the free account then up graded on line to …

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Okay. i have completely locked my self out my pc all the files r not shareable so i can't copy the files from the hard drive. all i can think of is removing the password file maually. does anyone now a direct link that will tell me where the password …

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Hello Guys, I am trying to help my friend overseas install a sound driver for his PC. He formated his Hard Drive, but he has no drivers CD. I was able to find all of the drivers needed for his PC but I couldn't figure out what sound card does …

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I installed a new hard drive and am now trying to install xp. I goes through the motions until it reboots. Then it starts all over again at the beginning. Does anyone have any ideas what is going on? Thank you :confused:

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I tried to restart my computer. It will go to the welcome to windows xp screen, then it sounds like the hard drive just stops running. I have even tried to boot up in safe mode. Still does the same thing. I also tried to go to system recovery option. …

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Hi, I have 2 Sata Drives. I Installed Windows XP on my C drive and as far as I know all my WIndows files are on C drive BUT once before a long time ago I formatted my D drive and Windows wouldn't boot. Now I have bought an external …

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Ok I have a problem, I have computer that i just formated the hard drive, becuase it keeps gettting vertical solid lines some times red, blue or yellow and computer frezzes up. I was wondering if anyone know what the problem is. I am think video card, but not sure …

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Big problem with me :sad: I am using the following components Coolmax 400W V2.01 Power Supply Intel Celeron 340 2.93Ghz 533FSB Socket 478 Asus P4V8X-MX Socket 478 Motherboard Maxtor hard drive PNY DDR pc 3200 memory 512 mb. I bought this new motherboard, powersupply and cpu when i assembled allthings …

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Hello all! I am new here and boy am I glad to have found this place...Here is my dilemma, I have windows XP for my main computer and decided to install from the same disk on a second computer (without realizing the problems I was in store for) but since …

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Hey, I recently saved up all the money i needed to put together a good gaming rig for myself...its a pentium 4 in a asrock motherboard...with a 480 watt psu that came with the case i got. I put everything together and had no issues....but when i plugged it in …

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Hey guys got a tough one here, my computer was acting funny (running slow and the sort) so I decided to refomat. I have a 200gb harddrive and it was partitioned into a 130gb and 70gb one. I deleted the smaller partition and now I cant find any way of …

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I am new to this sort of thing and have inherited a Performma 6116 Mac and know very little about how to work it. It has a screen saver on it that just keeps growing and bogs the computer down and there is no way short of turning the switch …

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Hi, Just to see if anyone can help My Pc running XP home has stalled and I want to take some photos ( that I hadn't backed up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) off before I do a complete reinstall of the drive. There are two options as I see it a) Run a …

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I am running a PowerPC867 with 640MB SDRAM, using OSX10.3.9. For several months now have noticed delay in accessing some software, particularly aware while running email (Eudora). Delay is accompanied by cycling noise from hard drive in four rapid pulses, pause, pulses, etc. Rainbow circle is on screen, sometimes ticking …

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THere is this little red circle with a white x in it on my toolbar. It says "Virus Alert!" and when u click on it a bubble appears and says that yur computer is infected and it installs a program called Spyware Strike. I was able to rid my computer …

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Hi, A pc running XP Home has crashed and there is data on there i need. I have another machine running xp pro and intend to add the corrupted hard drive as a 2nd drive (slave ) to try and recover the data. can this be done or can someone …

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Hi guys n gals, All of a sudden my pc has got slow especially on start up. When i start it up i can see the HD light clicking away as though it's loading up and after it finally gets there (about 1 min) its just very slow at doing …

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We keep getting a warning about the Black worm virus then a popup to fix it. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:49:41 AM, on 3/18/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe …

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A friend of mine sent these instructions, and I'm ever greatful to him. Hope this helps someone who had the same problem I did. First of all, backup all crucial non-Windows data. That includes your mail program data, text and image files and anything else you can't reinstall from a …

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errr i dunno where to post this :o my hard drive seems to be making noise when i am near people on online games. i cant explain the sound but it only occurs when im around people and i slow down. anything i should do? thanks

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I have 1 HD and 1 cdrw each set to master on seperate channels. I want to install a second HD. How do I set it up?

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My mum has a copy of xp pro on her PC and has bought a copy of home edition to replace it. Is there any way of installing the home edition copy onto her PC without wiping the hard drive. The reason for the her doing this is we have …

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A friend asked me to help him install a second hard drive that already contains a ton of data on his computer. I suppose he wouldn't have needed my help if everything worked like it should. Anyway, here's the fun stuff: It's a Dell Dimension 8200. The master hard drive …

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My computer was working fine until I shut it down normally now I can't get it to boot. It reads the video card then I get a "Bad BIOS checksum" messege. I've downloaded the latest bios and flash from asus and tried to boot it with that. The computer reads …

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Right I have this problem bought a packard bell and everything was fine untill about three months ago when the hard drive decided to pack up. So I rang up support and got a new hard drive and now its all working fine apart from the fact it dosn't post …

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Igot a 2.0 Buslink card and I want to attach an external hard drive to my laptop. I put it in and then the computer said ther was a fatal eror with a driver. I deleted the card and the computer runs okay , but I wouldlike to use this …

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i had some major problems with my lap top so i decided to reformat my hard drive but every time i try to do so an error comes up, anyone know why or what i can do?

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My ibook is starting up with either no screen (not starting up) or a white screen with a big colored block for a cursor. I can not start in single user, verbose mode. In safe mode i get the white screen once in a while. I hear the hard drive …

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I installed a second hard-drive mainly for games and photos. The default drive c:\ has the windows and programs folder and the page file I do a lot of photo editing and play a lot of games I have 768 ram and I usually need around 2048 GB page file …

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I have a my brothers pc with a motherboard that's damaged. I need to save some data from the hdd and i'm wondering if there is a way of doing it with my pc. His hdd has winxp on it. My pc has 2 hdrives, 1 is a dual boot …

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I recently purchased a used Dell Latitude LS laptop with 128 megs of ram. The operating system is Windows98 SE. It did not come with a floppy drive or a cdrom drive. I seem to be caught in a "Catch 22" situation. In order to install some external devices, such …

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i'm posting this for my sister: Dell Dimension 8200 Series, Pentium 4 Processor at 1.7 GHz, 256MB RDRAM, 40 GB Hard Drive Problems with my PC: 1. About 3 years ago, I tried to upgrade from Windows ME to XP, but was never successful. Then I started to notice that …

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PLS HELP!!!! I am still an infant at this stuff. I recently built a computer from the ground up for the first time. I was quite proud of myself but I made a mistake. I went looking for drivers online while i only had mediocre virus software loaded on the …

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