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| | NEED HELP. IBM 760EL Thinkpad. Need to get hard drive password. Friend forgot it. Any suggestions? |
 | Hi everyone, I have an older computer that used to run windows 98 on it. Right now, it has no operating system on it and I have been having a heck of a time trying to get an OS on there. I have tried and failed numerous times to get …  |
| | Hi everyone, I just repartitioned my hard drive and then i installed windows xp again, but it is saying that i have two versions of Windows XP Home Edition on my computer and it prompts me to select which one i would like to run? Is there any way I … |
| | Hello everyone, I have an older computer that has no operating system on it, nothing on the hard drive, and only a driver for the a:> drive. I have been wanting to fix this and get a distribution of Linux on it. I recently attempted to udgrade the BIOS to … |
 | I don't know if this thread belongs here, I wasn't sure where to put it, sorry. I'll start off by explaining my set up. I have 2 machines. 1 desktop and 1 laptop. Both have identical copies of XP SP2. Laptop plays DivX and any other media files perfectly (yay!). … |
| | I'll be telling you a collection of tips to improve your system performance ... (it did improve my system performance to about 200 %) 1)CHANGING THE CACHE SIZE: Go to start --> Run --> System.ini Write these to the system.ini file [vcache] MaxFileCache=8192 MinFileCache=2048 ChunkSize=512 These cache settings are for … |
| | My laptop died Compaq Presario 2500. Said I needed a new motherboard. Not doing that. Bought a new gateway and love it so far. My question is how or if I can transfer stuff off old hard drive to new laptop. Anyone know. Thanks a bunch! |
| | help with formatting a hard drive that had linspire os on it i tried all ways to format it but can't do it anyone with a bright idea? I THINK LINSPIRE INSTALLED SOMEKIND OF SOFWARE ON IT TO PROTECT FROM INSTALLING OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS |
| | Here's the problem and it's really annoying, I have a laptop it is a dell latitude c600 running windows xp professional, it was running fine until about a week ago it locked up so i had to reboot it, well when it started to load windows i noticed it was …  |
| | I got the standard CD burner that came with my pc, I just put a new hard drive with Windows XP home on it, but the burner didnt work before that either, is this a hardware problem? |
| | I recently got a Power PC Performa 6400/180. OS 8.1 (2gig) I am able to turn it on and get to the desktop. My problem comes when I want to install some programs (that are compatible with OS 8.1) that I have hard drive space for. When I do, the …  |
| | [font=Tahoma]Okay... I'm fixing a computer for my father's co-worker. The XP box started rebooting for no reason at all when he was running some programs a couple weeks ago. He approached me at work a few times to try to get some tips on what to do. Apparently, from the … |
| | I had my hp presario ze4300 lockup yesterday & I wasn't able to turn it off, so I pushed the rest button underneath. The computer will now not power up at all, with or without the power cord plugged in. Some points of interest. 1. Battery wasn't holding much of … |
| | I have attached another stata hard drive to my pc on connection number 1 (c drive is connected to connector 0 on motherboard) and the os does not recognise the drive. Do I need to do anything else other connect the sata cable and power cable? Please help! Thank You … |
| | My inspiron won't get past the windows xp loading screen. It just clicks and then goes right back to it or goes black and gets a blinking cursor. I was on the phone with Dell for 2 hrs. yesterday and they said it wasn't the hard drive and it took … |
| | well i figure my motherboard is messed up anyways, and pulling the amd thing from the other board wont workc ause it doesnt fit, so heres waht i did i pulled the motherboard + processor from an older computer (amd k something something) and put it in the newer shell. … |
| | Hi everyone...I am new to this forum and am hoping you all can give me some guidance. I am not a tech person but love my computer and am usually able to figure stuff out as I go. Well I installed a 2nd hard drive on my computer and got … |
| | I recently received a computer from a friend. I had to put some parts in though... It was prety much a barebones pc. I installed Windows XP Professional SP2, and enabled Advanced Power Management. It gives me the option to hibernate, but when I do, when I boot the computer, … |
| | i have been trying to install a second hard drive in my computer for the past few days now. all the cables and jumpers are correctly set,(i have checked 20 sites and i know it is all hooked up correctly.) and it is just frustrating. :mad: under the system properties … |
| | If you’ve followed the suggestions in the Protection and Cleaning threads, and are still having problems, you most likely have an infection that will take some specialized tools and/or processes to remove. Before requesting assistance, it would be helpful for you to read How To Ask Questions The Smart Way …  |
| | Hi there, my name is Don & new to the Forum, I unfortunately suffered the net result of an Operating System malfunction (XP Home ser pack 2 etc).and I am not very impressed, more highly stressed at the moment & I would appreciate any help. All of a sudden Windows … |
| | Afternoon folks, One of our Macs needs a hard drive upgrade from a 10gb to an 80gb hdd. I have never done this on a mac before and would like to know the best way to go about this. I have made an image of the HDD using Carbon Copy …  |
| | I run MS SQL 2000, database is growing and my concern is the hard drive will soon run out of disk space. i wonder if i can add a new hard drive and tell SQL there is more space. my question is how i can combine the two hard disks …  |
| | My G5 imac (tiger) has withered away - or so it seems...!! All of a sudden this afternoon every icon diappeared off the desktop, so I can no longer get into my home folder or the Hard Drive and the finder is completely flipping out (well flashing actually). I can … |
 | Since you guys helped me with my last problem I figured I would try you with another issue thats been bugging me for a while. Since I reinstalled windows XP on my computer (Pro) I cant seem to get any sound from my DVD drive or my DVD writer drive …  |
| | I was wandering if there was a way to use veritas 10.0 to backup data thats on my server to a hard drive thats on my desktop? I can only seem to get it to allow me to make a backup to a local hard drive. |
| | I'm wondering if they make such a thing. I just got a new computer with a SATA hard drive, but i have 2 fine IDE hard drives that aren't being used. One has all of my music, and the other has files on it that I would like to retrieve. …  |
| | I dont really suppose it would be right of me to ask some one to answere all the questions I plan to list below. But if some one would be so kind as to Tell me where I can find such answeres I will be happy to look myself. I … |
| | This was a problem i encountered with some days ago. My Dell Laptop started to freeze up with no reason at all. The mouse and keyboard were not working. I just ignored the problem and rebooted the computer everytime it happened. However, just yesterday, my computer started to freeze when … |
| | Hi there, my name is Don & new to the Forum & I hope This is the right section, I unfortunately suffered the net result of an Operating System malfunction (XP Home service pack 2 etc).and I am not very impressed, more highly stressed at the moment & I would … |
| | Hi People ! IT's Great they are some site like this in the world! Can some1 help me with this!!!!coz i'm going crazy.About 2 day ago I put new windows xp sp2 with norton internet security 2005 and norton system works 2005 premier.I had this software before on my machine,but …  |
| | Hi folks. I have a serious problem, and I hope that someone out there can provide me some answers. I just built a new PC (my first attempt at this) and everything seemed to be working fine. The machine will POST just fine, and I even get to the Windows … |
| | :?: Hi There I have an external 160GB HD USB connected to my PC, Im in the process of backing up all my music files (WAV & MP3) from my PC onto my External HD. I have 43GB to copy over, but when i drag and drop from my PC … |
| | Hi everyone, heres the story, Ive been trying to build my sister a new computer using some old computer parts. I've found out by switching her older hard drive to my computer that the computer will not boot up with that hard drive as the only hard drive and master … |
| | Hi everyone. I apologize for my first post being a doozy of a problem but I'm at my wit's end. Less than 2 weeks ago, my son's friend, a self-proclaimed computer genius, offered me new RAM for my system. My computer came with 128MB RAM about 5 years ago, bought … |
| | Hi everyone, I'm a happy pc enthusiast (not quite got the full anorak). I've got two young sons that I've built computers for, in the hope that they'll grow up knowing how to use them. Seems sensible! Now, I'm probably better with hardware than software, so you'll understand and hopefully … |
| | Hi, I am new in this forum, I hope you guys can help me with my problems... I have a new hard drive and the problems already started... Is it normal to have my fan running all the time? Is it normal that the light of my hard drive is … |
| | yes i have an emachines 1.8 GHz Intel celeron PC and I am trying to add a second hard drive. when i plug it in (power and IDE cable) and try to boot it says "NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND". When i unplug the new drive my first drive boots into … |
| | I have had to clear my hard drive several times as someone keeps hacking me, can you tell if my Hijackthis log file is clean now as I found that everytime I try to go to eharmony.com it won't load for some reason, but I don't seem to have problems … |
 | Hey guys 'n' girls my Aunt has a problemo with her computer. Its XP. It came up with this error: /windows/system32/system could not be found or is corrupt and then windows won't load up. She has reformated her hard drive, re-installed windows and then after a month or so it … |
| | :eek: I'm hoping someone can help me with this... One of the pins in the cable that connects my monitor to my cpu broke off inside the female connector in the back of the cpu. Hence, I can't connect a monitor to my cpu anymore. Here's the problem - I …  |
| | Hi Guys - I'm a newly joined member Living in the Uk. Started in computers way back in 1960, but rarely needed to go inside them until I retired. I swapped computers from W98 to XP about 6 months ago and eventually gave my old m/c to a granddaughter after … |
| | I bought an external hard drive for my music. But it seems that occasionally when I take my laptop somewhere and then come back Itunes says "original file could not be found." They are easy enough to find again...provided I do it SONG BY SONG...which is very annoying. Is there … |
| | So I am trying to put an IDE Hard drive in to my new computer that has a SATA hard drive already installed. But the geniuses at Dell only put one ide port on my motherboard and the eide cable that runs off that one controls my cd rom and … |
| | Recently I formated my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp prof sp2.I noticed that my connection speed is reduced to 28-33.6 kbps while before formating was 50-52 kbps.This happens on both dial-up connections I use.I tried new drivers but nothing.What could it be? |
 | Hey all, Went to a local computer show with a friend. Working on building him a ccomputer. Any ways, he got hold of an HP pavilion 7850. The machine had been caught in a lightning storm and the only pieces that worked were the Processor, Ram, floppy and cd-roms. The … |
| | I need to reformat the hard drive on a computer running windows 98 se (the computer never had internet access, so none of the windows updates were installed) using the bootdisk, when I try to format drive c:, I cannot because it is compressed, so it reccomends I use the … |
| | [FONT=Times New Roman]Can't find Primary Hard Drive message appears after installing cd burner to laptop.[/FONT] |
| | Hi everyone, I am currently trying to repair an older computer. The computer has no operating system on it and I am having difficulties putting one on. I just got the BIOS updated to the most current version. I have been tinkering with it here and there and I was … |
| | Ive just recently built my own pc, and i then wanted to use the harddrive from my old pc. I placed it it fine and everything, got the data from it i needed and then wiped it clean, made a new partition and everything seemed fine. The problem i get … |
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