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 | I bought a Cool Colors SOHO tower. It has an LCD panel up front for the temperatures of the computer etc. Every now and then it will repededitly (spell?) beep at me. The temperature sensors are hooked up to the master hard drive, VGA card and CPU. The beeping tells …  |
| | -My PC is a HP Pavilion a510n 3000+ with a 120 GB 72000RPM Ultra DMA HD -I just bought a Western Digital 120 Hard Drive I want the new Hard Drive as a BACK UP ONLY to store extra files & whatnot thing is the manual is not very specific … |
| | I switched to Linux two months ago. It had been years since I had tried it and years ago it was just not user friendly and I didn't have the time to make the transition. Well that has changed, Linux is really nice. If you think 31 flavors of ice …  |
| | Hi I am using Mac OSX 10.2 and I wanted to share files on my computer with other computers on my network. I have noticed that when you turn it on, it only shares the Home folder of the account. My Hard Drive is partitioned and the bigger side also …  |
| | Ok, my son has an older PC. It's running on Windows 2000. It's custom made. Anyway, the mouse was working fine. I had a friend clean the hard drive and then re-install Windows 2000. Now we don't have a mouse. You can't see the pointer. I went into system devices … |
| | Hello, I recently bought a 250gb hard drive to use in a disk caddy as a removable back for my other two 120gb drives. When I went to format it, I could only get 127gb. I found out that this could be due to my BIOS and unable to find …  |
| | Good Evening to All. I have successfully installed windows xp (home Edition)several times on my computer (Hp 533w intel, Celeron 2.0 Ghz). On all occassions, I have download all updates from Bill. After downloading all updates, normal operations is establish. Several minutes later, I turn the cpu and I get …  |
| | I recently had a problem with a hitch hicker, after dealing with the main problem I was left with a couple of small problems which I've been able to track down. A friend suggested that I try "System Mechanic 5" to run down the remaining problems, I did, and while …  |
| | Hi, I’m running XP Pro SP2 and have recently reinstalled it and most of the programs I wanted to reinstall went back in OK and I thought everything was fine. Then I decided that I’d install an old copy of Bryce 5 that I had zipped on my hard drive. … |
| | From a cold boot on my computer I get nothing but a Windows explorer error message, no icons, nothing... wallpaper comes up but nothing to help me move forward to control panel etc. can anyone tell me how to bypass through the system if I can't get to control panel … |
| | I have a Gateway laptop 9300 solo series that has a very wierd temper. When i have the external power supply hooked up the computer it will lock up so I turned it off. On power up the Gateway logo will come up and then beep which is normal then … |
| | can anyone please help or advise, my pc kept crashing mostly when i was on the net, BIOS error was the most common message. so went to mercury website (motherboard manufacturer) printed out details to reset & update bios. basically it said use flash file on CD, save BIOS which … |
| | I would like to know how to password protect files under my profile with Win XP on another hard drive. Currently can only do it on the C drive where windows is installed. Thanks, Derek  |
| | How do you completely wipe Hard drive (NOT using "format c:" or "fdisk"? My old Sony Vaio Pcg f350 randomly crashes and is genrally crash prone. I have checked the hard drive and it contains "bad clusters"! I have used "format c:" and "fdisk" but neither get rid of the …  |
| | Hello, I am not much of an expert in home electronics and I was wondering if you can be just a little kind to recommend me the right product for my needs. You see, I was actually looking for a voice recorder so I can record dictates. I was searching …  |
| | I have a HP Pavillion 404uk with 40GB hard drive and wondered if it would support an extra 40GB hard drive? I have already installed an extra 256mb memory and a DVD+re-writer, but because I use a video camera, my current hard drive can't handle it. When I purchased this … |
| | Hi, Can some-one be kind enough to answer my questions which are in bold text ? [b] What is "Organic EL screen" [/b]? I am new to MP3 players. I want to buy one that does not only play mp3 files but also play and record the radio aswell as … |
| | I recently bought a 80 GB Hitachi/IBM Deskstar 80G, 7K80, 7200rpm, 8MB Data Buffer, ATA Ultra-100, 3.5" Desktop/iMac Drive, to install in My 5 year old Mac PowerPC G4. It's 400mhz, 256 RAM, OS 9.2.2, 20GB Hard drive. I have tried several different 'jumper' configurations. eg both original (lower) and … |
| | Hello, Can some-one please tell me : What is [b]"Organic EL screen" [/b]? I am new to MP3 players. I want to buy one that does not only play mp3 files but also play and record the radio aswell as record voice/sound/dictation. Anyway, I am not interested in the "flash …  |
| | I have a friend that has an older hp n3350. It may be 3 years old or older, I am not sure. His hard drive is small and is totally full. He has put it over to xp which takes up a lot of the space but wants to keep … |
| | It have a Dell D3000 CPU. I installed a secondary samsung SP0802N hard drive. I thought the problem stemmed from the new speakers i purchased but after troubleshooting i discovered that the problem only occurs with the adding of the additional HD. The speed is slow when i try to … |
| | Hi i have bought a 2nd SATA hard drive, but it wont work as both my SATAs want to be master, which i thought you could do with SATAs anyway. However, Windows just wont load with them both installed, it doesnt like having 2 masters. Any ideas? My PC spec … |
| | I pasted all of the highjackthis report but Idont know if you can read it. I cant get my internet Explorer to download a single thing. I gat a message that IE cant find the file or the file doent exist. If someone could make heads or tails 0f this … |
| | hi there. i am using my sisters account to ask for this advice i have a 40Gb samsung hard drive with windows xp professional installed on it. my problem is that i have been experiencing quite a few windows errors and BSODs over the last couple of days. A virus … |
| | Hi All I have friend's PC which was reporting errors and had to be rebooted regularly. We decided the best option was to reformat the machine and start again. So after backing up all data I reformatted his hard drive and then reinstalled Windows Professional from the genuine CD. It … |
| | I just got a 40g notebook hard drive and wanted to convert it to an external drive. I bought a case that you put the hard drive in and it will convert to usb for both connection and power. When I plugged it into my notebook (compaq presario) windows xp … |
| | I suppose it's the video cards fault. Because when I move the mouse on the screen while playing the game (in particular Sid Meyer's Pirates and Guild Wars) the sound start to tremble and the speed of the mouse movements slows down. My system information is as follows: System Host … |
| | Here is my problem : I bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 16MB Cache SATA coupled with a Silicon Image 3112A SATA Controller. I was never able to install Windows XP on this drive as it always crashed before the end. I connect the hard drive to an existing Windows … |
| | Hello, everybody I am having problems with my computer trying to recognize a 80GB SATA HD. What lead up to the problem was I bought a DELL GX280, by I wanted to put my business's corporate license on it. And Microsoft says I can only do unless I reformat the … |
| | I have a group of mpg files that WMP used to play. Sometime in the last few months it stopped doing this correctly. Ihave two problems: 1. Some files load and play sound, but the picture is a bunch of nondescript squares. If I let this run for about 20 … |
| | Ok this computer is about 1 year old and I have noticed that the hard drive would make some weird grinding and clicking noises at time's and sometimes the computer would just shut down out of no where. I went to turn it on today and I got a message … |
| | Ok this computer is about 1 year old and I have noticed that the hard drive would make some weird grinding and clicking noises at time's and sometimes the computer would just shut down out of no where. I went to turn it on today and I got a message …  |
| | My WinXP system recently crashed and will not allow restart. Have talked at length with manufacturer support who are suggesting reinstall as only fix. Problem is there are important files I'd like to recover if possible and would prefer not to risk writing over them. (there was a password sign … |
| | Well ok, I was having major problems with spyware and whatnot so I was forced to reinstall Windows XP... i wanted to reinstall my OS but at the same time, i meant to format my hard drive also. but i didnt format it so now i got 2 operating systems … |
| | I'm running a power mac G4 on OS X 10.2.1. I restarted in classic mode (OS 9) but discovered my mouse and keyboard would not work. I rebooted (by pressing and holding the power button) and the Mac began to reboot. It started to reboot in classic environment but stopped … |
| | Hi I have a Win 98 gateway desktop computer I wanted to reformat the hard drive to erase my files etc., before I give away the computer. I did the following; went in to MS dos mode cd\ format c:/s then Y Then I switched off the computer, Inserted the … |
| | Hi – new user here with a hard drive problem. I currently have a 20 GB Fujitsu hard drive (MPF3204AT) with an ATA-5 interface. All OK until….. I recently bought a used 20 GB Seagate hard drive – with an Ultra ATA/66 interface and can’t get it to work. Other … |
| | I have installed a second WD Hard drive in my Dell Dimension 4100. I had to use the 40 pin connector originally on my internal Zip drive. I now have nowhere to connect the Zip to the motherboard as all four connections are used up, two for CD drives, two … |
| | Well I just got a new computer, and I just recently installed a new hard drive, a WD 200 GB hard drive, but afterwords a few days after I installed it, my CD drive stopped working, when I put a CD in it won't play, I checked the cables and … |
| | Yea So im making my brother a computer and its a old dell xps mother board and penteam lll and i have 2 hard drives and it has partial operating system(they dont work at all) one is 98 and the other 2000 i want to put xp on it but … |
| | I thought this might be useful for others encountering a similar problem that I encountered yesterday. A friend called and said their computer wouldn't start (Windows XP & SP2). I went over and it was in a continuous loop. It always went to the optional startup screen. It wouldn't start …  |
| | just installed second sata hdd on my machine (jetway kocab board) but the machine wont recognise the second drive.any ideas?. the machine is running fine otherwise |
 | I currently have two 250 gig drives striped into one partition on my dualie G5, and running Panther. I have all of my software installed and configured, all of my files saved, and I'm very happy. I also have a 500 gig firewire drive. What is the best way to … |
| | I have an Acer C100 tablet PC. Basically it's a small laptop that doesn't have an internal CD-Rom drive. I have an educational program called EyeQ that I would like to use in that laptop. Problem is : the program will not run unless the CD is in the Rom … |
| | I've been editing large WAV files for a cd I'm remixing. Everytime I save the .wav file after making an adjustment, I lose hard space on my drive. If the .wav file is 85 megs, you would think that 85 megs would just stay after you save over the edited … |
| | I recently installed my first LINUX setup (Debian 3.0) on a seperate hard drive from my Windows system. During the installation I was asked to install adapters for specific items I have installed. The problem arose when I tried to locate a module for my integrated LAN built into my … |
| | I have a world of troble lol I can't run any java apps and script errors all around me. I've only had this computer for a couple of months. I am running windows ME on a refurbished machine. i got a virus, killed it,(I think), got a new ver. of … |
| | I just bought a new Toshiba Laptop with Win XP Pro in it and am currently using a Dell laptop with Win 2000 in it. Is there someway i can transfer my application software to the new laptop without using the install CD's Macromedia Dreamweaver Studio MX 2004 Suite Photoshop … |
| | I went to download a free media player of whom we won't mention (winamp) and received a message telling me that I either had a corrutped installer, or a problem with my hard drive. I had tried to down load to my C drive the first time, so I tried … |
| | Hello, I am getting a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) error when I try to copy files within a Hard Driver or from a Hard Drive to another Drive. I have been buying Maxtor drives only, and for each one I get, a CRC error occurs in the next few months … |
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