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| | Alright, I have a copy of the "The Sims 2" game for sale. Since I already had bought it. Here is the thing, the stupid thing looks like it was played a few times and it has a marker spot on it, possibly from the stupid guy drawing on it. … |
| | Just recently i replaced a harddrive with a new one, and well i made the stupid mistake of not taking the files i wanted off the hard drive before i removed it. well i put the new one in, got my machine all setup and stuff, but i then realized … |
| | Can anyone tell me what causes my display to go halfscreen on occasion? It is not the monitor, I have tried different ones.I have a Packard Bell Multimedia 820 with a MXX enhanced 300 processor with 128MB of Ram and a 3.2 Gig hard drive. |
| | OK, I have 6800 graphic card, turn on PC and as soon as fans start spinning PC turns off. I can also hear a small sqeaking type of noise coming from tyhe graphics card. I really need help, can anyone relate to what the cause might be and what could …  |
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| | Hi i have just orderd all the parts for my computer and was all excited when someone told me that i need a part that connects my motherboard and my hard drive. I have the wires is there a "Scuddy" card i Have to get?:o |
| | Im gonna upgrade my ram soon for gaming and i have no idea what my maximum is. My specs: 2.53 GHz P4 512mb DDRSDRAM 80GB Hard Drive Radeon 9600 SE Graphics card What type of ram do i get? ANd how much? BTW my pc is the hp 753n model. |
| | as the description says im having problems installing windows 95, im trying to install the OS on a compaq LTE 5100 with a swapable floppy and cd-rom drive, heres where it gets sticky the hard drive is already formatted so i dont have the cd rom drivers any more and … |
| | Hi I have a win 2000 computer and would like to add a hard drive. It has a 120gb drive now and I want to add a 200gb drive. when I put it in I made it a slave, when the computer boots it see's both drives. but when I …  |
| | I recently was givin a Compaq presario 720 laptop. Sometimes it will not come on, but you can hear the hard drive. thanks for any help |
| | Can't seem to defrag hard drive under Win XP - SP2. Some error message abt the MS mgmt console comes up instead. Was fine before SP2 installation. Have plenty of free space so that's not the problem. Any ideas? Kurt :rolleyes: |
| | Hi, The following code compiles and runs fine from the hard drive but does not compile fine from a floppy disk. It gives me a cannot resolve symbol error for the DataSet dataSet = new DataSet(); line. Any ideas? The program is supposed to except user input for 4 integers …  |
| | I have 2 hard drives and I want to add an application folder to the second so it will act more like my system drive. I mainly want to save my ProTools recordings onto this second hard drive and it won't let me. I'm assuming b/c it doesn't have an …  |
| | It started 2-3 weeks ago. my hard drive began glitching and the computer crashed with a UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME BLUE SCREEN. I took out the HD and replaced with a brand new one. SAME THING HAPPENED! I then REPLACED THAT ONE with a NEW HD of the same exact brand and its … |
| | My whole computer is skipping. the music, the mouse and the programs? sounds like when neo takes the red pill and it happens all the time. hardware or software what are my options for smooth sailing? |
| | Hello, I am new to this form so I hope I am in the correct form for asking this question. I has signed up to do surveys for Microsoft and as a reward for completing a survey they sent me copy Windows XP Pro which I was going to put … |
| | I have what seems to be a problem with Windows, however it could possibly be the motherboard itself. The reason I post it here is because Windows will not work but Linux will... so at the moment it seems to be a Windows problem... I recently purchased a Syntax SV266AD … |
| | Hi everyone! (I am using Windows 98 S.E. and internet explorer 6 SP1) Just earlier today I'm getting a problem within internet explorer that the page cannot be displayed dialogue is coming up no matter which website I try to enter (whether i type in www format or i.p.), yes …  |
| | A couple of weeks ago my Tibook's hard drive died. I ordered a new hard drive and cd-drive(superdrive) and installed them. The computer looks and sounds like everything is fine. However, while installing Panther I have run into problems. The screen that instructs the user to choose a volume on … |
| | I am a newbie so I know nothing! I have a HP pavilion with a 40GB Ultra DMA hard drive. It came with Windows XP pre-installed so I have no discs and the warranty is up. Unfortunately it began shutting down and restarting itself. I tried to go back and … |
| | I have 98 right now i want to know is there a way to install XP on top of it? and when it boots up i can choose what os i want to use, any help? I have one hard drive. |
| | I have an old 380ED IBM ThinkPad on which I am having Home Networking problems. Before installing XP I formatted the hard drive to give me a clean start so there are no "old" settings upsetting the system. I also have a desk PC and a recent Toshiba laptop both … |
| | i have an xp and at one time had only 3% of my hard drive free SO i took off many programs and freed up my hard drive to 24%. But when i go to defrag it barley does anything but when i run the analyzer it says defrag is … |
| | Hi everyone My pc is pretty rubbish so i want to get a new one, i found a site where i could build my own, hence saving on things like cd writer which i allready have. Is getting a cpu around 3.4ghz worth it? it seems so big would it … |
 | For some reason, regardless of how many times I try to optimize my hard drive (whether through the traditional scan disk defragmenter provided by Windows or speed disk optimizer provided by Norton Antivirus) I can’t get my disk space fragmentation level PAST 78% It was like this since I got … |
| | Maybe someone can help with this. I’m trying to fix my friend’s laptop. When she starts it up, there is an error message that says Error Code 02b2 the Floppy drive is not configured properly. Run Setup. When I go to Setup, the bios does not give a choice for … |
| | This problem has been plauging me for over a week. I have called my internet service provider and my computer "tech support" and they are clueless. I am now turning to you fine folks who I know for sure are going to help me!! Here's the scoop: We have a … |
| | :?: Sounds straight forward, but I can not figure this out I am new to this. I have a Etower 500 MHz with 192 mb's of memory and 4 gig hard drive. I used partition magic 3.5 to partition the drive in order to try and install DOS and win98 … |
| | well i have installed suse 9.0 and windows xp ,but after formatting windows xp due to some reason , ihave formatted the only c drive which had windows system files but after unastaling windows xp it was unable to show suse 9.0 at the beginning . after that i tried … |
| | [COLOR=Magenta][COLOR=Magenta]hey guys [/COLOR][/COLOR] i have 7 ICE-CLEAR 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure with FireWire and USB 2.0 COMBO for video work that i do and want to make a "carrying case" for them, either out of an old breifcase or a leather loptop case. my only concern is that they will … |
| | [FONT=Arial Black]undefined[/FONT][SIZE=4]undefined[/SIZE] I am also trying to fix Mom's PC. Her PC keeps saying "not enough disk space" and the screen pops up to delete temporary files etc. So I do that, then the screen pops up again and again. I have also run all the scans on this machine … |
| | [B]HI ALL![/B] My present problem - I ran a System Recovery both from the disk and from the partition and in both cases all goes well, I get to restart into user partition, windows boots and when it comes to the screen where I click finish the comp hangs. Sometimes … |
| | ok.. i had a trojan on my pc that i just couldnt get rid of so i formated my pc.after that i installed the windows updates and i noticed load times were much slower.i cant even play my online game anymore(Americas Army Operations).the games loading time is way longer that … |
| | My computer uses the AMD 756 PCI bus master dual IDE controller. I really don't know much about it, but my device manager is saying that the primary & secondary controllers aren't working properly. It says for both: "This device is either not present, not working properly, or does not … |
| | In an attempt to connect my daughters computer to a wireless network I installed my mother's old hard drive which had the windows ME operating system on it. My hard drive had windows 98 and the wireless equiptment will not work with 98. Mom does not have the disks to … |
| | I'm not exactly sure whats going on here, I'm running out of space on my hard drive, but I would have plenty if I could just get my CD burner to work. It can read cds fine, but it does not want to detect blank ones, and it is NOT … |
| | I am running an AMD Duron 1300 mhz with Windows XP. This morning I got up and turned my computer on and it cannot find the hard drive now, the bios doesn't even register it. Here's how it started: I upgraded my memory from 1 256 meg PCI 133 to … |
| | I have a home built pc with an 80 gig drive. It started making a noise similar to the noise it makes when powering down and the hard drive clicks off. After a couple of days of the random click every hour or so it then started to click repetedly … |
| | I'm having a problem with getting the error message "Cannot format a network drive". I've been trying to reformat my hard drive and install windows 95 from a CD I have. I've already made the boot disk and am doing everything right except it comes up with that error message … |
 | [b][u]Hey guys, what is the most bizarre computer problem you've ever had?[/u][/b] I just had one this morning where a fellow employee reported her computer gave her a disk boot error. I went and had a look, I figured there might be a floppy in the drive but there wasn't. … |
| | While trying to partition a 120gb hdd on a brand new computer somehow c: got set as a network drive. I was trying to partition a brand new 120gb hdd. Had activated primary partition and activated it.(40gb). Then made another partition and logical drives D:(40 gb) & E:(40gb). Then formated … |
| | I recently got a new hard drive and 512meg of ram (making a total of 1 gig). I decided to reformat my main hard drive and reinstall winXP pro. After I reinstalled, I started putting my old programs on and after a couple hours, suddenly my computer would hang up … |
| | Hey Guys I recently bought a new Dell XPS laptop and i was moving my files from the pc that i own to the laptop. When it came to a couple of games that i own, i was told that could just copy the game directory over and it would … |
| | Links in My Computer are not working. I open My Computer, then click on Control Panel, then when I click on any icon in Control Panel such as Add/Remove Programs the hour glass comes on but then nothing happens. The hour glass stays there forever. When I press Ctrl/Alt/Del, it … |
| | Hi Before i post this message , i read and i try all the answers everybody give.And my problem is still there. My problems My internet is very slow.And after a one or two site in ie , i receive a error message "page not found".So i need to deconnect … |
| | I don't know where to go from here but this is what is happening on my pc. I have a compaq (yeah I know but it was given to me) and it had windows 98 installed on it. As soon as I got it I added 128 megs of RAM, … |
| | Hi mac people. I am currently planning to purchase a notebook. It will be my first Apple computer (replacing my windows PC) I had planned to buy a 14" ibook (1.2Ghz/768Mb ram/60Gb HD/superdrive/bluetooth/airport extreme) but yesterday came across the following at slightly less cost than the new ibook. Factory Refurbished … |
| | I have a PC and a laptop P2P networked, The PC is the main server and the laptop is the client, I have successfully shared the internet connection but I can't seem to get any folders to share. I have used ICS, both machines are running WinXP, I used the … |
| | I went to unstall a windows file to replace midway through when i was redownloading it i had a power failure. now i cant boot up my windows xp. i treid putting in the xp disk to redo it but the disk wont come up. is there some way and …  |
 | Hey Guys, Great Site. Hopefully someone much smarter than I can help me. The 10gb hard drive in my toshiba 2805-s301 die. I am trying to replace it with a 20 gb model mk2018gap. I have upgraded the bios to ver 2.0 . The old drive had no jumpers so … |
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