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I purchased a new computer and was using it for two days when I started to experience problems. The first day I used it I had an enjoyable trouble free day. The following day I noticed it started to show a red warning "NO RGB SIGNAL" and then turn off …
Hey, I have four hard drives in my computer; 2 by sata and 2 by ide. The two that are attached by ide are connected using an ide card. However, once I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, my computer is suddenly unable to find the two hard drives. I …
Hello! I have an old PC, usually it works just fine. No problem at all. But today I wanted to set in some new harddisks, it had a capacity of 60GB before and now it has ~ 400GB space. But when I boot my PC I get 3 beeps with …
Hewlett-Packard is scrambling to respond to an issue brought up by a Dec. 10 YouTube video demonstrating that the facial tracking software used in some of its laptops doesn't recognize black people. HP responded to the issue yesterday [URL="http://www.thenextbench.com/t5/Voodoo-Blog/Customer-Feedback-is-Important-to-Us/ba-p/51351"]in its blog[/URL], and it's starting to go viral today. In the …
I'm feeling a bit foolish right now. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I'm replacing my current HD with a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9. I got it in the mail, took the old C drive out and replaced it with the Max. Of course it gave me a "Boot Disk …
how to begin? .. hmmmm :-/ well, i am a 34 year old male, enjoying early retirement from a long list of minimum wage manual labor and customer service jobs where i never seemed to make ends meet, let alone get ahead. how could i retire from that bs, you …
I bought this laptop: [CODE]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101203[/CODE] [B]Features: Model Brand Gateway Model P-7908u FX Edition General Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit CPU Type Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53G Screen 17" WXGA+ Memory Size 4GB DDR3 Hard Disk 500GB Optical Drive DVD Super Multi Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M …
First thing Hi and thanks for wellcomming me. Im a 19 year old student studying in collage studying on harware consepts in which includes PhP coding since it is somewhat managed trough servers. Well, i hope that i will get good help and advice here, and i'll do the same …
Hi, I'm currently a 2nd year undergrad computer engineering student and am planning on becoming a hardware design engineer. I'm finishing up with general physics 2 with calculus, and was wondering what topics in general physics that I learn in college are actually use on the job. Also what skills …
i need any help please i have made aprogram to access the parallel port to control the motor motion my problem is that it is built easily but at running ,it tells me that an external component has thrown an acception and it points for my code at "class2.output(888,0);" i …
when switched on the display TOSHIBA appears, after 20 or 30 seconds it displays PASSWORD. Both the battery 3.6v and 7.2v has been removed from the mother board.How can I delete password from the mother board in order to make the machine operative.
[url]http://images.fixya.com/0/2wire/177x150/41879178.JPG[/url] I installed Windows 7 on a seperate drive, and everything works fine, but I can't get the above network adapter to work properly. It's displayed in Device Manager as a USB device, and I have the driver that makes it function in Vista, but when I run the Driver …
After Googling my probelm and not being able to find out how to fix my prob.,I decided to look for help else where... here!^^ So, Hi ALL. I'm connected to a Speedstream 4100 directly to the comp.,no router, and I cant get the ethernet cable to connect to the modem, …
i am using windows xp .i am facing many error messages while booting.... so please tell me how to recognise those errors. please suggest me a good book to solve system errors including both hardware and software. i am interested to learn all about hardware problems.so please guide me for …
I bought a big-box-store computer with the intent to upgrade the video card as funds allowed. But, funds didn’t allow, so I cheaped out and bought a lemon. :rolleyes: The computer specs are as follows: Computer: HP a420n Pavilion Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-LA (AGP 8x, 3 PCI) CPU: AMD Athlon XP …
Okay, lets start by saying this is a brand new motherboard. Other one was not booting so we went and bought this one. With nothing connected (i.e Ram, CD-Rom, HDD, Battery) just the AC Adapter the power light comes on (hdd and batter do too when they are connected). But …
I have a gateway M1625 and about a month ago it started acting funny. Anytime I turn it on, the LED lights up and I can see the CD ROM light on but nothing appears on the screen. Someone suggested the CMOS battery be changed but that didn't solve it. …
I'm effing pissed at windows right now.... Ever since this morning I've been getting a pop up that says that my copy of windows is not geniuine. I'm assuming that windows is the one that is making my screen blurry and stopping my sound from working. HELP ME!!! I am …
I am working so many things at the same time right now I am just hoping that someone has actually done... what I am about to ask. My old [B]PIII IBM r30 thinkpad[/B] is a --good ---solid 'little' machine. comes with cd drive (swap w/floppy) 256 meg of ram, and …
Recently I changed my motherboard from gigabye to a newer model of gigabyte brand.since then I have'nt been able to listen to any type of audio from wmd 9.0 but the video comes allright.went to device manager everything is okay but the error message says that either i dont have …
hi hope someone can cast some light on this issue.... recently i have had three motherboards fail i suspect that it was due to the chernobyl virus. anyway rather than buying another motherboard i read somewhere that it was possible to reflash the bios chip with an eprom programmer..... well …
When I go to >my computer in the removable disk section I used to have about 7 different ones removable disk I....J....K etc. Now there is only one viewable and any usb flash drives etc plugged in can't be found.....now at this point I should point out I am a …
So, I have looked for a new screen for my R51 and thought it was a 12.1 inch, but it turns out to be a 14.1 inch. I bought a screen from a ThinkPad X31, which is a 12.1 inch screen. (and am kicking myself for doing so) The place …
hi guys, I have question about using pci bus extender to my vga card. I have a plan to connect my vga card and mobo indirectly via this extender. Is it going to be okay. And if it's okay, is it going to reduced the vga card performance dramatically? NB: …
Hey guyz i cant install any driver for my Gfx thats newer then the one on the CD it came with which is very old, ive downloaded and tried many, what happens every time is that my pc restarts right at the end but before it finishes installing, and yes …
I tried swapping a formerly working VA-10 Abit to an Emachine T5026 case, when that mobo proved dead except for the light near the PSU connect. Now, when the Abit was in that eMachine case, I used a Compaq S3000Z switch to test, aligning the power terminals, and the case …
I have a Mac G4 running OS 10.4.11. The internal combo drive (Pioneer DVR-103) no longer recognizes CD-RW media, either blank or with music files on it. CD-R discs, including blank media, are recognized. Any suggestions? I use Toast Titanium 9 for most burning tasks. I also have a Blue …
Ok, I am the family tech guru, so my extended family brings all their crap for me to fix for free. My aunt brings me her laptop, which had been run over by a car and the lcd was completely shattered. However, the external VGA port worked for viewing on …
Hi, I have an old hp laptop, it's an HP Pavilion ZD7010US Notebook PC, when I plug in the power cord, i have to fiddle around to get a (for lack of a better word) connection between the laptop and power supply I was wondering if anybody could point me …
Hy! I have A4TECH headphones with mic, and mic.don"t work.I tried another mic. and it is the same thing.On pc is win xp. Please help and thank you! Sorry, my English is not so good!
I bought on e-bay a second hand compact desktop pc case, this was advertised as being without its psu. It arrived in the post and I discovered that the psu is no ordinary format. The special psu for this case has a narrower case to clear the processor heat sink. …
PC - 'Home' brew Mother board - GF8100VM-M5 CPU - AMD Phenom X3 8250 RAM - 2gig DDR2 800MHz Bios - AMI Internal speaker - 8 Ohm, fed by 2 wires (one to each end of the voice-coil This mother board incorporates a 4 pin header for the internal speaker. …
I picked up the case and motherboard for this model, cheaply, however, only the green "pilot" light at the PSU connector comes on when powered, it's green, BTW. Intel PGA 775 socket motherboard, lacking the PCI - Express, but it's etched. Is there a replacement with the PCI-Express slot that …
at the weekend i decided to tidy my computer area. I unplugged everything from my computer positioned things where i wanted them and then plugged it all back. Just because i was sick of having wires showing and looking a mess. Anyway. When i turned the computer back on every …
Hi, I'm no hardware genius so I hope I can communicate what I'm wanting to do. I currently have two HDD on an ASUS P5K SE motherboard and a 500w PSU. I have three partitions on the first (500GB) drive, C: (Win XP Pro), D: (Documents), E: (Somewhere to put …
Dear Sir, I have recently reinstalled Windows XP on my PC, having Intel D945GCNL motherboard. When I am installing the Drivers all the Drivers are installed normally but Audio Drivers are not installing from the Driver CD, it gives a message that the audio failed to install. Please let me …
I have the laptop described in the thread and it came with a Celeron 900 2.2 Ghz and was just wondering if anyone knew if that CPU could be upgraded without affecting the chipset or mobo? Please bare with me as I am a novice at the technical details but …
Dear All, Lately I had been using a color sensor to read some colors in terms of RGB and XYZ values. The sensor is supplied with a GUI on which I could view the results. The sensor consists of a chip with a microcontroller (i dont know which one) and …
How do kernels work on different systems when hardware can be so different? For example, how would the kernel work when the graphics card of a PC is changed?
i lost my video controller,s cd. my motherbord is gigabyte and in the gigabyte,s website there isn,t any this hardware,s installer. what can i do????:(
I have a IBM 2153 en2 that I have updated the harddrive to 80 gb and 512 of memory and Windows XP. But the computer is still slow and it will not play videos. The processor is 100htz. I was wondering, could the processor be my problem and should I …
Hi, Pc Shows this messeage Window media player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device.There may not be a sound device installed on your pc .It may be in use by another program or it may not functioning properly . two to three time …
Hello, I am posting because my sony vaio screen is not working. i believe it is an SR and i ordered it about august of 2008. when i turn the computer on, the screen goes white, and then, slowly, vertical very skinny lines start to appear in different colors, but …
on my laptop the screen is visible but very dark. its not the brightness settings, so i imagine perhaps the bulb has gone but would love someone cleverer than me to confirm this, or suggest what i should do next. funny thing is that when you turn the laptop on, …
I know the 1150's have a power jack issue, we've fixed a huge amount of them. The one problem we haven't figred out is this. After some repairs to the power jack, the laptop will run on battery, it says that it is charging BUT, it is actually running off …
Hiii..I want to know more about my PC's[Intel dual core] motherboard and the ram......Please help me..! Wanna knoe the brand name,version..etc...How can I get the information without opening up the CPU and I dont want to install any programs..! Is there any way?...Please,please help me!
Hi there How do I write a simple value like 1(5v) to the DB9 port and how do I monitor the DB9 port for state changes on it? Here is the scenario : I made a circuit with a 16f627 processor that is connected to the PC via DB9 port. …
pls does anyone got an acer ms2180 driver i badly need it thanks
Hello folks. I have done a good amount of research and I'm still unable to determine how I can perform real emulation of a joystick. What I found on the web was using the mouse movements to simulate a joystick that moves an imaginary little ball. No, what I wish …
Dear sir, please tell me how to solve a nokia 1100 charging fault?
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