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Hi Everyone, this is stranger than fiction, but I have resolved the problem of my computer shutting down. It happened by accident. The keyboard was the problem. I don't know why this is so, but when I changed keyboards, the problem went away. As soon as I hooked up that …
i was hoping someone might be able help me locate a cooling fan for a sony vaio pcg-k315b mine has broke and i have not been able to replace it i live in the UK so would need it to be shipped here. I am desperate for this fan so …
If I start a game, let's say COD4 for example, I can play that game perfectly for maybe 1-2 minutes MAX before the framerate suddenly drops through the floor and it's almost unbearable. If I close the game, the frame rate for everything is very poor - scrolling down pages …
I creating a file server for a client, I want to set up RAID 1. However, I'd like HD0 (aprox. 2 40-80 GB drives) for the OS. I'd like to set up another HD, HD1 (2 1TB drives for file storage) seperate of the first RAID 1. The files that …
First off, Hello to all & I hope this is the Forum to come to for the help I need... I tried searching for my answer but due to my relative ignorance on the subject I couldn't make heads or tails of the info I was finding... So, if it …
i have a persario sr1210nx and i have no idea how to put in a new graphics card i know that i need a pci card and to install it into a slot but i just dont know where to plug in the power supply can anyone guide me please.
Is it safe to put speakers near (2cm - 3cm) lcd monitor? Thanks for answers.
Hello All, Complete noob here. My emachines T2885 lost it's motherboard. I don't think this machine is worth up grading although, I like it very much. I think that I would just like to get it running as cheaply as possible. My CPU is a Celeron 2.8ghz/128/400, SL77T. I am …
Hey guys, Its been Sooooo long since I posted. Glad to see the community up and vibrant. I have a very powerful Dell PowerEdge 2950 for sale. The specs are as follows: Processors: Two 2.53Ghz Intel Quad Core Xeon Memory: 32GB HDD: Two 15k 73Gb SAS drives, Six 10k 73Gb …
Hi all I am a newbie, used to use a G4 quicksilver. Son downloaded bunches of music to the harddrive, eventually the drive crashed, tried to use various solutions, but none have worked. Now I can only get into open firmware, where the message that the device has no active …
So I woke up this morning and booted my PC. The screen remained black even after the computer was on, "No signal" appeared on the screen. So I of course restarted, no dice. Next step I took was to unplug the monitor from my GPU and back into the default …
Usually the keyboard place the scan code for that key in the port 0x60 and then we read from there. The question is: It's possible to access directly a memory location and to place the scan code, and then read from there? (suppose Memory Range from a USB port start …
Hiyas Warning.. not a strong tech background here. LOL So, I have been running here with 2 video cards, both are nVidia GeForce 7950 GT. I have it set up with dual monitors.. BUT with one card handling each monitor. I have loved this setup vs having one card power …
Since Monday, my PC hangs for like two minutes on the RAID Configuration screen when I turn my PC on for the first time on a day (after being off for many hours). If I reboot, it takes the normal two seconds. I use a RAID 0 setup with two …
i just installed winxp to try it out. and for some reason it hates my video card. the screen flickers and craps out. if i turn off hardware acceleration it works fine. i downloaded the new drivers for the card. it works great under win98, redhat 8, and slackware 7. …
Hello, I'm using Windows XP Professional SP2 and I have a big problem. I managed to fry my old RADEON 9800XT and then bought a X1650 graphics card. However, when I tried to install a new driver from ATI's official site everything wend downhill. When I restarted the computer after …
im trying to upgrade my processor to a 1ghz but i just dont know how to remove the heat sink. most processors are on the motherboard but this processor (SL3F7) is on a card which was in a slot on the motherboard. the heat sink is on the card. [img]http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/7884/dsc01599cm8.jpg[/img] …
Hi Recently I bought viewsonic VA1918wm wide monitor.Now the problem is I am unable to get the 1440X 900 resolution. my motherboard and BOIS details are given below Field Value Motherboard Properties Motherboard ID 10/08/2003-SiS-740-6A6IYB0AC-00 Motherboard Name Biostar M7SUA Front Side Bus Properties Bus Type DEC Alpha EV6 Bus Width …
OK here's the scenerio - there is a BB 8800 wireless handheld EDGE ATT / Cingular is the carrier - the SIM is inserted but it keeps saying please insert SIM. I've rebooted 100x. I read somewhere on the Internet that someone put someone else's sim and saw it, and …
Hi I have a problem with a Acer travelmate 5720G. One of my friends powered of his laptop by pressing the power button and now it doesn't see the hdd after post. I originally thought that it was the hdd, but Ireplaced it with a new one and still the …
Hai, I am [COLOR="Red"]aneesh[/COLOR] form thiruvananthapuram, kerala, india. I am studying at mohandas engineering college. I have just started my first designing of website. I hope all will help me in my web designing. I will also try to help you. I am a newbie in this feild. But i …
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An external HD enclosure permits massive amounts of storage, and under a SCSI regime, the SCSI data cable can be long enough to run from the workstation backplane to the enclosure. With an Adaptec U160 SCSI controller with both internal and external (backplane) channels in which to address storage, as …
Hi again everyone i have a Lexmark printer X715 that was given to me. I downloaded the driver and everything seems to have installed correctly, but when i try to print it makes the printing sound and you can hear it rolling but paper will not feed or print. :( …
How do i replace a cd/dvd rom from my Toshiba laptop that am suspecting to be faulty.The pc is a Toshiba satellite 1700-200 model no ps170E-00021-EN
I recently came across some interesting cards that I can't seem to find any information on. I have "googled" all numbers on the card and asked several computer geeks and techies.... all to no avail. Can anyone help me with these? [B][COLOR="Red"][U]Card #1[/U][/COLOR][/B] ADAPTEC ARK MULE (AURORA) RoHS PROTO 1 …
I think i need a group of developers i can work with. I am a student of the university of london. My problem is using excel, if you scan it auto retrieves the serial number unlike ordinary textboxes. Please how can i make my program compactible with a hand scanner
OK here's my scenario - I just recenlty started worknig for a company - and they have Dell 260 Towers with 2 HD's in it. The OS is XP Pro - SP2 *this company doesn't believe in SP3*??? WTF right? Anyway. Everytime I go to start>Run>msconfig and choose the Boot.ini …
Hi there We replaced a LCD on Acer Travelate 4200 with a 2nd hand LCD from a HP NX8220, now the graphics are wrong and you can't read the writing, it is distorted. We have tried downloading the driver from Acer and that did not work and then also tried …
I just installed a gtx9800 graphics card and now computer says it need me to install software for ethernet controller----please help
Hi, I am looking for a code that will read the data from the SPD eeprom like memory type, speed etc. unfortunatly the wmi has no data on these items. I already downloaded some code from vbfrance but it does not work. Any help / hint / code will be …
Hi everyone, Decided to try a new-build PC -- Stared yesterday.. Hum! Lots to learn... Stuck so joined up for help... Anyway, it'll be fun (eventually) I've got a hardware background - so that'll cause me lots of problems... no "quick fix"with my soldering iron etc... Best Wishes,
Hi All I am a Newbie here seeking help with my powerbook Pismo G4 (Daystar upgrade, with xceler8) which has been running well until a crash copying music CD to itunes. It then quit suddenly with a scrolling "Command- line" script. After restarting the process would get as far as …
my family has an older gateway computer. It has a 600Mhz AMD processor, and 192 megs of ram. A while back the harddrive broke(made this clicking noise when we turned it on) so we bought another HD and intalled everything fine, and it all worked great except for when we …
Yikes, hope someone can help me here. I have a Compaq Presario and just got a Copannq LCD monitor (FP500) which uses the 20-pin connector. So I installed an ATI Rage LT board which has both the 20-pin and the regular printer port. Problem is thatt the entire LCD is …
Hey, my hp dv9500 laptop was bought with a core2duo processor running at 1.88GHZ. I treated it rather rough, and my room is really dusty, and the fan got very dusty, and to case would get really hot at times. one day, the control panel said the processor was running …
Recently i took a pc with Pentium D 830 3.0 GHz processor Intel 945 gntl mother board, 120 GB samsung SATA drive and 512 mb ddr II ram.. When i tried to install linux : (i have tried to install many versions like red hat 9, elx, suse, fedora core …
hey, i recently formatted my hd, when i re-installed windows (xp) i noticed that the longer the pc was runing my mouse started to lag every 2 secs for a period of 4 secs at a time, upon looking at my processes in the task manager, i noticed my cpu …
Hi, I would like to know is it possible to use c++ code to control pc hardware?
Hello, everyone! I've recently bought some hardware components to build a new low-cost PC, whose purposes are: web surfing, office working, multimedia (at a medium level, not... video editing). The pieces are: [LIST] [*]AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640 2600 MHz CPU [*]ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS nForce 430 / Geforce 6100 MB …
Okay, Well I'm a totat idiot when it comes to hardware, can't tell good from bad, so I'll start out with my system info and that stuff.. I'm running WinXP.. Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.80 Ghz 510MB RAM Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller with approx. 64MB memory DAC Type: Internal I'll include …
Morning to all... Could any one guide me on how to take an audit of all the Computers connected to one's Domain... Pc-Serial No,RAM,HD capacity any help woild be highly appreciated as softwares available work only for one user...but in a domain consisting of 200 users ...dont know how i …
My old HP mx703 CRT monitor bit the dust yesterday, so I went out an bought a 19-inch Westinghouse LCD. I was all excited about upgrading to the flatscreen world. However, my excitement was premature. The picture and graphics on this monitor aren't nearly as claer as my old CRT. …
Ok - I bought a Dell 17" tft off Ebay recently , used it for a day all seemed fine. The next day I had blue screen of death , the cmos battery had gone , changing the boot up , so I replaced that and comp booted up no …
Hi, Can any body know about the disable the print screen function key of key board. My requirement is this that on pressing "Print Scrn" of key board does not copy the contents of current window. Thanks in advance
Hello, I keep getting these warning messages in the details of the repaired permissions text whenever I run repair, which is often. Kind of worries me as I've never seen a warning in repair permissions. But I just switched to a new machine that came with Leopard. Mac Mini 1.83GHz …
Hey there, [B]Purpose: [/B] I want to design and build a basic system that detects human movement using magnetic sensors. These sensor will be attached to the human body. The problem that i have is that i dont understand how to build this system. I understand that you must have …
lately i have been experiencing 'freezing' problems with my computer, i have reason to believe it is a video card problem. what happens: i get one of two events happen, either the screen goes black and i get no input signal, or the computer freezes on a screen with a …
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