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Hi, i have a problem with my 19" LG flatron L1930SQ. The other day i just went black (looks like its off), but the green power light is still on. It lets me see what's going on but only a fraction of a second. It happened before but this time …

HI I'm a computer builder and troubleshooter. people bring in their computer and i try to solve the problem. i also build and setup computers. I would like to learn some new stuff in the area of computering, like web design,programing i don't have the funds to go to a …

My daughter unknowingly unplugged the cpu from her pc by unclamping the cpu fan,then tried to start it, of course nothing happened. We figured out what went wrong and reattached the cpu and tried to start the machine. The pc will power up but freeze on the cpu/ram ID page …

Hello, I've been trying to build computer but I experience random shut downs when I use it and can't seem to pinpoint the problem: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 4600+ AM2 (w/ standard AM2 cooling fan) ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS Motherboard 4GB DDR-2 800MHZ PC-6400 320GB SATA2 7200rpm 16MB …

Okay so I just picked up my laptop and discovered that next to the left hinge, on the back of the lid, there's a big crack! What method would you recommend to patch this up? A simple epoxy job? I know this is an incredibly simple question but I wanted …

I found a cool hardware called Novint Falcon. It enables a new type of force feedback. Allowing you to feel bumps, textures, and other cool stuff like gun recoil. It is hard to describe the controller but I am on the preorder list for their black falcon version. novint.com is …

I have an HIS Radeon HD2600PRO ICE-Q Video Card with a factory overclocked memory clock and core clock (650 core / 1050 "effective" memory clock). While digging through the ATI Catylist control center, i found ati overdrive over clocking utility. When i went in there, it gave me a warning …

The Flex-Bay is Dell's drive cage and cable assy for adapting drives to Dell cases. The part numbers for the 3 1/2 Flex-Bay Drive Cage and cable assy is NT424 (USB Cable for a Dell (Teac) Media Card Reader) and WN324 (Drive Cage or Bracket). This was hard information to …

hi, i do a lot of music production on my system and hav seen many people benefiting from using two monitors to spread their work across. Am looking to get a video card (PCI/PCIEx - as my mobo has no AGP slot) to give me the ability to hook up …

Hi! I would GREATLY appreciate any help or advice that you could give me. My problem is - I need a software that makes a light to turn on, then registers if the right button has been pushed and then, to send a signal another light to turn on. Please, …

I 'm in trouble .work as a sales I felt very tired in a manufacturer.(USB flash disk, PC memory module ,micro SD/TF/MMC card and SSD drive) .My duty which is looking for customer in the oversea market on website. I confirm the quality is good & price is competitive but …

Hi, I have a 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop, that suddenly became very slow. I have noticed the following: - The time taken to boot-up the PC is probably tripple what it used to be - I can hear that the PC is very active even when there are …

My PC having the following configration.... Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 GHz 256 RAM hard disk - western digital (80 Gb) recently replaced my hard disk (on 7/08/08) because the vendor said there was problem with the controller as it took a long time to strat up and even my pc …

As in my earlier threads I am trying to install a hitachi 5K250 laptop hdd into a Dell Inspirion 531S computer.All connections are SATA.There are 4 spaces to connect hardware on the motherboard. They are labeled SATA0,SATA1,SATA2,and SATA3.Sata0 and SATA1 are used for the hdd already installed(SATA0),and the cd/dvd drive …

Hello - first post on this nice forum. Actually my second, I've been to the introductory hall. I work with a lot of older PCs, repairing and fixing them up with spare parts so that they can be used by people (our clients) who can't afford the latest Core-Duo. Typically, …

Pete here. I'm more of a hardware guy than software -- Just coming up on 20 years of digital and mixed-signal integrated circuit design. I know how to write hardware description language code, I've written just enough C to be truly dangerous, and I work on a Linux system in …

Hi all I'm Leo, and I live in Australia, west of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. I've been playing with computers for around 25 years (48 years of age), and it seemed a natural progression from my electronics studies. I'm currently studying IT at TAFE (college), and never …

in short i have a program called driver genius, apparently i had a crap load of out date drivers that needed attention. i used the utility to download and install them and then the computer started acting up. first my tv tuner doesn't work anymore, i only have sound sometimes, …

Im no expert but I have tried and tried to get a clean install on my sons laptop. I followed the instructions from Dell's leaflet and put the Mediadirect cd and it wiped my harddrive then it asked me to put my OS disk in which I did. It loaded …

Hey Guyz i just got a SST TJ10 a few days back and it wasent in the best of conditions , i really wish i hadnt got it, anywayz whats done is done . im such an idiot! well i didnt get the screws or anything, all i got was …

Hi, Just Joined a new company as a sys engineer which has around 200 pc's all with XP Sp2.. my query is there any tool which can be used to collect all the client pc's hardware configuration . also for one point software distribution instead of intalling & updating s/w …

I finally bit the bullet and bought an iBook G4 with OS X v10.5.4 installed but no CDs. I have been using a G3 PB Wallstreet with OS 9.2 and 10.2.3 running. But mostly I've been a PCer like forever...and using XP SP2. My dilemma: all my MAC S/W is …

Hi Everyone! I'm Deboo from Mumbai, India. Currently unemployed since a few days and looking for a job. I'm in to hardware, networking, SysAdministration and Linux etc. I was looking for a place to post my resume so some tech people can review and comment. I came accross this forum …

I'm buying a new computer to do video editing and have settled on the Dell XPS 420 based on a recommendation in PC Magazine and the price> PC Magazine recommended having Xcelerator included and I was thinking of adding this on after I received my XPS from Dell. But after …

Hello all, I have a dell CPX/CPI laptop that i built from two laptops that my school's tech dept. gave to me, the CPX had a BIOS password set, so i took it's processor and RAM and put them in the CPI, which was built with a PII processor, and …

[I][B]Hi Friends, I have bought a new Frontech TV Tuner Card. I have installed it properly and successfully. The drivers are also installed successfully. But while installing the software i am facing some problems. The software installion of WinDVR quits in the middle saying that "Cannot get Device". But the …

I bought this multicade with an EM 201 monitor that has a few lines on the right side of the screen vertically. The right side is missing 3-5 rows of pixles, so I think the lines are a bleed-back of the missing part. Is this a problem with the horozonal …

hello everyone,, i hope u can help with this ,, my new pc is like that:cpu celeron(d) 3000mhz ,cash 512kb , mb foxconn 945 ,2gb of ram ,vga geforce 8400 gs 512 mb ,hdd 80 gb,,, the problem is that my pc is not strong that much with games ,so …

Hey, well its been a while since i've been on this forum but i'm back and a little out of the loop when it comes to the new hardware :S so i was just looking for some suggestions.... What i have right now is: 3gb ocz gold 800mhz memory Nvidia …

Where can you buy a Voodoo 5? I cannot seem to find any more places that have these things (including eBay).

I have some cheap device with a small color TFT display conncted to the board with some tapelike conductor -- which has broken 1 or maybe even 2 conducting lines (I can actually see the tiny gap with a lense I use). (By the way: they've got broken because a …

I have a Generic 17inch VGA monitor and was wondering if it is possible for me to use an HD GFX card with it. Im betting that i cannot use HD/directx10 with it, but am wondering if the VGA out that the card has will work with my cheap monitor?? …

I had a nvidia geforce FX 5200 in my computer and when i played games it didn't have the performance i need so i figured out what kind of slot i have and watts for my computer(450W) and i bought one at tigerdirect.ca and thats the ATI radeon x1650 Pro …

Hi all. I have a 500gb external freecom harddrive. This had been working fine until today. When i turn it on i get the connection beep and it shows up in Device manager as working fine. BUT it does not show up in Disk Management or My Computer. This coincides …

I have just got a new pc other died on me,Iwant to place the hard drive from the old pc to the new one, the OS is windows XP i have been told that the OS will not boot in the new Pc and that i will have to reformat …

I have 1 Used computer and 1 New computer which have same specification. If anyone interested, i would like to sell the Used one with $3000.00 and another one with $4,500.00 Please let me know via email. Payment via Paypal or Cash Cheque only. Contact: [email]letona88@gmail.com[/email] or [email]jeanmfi@gmail.com[/email] Below is …

Hi, I administer a small network of about 150 pc’s. Currently it’s run as a work group (no active directory) but as the business is growing I may be able to convince them to move to an active directory system. At the moment I have no real network monitoring capability. …

Hey Someone gave us another working "quicksilver" Does anyone have one of these? Or Knows what their capable off.. We have one already but that's dedicated and modified for a specific task. Thsi one's for experimentation ....We have spare memory, and hard drives and family pack software to put in. …

I own a Vaio FJ 270, which I purchased just over a year ago. This afternoon, I open the notebook and press the power button, only to find the machine mysteriously and totally dead. No lights, no fan, no indication whatsoever that the machine knew I had even pushed the …

[B]I Cannot Access the E Drive to get to my CDBurner that came with my windowas XP on a Campag Persario 6000.. When I click Properties for the LITE-ON it says Location 0[/B] The Drivers say they are ok .It ask for a CD to be installed then no burner …

I have 2 computers and both the CD and DVD burners were working fine, but now when I go to "My Computer" they're missing from both computers. (I have WinXP Home Edition) I read that this could have been caused from itunes which I had on both computers. I've uninstalled …

[B][COLOR=RoyalBlue] Hi there, I bought a a SanDisk e140, my first ever mp3 player I have had it for 3 weeks and use it when I go out for a walk etc. Today I went to turn it on and nothing at all happened. It just wouldn't power up. I …

Before the red dots incident was black screen showing up and the audio of the games went " taaaaaaaaaaaat" while gaming. Now....Whenever i play a game, red dots would appear and the game freezes and sometimes my screen flickers. All i have to do is to restart my PC. I …

Hi there, can anyone describe me the security features of a router and hardware firewall posses. I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you

Hello, today I had my old toshiba a65 laptop sitting on my bed, turned on with the screen saver on, when i went outside to set up for my party. When I came back inside I had just gotten my 1 GB ram chip in the mail and i was …

Basically i have problems when i open a chat room on a website; i have an old computer, which may be the problem, but is there a way to download some free programs that will enable me to view and process chat? what other options are available tha i can …

Hello Everyone, I want to learn how to build a desktop computer...could you all teach/guide me?

Monitor display problem! :'( I have just got my computer back after the hardrive failed, since then the display doesn't fill the screen, it starts off about 5 cm from the left and runs over the right. I have looked at the display settings and updated the drivers both of …

hello i have an old 80286 that is running windows 3.0 and i can't get the mouse drivers to work... it has 1Mb of RAM and a 64mb flash drive configured to work as a hard disk te driver runs in ms-dos v6.2 and crashes after reading the mousedrv.ini file …

HI all, i have an acer insperation aspire 2.9 gig processor, heat sink fan missing a blade (lots of vibration), built before i first saw it, i was told it wouldn't start up, i tried the power and i got fan, and hard disk activity, but no post beep, it …