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I'm a member of a large gaming community that is currently split among three different sites. We are now gaining sponsors and need to consolidate our presence to one site. I'm the head of the team that will design the change and implement it. After looking at all the major …

I am having a strange effect on my PC. I have two monitors, an Acer and a EYama. I'm running XP Home SP2, and my MOBO is MSI (MS 6712) My graphics card is a Matrox Millenium G450 Dualhead. Often I get an overactive Barcode effect following my cursor around …

Hey everybody, Just lookin for some advise as to which is a better all round processor, the AMD Phenom or Intel's Core2 Quad. I hear there are benifits to both.

I have an older pc (compaq sr1910nx, 2006 model) in a new case (as a gift). The specs stink!!! I will upgrade everything except the case, hdd, and operating system, as well as monitor, keyboard, and mouse. But i will upgrade the psu, mobo, ram, cpu, and optical disk drive. …

On NT4 theres no usb (way less than 98) you can get usb for keyboards/mice and usb memory sticks (maybe more) by installnig a dell update. Says its for optiplex, but it enabled my (fully patched NT4 sp6) IBM thinkpad r30 to use my usb memory stick its R62200.EXE. Intea01i.exe …

Hi, Im fairly new to video cards and I want to be able to run games like "World In conflict" and "Crysis." I know I need a PCI compatible video card but Im not sure which one to get. Im looking for a price range of $60-$120 and I'm hoping …

Just a quick question I'm going to buy a new DVD burner to increase the speed of burning my dvd's and my question is, will this new burner conflict with the cd/dvd burner that was installed by the manufacturer? I run on an: T3958 eMachines D845GVSR Motherboard Thanks, Mark

Hi I bought 1 GB mp3 player written on it "Sony NS-11" Digital mp3 player,after 2 days while I was listening to some music ,it stopped playing suddenly and the screen went blank I thought that the battery was out but it still the same even with new one,when I …

Hello everybody, I have a question about one of these scanners with automatic document input. I regulary have to make copies of documents, that are printed from both sides. I had a look on these douplex-scanner but they are very expensive and big. Now it wouldn't be a problem for …

Hi everyone I've been reading the threads on getting an airport card for an old Mac with great interest, as I want to get the right card for my iMac G3, and it seems that it's all too easy to get the wrong card. I have a blue G3 (700MHz …

Greetings, I need to know if it matters what prongs the power cables go on when I am hooking up my Case to my Motherboard. I have looked for some kind of identification number on my motherboard, all I do know is it is an AGP motherboard. The cables used …

I have a computer I've been working on, and the power supply is 20-pin ,and the motherboard is 24-pin. Is it necessary to get an adapter to the 24-pin? or will it run without. I've tested it without and: -When I plug the power supply into the wall the green …

We just got 3 Optiplex 755 systems and I have tried to get TV out to work on two systems and I can't get the desktop to display on the TV. I have tried many things like different TV's, cables, drivers, etc. I have never had a problem with TV …

I have 2 hard drives in my pc. One is xp pro, the other win 98. I just switch ribbons & reboot to a HD. Both set on cable select. I would like to have them perminantly hooked up and when I start my pc, have a choice of which …

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I plug the power cord into the computer, and the power buttons light up, i press it, and nothing... not the slightest sound. On the inside, there is one LED light that lights up, and other than that there is no sign of life. The computer doesnt do anything. …

im so confused! ive been told if i buy a 3gb 32bit systme i might have more available ram than if i buy a 4gb 32 bit systme! what?! something to do with the drivers... help! i need to understand! i need to buy a high end pc for starcraft …

Hi, I got a DELL E520 with me. And a G965 with the latest driver update...I'm having this BSOD whenever i try to play games..any suggestions guys? please help me:smileymad: A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is …

Hi, I have taken new monitor of 19 inch of Acer. Best viewing is in only 1440 * 900. I have VIA motherboard P4,2.4 Ghertz,1 GB RAM,SS3 prosavage DDR Graphic drivers. I have reinstalled the graphic drivers but not able to get that resolution(1440 * 900). I have also changed …

My compaq 2000M laptop is runing very very slow. It ran so slow it went to blue screen I had to go to F8 bios startup to get it to boot to windows XP and it will run for almost 30 minutes before I get to the windows log in …

KDS LCD monitor displays faint image at start but quickly turns solid green

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 that had a hard disk failure (read: locked spindle and fried motor due to spindle locking) and am in the market for a new one. I have seen the wealth of new and refurbished hard disks out there, all the form factors needed, and …

Does anybody no where the eeprom chip to unlock the bios password on a dell inspiron 8200 is located on the motherboard.

Hello all, I am lit bit confused to select the best open source for Alerts. Our company requires a proactive notification about computer hardware issues via monitoring of the processor, hard disk space, memory, etc. I heard that Paragent.com is the best for it. Any opinions about this would be …

Hi! Today morning my friend tried to start her laptop(Acer Aspire 5100) and it did not bootup it just showed black screen with power light on...the keyboard also was not active. She did not know how to switch it off so she disconnected the power and then removed the battery …

Hi All i have hp ML 370 G3 server here and i face a fan failure problem among the 6 fans inside. and when i change the place sometimes it works on the others fan interface and sometimse it doesnt so it makes not to decide it is really the …

Hey everyone I have been trying to study for the A+ test on my own now for about 3 months. I seem to be hitting a brick wall here, I read chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4, and by the time I get to 5 I forget what the hell …

This is the first time I've had to set up a RAID... and I wanted the OS on a seperate disk, so I loaded XP onto on a 160 GB, and then rebooted and configured a RAID 0 with three 500 GB drives... and it worked fine, and even shows …

Well, silly as it sounds, I have to install windows 98 onto my pc because I have equipment that doesn't have a driver for XP, and I need to be able to access it, so I am now reconfiguring my pc, and a friend told me to install 98 first, …

Does anyone know how to find the firewire GUID directly from a device? Seeing as my iPod isn't being picked up by USB, if I can find the GUID straight from its terminal, I could easily fix my problem. Anyone? I tried [icode]grep -i Serial[/icode], but that doesn't work.

Okay I'll start out with some brief specs of my computer. Ram - 2x512mb = 1024mb Cpu - Iintel pentium 3 - not too sure of the GHz but thats not important Hardrive - 80Gb Dankstar (??) - not too sure of rpm Motherboard - Atx form factor - some …

I got a big Order of a friend of mine and went for the best prices I could get... I got it and have to build the system as well... The specs are amazing!! Now is my question he wants 3 Nvidia 8800GTX in Tripple SLi, do you guys have …

Any help out there needed. Heres my problem. While living in a college dorm i was connected to their network. About 10 minutes after connecting to it i started to get these strange blue screen errors that i have never seen before. A computer tech told me that i had …

I want to upgrade the video card on my HP Pavilion 724c. My son wants to play Orange Box games & they need a better graphics card. From what I can tell it currently has Integrated Intel graphics on the motherboard with an open AGP 4X slot. Does anyone know …

Hello people, I wonder why many business machines such as servers and process computer (I work in one power plant) use SCSI disks? I noticed that practically all computers that do a lot of processing use SCSI disks. These computers are rather old (4 years and older). Maybe today, situation …

Hello All, I have an emachine T3958 pc with an integrated Intel 82845G video card. I recently purchased a Gateway FDH 2400 24" wideescreen monitor with a native (preferred) resolution of 1920x1200. I have the latest driver installed for this crappy video card, and still no option for my preferred …

Which one of these hard drives would you recommend: Samsung SpinPointF1 1000GB, 7200rpm, 32MB cache, SATA-300 ($300 est.) Western Digital Raptor 150GB, 10000rpm, 16MB cache, SATA-150 ($179 est.) Online @ tomshardware.com, the majority of the benchmarks were ruling in favor of the samsung, but i don't get that!! how did …

Help! I have been trying to set up a Raid on my system. I am using Nvidia software. When I set the array up the system shows it as healthy but I am not given the option to make the Raid bootable. In the boot status column it shows N/A. …

Hi -- sorry for redundancy I'm posting this as a new thread (though I contributed it to a former thread considered "solved", because I consider this issue far from solved, and need help! I have an HP 1315 All in one scanner/printer. It used to work just fine with my …

Will 585 PS be enough for this system? Biostar TForce TF7025-M2 Motherboard AMD64 X2 4200+ 2.2Ghz Dual Core Processor GeForce 7800 gs Graphix Card 2GB High-Speed DDR2-800 Memory 80GB Hard Drive With 2 Stock Case Fans Basically I am turning my old gaming PC into a web browsing and dling …

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127329[/url] im asking cause i noticed it came with a power cable, and my current 7600gt didint comme with one so im not sure if it will work. my mobo is a dell DM051 and the chipset is North Bridge: Intel Lakeport-G i945G if i cant or cant work can …

Hi, I have recently tried installing Vista Ultimate 32 bit on my PC. I liked it, but came across a problem where every now and again the PC would just lock up and the only thing I could do was press the reset button. I wondered if it might be …

I've been getting flickering graphics, nonstop during gameplay on every game i play. during movie sequences or anything outside of game its fine. I'm running the latest drivers but still no change. In Nvidia control pane, 3d settings - adjust image settings with preview, the preview shows the flickering too, …

Hi, I have created an application which sends SMS to number of people through internet. I have used Nokia 5300 as a GSM driver/Modem. I have connected it via USB. I have tried out various AT commands., but the I always get an error as: "Device not functioning properly" Please …

Hi everyone I have replaced my mobo for an asrock K7VT2 with Athlon 2400+ onboard. I purchased two stick of 1gb ddrpc3200 ram (Samsung 400mhz) and put in the two ddr ram slots. when booted up it showed as two stick of 512/226 ddr both in bios and windows. checked …

Hi there Just finished setting up my new comptuer yesterday, but when I plug in the monitor I only get "No signal" displayed on it, and then it's put on stand-by. Everything else works fine, all the fans are spinning, all the lights are on, the computer is starting up …

HI, I have bought a new Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pi 2512 Pentium Dual Core T2330 1GB 120GB DVDRW Vista Home Premium from [url]http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4Y3N[/url] Now, it tells me here it comes with 1GB RAM installed (2x512MB) and can take up to 2MB. I have bought two 1GB sticks to max the …

I am trying to load windows 2000 onto a HP Pavilion XT923. I booted with the windows cd and reformatted the hard drive and loaded the OS. Now that I have done that none of my network adapters will work, not my modem nor my nic. I looked at my …

I've had a backlight problem on my Toshiba Satellite A100 for a while now. After researching for days on the net i was sure it must have been an inverter problem. My screen would show everything perfectly fine for a little while but would then go black but the screen …

Hi, I have bought PC withoutr any OS on it, before few days. I installed winXP from my CD Win XP SP2. Just moment ago, I tryed to install some drivers for my graphic card but CD drive doesnt read the disc?? I had install WinXp from my CD disk …

I have successfully configured two monitors for my HP m8147C Vista PC. I have two issues: [COLOR="red"]Issue 1:[/COLOR] When I maximize Media Center I cannot scroll to the other screne. This only happens when I maximize Media center, when I maximize other applications everything works just fine. When it's not …