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I know a need a new computer but I thought I would get a second opinion on what is causing my Firefox to stall when I'm trying to view sites (like this one). Also, it slows down on project playlist. Sometimes I see the java icon when it slows down. …

At any random time the computer freezes and generally the screen kind of fades to completely white or has lines, but always fades away and freezes. This usually happens a few minutes after starting the computer if the AC adapter is plugged in, and can usually last a whole battery …

I was playing NFS Underground. During a race, at a particular part of the track the system stops responding and the screen turns off. The music is stopped an instead a repeated noise is heard. The system restarts instantly. After logging i can see the error name to be "BlueScreen". …

My machine is over a year old, no real issues. Today I go to boot up and it sticks on the BIOS Statup screen indefinitely. No power to keyboard/mouse. ASUS P5W Deluxe Mobo Could it be the power supply? Any other likely culprits?

Hi everybody,I'm new to this joining a community thing,but hopefully someone out there can help.I have a g4 ti/500 that all of a sudden will not start.Some of the time I get the grey apple screen but no progress indicator,a couple of times I got the indicator but it would …

Hi everyone, i have a little problem. i was looking at upgrading RAM. i removed one of my 2 512mbs. after examining it, i replaced it, the came 512, in the same slot. that's all i did, now my system wont boot, no screen, lots of beeps. I've tried booting …

I'm planning to buy a laptop but I have a doubt and confused of what am I going to buy, a dedicated video or shared video memory laptop. I want to buy an ACER laptop for economical reasons among others. Is 512mb shared memory laptop can smoothly run a Need …

I'm trying to figure out why my Windows 2000 machine freezes up. Not BSOD, rather a complete 'press the reboot button' freeze. According to the readings from SpeedFan 4.27 my temp readings are: ambient temp (reported as Temp 1) in the computer box 35C. The HD's are at 38C & …

I'm going crazy and hope someone could assist. I recently bought a barebones to upgrade my existing system. My challange is to keep my main IDE as primary/boot with the existing O/S (XP Pro) and add on 3 additional IDE drives using SATA coverters. The other 3 drives have data …

Hello everyone, I have a problem with a newly assembled PC. First, here's the specs: Athlon X2 5200 Asus M2A VM OCZ Gold PC6400 2x1gb 1xSATA 160gb earhwatts PSU 500w So I put everything together (made sure I was grounded and handled everything as carefully as possible) and booted up …

i have created a program that write protects USB devices, but can this be done for firewire?? i know there are no settings in the registry like they are for the USB write protection. Has anyone any ideas how i could achieve this? thanks

Dear all in my desperation I have joined this site in hopes that someone out there on a tuesday evening will be able to help me with my USB plug situation. I have a laptop from HP, specifically a Compaq nx9010 and although it's old and heavy I really love …

When I turn on my pc nothing happens apart from the lights coming on? I have no idea of where to start looking to fix it and am not sure how to get the information off the harddrive? Please help.

I don't if my mobo is dead or not. It's a VIA (sucky brand). When I reset the BIOS I wasn't able to boot into either the HDD or the CD-ROM. It would only boot off the floppy. So I don't know if it's dead or not. Any ideas?

I had my little bro put together a CPU for me and with the budget I had, I ended up with: AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core processor 3.0 g 2- Nvidia Gforce 7600 GT video cards 2- 1gig OCZ dII 800ddr ram OCZ|OCZ700GXSSLI 700W RT power supply windows xp …

Alright so my sound card was going to that evil place down under (yes, australia ;) ) So i booted down my comp and unplugged EVERYTHING and proceeded to take it out. I went to boot the system again but this time i got the error of Boot disc failure. …

I have a question. I have been studying C++ and it seems to be getting a tad repetitive. What I really would like to do is more with electronics but also with C++. My laptop only has USB ports. I never wanted to be a programmer but would like to …

hi i am not able to boot my cd even though cd rom i s detecting well .there is no probs with cd since its working fine in other machines so can you please help me to sort out this problem thanks

This may have been discussed here or elsewhere, but I don't even know what search terms are appropriate for this problem. Problem: I have a USB card reader plugged into USB5/6 on my mobo. When I plug a USB expansion card into USB9/10, the drives on 5/6 disappear. I can't …

my dell computer will turn on but a screen apears that says it was shut down while there was still a program running. the screen says i can either start it on safe mode or the last previous mode used. I tried both and it just returns to the screen …

Hello. I have an older HP laptop, maybe a few years old. Under the screen, above the speakers, it says model "hp pavilion ze4800", however underneath the laptop it says model "ze4805us". Which model is it? I ask because I want to upgrade to the best ram possible. 512mb or …

Hopefully someone can help me, Im picking my brain trying to find an answer. This morning I noticed that my computer had rest it self, didn't think much of it. However, when I went to play music using windows media player I had no sound. The song looked like it …

Hello, thanks in advance for your help I upgraded the ram on Sony Vaio PCG F707 yesterday but I believe I have made a big mistake. I bought 256mb ram 133mhz, problem is the laptop is designed to take 100mhz. I put the 133mhz in not relising my mistake and …

My new motherboard will be coming with a 8pin CPU connector and I have only got a 4 pin on my PSU so what shall i do? any ideas

This should be an interesting issue for you all to tackle... :D I was having this same issue with my computer (starting about a week or so ago), so I tried the standard things (clearing the CMOS, removing the battery for five minutes to wipe the CMOS, switching out hardware …

Hitachi has launched the world’s first Blu-ray disc camcorders. Dubbed DZ-BD70A and DZ-BD7HA, the new camcorders surely mark a breakthrough in technology. The DZ-BD70A camcorder is a single drive device that has the ability to record around one hour of Full HD 1920×1080 high-def video on 8cm single-sided recordable and …

Hi all Quick question thats boggling me... If a PC/Server has 4 available COM ports with 3 existing devices attached to them, How do i find out which port my device is connected to.? in windows i can see a shite load of available ports and 5 or 6 ports …

Well i'm not that good at computers but I'll try my best to give as much information as I can so maybe someone can help me out. I have an older computer, it's a compaq, Just installed windows 2000 pro on it and it's just the operating system and nothing …

Hello, Recently I have discovered through a Tech Help call that I possibly have a bad memory strip. The tech person suggested that I download Memtest-86 and test each strip individually. I have done so, but the results are a bunch of numbers that are confusing to me and, as …

i recently reinstalled windows xp home edition and i have a few problems in my device manager other devices ?ethernet controller ? PCI device ?PCI simple communications controller ?Video Controller how do i get those installed when i dont have the disk and cant use the internet on that computer …

Hey I have recently formatted mine pc...and after tht i have lost few drivers like.....Ethernet Controller,USB Controller,SM BUS Controller,Video Controller(VGA Compatible).All these have got a question mark in its front.How can i get to know what sort of controllers are in the motherboard and where cn i get its numbers …

I digitized all my CD's so I can listen to music via PC connection to my stereo receiver. I plugged an A/V adapter into the green 1/8" sound output port on the back of the computer, then connected it to my receiver with 2 regular a/v cords. The sound comes …

Hi, I need to upgrade my server workstation. I have bought a new Dell workstation, I want to upgrade it and buy some new cards and stuff. Can I know which card are needed for the server and where can I buy from

System: Windows XP Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz 4 gigs Ram XFX 8800 GTS 640mb Gigabyte Motherboard Just built my new computer and it was working just fine last night and the 3 weeks since I completed building it. I tried to hook up a floppy drive from my old comp. …

I put my part of my one computer into a new case so I could make room for a new computer but I have a little problem now. All I did was to take all my parts out of my one case which I will be putting new parts in …

I have a Sony PCG-GRX570 with a bad MB that I'd like to swap for a Dell 8500 with a bad MB.

Hi I am a bit of a novice and so will try to explain as best I can I have installed my drivers for my new MP3 player and the computer has the little symbol at the bottom of the screen saying everything is working correctly. When I go into …

I am up against a wall on a Proliant with a 3300 es raid card and seven 18.2 drives configured as a raid level 5. we had a drive fail in the array and replaced the drive, by accident we installed a 9.1 gig drive instead of the correct 18.2, …

Through the Help and Support Center on my Compaq Presario SR1319RS, I'm trying to create the set of CD's or DVD's for backup/recovery. The write process completes successfuly for the 1st disk of the set with either CD or DVD. However, about 6 attempts have failed during the Verification phase …

All , I am planning to host website and planning to buy hardware for that and am expecting 200 website to host on the server and going to have 30 mb of space for and on average 100 people will be using different website . Could any one guide me …

hi, i am having a small problem with my new dual monitor setup. i just bought a pair of lg 22in widescreens on blackfri, and i was quite excited to get them up and running. im running a core2duo e6400 (clocked to 3.3ghz but running stock atm), 2gb corsair ram, …

I have hundreds of Linux 6.06 disks with box. I have 64 bit versions, standard pc versions and mac versions desperate to get rid of!! - all unopened with ubuntu stickers Any interested?

I am hoping someone out there can help. I have a Dell dimension 4700 a couple of months ago I turned it on and it wouldn't fire up it just beeped a few times. I called a local repair shop and they said it sounded like the video card had …

Hello hello my current hoster is changing his location and just now he suggest me few servers for choice 1. AMD XP2400 ram: 512 HD 40GB bandwidth: 2000GB port: 100 mbit with Directadmin 2. AMD Sempron 2400 1GbRAM 80Gb HDD 3000Gb transfer 10mbps network Located in New Jersey, US 3. …

one day i came home from work and my monitor's screen was black and the computer was still on, so i restarted it, nothing still a black screen, so i tried restarting it again nothing, so i opened it and flashed the bios, and it started, that allowed me to …

Grateful for any help and apologies if this newbie has not found a relevant existing thread, despite having hunted for one! Symptoms CD drive worked fine when installing broadband some months ago. Unaware of likely software interference subsequently. Only major instal has been Norton. I have XP SP2, a Dan …

14 inch monitor was replaced with a new 17 inch monitor. Now the computer must be booted twice to get the monitor to turn on. Everything else works ok. Computer is a 450 mh running Windows98 with 64 meg ram. I don't think it is the power management program because …

hey folks....dont know why that my cpu is working and monitor is not.....is it because of the display card or with the ram??

I tried to control device using outport() function but it did not work I used turbo c++ & i have os Xp media cntrtre can anybody get me a solution?

[COLOR="red"][COLOR="red"]Hello guys & girls......... My first time here -- Ive spent a lot of time looking round and whilst there is a lot of faults the same as mine - ie, non starting pc's... I cant find one that fits exactly -- so, Mine is as I say, a TIME …