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ok im going to buy a new video card very soon. im not sure wat to get. i could go for 8800gts or gtx or ati 2900xt. well i can go for any of these but i just wanted to know which one is worth the price. im not going …
ok, i've had it with this cloak and dagger stuff i have a hp pavilion xt928 with win xp on it i even wasted more money ordering the recovery disks i would like to go back to old win98se os and still be able to use the hardware on this …
The mobod i really like does not have an internal pin connector for a 1394 plug on my case. My case has a 1394 connector and a cable but the cable has a 9 pin female connector. I have checked on using an add on pci card but can't seem …
Dear All, I have Pentium V 3.0 Ghz Hyper threading system with 915Gav mother board and 256mb of ram. While system was working fine until one day when i started the system and screen was blank with only green light on the monitor blinking. I troubleshooted all the possible things …
Using Indian Laptop in UK...adapter getting extremely heated...??? Hi I am using 3212NWXMi Acer Laptop which i had purchased in India. The indian plugs are round shaped. But the sockets in UK require square pins. So i purchased one adapter through which i can plug indian round pins into sockets …
Any on can guide me to built range booster for 2.4 ghz AP . Omni anntena is also connected with AP but signals i can recieve around 700 to 800 meters. i want it for 3-4 KM Thanks
Well over the past few months I burn the periodic cd and listen to them in my car and everywhere throughout my house. I have burned CDs many times with multiple machines, but this is a first time I have encountered this problem. I usually use Windows Media Player to …
This is what happen When i turn on the laptop instead of getting black screen with DELL LOGO and WINDOW XP on it i got GREEN screen. and it's also happen on my desktop window I did everything in my power to resolve the problem but not of it fix …
Hey everyone, about a month or 2 ago I started hearing a very loud whirring coming from my box, so I started trying to figure it out. Eventually I found out that it was the video card fan, making this obnoxiously loud whirring noise that sounds like a hairdryer almost. …
Hello, I'm just wondering how would i go about updating my GPU drivers? I have a radeon 9250 256 mb video card. a friend of mine said for me to try and update the drivers for the GPU but i don't know how to do it. If anyone can help …
just wanted to ask someone if they know of this modem? does it perform better then the one used for for internet only, or does this one run slower because it is used by the telephone and cable? plz let me know, oh ya this is used by comcast cable
Hi, I am new to this site. I am having problem with my new DVD driver as discussed in a previous thread. In that thread there were many referrences to pin 45+47, and a picture for how to handel the two pins. I can not find any pins on my …
I have a Lite-On XJ-HD166S (that came with a Dell Dimension 4700 in Dec 04) and it no longer works. I replaced the old one with a new liteon (i've had good luck with liteon drives), and gave it back to my family member. Now, I want to resurrect the …
See a lot of problems with Dells,HP,and some of the home builds but haven't seen to much on Gateways here. My better half has a gateway and it has helded up fairly well for the two years that she has had it. Have only had to do one reformat on …
If anyone is familiar with the video game console Wii, I'm having trouble trying building an infrared bar for the controller to work on my pc. For those who don't know, the IR bar works as a reference point by constantly emitting IR light. Currently I'm getting a weak signal …
A have an ASUS P5 n32-e SLI Plus Motherboard that was in a new install and would not power up:@ . The green status light would come on , but there were no fans , no post , nothing. After I removed it from the case , I found that …
I have an issue with a new IDE HDD that I'm trying to install. I have been running from the SATA drive that was already installed in my comp. Now I want to add an IDE drive, I tried master, slave, master w/ slave, both plugs on the IDE cable, …
My Imac G3 was always acting up when it turns on after 5 to 8 minutes it shutsdown, so i decided to open up and found out that it has a defective power supply, no parts available so I dissembled it make an improvisions, using its optical protection switch imade …
Hello I am a new Techie looking to learn all that I can about computers. I know a little more about computers that the average person and am looking into a career with CIS (Computer Information Systems). My only downfall is that I don't have any experience in web design, …
I'm looking for a way to collect hardware/software information from users that visit a site I'm working on (The user will request this action with full knowledge of what is happening of course). You can see an example of what I'm looking for at Crucial where they have a button …
Hi, I am developing a new mouse with 7 buttons. 3 of these will be used for the normal mouse operations. Windows (driver stack) supports passing of information about these buttons to the application. Although the firmware is changed to send information about all the 7 buttons, information about only …
Hi, I am developing a new mouse with 7 buttons. 3 of these will be used for the normal mouse operations. Windows (driver stack) supports passing of information about these buttons to the application. Although the firmware is changed to send information about all the 7 buttons, information about only …
Hi peoples, I've got an LG L1510S LCD monitor and my screen display is buggered.I left the computer for about 30 minutes and now I can't play a game and on the desktop I have these little black lines above the icon text. I had a little look at LG's …
Hi, Have read of others having problems with thier sim. freezing up. I read here about someone suggesting to change bios to "load fail safe defaults" How does one do this? I know how to get to bios screen, but once there, I don' t see how to change to …
I'm gonna buy individual parts and set up my own computer. I already have 1 gig ram so I will not focus on buying anymore ram (but if you advice to get more...). Video card is just 256 mb so I'm planning to upgrade it. Processor is a sure upgrade …
I need help in knowing the best budget server machine to host my website.
Got an issue that is bugging me :(... Came back home from work to find my computer won't switch on anymore... when i pressed the power button the fan would start to spin but then stop and wouldnt boot. tryed this serveral times and eventually nothing would happen. had a …
I recently installed a new Double Layer Lightscribe DVD burner and am having issues with copies of DVDs I am making (let's assume they are legal DVDs). Whenever I burn a copy they never quite work right. At various points, it varies on each burn, they stop working. I did …
My 5 yr old Geforce 4 4600Ti card is about to die - fan tempermental, freezing screen, keeps overheating etc... and I need to replace it. My motherboard is an AGPx4 but I cannot find any cards that are half good. Can I put an AGPx8 card in it's place? …
So I've come to notice that my muffler is falling a part on my 96 Honda Civic LX. I was walking towards my car to head to work about a day or two ago and noticed that the tail pipe wasn't in the proper place. It turned out the the …
Okay, I have a Geforce FX 5600XT graphics card and have had it for several years now. Just within the last couple of days I have tried starting WCIII FT to play as usual, but the nothing is happening. The screen goes to flip to higher resolution, and then WCIII …
Hi all i'm new here so i hope I'm posting in the right place. Last week we had a major thunderstorm while the computer was on. The power went for for like 3 secs.Everything came back on except the computer. No life anywhere in it, including no lights. Does this …
So I come down into my basement at approximately 5:27 A.m. It was a typical morning. But then something went wrong. When I turned on the Xbox system there was a loud high pitched humming like sound and it was violently vibrating on the carpet floor. So I quickly turned …
Upon leaving my computer idle for a period of time, I come back to open something and it says my paging file is too small or something to that effect. Sometimes I can get things to open but they close them selves after a few second. This happened after uber …
if i buy a 2 port video splitter could i dual screen
My laptop has an intergrated network card IN?TNI'C 420-0810. Will this work with an ethernet cable which a college requires?
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In the IT Department I work in were starting to put Asset Tags on every piece of hardware. This includes Phones, Monitors, Desktops, Laptops, Printers, etc. The problem is were currently using Microsoft Visio to enter everything in. This is becoming starting to become a bit tedious with dragging the …
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This is what we pay taxes for? [B] Rep. Miller denounces funding of struggling aircraft U.S. Rep. Brad Miller of Raleigh is calling for an end to years of federal funding to an aerospace company that is trying to develop a military aircraft that takes off and lands vertically. Miller, …
Ok this is my first time building my own system and i thought it would be fun, i got a motherboard, cpu, gpu, psu, and 2GB of ram and kept my old hard drive and disk drives as well as my PiP samsung monitor that was about 800 bucks 3 …
Pls. give me sample code and brief explanation about how the thumb scanner works and how can I integrate this to my PC using VB
A computer I recently upgraded with a new motherboard and processor and memory and power supply(basically replaced everything) turns on for a few seconds and then turns off again when I hit the power switch, nothing even gets displayed on the monitor yet either. What could possibly cause this?
I opend up my computer, and put in another 512 of ram, and now my computer won't even start. I took it out, but it still didnt start, i checked all the wires, their all in the proper place. The only thing that i think i did wrong, was the …
I'm too lazy to do research right now, and I'll probably get better responses on here anyways. Is it possible to just buy a 32" LCD TV and use it as your monitor and your TV? Not at the same time of course. Just a thought someone at work had …
I have no idea if i've posted this in the right place, so bear with me. i am trying to connect my PDA to my computer via bluetooth, but my computer's bluetooth network says there's a network cable unplugged. Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? …
Hi All, I am a new member with very little IT knowledge. I have a pretty old computer which I have upgraded myself(hardware) to it's limit. I am using dial-up 56k modem at this time and will be installing an ethernet card or using an external device to speed things …
Hello there, I just want to ask if any of you guys here had experienced writing hardware controllers (dvd-rom, hard disk) using scsi protocol-multimedia commands. I just want to know your suggestions or maybe tutorials or example codes to well experienced in mmc (both windows and linux :)) that would …
Hello Techies, I'm not a techie, just love computers. I bought a Toshiba lap top about 2 years ago and since then, I've had nothing but problems. Thank GOD I purchased a warranty because now I get a new lap top for the same price I paid. Basically, what is …
hey everyone i got a aluminum case computer (big, bulky, and boxy) i got from a friend that said the hardrive crashed. so he had it in his warehouse for six month and it collected more dust and who knows what then i could imagine. i was amazed when i …
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