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:eek: Normally this would be easy, but the fans share a PSU 4 pin power connector. All the fan controllers I have seen use a 3-pin or 4-pin motherboard style output for the fan power. I need one that will out put power in the form of a PSU 4 …
My friend has an old Compaq Presario with a defective 15-pin connector and I’m having difficulties in installing a new Graphics card on his pc. History : After every boot on an XP-Home SP1 Presario, display works fine for a few seconds, then the screen is filled with small gray …
Hey, I am trying to write a section of code in VB that gives me the audio level of the output from a sound card. If I am using a Soundblaster card this is very easy as I can use the MIXERCONTROL_CONTROLTYPE_PEAKMETER. But not all sound cards have this. I …
I have a Gateway 450ROG notebook and for some reason have a flicker in the monitor when the brightness is set to a low level. The flicker is never present when the brightness is set at a high level. The flicker only occurs when I actually move the monitor, so …
Sup everyone I've been look at different motherboards for my system, and want something with PCI Express. However, all of the motherboards with PCI Express have either 1 or 2 "x16" slots and 2 or 3 "x1" slots. How important is it to have the extra PCI Express x16 slot? …
I have had a Dell Inspiron that's served me well for three years. I recently moved into a new apartment with suspicious electrical surges. Even though I have a surge protector, I'm afraid there was some sort of an internal power surge. I was using my computer with no problems, …
Just bought a GeForce 7800 GT from EvGa. I love it. I highly recomend this card easily instalation, no software problems, no adjusting just run it. BTW I have been playing it with Age of Empires 3. Can finaly play it on highest settings. Anyone else know how to overclock …
i have been toying around with an old Tandy 1000TX. for those of you who dont remember, or where too young, it is a very old system. It is a 286/10Mhz, 640K ram and CGA graphics. anyway i want to know of something i can do with it. i need …
Hi, my husband just reformatted my computer and I re-installed my Lineage 2 game and I am trying to open it up and right after I hit the start button a warning box pops up and says, "The game may not be consistant because AGP is deactivated. Please activate AGP …
I ran out of rear mounted usb sockets and did not want to use the usb2 sockets on the front of my computer, so I fitted a pci usb2 4port inside the computer but soon got insufficient bandwidth message. What did I do wrong and what is the cure if …
I'm in the market for a graphics card for my computer but I'm not sure what to get. I know I need one that supports at least 1.2 per-Pixel Shader (or something like that) and be the best i can get for under $200 dolors US. My computer is a …
have purchased a webcam, installed software PC Camera (602a VGA) and installed ok, restarted computer and then plugged in webcam in usb port, computer detected new hardware and began the installation procedure, then came up with insert Window 98 Second Edition disk for file iyuv_32.dll, could not be found, i …
Alright heres the problem, I start up the game, try to enter the actual game play and i get an EXCEPTION_ACESS_VIOLATION. And quite frankly I don't want it, I also don't want to upgrade my stupid Geforce 4 mx 440, so without further adue here is the error i get …
I have a small office where we have several workstations. 7 to be exact. Two of the monitors have been giving me fits lately, [b]the first one...[/b] An Envision EFT-720 started having some difficulty a few weeks ago, it would *zapp* the display, it would collapse from side to side …
Hi All, I have just built myself a new computer. One of the final things I need to add is some more RAM (as I currently only have my old 256Mb of RAM in there). I want to add an extra gig for now and was wondering whether it would …
About a month ago my power supply went out and killed my motherboard with it. So after getting this fixed and putting in a 500 watt power supply with dual fans, the computer was running great again. Then about a week ago my computer shut off without warning. I let …
Well, I recently got an iLo monitor from Walmart in December, and there are two extremely annoying things going on with it. 1- It makes a really annoying buzzing sound, the kind that quickly drives you insane. It never goes away, and it's been doing this for a while now. …
hi guyz, I've recently built my PC from scratch (took a while too hehe), and i went with the option of not putting in any floppy drives at all, as i thought i won't be using it anymore since i can back up all my bigger files onto cds & …
Hi I am constantly using international characters for different languages. The key that is not working at all as it does on my other laptop is when I hold FN+ALT then 0241 to make the ñ. Instead, if I type it in IE it will bring me to the previous …
Last night after I shut down my computer, it started making a clicking noise (more so than a beeping noise). Now it won't start up :( I'm not very hardware orientated, so I'm baffled as to what's wrong. The mobo fan, psu fan and graphics card fan all run when …
I have received a prototype Latitude D620 notebook from Dell which has a biometric fingerprint scanner in the touchpad. Now thats all very nice and dandy. My problem is this that some people within my organisation have been playing with it before it was given to me. I now have …
Ok here is the problem i have, If there is a next page available. for example if you do a google search, don't find what you want so you press back and try again. the next page button will be highlighted because it has a page in cache....well anyway the …
How do i install my graphic cards power connecter? It has a side with a big black pin and 2 different other pin connecters. where do i plug them ect.:eek: as my comp is haveing power difficulties and i cant im sure i havent connected to the power supply properly. …
I reinstalled xp/ home. When I shut down the computer, windows logs off then the computer tells me it is now safe to turn off the computer. I have to press the power button. It never did this before, it would shut down and turn off all at once. Where …
hi everest says my agp is not enabled or the fastwrite. Everest says it will decrease performance but i have both the fastwrite and agp enabled in my bios. i think my comp thinks im using pci port or everest does. i just got a new agp card and want …
I recently installed a GeForce FX 5200 AGP graphics card into my friends computer, and everything went as usual until he tried to play a game. The games seem to load up fine, but once in the game, everything flickers a dark red, in a strobe light kind of pattern. …
I'm troubleshooting a friend's 15" LCD Monitor. It will not display any color whatsoever, just a blank white screen. On boot-up I can see a dozen or so colored vertical lines that quickly disappear. Pushing any/all buttons on the monitor has no effect at all. Booting up in safe mode, …
Does anyone know of a adapter that can be used to hook up a large format (expensive) Epson scanner that I used to my old Mac through a serial (25 pin?) port before it went dead today. I mainly use a G4 for most of my work but had the …
Ok, I'm a pretty tech savvy guy. I've spent enough time around computers to have at least picked up the intermediates, if not most of the advanced stuff. Here's the setup I have goin on. Linksys BEF router and like a 10 port Linksys Hub. Some sort of crappy DSL …
Hi, I currently have a laptop with windows XP on there. It's been running fine all morning and I've just reset it because I'd plugged my network cable in and it wasn't finding it but now it keeps on saying its starting a physical memory dump. I haven't changed anything, …
I'm having a PCI TV Tuner Card to which an audio cable is given. i installed the card to my mother board and its working well. The problem is I'm not knowing where to inser this audio cable.It's a four pin cable.But the audio header provision on my Mother board …
I'm having a PCI TV Tuner Card to which an audio cable is given. i installed the card to my mother board and its working well. The problem is I'm not knowing where to inser this audio cable.It's a four pin cable.But the audio header provision on my Mother board …
Well, just earlier today, I was talking to one of my friends about buying a new graphics cards, something from nVidia or something. They told me to open my comp case to see if my motherboard had this PCIe slot in it. I opened, I looked, I cried. Apparently my …
Hello, I am an amateur tinkerer who mananges to keep 4 home computers working plus I recently built 2 for my college kids. I am not afraid to try anything and I am particularly adept at hardware solutions.;)
Hi I have posted a similar issue before but now i have figured out a few more things. I have IBM Thinkpad R52. It had a combo drive(CD-burner+DVD reader) which a got changed to a IBM DVD writer. The problem is , system crashes with a blue screen when I …
This Pavillion 7955 was given to me by a friend who told me the hard drive died. When trying to boot it shows a message that the boot disk is bad. I put in a new hard drive and got the same message. I tried a new connecter ribbon with …
Recently I've become concerned about the heating issues my laptop has been having so I did some research. Turns out Im using a disproportionately large amount of memory even when Im running nothing (Firefox with 2 tabs open and Google Desktop). It says 70% memory usage. If I turn everything …
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Hello. I'm pretty sure I have a bad fan/fans on my Gateway notebook computer. It makes a horrible whining sound and is extremely slow. I don't know which fan it might be though - when I take the bottom panel off there are 3 fans visible. I really don't want …
Hi guys i need your help :sad: Recently my XFX Geforce 6800GT has started to buildup extremely high core GPU temperatures, reaching up to a staggering 99 degrees celsius even when just in windows. I put an outside fan on it big enough to cool down the room temperature some …
When I play high end games like World of Warcraft or GuildWars I get this strange blinking thing all over the graphics...like green/red and sometimes purple. I think they are called Artifacts?! Anyways, I was told to replace the cooling...i replaced the system fan. Next i replaced my 300w power …
Would I be able to use an ATI Radeon X1300 512mb AGP graphics card with an ABIT AV8 motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 3800+? If not, what cards would work? (I'd mainly be using my computer for digital photography, microsoft office, and a few games)
Ok, having some problems here. I have an old Dell Optiplex GX260. I had to reformat the stupid thing and i've gotten everything back up and running except............. i went to the device manager and under "OTHER DEVICES" it has an exclamation point next to "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller". …
My sons school sold all their old laptops for $20 a piece. I bought 2 for the hell of it. I got windows 98 loaded fine but can't get any sound, and only 2 and 16 color. They have no software for them. I can't find what the motherboard manuf. …
I need a little help. I'm bought my laptop in Hong Kong whilst working in Australia. Now I'm in UK and this series is not recognised. I have purchased a replacement LCD screen on Ebay.com.au for my Toshiba satelitte S3005-304 on the understanding it was changeable. Now I have opened …
Hi everyone I hope this is in the correct forum, my appologies if not but I couldn't work out where to post. Really I just wanted some advice. I have just been given a laptop. I've never owned one before but can see the advantage of having one, especially for …
I've got a 256MB ATI Radeon 9550 on a Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 mobo, and when I set the AGP (to either 4X or 8X) it reverts back to "OFF". In the BIOS, the AGP 3.0 Trandfer Mode is at 1X/4X/8X. I've tried to find the "hidden" settings in the BIOS by …
Afer installing Panther on my machine the graphics card in the PCI slot (running a second monitor) doesn't work right. The monitor screen looks like a negative (gray and pixely). It worked just fine in Jaguar. What happened?
Ok I have very little of a clue as to what I am supposed to do, or if it is even possible. I am using a laptop dell latitude for school and was wondering if I would be able to hook up an old computer tower to the laptop to …
for some reason my cd-rw drive doesnt show up in my computer and says uninstalled on device manager and even when i change the cd-rw drive for a normal cd drive it still doesnt show up and still says uninstalled, if anyone can help, i would be very thankful as …
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