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The other day it was storming out with lots of lightning, so I decided to turn off my computer. First let me say that the side panel on the tower was removed because earlier in the day I was dust cleaning and just hadn't put it back on. So I …
In about one month i am purchasing a new video card, which will require me to purchase a new power supply, because my current one is only a 250w. I have been searching many websites in order to try to find out with PSU i will need and what features …
Hello, Hello: Im a retired electronics engineer with a fair knowledge of computers but definitely not an expert. Just put together a machine from old parts and a new motherboard. Alls well except getting a 2nd HD to work. Will have questions when I know more about what I dont …
Hello All My name is Jon Hintz. Just joined the group yesterday. I maintain a small network and a few other standalone systems that run equipment. I work in the Semi-Conductor Industry in Minneapolis MN. I have an emachines T1842 at home that may have been hit by lightening this …
Hi all, Severe HD failure meant that I have had to install Windows XP Pro from scratch. I then installed the drivers from the HP site, and WXP kept crashing and when it came back, it reported problems with the ATI Radeon. I then used Driver Mgr to roll back …
Was just wondering if anyone has experienced any problems with a micro chasis? Such thinks like overheating or problems finding the apropriate mobo? Thinking about moving my ATX mobo from my tower PC into a more compact chasis and would like to know all i can about the dangers before …
my laptop a fujitsu siemens amilo 1630 amd 64-bit 3700 ati mobility radeon 9700 1 gig of ram 80gb hard drive has recently started to shut down when playing games. my first thought was overheating but the fans are still spinning, though maybe not as fast as i thought they …
I finally got around to installing Panther on my G4 today. I knew from previous experience that the graphics card for my second monitor would poop out once Panther was installed, but I downloaded the ATI update 4.5.7 thinking the problem would be fixed. Not! My second monitor is gray …
I have a small form factor Dell Optiplex GX260, 2.53 GHZ, 1 gig RAM. I recently installed a Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 card in the only available PCI slot. That slot happens to be really close to the power box. After 10 minutes or so of playing a very low …
I have a (more of a) question and (less of a) problem here. Recently I purchased, what I tought was a Pioneer 110D, but the casing says 110DSV. I also purchased a genuie 110D (casing stamp confirms it). Now, 110DSV gets recognised as 110D in my device manager. When I …
Hi everyone, I have a problem with my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000. It has stopped showing any image. It worked fine when I connected it to an external monitor. I'm at a loss as to where the problem lies. Can anyone tell me procedures on how I can test it. …
My PC won't recongize by newly insallted DVDRW (ComStar 16x16). I put it in place of my old CDROM drive (there wasn't enough rails to have all 3, or cables). I can open and close the drive, but the computer dosen't see it in My Computer, dxdiag, Device Manager or …
Ok so I was told to buy a new power source for my NVIDIA Graphics Card because I only had 250w. I bought one with 500w. I think thats more then enough, but I think I saw an artifact Im kind of scared to play my games because I will …
Hey gang, got an old notebook monitor. Was wondering if there is a way to rig it up to work on a PC. What I'm after is a dual screen display for a workstation. Just wondering if anyone has tried this before and if there were and fires that I …
Okay so my fan si really loud. My graphic card is loud. When I play games it gets super loud, too the I wanna kill myself volume. And when i play games the graphics blink this red/green color ever so often. JUst like..out of nowhere... Ive been dealing wtuih this …
Hi, I'll start with my system specs: CPU: AMD Athlon 2.2 GHz rated at 3.1 GHz RAM: 1024 mb Vid Card: ATI Radeon 9200SE 128mb AGP I am looking to buy a new video card in order to play the newest games such as Oblivion, FEAR, etc. My video card …
Hi people. Another wee problem hope you guys can help again. I recently bought a 256mb ATI RADEON 9600pro (encore edition). I installed the graphics card to play Battlefield 2 with which it ran fine for a month or so. My pc developed some crashing problems and I had to …
I have just experienced an unauthorised shut down and the following message appeared: The driver for the display was unable to complete a drawing operation. Please check with the device manufaturer for a driver update. The display driver for Inte 82845g seems to be responsible for the system instability. The …
First let me say I don't really understand much of these things. I have a newer PC that runs on XP, and had and old PC that run on ME. I want to use the old HD on the new computer as a slave, but they dont look the same. …
Hi everybody, I am having quite a problem with my new laptop HPdv1625. It came with win XP home and I wanted to intall XP pro. First thing I did was to burn the recovery DVD's and then proceed to XP installation. Turns out that when after loading all the …
They just upgraded some server racks at work and let us go through the "junk bin" for anything we wanted. I am getting ready to upgrade my ancient system at home to a AMD 64 3700+ and a ASUS A8N32-SLI mobo. So I looked through the power supplies, knowing that …
Hello, I just recently purchased a Logitech 'Premium USB Headset 300', and I also reformated my computer and installed xP professional. Now, when I go to plug in my mic in the USB port, nothing happens. It is suposed to read that there is new softwear or what ever, but …
Hi everyone, I'm planning on building a new computer (this will be my first build) and I was wondering if everything was compatible. Also if you have any reommendations that would be helpful as well. [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103547"]AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150139"]XFX Geforce 7900 GT[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227067"]RAM[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811208004"]Case with 450 watt power …
During the winter, I made the mistake of running a virus scan program overnight, while I knew there was a snowstorm going on outside. Power went out, surged back in, and it fried something. I was rather frustrated, because when I purchased my computer, I was somewhat new to things, …
Hi All, Lets start from the beginning... I recently bought second hand a 3 year old ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256-bit 128MB card.. Installed it, currently on catalyst 6.1 driver. Now the problem is that every few seconds or so, the screen flickers yellow... the whole screen, everything, turns a …
good day... I need HELP!!! pretty pls.... Ive just got a old g3 imac as a gift, but only the power button lights up and i hear noise from the fan... ive surched about this and ive only come up with two scenarios why this happens...either the vga card is …
Need some help....Reloaded windows XP home edition on Dell 2400 PC. All seems to be working great except under Device Manager, (Other Devices) I have a Yellow question mark by Ethernet Controller "which I disabled" and a yellow ? by SM Bus Controller which I do not have an idea …
Hello, a few months ago, my computer kept freezing/locking, especially when running multiple processes (FFXI running, 4-5 IE windows, Windows Media Player playing something...), and also when playing WarCraft III(and that one happened a lot). By freezking/locking, I mean that the screen would turn black, the sound froze, and keyboard …
Im am fairly new in here and still learning alot about computers. I am a VP for a small company and more and more I find myself handling our computer problems. Im an intemidiate in computer problem solving so far. Recently I had a Sony Vaio motherboard go out on …
I was hit by a virus that got rid of ALL of my drivers and I had to reformat, but it's making me run SOFTWARE video mode. I know a little about computers, but nothing about stuff like this. I don't know what kind of Graphic card is in my …
Well, we have the hard drive reformated, but have developed a new problem. As I mentioned, my mother's computer has Windows ME. We can't get the resolution to change. It's at 16 colors and the 640 yadda yadda resolution. How would I go about fixing this? Thanks for any help …
I have an older computer with XP SP1. It has recently started taking a long time to boot up the floppy drive after windows loads and desktop appears. I thought it was because I had a lot of files but I deleted several programs, defragged, etc and it didn't help. …
I'm currently having problems with my mp3 player. When I plug it into the usb port It just does nothing and doesnt bring it up, its starting to get annoying wondering if anyone could help. its a logik mp3 player btw... crap, yes I know :sad:
Hey, Whenever I open up my task manager (when there's no progams on) the cpu usage does little "jumps" from time to time. Every second or so, the cpu usage goes to around 20-30% then drops to zero, a second later it goes back up again and it goes in …
I need to replace the CD-RW drive on a PowerMac G3. Does anyone know where I could get one of the following drives?: Yamaha CRW4260, Yamaha CRW2260, or Ricoh MP6200
Hey all I just got the ASUS DRW-1608P2S DVD-RAM drive. The specifications for this drive state that this drive can write to CD-Rs at 40x in CAV mode and upto 32x in PCAV mode. I bought a few Moser Baer 52x CD-Rs, but nero only allows me to write at …
To me, graphics are everything. I want a new monitor, 1). It has to be bigger than my present one, of 20", 2). It has to show even better (I have a 6 yr old Viewsonic Professional series P-810). It has to be either a CRT, or a plasma screen, …
Ok my cd burner is giving me all kinds of problems i have a Lite- On LTR- 52246S. Ok well first when i look at it in the device manager its show up and Lite- On LTR 52246S SCSI Cd Rom Device. I dont know if a CD rom Device …
Ok I received an hp pavilion 7970 desktop, that the owner had figured was shot. the powersupply and old 56k modem were shot but most everything else seemed in working order. I tried to install a 60gig seagate harddrive, but I couldn't get it to boot up the windows install …
Hello, this will be my first post. I hope to continue in the forums. But the reason I joined in the first place is because I have monitor problims. I have a flatscreen LCD I was using for my computer. It worked fine. Then I bought a Xbox 360 and …
[B]Need Help to fixup LCD cable of Acer Travelmate 290E[/B] Hi, I have Acer travel mate 290E series. I my Lcd screen was not working I have opned it and completed every thing bot not able to fix a calbe which is comeing from LCD Screem pannel (Black and White) …
If anyone would look through what I have and point out any issues that arise in how it will work with some of the stuff I'm getting to upgrade/replace, I'd be forever greatful :eek: This is what I have as of now: *[URL=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811164004]Case[/URL] *KINGMAX SuperRAM 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin …
A quick question... I have a laptop with power rated on the base as 19v - 3.42A but I dont have a charger/adapter for it with that specific power rating. I do have an adapter with a power rating of 19v-4.74A. Question is can I use this adapter? will it …
i have a pretty annoying problem on one of my computers that has me stumped. perhaps one of you experts can help :) my windows desktop seems to blink every 5-10 seconds. only the desktop itself (the background & icons) blinks - not the applications. so if an app is …
:confused: Hiya guy's got a question for you.. Bought a 1Gig Mp3 player before xmas - no brad or serial And last week it suddenly won't connect to the USB any more, It indicates it's attempting to connect by saying starting, so it is drawing power, but then stops and …
Hi, Could anyone help me find out if my motherboard http://www.asrock.com/product/product_775i65GV.htm is compatible with [Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP8X Graphic Card](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009PM4T/qid=1145455129/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_3_2/202-6259482-4256635) Thanks, Al
I have a HP Pavillion zv5330us with a 15.4" LCD. ONe day, the display just goes dark as if the backlight went out. I connect it to an external monitor, and the display comes back on, bright as day. Then it went on standby, and stayed dark. Every once in …
Hi guys. I recently migrated over to linux from windows only to discover that my Acer SA60 (and its cards, for that matter) aren't supported :(. (SiS Chipsets) I went and bought myself a beautify Nvidia Geforce graphics card, and now I'm looking to buy a new sound card. Just …
[b][color=Red]Hi to you all, i hope someone can help ive got a iQon Intel Celeron desktop pc, with 512mb RAM. 160gb Hard Drive running on windows xp. ive switched it on and the monitor wont work apart from the power light blinking green, i tried a different monitor and that …
About 6 monthes ago I got my Thinkpad x20 off Ebay and I already had a windows 2000 disk and product code off the laptop. I couldn't find any sound drivers anywhere. I bought a cd off a seller on ebay who said he had all the drivers on one …
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