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I got a cheap mobo from fry's and it has two pci slots and an agp slot. mr problem is taht it only has two ide ports. I want two hardrives but I don't want a hardrive to ahve to share an ide cable with anything. I want to put …
I have an old PowerBook 5300 that won't start up. The battery is probably dead. I haven't used the machine in a very long time. I tried letting it charge overnight but it doesn't even get warm. I removed the battery but it still won't start up with the ac …
Hi everyone, I just recently installed Ubuntu 5.10 to an older computer of mine. It worked just fine for a while and then it started looking horrible. There are ghosts or shadows of the windows running all across the screen. It is still readable, but annoying. I assume there is …
Hi I was quite happy to pick up a Samsung 17" 730b SyncMaster at the pawn shop for $159! I found it in all the PC shops, still on the shelf of new gear for at least a $100 more!! I am dismayed to find, however, the DVI-D input is …
My monitor has a problem, everytime I install a new game or everytime I open a software (which takes a lot of RAM), play some games ... the monitor changes to black and the "No signal" appears on the monitor. I did check the monitor caple, and put monitor caple …
I have been trying to fix my gateway m675xl lcd. It had been all lines and garbled. I started to take apart the lcd thinking it was shot and after I played with the wire in the back, my display has magically come back to life... but, now the screen …
Alright. i'm hoping someone out there knows the answer to my question and is willing to help. I'm intrested in building my own periphial, and then writing a program to control it. The actual hardware part is easy enough once i figure out how to get my computer to communicate …
Hi, I'm new here. I have this problem in the office. We have a dual processor G4, which does not start. All you get is a no entry sign on the monitor once you start it. We tried to troubleshoot it by swapping parts like the ram, hard disk, removing …
This week I got a new CD burner. I opened up my CPU and replaced the od CD drive. In the process I decided to see about the sound card, which I had guessed was not working because it had gotten knocked loose in a move last year. I found …
Hi all, Serious problem with my tft monitot. About 3 years old now and has just suddenly started misbehaving. Will try to explain....monitor randomly flashes up a smaller distorted image of what is already showing on screen. Starts of slowly and then gradually mirror image starts to take up most …
Hello. This is really strange. I have a dead lower left corner that is a rectangle, that varies in size from 5/8" to 2 1/4" from the left side of the screen and 1" to 2 1/4" from the bottom of the screen. By that I mean that I can't …
well my graphics card is a Intel(R) something like that and i have a game called [B]halo[/B] for PC somehow i cant c my multiplayer color and i thought it was my game or something i tried getting a new graphics card but i cant open the computer can any …
I restarted my computer earlier, and when i logged back into my account my resolution was all messed up. it used to be at 1280 x 1024 it was 800 x 600 when i restarted it. i dont know what made it happen. I can change my resolution to anything …
Hi, I want to be able to stop hardware devices and I was wondering if it was possible and how you go about doing it. I'll explain the plan; I am making an automated install account. Users on the domain would login with a certain user. An install would start …
i have a vaio fs115e and when i turned it on after going out for an hour or so it came to a screen that said the last attempt to restart the system from its previous location failed. attempt to restart again? it then gives me a couple of options …
Hi, I am in the process of starting a new company for selling computer parts and components in Africa. I need to import these parts from China, Singapore, Taiwan - basically Asia as most manufacturing plants are located over there. What i am trying to figure out is if there …
Hi, I have a Sony DCR-TRV38 DV Camcorder. I've always used USB with it to do streaming. But I wanted to try the I.Link(IEEE 1394) with my computer, but my OS(Windows XP PRO) isn't detecting it. Is there a driver that I need or ANYTHING?!?! I've been going at it …
Hi this is my first thread on this forum. Recently my pc is behaving in a strange way. It simply crashes randomly and without warning. When it happens the pc stays like this: . power led on . hard driver led constantly on . no screen output (monitor warns there's …
Hey Folks, I've revived my old IBM TP600, Pent II for my daughter to use. I maxed it's Memory, installed XP (which of course used up most of it's small 4 gig HDD). I want to install a larger HDD but was told it might not support anything larger than …
My dads business is buying one of these. Is it a good server? Does dell rip you off with this?
I know it supports PCI, because I'm currently using a PCI video card. Now I am in need of a new video card, and I can't find any standard PCI ones that will suit my needs, so I'm wondering if my motherboard can hold PCI-e cards. My motherboard model is …
Alright, I am having a problem with my lapop opening up (physically, not software booting). I'm going to have some trouble explaining this, so bear with me. To close the laptop, there are usually two metal pieces that when closed snap into the bottom part of the laptop. To open …
Can you hook up the 3pin connector on the card directly to the mobod so the mobod can control the fan speed?
USB 2.0 - Optical Mouse Updated to newest drivers for MB (A7N8X-E) Everytime I startup I have to unplug the mouse and plug it back in for XP (professional) to detect the thing. I have done a restore and and all kinds of crap but cannot seem to remedy this. …
After I changed my old i850 mb to this msi i848 mb, my pc had this show-down-reboot problem. Basically, it can not be normally shut down, shut-down in start will lead to reboot. After checking the IRQ in system info, I found these: IRQ 16 RADEON IRQ 16 Intel(R) 82801EB …
Hey guys got a tough one here, my computer was acting funny (running slow and the sort) so I decided to refomat. I have a 200gb harddrive and it was partitioned into a 130gb and 70gb one. I deleted the smaller partition and now I cant find any way of …
hey, I have an IntelR 82845G onboard video card .. i know it sucks. I have the latest driver and everything. My question is this. The video card is a 64mb, but the graphics controller says its set at 8mb and that it is actually using 5 mb. How do …
Hi, I am new to this forum and wonderin if i could get a little help on my computer since i am a poor college student and i need to see if i can fix this problem myself....but anyways heres the low down.. I was playing counterstrike then suddenly things …
Is it better to get a seperate vid card and then a capture card so you can capture vhs tapes or do you recommend AIW.
Hello, all of a sudden my right speaker won't play. I have a Yamaha 2.1 setup. I checked the control panel volume page, my WMP page for balance and the connections. I unplugged the speaker input and tested it with a CD player and all the speakers themselves are working …
I wanted to install a Western Digital 74 GB Raptor HDD as a second Hard Disk in my PowerMac G5. The people at my local Apple store warned me that this would annul the Apple guaranty. Is there a known compatibility issue? Sincerely, Sally
I'm upgrading an old pc with an MS-6368 Motherboard. It's gonna get some new PC 133 SDRAM (old 64m + 256 m) And a new HD. It's got a 950 mhz Celeron. But what video card should I stick into It? It's supposed to be cheap. This is about what …
Hi all, I have a compaq M300 that I bought used less than a month ago.It has XP Pro installed and the battery held a charge for a few hours.Someone wanted me to demonstrate how to disconnect the docking station but I do not think it was powered down completely …
hello. for some time now (about a month) i have noticed that my monitor is darker then it's suppose to be. i have to up the brightness and contrast to 100 percent AND go into my NVIDIA control panel and up the gamma to 1.31 to get it bright anough …
I have an ibook g4. Did not boot anymore with a broken folder at the startup. Disk utility could not fix, so I shelled out $100 to get Diskworrior and fixed this problem. I was able to get back on and save the files. After few days, same problem again. …
Right, I've just started a new course and part of the requirements is to have two networked PC's. I built my current PC from scratch so this time I'm going for the complete system in one fell swoop! I've been looking around, and I'm getting very confused by what's right …
I just bought a 19" widescreen lcd that is best at 1440x900 according to the manufacturer. [url]http://www.agneovo.com/agm/content/cw-19.htm[/url] I've got Catalyst 6.2 for my Radeon 9500 pro. I know it's old. Anyway, I can't set the resolution to 1440x900. It only gives me options for 1400x1050 which stretches/squishes the image and …
Who can help me :mad: I bought a new macmini and wanted to transfer stuff from my Imac OS9.2, I connected the firewire cable, but after some noise only the FW icon was floating but nothing happened. So I disconnected the cable, and found out that my HD on my …
Hello. I've just bought an Asus TA210 case, which in general I am very pleased with, looks nice, etc. etc. (apart from the sticking CD ROM stealth bay). I didn't get any form of documentation with it, just a case in an Asus box (I bought from a computer wholesaler), …
Hi, I have just returned from a trip overseas and left my iMac wrapped up in the attic. When I got it down and left it to acclimatise to normal room temperature for 2 days it wouldn't start. I can hear the chime sound and then the spinning thing comes …
Hi All, I am facing problem with my laptop Dell inspiron 6000, Operating system WinXP. On 5th Feb 2006, I had installed 2 softwares from the internet. Softwares are Burn4free SetupanyDVD5847 That time it went fine. When i used my laptop on 7th Feb 2006, i was not able to …
i have a logitech premium stereo headset and i can hear out of the right side of it but the mic on that side works. Also there is no loss of sound on the left just all the sound is coming out of it. my sound card is a creative …
I have a computer question about someone's monitor or vid card or mobod? When the computer is turned on the splash screen comes on but then it stays black and won't show anything. If you restart it after it is warm it will show on the screen now. I have …
I tried to update drivers yesterday, but neglected to un-install older ones, and that caused me a LOT of problems... I finally got rid of everything nVidia on my computer and started over, which led to my computer having to re-recognize everything from the SM bus (whatever the heck that …
I need to get a new sound card as I am building a new PC from scratch but Im not sure what to get. Does anyone know of any really good reliable sound cards. Iv been looking at the Audigy 2 ZS platinum from creative labs and some reviews of …
Can somebody please help me i recently purchased an ati radeon 9550 graphics card but when i went to install it i found out there was no place for me to put it on my motherboard i have plenty of open pci slots but no agp (ithink thats what its …
Hey Guys, I recently got a new Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 6800 GS GPU (PCIx). Now when i try to play any game the system restarts. My over all system config is Asus P5LD2-Vm Motherboard (Socket 775, Intel 945G chipset), Patriot 1GB DDR2 Memory (512x2 Dual Channel), Intel 4 processor (3 …
So when I boot up my computer, my 128 mb Mad Dog Dominator card's fan goes nuts and spins super fast, making quite a loud and annoying noise. It speeds up and slows down seemingly at random, though never going to an acceptable level, amd then goes away after 10 …
Hi. I'm running an Athlon 2400+ with 512 DDR ram with Windows XP Pro. However, I've noticed that whenever I begin to burn a CD, or simulate a burning, my CPU usage shoots up to 100%. As you can imagine, my computer becomes pretty much unusable when this happens so …
My computer will run with cdrom and HD set on cable select. However the cdrom is the master and the hd is the slave in the bios. I have tried setting both jumpers to master and using 2 ribbons and the bois sees only the cdrom as primary master but …
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