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My comp freezes when I start a game. For instance when I open quake I can choose options and what kind of game I want to play but then when I load it up it usually freezes as soon as it's done loading. I got an 810lr motherboard with pc133 …
Hello, I am new to this forum and apologize for the double post (wrong area). I have an old PC with a bios/chipset that can only see 8.4 gigs. I added a Promise Ultra66 card to get over the 8.4 gig limitation. I have an unformatted Quantum fireball 20 gig …
'Ello all, I know this topic has been rehashed countless times but none have satisfied any resolutions. Regardless I am starting another thread in the hopes that we as a community can finally discearn exactly what is happening to us... I am reffering to my fellow "[color=darkred]Random Rebooters[/color]" of course. …
Hi...my name is Jenn and I am wondering if someone can help me. I dont know how to describe my problem since I dont know what exactly the problem is so I will just describe some of the things hapening: Back a few months ago I ran Norton Utilities, where …
hi ... i have computer wit spech: - ecs kt600 mainboard - amd athlon xp +1800 - 512 mb pc 2700 ddr - ati radeon rex 9200 128 td agp 8x - netodragon 56kbs modem - ethernet card - OS : XP profesional there's problem in my computer, at device …
I have just blown my 4th monitor in 4 years. The first one (came with the computer) blew in 2 weeks. The replacement blew in a few months. The third one was from a different manufactuer and lasted a little over 1 year. the fourth one was from [b]another[/b] manufactuer …
[b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff]Hi all,[/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff]I'm new to the board & I'm hoping someone can help me.[/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff]Questions...[/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff][/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff]First...[/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff][/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff]I'm running Win 2000 Prof.[/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff][/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arrus BT][size=4][color=#0000ff]When I install the new MB, do I have to erase the HD & reinstall Win or …
I'm reloading win 98 on a PIII, 64mb - at least, I'm trying to! It was working fine, then I started having usb issues. Just having signed up for adsl (which will do me no good if the computer doesn't work!), I decided to spend a relaxing day reformatting and …
This is posted on amamax.net, but reposted here so Amamax can't delete it when they realize they're in trouble. I bought the $17 Power Magic PSU and it fried my computer, the power supplies are no good: Start pulling out cards. I had to pull my floppy drive and pull …
Hi. This is with my latitude LM P133 The problem started when I fried the motherboard flashing BIOS A06 (from A11). I got a new MOBO (actually two) and now the system boots up normally, but the LCD shows no characters, however the backlight is on.(It seems a little dim, …
Hi! When I bought my computer off ebay 6 months ago the heatsink and fan had fallen off in transit and I had to reattach it (with thermal grease etc) myself. Since then it's been crashing alot. At first it happened every 30 mins and the guy who sold it …
I upgraded from 10.3.2 to 10.3.3. After the upgrade I restarted. The monitor had not given me any problems prior to the upgrade. The monitor was fine before I restarted. Since I restarted I get nothing from my B&W G3 on the monitor. The computer beeps. The LED on the …
ive recently upgraded my pc, to a p4 motherboard p4 cpu p4 case and 256mb graphics card, but now windows xp does not show, it jus shos a blue screen with some riting on it then it restarts, iv had to reinstalled windows on C:\WinXP without removing any files, but …
We have a Matshita CW-7503 CD-R unit running with Iomega hotburn software and windows 98 OS. The problem is getting a blank cd-r recognized as a blank. Iomega troubleshooting guide suggests certain units only recognize certain color cd's. Does anyone know if this model is one of these units and …
Recently my sister deleted files from her computer, Compaq of course and she reformatted C: and D:, which contained the info to restore the computer. The restore disk will not work, it keeps saying "CALL COMPAQ CUSTOMER SERVICE" Yeah, like they could help. Anyway, I found a WIN98 disk I …
I'm in desperate need of help. Last night, I was using a card making program, that obviously requires a CD to run. After I was done, my brother tried to play one of his games, but when he put the CD in, it wouldn't recognize it. If I go to …
I finally got all of my computer parts in and put it together. I turned on the computer and at first every 5-30 sec my computer would cut off. After trying some differ methods to stop it I thought I fixed it. Well I did my bios, and after that …
I have an old HP 9210e cd burner, & when i insert a 700 MB Cd-RW it doesnt seem to recognise it, also when i use directcd to format it, it stops half way with no message. I think it may only be capable of writing up to 650 but …
I have a Scientific Atlanta Webstar cable modem. The internet & stuff works fine for a while then after wards the data light on the cable box keeps flashing even tho i got nothing else running, & when i try to connect to any web sites it doesnt work i …
Hello all, I'm new to this site and could use some help. I have a Compaq 5000 series pc running windows Me (I know, I know, but there is nothing I can do about that right now). I keep getting this error message: Error : OD : 0028 : 0000003 …
Don't know if you can help or not. I play a game called "literati" on Yahoo! The game applet is too small. I've never had a problem before on my other computers but I have a new Dell Laptop that is displaying the applet too small. Everything else seems okay. …
Hi. This is with my latitude LM P133 The problem started when I fried the motherboard flashing BIOS A06 (from A11). I got a new MOBO (actually two) and now the system boots up normally, but the LCD shows no characters, however the backlight is on.(It seems a little dim, …
hello everyone. the screen on my thinkpad is giving me these verticle and horizontal lines. they are multicolored and change depending on what is going on (whether it boots by itself or if it is connected to an external monitor). I have checked it with an external monitor and the …
Hello, I installed a Serial ATA Card, the pc see the card, but WIndows 2000 explorer doesn't. How do I format the 2 Serial Ata hard drives?
I just built my first computer and everything is running perfectly. Except for one thing. The floppy drive wont work. I go to "My Computer" and it shows the 3 1/2 Floppy (A:) I put in a floppy and double click the icon and i get a message that says …
Hi, I'm running Fedora Core 1 and have 2 Hard Drives, each 40 GB. But when i was installing Fedora i setup the HD and now is showing hda1 mounted at /boot (4.0 MB size) and hdb1 mounted at / (40 GB size). It is showing the first HD as …
I've just upgraded to musicmatch jukebox plus but can't move tracks onto my mp3 player now (nike psa) as it brings up the message "not enough space on player to perform the requested operation. do you want to download only those tracks that fit". basically musicmatch is trying to download …
Here is my situation, I have windows 98 with a windows xp home edition upgrade disk. I am reloading windows on my computer but trying to keep the current file system in tact. The problem is, when i put in the windows xp cd it asks me for the 98 …
:confused: Hi, My computer has 400MHZ, 448MB, 80 GB(can only use 31 gb out of it, I dont know why). I installed harddrive and fromatted the drives. I also installed WIN XP. Whenever I logon to AOl, when I click on instant message or if someone sends me instant message, …
I have recently been gaming and during my game my PC freeze's and I have to hard boot, at first I thought it to be my cheap Graphics card but I went out and bought a GF FX 5900 SE 128MD DDR AGP and it still is happening any suggestions …
IBM thinkpad ,vertial lines on the top half of the screen ,they show as yellow,blue and pink on a light background ,1 solid blackline on the blue desktop about 1/4 in apart. hooked to my monitor via a KVM switch they are not there so its in the laptops screen …
Here's my story: when I went to restart my computer, I accidentally kicked out the cord that connected my moniter (LCD) to the computer. It did this quick flash, turned the display red, then restarted. When I replugged the cord back and once it had finish restarting, the display had …
[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Hard Disk Performance Is Slower Than You Expect[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=3][color=#0000ff]Symptoms [/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=2]After you install Microsoft Windows XP, hard disk performance may be slower than you expect. Note: Hard disk performance may be even slower when your computer …
[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Protect Your Files During a Power Outage[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]If the power goes out while your computer is on standby, you lose whatever is in memory. If you have any unsaved documents, for example, they're gone. With …
[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Create an MS-DOS Startup Disk[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]You can easily create a bootable floppy disk by following these steps:[/size] [list] [*][size=2]Place a blank disk in the floppy disk drive.[/size] [*][size=2]Click Start, and then click My Computer.[/size] [*][size=2]Right-click …
I have an IBM ThinkPad T22. for the life of me i can not figure out why my s-video doesn't display on my TV. I can hook a desktop computer monitor up to the monitor port on it and it works fine. The minute i hook the s-video up nothing …
Recent changes, installed a new video card and some RAM a couple days ago. Today I wake up start browsin the web some then all of a sudden all the print on my computer changes to really wierd jargon so I restart the computer. Now it won't start up all …
here are my computer specifications Motherboard: ASUS CPU: AMD 2000+ 1.666 GHZ CPU Fan: Vantec Aeroflow Memory: Samsung 768MB Video Card: Nvidia 5200 128MB Soundcard: Creative SB LIVE Operating System: Windows 2000 SP4 DirectX: Version 9.0 I have problems with computer freeze up and auto restart when I play games …
i just built a pc with win XP and every time i try to install win xp it stops about 20 min. while installing and says hardware malfuntion and i am at a loss so if anyone can help me please do. Thanks
I've got a faithful G3 Beige, been running OS 9.2 , upgraded to G4 500Mhz processor, 384 MB RAM USB/Firewire PCI card. Wanted to go for Panther. Loaded new 10x firmware for the scsi as recommended by Apple. Started to run Panther disc. Just stuck with image of black Apple …
Hi all! Someone left a monitor by a dumpster, and I couldn't resist the temptation to take it home and give it a try. Well, it actually (mostly) works! :) But it does have one problem. The display actually appears to curl into itself...like a 3D display. Pretty weird. This …
I have a slight problem with my graphic card. I have a GeForce 3 Ti200 but when I recently had another problem I (in the Device controller) tried to update the drivers. That problem wasn't solved, but more important, when I rebooted it turned out my computer no longer recognised …
yesterday i bought a new fan for my processor. i installed it as it said on the instructions and when i turned my computer on nothing comes on the screen, i can hear the computer on....after about 5 seconds i get a long loud beep...and this repeats every 10ish seconds... …
I have a EB-GD92 Panasonic GSM cellphone. I want to connect the cellphone to my PC. My PC configuration is Celeron 300/64Mz with a Motorola SM56 modem. What connector should I buy? Does the connector connect to the PC modem port or USB/Serial/Parallel ports? Does it require special software? I …
I am new to the forum would like to know if anyone can help me. I recently installed a geforce fx 5600 ultra. When installed the latest drivers for it windows will not boot up. It freezes at the boot screen or has weird splattered colors at teh boot screen. …
Recently whenever i log into windows for not more than 10 minutes i get this blue screen message and i have to shutdown and restart. A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to computer. If this is the first time you've seen this …
Hi,all. Been using an all Intel system for hard disk multitrack audio recording. One HD and one CD one IDE1. Works great. I needed additional storage space, so I got a second HD. Both HD's are WD, an 1800JB and an 800JB. Since I can only connect two devices on …
I have an IBM ThinkPad T22 It is about 2 - 3 years old I am not totaly sure because I received it as an x-mas present this year. Every time or just about every time I shut it off or put it into sleep mode or close the screen …
hi all please could someone help i was wondering if anyone has had this problem before and knows how to remedy it. Basically i just purchased a sound card just a basic 6 channel pci card (kob c884) as my onboard sound stopped working for some mysterious reason which i …
Hi peeps, Looking to squeeze some extra juice from my Folding@home / home gateway machine, currently chugging along at 533Mhz but my mobo should take upto a 1Ghz socket 370 P3.. anybody want to sell one or know where I can get one for a reasonable price. Also which would …
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