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Hi, I have a IBM Aptiva 3153-E3N(AMD-K6-2/300 Processor with 128 mb Ram and ATI rage Pro Turbo AGP Graphics). Whenever I am playing the Microsoft Midtown Madnesss and the Monster Truck games, or any other fast moving games the Computer freezes. It is functional once again on being rebooted but …
An easy question for all you in the know guys. I have an MSI MS-6318 motherboard which has SDRAM installed. How can I find out if it will take DDRRAM? TIA.
My computer config is P-IV 1.7 Ghz 512 MB Ram it started dunno how - but i located blaster worm in my pc - and installed fixblast from symantec removed it - and it was running fine. but than my computer started to freeze every 5-10 minutes. I formatted my …
Hey all, I'm considering building a dedicated video caputure box for recording signals from cable and satilitte feeds. Among the hardware I'm considering is a 2.5 Ghz Celeron processor, ATI All In Wonder 9600 card with 128 MB Video memory onboard, and 512 MB of pc3200 DDR and a 400 …
I just bought a new Samsung flat screen monitor, SyncMaster 955df, and it gets fuzzy near the border, especialy the text in my web address bar. I have tried everything to get it to focus. I am not sure whether it is the monitor or the settings. Any suggestions on …
[left][font=Arial][size=3]Hi all,[/size][/font][/left] [left][font=Arial][size=3]i basically face a problem concerning a WinMe installation in my old laptop[/size][/font][/left] [left][font=Arial][size=3](IBM Thinkpad 380z) which has a [color=red]broken floppy[/color]. As u might have already undestood i cant install WinMe cause i cant boot from floppy:-| . Furthemore i cant find a bootable WinMe cd or make …
Hey, I cant seem to get any sound on my sys with mandrake 2.0. My motherboard (a7v266-e) has onboard sound, but i recently purchased a soundblaster audigy 2 which i obviously use instead. Manrake recognizes both soundcards in the config, but i think that its running primarily through the onboard. …
Ok, so i opened my laptop the other day to find that it is totally white. My laptop is a gateway solo 1450. I emailed tech support and they sent me back some reply about replacing ram. I knew it wouldnt work but i followed the instuctions and it still …
I recently bought a used Celeron 1.7 Hz. The vendor from whom I bought told me that the system had 128MB of RAM. However when I checked the My Computer properties, the system is reporting only 96MB. I am running Windows 2000. The vendor told me that this is normal …
could someone please tell me a link to where i could buy this motherboard? it is very apreciated..
[font=Verdana, Arial][size=2]Having a major problem with a computer. It began for about a month ago, it started doing minor freezes for 1-2seconds, mostly in games at that time. But a few days it took a turn to the worse and began freezing up in windows whenever I tried to open …
:sad: Okay Here is the problem!!!!! I had someone rebuild my computer for me. Everything inside is new. He installed Windows 98. After having problems with that we tried to install Windows Xp and that never happened, could not install, had errors coming up. Thought the hard drive was bad. …
Hi everyone. I just built a new computer and I used a ASUS P4C800 Delux Motherboard. When I am booting up at the start screen with the fat ASUS head it beeps. 1 low 1 high 1 low. I looked in the manual and it has nothing for this so …
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. In the last few months, I noticed that the screen was getting darker. In the last few weeks I noticed the screen was getting a red tint. Yesterday, the screen had a slight flicker. Today, the screen is not working. I plugged the …
I have a AK32V motherboard with a AMD Athelon 2400 processor I just installed. I have a graphics card I salvaged from my old AMD Athelon 800 MH system that had a K7 PRO motherboard. My question is can I use the Trident 3DImage 9750 graphics card in the new …
Hello, I have finally gotten my power supply to turn on and give power to the motherboard. Unfortunately when this happens it does not give me a happy chirp and the monitor does not display anything. I was thinking it may be my video card. Another factor that may be …
I know this is a stupid ?, but please give me the run down on the different types of burners and how they work. Exe. If you get a dvd burner, do you have to have a seperate dvd drive. One to read while the other burns? Same ? for …
My friend has a camcorder with rca output jacks including s-video, I was wondering if there is some software that allows you to plug the camera into the computer and record on the computer what comes out of the camera. I do realize that computers don't have rca inputs which …
Hi, am having real trouble with graphics brightness whilst playing certain games ie Call Of Duty, during the training when asked to proceed to the firing range through a door i cannot see the door without the brightness settings in the in game video settings being turned on full, the …
I am running Suse Pro and have an Nvidia 4200 graphics card that seems to be recognized and initialized by Suse Pro. Dow anybody know how I'd go about changing the refresh rate? I'm sensitive to flicker and it's driving me nuts! Thanks!
:rolleyes: Hi, I would like to know if a branded pc such as HP pavilion 6405 can be upgraded hard diskwise. Thanks.
Here goes..... My uncles machine stopped booting, it kept resetting the system and I couldn't get it out of this somewhat permanent funk so I decided to make it a slave on my PC and back up his stuff onto DVD. My uncles hard drive is a MAxtor 20gB running …
Hi everyone, I have a custom built system with a 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 800 FSB, 512 mb DDR 400 Ram, an Abit Geforce FX 5200 128 Mb DDR and an Abit IC7-G Motherboard installed and Windows XP Professional. My problem is that when the screensaver is on or …
Specs: MotherBoard: Asus P2B-F Processor: Intel Pentium III clocking at 450mhz Hard Drives: 40gig WD (master) 60 gig maxtor (extra) RAM: 512 megs of PC-100 CD-Roms: sony 48x/24x/48x cd-burner, 16x Matshita (spell?) dvd-rom Extra Goodies: tons My question is will my motherboard see a 120 or 160 gig hard drive? …
when ever i go into my downloads folder my computers hard drive spins up to full speed from just opening the folder even when i havent clicked on anything else in the folder. the computer just sits there using max cpu usage for no reason then the only way to …
Not much concernng music in this forum, but why not ask something. As a dedicated noise hound I have a slew of hardware synths and am finally getting into soft synths. There is someone on Ebay offering Koblo 9000 series/Tokyo 2.6/Mini Mill and "...everything Koblo ever made" for a throwaway …
Im new to the forum and I was wondering if some of you could help me build my pc. I have bought a couple of magazines and have been surfing the web on how to do it. It doesnt seem that hard but if you have any words of wisdom …
My computer freezes up whenever I try to view the contents of any DVD-R disks. They used to work fine a few months ago. Normal DVDs work. I don't know what's changed since then. I did install Alchohol 120% but removed it because I never used it, I don't know …
:eek: I'm having a difficult time finding a 3rd party driver and Belkin isn't any help at all. The package says I can use the card with OS X and says I need to find 3rd party driver, but doesn't say where to find it. I've been googling for an …
Computer will not boot. This is an older computer that is Win98 on it. If knew specs on it it, I would give them. What it does it turns on, there is something of the screen. Here is what it says: Main Porcessor: Cyrix M II-300 Processor Clock: PR300 VGA …
I just bought a 512 mb pc2100 stick. WHen i installed it, it made my computer SUPER LAGGY and would take literaly 5 minutes to open a folder. I replaced the 512 with my old 256 MB stick and it did nothing. Wut could the problem be and how can …
when my win 2000 boots it goes to the blue screen of death. it says this: "*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000003,0x00000006,0x0000000,0xBFF72364) DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL *** Address BFF72364 base at BFF6E000, DateStamp 3cb4d2c0 - IdeChnDr.sys if this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears …
Hi, The RED color has not been working for a while. However I have had a phuny behaviour when the whole screen would start having red "waves" come accross. Sometimes the waves would disappear when I would tilt the LCD more, sometimes they would appear around the edge of a …
;) What for you is the best combo for a pc(desktop) that you will surely love?? for everything you may want to do with it.
I'm no real expert, but I know I need to locate a driver on my windows 2000 computer. Where can I find them and how do I use/install it? By the way, its a driver for Microsoft Sidewinder joystick.
I've been searching for a solution to this problem but cannot find anything yet.... I have a fairly new laptop - Intel Centrino (855 chipset) 1.4Ghz with all the toys bells and whistles. I know the silly thing works, and works well because I've had a full install of Linux …
I just recently tried to take my old athalon 900mhz mb/processor out of storage and toss it into a case for a filler computer to use. Unfortunatly when I try to power up the power comes on briefly, I hear/see the cpu and case fan come on, then they shut …
My boss has an IBM Thinkpad I-Series 1400, with Windows 2000 in Florida. We are trying to use Skype to communicate between Florida and Northern Ontario, so I am trying to troubleshoot this from up here. When we connect, he hears me very well but I am unable to hear …
I experience major lag for atleast 1 min or less whenever i make the computer runs hard, like playing game, watch DVDs or even burning a CD. I tried formatting it and still didnt work. Just bought a new hard drive and problem still exist. I am thinking about trying …
I have installed windows xp pro on a HP pavilion 4535 the program went on fine. The only thing I can't get going is the modem. Everytime I restart the computer it wants to load the PCI Simple communication controller. I have tried to find it on the HP disks …
Hey guys whats up. Today i have encountered a very strange problem and am without a computer Ok i was saving a microsoft word report to a disk and i restarted my computer. My computer started beeping and did not boot up and i remembered that i had left the …
window 98sec freeze up on about anything i do on my web server,media player takes about 2 min and its froze up haft to restart.all the time.search the net it will freeze up to but not as bad have a S2390B Trinity KT-A MOTHER BOARD 1.2 G PROSESSOR 15gb hard …
been getting problems when installing various (random) peripherals. I've had the problem occur when installing a new sound card, my web cam in a usb port and my camcorder in a firewire port... other bits and bobs as well... basically, when I install it, everythings fine... it all works until …
I just recently purchased a 2600+ athlon, and i want to overclock it. My motherboard is a a7n8x deluxe (not revision 2). I currently have one stick of 3200 ddr in. The only settings my mobo will allow me to boot up with for the cpu are 11.5 multiplier at …
I bought my computer just for Everquest but find myself frequently fustrated with it even trying to run StarCraft. Graphics card : e-GeForce FX 5200 Mother Board : ASUS (A7N8X Deluxe) Processor : AMD 2500+ (2.88) Modem : PCI V.92 Internal 512 DDR (2 x 128 K-byte) OS : Windows …
hey all, my dad has a Dell Dimension 8200 computer and he runs Windows XP pro. he's had it for almost a year and up until recently it was working just fine. Almost a month ago, he tried opening his picture file and he got this error message: "[color=red]The instruction …
Ok, Can someone please answer this following question, only answer it if your sure of the answer. What would be a better CPU for great gaming with 1GB of ram? A Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ HT OR AMD 64 3200+ Everywhere I go says different things about them. I need …
Hey all, Unfortunatly its my first post, so that means I have a problem. I just built this new system. Details: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP CPU: 2.8 HT P4 800FSB Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 36GB Raptor 10K Video: 9800 Pro OS: Windows XP Pro CD: LiteOn CD-RW/DVD+RW Well ever since …
About 3 years ago, I had a Windows 98 system, then upgraded it to XP. I have a Kodak DVC325 Digital Video Camera, and now it doesn't work. I downloaded the driver here: [url]http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/downloads/dln_ekn.jhtml?ekn=EKN009389[/url] and unziped it to the DVC325 file. Should it automatically work or is there something I …
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