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Hi, I,ve been trying to upgrade the BIOS - because my m/c keeps hanging, fail to start, even froze when reinstalling XP on to formatted drive. I went to the m/b site and found the latest download for the bios. When I run it eventually I get a message "The …

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I've been using two RAMs, one is of 1 GB and the other is 512MB. My computer used to show the amount of correctly as 1.5 GB a few days before but now, whenever i turn on my PC, the total RAM is showed as 240MB, I've even did some …

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i'm having problem with my laptop power switch first problem is that the switch is broken and i had to remove it and press the power button on the board every time i try to use it now 2nd problem is that when i try to power on it won't …

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[B]Hi Sir, Whenever I start my PC, SMPS fan makes lot of noise.......But after 5 minutes there is no such sound and everything functions perfectly.........Is there some problem in the SMPS, I mean, is it needed to be replaced........? Is it a major problem....? Please Help.........Thanks..... [/B]

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the Toshiba P305D-S8900 I am working on has a no start problem. It seems to power on and there is hard drive activity but nothing on the screen. It failed to start again after closing it one day.I ran into this problem on a Dell I own and discovered it …

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Hi guys. Here is my problem. I both a laptop from USA and currently I'm leaving in Denmark. The laptop seams to work fine most of the time but from the moment I start to do something more intensive whit it like play a game, the laptop starts showing me …

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i bought a corsair a70. Its quite big, but I know that my case can have it. But there is some heatsinks on my motherboard i suspect can be in the way. what do u think? [url]http://bildr.no/view/774156[/url] [url]http://bildr.no/view/774159[/url]

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Hello All, I have searched for my problem and am at a bit of a loss. First my system: Motherboard: A15G V1.0 (nothing else) CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3.00 GHZ Memory 1GB OS: Win 7 Pro. Video: NVIDA GeForce 9400 GT Everything was working fine, …

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Hi all, first time using this board, but judging from other posts everyone here is really helpful. I was wondering if anyone can help me. My pc is only 2weeks old and was custom built. It was running fine until yesterday. Basically when I boot up I can hear a …

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Hi eveyone! I have a mother board issue with a HP Pavillion XT936, or something like that?! The BIOS checks fine but the board will not recognize the CDROM Drives at all. Called HP for the reset sequence and location ofthe CMOS on the board but they were no help. …

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I have a Gateway P-6860fx. The operating system is Vista. When I turn the laptop upside down, I see two fans. There is a fan on the left side and a fan on the right side. What do these fans do? Should both these fans run while I am using …

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I have a Gateway P-6860FX. The operating system is Vista. I believe I need a new battery. If I buy a new battery how long should the charge be after it first fully charged?

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Ive got a Toshiba L300 series laptop, model #PSLB0C-07N08C running Windows 7. About a month ago, my computer showed a big red X on the battery icon, and recommended changing the battery. The model number of the battery was PA3534U-1BRS. As a result, I went looking for a new battery. …

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Hi, Im trying to run this program using dynamic memory i cant seem to get it to keep running it crashes on me. I have the working program so the code is correct im just haveing trouble trying to convert it correctly. Thank You, [CODE]#include <iostream> #include <fstream> using namespace …

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Hi, I'm trying to get a new computer but even the computer techi is stuck on this one. The basic situation is I'm buying a custom built computer and I need to find an appropriate motherboard. The thing that makes this request different is that the motherboard needs to be …

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Hi, folks! Hope you can help me. I did a little searching here, but didn't find any info that seemed to fit exactly what I have going on ... I have a Toshiba Satellite M35-S320 (yeah, it's old, about 4-5 years old, but I love it.) I am on a …

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Okay so I was pulling some hair off my motherboard and bumped the powercable that connects the PSU to the Motherboard (not the 4 pin one, the bigger one that is like 16-pin) any way the system all of a sudden just shut down all I can think is that …

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i don't know if there is something wrong with my bios but i have updated it many times and it says it's the latest version. once, i opened virtual box trying to install a new os on a new vm but it said to me that my processor doesn't support …

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I hope you guys can give me some advice on the easiest way to reset my cmos,I have an 8 year old Packard Bell pc IXTREME6052,I am trying to upgrade ram modules and was previously told to reset cmos,money is tight and as a novice I dont want to do …

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I've been working on this problem for a while. The first problem I notices was the computer getting slow. Then my USB wireless mouse quit working. I started using a PS/2 mouse. That mouse started to have problems. I am pretty sure that it was a problem in the wiring. …

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I have a Gateway P-6860fx. The operating system is Windows Vista. It has two fans. When I look at the fans when the computer is upside down, the fan on the left side does not spin. The fan on the right side spins. The laptop is out of warranty I …

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I have purchased a board on ebay only to find out once I had received it that the board does not fit the conventional cases ie: atx, mini atx, micro atx ect... The issue is that the board will only fit a gateway pc case and I am having a …

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HEllo this is reaaally urgent, the deadline is within less than an hour and thirty minute, and I lost hope that I can fix the problem myself. I know it has to do with pointers and allocating memory dynamically. The assignment was to use operator overloading to add two sets …

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my dell "DELL GX400" have been notifying me of recent that it's low of virtul memory. and during this notice some work like printing will no longer be possible and i have been finding it difficult to solve the problem. please any body with an idea should help please. many …

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A Ram has capacity of 128k * 32. then what is the capacity of RAM in bytes?

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I got my motherboard serial... it isnt normal imo.. is it? """"Mainboard Serial Number: Base Board Serial Number"""" and to be sure I'm getting this result through 2 wayz.. so I'm sure this is it everytime.... this is isnt normal is it? doesnt need to be a combination of numbers …

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Hi, I have a C# pdf library called PdfSharp which I use to create PDFs. I have a page (print.aspx) which instantiats the class which creates the pdf in the Page_Load() event handler. for some reason when I am running this through IIS, the process for the app pool (w3wp.exe) …

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General Information : DIMM_1 ( ) : 2048MB - DIMM DIMM_2 ( ) : 2048MB - DIMM DIMM_3 ( ) : 2048MB - DIMM DIMM_4 ( ) : 2048MB - DIMM Information SPD EEPROM (DIMM_1) : Manufacturer : PNY Electronics Part Number : Unspecified Serial Number : Unspecified Type : …

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Hello, I have just purchased a Intel D945 GPB mother board, cannot find any manual for it what so ever any where, the only closest manual I can find is a manual for Intel D945 GPM, can anyone tell me the difference between the two boards As well can anyone …

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i have an Asus M4A78-VM mobo and, by chance, the keyboard isn't detected. The device manageer shows the HID of my USB Keyboard with a yellow exclamation point and i have to install the driver manually. It's really annoying for me because i can't setup a user password because i …

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I just bought a nice new laptop the other day, but I am faced with a quandry: My old computer has a cooked motherboard, yet I need to get my old files off the damn thing. Now said old piece of crap is an Acer M3802, it has Intel Quadcore …

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I disassembled an Asus A7S-A1 2 nights ago for a BGA reflow. Following reflow I inserted a stick of RAM, had the heatsinks re-seated with fan, attached the power button to motherboard and then connected the battery to test if reflow attempt was succesfull... good so far but heres where …

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HOW do we tell the "on board sound card" that computer memory XXX is talking to it! many thanks esdel

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I just got two 1-gigabytes ram sticks of the Corsair XMS Series. I put the task manager on right after booting the computer and one thing that I was disappointed and quite shock to see was the MsMpEng.exe hogging around 90% of the CPU. I googled around for a solution …

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Most motherboards these days come with onboard video which is adequate for the kind of thing I want to do. It uses part of the installed RAM. Meanwhile, 32-bit Windows has a limit of 3GB of usable RAM. So the question is: if I install 4GB (particularly if I do …

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Please help. I reinstall the window, but I don't have the driver CD. So I download some driver in the ibm website My laptop is thinkpad t42 2378 I download some driver including BIOS, and I run it without knowing that I shouldn't set up or update BIOS. I restart …

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Hi anyone help please, we have a Dell Inspiron 1525, was working fine then power started to flicker, it would go off then after a short time come back on again, this went on for a few weeks, then went off all togeather, not a scrap of power, green led …

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I just got through putting together my 1st home built computer. The computer comes on but goes to powersave. None of the usb ports are working. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

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Hi, not sure where best to post this, since it concerns both a mobo & HDD I would like to know if this HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1Tb [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822148433[/url] [url]http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=7227b5b72fbce110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD[/url] will work on my Biostar P4M80-M4 motherboard. [url]http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/content.php?S_ID=246[/url] I know it has 2 SATA ports, but to be on the …

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I am using intel 845G motherboard(2 GHz). On my ram, DDR333 is written, what does that mean? does that mean DDR1, DDR2 or DDR3?? i want to buy a new ram. which ram would be compatible for my motherboard. and what are the other factors that i have to look …

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Decided that I'm prolly going to make a custom computer soon. Just wanted to make sure all of these parts will work together. Also anything im missing would be nice too. Motherboard - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138186[/url] CPU - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115221[/url] Video Card - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102873[/url] Wireless Network Card - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106039[/url] Ram - [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277[/url] Case …

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My daughter did a windows update (XP) to her computer shut it down now it won't do anything. No fans run and it appears to be dead. Righy after the update it would start for about 6 seconds then shut off. Any ideas what is wrong? It is about 6 …

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Hi everyone. i have an issue with a server program i'm developing for a university project. The issue is the following: The server program i'm building uses shared memory and forks. However i have a problem as to how can i destroy the shared memory segments i've created. A simplified …

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I've replaced various keyboards before. But I can't figure out how to removebthe bezel in this model. Detailed instructions greatly appreciated. Thank You.

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When my code (below) is executed, a error message is triggered which says "The operation completed successfully." To give this some context, hFileMap is valid; I have checked this with my debugger, and other operations can easily be performed correctly on this handle that yield correct results. The only weird …

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Hello, I am Siddharth . Can anyone help me finding how can we program BIOS . PLEASE reply or mail me on <email snipped>. thx sid

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I dont know if this is the correct forum as my question spans different forum topics. As a personal project I intend to build myself a decent spec (can't afford top spec) gaming machine. Below I am listing the components that I am thinking of installing, and the price I …

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Please help. (NOVICE here...bear with me).... Installed SoundBlaster Video Card, (SB Audigy), some months ago. It has never worked. (Son's computer, recently had him bring it to me for help). Checked Audio Devices, (Device Manager) and found that Legacy Audio Drivers contain no information under "Properties." Searched further, (system devices) …

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