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I have an IBM Intellistation Pro Z server. The power supply fan runs all of the time while the cord is plugged in. If the power supply fails, I would like to replace it with a generic power supply. What type would work on this machine? Is a server power …

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Not a problem I have had before. When booting up, I get two short beeps and the computer asks I either check RAM F5 (did full tests and all tests come up fine), continue with F1 or do F12 for set up. I have tried all and am unable to …

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I have a Dell D620 which has a particular problem. When the PSU is plugged in there is no indication of charging or any other electrical activity. I have used 3 different PSU's from D620's and the result is the same. The failure was very sudden and as such I …

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hi everyone,my friend had a intel celeron,3.06gz and i was wanting to get a p4 on the same 478skt,but i noticed that its different,the celeron cpu had all pins covering it,as the one im thinking about geting for him,only had the pins in a sort of square rim around the …

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I have 2 2GB sticks of patriot ram that are DDR2 1066. I have been trying for a while now to have them run at 1066, but have failed. My MB automatically sets them at 800 whether its dual or single channel, ganged or unganged. When i attempt to manually …

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Hello! I have a system that powers itself off within minutes of powering on and it doesn't seem to log the event. It hasn’t yet crashed in safe mode, but it crashed when running a memory test from the windows boot screen (it made it through the first pass and …

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Hi all, This is my first post on Daniweb. Can anyone tell me any site or blog where i can find a complete comparison of Intel processor. I am confused about Atom, Dual core, Core 2 Duo etc.etc.. I want to learn which processor is the least powerful and which …

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HI guys ...my pc spec is as follows AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ 1.81GHz ASUS A8NV My probelm started when i started the computer... it shows a warning CMOS checksum bad error;CMOS time/date not set i got information that its the problem of CMOS battery...i replaced the battery.. even then …

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I just started to have a problem with my IBM laptop. Following are the configuration of my laptop: 1) WinXP with SP2 2) RAM 512MB 3) CPU around 1 Ghz, Yesterday ,I started to have a new problem with my laptop,when I powered on my laptop, IBM welcome screen appears …

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This is kind of strange, but can anyone concur? When booting up my Windows XP SP2 system I started getting a BSD after the Windows login screen loads - however, this is not the issue. The issue is when I try to get in to Safe Mode I cannot arrow …

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I get the feeling DDR is newer and faster. I have a KM2M motherboard that will take 2 sticks of either DDR or SDR; cannot use both at same time. I currently have the 2 slots of SDR filled with 256 and I'm planning on upping that to at least …

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Guys, I'm in a really sticky situation here. I was supposed to be done with this custom computer by tonight, but everything has gone wrong. Yesterday, when the parts came for a new computer from newegg, I began piecing them together right away. As I put all the parts together, …

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I donot understand this problem, I use internet on my IBM laptop, I browse many websites but when I access [url]www.hotmail.com[/url]. my CPU usage reaches 100%. I go to Task Manager and forcefully close this hotmail.com site and then CPU usage drops down. Is their something wrong with this CPU?

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So I've got this Sony Vaio with an Intel Pentium4 and it will not boot into Windows, it just restarts. On restart in brings up an error saying that the CPU temp is out of range and asks me to press f2. Press f2 and go into the BIOS, I …

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I'm getting ready to head off to college, and i'm looking for a decent gaming laptop. My budget is around $1300. I'm currently looking at the Gateway 7805 FX, but I'm trying to find a better deal.

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Hi Gang, Does anyone know where I can purchase a fan for my older model gateway notebook M675? My gateway M675 was making this terrible loud grinding noise (I suspected it was the internal fan) and after several minutes of being powered on and running online, etc. the unit would …

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What exactly do you look for in a Motherboard Processor CPU I hear a lot of numbers and names but i want to know what do they really do ? Sadly all info on the internet is to technical Things like Bus processors Cash Ghz Memory Stuff like that What …

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How do I find out on my Gateway mt6840 laptop if my mobo is SATA1.5 compatible or SATA3.0 compatible? It doesnt say on the mobo, in the manual, or on any online store specs that I have found

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Hello my fellow techies, long time no see again! Right i have gone and built my own machine with the following specs: Motherboard : ECS GeForce6100PM-M2 RAM : 2Gb DDR-2 800MHz (2 sticks of 1Gb each) OS : Windows XP pro SP3 Gfx card : XpertVision 9500GT Super DVD : …

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Hi guys i have a problem wit the MB. i can open my pc. when i need to open it open 2 second then auto shutdown. If i unplug the 8 pin connection on the MB it can run if just plug the 24 pin power supply to the MB

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Hi, I have a friend who wants me to build a new system for him. He is a gamer and loves his applications, like Xfire, and other applications that run in the back ground while playing games. Background report. His first computer (unknown) got fried in an electrical storm. 2nd …

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Toshiba Satellite a75s206 has an aversion to battery power. The "shop" advised a new mobo. Toshiba sent a new battery (recall). Installed new batt, let it power up all day and guess what? This laptop runs off wall power only and will not do batt. Advise me.

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I have an Acer Aspire 5610Z-2762 and it desprately needs to be wipped out and rebooted. I have the recovery discs from Acer, however I am trying to follow the directions from them, but it seems to not be working. Is there a simple way to wipe out and reboot …

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i just installed a new 1gb ram pc2700 ddr (they said it was low density) memory in to my computer along with a 512mb pc2700 ddr sdram that came in it now i have problems with programs shutting down any help is great

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I can't, for the life of me, figure this one out. I have a 2 1/2 year old Gateway PC, which I just upgraded the RAM on. First I went from 1GB to 2GB, which was fine. Then, a few weeks later, I upped again to 4GB. This is when …

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when i was charging my lappy the battery light was as usually orange but when it finished charging the light didnt turn blue but instead there was no light. i just thought the light might be broken or something but i noticed that the battery was only charged at 98%, …

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Hey guys,does any1 know how to solve the mystery of making your fans run a bit quiet (like the IBM desktop PC's).I got a foxconn p4m800p7ma motherboard with 3 fans. 3 x 80mm's 1 on the CPU, 1 on the back of the Case and 1 in the PS. I …

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Hello All, I have a ASU K8VMX mother board and a case that has a front panel audio connection.I tried everything but I cant get my mic at the front panel to work. The audio and mic at the back is fine. However only the audio works for the front …

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I have this prob bout retrieving files.. I just reformatted my UNIT to visa from linux and also my brother's files.. pls tell me how to retrieve my brother's files ... :(

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Hi everyone My pc's pci slots not working from one week ago. My mother board is ASUS M2N4-SLI and I use one modem card and one ilink card on these slots. But now no one of them don't detected by winXp SP3. Would you please let me know what has …

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I was busy on my pc when i started hearing funny noises and sparks from the power supply box in my pc then while windows was still running and i quickly pulled out the power cable so im worried about my mother board it doesnt show any signs of damage …

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I have to hook up two windows 2003 servers to the matrix 5000 ups. Would i be better off putting both servers on the same power supply either the L14-30 r or L 6-30 r?

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I have a ECS RC410-M Rev 1.1 motherboard running a Pentium D 945 3.4 ghz processor, it has ran well for over six months, now everytime I connect a USB device that is 2.0 it connects at 2.0 high speed, but after a short time of use it reverts back …

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I have a gateway DS Solo 9550 Ls Laptop and my power supply seems to be broken, it wiggles around in there and will not even turn my computer on, my batt. is obviously dead. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to pay someone to …

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My unit keeps on restarting by itself and i dont know why. It often restarts when I play games. Please help me!!! What could be the problem?

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okay, so my new motherboard has 4 slots. I have both 2GB and 1GB chips, 3 2GB and 1GB to use up. Will it matter which slots they go in? Actually, I believe I'm looking at dual channel, two slots. Given that, Can I leave one channel empty and have …

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Hi, and thanks to all to can help. To make the story short, I have a Dell Latitude, and the power button stoppen working. Upon inspection, I found that the power button board itself was broken. This was confirmed because none of the caps lights, etc didn't light up when …

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I have a Gigabyte g31m-es2l motherboard, and when ever i plug the cpu power into the motherboard from the power supply it wouldn't come on, I've tried 3 different power supply with different watts and voltage but it's still the same problem.... what can i do?

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Hello, I want to know about each every part on motherboard or can say to study motherboard deeply. so is there any book which include such a description or any website which describe motherboard with diagrams(pictures) of all parts.

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My system ( CPU 2.40 GHz & 512 MB of RAM ) hangs as I open more than 50 tabs in Mozilla Firefox. I want to open approx 500 tabs for off-page SEO work ( Multiple sites ) at a time in Firefox browser …..................... Should I increase its memory …

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Hi, I just replaced my 2.4 Ghz Intel Celeron CPU with a P4 Prescott at 3.2 ghz like 2 hours ago. It idles at like 48 degrees Celsius. I played half-life 2 for a bit and it went up to like 60-62. I didn't put any thermal crap on it. …

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hi, everyone as you may already know, i got this HP Pavilion DV9000 LCD hinges at [url]http://www.laptopbattery-usa.com/hp-pavilion-dv9000-lcd-hinges-for-hp-dv9000-17-lcd-series-p-1092.html[/url] and i want to fix it up. the lcd swivel hinge is quite good and doesn't wobble at all the open and close part of the hinge is tight enough that the lid …

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Why cant my unit boot from CD? but from other cd's it can. what should be the problem?

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First of all I didn't really know what forum to put this under, so if this is the wrong one, my apologizes. Now that that's done, to my issue. I have a Dell Laptop it's an Inspiron E1705 (9400) and I lent it to a friend for a few months …

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Anyone have idea of such Alarm which can be based on PC speaker, when new user enter into my website then this Alarm produce voice. Waiting for experts answers.

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hi guys mine computer running ok but while i try to work on multiple appilcations like adobe PS & winamp 0r corel draw it perfoms very slow . In task manager cpu graph increases very high if iam playing song while working on other software ,song plays like driggled effect …

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Just bought a new CPU, an AMD AM2+ Phenom X4 9950 Quad @2600, was wondering if anyone can recommend a suitable Motherboard, did some research and got pointed to an ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe (AMD 790 FX), or an MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376), if anyone has experience/knowledge of pros and cons, …

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I Have A 3-Year old Gateway Desktop Computer. I Today Bought A 1Tb HD, 4 Gb Virtual Memory And Windows Vista. I replaced The old HD Set The Memory Cards In Place. And When I Closed It And Hooked Everything up. Everything responsed except the PC won't Start up.

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I have a problem at my home PC, i just started to have this problem 2 days ago, when I turn on the power button on the PC, the orange light turns on and off on the power button but the PC doesnot start. When I opened the casing, the …

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