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| | Hi there, I have a Toshiba Tecra 8200 P111 laptop computer which is almost 7 years old. Recently I have had yellow blotches on my screen and black vertical lines againgst the white background on the DVD playback. I have just tested an external monitor which seems to have the …  |
 | Which of these PCs is better (both have: ultra aluminus midtower, ultra xpro 600w, dual 120mm fans) Option 1 (AMD Based): * Asus M2A-VM Motherboard * AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ overclocked to 3ghz with 1mb cache * zerotherm butterfly cpu cooler * 4gb corsair twinx 800mhz ram * 500gb … |
| | Ok I wanna play this game and its a culmination of a long desire to upgrade my new computer Called Age of Conan...My budget is about up $500 heres the requirements Required OS: Windows Vista/XP Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV RAM: 1GB RAM Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: … |
| | i have a dell dimension 2300. i am using windows xp pro. my sound card and video card (on the motherboard) don't work. so i put other cards in to replace them. how do i turn off the ones that don't work so the pc doesn't recognize them when i … |
| | ok, this computer is an old one my dad found. it came as a motherboard of Tyan Trinity 510, AC97 Vinyl Deck Audio drive. it came with an ancient video card, nVidia Riva TNT, so old. I downloaded the updated, since new windows install, even used the nVidia auto-find drivers … |
| | I have a major problem. Spybot Search and Destroy had finished scanning my computer (Dell Dimension e520 running Windows XP service pack 2). I then clicked on it to fix the problems it found, and started doing something else on Tradestation. A short time later, a message popped up on … |
| | I have a Sony Vaio desktop bought in 2001 - PCV-RX741. I just bought a new Viewsonic monitor that can do 1680x1050 pixels, but this isn't supported by original video card, so web page viewing is way too small - Does anyone know what video card I should be looking … |
| | So, I'm posting this in a couple different areas on this site, as I'm really not entirely sure where it falls, but mobos seems right for me. I picked up an old custom piece from my buddy, just to fool around with it and make it my 'frankenstein' if you … |
| | I just bought a motherboard(used) for my 5150 Inspiron. It was apparently from a 1100 series unit. It will not boot with the CPU (3.86GHz IntelP4) from the 5150 nor will allow me to use the Video card from the 5150. Is there some way to flash the BIOS so … |
| | I have been having black and blue screens of death since I updated my drivers for ATI Radeon HD2600 video card in my Toshiba A200 laptop. When it finally recovers, and searches for an answer to the issue, it always suggests I download the lastest drivers. The latest drivers available … |
| | Good morning to all: Wonder if you can help me, I read various threats, still confused and runing out of ideas, and patience, and $$$. Here is the problem: A couple weeks ago my pc shut itself off, the only way to restart it was to reset (reset power supply) … |
| | I think it really hates me.....I built this rig about 2 years ago and it's been working very well until recently. The Lian Li case I have doesn't have a restart button, so anytime it locks up, I've had to yank the power plug, wait, reattach and restart. Holding down … |
| | Hey everyone, This is my first post here and I must say that I'm very happy I found this place. Well here is my issue. Yesterday my mother was cleaning my room and managed to strike the side of my PC case which happened to have a side USB port … |
 | I am building a htpc and using a ecs elitegroup nforce 6100 mobo and I think it might have died. The fans spin, the ide drive and the hard drive spin and so does the fan on my graphics card. However it wont light up the network lights when I … |
| | I recently bought another video card hoping to squeeze a couple more years our of PC gaming but have since had a major system malfunctions. My current situation is that the computer does not seem to post (nothing on the monitor). I checked the video card and also the previous … |
| | I have a 7900 GTX, as shown in the sig, and I was looking for some upgrading advice. I've been wanting to play Crysis for a while, and need to get ready for DX10. I was looking at 8800 GT's and 9800 GX2 (1g), I really don't know what to … |
| | Ok after i got rid of this other malware/virus. I see this other person having the same problem [url]http://ask.metafilter.com/81308/Why-does-my-desktop-keep-crashing[/url] . It starts at boot time but usually when i open up ie explorer, opera it seems to close. If i go to CTRL+ALT+DEL menu to processes explorer.exe is still there. …  |
| | This is my first post, I hope I'm in the right spot. Here is my deal: 1.- Got a hold of an HP Pavilion a642n which was already abandoned by the owner as unfixable and replaced by a new DELL. 2.- Plugged it on and it purred on past the … |
| | Basically this is what happened. My wireless connection was having troubles, I clicked repair connection and the process hung at disabling network adaptor. I was kind of annoyed and so I tried finding the right process to shut down in the task manager so that I could manually disable the … |
| | Ok so I have been looking all over for help on this and can't find an exact answer. Hopefully you guys can help! So I got this reburbished laptop, didn't come with any of the cd's or anything, but the guy did fresh install everything. Never gave me the cd … |
| | Hello good folks at Dani Web !!!! I hope I'm posting this in the right place, if I'm not, let me know and I'll repost it where I'm supposed to. I have a Dell Dimention 3000, Windows XP Home, 2.8GHz, 80 GIG hard drive A friend of mine gave me … |
| | I was running the ECS K7S5A, I just got my new ECS L7S7A2 board, moved all my stuff over to it, but no display on post. I did all the typical stuff, disconnected everything, reset CMOS, reseated the card, etc, etc-- nothing. Everything seems to be working fine other than … |
| | so i recently vacuumed all the dust out of my computer and cleaned a few parts with alcohol and q-tips. well after that a couple days later it shut down automatically and has not been putting video out put to the monitor. i know the monitor works cuz i plugged …  |
| | Every time I start my computer it wipes away the drivers I just installed. I use a verto driver disk thats made for my video card. I followed the instructions but for some reason my hardware wont remember what I installed for video drivers after i restart my computer... I …  |
| | Hey guys Thought I'd post the problems I've been having, maybe someone can help me out. I have a quite decent PC, specs: Win XP 4600+ amd dual core 7600 GT 2gigs of RAM - (1gb + 2x 512) 250 gb harddrive M-Audio Audiophile 192 soundcard The computer isn't connected … |
| | Im pretty sure this question gets asked all the time.... anyways. i recently bought a 1gb stick. Now i have 3gb (2x 1gb and 2x 512mb). The two 1gn are in dual channel as well as the 512 sticks. Right on the board says DIMM 1 and 3 are side … |
 | I may be dating myself, but anyone else care to open up to their past "like/love" of the computer erra to date? What do I mean? I mean, what thing or things did you find most appealing in computers over the years? Was it the creation of Linux or windows, … |
| | Hello. I wanted to upgrade my graphics card but know nothing about computers. Would a XFX GeForce 8600 GT XXX Video Card - 256MB DDR3, PCI Express, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV work on a PC with a Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.60GHz with a Intel D865GBF in … |
| | Hello I intalled a new hdtv capture card to my pc and i'm pretty sure it got damaged by a static shot through the my house airel. My pc now reboots itself pretty randomly it sometimes gets to the welcome screen and sometimes boots up all the way, then some … |
| | This is really a followup to a previous post that I did. Here is the situation. Lightning strike took out my dsl modem and router. No power response when trying to turn on the computer. I fugured the MOBO was fried since network card on MOBO. Got a new MOBO … |
| | I've Googled this problem until my fingers were numb, and even went through Ubisoft technical support. They tried to help but couldn't. I recently got nostalgic for old games and bought Ghost Recon (the original game, [I]not[/I] Advanced Warfighter or Advanced Warfighter 2 or even Desert Siege or Island Thunder) … |
 | I had installed a new video card on my pc. Palit 8800gt sonic 512mb PCIE. The only problem is, I cant enjoy playing games with it cause my pc shuts down after 20-30 mins playing games. I tired it on these games: Halo 2 for Vista, Rise of Legends, Titan … |
| | PSU: Xion SupernNova 600 Watt (Model No. XON-600F14R-201) Mobo- MSI P35-Neo-F CPU- Q6600 Memory- 2 sticks of 1GB Mushkin HP2-6400 GPU- XFX GeForce 8800GTX I managed to get Windows Vista Installed without it shutting down on me, or having problems with random other things. But now when I boot into … |
 | Hello everyone, I am in the market for a new system and wanted to customize my own. I need a decently fast motherboard/cpu setup, and would prefer a Core 2 Duo system. Like the title stated, it needs to be compatible with Linux (Ubuntu), and this is the main reason … |
| | I have a problem my comp starts up but no video, the motherboard light turns on hard drive reads the fans work for the vid card and everything else, and it doesnt POST either |
| | Hello all! I came across this forum because it had several similar problems. I registered because it's got thousands of IT professionals! Maybe you can help me. I've got a few PCs I am trying to get going. I am having this weird problem on 2 of them, and was … |
 | Hey, I'm trying to run a simple DirectX program, it loads a model and displays it. I run it once, and it works. I run it again, doesn't work. Didn't change any code. Just recompiled, and it doesn't work. I'm not sure if the issue is with my computer (which … |
| | I have no video out put...except when i unplug my video cable my monitor says check signal cable. I've done alot of reading on this and still everything ive tried I get nothing. Completely rebuilt the machine and nothing. Tried to boot with just 1 stick of good ram, video … |
| | hey guys i've got a piece of crap dell dimension 3000. i want to play Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar, and can't afford to get a new system. here are the game requirements: CPU: 1.8 GHz or Athlon equivalent: 1800 RAM: 512 MB Video card: 64 MB, DirectX … |
 | Hey guys, Need some advice. I recently upgraded some components in my PC. Here is my current setup- 1) Q6600 Intel Quad Core (2.4 GHz) 2) 4 GB DDR2 PC-4200 memory 3) NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT video card 4) Stock hard drive (7200 rpm SATA 3 GB/sec) I want more speed … |
 | Greetings to all: Being a Network Eng, my knowlege base of graphics cards, monitors and such is rather 'functional' at best. So when my daughter has now become ennamored with flight sims, I need some help. Here is the system config: 2.4 ghz Intel Dual Core, P35 Intel MB, 3 …  |
| | Hi I'm having problems installing a pci video card to my mother board. I'm having problems getting it to display on my HP desktop running on Vista be a drvier issue but am not sure. Any suggestions on what the problem might be. |
| | What will I do if the Computer is on but the monitor is black...and the led of the monitor is orange....I'm sure that the problem is in the mohterboard because I tested it with a video card and internal vga still the is shows black screen....What will I do.... |
| | I had this laptop only for a year and half never done any physical damage, it is was in excellent condition until the screen went crazy. Its a bit difficult to describe but mainly all the colors got mixed up, ive attached an image of the screen do have a … |
 | Last night my machine lost all functionality, as nearly all programs have failed to open properly, including IExplorer and Mozilla. The best I can figure it may be a issue with the new video card, however its removal does not remedy the problem. About 5 days ago I added a … |
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| | Hi guys, I just built a desktop PC that I was SO excited about because I thought it was going to blow everything away. I was a little disappointed (perhaps unrightly so). Before I tell you what the problem is, I'll say that i haven't received my wireless network adapter … |
| | i got a problem with my computer unit , my unit hangs after rebooting it. as i open my unit i discovered that my old video card haS A blown out capacitor then i replaced it into new one after replacing the old im still suffering in this cpu hang. … |
| | Hi, I am randomly getting out of range and no signal messages on my screen while doing different things at different times. My refresh rate and resolution is set to the right setting for my monitor. The times that this happens seems really random, like the last time this happened …  |
| | Good day Ok I will try to make this as short as possible I've upgraded pretty much upgraed my whole computer ...started with : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz 2 GB RAM and a gigabyte motherboard with an intergrated motherboard .. when … |
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