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I have Intel D850MV motherboard with two 256 MB and two 128 MB RDRAMs, AGP video card with 128 MB on-board RAM, Samsung 40 GB HDD (ATA) and DVD R/RW drive. Upon plugging the computer to the power source it powers up before the power button is pressed. The power …

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i have a samsung ide hd, this morning when i booted up it wouldnt detect the hd in the boot order, hard rive wasnt listed my hard drive is the only thing on the wire... its not connected to the cdrom or anything, just the motherboard and yesterday it stopped …

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Hey all. Im getting desparate. every time i right click on desktop or go to control panel and open up display properties (in windows xp), the properties panel will be shown until i select a tab, button, etc, and then it will crash back to the desktop. 2 error messages …

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Hi guyz, this if my first post so letz so hope i do well... anywayz My aunties computer has always had problems and always fixeable untill a recent problem. When windows xp starts loading it quickly shows a blue screen (which im guessing is an error msg) and the PC …

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My husband and I were cleaning our computer today...my husband took off the CPU fan to clean out the dust and when he reconnected it to the motherboard I believe he may have cracked or injured the motherboard in some way. When I turn the computer on the fans run …

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ok i basically have 2 different types of freezing on my comp. first my computer freezes while im playing games like ,battleships forever, elder scrolls morrowind, and stick online. when it freezes on these games the only thing i can do is move my mouse around then after a while …

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Computer does post with my RADEON X800xl card in it. ASUS A7N8X deluxe AMD Athlon 2800+ 1 GIG RAM RADEON X800xl About a month ago, the day before I left on a month-long trip to Europe, I turned my computer on, and my monitor wouldn't turn on either (no signal). …

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well i was playing world of warcraft yesterday when all of a sudden it crashed. it's nothing out of the ordinary but this time after i logged back in my fps was sub 20s and choppy. it was very different from before when i would get 70fps no matter what …

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I have a problem with my notebook (HP Pavilion zd8080). I usually close the lid (put the machine in hibernate) when I am finished working, when I return to start working (or playing) and open the lid and the machine will not start up, all the lights come on but …

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Hi All, I have been trying to figure this out for a couple of days now... I hope someone can help me figure out whats wrong here... Thanks in advance. Here are my system specs: Dell XPS400 Intel Pentium D 2.8 GHz 2.5 Gig Ram (2 x 1 Gig, 2 …

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i have a custom computer with 1.1 gigs or ram, radeon 9600, 1205 mgz processor. i have installed battlefield2 multiple times but every time i go to play i can hear the audio but no video shows. i have waited 10 mins of black screen. i have sp2 updated drivers …

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Ok recently I blew up my old video card... not sure exactly how I did it... it was over 2 years old... I had a 128 nvidia 6600 in my machine. I recently got Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar I was playing it when the video card died …

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I just bought a brand new Fujitsu Lifebook A6030. I want to run World of Warcraft but the video card which is a Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family has trouble running it smoothly and clearly. My question is can I replace it since it is not an integrated chip …

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Hi everyone, I used to play counter-strike on my laptop before and it works perfectly. and it has been ages since i have uninstalled it. Now i want to play it again and try to install a new copy and when i play it, the screen goes wild it sort …

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Hi all I have been given a Gatway Solo 9550 which is just beaut for my boat building workshop and runs win 2000 real well (and my cad program) But, it has a significant display problem. The left 1/2 of the screen is fine, bright, sharp, pic etc then the …

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Hey, I just bought a Radeon X1300 Video card and I am trying to get it to run 2 displays. One display is just a regular lcd monitor, but the other is a small hdtv. I have the lcd plugged into the vga slot and the hdtv plugged into the …

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Hello, I realise that much has been discussed within this forum previously about slow browsing problems with IE. And I have tried all the various stated fixes without any change. At one stage I almost wished I had Norton Firewall installed as this seemed to be causing most of the …

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I have a HP pavillion XP, with media edition, ATI Radeon X1300 video card, 64bit duel AMD processers, a new 320 Gig hard drive (previous one crashed.. no reason...new one is only a month old), and a 430 watt power supply. when i got the new HD, i installed the …

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I just built a new system with these components: Athenatech A449SL.400 Silver / Blue Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 400W Power Supply EVGA 122-CK-NF66-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13GHz LGA 775 Processor MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC GeForce 8600GTS 256MB GDDR3 …

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I've tried to troubleshoot my way through this, but find myself too frustrated with my own machine to think straight. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The problem started with my monitor (seemingly at random) going into power saving mode. I wouldn't be able to bring it back out of …

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A week ago I build a new comp. Worked fine, decided to go legal and purchased several licenses of Vista. All installs have been flaky, mainly with power. So I got tired of Vista and went back to XP. The machine in question was fine, XP installed fine. Everything looked …

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Hi there My powermac tower G5 was working fine until yesterday and today the screens wont receive signal from tower. I just bought two Samsung monitors and installed it to the computer it work fine for a couple of days and now it does not receive the signal from the …

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hey all there is a problem with my computer, monitor i guess. while i am using the computer (the monitor is fine), the monitor jumps off and it says "no signal" can anyone tell me wat is wrong with my computer is it the monitor, the cable or the video …

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Thanks in advance to anyone who can lend assistance. I am trying to determine if I have a faulty motherboard. Heres the system I put together. Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2 GHZ Processor Intel BOXD955XBKLKR ATX Intel Motherboard eVGA Geforce 6800GS 256-P2-N386-AX Video Card CORSAIR 1GB DDR2 Dual Channel RAM …

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Ok so basically what has happend is we have bough 8 Acer Flat screen 17" monitors for upstairs on various brands of computers. When i went to install them this morning however 2 of the computers both HP Compaqs came up with an message from the monitor "Input not supported". …

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I need some help with finding the correct driver for use with an ATI video card that is installed in my IBM Netvista 8307 running XP Professional. I was originally told that the card was a Radeon 7000, but I ran a program called Everest to try and narrow down …

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ok im going to buy a new video card very soon. im not sure wat to get. i could go for 8800gts or gtx or ati 2900xt. well i can go for any of these but i just wanted to know which one is worth the price. im not going …

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i was going to buy a new graphics card mainly to plug in my tv but when it says s-video tv out could i use that on a normal fat tv cheers bondi007

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HI I have a strange problem with my HP dv5020us Laptop. A couple weeks back, it started acting strangely and froze. I suspected that the Harddrive must have poped out,as it sometimes does( HP forgot to screw it up). SO I shut down the machine and opened it but the …

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Upgraded from win98 to 2000 professional on an HP Pavilion 6346. I am getting an error message that I am missing ethernet controller and video card controller. It will not read the network adapter. I have tried 3 different cards but no luck and of course I can not find …

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I'm having an issue with a mostly brand new machine. I bought one of those Fry's special bundles with an Via chipset ECS mobo (which I admit, was probably mistake number 1) and a Core 2 Duo CPU. Everything works great and I was even able to load up my …

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Windows XP SP 2 I have an Acer AL1912 with a Nvdia GFORCEMX440 graphic card (I think I spelled that right) I know the PC came with a built in video [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread77487.html#"]display[/URL] on the motherboard but its been bypassed in favor of this one. Unfortunately most times when I boot …

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This problem started about a month ago. When I boot off a disk manager floppy or win2000 cd it/computer shuts off right after it starts to load the drivers. I have tried different settings in the bios, (i.e. default, etc.). I have to hit power button to turn back on. …

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OK, I just want to know if certain upgrades will be compatible on my PC. So far, I have had some yay's and nay's so I just want to be sure. Right now, I have a eMachines T3506. My system specs are below. I already have a 2gb of RAM …

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greets, all I'm awaiting the delivery of my first ground-up PC build, and I wanted to post here to get some pre-help...basically, I just want to know if anyone here has run into problems with any of these components' compatablility, or known issues with the build, so I don't waste …

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Hey everyone, about a month or 2 ago I started hearing a very loud whirring coming from my box, so I started trying to figure it out. Eventually I found out that it was the video card fan, making this obnoxiously loud whirring noise that sounds like a hairdryer almost. …

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Hello, I'm just wondering how would i go about updating my GPU drivers? I have a radeon 9250 256 mb video card. a friend of mine said for me to try and update the drivers for the GPU but i don't know how to do it. If anyone can help …

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Well, it's sorta involving video. You see I have determined it takes a few hours but when this occurs, the screen goes black and shows as if there is 'no signal' and then to turn it back on you would thing it is just sleeping, so hitting a mouse button, …

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What would cause a functioning computer to suddenly give a "disk boot error"? No new software or hardware has been added anytime recently. Computer was working fine. Sometimes the computer will boot up just fine and other times we get the "disk boot error" message. Cant seem to narrow this …

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I have just got a new desktop computer the Dell Dimension E310 for gaming use only. When I went to download a game from the web (Gunbound) it was all fine. But when I made it to the main log in screen something was wrong. I clicked play-live and a …

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Hello, as u can see im new here, :) I had a question about my speakers. I just got my computer back after replacing the Motherboard, video card, processer, and RAM, as well as the power suply......(fun) I get it back, and im trying ot get my speakers to work, …

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I recently built a system, specs - Asus M2N-MX MoBo, AMD Athlon 64X2 3800+ CPU, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb Sata HDD, LG Dual Layer DVD-RW. When I first put it all together, I couldn't install XP, (it kept throwing up cannot copy file errors during copying files process). Thats all well …

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Hello I am a new Techie looking to learn all that I can about computers. I know a little more about computers that the average person and am looking into a career with CIS (Computer Information Systems). My only downfall is that I don't have any experience in web design, …

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I bought the Dell Dimension E310 for gaming use only. When I went to play online on Gunbound a screen popped up sayin that i needed a graphics update or im missing the 3D video card? Plzzzzz Help Me I Want To Play My Game Badly

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So, I have this motherboard it's an AN8 Ultra by ABIT. The chipset is nVidia nForce4 ultra. My PCIe card that I use is a ATI Radeon VisionTek x1600 series. I have 4GB ram DDR 400. I have an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+ processor 2.4 Ghz clock and I …

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Hi everyone. I've tried EVERYTHING in my powers to fix my computer, but it's truly gone downhill. Tried installing Norton, Mcaffee, BitDefender, Ad-Aware, Registry Fix, Spybot, Webroot Spysweeper (which oddly enough showed a trojan that was caught with bitdefender?)....tried running them in safe mode, nothing helps! I tried trend Housecall, …

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I'm gonna buy individual parts and set up my own computer. I already have 1 gig ram so I will not focus on buying anymore ram (but if you advice to get more...). Video card is just 256 mb so I'm planning to upgrade it. Processor is a sure upgrade …

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Ok so i have a 3DFuzion GeForce MX4000 128mb pci video card. I put it in and make sure its seated and i turn my computer back on and it doesnt regonize the video card when i try and install the drivers and im still using my onboard video then …

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Well, I've had this issue for a long time, but here it goes. Alright, at first, I'll turn on my computer, I can hear the fans and everything, and the monitor is on, but the monitor button keeps blinking, as if it's not responding, and my keyboard doesn't seem to …

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Ok so i have a 3DFuzion GeForce MX4000 128mb pci video card. I put it in and make sure its seated and i turn my computer back on and it doesnt regonize the video card when i try and install the drivers and im still using my onboard video then …

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