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| | Hi everyone, I wonder if you can help me out . A few days ago when my PC was shutting down and the power was switched off corrupting some file and giving me this blue startup screen "Unmountable_Boot_Volume". I tried many suggestions about using the recovery console to fix this, …  |
| | what exactly does it do, ive read a little on it, but still am not sure. does this mean i can take the computers online connection, and its network connection (to computers that have no internet capability) and bridge them so that all of the computers have interenet capabality if … |
| | I would appreciate any advice...The first problem that appeared with my pc was my modem quit working. A few days later my mouse quit working. While I was in control panel trying to add another mouse, my LCD screen went blank. I turned the LCD off and on again--the LCD … |
| | [B]My laptop is an Hp Paviliondv6233se and just recently i received a computer virus it is called (MS) antivirus. I tried to get rid of it by deleting some files in my windows registry but i gave up, then i downloaded malware bytes, and it deleted some files, but the …  |
| | If one thing should be at the forefront of every system administrators mind, then it is security. Microsoft has been taking a lot of flack about not being as secure as they could be, and there has been a market swing in the use of the Firefox web browsers as … |
| | Hi When I boot up my PC i get the following error Drive 0 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-0 Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility I really need to fix my PC My PC is a Dell 5150C Thanks All help would be greatly … |
| | my friend just updated his bois and when he did that some reason it saved the drivers in c drive he then formated the drive. he lost his bios drivers and is unable to install anything. any ideas on how to get it back? |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Emachine won’t boot. When power is applied, the keyboard leds and the hard drive led blink. That’s it, no output to monitor, no beeps from cpu. Through troubleshooting I have found I can boot by removing the CMOS battery and power to the hard drive. When I have these removed … |
| | I'm working from a powerbook operating OSX and I've not been able to log into MSN Messenger for Mac since I installed it (several times, mind!). This has been about two months. MSN have been spectacularly unhelpful over this two month period, taking at least a week or two to … |
 | i have had this problem where the blue screen of death comes up and says DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or something like that how do i fix that. |
| | ok im a way newbie at all this so be patient with me please. whne i boot my computer up and log into my profile the only thing that shows up besides my wallpaper is a registry keys box, my explorer.exe will not load on its own i have to … |
| | A recent question requested advice about building your own PC. The website style is a little amateurish, perhaps, and some of the discussion of components is certainly getting a bit 'dated', but one of the most comprehensive system building guides I've yet come across is Rob Williams' My Super PC … |
 | I have a laptop with a wirless card all set up for networking, it is connected to my host computer, the internet is shared, but I have no idea how to create an internet gateway. I am using Windows 2000 Pro and a Belkin F5D6050 ver.2 (drivers installed ;)) |
| | Hi guys, I had it with this laptop, I have no clue why this Compaq Presario V3000 w/WinXP Home SP2 won't recognize the CD/DVD drive. I looked at the BIOS, and it doesn't show up there. I looked at the Device Manager, and it doesn't show up there. (Yes, I … |
| | HELP! Last night while doing some work for school on my pc, I realized that an update was being downloaded to my computer. I finished my work and was reading email, when prompted to install, which I did. After the install was complete, I was asked to restart the computer, … |
| | What the heck?... My system was working fine then it just stiffed up on me. I had to unplug it to shut down...nothing worked. I did a surface scan of the HD and it came out fine but now when I boot up...the XP logo doesn't show then this error … |
| | I have a HP photosmart c6180 all-in-one printer. My OS is Windows XP Pro sp2. I am having trouble getting the ink level to display. Each time I try I get the following message..."The computer is unable to establish two-way communication with the device." I use AVG firewall. Any suggestions? |
| | I can not open any links in mu outlook, it was working fine a few days ago. I get a error message that says "" The operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I search on here and the link … |
| | my laptop is HP Pavilion tx1220us (GA647UA#ABA) about a month ago after starting my computer i raelised that it didnt connect to my home wireless connecetion i checked and found out that there is no "manage wireless connections" or "connect to a network" in network and sharing center ...and it … |
 | Any list of best or worst will have its opponents and proponents and I foresee that this list of worst Linux distributions will be no different. There were, at last count, almost 300 Linux distributions and they all can't be great. But, this list of Linux distributions are, in my … |
 | With The New Software To Prevent Piracy It Is Taking A Machine Fingerprint Whe Acticating The Programs I Have One Program From Scan Soft Asking Me For The Machine Fingerprint Does Anyone Know Where It Is On The Computer.my Operating System Is Xp Pro |
| | My specs are as follows: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20 GHz Performance Rated at: 4.4 GHz 2GB's Ram Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (build 7600), 32-bit HD 225 GB's My current Graphic Card is ATI Radeon X1550 Series and apparently it sucks, can someone please tell … |
| | Hi everyone. I have a dead D600. It charges the battery so I think it's not a short problem. If I press the power button it just stays up for 2-3 seconds and then it shuts down. Screen doesn't start and cpu fan doesn't move. I hope there is not … |
| | I'm not sure this is even a security issue but..... when I click on a link that is coded to open a new IE window, the new window opens but always displays "Page cannot be displayed". Trying refresh or copying the address over doesn't work either. I've tried - clearing … |
| | I have a HP Pavilion N5250 that is a couple of years old. Recently, my dad gave it to me and it has been sitting around unused for about 6 months. As far as I know, it ran fine before that. When I hit the power switch (whether it's plugged … |
 | :?: My Norton Internet Security sub ran out recently so I renewed it via Norton's website. I was urged to go for Norton 360 and downloaded it and installed it without much difficulty. Since then, my laptop has become impossibly slow. The longer I leave it on, the slower it …  |
| | I have purchased a new laptop, Acer Aspire 5738z a year ago. Since the second month of using it, I wondered why the maximum Graphics Memory in Use is 128 MB... Am I misunderstanding what "up to 1244mb Mobile Intel GMA 4500m" means? Thanks in advance... [QUOTE] Intel(R) Graphics Media …  |
| | I just got a laptop from Gateway with Windows XP Pro installed. I have wireless router and the new laptop will not find my conncton so i downloaded new INtel Pro/Wireless 2200bg driver software. After it's installed, it has a window coming up but everything is disabled and its X'ed … |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 4600. I recently reformatted the hard drive, and everything worked fine; however, the next morning the computer would not load Windows and simply said "Primary Drive 0 Not Found," and then, "Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility." Because I thought that I … |
| | Im trying to connect my desktop monitor to my laptop. When i connect it and switch the laptop on, the monitor works perfect. Just when windows XP loads on the monitor, the monitor switches off and displayes an out of frequency range error. If it was out of frequency, why … |
| | My Sony Vaio PCG-V505BC won't boot. I've tried to boot it, with the battery alone. Screen stays black. The same with two different ac power supplies. Please advise! Thanks, Fred |
| | I have no idea whats wrong with my computer... My RAM is through the roof and for seemingly no reason... This is a problem that I have had many times and each time its taken a different solution to fix. (the last two times its been the svchost and IE) …  |
| | Dear Steve Ballmer, I believe it's time to give up development of a mobile operating system. With all due respect to the multi-billion dollar empire you're entrusted with running, the simple truth is that Microsoft is quite bad at developing user interfaces that are friendly and intuitive. Windows 7 is …  |
| | I've had Vista installed for a few weeks now, really regretting the decision, as I even got a BSOD during installation a few times!, but recently it has been asking for third party drivers for EVERYTHING I plug into the USB, including my optical mouse! I just seems to me … |
| | My CD-RW plays but won't burn. My computer is not detecting my CD-RW, but it detects the CD-Rom. When I go to burn a cd it just says No Device Detected. What could be wrong? Ps. I have an NEC -7900a CD-RW Drive |
| | After moving my computer from one room to another i have found that my USB ports will not work. I can not get my digital camera to upload pictures or my printer to print. I've tried uninstalling the USB devices and thne having them reinstalled but that has not helped. …  |
| | Hi. Need to connect a LaserJet 4 printer to my Mac OS X. Looked everywhere for a driver for a USB to ieee-1284 upc-100 bridge. Can anyone help please Thanks |
| | i recently got a mac, i have a HP scanner thats a piece of junk but i need to install it anyway. it is osx compatible. i have the install disk. the hp site doesn't seem to help. can someone give me detailed instructions. i'm lost.. thanks in advance :rolleyes: |
| | I just don't know what happened? My Pc was running fine, then all of a sudden my soundcard started playing up, it wouldn't play anything but distorted sounds. I turned my Pc Off, and all that happens now is the windows XP screen starts to load and I see the … |
| | Hello all! I've been trying to assist my sister with her Dell All-in-One 922 printer/scanner. I refilled her black cartridge by removing the sticker that says 'Do Not Remove this Sticker' and injecting ink the same way I do with my Canon printer cartridges. It worked for about 10 pages, … |
| | I have vista ultimate edition and I can't watch movies in either IE7 or Firefox using media player 11, and I am wondering if there are any fixes to these problems. Thanks |
| | Hey there everybody... haven't been here in a while but I am in need of some help for my girlfriend. Her computer is giving her problems, let me go through the steps. Step 1, she starts up the PC, it asks the "Start the Computer Normally, Start in Safe Mode..." … |
| | When I pull up My Computer to access the different drives and folders all the icons on my screen blink. I don't what caused it. It started about a week ago. Any help will be appreciated. If you need additiaonal info please let me know. Cobrarr2003 :cry: |
| | Hi, I have recently installed windows 7 build 7201 and i cant find windows 7 dockbar anywhere i always see it in screenshots of windows 7 , Can anyone tell me how to find or get it ?? Thanks in advanced  |
| | This is my first post. I apologize if it is in the wrong area. I have a Windows XP Pro laptop that I am trying to partition and install Knoppix Linux. I have installed Norton PartitionMagic and BootMagic (both vers. 8.0) to partition the C: drive. BootMagic had to be … |
| | hey guys, I am on a local area network (LAN) and I have a netgear Firewall model WGT624. The problem is that when I go on some websites, it says that, "This website has been blocked by NETGEAR firewall." I am not the administrator, but i have full access to … |
| | My laptop takes way too long to startup, what can i do to speed it up? Attached is my Hijackthis log. |
| | I'm having trouble opening .dmg files on my g5 version 10.2.8. When i try stuffit expander opens and nothing happens. i tried pushing file then expand and still nothing. does anyone know what i can do? newbie |
| | What the hell is up with [URL="http://www.oracle.com"]Oracle[/URL] lately? First, they stopped giving away the Solaris operating system and now they have some big announcement planned for next week at the [URL="http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010"]MySQL Conference[/URL]. Should we hide our wallets before we listen? To me, Oracle has morphed into [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Microsoft[/URL] II with all …  |
| | When Windows XP tries to load, I get the following message: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." My options are: Start in safe mode. Safe mode with networking. Safe mode with command prompt. Last known … |
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