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Right i believe this is mainly to do with my Graphics Tablet, a Trust TB-3100. My specs first off, this is a laptop remember, so i cant do anything about the motherboard, processor or PSU: 2.4Ghz AMD Turion 64x2 3Gb RAM 250Gb HDD Vista Home Premium SP1 HP Pavilion DV9800 …

How do I know what kind of RAM chips to buy to replace my current beat up 256mb chip

I have a Dell Dimension 2400. It has been working okay for about a year. Today when I got home from church the window's XP blue screen of death was up and I had to reboot. No big deal, it has been happening since shortly after I bought the computer. …

Yikes, hope someone can help me here. I have a Compaq Presario and just got a Copannq LCD monitor (FP500) which uses the 20-pin connector. So I installed an ATI Rage LT board which has both the 20-pin and the regular printer port. Problem is thatt the entire LCD is …

The Laptop is an HP 1340ea with a built in webcam and Vista. We are trying to use Sightspeed for video chat and although it seems to work fine on my XP laptop we cannot use it on the HP. At laptop startup a Sightspeed window opens with the message …

i have a Ethernet adsl modem connected to my pc. now i want to share my internet using proxy. is it possible to have 2 pci lan cards on one pc, so that i could connect one to the Ethernet modem and the other for LAN (to the second pc) …

I have been reading and I know the P5K3 Deluxe is a good motherboard, but are there any better ones to look at. Has the P5K3 Deluxe been discontinued and replaced by a better motherboard? Can anyone please offer some advice?

I think this post is in the right spot if not excuse my ignorence im stupid with computers. If i leave my compy on for a while it goes nuts and the xcreen goes black and a whole bunch of little a's with a \ over them start appearing i …

hi guys! My uncle give me an HP Pavilion laptop, there is 2 partition on it. The D: drive has a 7gb which is cater by HP Recovery, I've plan to reformat the laptop. My question is do I need a driver to reformat this one or the driver is …

Hi, first time poster, but long time techie. I have an HP 864N desktop system that has been my workhorse since I purchased refurbished from TigerDirect 4 years ago. I use it for literally everything - web design, coding, CD and DVD mastering, video and audio editing, etc. Unfortunately...it's deader …

I was just working on a computer running WinXP SP3 and having RAM 512MB and CPU 1.80Ghz. But I have noticed that the CPU usage shown under performance tab in Task Manager is too high. Sometimes the CPU Usage exceeds 70% and sometimes it goes to 84%. Although when I …

Hello, After days of went-in-vain googling I finally wanted to start a thread here. I am using ubuntu 64bit 8.04 I just wanted to configure my fan settings. My fan starts when temperature is above 60C and stops when It reaches below it. I wanted to change my settings so …

Hi Everyone, Odd question, can't seem to find an answer. I'm trying to track down the dimensional specifications (notably, screw-hole positions) for extended ATX motherboards and/or cases. I'm constructing a custom case and can't for the life of me find diagrams of this information. And yes, I've been to formfactors.org …

I have a Dell from hell desktop Dim 3000 found a new mobo abd bought it the board fits perfect in the can and all connections line up but 1 and that is th front audio jack no sweat. The board is gettin power but it will not fire hd …

hi i have a toshiba a55 i spilled soda in the keys board turned it off got it dryed out turned it back on said something about the clock i set it and it started up then it just turned off never to start again.took it apart wipes it out …

Hey All Glad to be apart.:) Need a little insight on a problem that is just driving me crazy. If this was covered previously - sorry. I have this one particular Machine, running on a Asus P5N-E NFORCE 650I SLI motherboard. The graphics card is the; XFX GEFORCE 7300LE, (x16 …

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Can I install PC2700 256k Ram with PC3200 1GIG ram?

Hello everybody, I have a laptop Compaq Armada M700 with a DVD/CD drive. I don't know what I did wrong but my DVD drive does not read any CDs anymore. I tried Audio CDs, CD-R, CD-RW but they are not recognized. It does read any DVD, though. Can somebody help …

I foolishly updated my bios with winphlasher and it must have been the wrong bios. I now get one long beep followed by 2 short beeps and no monitor. It is an Acer aspire 1640z laptop and I am not sure of original bios ? I have a usb FDD …

Hello thanks in advance for any help. I have a compaq presario 906us running with windows xp i am using a wireless connection with a dwl 650 dlink pcmcia and a Di524 router. I just did a quick restore using the discs supplied with the laptop and am now getting …

Hello, everyone! I've recently bought some hardware components to build a new low-cost PC, whose purposes are: web surfing, office working, multimedia (at a medium level, not... video editing). The pieces are: [LIST] [*]AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640 2600 MHz CPU [*]ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS nForce 430 / Geforce 6100 MB …

Hi All: Dell support has confirmed my worse fears--the registry error I had meant that my hard drive is dead. As I go to install the replacement drive, is there a way I can connect or access the hard drive through another computer (boot as a secondary drive) and access …

Okay, Well I'm a totat idiot when it comes to hardware, can't tell good from bad, so I'll start out with my system info and that stuff.. I'm running WinXP.. Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.80 Ghz 510MB RAM Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller with approx. 64MB memory DAC Type: Internal I'll include …

My vaio powers up and then asks for boot device , I have used the recovery disk , but still the same problem. any idea what I should do ? is it the disk that is gone or could it be something else?

ok i can not get any sound from my computer and i checked the device manager and i have 5 devices not working and i do not have a drivers cd

I'm still looking for help or another site recommendation for help on this. I'm trying to copy my dv cassettes to DVD. The cassettes are from a Canon FZ85 (A) Mini DV digital video recorder. I am running Win XP SP3 and have an Adaptec Firewire card running a Sony …

Actually I forgot , can you guys let me know what is SATA(Serial ATA)? Is it simply a data cable providing an interface between motherboard and Hard Drive that has a higher data transfer rate than other cables and is used for Server level computers. Or it is a seperate …

My computer keeps restarting whenever I do something like view a stream-video or also do something else that is video related, i.e. playing Warcraft 3 FT. Sure it can perform fine doing either task (for about 5 minutes) but then the computer just shuts off without warning! Now at first …

PC powered down last night after 4 hours of inactivity, as it usually does. Went to start it up this morning. Case fans spin up, as does processor fan. Hard drive spins up. HDD LED is solid red. Absolutely no BIOS/POST/Start-up text on screen, and no error beeps. Completely blank …

Had something happen today, that has never happened to me before, and I'm a bit stumped by it! Built a new computer for a customer. AMD dual-core CPU / ASUS motherboard / SATA-II HDD's / Floppy & DVD drives / air cooled: 3 fans other than the CPU, 460W PSU. …

I've seen similar problems to mine on this forum but have yet to find a solution. After using the power button to turn off the computer quickly (holding it for ten seconds), my celeron M laptop has been unable to start successfully. Trying to start it in safe mode causes …

Hi there All. I'm a 70 yr. old crinkly, but have done a bit in my time. Now I have a Toshiba laptop and it will not boot up. All I get from a normal boot is the menu for an unexpected shut down last time of usage. The menu …

Hey guys, I know there are a heck of a lot of threads about this kind of thing, but I can't find anything that has helped me at all. ): So, here's the deal: I was playing Dawn of War the other day on my Dell Inspirion 1410 and all …

Hi All, First time post greetings to all. I have a sony PCG-7Y1L laptop which hungs up on the SONY logo with all LED's going can anyone assist in helping to fix the problem. Thanks

Hi there. Can any one help me! I have a Toshiba Salellite pro A200. and need to load files to the cmos/bios by way of a cd drive. I think I will have make a bootable disk but do not know how. If anyone can offer even the smallest help …

hi i have a problem i formated a toshiba equium m50 -244 laptop as had the blue screen of death but now i can not find the drivers for the laptop can anyone help me out i would very very gratefull and so would my daughter as it was hers …

A bit of help please, I am working on a Dell Latitude using Win2k and the display is only taking up about 1/4 of the screen, right in the center. I am sure this is a driver issue, but here's the thing, it's running an ATI Mobility M4 card and …

Hello all, I took the processor out of my old Dell Dimension 8300, thinking about upgrading it with a new CPU and hard drive. I should have checked the prices first, I know. So I put the old one back in and now it won't do anything, just a plank …

I have a Toshiba Satellite A65-S1006 laptop and last night it died...hopefully temporarily. I tried pressing the power button, but nothing happens. What should I do?? :sad:

I have a Compaq Presario Laptop 2200 It has power when turned on othind displays on the monitor? I am not sure if it is maybe a hard drive or monitor? Any ideas? Thanks a lot Wayne

I came home one day and found my computer off which it is always running, come to find out that i had a cpu fan go dead. went to the store and bought a new one and put it on the cpu. all the lights come on and the fans …

Ok - I bought a Dell 17" tft off Ebay recently , used it for a day all seemed fine. The next day I had blue screen of death , the cmos battery had gone , changing the boot up , so I replaced that and comp booted up no …

Hello all, I hope someone can help me with this predicament I'm having. Now, I could get all new parts to build a new machine, but I'm leaving for a job overseas in two weeks and it would not be worth it for me to fix a new machine at …

My daughter's computer won't get past the beep at start up, and seems to get in a loop where it keeps trying to start, then resets itself and goes through it all again. The last time it happened I dusted the motherboard and it ran ok, but this time it …

I had a power pin fault (had loose connection with board circuit) and managed to fixed by removing the board and rejoined with soldering iron. then it works ok but the lcd display became blinking and then turned into negative film like colour (like a film negative shading-no original colour). …

I have a Dell Inspiron 500M notebook that has a mind of its own. If my note is shutdown over a period of 24 hours, it will not boot up unless of course I waited long enough to the notebook to charge, even though the laptop is physically plugged into …

So i didnt realize this would be an issue but there doesnt seem to be very many motherboards that are compatible with the 45nm chip. the other thing is i need a board that still offers two ide slots unless there someway to use my same hdds with sata. any …

I recently upgraded my computer with new motherboard, memory, cpu graphic card and hard drive. After assembling, it started up and worked great. Later, I got the really bright idea of trying to add some of the old DDR memory from the old computer into the DDR2 memory slots. I …