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Windows XP System Plugged in USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard and used it for a night, unplugged before shutting down. When trying to use my own lap top keyboard again the alphabet keys that are showing blue characters that you can get with use of FN key are not typing as …

I work at home , but sometimes , i need go to my company to finish my work.however,the data and favorites software are all at home,sometimes i need to purchase the same software which i have at home. What should i do?Hope someone help.

Hi guest...I'm beginner, I have problem with my notebook Sony Vaio V505. The Power not come suddenly. What should I do? thank you for advice.

I'm having a problem when I turn on my PC I get this message "Detecting IDE Drives". Then it takes a few times turning it off and on to get it to work. Sometimes a good whack on the side works LOL. I've taken it to the local computer shop …

I have a toshiba satellte x205-sl1. I downloaded and updated the bios, but forgot to plug in the laptop and the battery died while rebooting, now i have nothing! The computer will power up and thats it no screen or hard drive nothing. Any ideas will be welcome. Thanks

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 …

Hello! I have a laptop and it is acting crazy. I'm hoping that some of you can assist me in fixing it! I have a Compaq Presario v5000 with a 15.4" screen. Every now and then my laptop's LCD screen turns into a vertically striped mess (all color, no black). …

Hello all, I am new to the site and it looks great so far. I am wondering if anyone knows what kind of difference it would make if i overclocked my vid. card it is an nvidia fx5600 128mb. i am laggin horribly trying to play a game called custom …

Hey guys. It's not an old computer or anything. AMD Athlon X2 processor, NVidia Geforce 7900 GTX graphics card, 360GB SATA HDD, 2GB RAM, the works. The problem is, that a couple days back one of the fans died on me. I kept it off for until I could get …

Hi, i bought a dell inspiron 6000 and every time i shut the lid and re-open it the screen is all black but you can here the noise and everything. if u guys can suggest something ill be very gratefull. thanks

I read the recent thread started by Kpack08 about a similar machine not starting. My mother in law has the same machine for 4 years. Today, it would not start - no sound, no fan, no front light- -nothing. I replaced the power supply, and can see the green light …

Hi, I've got a Toshiba HDD2718 B ZE01 T Model MK2104MAV Hard Drive. I also have an interface connector to connect this HD into an IDE cable into my Desktop PC to enable me to load Win 95 / Win 98 OS onto the laptop HD. This connector joins 2.5 …

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 …

My homebuilt PC died last night after running fine for several months in its current configuration. My external USB HD (MyBook) was acting up so I unplugged it and rebooted. When Windows started again I plugged the drive in, it initialized, and then the PC rebooted. It didn't POST however …

Hello all, I'm trying to fix a problem. This E-machine did not boot up, so I changed the power supply, puter came on but no beeps, or anything on the monitor. All the fans run, could it be the mobo?

Hi I have a dell Inspiron 8600 with a fx5200 go I had a bad lcd so i bought a relacment when I installed IT the screen only flashes red green blue white black and so on on an external lcd I can't see my post but I boot to …

can some one please help me. i got a dell as a second comp for my son to mess with. its a dell dimension 2100,pentium3,pc133 256mb,20g hard drive. this dell had windows 2000 so i formatted it,now i have tryed to install windows xp with no joy the CD drive …

hey ppl, i've just joined da forum so hello to everyone... i've gotta a boot up problem...i scraped my PC down to it bare bones with only the mother board powered yesterday but the machine refuses to boot..i've replaced the RAM, reset the CMOS....still no result... though it did boot …

Have the above laptop, and it simply won't power on. Have done what Sony helpfully suggested and held down the power button for 15secs with and without the battery. Have tested the AC power and its reading a 19.5v. Hard drive is working ok with a 2.5" USB caddy - …

I have a 4-year-old PC that all of a sudden froze during some routine tasks. It hasn't really done that before. I did a re-boot and got nothing. SYMPTOMS - PC turns on with all fans and LEDs (including RAM LED) - No image at any point on monitor (have …

So here's the problem folks. I had just turned my computer on and started working on it when it suddenly powered off as if I had unplugged the laptop without the battery in. It has done this once in the past and after a few days miraculously started working again. …

Everyone please give me ur suggestions about which processor and motherboard is best for Estate company work in London. & which processor and motherboard is best for working for telegraphy company. i have to design 25 computer for estate company as well as for telegraph company so please give me …

hey guyz, well i am quite new to the geeky thing, i have got a intel 845GLLY motherboard and 256 gb of ram with p-iv 1.8 GHz processor. i need to know that if i can increase my ram to 1 gb, is there be any problem in the performance …

Hey I'm Justin from Australia, I recently purchased a nVIDIA Geforce 9600 GSO for my AMD 4800, i am now having the same problem that many people have. I have inserted the graphics card into the motherboard and the fan on the graphics card is spinning, once i connect my …

OK here is the problem at work. We have a lexmark printer that is randomly printing images of Clifford the Dog(funny right)...it also prints other characters from that cartoon. This has been happening since the printer was received. It happens in between jobs and sometimes when no one has even …

I have a Brother MVC 215C color inkjet with scanner, fax etc ... If I don't print for a week or two, I have to clean the black ink - not the colors as they are fine, just the black. I've tried different cartridges with the same results. I have …

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 …

One of my pc's that i built recently has the following (as well as a 600watt quality psu): xfx 630i motherboard- [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3517183[/url] Pentium D E2180 CPU 2.0ghz stock- [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3505668&CatId=2851[/url] Thermaltake Ruby Orb Cpu HSF- [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2844209&sku=T925-2032&srkey=ruby%20orb[/url] Now, here's my problem. I've heard a lot about overclocking, and how you can max …

I have a Compaq 5300US, running Windows XP. Last night I noticed the screen displaying this message. "non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready" the cursor is blinking right under these two lines. the screen looks like the MS - Dos command mode screen. all …

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 …

Hey all good folks at Dani Web !!! I have a Dell Optiplex GX240, vertical standing desktop machine. Right now it only has 256 MB RAM and a 2.0GHz proc. I bought the machine as is. It came with everything original but it was missing a hard drive. I put …

i would like to run memtest, but i don't know what to click on to begin. here are the choices. download prebuilt & ISO? source code? pre compiled bootable ISO? (.gz)? (.zip)? pre compiled bootable binary? (.gz)? (.zip)? pre compiled EXE file for USB key (Pure DOS)? pre compiled package …

hello daniweb community, can any one help me? my xp machine cannot log in to my desktop, after loading xp and when it shows the blue windows where the logo of xp is shown , it is stuck there forever. even if in safe mode its like that. is there …

my scanner will no longer scan, it says it is being used by another program. how do i find what is using it so i can stop it or delete it?

Hi. I desperately need the help this community. After installing a Zalman CNPS7700-Cu CPU cooler on my Athlon64 3000+ @ 2.00 GHz, my computer failed to boot. It didn't even post or go to BIOS. I have a Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard and managed to enter the BIOS setup …

This unit shuts itself down after a minute or so. If I try to start it back immediately it only runs a few seconds. I noticed the Heatsink holder (plastic) was broken and not allowing any cooling to the CPU and replaced it. The unit and fans are all clean. …

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 …

Yes, This is possible, and I have a working prototype that is simple to use. Though, before I display it I wanted to publicly ask the board where I should really post this. The "Windows" nor the "Software" section seemed suited for this topic, so I turned to the last …

hi guys, i'm having alot of trouble with a brand new motherboard...:( i recently bought the m/board with a Cpu and a 1gb stick of ram, Motherboard - MSI K9N6SGM-V (el cheapo) CPU - Amd athlon 4800+ x2 (socket AM2 i'm assuming) RAM - Elixer DDR2 PC-5300 The problem i'm …

I recently cleaned the Heatsink, and cleaned off the cpu with Isopropyl Alcohol and applied Arctiv Silver 5. I did this because I was having some bad heating issues. My problem now is my laptop is either not staring up or something is wrong with the LCD. When I turn …

I sure hope I'm posting this in the right place ! If not, someone let me know please. Compaq Presario S4020WM, Windows XP HOME . Young teenager messed around with this computer and has really done some damage ! When I turn on the computer, all I get is a …

My pc will not startup and run normally. I receive a message on power up "that windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows root>/system 32 hal.dll please re-install a copy of the above file". I have a hp media center m7463w and it doesn't …

I have tried to use one benchmarking utility, "Mark3 or 5" and I was realy confused. Reading a few post, I am still at loss. I would like to bench mark my cpu and quake2 game while playing so I can tweak for more performance. I see post where guys …

Last monday a thunderstorm knocked out power in our house and only our house. my dsl modem was toes up and the computer would not power on. My router was also dead. everything was shut dpown and powered off at the time of the outage. The next day I tested …

My Dell laptop is saying"Primary harddrive disk 0 not found No bootable devices-strike F1 to retry boot F12 for set up utility" and is making a clicking noise. On the set up page it says "Bios version A20" and "Latitude C600"(not sure if that info matters,very new to computers) Please …

I was on the internet last night and suddenly, without warning, the computer went off. It may be my imagination, but I thought that I heard a click, perhaps a very quiet pop. It may have just been me clicking the keyboard. My computer is completely dead: no lights, no …

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 …

I have a Dell Dimension 3000 and I would like to upgrade my graphics card to be able to play more games on it. I have no idea what to get or what is compatible. If anyone has any suggestions post them please. I also do not want to spend …

hi Guy! I am new here and this is my first post. My pc wont start anymore. This is what happen, i was just playing and suddenly my pc shutdown itself. as i tried turning it on again it wont. First thing i did was open the case and observe …

my son's e-machine suddenly "died" (well, it was never really alive...). When I push the on-off button I get absolutely nothing- no lights, fans, etc. I checked the power cord, I opened up the front and bypassed the on-off switch, looked around inside for loose connectors, found nothing obviously burned …