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Hello, I am new user now,but i saw some solutions that makes me believe and trust on you that i can get 100% satisfaction solution from u. About my Home PC problem is: By the past 4 days ,Our PC is not booting when i press the CPU button,no light …

Good Morning, I have a IBM Thinkpad 600E that went dead. After much research, I replaced the CMOS battery. I then restored the BIOS settings (I think). I then tried to boot the machine from the restore CD and all I get is an error code that translates to the …

Hello Everyone, Since the day I bought my computer it randomly freezes for a few seconds. In those few seconds there is very low response, the input, screen and sound all get jittery. It gets fine after those 15-20 seconds, and then may or may not freeze again after a …

I have just tried to put my ide slave from my old PC into my new one. I plugged in the ide cable to the motherboard and the drive and connected the power plug. The master drive is a sata. The BIOS didn't auto recognize the new drive. can you …

Hello, my first post. My desktop monitor is displaying "no signal input". My desktop computer sounds like its running but i have no image on the monitor except that message, plus the power light is showing orange instead of green. I unplugged the monitor and connected it to my HP …

How can i recover files from an external disk?

I am trying to install a new DVD drive in my computer and I wanted to know how would I go about doing this. Do I just put the drive in an open slot and then do all the connections and go on the computer and click on Detect New …

Hi! everyone, ahve a question about using a DC power adaptor on cars & trucks. Our ford dealership uses a Dell Lattitude D620 w/ WXPPRO loaded & some software called integrated diognotic software to test cars & trks. My question is can it cause conflicts between the veh's pcm & …

on a clone drive does fixmbr work or would it be rendered useless as it warns???? Have a rebooting prob since anti-virus install and it had a virus. tried bootcfg and fixboot and chkdsk /p and /r and it finds an error but does not fix. give an error on …

Dear All A friend of mine gave me a Travelmate 2500, PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Relase 6.0 Notepad and I discovered that it has a problem - it will not boot and gives error msg “operating system not found”. The disk is not registering in BIOS and so I opened the laptop …

I have a Gateway M305CRV notebook. It works great, but when the cooling fan cycles on, it is VERY LOUD. Very annoying since I replaced a Toshiba notebook that you couldn't hear at all. Will replacing the fan resolve my issue? Is the fan design proprietary to Gateway or is …

Hi there, I am having a problem with my Sony Vaio laptop PCG-K315B, with Intel Celeron D, Processor 340, 2.93 GHz, Harddrive 40 GB/Go, RAM 512 MB/Mo. I have had it for over 2 years now. It makes a really loud noise as I am using it and also gets …

I have a T3042 e-machine, my computer will suddenly crash and go blank and make this alarm noise that sounds like an english patty-wagon and shutting it off doesn't stop it I have to unplug it and wait until it finally subsides. I thought it was because my old hard …

HELP! My dell d610 wont post!

need help.. my compaq presario 2100 wont boot. at start up all led's lights up, dvd rom working even the cpu fan but it wont display anything not even the hp logo. same thing happen if i put an external monitor.. what's wrong woth it, please help!!

Have a Sony Vaio PCG-FR130 (Model PCG-9H4L on label on bottom of unit) which does nothing at all when the power button is pressed. Have checked the switch on button and seems ok. I have also removed the CMOS battery from the unit and still no change. CMOS battery is …

I recently decided to DL SP3 for my desktop. Not my shining moment, so here I am.. Im running an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo, AMD Athlon 4400+ processor on a system I built for myself a while back. Everything was great until I installed the above. I am stuck in …

Cellphone manufacturer Samsung has taken everyone by surprise by announcing its own operating system Bada - Korean for 'ocean' - will [URL="http://www.bada.com/samsung-launches-open-mobile-platform/"]launch in December[/URL]. The intriguing question is why the company wants to do it. The Smartphone arena is at the moment dominated by a handful of players - Google's …

You don't have to have lived in Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties to achieve self-awareness in San Francisco. BlackBerry developers are gathered in the city this week for the annual [url=http://www.blackberrydeveloperconference.com/overview]BlackBerry Developer Conference[/url], taking place now through Thursday. Among the top stories is a new service platform from Research in Motion …

My hdd is not running is thre a wat that i can fix it

anyone know what the s stands for in pc2-6400s, i have a laptop with 2x1gig marked s ,and i wanted to upgrade so i got the shop to order me a 2gig stick ,but it doesn't have the S , i installed it ,seems to be working ok,but didn't make …

Friends i want to know how many Ram slots ll available in normal PC......... I seached for this in google..... it showed 4.......... but in ma PC i found 1ly 2 slots.............plz do clarify this 4 me...

Hey, im putting together a cheap computer, but i want to make sure the motherboard and processor will work together. (Mostly powerwise like 125v or ect) Thanks in advance [B]Here is the build:[/B] Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core …

Hi - my dell user manual (for inspiron 9400) says that it supports DDR-II RAM up to 667 MHz, but the recommended upgrade on the Dell website is for 800 MHz RAM. Is installing the "too-fast" RAM going to be a problem? Thanks for any help, Dave

my presario 2500 wont turn on... i remove the battery and plug the power cord then reset the bios by pressing the reset button for 30 seconds and still doesnt work.... please help me.........

I was formatting a brand new hard drive the other day and my computer froze up so I just shut it off. Now the new hard drive is not being detected in BIOS or in Windows. When I go into the BIOS setting and try to auto detect the hard …

how does the computer run with out hard disk.

Hi guys, I just got myself a Philips 20" TV Monitor(20PFL4122/98), but its resolution is too less(640X480). I have Windows 7 and everything comes really big! Is there any way I can increase the resolution?? I have a nvidia 7100GS graphic card.

Hi, I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M1437G series Laptop and a few days ago while lying in bed my wife hit her head o the side of the laptop, near the graphics card. Since then, my sceen continues to go black after/during loading up. Also, when it does load up …

Hi, I have Acer Travelmate 2700, bought a year back.I have just started experiencing a power related problem. When I am trying to boot the laptop on AC Power,it struggles a few times and then boots normally.But after some time (varies from 10 min to a couple of hours) the …

Hello, I have an external USB 450 GB device. Recently, the files turned from My Documents to MYDOCU~1. This is also present when I insert other USB drives. If there is any way that I can change this without deleting all the files on the USB, please reply. Also, if …

please i have a dell latitude d800 which was send to me by brother from norway, when you booth the pc it give white screen and ask for system password, please if anybody can help me to unlock the system password!

My Lifebook N3511 no longer boots to Windows. I see the Fujitsu logo screen then the screen either 1) goes blank and nothing happens or 2) goes blank and there's a blinking cursor in upper left-hand corner. Both scenarios have no progress after that. I can't get to the Boot …

My laptop worked great til a few weeks ago. It is a Toshiba 315 CDS. The screen suddenly has lines that go from the top of the screen to half way down the screen. You can still see what is behind it but it is like looking through prison bars. …

Hey guys, I've got a problem with my monitor/display and I hope it's not a sign of the mobo going bad. My computer all of a sudden decided to freeze up, and upon restart, the monitor won't get a signal, the light stays blue. All the other components appear to …

When my WinXPPro SP3 machine is in sleep/standby/suspend mode (S1 or S3), the fax modem wakes the machine some of the time but not all of the time. I want it to wake the PC every time, with 100% reliability. (When the PC is up and running, the modem and …

Hi friend has just given me his PC to look at as its broken and i mentioned that i had an interest in fixing dead machines. The machine is a fairly new packard bell machine with a 3.06ghz P4 processor. It will not load past the packard bell bios splash …

It use to randomly restart on occasion but now it is doing it constantly to the point it won't boot-up past the Windows start-up screen. It does not respond to the F8 key, so I can't start it in safe mode. I can get into the set-up screen but no …

Hello people, I've a Intel Pentium 4 with 1.5GB of ram and a NVidia GeForce FX5500, before i buy the plus 1GB of ram and the my GPU this also occours: My computer is shuting down when it is using or not, when i enter Bios i see that: [COLOR="Red"]System …

[B][COLOR="red"][U]XFX GeFORCE 9800 GT[/U] [/COLOR][/B]graphic card can perform with any old VGA monitor as it's got a special [COLOR="Red"][B]DVI port[/B][/COLOR] in it's pack. Are there any other Graphic Card which can do the same? I mean If any ATI or whatelse does so,Please leave a reply with a complete expalnation …

Computer was working fine, lights went out and then know all I get is bios, a bunch of dollar signs and vistas please wait screen after 10 to 15 minutes I get the blue screen of death. I think it is virus, maleware or bad video card any body have …

I know it could be a number of things but does anyone have a suggestion? It started about 7 days ago that my computer would just restart by itself. It did this several times in a short period. Now it has only done it a couple of times in the …

I am building a new cheap computer and I'm looking at two graphics cards XFX HD-487A-ZWFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP and HIS H487FN1GP Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP my question is i noticed that the memory clock …

I just built my own computer system using a Biostar MCP6P M2+ motherboard and an Athlon 1.8 GHz processor, I followed the instructions in the quick setup guide and the manual which i downloaded but the system will not boot into the BIOS, in addition the power light does not …

Well, so I have a notebook without CD/DVD drive, and with a special WinXP install CD. I have to reinstall it, and I don't want to buy an external drive. But I have an USB cross cable. So If I plug in the other end of the cable into my …

Well firsty, sometimes when my computer gets unexpected restarted or the power goes out (whenever the computer is not shut down really) when I go to turn it back on my optical mouse doesn't work. So therefore It cannot trigger my moniter on. Which is never been a HUGE problem …

Hi can any one please help in solving this problem. I am getting fed up with this PC. It keeps on restart with out reason. I formatted it many times and i did every thing but no use. Some times it runs normally with out any problem. and some times …

First off, thank you for reading this and helping me. OK, so i feel like a sucker because I saved a lot of money by buying a refurb Toshiba R100 and was so proud of myself, but my older bro was like you're gonna have problems with it. I didn't …

Please Read, it is related to this forum section. System Specs: CPU: Pentium D (dual core) 3.2Ghz Video Card: Evga 8800GTS 320MB Superclocked Ram: Kingston KVR667D2N5/2G (one stick of ram) Motherboard: Asus P5QL/EPU Hard Drive: 250GB Western Digital (IDE) OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition 32bit PSU: 600w OCZ SilentxStream …

I've got big problem. Once I took my computer from upstairs to downstairs. The screen went black and when I reseted it up It's screen showed bios info and it turned off. I tried lots of times to turn it on but everytime I tried the screen was only darker …