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I am getting repeated HDD error reported by the RAID systems. I am getting the HDDs replaced via warranty but this is happening too frequently tht I am thinking that something else is wrong. I have had about 5 HHDs failures in the last 4 weeks. As soon as I …

Hi all, OK, I'm using Acer Aspire 1705SMi laptop that is supposed to be able to take up to 2gb of ddr333 sdram 184 pin dimm. The is a DIMM based model with a sis650 chipset. it also takes 3.5 ide hard drives. I've tried about 4 brands of ram …

Hello! I have an old PC, usually it works just fine. No problem at all. But today I wanted to set in some new harddisks, it had a capacity of 60GB before and now it has ~ 400GB space. But when I boot my PC I get 3 beeps with …

Well, I just retrived my old pc from my parent's house, it's a hp pavilion 5210la, the deal is that I can't remember the password of the bios setup, it's a phoenix - award I think, so if someone can help me reset password or remove it would be very …

I have a Intel D946GZIS motherboard i have recently bought a new chassis and i put everything to the new chassis from then the motherboard does not switch on the Power LED on the motherboard is lit up but when i switch it on nothing happens no fans no nothing …

I have a six year old Compaq laptop with Windows XP and suddenly the screen blacks out and I have to reboot. It is clear the rest of the computer continues to work normally. I've reloaded everything but the problem continues. It happens if I move the computer or perhaps …

Details 1 PATA Hard Drive: Western Digital 1 SATA Hard Drive: Western Digital Gigabyte Motherboard (AMD2 Socket) SATA DVD Drive. Problem: When I boot up the computer, it takes forever to detect IDE devices. Then when it finally does, it sucessfully detects the DVD drive. But gives an IDE Channel …

hp pavilion xl753 Mainboard Model HAWK Intel Celeron Coppermine 668.3 MHz Socket 370 FC-PGA (0x4) Chipset Northbridge Intel i810E rev. A3 Southbridge Intel 82801AA (ICH) rev. 02 Memory Type SDRAM Memory Size 320 MBytes DIMM # 1 = 256 MBytes PC133 (133 MHz) DIMM # 2 = 64 MBytes PC100 …

ik heb een hele oude toshiba 210 cs laptop en ik heb hem geformateerd met ms-dos maar nu start hij geen boot menu meer op, en hij geeft alleen aan ongeldige systeem schijf gelieve geldige systeem schijf te plaatsen. heb van alles geprobeert maar niks doet het. kom wel in …

I have recently upgraded the memory in a friends computer and now the browsers crash all the time and every once in a while the whole pc crashes and reboots. From what I can tell the motherboard is a pc chips M925 series p400. I had 256 of SDRAM and …

hi, im new to daniweb but i dont know were else to turn I have posted this same thread on intels community and 200 veiws later, no one has gotten back to me with any possible solution. last month i had given my friend a Gateway 500x desktop computer as …

Background: My sony vaio laptop VGN-B100B fell down with a big impact and the LCD cracked - the screen was filled with dark black and solid white areas of various shapes. The Sony phone rep said the B series shipped in 2 configurations - XGA and SXGA+. Originally it had …

my father bought one p4 computer from our family friend for my educational purpose. the computer has worked only for the first day next day computer's keyboard stops working after some hours windows doesn't start then the our family friend came and we also put earthwire. then he installed new …

Hi, I'm no hardware genius so I hope I can communicate what I'm wanting to do. I currently have two HDD on an ASUS P5K SE motherboard and a 500w PSU. I have three partitions on the first (500GB) drive, C: (Win XP Pro), D: (Documents), E: (Somewhere to put …

Hi I bought a new laptop which came with windows 7 pre-installed. I am supposed to have a 500GB HDD space, but when i view "Computer" which also displays the available size, it says i have 11GB of 40 GB left! but i have a 500GB hard drive. when i …

Dear Sir, I have recently reinstalled Windows XP on my PC, having Intel D945GCNL motherboard. When I am installing the Drivers all the Drivers are installed normally but Audio Drivers are not installing from the Driver CD, it gives a message that the audio failed to install. Please let me …

Hello i am having a problem with my friends computer. When I boot the computer everything seems OK and the windows loading screen comes up, but then it says "Setup is being restarted" then it goes to a blue screen and says "STOP: c00002la fatal system error". There's no valuable …

*** Hardware Malfunction Call your hardware vendor for support NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error *** The system has halted *** I experiencing the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH huhuhu!!! any one help me pls... I am using DELL DIMENSION E520

I've been employed to fix a friend's PC troubles and apparently his monitor automatically goes into "sleep" mode whenever the CPU is turned on. Once it passes the initial loading stage (Where the "DELL" screen shows up and the loading bar fills) it goes into sleep mode. I've tried removing …

Hello altogether, a couple of weeks ago I updated my linux-system and copied the ISO-Image on an USB-stick so that I can boot it. It did work though, but now I don't have a clue how to format it back to a FAT32-system. Any idea? Thank you! Simon

i've got 4x2GB Kingston 800MHz mems, and i'd like to kick them up a notch from what they're currently running at, 1066 possible? CUPID says they're running at the following: DRAM 400mhz, command rate 2T, fsb:ram 5:6, with the timing at 6,6,6,18, 52 for latencies and delays. i'm using an …

I was just reading about the different types of cables used to connect components of computers. When it comes to serial ports and parallel ports, parallel ports are faster because they send several bits of data simultaneously. Therefore, it should follow that parallel ATA is faster than Serial ATA. However, …

I have gone out and downloaded the driver for The GCC Elite XL 20/1200, I did the download of Elite20Win2K file, unzipped and kept on hard drive, went to control panel to add new printer. all goes well except when it gets to the completeing of the add printer wizard …

on my laptop the screen is visible but very dark. its not the brightness settings, so i imagine perhaps the bulb has gone but would love someone cleverer than me to confirm this, or suggest what i should do next. funny thing is that when you turn the laptop on, …

I know the 1150's have a power jack issue, we've fixed a huge amount of them. The one problem we haven't figred out is this. After some repairs to the power jack, the laptop will run on battery, it says that it is charging BUT, it is actually running off …

my questions are: 1) is is possible to install a RAM like this: DIMM_A1(blue) populated DIMM_A2(black) populated DIMM_B1(blue) ------ DIMM_B2(black) ----- but the two RAM is not Identical.. 2)how about this one: DIMM_A1(blue) populated DIMM_A2(black) populated DIMM_B1(blue) populated DIMM_B2(black) ----- the RAM at the blue socket is identical, but the …

Hi all I just bought my new AMD Phenom x4 and a new mobo. I installed Everest Ultimate just now and noticed that the sensor report is the following CPU 78 C Core 1 37 C Core 2 37 C Core 3 37 C Core 4 37 C Cooling Fans …

Hi all I just installed my new motherboard, along with RAM and Processor Motherboard: [URL="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782#"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782#[/URL] Processor: [URL="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168970/show_product_reviews"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168970/show_product_reviews[/URL] Ram: [URL="http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=4B84BC76A5CA7304"]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=4B84BC76A5CA7304[/URL] I have had a problem in that I cant get windows to see my drives in "My Computer". I had first of my DVD/RW Writemaster SH-S222 which is seen in BIOS …

I am a software developer and I own a desktop as well as a laptop. Mostly I use the desktop as it is better in performance and has a better configuration then the laptop. But when I have to give a demo to the customer I have to take my …

I have a rather annoying problem. My PC is rebooting a lot, without giving any BSODs. This happens when I'm moving large files, when playing certain games and sometimes when streaming videos (although this could be due to other reasons and just coincidence). There are no reboots when I leave …

Hello all. Building a new computer, got everything working but the power supply isn't powerful enough and when anything CPU or video intensive runs the computer will shut off. I have a 500W PSU now but I was wondering how much larger to get without frying the system (if that's …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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!

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 …

Sony Vaio VGN B100B Intel Centrino 1.6 GHz Pentium M 725 855GME chipset 1GB + 512MB RAM DDR333 Some days back, my Sony Vaio laptop (model VGN B100B) screen blanked out all of a sudden. Now the laptop does not boot though it gets power. On power up, the DVD …

I have been documenting my laptop problem in the Vista forum [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread204104.html"](ref)[/URL] but it seems that maybe the problem belongs here. The system is almost dead even though there is a way I can break out of it. In a nutshell, there is something wrong at the POST stage that …

I realize this sounds like a repeated question, but so far 2 days of searching the web has gotten me no solutions to my problem. First, the equipment I do and do not have. NEW WD SATA-II HDD to replace a dead IDE drive. Asus P4s800d-e deluxe mobo DVD/CD burner …

I have a Dell Latitude D600 I have green horizontal checkering. As I scroll on a page it goes completely green. While still being readable. At start up a bunch of unreadable gibberish comes up in black & white. When I try Safe mode the screen is unreadable. This problem …

Hello All, I’ve got a new Samsung NP-NC10 with NoteBook that had XP installed. I replaced it with Vista Ultimate, only to crash it as won’t accept Vista. So, I reinstalled XP and system drivers from the Reload discs. The NoteBook then functioned correctly. However, the C: Drive was renamed …

I have a dell 8300, XP, and i tried to install a new 120gb hard drive as my master and make my original 60gb as a slave. I wanted to image my original, put it on my new one so I can format my original and start adding stuff i …

Hello Everyone, I bought a new 19' widescreen lcd monitor a few days ago. the problem is that since the day i bought it , it gives a distinct horizontal flicker (horizontal lines moving from top to bottom) in certain colors and a subtle one in others. It is especially …

After dis/reconnecting my HP Pavilion T490 from the mains, the power supply makes a rapid ticking sound (several times a second) and the light on the back of the power supply flashes. It happened a few months back too, after a vacation, but then, after a few tries, the PSU …

during starting computer smps sounds more .after starting windows it automatically stops sound. what is the reason behind it?

I have a Dell OptiPlex GX110 and when I start it up it keeps telling me this warning. I want to stop it from saying that until the cover is actually removed. Thanks again!