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anyone have any idea why a Dell optiplex gx1 600MHz[model year 1999] won't reconise a 48x LG burner,no matter what way I configure it .CD-RW works in other computer .thanks

I got a new imac g5 about 2 weeks ago, the problem is sometimes when i move my mouse the cursor will fly all the way to the opposite side of the screen, i am currently not using a mouse pad, could that be my problem? or is the mouse …

I had a couple of questions. First off, has anyone seen what the expected retail price of the upcoming A8N-SLI Deluxe Asus mobo will be ([url]http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8nsli-d/overview.htm[/url])? Also, I noticed that I won't really NEED a lot of the features it has, can I expect them to come out with a …

Anyone able to help me out with the drivers for win98se I checked MSI but did not find the intel drivers needed... Any help as always is appreciated

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well i have one comp ....i bought a sempron 2400+ cause i thought all amd athlon xp are gone here...im form the philippines...then a friend told me that there is still two more shops that has an amd 2500+ i know what im choosing from are slow compared to the …

hi all, got 2 massive 20" screens from a friend and they need me to buy em an adapter to work with standard graphics cards rather than with an apple computer with annoyingly different graphics hardware, wot type of adapter is it i need? how do i find out? the …

My hard disc is slowing a little bit ... I reinstalled windows on an ntfs file system ... but it didnt matter .. now if I format all my hard drive ... will it restore its speed or there are other factors that affect the speed of the hard drive …

I dont know where this goes so Ill just post it here. I am having this problem with my browsing speed. I have SBC Yahoo DSL and a belkin rotour now when my modem is pulged into my computer directly with the rotour not hooked up I can download at …

My PC has been spontaneously rebooting over the past few days. I've been running a hardware monitor to check temperatures, memory, and voltages, and everything is normal except the +12 V reading, which has been reading upwards of +13.1 V and higher. Could this be the problem, and if so, …

I have a pc that once powered on gives out 10 beeps (3-4-3) & nothing is displayed on the monitor at all. Any help appreciated as to what the problem is.

Hello all; I have a problem with my hard disk , I format my hard disk completely ,Then I boot it from CDRom I want to install win98 on my PC , during installation when the computer is restarted to save some changes,next time it should boot from hard disk …

Hi all! I am doing a presentation over Intel's potential new naming system for their CPU's. Instead of Intel naming the processor according to clock speed, they now have a funky numbering system. ex. Instead of Pentium 3.2 Ghz, it's gonna be Pentium 500. Superficially, this is a flawed decision …

Hi all! I have been having problems for a while with my current PC. Although there are a few different issues I believe they are all caused by a single problem: 1) Window Media audio exhibits random pops and bleeping. 2) Strange compression artifacts in TMPGEnc video conversions (MPEG-1 and …

Hi I've just built a new system with an Asus A7V8X-X mobo, 512 ddr mem, Radeon 9200se video card, but although it goes through the POSTscreens, it will not boot into windows xp and restarts every time. I've updated the BIOS, changed every setting imaginable in the BIOS and tried …

I have a 80 GB external maxtor that is in a separate companies case, that has USB and fire wire, on my old IMAC i used the usb and everything was fine.... I just purchased a used powerbook g4 1 gh with superdrive 15 inch.... so I thought great now …

ok, when i plug a device into IDE 2 on my motherboard, IDE 1 stops working. so if i have 2 hard drives on IDE 1, and 2 CDrom devices on IDE 2, none of them work the IDE2 is interfering with IDE 1 is there a simple way to …

hi...alright i thiunk i need your suggestions on this...im about to buy a new pc....for editng...im choosing between two cpus. amd xp 2500+ and amd 64 3000+...i know its a bit odd to compare the two...ok ill be overclocking the 2500 so it can use 400ddr dimms...my friend keeps on …

Please help, My Pc keeps restarting when connecting to the internet.It has a SoftK56 Data Fax Voice CARP Modem, P4 2.4ghz proccessor, MSI motherboard. I got it formatted, but it still restarts. Please Help.

Hey there guys. Yesterday during a really bad storm, I was at work with my mom. We got a phone call from the alarm company for my house saying that the shocks had gone off and the police were called. Thinking that lightning struck the house, I went home to …

I am replacing a Gigabyte mb with one by MSI. Seems like the last time I did this I had to boot in safe mode and edit the registry to remove some lines related to hardware drivers. Such a long time ago, I can't remember what I removed. Seems like …

"Invalid" system disk...." I installed a second Maxtor 5T040H4 HD. The specs say that I don't need to set a jumper to make it a slave. When I bootup I get the following message: "Searching for Boot record from Floppy..Not found Saerching for Boot record from IDE-1..OK Invalis System disk …

here's what I have, 1Ghz AMD Athlon 10GB HDD - primary master - FAT32 40GB HDD - primary slave - FAT32 Windows 2000 Pro the problem: It just happened, probably by a virus of some sort... my slave drive suddenly disappeared, there's this unknown device that show's up on the …

Hey guys, My grandmother's computer keeps rebooting itself. My dad and I can not figure out what the heck is wrong with it. When he told me what it was doing my first thought was the Sasser virus. So we went and looked it up on the Microsoft updates page. …

Hello, I am new to this forum and apologize for the double post (wrong area). I have an old PC with a bios/chipset that can only see 8.4 gigs. I added a Promise Ultra66 card to get over the 8.4 gig limitation. I have an unformatted Quantum fireball 20 gig …

I have a KDS monitor, about 4 years old. Works well except it sometimes changes color tone. A white page may look a little yellow and changes back to looking whiter. I checked all the cables, for cuts and tightness. Any suggestions would be helpful.

New guy on this forum. I have seen some threads that I thought related to my problem, but they did not go there. I have been repairing and upgrading computers for friends, family and my employer (a small non-profit) for several years. Now, for some fool reason, I decided to …

Help Please! I got a Epson Stylus CX3200 printer and my mac G4 running OSX argues with it a lot. Every now and then it will print just fine out of explorer and certian other programs, but other times it refuses to print anything at all, saying "an error has …

i got a question about ram, i have: slot1:128 slot2:128 slot3: 256 slot4: nothing could i get another 256 and put it in slot 4 or would i have to get a 256 and take out the 128's and replace it with the new 256? or doesnt it matter

soooo i went to burn a CD, and i get this message Burning the disc cannot proceed because the startup disc if full (error code -34) b-b-but, my startup disc isn't full. i got a whoppin' 871.8MB worth to do whatever i feel like. in fact, when i got the …

IBM thinkpad ,vertial lines on the top half of the screen ,they show as yellow,blue and pink on a light background ,1 solid blackline on the blue desktop about 1/4 in apart. hooked to my monitor via a KVM switch they are not there so its in the laptops screen …

I need to know where I can get a auto-feeding CD-rom. I dislike the ones with these trays even tho I know if my cd got stuck in there it would be a pain to get out. I still like autofeeding ones better and have seen them before but I …

hi all please could someone help i was wondering if anyone has had this problem before and knows how to remedy it. Basically i just purchased a sound card just a basic 6 channel pci card (kob c884) as my onboard sound stopped working for some mysterious reason which i …

I just bought a new Samsung flat screen monitor, SyncMaster 955df, and it gets fuzzy near the border, especialy the text in my web address bar. I have tried everything to get it to focus. I am not sure whether it is the monitor or the settings. Any suggestions on …

I recently bought a used Celeron 1.7 Hz. The vendor from whom I bought told me that the system had 128MB of RAM. However when I checked the My Computer properties, the system is reporting only 96MB. I am running Windows 2000. The vendor told me that this is normal …

hey guys how do i enable fast writes?

I know this is a stupid ?, but please give me the run down on the different types of burners and how they work. Exe. If you get a dvd burner, do you have to have a seperate dvd drive. One to read while the other burns? Same ? for …

My friend has a camcorder with rca output jacks including s-video, I was wondering if there is some software that allows you to plug the camera into the computer and record on the computer what comes out of the camera. I do realize that computers don't have rca inputs which …

Hi, am having real trouble with graphics brightness whilst playing certain games ie Call Of Duty, during the training when asked to proceed to the firing range through a door i cannot see the door without the brightness settings in the in game video settings being turned on full, the …

i dont know much about ram other than i need more of it. i have 256 now and i need more for some games i need 512 1.) if i get 256 ram does that add on to my current ammouint or do i have to get a 512 stick …

I find my GeForce2 32 MB PCI graphics card doesn't run my new game, [B][I]The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King[/B][/I] the way I want. So, I'm thinking about getting a new card. Does anyone have any advice on what to look for when shopping for a new …

hi everyone, My problem is big i think, and would appreciate any but all help i can get. My PC is a Acermate model 5120 pentium 120mhz. Its original operating sys was win95 then it was upgraded to win98 It was extremely slow on net and some applications I was …