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[QUOTE=purple monkey]Hi I was wondering if any of you could solve my problem. My computer has no sound. Yet the speakers are connected and all the levels are up. The odd thing is, when i connect to the internet, i hear the dialtone of the internet through my speakers. Could …

[QUOTE=trunks ssj1]i'm going to order my new setup soon and i need help on the compatability of it i will order an amd 64 3000+ winchester socket 939 1gb of corsair xms3200xl xpert asus a8n-sli nforce4 socket 939 pci express his excalibre ati radeon x700 pro 256mb gddr3 and a …

[QUOTE=imthecheesecake]How much would this sydtem be worth roughly Athlon AMD64 3400+ (939 venice) 2gb pc3200 crucial ram x850xt PE PCI-E 160gb HD 7,200 rpm Acrlyic case with lighting mods etc.. 600watt psu Liquid cooling Chaintek Mobo (pci-e, i think its a cf4 or sumthin) Thanks[/QUOTE] at a rough guess £800 …

[QUOTE=Thong_Ispector]On a notebook drive is Pin #1 towards the power connector (as I would expect) or is it away from the power connector.[/QUOTE] i believe its the same as the normal pc drives. :) not sure however so dont take as gospel:confused: i will ask somebody who will know and …

[QUOTE=server_crash]I've had this problem creep up on me several times. Look at the box/case the cd's came in, and see what the max write speed is. Make sure you are at that, or below. Also, try a really slow speed such as 16 or 4, and see if that works. …

[QUOTE=mbejohn]I have an IBM Think Pad laptop which cant start. The power on light just blinks and so does the battry charging light. I do not think it has something to do with the power supply. In a month I have only managed to start it twice. Please help. I …

I defrag both my PCs once a month, run disk cleanup once every two weeks, run adaware once weekly and Norton Antivirus twice weekly. just defraggin once a month keeps both PCs in tip top condition. I start the defrag and then go and do something else while Im waiting …

by all means go for AMD athlon. by the way 939 is the socket type not 939 pins. this cpu will kick intels arse alright but it'll also run warm so make sure you've got some good cooling in your machine (4 fans at least) have fun

i had the same fault and my copy as far as i know is legitimate. mine is missing the iso image.:cool:

[QUOTE=dcc]I'm still in the throws of making a decision regarding what board and processor to use...specifically, whether to go with a socket 754, or the 939. The first thing going through your mind when reading this is probably "what are you giong to use it for"? I'm not into games, …

plan for the future definately but bear in mind that 32 bit software will not work on a 64 bit machine. very soon though you'll be able to get hold of 64 bit programs easily. give another 2-3 months and keep your ears and eyes open. start reading pcplus and …

i didnt think that you could actually send an email with a background sound file. Im running microsoft outlook 2003 and i've just looked and there doesnt seem to any facilities for that. it seems that maybe you are actually attatching the file although it might not look like it. …

[QUOTE=vestyk]Hello First timer here, I am having problems installing windows xp professional and was hoping that you guys could help. My problem is that I use a win98 boot disk to start the computer with the windows xp disk in the drive... .[/QUOTE] Get rid of that 98 boot diskette …

hmmmm, now this is only a possibility but it sounds like you havent got enough memory to cope with the amount of files and processes so to compensate for this information is getting shoved onto the hard drive temporarily to allow the RAM to free up a little bit. when …

use microsoft antispyware tool available from microsoft website. its good and its fast.:)

[QUOTE=Studio]Hi i have a HP nx9105 laptop with MS XP Pro installed and all works fine but for the Drive bay, i have noticed that when i try to eject the CD via pushing the button on the side of the drive or clicking in my computer the Drive just …

this is a shot in the dark. are you sure that your drives have actually become uninstalled? it sounds like a conflict somewhere. evidently i take it that you have a sony usb digital camera somewhere. have you tried reinstalling its driver and seeing what happens? could be that these …

[QUOTE=Dantheman]When starting my fujitsu amilo laptop ,windows xp will not run rather an error message pops up saying Isass.exe unable to initalise. The computer then shortly afterwards shuts down. I have tried re booting windows however during the re boot the computer shutsdown roughly at the same time. Please Help![/QUOTE] …

wahey!!! somebody else with an old IBM thinkpad. man i like you, i thought i was the only one that had one that still worked. mine also has a tendancy to misbehave occasionally and i have put mine doen to being just a tad too warm. the advice you have …

there isnt much difference but the 2nd option is better

this is just a quick thread dani to say what a gr8 site this is. i have been provided with plenty of useful hints and tips etc and have managed to diagnose probs just by looking on here and asking for help. keep up the good work gal :) :) …

thanks but im in the uk

you need to bring your screen outta standby mode (orange light ususaaly means standby). in fact it seems to me that maybe you need to bring your whole computer outta standby. put your mobo back in the case and make sure its correctly asembled etc. depending on what colour your …

[QUOTE=henchman]Hello all... I have a problem with my laptop battery not wanting to charge all the time. I have one or two ideas and what to run them by some other folks and get their opinion. Background info: Toshiba Satellite 3005-S304 - (1 GHz machine with XP home installed) I …

[QUOTE=dcc]I recently had a problem with a hitch hicker, after dealing with the main problem I was left with a couple of small problems which I've been able to track down. A friend suggested that I try "System Mechanic 5" to run down the remaining problems, I did, and while …

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it is not possible to have two file systems operating on the same hard disk drive and taking into account that FAT 32 is an older file allocation table why do you really want to switch it anyway. failing that just operate a machine with two individual hard drives and …

[QUOTE=feadubh]A while ago I used to play a game called Halo alot (many months). One day I came home and turned on the PC and was going to play it. When i got into game, alot of stuff were invisable such as: Veichals Players My character But I can see …

[QUOTE=DMR]LOL- Someone still [i]does [/i]know about those the beasties. :cheesy:[/QUOTE] or is still learning about them, as is in my case. Most of what i know about computers is self taught too funnily enough. If ever my PC goes down, cos its still under warranty i take it down to …

Its wrong, wrong wrong. Theft is theft whether it be stealing somebodys software or going into a shop and nicking a few items. by stealing, in effect you are committing a crime and you are permanently depriving that company or person of their property without offering any kind of payment. …

[QUOTE=Capsrb]My LCD screen on my hp zt1000 has just gone black. Im usually pretty good with computers and fixing things with them if something goes wrong but im just not to sure how to handle this one and any suggestions on how to fix it would be great! The only …

hi there. i am using my sisters account to ask for this advice i have a 40Gb samsung hard drive with windows xp professional installed on it. my problem is that i have been experiencing quite a few windows errors and BSODs over the last couple of days. A virus …

[QUOTE=kriskarrera]Hi My old CD-RW drive died last week so I've purchased another and installed it. The problem is that the drive letters have changed. Before my CD-RW drive was (D:) and my DVD ROM drive was (E:). But now they've both shifted one letter forward so they're: CD-RW drive (E:) …

[QUOTE=Thalin]OK guys, this should be the correct place to post this. Recently I have been hearing strange sounds inside my PC. It sounds like a fan, kind of slowing down and almost churning, before sounding like starting up again and the sound goes. It's not a clicking or anything like …

maybe someone could give me a little hand... regarding problems with NA 2005. for some reason upon shutdown the ccapp program does not always shutdown properly. its not that worrying but it niggling me as to why it happens. can any1 shed a little light?

[QUOTE=geoss]While on some health site, a bunch of warnings kept poping in, and I had Nod32 and counterspy installed....i thought everything would be o.k. Anyway, here is the problem....... My opening page has all the icons except the screen is blue and in the middle there is a Security Warning …

does it happen on all ports? have you another machine of which you can test it on? if it only happens on the 1 port then it maybe a surge or fault causing the surge in the port

[QUOTE=nanosani]and what if it works ... most probably you'll have a hardware conflict between the two devices ... see if it works.[/QUOTE] no doubt it will:cool:

i've got a phillips 5.1 surround sound card and logitech speakers on 1 pc. the other 1 i'm going to be putting in a creative audiology zx2 5.1 surround card very soon along with creative speakers. i'd also reccommend a radeon graphics card over nvidea any day. reason being is …

i agree with everybody here. As an experienced auction buyer and seller (although not in pc parts) you do have to be careful and check out the seller thoroughly. if you're not sure whether to buy something dont hesitate to ask questions about the item. I brought some PC parts …

[QUOTE=p2949]hi i got a new mobo and processor, do you need a graphics card? its got an agp slot but i havent put anythink in, there is also no ddr memory, could this make the computer screen say, "no signal detected" there is no flashing of the power light now …

[QUOTE=KillForYou]Hi, Need your help to solve this problem. When i am playing a game i am getting blue screen(need to restart after), and some times screen is freezing. It began after that i reinstalled Windows XP. In systeminformation i got some conflicts. I/O-poort 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI-bus I/O-poort 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access …

[QUOTE=Foxtildawn]I have a laptop that has a cdrw/dvdrom drive that suddenly stopped working. i looked in the device manager and the drive is not even listed to be on the computer. I dont understand this considering it worked a couple days ago. Any ideas on what to do would be …

try reinstalling IE. even though i dont have wifi i had this problem a few months ago and it really got me down. i uninstalled and reinstalled IE and checked all my user account settings (TRY THIS) and it worked and still working today. sometimes, especially during the busier times …

[QUOTE=dcc]I know that slot A processors aren't in production, and I have been told that socket A processors are also out of production, is this true?[/QUOTE] No that is not true so whoever told you that is not up on the technical knowhow of PCs. A socket A processor is …

im not fussed. they all do vrtually the same thing

[QUOTE=Icey]If I were to get a new power supply, how much power do you think it should have? Also if it was the power supply if it didn't have enough power to run the disc, why would it spin up, and if it was over taxing woudn't the computer shut …

hi in both cases it sounds like a fault in either the software you are using or with the motherboard itself. in the case with the AMD problem it sounds more like a conflict between drivers. this often happens

they need to install the full version of office 2003 and make the files actual word or text files. also it helps to save the documents as 'all word formats'

where u trying to dial out to? usually u put a +(country code) then std code ie +44 for england then 1375 for (std code) omitting the zero. should look something like this then +441375 then the persons number ie +441375 100100 remember to omit the zero though. on websites …