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Hello - first post on this nice forum. Actually my second, I've been to the introductory hall. I work with a lot of older PCs, repairing and fixing them up with spare parts so that they can be used by people (our clients) who can't afford the latest Core-Duo. Typically, …

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I got a Toshiba satellite a105-s100 laptop. It has 2 memory cards in it right now. Both 256. I bought 2 2gig cards and put them in. When I start the laptop the power button lights up I hear the hard drive start then three little lights around the keyboard …

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[QUOTE=natalieb;229428]Hi, Hi I have PC with 1.7 Ghz, and Intel 845GVAD2 M/B. I face problems of not detecting hard drive, cd room, and LAN card. Such problems occur daily and I cure them by pluging/unpluging the device and cables. [LIST]I want to confirm wether It is the problem on mother …

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Does anyone have a good overclocking guide (I want to overclock my Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86ghz)?

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Hiya all mobo - [B]Gigabyte GA-8VM800PMD-775-RH[/B] chipset- Intel P4 3.2GHz ram- 2 x ram slots with Transcend 1GB single-sided in each My local dealer upgraded my ram with above-mentioned ram chips. After experiencing startup problems (mouse and keyboard inactive after startup), I went onto the Gigabyte site and drew the …

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I have the following system configuration: [LIST] [*]Ultra aluminus midtower case [*]Ultra X-Pro 600watt APFC psu (80 PLUS certified) [*]Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L Motherboard with F4 BIOS [*]Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 with [B]stock cooler[/B] [*]PNY 2gb ddr2-800 ram [*]120gb hard drive [*]HIS Radeon HD2600PRO Ice-Q 512MB Video Card [*]Single 120mm rear …

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PC is a DELL Dimension E520 When I turn my PC on a yellow light flashes at the start button, the green light does not come on and the PC does not start up. I cleaned everything inside the PC and when I removed the cooling housing & the grey …

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i have intel DG31PR i tried installing vista 64 bit as a second OS but it was so pathetic that i had to delete it and come back to my XP.. but when i tried to access network..it gave me a message that i don't have a eathernet device on …

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My pc boots fine, but there is a black screen that comes after the post screen that says" verifying DMI pool data, with a lot of information above it. It lasts for 5 seconds, then it continues to boot normally. Can anyone tell me what this screen means, and if …

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my system is celeron 2 ghz, 1 GB ram with 4o GB hdd, it has intel 845 chipset motherboard, it is ver slow. I have applied classic theme and also removed wallpaper but still very slow, how to speed it up

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I just got this computer (not from a store) and I noticed that the damn thing wouldn't turn on. so the first thing I thought was that the power supply was shorted I checked for the light on the back of the power supply to kick on when I plugged …

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Hello all, I have a dell CPX/CPI laptop that i built from two laptops that my school's tech dept. gave to me, the CPX had a BIOS password set, so i took it's processor and RAM and put them in the CPI, which was built with a PII processor, and …

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hi everyone, I am having trouble, I need to turn off my motherboard graphics card as it blew up.I bought a pci geforce 8500 card and installed it, but to run the driver disc I have to disable the motherboard card. I cannot alter the bios as the settings are …

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hello everyone,, i hope u can help with this ,, my new pc is like that:cpu celeron(d) 3000mhz ,cash 512kb , mb foxconn 945 ,2gb of ram ,vga geforce 8400 gs 512 mb ,hdd 80 gb,,, the problem is that my pc is not strong that much with games ,so …

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I recently fried my MB and have decided to upgrade to new MB going from AMD to Intel CPU in the process. Can I simply move my old Boot drive to the new system? I realize that I will have to update all the drivers, so I was planning on …

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hI i HAVE AN ibm THINKPAD P2 MODEL 600E. iS IT POSSIBLE TO UPGRADE THE cpu TO A p3 pLEASE HELPME ASAP

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Hey, well its been a while since i've been on this forum but i'm back and a little out of the loop when it comes to the new hardware :S so i was just looking for some suggestions.... What i have right now is: 3gb ocz gold 800mhz memory Nvidia …

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Can anybody tell me if transcend JM800QLU-2G (240 pin, 800 MHz) ram would work with intel S975XBX2 mobo? Atleast mine is not working at all. My pc never shows any display with 2 modules of the same RAM installed. Is there a way out of this. The board is working …

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Hello fellow techies. So here is my dilemma. I am slapping together a new computer, and I need a little help diagnosing why my CPU is overheating. Here are my specs. CPU INTEL|C2D E8500 3.16G 775 45N MEM 2Gx2|CORS TWIN2X4096-6400C5 HD 640G|WD 7K 16M WD6400AAKS WIN XP PRO X64 CASE …

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I have got this motherboard : Intel Desktop Board D860PERL,,,,,,I just tried to change the case for it, now it does not work. I unplug all the cables (CD and HD ,,the FAN does not spin (some time just start to spin and then stops) . I removed the cmos …

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Well currently I have 512 mb of ram instlled in my computer, I just reformatted the whole thing, everything is working fine. Except the RAM where as the computer system information is reading it at only 381 RAM, and on my BIOS I could clearly see its actually 512mb. I'm …

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Hey, Are any of the brands of memory considerably better than any of the others? Should I worry about that, or should I worry more about the actual memory I'm getting. thanks.

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Hello everyone, My name is Daniel Aklipi and this is my first post on this website, and I hope that I'm doing it right. I have a Gateway MT3705 laptop and until recently it was working fine. My 6 year old son somehow set a password on the BIOS. It …

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I have an HP Pavilion a520n machine with 2-256mb ram modules, 184 pin ddr sdram, pc2700 333mhz non-ecc raring. Per hp spec and motherboard spec. It's expandable to 1 gig ram max per HP, although the motherboard allows 2 gig max. There are 2 ram slots on board. I want …

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I have an HP desktop pc , a1640n media center addition with an Intel 1.86ghz dual core cpu . I would like to upgrade my cpu to the fastest one supported by my motherboard . I know that my front side bus will run at 533 mhz , 800 mhz …

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Hi All, I was wondering if anybody has ever had this problem. My desktop can stay turned off for up to 5 weeks at a time. When I go to boot up, I get the "ex...Gateway Logo" but then it sits there for about 10 minutes before it will continue …

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Hello All, Recently I built a new pc, with the following specs: [LIST=1] [*]Ultra Aluminus midtower case [*]ultra xpro 600watt power supply [*]core 2 duo e7200 with stock fan [*]2gb of pny ddr2-800 ram [*]gigabyte P35 motherboard (very stable) [*]HIS Radeon HD2600Pro Graphics Card 512MB DDR2 [/LIST] Ok, now to …

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Hey, I'm a first-time builder, and I just have some questions about what components to get. 1. How many watts do I need for my power supply? I know there are calculators for that online, but I'd rather get a rough estimate from a human. I'm getting an Intel Core …

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Lately, i was just thinking. . . . . . In a server setup, with servers and thin clients, how thin clients run the os or other low level program and then the server does all the main processing for the apps programs etc. . . Would it be possible …

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:( dont know if am posting in the correct thread...hope u guys will help me out.. recently got a pc & installed every thing as per the mobo drivers cd...except for sound card. the audio in device mgr dosent show yellow but on selecting sound/video & game controllers there is …

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