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| | Hi All, I have a Toshiba A60. When I press the power button, instead of turning a constant blue and booting up, it flashes blue once and does nothing else. Even with everyting unattached. Have tried another working harddrive. It does the same with ac adapter plugged in or running … |
| | Not dead - but not looking that well... :) This is a strange problem. PC won't POST after being properly shutdown and turned off for about 6 hours. BUT will Restart fine everytime, and will start fine even after being turned Off for about 1 hour (haven't tried times between …  |
| | IS one better than the other? Most computers i'm looking at have ddr2 but the one i am thinking about purchasing has sdram. i'm not to familiar with termonology, but is one faster than the other, or is one better for certain tasks? Thanks in advance for the clarification |
 | Which of these PCs is better (both have: ultra aluminus midtower, ultra xpro 600w, dual 120mm fans) Option 1 (AMD Based): * Asus M2A-VM Motherboard * AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ overclocked to 3ghz with 1mb cache * zerotherm butterfly cpu cooler * 4gb corsair twinx 800mhz ram * 500gb … |
| | My system is not booting. I have replaced RAM and replaced Motherboard and Hard Disk. I have Gigabyte Motherboard with AMD Porcessor and Kingston RAM. Can anyone help PROBLEM is WHERE???????Please HELP |
| | HAI I am new here .i have a computer running win xp, and i tried to install linux on my pc.(intel dualcore) on startup an error message will apper ,pxe61 media test failure. pls help??????????????? |
| | HEY GUYS, i'm new to the computer scene and i just recently finished building my PC. SPECS: motherboard= ASUS P5KPL-CM CPU= Intel Pentium DUAL CORE E2180 GRAPHICS CARD= NViDIA 7200GS 1GB RAM 800mhz DDR2 HYNIX Anyways my motherboard has an overclock feature were you can use 5%/10%/15%/20% etc overclock profiles. … |
| | pls everybody listen to me. i am a computer hardware technician with a two year experience.Now i wish to know the chiplevel servicing of motherboard myself.Anybody can help me?, to identify each and every components and its measurements on the motherboard,voltage tracing etc. Any where i get a suitable materials …  |
 | Hello! I need some help with choosing between these products AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ My choice would be 6000+ but I wanted to ask if it really is the best. Thanks. |
| | [B]Im in class with now (PC Technology) and we're trying to figure out what they're made of... anyone know?[/B] |
| | So, I'm posting this in a couple different areas on this site, as I'm really not entirely sure where it falls, but mobos seems right for me. I picked up an old custom piece from my buddy, just to fool around with it and make it my 'frankenstein' if you … |
| | I just bought a motherboard(used) for my 5150 Inspiron. It was apparently from a 1100 series unit. It will not boot with the CPU (3.86GHz IntelP4) from the 5150 nor will allow me to use the Video card from the 5150. Is there some way to flash the BIOS so … |
| | Recently noticed strange blinking of power LED on my desktop system, following a virus attack. I managed to clean everything up (or so I think) and upgraded my protection apps to prevent reinfection, but this blinking LED seems really curious. It first began immediately after I had changed my power … |
| | Hello, I am a new member here and probably going to be a regular by the looks of things! Currently I am trying to upgrade my mothers PC and install more RAM. I think I have figured out what RAM to use.. after taking out the RAM stick and reading … |
| | OK noob question here. The last PC I built was a P4 and you know the 4 prong power connector that you plug into the motherboard that is close to the CPU, right? Well, my new board has an EIGHT prong female connector. Why is it now an eight prong? … |
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| | the power receptor in my laptop is starting to play dirty. it use to be straight in and out but now to get any thing out of it I have to wiggle around. I can't seam to get the case off around the receptor. I have tride everything short of … |
| | As the threat title goes, my PSU just died today with a glorious pop and spark of electricity. Before I go further, I'll detail the specs and some history: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard PSU (while it was still alive): PP500 500W 1 GB RAM nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX (Later upgraded to … |
| | Pretty soon i'm going for water cooling, i'll have a budget of $230 USD, which will have to suffice, i was wondering what would be good for the money. |
| | I just got the digital doc 5 and the fan connectors are i think a 3 pin and all of my fans have the big 4 pin style connecter what adapter do i need to buy. I have looked buy can not find one i am sure will works. Thanks … |
| | i am having difficulties understanding about the memory areas..things like the conventional memory and upper extended memory (UMA)..i would loke somebody to clarrify on the one and alos to let me know more about the memories that are used for MS-Dos based application and those for windows based applications.. thank … |
| | Good morning to all: Wonder if you can help me, I read various threats, still confused and runing out of ideas, and patience, and $$$. Here is the problem: A couple weeks ago my pc shut itself off, the only way to restart it was to reset (reset power supply) … |
| | well my pc is pentium 3 ...now it is slow ..i wana to upgrade it and make it p4..which things i must change for it..i hav ram of 512 ..and mother board of intel and etc |
| | Hi All, First I'll give you the specs. Its a brand new computer I am building with all brand new parts. AV3A XFX 650i SL Ultra OCZ 1 GB Dual Channel DDR2, 2x1024mb, PC6400, 800mhz PD925, 3.0Ghz, 4MB cache, 800FBS, Dual Core Socket 775 WD 320 Serial Hard Drive Sanyo … |
 | I am building a htpc and using a ecs elitegroup nforce 6100 mobo and I think it might have died. The fans spin, the ide drive and the hard drive spin and so does the fan on my graphics card. However it wont light up the network lights when I … |
| | I recently bought another video card hoping to squeeze a couple more years our of PC gaming but have since had a major system malfunctions. My current situation is that the computer does not seem to post (nothing on the monitor). I checked the video card and also the previous … |
| | i have a Dell Computer Corp. 0F5949 A01 motherboard with 512mb of ram. i want to upgrade that but being a teenager my funds are quite limited. i dont know if the mhz have to be the same but mine has 400 and i have no clue if it has … |
 | Hello, I just bought a 'new' CPU for my older computer, and was wondering what king of cooling does it need. Its a Tualatin Celeron 1.3GHz, but does not include any heatsink or fan. I have my old heatsink from my old PIII (coppermine) 800MHz CPU, would that be enough? |
| | This is probably a stupid question, but can the MSI K7T266 Pro2 use regular PC133 memory? |
| | I picked up one of these things at new egg for around 70 bucks running it with a celeron 1.8 gig and i am quite impressed with it so far. MSI always throws you a bunch of extra stuff in the box |
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