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I have a Gateway Laptop, anytime i let the battery die, it wont turn on when i plug it in, no charging light, no power light... until i heat up the underneath of my laptop with a hair drier, then it starts to charge.. any sollutions so i dont have …

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Hey All, I understand this is a rather vague question but would anyone know a decent strategy for debugging this motherboard when it does not appear to boot up? The attached monitor does not display anything and I can not check POST since I do not have the small speaker …

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Hello, I have a Abit-AN-M2HD mother board, with a Athlon 64x2 processor, I have the exact same motherboard up and running that I am using now.. I installed cpu fan, power supply is working fine, have reset cmos through pin and battery, have back fan and front fan both running …

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so I had quite a few word docs open. (about 10) and a lot of folders open and google chrome, task manager ect. and when I opened one more word doc the screen went black for about 5 seconds. it went back to normal then closed everything and shut it …

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my second article regarding my mac and windows. these problems only started when I got windows 10. my mac was insleep mode and was charging and...well...I was sleeping... I got up cuz I heard a loud humming noise and realized it was my computer. it was really hot. I carefully …

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I suddenly have no video display, monitor is fine, changed video card didn't work, new motherboard( bought same board) didn't work and different hard drive and Ram and still no display. When I turn computer on no beeps and all fans work, power supply lignt is on (grn) but no …

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my mac(2011) 13 inch running windows 10 has a weird fan. it turns on when in regular use like browsing online or word processing, having multiple windows kicks the fan on in a long but almost silent hum. at random times it is high pitched and very loud. is there …

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Repairing the particular hardware is not seen much I expect inspite of repacing it so ,I had came up with a simple idea of assuming with the damaged motherboard caused by electric circuit ... Hope every one deal with it ?

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A couple days ago, my notebook keyboard suddenly stopped responding to ANY input at all. Tried pressing every key and combination I could see, but no reaction. The mouse was working and the PC showed no other strange behaviour. I pressed the power button to put it to sleep, and …

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Yesterday, my laptop cannot be opened. When I start it, ithis is what it shows: "Press any key to boot". What seems to be the problem? What part of my laptop? Is it the hard drive? Thank you for the answers. I badly need it, our project is in the …

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hi i hope someone will be readin this and resolve my problem. i own a toshiba satellite c650 laptop. its front cover and hinges were broken so i plucked up some courage to repair it myself. i got the required parts and watched some youtube video tutorial to disassemblt the …

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I have a Sony Vaio SVE1511C5E which turns on and off, an endless loop. I tried everything to find out the reason. Finally I got the BIOS IC out, put it into a reader and tried to update the BIOS, however, there is no .bin file to programm the IC …

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my MacBook pro is old, 2011. it has 8gb ram 2.4ghz cpu and intel hd 3000. on the osx side it says 512mb of vram and on windows 10 i type dxdiag in command line it says i have 1.6gb. will i be able to run minecraft on the windows …

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I am searching for a wireless adapter to install in my PC as I will be moving it soon and a wired connection is not possible. I am looking at an expansion card I can insert in motherboard as I don't want a USB one. The adapter i'm looking at …

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My brothers laptop recently died, I believe due to a failed hard drive because when you turned it on you couldn't get out of the BIOS. I unscrewed the laptop's bottom from it's keyboard and replaced the hard drive but now it won't even turn on at all, I can't …

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Hello, I am doing an older system rebuild. I was in the process of installing Win 7, and everything seemed to be working just fine. It restarted on it's own, and now it won't go past the initial bios splash screen, or load into bios. I've tried resetting the CMOS, …

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Hello Daniweb Community, I've finally gotten around to doing it but can someone for the love of god please help me and give me help with fixing my slow ass laptop. I have only recently purchased it, as soon as I set it up I installed Windows 10 (coming from …

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Hello! I recently aquired a small form factor emachines system and transplanted the motherboard to a somewhat custom case to use it as a htpc. I installed a phenon x4 9550 in it and removed the shitty small original cooler and proprietary backplate and mounted a lga775 cooler to cool …

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Hi guys, Vin here. I just like to ask if it is possible to dual boot two different operating system with different architecture(64 bit/32 bit)? My current os is windows 7 hp 64bit and I would like to dual boot it with windows xp 32 bit.... Here's my computer specs: …

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I need some help in deciding which mobo/cpu to choose. My requirements are: 1) Preferable Intel CPU (4 cores) which should be able to address 64GB RAM. 2) 64 GB RAM onboard (4 slots -> 16 GB DIMM ?) 3) Support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 (and maybe 3.1 …

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hello i recently build a new pc connecting all the parts and the cables when i turn it on the screen start freezing and only solutions was to either press the reset or the power on/off button, so i went into some research about it and couple of posts in …

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Dell XPS410 Vista Home Premium SP2 I am having multiple problems with my computer. One is a racing CPU fan. Before I can tackle that, I need to know how to get the computer out of power saving mode. The instructions say to strike any keyboard key or move mouse. …

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I just bought the ASUS X99-PRO / USB 3.1 motherboard. I put it into a Corsair 800D case, that has 7 fans. I need to split the fan connectors to handle 2 fans each, and the top 3 fans all together from 1 fan connector. How much power in watts …

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Hi. In August I built a PC using a second hand Biostar TA990FXE "Extreme Edition" motherboard and AMD FX-6100 six core CPU @3.3 GHz at the core of it. I recently installed the Oracle Virtualbox VM on Windows 10 and tried running a couple of Linux and BSD OS instances, …

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Hi, Recently I started to encounter a new issue with my 3 year old PC. It sometimes turns off randomly, then turns back on after a few seconds. It can happen anytime, even when OS has not booted yet. Sometimes it turns off and on repeatedly, like struggling to keep …

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I have facing a problem of my Laptop which is HP Pavilion g6. My laptop is going to very hot staring time to after 30 munites. Somebody help me.

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My cpu doesnt work too, when i press the on button it flashes blue light and a click noise and stops and it blinks again with the noise even I'm not pressing it. Tried everything but doesn't work. Please i need help! Med student here... Ive already tried: 1. Blower …

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So I developed an application for an arduino uno that uses an IteadStudio Joystick Shield with 7 buttons and a joystick with an x/y movement tracker. The 7 buttons are connected to pins 3 through 9, and the joystick is connected to analog inputs 0 and 1, with 0 being …

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**MPT BIOS fault** Hi I Cannot boot my Dell 690. The message I get is: "Unable to load LSI Logic Corp MPT BIOS MPT BIOS fault 03h encountered at adapter PCI (05h, 0Bh, 00h). No boot device available. Stike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility. I get a …

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Hallo, My Personal Computer Motherboards is not supported any USB, what can i do? please ans me.

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So I have a problem, any help would be great. I have a new computer, like 2 weeks old. I have turned off sleep mode so I only have the shut down button and the restart one. When I shut it down, no problem, turn on no problem, its very …

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Im trying to figure this out. Pls help give more direction. I have a voltage detector and a micro detector. Once abou 6 mo ago, I was out during a rain storm to return and have difficulty turning it on. Since then PC would work fine, but once in a …

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Yesterday, as I was working on my computer, it died. Just as though someone had unplugged it. I knew I had a short, so I tried a new power supply cable. When I got the new one in, I hit the power button and the power supply unit popped and …

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Hi Guys I ran into a bit of a problem with some code I am writing. I am trying to store all possible combinations of a set of numbers which are current being stored in List. Problem is my code run into an out of memory exception, heres my code: …

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hi my desktop was working fine last night and this morning it wont power up a blue light is flashing on the power button so l open it up the mini fans are turning but the cpu fan is not turning its a golden orb 2 its if it wants …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]18455[/ATTACH]Today we look at an often forgotten and overlooked component of the PC ecosystem, the Uninterruptable Power System (UPS). In general UPS’s do not tend to get a lot of attention, they are not sexy gadgets, have limited activity and much like insurance. No one really cares about it until …

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I'm planning to set up my own private virtualization server at home with the following hardware setup: Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS, Socket-2011-3 CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K, Socket-LGA2011-3 Memory: Max 128 GB DDR4 RAM (starting with 32 or 64 GB RAM) PSU: Cooler Master G550M, 550W PSU Server box: Cooler …

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I'm looking at some towers on newegg and I'm trying to pick one out. I'm open to a full tower but I'd like to know if I can get away with a smaller case, mainly because of the price. I'd like to build a media server so the first priority …

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My Toshiba L770 Satellite Laptop does not power up, no LEDs lit when power adapter is plugged in. Power adapter producing 19.4 volts. Opened up laptop and got 19.4 volts at end of power connector harness when not connected to motherboard and approx 0.5 volts at connector pins on motherboard …

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I have i5-2430M on an acer aspire 4750z laptop, then last year I upgrade the ram with DDR3-1600 CAS 11, now I am confused because in the ark.intel.com it was stated that memory type should be DDR3 1066/1333. Now my question is why the ram still supported by the cpu(core …

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Can any power supply be modified to handle a (2x4 12v) motherboard connection?

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Hello I want to test a power supply unit provided to me (not new, along with its power cord), but currently do not have a PC available to do so. How can I test whether the PSU is working OK before actually connecting it to the PC? Cheers

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Hi Guys, I am having a hard time with my PC. 2 days from now, i started to open it and while running a blue screen always appear. You can see it on my attachment. Does anyone knows how to fix it? or someone tell me what to do?? Thanks

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I am using a corsair H60 liquid cooler. Am I going to get better cooling results by putting the radiator on the top of the case and sucking room temp air in through the radiator and then pushing it out back with another fan(plus a front fan intake also). Or …

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hi my laptop keeps shutting down automatically. its not necessarily a heating issue because its generally lukewarm when it shuts down on its own. what happens is that I run a few programs at the same time and hear this growling revviing of my cpu fan and it shuts down …

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i have a old computer here prcessor fan is not running well. after 12/15 mins it's droped

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I moved my little Gateway LT2016u on the kitchen counter one night and it crashed the system when the battery came undone. I put the battery back on and restarted it, but had to move it once again and the same thing happened. Now it shows that a dll file …

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How can i know the maximum RAM support capacity of my motherboard? Is there any way to identify it from 'cmd'

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