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Hello everyone! :) I had to reinstall WinXP about a week ago and everything went fine. The only thing is the CD drive is missing in my C drive and hardware device manager. I copied the following files from win 98 cd but that did not work this time. The …

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I stumbled across your site and noticed a thread where you helped out a non-techie like me and I thought I would register and give it a shot. My daughter asked me to fix her Dell Latitude cpi which she uses for her college work. That was the easy bit …

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Recently I have been unable to play discs on my CD drive. My laptop seems not to be recognising the existence of the drive. After some checking and a peek in the Bios when I logged on Windows recognised an "unknown piece of new hardware". I've let Windows do its …

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Hello eveyone, I have 2 units of Acer Travelmate 3212 that when I plugged in and turn on the NumLock button on numerical pad, it will activate the NumLock function on the embedded keyboard as well. It is so irritating when it is supposed to be convinient for users to …

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I have two full ink cartridges but with both the cartridges I've got the same issue -while printing the printer prints all sentences properly except that the lower 50% of all the sentences isn't printing at all. It can't be a problem of ink shortage since I've got enough ink …

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I'm confused if anyone can help me clear this up i would be extatic I'm trying to hook up a microphone to my pc and before you think it i'm not that dumb haha i'm trying to hook up a profressional style mic not a desktop one meant for the …

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Hi again everyone i have a Lexmark printer X715 that was given to me. I downloaded the driver and everything seems to have installed correctly, but when i try to print it makes the printing sound and you can hear it rolling but paper will not feed or print. :( …

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How do i replace a cd/dvd rom from my Toshiba laptop that am suspecting to be faulty.The pc is a Toshiba satellite 1700-200 model no ps170E-00021-EN

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My cdrw/dvd won't read or play any cd. When I put a cd in, the light blinks like it's trying to read it,but soon stops. I have tried trouble shooting but that says my player is running fine. One day it was working and then now it's not. Any EASY …

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Hi! I have an HL-5140 laser printer and it was working fine and then all of a sudden my computer doesn't recognize that I have a printer. The printer is plugged in and turns on. I called Brother and they attemped to start the spooler but it wouldn't work and …

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I am having trouble getting readable print outs of Mapquest maps from my Brother 2070N laser printer. I am on an XP Professional SP3 computer. The mapquest print outs are so light that they cannot be read. All other print jobs, i. e. from MS Word, photos and other graphics …

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Right i believe this is mainly to do with my Graphics Tablet, a Trust TB-3100. My specs first off, this is a laptop remember, so i cant do anything about the motherboard, processor or PSU: 2.4Ghz AMD Turion 64x2 3Gb RAM 250Gb HDD Vista Home Premium SP1 HP Pavilion DV9800 …

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The Laptop is an HP 1340ea with a built in webcam and Vista. We are trying to use Sightspeed for video chat and although it seems to work fine on my XP laptop we cannot use it on the HP. At laptop startup a Sightspeed window opens with the message …

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I am sharing with you some printer related knowledge, I hope to you that it will be very useful for those person which is unfamiliar to printer. Fast and powerful, the iP4500 prints 4 x 6" photos in 21 seconds, text as fast as 31 ppm, with detail and clarity …

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...of Thermaltake stuff. [url]http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38494[/url] Nice :) :)

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I'm still looking for help or another site recommendation for help on this. I'm trying to copy my dv cassettes to DVD. The cassettes are from a Canon FZ85 (A) Mini DV digital video recorder. I am running Win XP SP3 and have an Adaptec Firewire card running a Sony …

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Does anyone have favorite software to run network cameras? Thanking you in advance for leads.

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HI there, I'm looking for something that combines all 3 technologies, 3G,HSPDA and GPS. So do you familiar with something like that.All i want is a single device or a Item that has all 3 technologies integrated with it. Price is not a matter. Thanks, Ama

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Hey there, [B]Purpose: [/B] I want to design and build a basic system that detects human movement using magnetic sensors. These sensor will be attached to the human body. The problem that i have is that i dont understand how to build this system. I understand that you must have …

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i have a wacom tablet, its about two-three years old. and i just started using it again, on my friends vista lap top. it didnt work with the original installation disc so i went online and downloaded the installation for vista. that worked ok except two things. it came with …

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Hiya folks, I have recently upgraded to a HP Pavilion with Vista. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to reconfigure or shut off some of the extra keyboard buttons. I am always hitting the sleep button on the side by accident.

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I'm having quite a challenge with my computer, it plays sounds perfectly well. Any music, any sounds clips off msn eg: "oh my god". But as soon as i go onto a video call, i cannot hear the other person. Msn shows that there is sound coming from the end. …

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Epson perfection1670 scanner would scan. Unplugged USB and power cord, restart comp, replugged USB and power cord. Now drivers work, scans in every operation except scan to email. Anyone ever have this happen?

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[B]Something is taking control of my Web Camera. Firstly, the web camera works fine. It's when I am not accessing it for awhile after booting up. Letting the notebook stay idle for a shot time, I find that I need to reboot to access it. I have Vista. Any ideas …

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Epson scanner wasn't working today. I unistalled it and reinstalled it. That didn't work so I unplugged power and USB cord to scanner, then restarted computer, then plugged in the power and USB cord again. By doing that the drivers were reinstalled. Now the scanner works again. Images are fine …

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[COLOR=#000000]I have a $6,000 design package which only “prints” its output to a file compatible with the HP PCL3 LaserJet coding language. With my old parallel port PCL3 compatible HP635 printer I can get hard copy by using DOS prompt in Windows 98SE to execute the command “COPY <File-name> LPT1”. …

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I am having trouble with my speakers, I have a 2.1 surround with bass amp but when either listening to iTunes or an online radio & sometimes even when im watching a video clip, the sound on my speakers just goes off for a few seconds then comes back on, …

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Beeps continuously when turned on. Doesn't boot up. Monitor stays blank. Sometimes computer boots up find like now. Sometimes pushing the holding reset button stops the beeping and starts the boot up. Shade Tree

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at first my epson c90 status monitor worked, but after refformating the hard drive and reinstalling a clean XP the status monitor will not load, that is the ink levels are greyed out in the printing preferences window. Can anyone explain this problem for me please? I have uninstalled the …

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Hi there and thanks in advance for your help! Please bear with the long details..im giving them to save u guys time :) I have a Matshita UJ-840D DVD+-RW Drive in my vaio laptop which has stopped reading any burnt or empty DVD-Rs or DVD-RWs...rather it reads them as CDs …

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