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| | Hello, everyone. Today, I'm working on giving myself a headache. The reason is simple. I'm rusty on, or maybe ignorant of, dynamic declaration of arrays. What I'm doing is MFC related, but I've got the MFC questions ironed out for the most part. Now, I've got to make a good … |
| | My daughter has a Sony VAIO desktop with a Pentium 4 and Windows XP SP2. Friday night she used the computer until midnight, then left it on and went to bed. When she woke up she found that the computer had rebooted and was on the logon screen. She logged … |
| | I let my friend borrow my computer for a few months. Bad freaking idea, dont do it. Well when i got it back from my vacation and tried to boot it up it goes pass the dell logo screen and then right after that it says error loading operating system. … |
| | Hello, I just bought a new Pioneer DVR-109 Burner and fully reinstalled my computer. I see the Dvd Burner in the Bios but not in windows (XP Pro SP2) and either in the Device Manager (their is no CDROM or DVD Device section !!!!) And the strange thing is that … |
 | [size=3][font=Times New Roman][b][i][u]Beginner's guide to computing[/u][/i][/b] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]You can have too much of a good thing - have you seen the choice of computers on the shelves? Let us guide you to your perfect PC...[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]The main parts of computer "hardware" (the physical machine) are the … |
| | I need to know if a Serial ATA-150 hard drive works with a Serial ATA II motherboard. |
| | Hi, I'm running win xp on C: 40 Gig.[master] I've installed second formatted hd E: 20Gig[slave].Problem is i can't get into E: to install win98 se. I have a boot disk and installation cd.Could someone please help. thank-you |
| | Like what the title says. I'm pretty new to computers so please not too many technical terms. My computer says it is a Sony Boot CD-RW under Hardware. I got the disk out but the tray won't open. The Activity light is blinking rapidly. The manual eject and clicking eject … |
| | Since recently my DVD Drive is not recognizing any CD's or DVD Disc. The drive shows up in My Computer but when i put a cd in the drive light comes on briefly and then goes off and it does not run the dics. Does anyone know how to fix … |
| | hey i have a maxtor.., its now outta warranty whenever i boot it.. it works fine then after about 5-7 hours it just makes all these noises then like it freezes and freezes my computer is it a problem with the hard drive? what do i do? would formatting it … |
| | I'm getting a new PC in three days and now I think... How would I install the S-ATA HDD without a Floppy Drive/USB Key? I have no idea. Is there a way? |
| | Hi, I am trying to get my home network set up and it is not working. Currently, I am using DSL to connect to my router to my computer which works fine. However, I want my router to be in a storage room and just plug the computer into the … |
| | Unfortuantly I am not to familier with this type of computor or where to find a replacment part. The computor itself is and old IBM that runs a Particle Analyzer from Malvern on DOS. My problem is in the IDE board (i hope) and with that I am having a …  |
| | i have Compaq Presaio 5000, XP Pro, with two CD drivers 'R' and 'RW' only. CD RW drive tray wont open. i have a CD stuck in side. the light in front of tower at rw drive doesnot work, when eject button is pressed. and icon of rw drive is … |
| | hello. i jus installed an ASUS FX5200 series into my computer the other day and i get this weird problem when im playing CS 1.6 (not source). the graphics and my fps is fine but its like my keyboard and mouse suddenly stop responding (ie. i move in 1 direction … |
| | I have 2 Removable Docking Modules, seperate from the main desktop computer. The power source for these is one Iv'e taken from a old Computer tower. [COLOR=Red][b]*[/b][/COLOR]I've linked the two with a 3 way IDE Ribbon Cable [i]Master n Slave[/i] with the main 40pin Female connecter ready for connection to … |
| | Ok, I have all my hardware stuff hooked up to standard ide cables ide-1 has my hardrive to my cd-rom ide - 2 has my cd-rw and my 2nd cd-rom my question is, can i put a 2nd hard drive on SATA 1 or SATA 2 ? and have it … |
| | SCSI (Yamaha 2260t), & Buslogic BA80C30 Multimaster - Jumper settings? - Hey guys & gals, I need to instal this SCSI CD Burner and I have no knowledge of SCSI. What do I do to instal this item. And, finally where can i go to learn about these type of …  |
| | If i low level formatt, is it possible to for someone to retrieve my data on my drive all of it. |
 | I just got two matching 10 gig hard drives for free, I wanted to set up a RAID on my system (just for fun) but I already have a cd burner and two hard drives, and my mobo only supports 4 devices. To solve this, I found an old ata66 … |
| | Ive had these drives for about 2 - 3 years now. THe Cd drive is a sony Cd burner. And the Dvd drive is a panasonic. Both have worked jsut fine until recently but now they only read the first cd i put into them. Any time i insert a … |
| | Hello my hard drive makes a clicking noise when i turn it on.. I have tried to reboot off the cd rom but nothing happens .. Do i need a new hard drive?? tThanks Jt.... |
| | I built my computer a year ago and put it together from scratch for my first time on my own. I have since forgot pretty much everything lol. I jus came across this website looking for a tech help forum so hopefully this is ok. I need to reformat. I … |
| | I have a problem whit my cdrw. It can read the media, and whant to have a cd even if there is one in, what can i do. I got a lg gce 8023b cdrw. i did a lot of stuff , but didn't work i might start from scrach …  |
| | [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I was receiving Blue –screen couple of times and after blue-screen I received nothing anymore my pc was not working I was restarting and restarting up to Windows loading bar across the screen then was restarting it self and if I didn’t switch it off it kept doing … |
| | I am thinking of purchasing a computer with RAID 0 Is there a way to remove the RAID 0 configuration the computer is a Dell Dimension 8400 with 2 250 Gig SATA HDD Any help would be appreciated. ;) |
| | I just got two matching 10 gig hard drives for free, I wanted to set up a RAID on my system (just for fun) but I already have a cd burner and two hard drives. To solve this, I found an old ata66 pci card. I was wondering if my … |
| | I bought a Western Digital 120GB EIDE HardDrive but returned it because it was making too much noise. They shipped me back a 160GB HD at no extra charge...but what they didn't tell me is that it's not IDE or EIDE, it's Serial ATA ....and I dunno how to hook …  |
| | Hi, there. I have 2 extra hard drives and want to use them. But I don't really like to open the tower case in order to connect them. Is there any way that I can buy stuffs like some kind of cords...? So I can plug "it" to the hard … |
 | My brother is attempting to install XP on his new hard drive setup. He is unable to get the XP setup to detect the hard drive array. Both the BIOS and Partition Magic 7.0 (rescue disks) are able to read the hard drive array without problems. The hard drives are …  |
 | This is strange to me, hopefully not strange to you guys: I got my wife's desktop out of storage and brought it up - no connection to the internet. What's more, it's flaky - I've gotten it to talk a couple of times and then lose the connection. I'm running … |
| | My computer is an IBM Ispirati A10i and has an LG CD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4120B. It has so many problems reading disc's, it will usually just have the orange light blinking at a steady pace maybe half a second apart but will most of the time never do anything, I was wondering … |
| | Ref my last thread I haven't recieved any solutions as said I'm using a RICOH MP5240A DVD+RW/+R with Nero 6 reloaded every time I try to burn it goes thru the full process but when it gets to completion it returns with unspecified target error I must be doing something … |
| | i was dual booting linux and windows XP until recently when linux (fedora Core) didnt have any purpose to serve anymore. i deleted linux off of my hard drive, leaving only the XP partition, i now have 39gigs free and cant figure out how to give it to the XP … |
| | Hi there I have a Fujitsu Biblo Lifebook FMV-6500 MF6/X with a c drive capacity of 5.58Gb. I have a problem with my local disk. It is saying that there is NO free space, there is 928kb of space free. I have tried deleting anything not essential but it is … |
| | [COLOR=DarkRed]On my computer I no longer get the "page not found" page, I get this drwebservicehosts page. Can you Please help me, here is my Hijackthis scan[/COLOR] Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:27:11 PM, on 6/27/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) …  |
| | I have a Lite-On Cd Burner and every time i try to burn a cd its gives my the error message "SCSI/IDE Command Aborted" Does anyone know what causes this and how to fix it? |
| | Respected nerds, techs, geeks and dear fellow members I am having presently one hard disk drive seagate of 80 GB... I am about to buy a hard disk tommorow.... In this contect can anyone plz clarify my following doubts... A. I have heard that we can set up two HDD …  |
| | hey guys, if your motherboard doesnt read the hard drive thats plugged into the primary IDE slot, is there any way of retrieving the information that was on the hard drive? maybe with a software program ? much appreciated... PcBoy |
 | [B][COLOR=DarkRed]Long time no post! OK... here is the sitch.. I have a 256 2.0 USB Flash drive. I have been saving teachers things on it and I went to access it, and it says that it needs to be formated. I know that if I do that, I will loose … |
| | hey guys, well recently i have been having problems with my pc. When i turn it on, theres an error msg that appears and says..."BOOT DISK FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". I have asked my friends about this and they say its the hard drive that is totally … |
| | I have a CD-R, and was given a CD-RW, and would like to set them up as slave and master. I know about the jumper on the rear of the units, and the data and power cords, but what do I need to do to coordinate the two? I removed … |
| | I need your urgent hellp to figure out how i can correct these computer errors. I will be informal as much as i can to explain my situation. To start: I have a toshiba satellite 1400-s151 laptop which is 2-3 years old. It never gave me a problem like this...UNTIL … |
| | I installed a CD-RW today and went to the local Staples to purchase some discs, and very shortly there after I found out that I needed an education. Are the blank discs called media? My CD-RW is 52x32x52x, does this mean that I need a specific blank disk? What sort … |
| | Dear members: can you please help me figure out what internal 9.7 mm (can u tell me please how much is that in inches?) should i get for my toshiba 1400-s151? I am looking for that has at least 20 GB, great unique features, and at least 1 and half … |
| | I went to veiw some pictures, but the CD's tray wouldn't open. I went to add/delete hardware to troubleshoot the optical system, and it appeares to be ok. The green LED comes on when I try to access the CD, but that's it. Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional CPU … |
| | I have a very crappy power supply and am worried about having power issues if i put my new hard drive in as a second hard drive. I recently put in a new graphics card that is a power hog compared to my old one (128 mb 9800 pro compared … |
| | Does anyone know how to get the hard drive out of the N3350? and is there an instruction manuel for disassembling the N3350? |
| | Dear all, I have a problem with my hard drive. In my old system I had 2 hard drives. The first one was 120G (with 2 partitions - 30G and 90G) and the system installed in the 30G. The second is a Maxtor 200G. After formatting the system partition (30G) … |
| | my computer keep showing the black screen when it boots up: PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable (i think i got this because i acidently made an external hard drive one volume as active(from storage: disk management snap-in) however it never gave me this screen when i first did that … |
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