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Hi there;

I got a Preserio 2100

I got the following error message when i boot the machine as normal...I backup my files and run hdd self test...Nothing happens after the test...I go to system defaults of bios...again no joy...

How to...

Hello, I have an acer aspire 5520 laptop which has recently began being unable to boot. Upon pressing the power button, the fan comes on and you can hear and feel the vibration from the harddrive spinning up, the power light comes on briefly and...

Having trouble finding my motherboard drivers and info. My motherboard is a ASUSTeK P4G533LA motherboard.

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I want to change the admin BIOS password but I don't remember the actual admin BIOS password on my laptop (HP 6730b business). I have try the following procedure but It's doesn't work for me :
- I have unplug the power cord
- I have...

I had to replace a Mobo for a friend and run a reinstall. As I always do, I have had trouble with the sound drivers. Bought the Mobo off Ebay, so no driver discs.

Motherboard model: 865M08-G-2KS
Make: Acer
PC: XP SP2 (dl'ing the upgrade to...

Hi Experts,

Now that VMWare ESXi is free for alll, I'd like to implement it at home. Naturally I don't want to buy an expensive server (i.e. one that is on the HCL list). So the only other option remaining is to roll it myself with off the...

I have a bunch of remote machines I need to find out how many RAM slots they have and if they are used or not. It's for systems upgrade. So for example if I have a machine with 512RAM (I can find that info remotely via XP System  Information) how...

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I have a motherboard which says MSI on it and the model is 7255 VER 2.1. I am having trouble loaction Drivers for it.

Also, The pc has a MSI NX7300GX Graphics card installed which I am having trouble locating drivers for as well.
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I've recently purchased device:       Siig USB 2.0 Bay Media Card Reader 63-in-1
Link here:http://www.buy.com/prod/siig-usb-2-0-bay-media-card-reader-63-in-1-compactflash-type-i/q/loc/101/208118866.html

My computer is an OptiPlex 740 Dell...

I got a replacement motherboard for my Dell Dimension 2350 computer.  The replacement motherboard, a Bluford E139765, matches the system perfectly except the front panel connector.  I cannot find the manual online for the Bluford motherboard and...

I am installing a new hard drive and need the drivers to the motherboard. I don't know what all info is need for you to tell me where to go but it is a "MS 7309 Ver 1.3" MSI brand motherboard. If you have any questions please just ask.
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I'm trying to find drivers for the TriGem IT865GE, installed in an Advent 3418 for Windows XP x86. I have searched high and low and google has failed me. Please can someone help me locate the drivers I require?

Hi,

I have an HP Proliant ML350 Generation 5 server.

There is an internal health LED blinking red on the front panel. (Item #3 on Page one of the PDF).

When looking at the motherboard, there is:

A Green Light indicating the power...

Looking for XP Drivers for ASUS TEK M2N68-LA Motherboard. This motherboard is in a Compaq Presario 5223WRM Desktop. Desktop came with vista and I took off and added XP Pro SP3. Where could I find the drivers for this motherboard.

Now here's a strange and I believe difficult task
PC Setup:
2GB Kingston RAM @800MHz KVR800D2N5/1G x2
Intel Core2Duo 6600 2.4Ghz
Elite M/B NF650iSLIT-A
Gainward 8800 GTS 512
400GB Samsung HDD SATA
Windows XP Pro SP2
Well I get the...

Hello experts,

I have a system that reports that the processor fan is not working and turns itself off after 5 seconds. I installed a new fan which also would not run when plugged into mainboard. I tried two different places.

I then...

Hello - I have a Sony PCG-252L - All in one, and the display is bad. There's a video toggle switch on the top, near the power button, and when I hit that it turns on for about a second and then turns off. I know the video is onboard, and I'm...

Aspire 5517 laptop.  I need to reset or delete the bios password.  I have done a lot of research on the Internet and I cannot find any jumpers.  How can I reset this password?

I have HP D530 motherbord when I turn on the computer before booting the error message (512 Chassis fan not detected) appears .
I have two fans one for processor and the second for case but the second fan is connected to powersully not to the...

I recently purchased an HP Pavillion a1610n Media Center PC. I immediately upgraded the OS to XP Pro. Well of course I now need to install numerous drivers to te everyhting back in working order... Went to HP Website and did search under item...

I recently wiped and rebuilt this laptop and after going through all the system installations, I still have a audio device that I cannot find a driver for.  It is labeled Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus.  I believe it is an Intel HDMI...

Hello all,

I have just built a new computer using an ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboard, Intel Q6600 CPU, 4GB G.skill RAM, (2) ASUS 7300GT video cards, 3 hard disk drives on a COMBOX driver swapper controller (This allows me to choose which drive to...

Hi experts,

I recently purchased an e-system laptop (intel celeron m430 1.73GHz), the motherboard reads "Hannstar J MV-4". After switching it on one day I found a BIOS password had been set. I've tried the following steps to bypass this and...

Hi Experts - I had the PC turned off for a week - came back and had to replace the motherboard 3v Duracell battery as the system was dead. (second time on a 3-year old Dimension 9200)

On reboot I get:

Floppy diskette seek failure
Alert!...

I seem to have had a fatal powercut before I have had a chance to purchase a UPS for my PE2650.

The following details are courtesy of the DRAC configuration.

System ID      0121h
System Model      PowerEdge 2650      
BIOS Version      A21      

Boot Path...

Hello,

Pleae help me. About Pentium 1 , Pentium 2 , Pentium 3 and Pentium 4.

Can you give me information about slot type , No of pins , cost , address bus , data bus and speed.

I need it with numbers.

Thanks a lot.

I got this laptop 1 year and my MBO was burnt and replaced under guarantee yesterday. But now the last row on the keyboard has all the letters shifted to right.
For example, when you press 'y' key, you get blank, nothing, like the key isn't...

Hello Experts,

I got this Laptop (Compaq Presario F700 AMD 64 Athlon X2) from a young woman who used to be a costumer back when I worked as a PC technician.

She bought the Laptop in the US about a year ago and brought it to Venezuela (so...

I am trying to help a client of mine he has a Sony Viao Laptop VGN-FJ150, He stated that he had a power surge and the laptop died for awhile and now works only with the AC Adaptor pluged in  But now it ask for a password on bios boot up I know...

I have an IBM computer that just installed win xp sp2.
This computer is old so there is no where to find a driver CD or so.
I am missing netword card drivers. Video drivers and some others I don't know.
What can I do to find the drivers I...

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i need a motherboard driver cd for the following configuration...can some one help me out with the download link...

I am not getting any sound from my Dell Inspiro 1100 Laptop. I downloaded the driver from Dell's website for SigmaTel AC'97. The device just displays a question mark under the devices list. I have reloaded Windows SP3. Where can I find a driver...

I am trying to sort out a desktop system whose issue was blue screen spontaneous reboots. On boot, couldn't get into the OS, even in safe mode.

Ran Memory test on the 1GB stick and it failed 5 out of 6 tests. Replaced with two sticks of known...

I upgraded the Gateway GT5404 machine from Vista (OEM) to XP Pro. I was able to find drivers for all components except the SM Bus Controller. (In the Device Manager, it appears with a "!"--so I disabled it.) I have an Intel 945G Viiv motherboard....

i have a brand spanking new dell optiplex 760.

it came pre-installed with everyu thing including drivers. jobs a good 'un :)

but i noticed one when i logged on i got a pop up with a little yellow triangle. and an ok button (a system error...

Support for this motherboard has ended.  This board had been purchased 02/01/2007.  However, with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, it's like breathing new life into a server that still has adequate speed.  Currently I have an Intel Pentium...

I need audio drivers for this motherboard.

Hi,

I just reinstalled my windows and now I cant find drivers. I have Dell dv051 motherboard. I tried to look dell.com but I couldn't find any drivers there. I have no enet cadr, no sound working. Please, give advice.

I cannot get my usb connections working with Virtual PC 2007.

I have tried loading chipset and other drivers and for some reason the usb portion of device manager is not loading up. Microsoft says that usb does work with Virtual PC

I have...

Having gone to the trouble of using the Windows 7 compatibility wizard to check for potential issues, I did a fresh install of Windows 7 on my pc which is based around the A8V-VM SE motherboard. It was only afterwards that I found the motherboard...

Ok I have just built this server with the following:

Intel S5000VSA Motherboard
Intel SC5299DP Chassis

I was having some very noisy fan issues so I ran through all of the steps in this article to fix the problem....

Hi people,

I was working on my  laptop (Acer Aspire 5100) when suddenly the  laptop turned off without any warning messages. When I  attempt to switch on my laptop I receive a message to enter BIOS passsword which is something normal but my...

I have a Dell optiplex 745 it powers up but there is no image on the monitor.
i have checked the monitor with another pc all working fine please help.

I ahve re-installed windows xp onto a pc and have lost the driver disk for the motherboard, i need drivers for the ethernet controller, PCI communication controller, and the video controller. does anyone know where i can get the nesscessary...

Hi,
We have a Lenovo 3000 Desktop J110 7393-3GF. We had a problem with the motherboard so we changed it. In order to make the front panel HD led, Power button and power led works, we had to switch some of the wires of the front panel connector. ...

Rackable system 2U with intel S5000PSL motherboard....can anyone tell me what I need to do to get the sata drives to show up in bios. onboard sata is truned on in bios Raid is turned off... I have even upgraded the Bios.
thank you for any help
 

Hello All;

  I have the [Phoenix BIOS Editor v2.2]
And I am needing to know how to use this program.
Unfortunantly, I do not have anough information about my Motherboard
That is inside my Laptop to get a BIOS Update for it.

What I need...

I reformatted an hp a000 with xp pro.Onboard sound,video. Where can I find motherboard drivers for this motherboard? Thanks.

I am building a new pc (specs below) but  receive the following message following POST;

American Megatrends www.ami.com (LOGO)

This CPU is not supported by the model.  Please check the CPU QVL on Asus website.  To continue, please press F1....

Hi!
After doing some 100 BIOS flashes, CMOS clearings, battery changes, mobo changes etc. I still don't know exactly where the BIOS settings are stored ... OK, in the CMOS ...

But, where the CMOS is actually located, nowadays and earlier, as...

Hello Experts,
I have the following problem and I need help.
I have a computer with Windows Xp Sp3 Installed.
My Motherboard is MSI-7255.
My problem is with sound card It can't recognize the drivers more.
Few days ago I uninstalled  the...

Hello
I'm having difficulty identifying a motherboard on which the only indication seems to be the words "REV A"
It seems to be a Micronics board with an M55Hi CPU(?)
I've found BIOS updates but It's the sound and graphics drivers I really...

Hi All,

I am trying to put together a Pseudo Tower Server to move all my test VMWare ESXi machines onto to free up some production storage. I am trying to pick a motherboard for the system, I have looked through countless WhiteBox sites etc,...

I want to upgrade the CPU in my personal notebook.  My purpose is to upgrade to a CPU that supports hardware virtualization so that I can run Hyper-v under Windows Server 2008.

I have built a few hundred desktop systems and opened up and...

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Is there a way to check to see if a server has a dell drac card installed or not.

I am no were near the server and I have been told that it may have a drac card installed. I dont see anything in device manger.

Any help would be...

The board has 18 memory slots, and I have 8 4GB PC3 sticks. I have two xeon 2.66 x5650 processors. Which ram slots do i need to populate for the best perfomance?
I have attached a graphic from IBM which shows the board layout
The ram has the...

We have a Dell Poweredge 2950, we recently put an E-sata card in this to transfer data off, as soon as we put the card in we started getting this error

" poweredge 2950 E171F PciE fatal Error B0 D6 F0"

the card worked the whole time it was...

Hi all,
I have an Acer Aspire 5600 and have recently re-installed XP Professional, I have installed all drivers that came with the Laptop first day and I have run a driver detector tool to look for upgrades.  Yet the Mass Storage Controller...

We have one HP Proliant ML350 G5 Server running the LATEST firmware as of Oct 29th, and MS Windows 2003 SP2 that locks up and get this neither Microsoft or the Lights Out Board report any problems.  We have replaced the Memory, pulled Processors...

Hello,
I have an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard and I have Windows 2003 64bit loaded onto it, and am using an AMD CPU. I have been able to get every driver installed but for some reason I get an error saying that the drivers for the SM BUS controller...

Moved into a place and we dont know the alarm code.
It went off a few weeks later and we pulled the fuze on the motherboard to shut it up.  

Read some details off the motherborad - Scopetronic Home guard 94v-0ccq a9510    e-pcb 1068 rev 1.0

Hi.

Sorry for dummy question but seems there are bugs in BIOS, so I cannot findout how to activate bootmenu?!?!

By telling "boot-menu" I mean the selector of boot device. For example on gigabyte m/b I can press F12 while computer is...

I have an Optiplex GX 280. Computer was working fine shut it down in the evening and when  I try to boot up and receive this message:

Intel(r) Grantsdale-G PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOS
Build Number: 3329 PC Dev 04/12/2004 17:02:24
DECOMPILATION...

Hello, I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on a Intel DF965GF chipset and I'm unable to find drivers for PCI Serial Port and PCI Simple Communications Controller. I've narrowed the missing drivers down to "Intel: iAMT and Intel: ME" but...

Can we add sound  card for hp server dl380 g7 ? and what they compatible device off it ?

Hi, I need the Windows -->XP<-- drivers for the integrated sound card on this machine. I have looked everywhere, and I have tried the Vista drivers on emachines downloads page, but it's for vista and won't work on XP. Getting desperate. eMachines...

Well the question says it all.

I saw on this post - http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/18734870/18857957.aspx#18857957 that the Dell Precision 490 is upgradable to the X5355.  My 490 was supplied with a single 5130 and a single heatsink.  I...

A user has given me a Tosh' Sat' Pro A210 laptop with a BIOS password.  The user doesn't know what the p/w is or how it came to be activated.  I've tried various obvious passwords without success.
The CMOS battery is soldered to the motherboard...

Hello,

I just installed Windows 2008 R2 on z200 Workstation and PCI serial port driver and PCI simple communications controller driver are missing.

Help me find it please.

Thank you!

I have been fighting a problem with my USB devices suddenly disconecting and reconnecting  for several weeks and it is time to call in the big guns. First my system config:

Mobo: Asus A8N33-SLI Deluxe
RAM: 2GB Corsair matched dual channel...

hey guys, i noticed my cpu views videos really choppy so i check my system devices and notice that there are no vga drivers for the onboard video card.

I looked inside my computer on the motherboard and the specs on the motherboard say
...

I just reformatted and I am looking for S3 ProSavageDDR (86c420) Video Adapter Driver for the motherboard. This VGA device is embeded on the motherboard. The motherboard model is MSI P4MAM-V (MS-6787 v2.0)

I downloaded the software from MSI...

Hi experts,

We have an old PC which was built from parts, now the Ram is about 256 or less I forget, we would like to add some more, I have previously used crucial system scanner on my laptop and it was great for finding the type of memory I...

I am looking for specs for an ASUS SONY P4SD-VX motherboard. Its was made for Sony be Asus and goes inside a PCV2232 desktop computer. I am interested in the socket type and dimensions.

Hi,
When using the DVD that accompanied the ASUS motherboard P5Q-E, to install drivers using the InstAll Drivers Installation Wizard, I suddenly get this error message when the computer reboots:
FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.35w (Build...

Dear Experts,

I have a Dell Poweredge 2900II with on-board ATI ES1000 graphic chip. Unfortunately, this chip only gives me a max. resolution of 1280x1024, but I would like to have higher resolutions, e.g. 1440x900, 1680x1050 or even 1920x1200....

I need to know what each colour of cable stands for, among the many orange-white-black etc combinations coming out from the front of a computer chassis. Particularly I need full details like + or -, signal or ground, which colour stands for RESET...

I have installed Windows XP Home on a Dell Inspiron 531S which shipped with Windows Vista installed.
I went to Dell support website / driver downloads and selected drivers for 531S Windows XP. I cannot get Sound to work and on Device Manager it...

I am a private Computer mechanic and unfortunatly current issue is 2 E3021 desktop machines which unfortunatly have no disks.  Currently have XP on the machines but unable to find drivers for the machines to resume all normal functions such as...

I am working on an Acer Aspire M5640. I believe it has a bad mobo. I would like to replace the motherboard with one from the manufacturer that produced the OEM board. The board inside has Micro Star and N1996 on the circuit board. I believe the...

Well I start the machine and it keeos freezing on BIOS
( It's a Asus Motherboard - Model P5-MX1333)
When I start the machine this what I see on the screen -

Press DEL to run setup -
Press F8 for BBS POPUP
Entering Setup ...
Checking...

Hello Experts,

I've bought a new Acer Aspire 6920 about 2 weeks ago and yesterday when I came home from work it did not want to boot. It had run perfectly at work. It was basically hanging at the loading Vista screen, so I've been trying to...

Hi,  just installed an Intel S5000PSL board in a custom tower chassis.

My question is about he system fan configuration.

On page 2 of the userguide (d36217006_s5000psl_userguide.pdf):
---------------------
Support for
" Two processor...

Hi Experts

A question came up last evening between a couple of friends and I and as none of us knew the answer, I thought I would ask someone who would.

If you have a motherboard that says to use DDR2 533/667 memory sticks can you use a...

Hello,

I have a Acer Aspire L310 motherboard and it is not booting to anything!

But it powers on, the power LED turns on and there apears to be a short 1 beep(more like a tick) at power on and then nothing happens... the fans spin and the...

Hello experts,

I've heard you can reset your cmos/bios by changing some jumpers on your motherboard.
I opened my notebook but I can't find what I'm looking for.

Could someone tell me where those jumpers I need to change are?

I've...

I tried to remotely update the firmware through the iLO. I didn't realize the disk will start auto-install. I got disconnected from iLO and couldn't reconnect. In the data center, the monitor was showing the booting error from the hard drive. I...

Hello, this is the second DELL laptop i receive this event log error on...

The first one eventually slowed itself to a crawl and had a bunch of issues and dell send me a brand new one (newer model too)  its a Dell Studio 1745

Errors are...

Hi,
re:- M2N-E SLI unknown PCI device, cannot identify or find drivers to update using either installation CD or ASUS website.

I've fitted a new motherboard installation with AMD 64 Athlon X2 4000, XP pro with all updates except .NET 3,...

Hi,

My HP PC comes with the ASUS PTGD-LA motherboard: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?&cc=us&docname=c00361570
It doesn't have any PCI-e slots but if you go to the link above and look at the diagram of the motherboard carefully,...

I have just reinstalled XP on to this pc, gone to the Fujitsu download page, downloaded all the drivers but the audio doesnt work.
I get the error "Driver not found! Reboot system and run setup again" but doesnt work when run again.

Contacted...

Hi, i have a Toshiba Tecra M9 and i am struggling to get XP on it. It shipped with Vista but i know that it is supported for XP as i have all the drivers. The only problem i have is that i can't change the BIOS setting for the HDD controller to...

Hello
Just helping af fiend with his pc, his stuck because he good this laptop from his dead grandpar, but don't know the pass to BIOS or to Windows. So first i want to get rid of the BIOS pass, and after that i can get the windows.
have tried...

Hi all, been searching far and wide and cant find a motherboard manual or enough documentation in the HP manual that says what processor this machine can support up to, ive found out all ram info, but CPU all it says is that is supports LG775...

Don't know BIOS Password. Bought laptop used from estate sale. I am locked out because the bios is password protected. Toshiba Sat. A305D Laptop

New Dell  optiplex755 runnging at 100% at boot.  I ran the onboard utility and for the fan and it ruturned an error "test results failed error code 3700:011B
CPU_Fan. the fan speed is incorect"  Called Dell, No Help whatsoever.  they even...

I need to re-install Wndows XP but the installation tells me that it cannot find any hard drives. Hence, I need to load a thrid party drivers for the SATA drive.

The mainboard in this machine is a Prescott 800 Dual Channel but I can't locate...

Hi,
wondered if you can help, I seem to have forgotten my bios password for a Samsung R519, do you know how i can reset it..any help would be appreciated ...

thanks