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Hello, My brother has a Dell Dimension 4550. It needs a battery. Do you know the size? I always thought most computers have same size battery on montherboard. Am I right? I know I can o...
Hi All, I need a portable and powerful server for running virtual servers for my professional work. From my current research I believe a Micro-ATX case will be best with a handle, something...
Have an MPC Transport2300 laptop, not sure what kind of hard drive connection it is using, looks like it will be an IDE to whatever this input is.  Any ideas on what type of connection it is? ...
i have built a system for a church sound booth. system is built in an antec sonata III quiet case, and (as i have seen in the past, is well grounded). the vista install (this is my third ti...
System: Abit I-95 motherboard w VIA chipset & PCI-E x16 2048 Mb DDR2 533 Pentium D 940 @ 3.20 ghz 180 gb Maxtor IDE HD 250gb WD SATA HD Lite On DVD 20x CoolMaster Extreme Power 550w PSU...
I 'inherited' a PC from another family member that has the disk drive partitioned to a C and a D drive.  It currently has windows 2000 as the operating system.  There is nothing on the compu...
i have an old pentium 4 system running win xp. when i turn it on, it stays on for about 5 seconds, then it turns off. like i pulled the plug. any advice is appreciated.
Hi guys, Need advice on a gaming rig configuration . I am  in UK and here is what I have been offered for £1200, but they say thay can customize it anyway I want to.. They also say prices w...
I had some fans that were failing and decided to put some new ones in. Unfortunately I think in doing that I caused some issues. First problem was a pattern on my monitor but nothing but weird...
The battery light fl;ashes orange continually, whether connected to the mains or not. This is meant to indicate low battery. The battery is 100% or close at the time. Any ideas? Many thanks.
Did I fry the MOBO or corrupt BIOS? I installed a new HDD in my Dell Dimension 9100.  I tried to enter BIOS to enable it - tapping F1,F2,ESC,DEL,F12, etc.  The Dell logo never appeared before ...
no beeps or video at POST with ASUS mterhboard
I am considering putting together a dual processor 64-bit Windows computer. Are there any drawbacks to a 64-bit computer other than drivers for the hardware? Will all of the 32-bit software ru...
I just received some memory modules wrapped in aluminum foil (eBay).  That's perhaps not as alarming as if they had been wrapped in standard bubblewrap (as was a processor I got a few weeks ba...
Does anyone know of a program that will list all of the hardware ID's on a machine, or factory documentation that will list these? we mostly use Dell and HP business line. i am trying to conso...
Bought new computer with the intention of transferring old (BIG!)  hard drive into the new machine. I've done this many times before without a hitch. However, the new PC came with 80Gig SATA d...
ok, so I have an Asus A1N64-SLI motherboard, and it has a RAID 0 for the primary boot device. for some reason I can NOT boot to the raid after I removed 2 other IDE HDD's from the machine. You...
I installed 2 x 2GB modules of RAM in my computer. When I looked under systems to see what it showed, I saw 3.25GB.  When I install them individually, they each show 2GB. I have Win XP Pro. So...
Hi guys: I have P III board GFXCEL PC133 computer. Original speed is 533 MHZ but some times when i reset the computer it shows 800 E MHz and the computer is stuck. I dont know why it doing tha...
I have a LG 48X MAX CD ROM. I am not able to eject the tray from the CDROM as it is jammed. On getting it serviced from a local guy, it was found that the rubber-band inside the CDROM ha...
My GX280 hangs during booting sometimes. It is hanging duering the bios system check, and does not provide any info as to why. Any ideas or any way to check the bios?
Where can I obtain a free top-rated or inexpensive  motherboard test download?
We are having an issue with a new Lenovo Thinkcentre PC where in the device manager it is listing an Unknown device.  The Device ID is USB\root_hub20\ so I assume that it is the root hub for t...
Hi there, I'm having a bit of trouble with my home built server running Microsoft Windows 2003, with VMWare with a few linux images on it. About a month ago it did this, but it happened ...
Hi i have a custom built PC which is now runnig at Failsafe defaults in the BIOS in order to eradicate an issue whereby my system just powers itself off randomly whilst im working. I don't kno...