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Hi, I have an unreadable hard disk which can't even be recognized by BIOS. Its a fireball 3 - single head, single platter. I opened it up and found the side where all the data should be wa...
What the hell is going on? I have an LG-GSA-4081A101 which is housed in an external ADS usb 2.0 kit. Until recently I had had no problems, 6 months worth of burning.... Now all of a sudden,...
hi all i want upgrade my bios, because i connect a hdd western digital of 200 Gb capacity, but my bios only know/recognize 136 Gb. here my questions: 1) with upgrade the bios i fix my pr...
Hi there, I am just in the last stages (he says hopefully) of upgrading my system from a ASUS A7V8X-X (Athlon 2400) to a Gigabyte GA-8l915P Duo Pro (P4 3.4). I wonder if I could pose a f...
My customer has a Dell Dimension L___r  running Win98.   The symptom is that we can’t get display properties more than 16 color 640x480.  When I try and reset them I get the message: “At this ...
I just purchased a new 200GB Western Digital / Caviar SE / 7200 / 8MB / ATA-100 / EIDE Hard Drive.  Long story...  Skip to next paragraph for my main question.  At first i thought the thing wa...
Hope you can help. I am trying to upgrade the firware on A Pioneer DVD Rom drive 116/2 (fairly old drive) However when I do I get the message  Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) C...
Approximately one week ago, i booted my pc and heard a intermittant buzz. It also didn't boot correctly but was showing RPL - ROM ADR: RPL - ROM - IRQ :5 RPL - ROM - FFC :5 before finally...
adeck sound causes access violation at address BE66FC55, when using adeck sound manager/vinyl deck causes the above error but why ?
I bought a Maxtor hard drive about 2 years ago. Every once and a while, I hear a loud clicking noise. It never messes up my computer and it doesn't happen often, but I checked Maxtor's website...
I currently have a 400MHz AMD K2 CPU plugged into an ALi M1543C motherboard. I would like to upgrade the CPU, (i wish to use it as a low-traffic server) but am not sure as to exactly what the...
I have new motherboard,new cpu new,40 gig hard drive, a cd drive, floppy,cd burner taken from another machine,i am going to install windows XP if ican figure why this machine keeps turning of ...
Attempting to install XP Pro on an Intel D915GEV mobo with 200GB SATA drives no IDE.     got to the point in the installation where it lists the partitions, XP does see the two SATA drives ...
Hello, My computer just went dead, here's the situation: The power turns on just like normal, all fans are spinning The monitor does not turn on at all, keeps at sleeping state.  (I tried ...
My friend built a computer about 3 months ago and now it's freezing up fairly often.  Even hitting ctrl-alt-del does nothing, you have to hit the reset button to restart.  He tried reformattin...
I have had a look at the back of the PC and it doesn't look like there's a spare monitor slot.  What type of graphics card would I need to purchase and will this work?
I have a dual head video card. Does anyone know of a quad head?
Hi, I'm using a old QDI P51430TX/IIB motherboard with a Seagate 120GB harddrive. My question is how to locate all GBytes? The drive shows up asa 32GB drive, which probably was a limit back in...
All right, I've overreacted and spent a lot of money and not fixed my problem, so I need some help.  I've got an AMD Athlon 1600+ CPU, in a mid-tower case, with an ATI 9700 graphics card (extr...
I am trying to install a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 Graphic Card into a eMachine eTower 633ies - this is the graphic card that was suggested for the computer by pcfactoryoutlet.com - it is unclea...
My computer has recently begun to reboot during startup.  It loads the desktop but restarts as it begins loading startup items.  Before reloading there is a blue screen with an error message b...
My gateway 500S pc won't come on :(. Well, actullay, it WILL come on in the sense that the board gets power and what not. But whenever I push the power button, it glows a bright orange and it ...
Specs: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ MSI Neo4 Platinum / SLI Motherboard MSI RX300SE PCI-e VGA 1GB (512x2) Kingston PC3200 RAM (model verified against compatibility list) Maxtor 160GB SATA HD AOpe...
I currently have two identical pIII 667mhz cpu's, one of which is in the system currently operating with  dummy card in the second slot the other has been tested and is working fine, I just ne...
Hi. I can't get rid of it. ASccording to MS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130179/EN-US/ -     An "unsafe" device driver, memory-resident program, or virus hooked the INT21h or INT13h chain...