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I am installing my friends wireless pci card (dlink dwl-g520) into his new pc. the old pc was a 350MHz hp pavilion running windows xp pro. the new pc is a pentium 4 2.8, with 256DDR and asus...
Just bought two used ibm desktops, and when booting up get msg below: Error "167 no processor bios update" on IBM 300PL type 6862 I guess this means the bios needs to be loaded or updated....
Hello, I am setting up a small network and trying to verify throughput levels between machines, but I am seeing some odd behavior.  Specifically, I am seeing slow throughput in one direction b...
Hi,   Is there a way to detect if Spectorsoft has been isntalled on my computer? Thanks.
Dell Dimension 4600 Press power on button, nothing happens. Only thing showing power in the system is small green light on the motherboard. Tested power supply with a computer that does...
Hi eXperts, i am a software developer that is a bit of a noob when it comes to hardware, so sorry if i dont have all the specs covered...currently I am trying to setup Windows SBS 2003 but am ...
We had a lightning storm last night, the computer turned off. We turned it on, the windows xp came on in safe mode and the display is at its lowest setting 800 x 600. Any thoughts re what to d...
We had a power outage recently and our UPS failed to kick-in, as such the power to the server was cut causing a horrible shut down! When the power eventually came back we 'thought' we had g...
Hi my computer keeps randomly rebooting when i'm surfing the web, playing games or whatever. I have: Asus A7n8X Deluxe ATI all in wonder 9800 pro 1gb of corsair pc3200 400mhz (512 x 2) a...
i was given this really cool dell monitor, but the person did not have a power cord. how do I get one or something that will work it is cool but really want to use it. please help :)
When booting the computer turns itself off a few times before giving a message saying the sysytem failed booting at checkpoint [EMem]. If i persist in turning it on and off it will boot up Win...
I have a LCD monitor Acer AL1722. It is connected to two PC : 1) Windows 2000 with a video card with a DVI connection to the monitor 2) Windows XP with an anolog  RGB connection to the...
 I have a motherboard ms-6701 but i cant find nothing about it on msi site. i would like to know what max processor could i put in the motherboard ?
Looking at this Sony Vaio All-in-one. Model PCV-W700G. Anyone have one of these or know how to open it? Do I have to disassemble the whole thing? There must be an easier way....?
I have a dell optiplex gx620. It has a built in vga and I added a dvi card. I want to use dual monitors. Since I installed the dvi card the vga is disabled. Can you enable both at the same tim...
I have a dead DC5100 - On startup the POST fails with THREE BEEPS (repeated). How can I find out what the beeps mean? Thanks SF
I've got a   Type: Digital  (DEC) HiNote VP500 laptop. BIOS: Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0 OS: Corel Linux (version unknown) I need to bypass the BIOS pwassword i don't know how...I`ve tried all...
Hi folks:    I have a USB 250 GB HD that was "initialized and formatted" under Windows XP Pro (SP2). The system is using system commander to allow for dual booting. When I boot to another v...
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 that will not power up when the power switch is pressed. No POST, no PS Fan, no video, no response at all!  The only thing that lights up is the "flea" (as Dell's ...
I'm working on a computer for a customer. It's a Pavilion a1245c with stock hardware. Here's what's happening: 1. The computer randomly powers off - no shutdown, just *poof* and the power i...
Well, This is my last resort.  I built this computer from scratch.  Now I am trying to load windows on it from a cd.  When the computer boots up it says boot from cd? press enter.... when I pr...
On my Dell 9100 Win XP Pro GEForce 6800 video card I downloaded the bios update and gave the okay to reboot to flash it. It hung for over half an hour, iwth intermittent grinding sounds, at wh...
I am working on a Dell Dimension 2300.  I have installed a new cpu fan and shroud.  The fan is spinning.  I have cleared the event log...  Yet I still get an alert: cpu fan not detected when I...
Hello Experts, I am trying to build two PC's based on Asus P5LD2 mainboards. I already have one that I run media center on and it has never caused me problems. The two machines I am buil...
A friend asked me to re-install vista 32-bit (downgrade from 64-bit) to allow him to run a particular piece of software on it. I am having AN ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE trying to find device driver...