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*Security Camera PCI Express Card* Any one know where i can find a Security Camera PCI Card with 4 Inputs and Audio Input as well that has network capability so i can view it from a IOS or Android App?
Hi, could someone give me just a brief, short bullet points summary of the overall COMPUTER EVOLUTION, in regards to these aspects: - architecture - organization - software - hardware No need for it to be long paragraphs, just give me about 5-10 bullet points of facts each for those …
My Compaq 2500 (2538CL) laptop will not boot. The first error message that appears says a hard drive failure is imminent, press F1 to continue. I press F1 and then a message appears saying media test failure, then operating system not found. I have tried wiping the hard drive using …
hy guys please help me .. i have 16gb micro sdcard in my indriod cell phone. when i am formatting the card it shows an error "sd card read only cannot format " . what should i do to uncheck readonly property.
Hi, My eMachines (T3406) was working fine. Moved to another house and now monitor light flashes but no image. Computer hard drive making a lot of noise like it is booting but not finishing. It's an old style monitor. (Only use this for word processing etc, have tablet for internet)
I just found this website thankfully. My problem is this...when I try to power on the computer (desktop CPU), it acts like there isn't enough power to power up. Just like when a car battery is about dead. The lights in the front barely come on in the front. I …
Dear All, I am new to Daniweb community. I am a business man in India and not a technical person anyhow. I want to create a SMS Gateway to send bulk SMS. For this I need to have all the technical know how about the same. I also want to …
Hello. I have a MB Asus P5B-VM, with 4 memory slots (dual channels). I already have a 2GB DDR2-800 RAM installed, and recently got 2 more RAMs, one a 2GB DDR2-800 same as my old one, and a 1GB DDR2-800. Can I install these 2 along side my old RAM? …
Hi, I'm new to the forum, and I have a Dell Inspiron 14 laptop with a touchpad problem. When I use the touchpad, it would highlight everything and click all the buttons when I move the cursor over something. It's like I'm pressing the left button selecting constantly, while obviously …
After I switched the power off from the back of PC to force shutdown the PC due to it freeze, the PC could not bootup again. When I powered it on, the fans runnng, all of the lits on, the CD lit on, the CPU heats up, and Hard Drive …
I have the following: Processor: AMD A10-5800K APU with AMD Radeon HD 7660D http://shop.amd.com/us/All/Detail/Processor/AD580KWOHJBOX Mainboard: Asus A55BM-Plus http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/A55BMPLUSCSM/ Video Card: Nvidia Geforce Galaxy GT610 GC 2GB DDR3 64bit http://www.galaxytech.com/__EN_GB__/Product2/ProductDetail?proID=30 I have not added the video card to the desktop since this processor has discrete GPU technology built in and the …
i mistakenly formatted my hard drive partition and for that matter lost all of my very important data. could there be any way i can recover these data from the formatted hard drive. please help.thank u
I have tested a PSU with a multimeter while at idle and got these very odd results: 3.3v = 3.31v 5v = 5.56v 12v = 12.83v -12v = **3.27v** -5v = **3.4v** +5v = 5.02v The -12v and -5v are way out but the PC in question is running without …
Hallo, I am still trying to understand what Amazon Web Service means? I have cek it's website and I still wonder whether the software is purchasable and I can deploy it in our own server. Thanks before.
The FX 8350 is showed as bieng clocked at 3.31ghz in the preferances under my computer. Why is this? Also CCC is really simple looking... How do I sort this? http://gyazo.com/333ca28c5ddc0977312c91610c52cbd8
I've been given a six-pages report to make, and the task is: **Imagine you're a computer engineer who is working on data processing, software development of gaming and user’s application, which requires computer with high-end processing power. Which processors (i7 OR FX-8350) is going to be of your choice for …
I am developing a project that involves creating a product composed of hardware and software that enables interaction with various features. I'm still in the testing phase , however , is sent to the brain of this product is a mini computer ODROID U3 , running Xubunto 13.10. In addition …
hello im jeffreymrblls, I am trying to connect my laptop to my flat TV by HDMI, before when i connect my HDMI cable to my TV it workeds there no problem. But now I'm having some problems:: When I connect the HDMI cable of my flat tv to my laptop,. …
How do the Xeon E5-2650 compare to the other i7 processors, are they worth the investment ? I read there multiplier locked
I got some "funny" jokers at home, that set password on my PC as a "joke", but "funny" jokers, forgot to write password. Now I'm stuck with HDD with password on it, without any real important data. This is HDD, whose password cannot be bypassed. I decided to erase all …
Hello all, I have a problem with my external hard disk. It is a 1TB Buffalo ministation USB 3.0 Harddisk. It is being detected by the devices manager (as HDPCTU3), but it is not shown in the windows explorer and I am unable to acces any data stored in the …
Hi friends, Im newbie here and I dont know if this thread suppose to be in this cat sorry for that...so here is my problem, my laptop was broke last week and wont boot anymore. Now, the only thing that I could recover files is by extracting my hard disk …
Dear Sir/Madam, I bought nVidia PCI EXPRESS graphic card (Gforce 6600 extreme edition 256MB DDR2) in 2006. I have its old driver CD, but it is not compatible with windows 7 64bit. Please provide me the updated driver. Regards Rizwan Ahmed
I recently had my toshiba satellite suddenly shut down, without a battery warning or anything. It would not start up again, even after removing the battery, removing ram and hard disk and more. When I plug in the power cord, it doesn't even show the charging light on the front. …
The Dell flat screen monitor (15" E151FPb) on my daughter's computer goes white and shutting down the system for a while is the only thing that brings it back up - until it decides to do it again. I hooked it up to my desktop syatem with the same results. …
For a power workstation, which is better (I'm thinking of doing a RAID 5 configuration). 15K RPM serial-attached SCSI drives, or SATA solid state drives?
I have a lenovo g400 laptop and i want some upgrades. I have intel i3 processor .my question is, can i update this to intel i5 or i7 ? .i have 2gb ram and i want to upgrade to 4gb+2gb? .is this okay ? :)
Alright, so basically I have my Steelseries Siberia plugged into my ASUS G55. It works completely fine and all, except for one thing. Whenever it hasn't played a sound in a while, and I play a sound, it doubles the sound; Sound both coming out from the headset, and the …
Hi Folks – I am trying to identify a good desktop primarily for use doing statistical computing with the R language. Not sure if I should be posting here or in custom builds or somewhere else. I have some very large files (Census & BLS stuff, mainly – as much …
Hi ther ive got a compaq pc n when I turn the computer on the monitor cums on all black with the words vdu no signal monitor goin to sleep thats all it does can u help m find out what the problem is
Hello, I wonder, is it safe to use and run a standard computer (let's say Pentium 4 CPU 2 GB RAM) for 24 hours a day and 7 days a week in an AC room? I am just supposing that if I own my own web hosting company. Also, do …
I recently created a computer from spare parts that I found in my garage, cleaned them out, and through out the damged ones that would not work. So, once I was complete, I started the computer, I heard about 5 beeps, and then nothing, the fan was on, I could …
I have been turning my USB thumb drives into fully encrypted data containers for years now, but readily admit that the prospect of rolling up your sleeves and getting down and dirty with encryption software is not as exciting to everyone as it is to me. However, with removable USB …
ive just got a new coputer and when i plugged it in it blew up- i mean went pop and blew smoke...and now it is dead- wont turn on. Now ive noticed that the voltage switch was on 115v instead of 230v. This means that the computer has been majorly …
When I switch on my computer it gives a Long beeping sound and there is no display in the moniter. What will be the problem. Can anyone pls reply..?
Hi, so my problem is that my laptop was working fine a couple days ago then yesterday the fan started getting louder then it turned off I thought it was overheated over 24 hrs later and still nothing there are no lights when the charger is in except for a …
Hi all, While I'm not super knowledgable I have been building my own for years with no issues, so here goes: PC was running (It is almost never shut off) I noticed a wierd, intermittent buzzing noise that I managed to trace to the PC. All the fans were running …
I'm doing an application in which I have to show a sequence of pictures: The sequence is the follow: A red X has to be shown for more or less 400 milliseconds; An image called "Screenshot" has to be shown for more or less 500 milliseconds; An image called "Noise" …
A few months ago my rabbit chewed the wire. I bought a plug and play usb keyboard and it didn't work. Thinking it was a malfunction of the keyboard I exchanged it for another. None of them work. I'm using windows xp. The wizard is no help for it states …
Computer has 10 to 20 minutes delay prior to booting. Computer Specifications: Self-built machine, (Name: DM-8) Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 Deluxe, latest BIOS (4210), has UEFI. Core: Intel i7-3930K Memory: 32 GB OS: Windows 8, 64-bit OS & all applications installed on RAID 1 set of 2 solid state drives (Crucial …
I have a Toshiba Satellite a75 S209 that does not power on. When I plug in my power adapter all I get is the green led on the front of the laptop for power blinking non stop, no sequence just fast blips for ever. The led on power supply stays …
Hello ! First of all , Greets :) My problem is : I have 2computers Name " AMD / Intel The amd computer is problem I reseted Bios setting by botton i eman i have botton to reset bios setting in my motherboard and i changed cmos bettry i cleaned …
hey guys really need some help here...have a HP Compaq Presario v3000 Win/XP Home...problem with the dvdrom..doesnt show up on "my computer"...insert a disk and it sounds ready spining,liights and all...but then ....nothing....please help....Thanks in advance.....
After a reformat of a Dell Dimension 2400, the resolution of the machine will not go above 480X640. I can not get any sound to play. In device manager, I get the big Yellow Question Mark of Death for all of the "Other Devices," including my ethernet controller, multimedia controller, …
I am very confused. Built my PC and everything. Drivers are up to date and so is Windows. Interesting thing is, that sometimes when I boot up the PC, it will jump straight into the BIOS and not go from the BIOS to the OS... I have no idea why …
Okay computer will turn on, no post, but HD and lights come on without power to the CPU plug in. When I put the plug back in for the CPU power (4or6prong dont remember) on the MB it wont start at all. Hope that makes sense. I am thinking bad …
I've recently installed a new CPU (Core2Quad Intel) and my computer no longer stays on for more than a minute. All bios are updated and the computer runs fine on my old CPU (pentium d duo). The new CPU is cool to the touch after a shutdown, so heat is …
I have a simple question. I set up my printer to my laptop wirelessly do I disconnect the usb cable now? When I turn my printer on it will automatically be connected to my computer right?
okay guys, well i have read every above post from previous threads relating to this topic as my daughters Compaq laptop was working 3 nights ago and when she went to reboot it the following morning it gave the black screen.. she could just barely see some writing on screen …
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