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Hey all, This is a bit of a theoretical question. If my PSU puts out x amount and I wanted to fit a GFX card which would take more power than the system uses in total would it help if I disabled an unused piece of hardware? ie. If I …
Hi DaniWeb Family ! I have a Dell Inspiron laptop , 64 bit system with Windows 7 on it. For some strange reason, I turned on the laptop and I can't go on Google , any more.. I can go on any other website, but just not Google. When I …
Symptoms: Laptop boots up and dies in about a minute User had previous trouble with keyboard and had removed and reinserted it before. First 20 seconds of boot attempt is met with that loud "stuck key" repeating sound. Removed keyboard. System began booting without sound, ran for a minute, shut …
Hello I have Networx installed on my PC, and bizarrely enough, since this morning I can see from its traffic monitor that something/s is being downloaded, but I did not launch any specific downloads, and using Networx NetStat revealed very little info. I want to know where the downloads are …
Hi, I am using windows 7 ultimate. My pc automatically restarts after the shutdown processes are complete. i'm a freshman in win7. last day i pressed the arrow key in keyboard after shutdown and my pc starts suddenly. i wondered. So plz help me. -vinod kc
I have a secondhand Intel motherboard DQ965GF that I am trying to install it has a 3g CPU and 2 g RAM with a serial DVD drive and an 80g hard drive. If I try to boot install Windows 7 I get “can not read from CD code 5” When …
hi, i m using windows 7(64-bit). I have external hdd-100GB. But it [COLOR="Red"]doesn't show up[/COLOR] in my windows. I have tried it in another pc(& in my desktop before i installed this windows) and it works fine, so it must be a [COLOR="red"]problem with my windows[/COLOR]. I have changed from …
Hi, my friend's pc stopped working. technician told that motherboard and smps is damaged. rest of the things in that pc is-p3 processor, 512MB sdram and 40GB ide hard disk. Now my friend is planning to buy a new SMPS.Motherboard, Ram and Processor. his doubt is, does the old hard …
Alright, so... I'm using Gnome 3, and when I click logout in the top-right corner, it takes FOREVER to log out... If it logs out at all. I don't know what takes it so long, but it's ridiculous. What I want to do is find the script it runs and …
Hi, my pc configuration asus-m2n68-am se2 amd sempron le 1250 2gb ddr2 windows 7 (32bit) ultimate(not genuine) My problem is, sometimes when i boot my pc,the network status icon in taskbar shows an exclamatory sign in yellow colour and some text like this "no internet acces, unidentified network". But the …
Hi ! i accidently disabled windows search option in computer management of windows 7. now when i want to undo it, windows search option isn't appearing their ! Please tell How to enable it !
Hello everyone.. I have recorded a video from my satellite digital receiver device on a USB flash disk.. After I plugged the USB disk into my computer, I noticed that the name of the file contained unusual characters (I've taken a picture of the file and put it in the …
Hi I m having win xp and ubuntu 11.04 dual boot... I had changed the ip config setting from 'detect automatically' to manual in win xp and i encountered a problem that it failed to connect to the network in ubuntu.. Later i tried editing the Autoeth0 settings by feeding …
I am using old p3(933 mhz) processor with VIA motherborad and 512+256 ram. Is it possible to install windows 7?
Hi Im trying to download "Wines" for Linux Mint which has just been newly installed onto my old laptop. I cant seem to get it to run. I went to [URL="http://www.winehq.org/download/"]http://www.winehq.org/download/[/URL] and followed the steps under the "Ubuntu Packages." I got this error message "Could not download all repository indexes, …
This started about a week ago. I'll be doing something and for no reason i can think of it will turn off. Except maybe from being to hot which doesn't make that much sense as it runs b/t 120-180 and very very rarely 190-200. But anyway it will turn off …
I get this error message every time on start up. Will describe it as best as I can: Application NDP1. 1sp 1 Error Description Queue Serv Size 2.1KB Contents NDP1. 1sp 1. KB2416447_x86_ wrapper log version bd As I get this message every day I would appreciate any help in …
Due to some reason, my computer was not able to start up and it ends up with Safe mode Safe mode with networking Safe mode with command prompt Last known good config Start windows normally which none of the option works above. attempt format with the Operating System Disk(For installation …
I am using 3g wireless USB modem in my desktop computer. Due to signal problem I have connected 3g device through 6 metres data cable(By keeping 3g device near to window to get good signal) to my computer. Device is detecting.. But its showing "problem in installing driver for your …
Hi friends I am using old p3 processor(933 mhz) with 512+256 ram and 40 gb harddisk. I want to extend my harddisk capacity. Is it possible to update in to 500 gb hard disk for p3 processor. Will it accept?
I have a Neo B32238 Laptop running an Intel Duo CPU [email protected] 2G Mem with 1.87 useable running for over 2 year on Windows 7. It works well in all respects other than I just lost the ability to access a wireless network that had been operating well in the …
Ok guys, here's the story: my server in configured so it would parse all the html request as php, did this so I can insert php code in to html files... and is working. But, I have 2 html pages that I'd like for the server to parse as html, …
I have windows xp professional Celeron CPU 2.53 GHz 1.24 GB RAM and I am trying to open some photos which came in an attachment to one of my e-mails. However, I get the message "this file does not have a program associated with it to perform this action. Create …
I want to make my own web-site, and I know HTML (everyone knows it :D) and some PHP. I have a lot of experience with Windows and Linux (Particularly Ubuntu) but I never had my own server, except WAMP that I used for learning PHP. My web-site is not a …
I currently have Ubuntu 10.10, but I could not find the code for USB driver.... it had only the makefiles ! I need the object files, c files or perl files for that driver ! How do I do that ? Please help ! :D
Hello, Please pardon me if I've made this post in the wrong forum and kindly direct me to the right forum, if need be. My problem is as follows: I noticed recently that when I type in a wrong URL instead of going to the default page not found page …
My computer recently got infected by virus but I can't reformat it. I tried different CD's but it is not really continuing. What do you think is the problem? Thanks!
I have a secondhand motherboard running a 3 g processor with 2 g Ram and an 80g SATA HD, when i try to boot load windows 7 to a formatted drive I get "can not read from CD Code 5" I can load other CD/DVDs to the drive but after …
This is a cool windows xp trick i found out by which you can hide your files under a picture. Follow these steps --> 1. First select the files you want to hide. 2. Right-click the files and select "Add to archive" i.e compress the files to zip or rar. …
Hello DaniWeb Family ! I have an Emachine Netbook, EM250, 1GB RAM...Windos XP Home. This may be the wrong place to put this thread so let me know if we need to move it. I let my niece borrow the net book for a day. Bad BAD BAD ! The …
[B][U]ESTEEMED GEEKS AND GEEKETTES[/U][/B]: My Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Windows 7(64) has been infested by that lovely hybrid ROGUE: [B][I]Personal Shield Pro[/I][/B]. I did read the prerequisite "read this before..."instructions from Phillephan, but to be honest as I read them after several unidentifiable (to me) terms, I started to have …
Hi, it's weird coming from me seeking help with this but I've a little problem at my hand... I have a 320GB External HDD which has been working fine for almost a year now if I remembered but recently I try to copy some files from my external with error …
This may be a PC 101 question, but I'm in the process of adding a second internal hard drive to my new XPS 8300, WIN 7 Pro x-64 pc. I have an external 2 TB HD that I use for backups. I do a lot of digital photography with Photoshop …
I have an empty folder with the above name. When I try to delete it it says 'Cannot delete, it is being used by another program'. I have tried EMCO 'MoveOnBoot' but it doesn't allow you to delete folders, only files. Suggestions please. Sorry I didn't google first. NOw have …
I want to make my own web-site, and I know HTML (everyone knows it :D) and some PHP. I have a lot of experience with Windows and Linux (Particularly Ubuntu) but I never had my own server, except WAMP that I used for learning PHP. My web-site is not a …
When I use my computer without wireless it works perfect. When I add a wireless component to the computer it slows down immensely until it freezes with every click of the mouse. It doesn't matter if I use usb wireless or a wireless card. I have tried virus scanners, anti …
Hi I used to have a problem, where if i double clicked on any hard drive in My Computer, it would be opened inside the program ACDSee, rather than just opening up in explorer. there was no way to switch it off from within ACDSee so i went to Tools->Options->File …
My laptop HP dv6-3037sb sometimes suddenly switches off(not shutdown or hibernate) while i am working with it, please i will like to knowwhat could be the problem and any viable solutions
I'm trying to format my usb but it shows me an alert box says unable to complete the format. I try to format by partition and still the same. I try using command prompt using this syntax format F: /fs:ntfs but it only says the type of file is RAW …
Hello, I'm having a problem. you see, I'm living in a house that has a internet conection thrue a computer(PC1) that has a ADSL modem. só this computer is linked to standard switch with 8 ports. until now thereś no problem. the problem: I byed a new PC and a …
I have a problem when it comes to my plan for a thesis defense. though the PHP scripts are now ready... I wonder if I can access a loclahost from other computer in an intranet. Plan of the Problem: Computer A is the client computer of Computer B and Computer …
Hello, I have windows xp professional, cpu 2.53 GHz, 2.53 GHz, 1.24 GB ram. I am having a heck of a time trying to download music to my pc. I have several playlists on utube but I'm unable to transfer them to windows media player. I also thought I could …
Hi my PC has no sound and the 'C-Media AC97 Audio Device' in the device manager has a yellow exclamation mark next to it. I have tried un-installing and re-installing it but this does nothing. Can anybody tell me how to fix this or how to aquire a working device …
I did the search already, but I'm not sure. Last Wednesday, July 13-14, 2011, my emails accounts; AOL and Gmail have been sending out mass emails at night (4:00 AM) to everyone in my contact list. I wouldn't have known about it if I didn't got some failure notices from …
My dad recently got an HTC Widfire and I was setting it up for him because he didn't want to ruin it, despite the setup being very simple. I had set up the e-mail using the default "Mail" app that came on the phone (not the Gmail one) and it …
Hi everyone, I'm using a mk320 logitech that is connected to my laptop wirelessly. When I want to use the built-in keyboard on my windows7 starter, keys are giving me the values as they're expected to give like pressing button p gives me numeric value and likewise for o,l and …
This is my 1st attempt at a posting. My PC has 1 HD with 3 partitions; 55 mb FAT -- Partition Magic 8.0 (works fine) 300 mb FAT -- DOS 6.22 (E:) (works fine) 37 gb NTFS -- XP Pro (C:) Have valid OEM XP Pro CD w/SP2 XP really …
From where I can download Apple MAC OS 10.6 ? How I can install on a PC? (what are the steps including screen-shots?) How I can write .dmg file in windows or in Ubuntu ?
When ever I eject a DVD from my ROM drive ( DVD burner drive ) my Computer keeps telling me that there is no disk in the drive. ( DVD Burner ) It doesn't matter how many times I click on cancel or the Red X I cannot get this …
[COLOR="Red"][B][COLOR="Green"]:([/COLOR][/B][/COLOR]I have an old tower P4 and was updateing it with software when I left the room for 20 minutes and when I returned it had stopped !! It starts,fans run usb's work ,dvd drives work but NO Beep to post and nothing on monitor.. checked ram,videocard,motherboard connectors,sata cables and …
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