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Unplug all drives. leave one stick of ram, video card and moniter, PSU, processor. unplug all leds; power,reset,hdd... use a slot screwdriver to jump the led to start your computer. See if it will post. If it does, maybe your case on/off switch is bad or you had something hoked …

You may need to break down and get an OS. Reload!

I have 2 hard drives in my pc. One is xp pro, the other win 98. I just switch ribbons & reboot to a HD. Both set on cable select. I would like to have them perminantly hooked up and when I start my pc, have a choice of which …

Hi everyone, I have a seagate baracuda ide 120 gig HD. It was partitioned at 112 gig and 8 gig. I went to disk management to try to have all 120 on the one partition. I deleated both partitions and now I can only find, format or use the 112. …

Make sure your boot sequence is set to your cd or dvd drive before your hard drive

Will it post with only one stick of ram and no disk drives pluged in. Try with onboard video first then cards. does it beep at all?

Hi, Just put an amd 3000 754 pin newcastle into an asrock board. set ram to 400 mhz, cpu frequency auto set at 200 mhz. I think it should be set at 400, which I can manually do. I can set it anywhere from 200 to 400 mhz. I would …

Hi, My son has an amd 3700, 939 pin processor, 1 gig L2 cache. I think it is a great processor, but he wants a faster one in a 939 pin to go with his 8800 gts video card. I would appreciate any advice an this subject. thanks, Mike

I have 3 computers running xp pro. I want to play a older game, multiplayer, which requires an ixp connect. The help and support says xp does not support an ixp connect. Is there a way around this?

Hi everyone, I have just reformated my computer. Win xp pro. I can't use the scroll on either mouse, usb or standard port mouse only on the internet. They scroll fine in my work and text documents, but when I use the scroll on the internet, weather it is ebay …

Hi everyone, My son has been saving up all summer for this card. It is huge! It will not fit in his MB. because the system fan is in the way. MSI K8N Neo4. not platinum. Will the MB run fine if I remove the fan. It seems to sit …

Hi, I need a new fan for a e-GeForce 7300 GT, 256 pce-e Mine is grinding very badly. I've been to the evga web site, and called retailers with no success. Would it hurt to run it without the fan? Mike

Check that power supply. Make sure power connects are secure. It's a start.

A friend bought a HP with no discs or OS. It worked a little than was unusable. It's has an athlon 1900, 80 gig HD hp cd writer and dvdrom. I'm trying to help him, I formated the HD but had to do it on my computer. I'm trying to …

I had the exact same thing happen to me. It loads drivers into the memory but when it goes to install it on the HD it reboots. Mine was a bad hard drive. I put in a different one and it worked fine.

Can it read your other disks?

I once had random restarts during games only. Like you it drove me crazy for 2 weaks. One of my 512 crucial ram sticks was riddled with errors. Changed it and it never happened again. It was this forem that recommended me get my ram checked.

I had windows melinum and had similar problems. I formated several times until I was told the OS was causing the problem. Went to XP and it was fine. Have you tried a reformat?

Start with as little plugged in as possible. Try one peripheral at a time. Your damage could be one of many things, so you must use process of elimination. Be patient.

Sounds like hardware to me. Maybe HD. Unplug your hard drive and let it post. Then try it again with it plugged in.

Hi, I just picked up a compaq evo 25229-001 p4 motherboard. It has a 14 pin power supply connecter on the board. Is there an adapter for a 20 pin psu to a 14 pin? Thanks

Hi. I've just installed a new liteon dvd writer. I can't get any sound on any dvd weather I use Nero or windows media. Sound works fine when playing mp3 music in win media. Nothing is muted and the volume is set high. When I go to play a dvd …

I don't know where to post this one, so here it is. I recently bought a dvd rw and needed to install power dvd to play a dvd. I now have a pronounced echo or reverb, whatever you may call it. It is there no matter what I do. The …

I just bought a new MSI KN NEO4 mboard. It does not have a jp2 for the speaker and power led. It has jp1 for the other leds. I checked the manual and there is supposed to be a jp2. I looked closley and there are small solder dots where …

I plan to get a fx 55 processor. The price is down to 150-175 new. Does anyone reccomend a nforce 4 or a via motherboard. also it appears that pc3200 ddr mem and ddr2 mem will work. what is the difference if any?

I am going to build a computer for my 12 year old son for christmas. He now has a newcastle 3000. agp card, 1meg ram. I was thinking of amd 3700, 1meg L2 cache. pci express video card. I cant afford a FX processor. I have heard that a dual …

with 4 hard drives your using a lot of power. Make sure your psu is can handle it. Also make sure your hard drive thet your trying to load windows onto is good.

Have your ram tested. I had a similar problem and assumed it couldn,t be the ram or it wouldn't boot at all. After 2 weeks of pulling out my hair I got a new stick of ram and it's been fine.

I have windows xp pro and everytime I boot up the improperly shut down screen comes on after bois. This is a recent development from my fiddeling with a slave HD. I start in windows normally and everything works perfectly, Master and slave HD, cdrw, A: drive. I restored back …

I have an old pent.111 : 15 gig hd : 320 mem. I just loaded win xp. It was loading fine up till the last 5 min. which took 30 min. However, it finnished loading. Whenever I try to load anything or even play pinball it may take 5 minutes …

I was given an old hitachi laptop and it has a bios passward. Is there a way to remove this.

My 13 year old son has his own computer with norton and parental controls on it. I have tested it and you can't get into porn web sites. However if you google, for example; naked girls; porn ;... you can get jpegs. I have checked his history and gone to …

My sons school sold all their old laptops for $20 a piece. I bought 2 for the hell of it. I got windows 98 loaded fine but can't get any sound, and only 2 and 16 color. They have no software for them. I can't find what the motherboard manuf. …

I'm trying to install a used 40 gig HD. It is recognized in the bios but when I try to format it says Can't access hard disk, I tried to use fdisk with a startup disk and got the same result. Can I assume it is shot.

I'm thinking of getting a new board W/ pci express for the sole purpose of graphics. Is a cheep pci express card better than a good agp card?

I picked up a hp pavilion 360n desktop about 5 years old. It was running very poorley,couldn't quite make it to the desktop. Was running XP. Went into bois and everything checked out. I don't have the original restore discs which came with this system new. Tried to install my …

Unplug everything including jumpers. Leave cpu fan, and power to board plugged in. use a screwdriver to turn on computer by touching restart pins. See if cpu fan turns on.

I have 1 HD and 1 cdrw each set to master on seperate channels. I want to install a second HD. How do I set it up?

I assume you disabled or uninstalled the old driver. I once returned a bad hd under warranty only to get another bad one. If you could test your card in another computer allways helps.

I'd check psu

see if you can get the dvdrw to work on the 1st ide channel. Remove one of your hd. If it is seen you should check your ribbons, maybe reset cmos. Test a HD on 2ond ide channel.

Unplug all your disc drives. If you know someone who has a compatable stick of ram and will let you use it for a half hour or so, replace yours and see if you can get past that point. If you can't at least you have narrowed it down to …

Have you tried a different psu? Possible board problem.

If you need it quick, take it to the shop. If you want to have some fun and maybe save some money. Open it up. If your getting past the post my guess would be the HD. A full windows version is always nice. I don't know if a restore …

My norton subscription recently ran out and I constantly get subscription renewall popups. I don't want to renew it. Can these popups be eliminated without uninstalling Norten.

My computer will run with cdrom and HD set on cable select. However the cdrom is the master and the hd is the slave in the bios. I have tried setting both jumpers to master and using 2 ribbons and the bois sees only the cdrom as primary master but …

When I look at the specs. of the celeron d 325 and the amd xp 2200 the celeron seems better, yet I can buy the celeron for $ 57.00 new the amd costs $30.00 more. Is there more to it than the specs?

My son is unable to serve games online such as halo,homeworld... We are behind a router have been unsuccessful in opening ports. It just screws up the router and I have to reset it. Is it possible to split the cable into two modems, run his computer direct to one …

If a cpu was ovrclocked but not noticebly damaged, could or would the life of the cpu be shortened if from that point on, it were not overclocked again?

Is there a program that will show my cpu temp without having to go into bios.