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I could easily buy a liquid cooler and call it a day, but unfortunately this is going into a 4U rack server chassis. it has a double 120mm fan but its covered by drive bays. the only other fan is 80mm, and i dont know any liquid coolers with a …

I am using an ASUS H110-E/M.2 motherboard on my desktop with an ADATA SX6000 120GB M.2 drive installed as a system disk, with a 1TB Hard Drive as a storage disk. The system has worked fine for several months, but recently I installed an optical drive and moved my machine …

Hi, I have a little problem with my PC. This 'America Megatrends' screen pops up unpredictably when playing/using my computer. Is there a way I can stop it from popping up? This all started 2 weeks ago while playing Fortnite and ever since, I have this screen showing everyday. I …

i am trying to add two external monitors to extend screen on my toshiba laptop through vga and hdmi port . But only one is working. i cannot detect second monitor. if i plugout one other is working then. how to add two monitors? display card is :intel(r) hd graphics …

I've just bought a stand/sit desk 70cm x 120cm which because of lack of space has to fit almost up against a wall. I need to buy a monitor arm for my 17" monitor and there's room enough for any clamp but not for overhanging arms. So I will need …

Hi, i have problem with my PC. He can't turn on. My computer is Acer Aspire with Acer Inc. N1996 motherboard. When I press button, computer don't communication with monitor. Beep code is 2 x 3 beep. Thanks for help.

Hi, I’m currently looking to write a program, most likely in Python. Now, I have an odd question. Is it possible to limit this program to running on specific hardware? Could I prevent it from running on a computer that doesn’t have a certain piece of hardware?

Hello, I was playing a game on my PC (NFS Most wanted) when I heard a fan starting up noisily. All of a sudden the system tripped off. When I tried restarting it, only the light on the CD-ROM was blinking, even the power button light did not light up. …

Hi I am unable to complete an installation of an Officejet 6000 inkjet printer on a home network Dell 690 workstation running . Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit workstation. The printer had been previously connected to a Windows XP Pro 32 bit OS Dell PC. The HP CD wouldn't install …

About 3 days ago. My laptop started behaving strangely (I'm on it, right now). I let it fall couple of times, but that was really some time ago about 3 months. Everything worked fine, no errors, crashes, "instant deaths". But recently, as said, 3 days ago. Laptop popped me out …

I'm hoping someone can help. For a long time I've been having the computer randomly restart or freeze; especially when backing up my computer to a network drive the computer freezes. I was informed it was the PSU; and so as of recently I replaced it with a brand new …

This isn't a typical hardware post, but I couldn't find anywhere better for it. Last October, after my previous TV packed in, I bought a shiny new Samsung Smart TV. My shortlist of requirements was: * Excellent picture quality, preferably 4k * No advertising built into the UI * Within …

Hi, I wanted to setup dual monitor, before trying to purchase I looked up at few articles and forums and most of them had language suggesting it is easy and straight forward. I visited 4 stores and they wasn't sure what they are talking about, 2 of them directly denied …

I have changed from a previous 1TB disk from Toshiba to a 500 MB SSD from SAMSUNG. I have generated a full image backup, and after with a bootable pen I have tryed to restore the new 500 disk with it. Immediatly at the begining systems generats an error and …

Good morning all. Call me Imp. I have built a computer from scratch - no problems. A friend shipped his to himself when moving via USPS and when it arrived it wasn't working (and of course his insurance claim was denied). When he turns it on it rattles and hums …

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I have an HP 8460p. Only on battery power sometimes the display goes gray with horizontal lines. On AC power the problem goes away.

any suggestion for thesis title proposal with hardware pc/laptop is not counted as medium, me and my groupmates already proposed but all proposal are rejected any suggestion thank you in advance ~john :3

Hi everyone, I appreciate this may not be the best forum for such a question however this is by far my favourite forum as everyone is so friendly and helpful thus i do not want to go anywhere else, but let's get to the point. I am currently looking to …

Hi all, I have a dell inspiron N5010 laptop, a day back it went off. I tried to restart and it just keeps on beeping. After a bit a looking aboud i figured it is a display error (failed LCD). So is figured if i remove the LCD cable from …

I have all of my components for a new build but before I start I have been thinking about maybe getting an SSD to use as my boot drive. I have a very large collection of music, 200 plus Gb worth. I keep it in " My Music " on …

I get an error with nero 7 for DVD-R type DVD: illegal disk, but for other DVD types DVD+r,Double layer,+RW is no problem. Here is the log of nero: Windows XP 5.1 IA32 WinAspi: - NT-SPTI used Nero Version: 7.10.1.0 Internal Version: 7, 10, 1, 0 Recorder: <SONY DVD RW …

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help out, or at least give me a yes or no answer and possibly point me in the right direction. What I'd like to do is control a physical on/off switch (relay?) to turn on some led's. My ideal solution would be to write …

Hello Daniweb Community, I've been given a **Nighthawk** (R7000) to checkout to see if I can get it working and I'm having no luck, I've plugged an ethernet cable straight from the router to my computer and it just keeps disconnecting and I've tried 3 of the ports on the …

This might not be the right place to post this and if it is im sorry but I just have need help with my PC. I made my build last year with my student loan jump forward to yesterday I went out to the game and plugged in an old …

Hello Daniweb Community, I thinking about upgrading from my laptop to a desktop the main concern is either if I should buy one of build one. So as the title says this is mainly if I was going to build one. To start off, my main concern about building one …

My pc relevant components motherboard asus z170-k processor intel i76700K 32 GB RAM Kingston DDR4 2133 MHz I think the motherboard only accepts 2. Can I add and share more with a graphic card ? This is use the two connections in the motherboard and two more for anyplace. Best …

Hello My Turbo C/C++ 4.0 was working properly in my Windows 7 64-bit but from two days i am not be able to use keyboard in Turbo C. I can't type any text. But mouse is working. Tried with DOS BOX Turbo C3, reinstalled it many times but could not …

Hi all I recently installed Windows 10 as a clean install using the ISO DVD I downloaded and burned before the free offer ended in July. I also downloaded and installed the anniversary edition (1607). However when I boot up the system will pass the POST stage and start to …

which is not possible. I have a dell e1505 running xp So I bought this [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145113[/URL] and this [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817392009[/URL] Perhaps of note is that the HDD is OEM. I'm not really sure if that plays into any of the following. Installed HDD into enclosure per instructions and connected it to …

Installing Debian 8 in an SSD RAID1 envorionment fails at grub install, yet the same environment, same hardware using HDD's completes successfully. How can this be? ECS H110-C3D MB Startech Marvell 88SE92XX PCIe controller Have tried both Sandisk and ADATA SSD's, both fail at GRUB install. Using WD traditional (spindal) …

Hey there! I have a problem with my computer. When I start my pc, it loads fine, I can go to the BIOS, it passes the POST successfully and so on. I can run the Hiren's Boot CD with no problem and it doesn't lose signal or shuts down, but …

I have an APC ups. I am very happy with it. I noticed that sometimes there is a red light on one side of it. I do not know what it means

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Hi I have an AMD RADEON HD 8350 GPU 1GB (OEM) in my work computer and I want to get an equivalent card in 2gb. Can anyone recommend an exact replacement for the 8350 but in a 2gb card? I am running Windows 7 Thanks

so I had quite a few word docs open. (about 10) and a lot of folders open and google chrome, task manager ect. and when I opened one more word doc the screen went black for about 5 seconds. it went back to normal then closed everything and shut it …

Hello I am getting the following message when trying to boot from a Windows 7 DVD on a PC: "BOOTMGR image is corrupt the system can not boot". The PC is currently running Windows 8.1 x64, and I tested the drive with another DVD (non-windows), and it opened the contents …

Hi folks. Some urgent help needed. I'm using an Acer V193W monitor out of a Nvidia GTX 960 card. DVI output to VGA input via a converter. I've used this configuration before and it used to work perfectly. Correct 1440x900 resolution. Since then I've only changed the cable and converter …

My laptop has horizontal flashing lines across the screen. After a little while, the screen will freeze, while the audio continues to work, and fade to white. Is this a graphics card malfunction? If not, what is it and what can I do?

ok. my freind(not any more) got water on his laptop. (toshiba statellite, its 12inch and is gold(plastic) it has core m3) i by mistake spilled water on it. he now has a keyboard that doesnt work- is there a way to fix this without the need for a crap load …

We do live streaming via a laptop. We stream in HD and need a very fast processor for sure. I am not sure how important the graphics card is in this but maybe a dedicated one would be best. I had purchased an HP laptop with an i7 quad core …

Hi, I bought a new computer a while ago but my battery seems to be much worse now. Do you have any methods to keep it running as long as possible?

I currently own the following desktop: HP p6644y 4gb RAM 64-bit Pentium Dual Core CPU E5500 2.80 GHz I bought it in 2010 and it has served me well. However, in the past year, this PC has slowed down greatly. Even though I have plenty of memory, it takes forever …

I recently invested in getting a samsung 245bw 24inch monitor and it was fine for the first few days. After those I started to get little blue stars (size of one pixel) in my games of counterstrike scattered randomly across the screen. These would also appear in the screenshots and …

Hi, I need to educate the users that sometimes their computer crash/freeze/hang is due to their non-IT peripherals such as the USB fan, handphones, powerbank and etc. Anyone here came across any articles about such issues? Please provide me the link to the articles and I will share it with …

Hello, just wanna try my luck if you can help me, i got my new ps/2 keyboard just a week ago ill cut right to the chase, so this week my keyboard is automatically backspacing for no reason, so i tried opening my keyboard.. blow some dust,cleaned... then plugged now …

Hello! I recently aquired a small form factor emachines system and transplanted the motherboard to a somewhat custom case to use it as a htpc. I installed a phenon x4 9550 in it and removed the shitty small original cooler and proprietary backplate and mounted a lga775 cooler to cool …