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I have a client who will be doing a lot of scanning, and he said that he would like a multi-function printer that prints page numbers on each scan for multi-page scans. I have never heard of this, nor do I think it exists. However, I would love to be pleasantly surprised. Here is what he...

My client has a system that has a RAID 1 configuration. I assume it's a RAID 1 setup since there are only two drives, and it is set up so that one disk mirrors the other. The master drive has 3 partitions: 1 has the OS and programs, and the other two have data. Since the partition that...

A client of mine went away for a week and his computer was off. Then, when he came back and attempted to boot up, it powered up for about 2 seconds, and then shut off immediately after that. Then he tried booting up again right after, and it wouldn't do anything...no power, no nothing. So he...

A client of mine has gotten a blue screen two times in the past month (Dell desktop). He said with no warning, the screen goes black, and then comes up with the blue screen. He noticed that it said "ready to dump memory," but he didn't get the rest of what it said. He panicked and shut off the...

Well, I just found the problem. The RAM that I put in there from the old system is shot. When I ran MemTest86+, INSTANTLY there were tons of errors. And when I say tons, I mean it. It's been running for about 2.5 min so far, and it's already at 410,000 errors, and counting very rapidly. I just...

I decided to add more RAM to it, as you were right. It can't even survive on 192MB with what is out today. So, I took a 256MB module from an IMB laptop (an older one) and popped it in and this is what I got: "The amount of system memory has been changed, or the suspend-to-disk file is...

If it were a software issue, then I would think the issues would be consistent. Those errors, however, only showed up after it had been used for a while. Thanks, Nenu. I'll check those. Others I've spoken to are saying it might be the dust as well, or maybe the RAM, but it is odd that...

It's a Dell Dimension 2400, and it's behaving very oddly. I reformatted the hard drive, installed XP Pro from a Dell CD that did not come with that computer (he didn't have his CD on him, so I borrowed it from his colleague since he was losing money with no computer; I assume it's just the OS...

I figured out what happened. I have an Antec AC Adapter that's adjustable in voltage. I guess that last time I pulled it out of my laptop bag, the lever that controls the voltage went from 15v to 24v. So, it was giving my laptop too much power. Good thing it didn't fry it! Glad it has a built in...

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1405-S171. It has always been reliable for me. Tonight, I turned it on, and then as it was booting up, I plugged in the A/C adapter into the jack on the computer while it was plugged into a UPS battery backup, like I have done many times before without issue (minus...

LOL. Both of your stories are funny. She actually just unplugged it and plugged it in again and now everything is fine. :rolleyes: Any idea what happened? Is it on its way out? Was it a glitch? Might it not been plugged in to the computer all the way?

A client of mine lost all of her data on her external hard drive. It happened while she was away from the computer, and as far as I know, no one else touched her computer. I asked her if her computer were acting abnormally, like she had a virus or something, and she said, "No. It's acting fine."...

Great. Thanks a lot. I'll give that a shot.

Having issues with this system. Whenever I click on the X to close an IE window, this error message comes up: Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the info you were working on might be...

I have since taken off the CPU heatsink/fan, cleaned out the dust (there really wasn't that much), wiped off the thermal compound from both th CPU and the bottom of the heatsink/fan, applied new arctic silver ceramic-based thermal compound (is that OK?), and then put the heatsink/fan back on the...