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Hello everyone. I've been having problems with my driver for my laptop lately. Whenever I play WoW on my laptop, after about a few minutes everything goes black, but I can still see the WoW cursor. I use the task manager to shut down WoW and in a few seconds my laptop informs me that my driver...

When ever I try to play a game, such as World of Warcraft, on my laptop, the images are in the middle and not full screen. How do I fix this?

I'm using XPS2, not Vista.

I'm not sure if this is the right section to put it in or not, but here goes. I've been having problems with sound on my computer. Most everytime I listen to music via WMP or an internet browser, the music cuts off but the progress bar still moves. The only way I can restore the sound is to...

Okay, I'm currently looking for RAM to buy. One thing, what is Cas Latency and Heat Spreader?

Oh so it's 184 pin. Does this mean my computer can only use DDR and not DDR2 without adding new parts?

Here are the pictures I took: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/kdogneo2/cpu-2699.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/kdogneo2/cache-2695.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/kdogneo2/mainboard-2699.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/kdogneo2/memory-2699.jpg...

I bought it pre-built. How do I find the model number or hardware specs?

Honestly, I don't know what kind of hardware I have. Do you mean model type? Also, how do I find out how many pins there are in my computer?

Hello everyone, I've been meaning to get some new RAM recently. The guy I asked for RAM said two things "How much RAM and how many pins?" What exactly are "pins"?

Thank you all very much. This will surely improve the performance of my computer (from what it is now). I'm sure I can find RAM somewhere. EDIT: What kind of RAM would I need for my computer?

Thank you very much! This will certainly take care of my heat problems. Now the only thing I have to worry about is memory problems. What other options are there besides replacing the RAM?

It's stuck underneath it?! I hope I don't break the CPU in the VERY near future...

I've checked underneath it, around it, everywhere. I don't even see anything similar to that silver chip you posted earlier.

I opened the one closest to the back of the computer. I didn't see anything else like it in there.

Well, there was a fan right on top of it so I moved that off to the side. There was then a big chunk of metal in my way so I also moved it. Underneath was a big empty spot. That's right, A BIG EMPTY SPOT. I watched some videos helping me replace the thermal paste. My efforts were wasted when...

That's what I meant. I didn't see that anywhere under the heatsink.

I will give that a thought. On another note, I disected my eMachine and moved the heatsink out of the way to try and place new thermal paste. To my surprise, I found no where to put the paste.

Well I can hold down the power button and it just shuts off. I can then turn it back on, but usually when I do this, it shows the WindowsXP screen, loads, goes black, and then restarts at the WindowsXP screen again. I also do not have another DDR RAM part.

I'm assuming it only has one stick of RAM since I only have 248 MB of it in total. Also, after the lockup, my computer doesn't reboot at all, it just stays in that state.

Well I've burned the program onto the CD and now it shows a blue screen with testing on it. But after a while, the test just stops at 18% and I can't do anything else. How do I fix this problem?

Once again, thank you. Also, I've ran the memtest86 program several times. I saw a blinking white underscore, then it just continued on with WindowsXP. Does that mean there's nothing wrong with my memory?

Thank you, I really needed that. Also, how do I fix an overheating problem without replacing parts?

No matter how many times I try, I can never get MemTest to work properly. Could you give me a step by step procedure on how to use it correctly?

What I mean is that when the computer boots up, it shows the WindowsXP screen, loads, goes black, and then restarts at the WindowsXP screen again. I assumed that to be all memory lost.

After an amount of time on my eMachine, all functions suddenly freeze. I can't move my mouse, use commands, etc. When I restart the computer manually, all memory is lost and I have to use Norton Ghost to restore it. But even if I do restore it, the same thing happens after a while. I'm wondering...

Are you guys sure? I scanned again and now it says ntoskrnl.exe has changed as well now.

Well this computer is custom made. My cousin made it for me who happens to live in Kansas... urrgg...

I don't have a Windows CD. What do I do now?

When I ran my anti-virus program, it said that a program named (I think) Shell32.dll has been changed. Is this bad and how do I change it back to normal?

First boot device in the bios? I'm not really good with this computer stuff... heh.

I don't understand what you're saying. I downloaded the program, now what?

That's exactly it! My specs are (it's an EMachine, and yes, I know it sucks) 2.70 GHz, 40GB, 256MB, and Intel Inside Celeron. About the checking the ram and etc., how do I do that?

Well when it crashes, everything stops moving. Then when I try to restart the computer, it gives me this screen with 4 options. Safe Mode, another Safe Mode, Start Windows Normaly, or Start Windows with the last good configuration. But whatever I choose, it doesn't seem to work causing me to...

For a while now, my comp has been constantly crashing and I have had to constantly restore the software (as in usiing Norton Ghost to wipe and restore everything) but it still crashes over and over. One of my friends say it has something to do with a program in "My Computer" but I think it's a...