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I am having a problem that I believe is related to the graphics card. I built a P4 2.8 Ghz SFF computer about 3 years ago. It had an AGP ATi graphics card in it. I sold it 2 years later to my sister when I bought a laptop. Now, the screen would not get a signal sometimes. It got to the...

My laptop is in my sig. I have had it for about 9 months now. Just a couple days ago, it will not start up all the way sometimes. When I hot the power button, the lights will turn on, the CD drive will spin, but the screen never lights up. I thought maybe it was just the screen but I noticed...

When looking at the properties of My Computer, I noticed that it reads 800Mhz. The problem is that I have a Turion 1.6Ghz X2. Does this seem right or am I being shortchanged? The laptop is only about 6 months old and it has been reading like this for a while. Before I did a clean XP Pro...

Well, I got a motherboard from a friend of mine. All I can tell you and that he knew is that it had a socket 754 AMD Sempron (that died and thus he upgraded), and runs a Nvidia Nforce 3 chip, has 2 Sata connections, an AGP slot and 5 PCI slots. If this board works then I can build a gaming...

My laptop is in my sig. I recently wiped the drive and got rid of HP's extra garbage for a clean XP Pro install. Lately, I have been having problems with my DVD Burner (with lightscribe). Sometimes it will run a CD when inserted but the computer will not recognize a disk is in. Windows Media...

To be perfectly frank, about the only thing I know about open source OS is that I want to run Ubuntu or an iteration of Ubuntu due to the GUI. Now some info, I want to build a media server out of an old computer (1Ghz Athlon Socket A) and eventually replace everything, including motherboard...

I have an HP dv2000z with Turion x2. I had 2x256 mb that came with the comp. I bought 2 G.Skill 1GB DDR2 667. Each has passed memtest seperately and together they passed twice. The computer runs fine with either one in by itself and, as I type, runs fine with one in and a stock 256mb stick...

I have an HP laptop with a Turion X2. HP is being slow (if ever) in making 64-bit drivers. I know I can search independently for drivers but my problem lies in the hp quickplay buttons and such. HP does have 64-bit printer drivers though. I have windows XP Pro 64-bit thanks to my college...

I recently bought a Sandisk Cruzer Micro 512mb for $24 and got a second free. It is real nice except I do not like working with the U3 launchpad. Is there a way to disable it completely and use it as a standard drive or atleast let the computer see it as a USB drive (the computer sees it as a...

Today I have ordered the HP dv2000z. I went with these options: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 (1.60GHz/512KB) NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (standard and only option) 512MB RAM (lowest amount, plan to upgrade to 2 GB in the future *think Vista*) 40GB 5400 RPM Serial ATA Hard Drive (Plan to upgrade to a...

I closed my thread in laptops so I could post here to get more people to see. On a Dell Inspiron 1000, I wanted to upgrade the RAM with a 512mb stick. I had it unplugged and took the battery out. I made sure to ground myself and the ONLY thing I did was unscrew the one screw to open the cover...

On a Dell Inspiron 1000, I wanted to upgrade the RAM with a 512mb stick. I had it unplugged and took the battery out. I made sure to ground myself and the ONLY thing I did was unscrew the one screw to open the cover and slid and clicked the RAM into place, I did not even touch the other (more...

My current computer is in my sig and is roughly 2.5 years old. It has 1GB or pc2700 RAM, a pentium 4 2.8GHz with 512K cache, and a visiontek (ripoff of ATI) 128 MB video card. I am looking into getting a laptop since it would be more reasonable. I am looking at the compaq V5000Z. I do...

My fiancee has a Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. It has 256 MB of RAM that is fixed and one open slot. The Dell website says it can be upgraded to only 512MB. Doing a search, I found someone make mention that they upgraded to 768 MB on the laptop. Is there a way to find out if and what the upper...

I have a hard drive and a PSU laying around. I want to make an external HDD. All I want to kno wis if there is somewhere or even something that I can use to get the internal hard drive into a USB without having to buy one of the cases. So basically, is there a connector that will do this...

In my sig is my computer. The drive will play DVDs and will play Music CDs. The problem is when i try to burn with Nero or the Windows, i get the window that says put a blank CD in. The burner doesnt think there is a CD in because it says the drive is empty. It used to work all the time...