Tech Help and Discussions

Hallo mates, Last weekend I was booting my PC when a empty bottle fell on my CPU. The system continued on booting, but then I got the message: "BOOT FAILURE... BLA BLA BLA". I pushed the reset button, and then I noticed that the HD wasn´t even recognized by the motherboard and the same message could be read on the monitor... The next day I tried to boot a hundred times, and then the PC finally booted... Scandisk did not find any problems with the disk, and I worked for more than an hour... I moved to the kitchen to eat something and when I came back to my bedroom, the system booted himself and I got the message "BOOT FAILURE... BLA BLA BLA" again... Now, everytime…

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=52897 I already have this router at my home, and I was wondering if anybody knew if I could attach anything to this to make it into a 5+ port router?? I'm moving into a Student house soon with my 4 other house mates, and given that this is working so well at home, I thought that I might as well get another for my further endevours!! Any Ideas guys?? Thanks for your time!! Rich18144

When i put the windows xp pro cd in and start the pc. the keyboard works fine. but when i get to windows xp pro set up the keyboard does not want to work anymore. I dont know what the problem is. Can anyone please help? thank you

Hi I have inherited a computer that has had it's hard disc wiped for security purposes or it's previous owner. I thought that I would be able to put a boot up disc in the A: drive and navigate my way to the CD drive and download a copy of Windows 98 that I have. Unfortunately when I boot up on all I get is a message saying "Invalid System Disc replace the disc and press any key". The floppy drive is looking at the boot disc. The boot disc is an MS official disc so I don't suspect any problem with that. Am I doing the right thing or am I going about this the wrong way can you suggest how I can get a formatted hard disc to load an operating system. Thanks Charlie

It used to work fine, but i connect it to windows XP pro and it doesn't show up in the my computer, but the safely remove hardware icon shows but has nothing to remove. help! :confused:

Hello, I put in a new MB and a SATA hard drive. I installed my old hard drive as drive E. Unfortunately, my windows Xp is on the old hard drive and is registered. How can I use the same windows Xp on my new SATA drive without paying Bill Gates all over again? Thanks in advance Regards, JIM

I’m unable to run almost all of the programs on my laptop. I get the following error message: “This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel” I can open some programs, such as WORD or Publisher if I click on a saved document. But these programs do not open if I click on the taskbar, desktop icon, or program startup icon. I cannot open or run System Restore, even in safe mode. It will start in safe mode, but once it gets to the point in the process where it reboots the computer I get a message that the computer is unable to open rstu.exe (or whatever the system restor…

I Need Help. Currently I have two computers. One which is Directly Wired to my Internet Service and is Windows XP. The other Computer is Windows 98 And I am trying to Hook it up to the internet by installing this LinkSys WMP54G Card into it. I have a Wireless BroadBand Router (Linksys WRT54G) Running on the Windows XP computer and it is working fine. Now the problem is that the Windows 98 Computer, with the Wireless Adapter Card in it, Does not seem to recognize that the card is in it. I have all the drivers installed and everything. When I go to See if the internet is working on it I get a message that says "No association With Access Point!". Is there any…

I have an old pc, 1300 mhz p4 with 256mb rambus ram. I recently got 512mb more ram (total of 768) and noticed a very mild increase in performance. I've done the paging-file, and performance options in control panel > p & m > system > advanced. Is there anything else I can do to maybe put more work on the ram and free up the cpu aside from overclocking? I'm currently running xp with photoshop, dreamweaver, flash, and vegas video open... I still have 550 megs of ram free. I'd like to put it to use... any ideas? I can still send the ram back for a refund... is that the best solution?

Im totally lost and need help-have an older p3 700 mhz w/integrated vid card & windows xp pro sp1. just got a mad dog geforce 5200fx pci card and drivers wont uninstall after repeatedly going through eeverything the instructions tell me to do.. :confused:

I have a PC that randomly goes into power save mode, and cannot be brought back out without a reboot. It is an HP, bought within the last 18 months. This does not appear to happen after any one instance. I can get on The Internet and stay on for a few minutes, or quite a while. I definitely cannot open programs. I have heard of a virus attacking all files with .exe., but I am able to go to IE, and use my dial up connection. I can't run spybot or adaware to completion so I cannot check for spyware. This happens in safe mode as well.

Theres something messed up royally with my computer. For about 3 days now everytime I go to turn it on, it gets passed only the first screen.(the one that says 'press delete to enter setup') After that a blank screen appears with a blinking _ in the top left corner. I've now found out that it isn't my hard drive because I took it out and hooked it up in a friends' computer. I'm using it right now actually. I haven't got the slightest clue as to what it is. I use Diskeeper, Ad-aware, Spybot S&D, Zone Alarm, CA AV, and Panda ActivScan very regularly. This is the first serious problem that I've had with my 3-1/2 year old computer. I desperatly need help! Anything will b…

Hi, For the past two days I have been trying to recover from a simple stupid errror. After installing Symantec's SystemWorks 2005 Premier and doing a GHOST image, I attempted to turn on SYMANTEC's GO BACK and my system then would not boot. I think it may have only corrupted my primary serial ATA RAID drive and not the secondary, because attempting to post with both hooked up (or the primary by itself) gives me a black screen almost immediately and with only the secondary hooked up I get further in the post before the computer freezes. I tried moving the secondary RAID drive to the primary slot and disconnecting the secondary altogether, attempting to boot from that. …

I have a Dell Dimension L933r PC bought in 2001...it originally had WinME but I have way too many problems with it so.......I installed XP but it runs very slow and now the screen doesn't stop flickering on the top corner..... Should I upgrade the hardware or keep what I have and install Win2K Pro? If I should install Win2K, how do I delete WinME and WinXP before? Thanks, CS. :confused:

i have a gateway pc with xp on it. and now its running crappy, so i want to reinstall xp on it. i tried to install xp over the current one on the hard drive, but succeeded in making 2 XPs to choose from upon start up. the restore disk that came with it doesnt even work. it loads up and the recovery windows just does nothing but stay open. can someone help me reinstall windows without buying anything? thanx

I have the SP2 updates for XP, after doing so I have removed some files that I should',nt have. Now I when try to reinstall my XP it say that I can't due to newer version, when I restart the system with the CD,it starts to load but at a certin point my system just shuts down and I mean it dies and no changes were made. I tried to copy the I386 files hoping this would help but to no aval. I'm not a programmer so I have no idea what to do. Thx