Tvs
Hi, I am looking for a TV, just a plain TV. Which is best a plasma or a LED? What is a good make for a TV?
View ArticleA mousy mouse
I recently boot camped my Mac, I have the E-3lue mouse which works perfectly fine on Osx but when I try to use it on the boot camped side it doesn't work, it is not even a recognized device please help...
View ArticleDropped ext. H/D, whirring but not working
Hello .... My ext. h/d (CNERON U2 CIBOX bought in France 8 years ago) fell off the table this morning and although the on / off switch doesn't light up there is still an intermittent whirring when...
View ArticleScreen Blank, Motherboard sends out a beep, More info below.
So i was watching a youtube video and suddenly my screen goes black and my monitor says 'pc not found' and the audio from the video started to stutter,and my GPU fan starts working overdrive and sound...
View ArticleWhat to do with a hand-me-down
I was given a Gateway FX530. It has, it seems, a bad video card, and that works intermittently. It runs XP (I know), but seems to be a pretty good machine, otherwise, with KB, trackball, monitor,...
View ArticleNew machine purchase advice
I don't know if this is the correct forum, but here goes. I need a new PC. I set up in rather dusty environments for up to a month at a time. I like ~15 inch towers so I can open them, blow out the...
View ArticleSamsung R540 laptop won't start up
I'm trying to help my tenant with her laptop. She does not have an installation disc; she threw everything that came with the laptop away. :rolleyes: After turning the power button on, the screen...
View ArticleAcer Laptop Black Screen
I have a black screen on my Acer Apire 4552 Laptop. I am fairly good at fixing computer problems, but this has me stumped? This is what I have done so far: 1. Took off the battery and held down the...
View ArticleMicro SD card issue
I have a 32GB Micro SD card. When it's plugged into my phone, my pc can find it no problem. When it's plugged into a particular usb device, my pc finds it, asks to format it, then says it failed to do...
View ArticleKeyboard probs
Morning I run a Samsung desktop pc, win 8.1. Has a onscreen keyboard and a wireless keyboard. At the moment its stuck on the onscreen key board and giving me the ....... Have checked the keyboard...
View ArticleYet Another Printer Problem
I have a KODAK ESP Office 6150 printer connected via USB to my desktop running Windows 7 SP1. The problem is that the output from the printer is very faint and for the most part isn't even printed onto...
View ArticleGetting a new computer; should I go for Quad Core?
I'm going to finally get a new Windows 7 computer after almost 10 years on my old XP machine. This is due to XP expiring for updates. I'm going to buy from a local computer shop that will build it. The...
View ArticleAsus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 boots twice....
Hi all, Maybe one of you guys can help me out here are my specs: (its a new build btw) Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 MB (latest bios) AMD FX-9590 CPU Corsair TX850 PSU XFX R7 250 Core Edition Passive GPU...
View ArticleBSOD 0x0000225 and 0x0000017
This has happened 2x now :/ i restart my computer and all of a sudden a BSOD appears with 0x0000225. After that i press enter to try again and then i get 0x0000017 with a storport.sys error message...
View ArticlePrinter not recognised
Hi I have a Dell Latitude laptop with Windows 7, and adsl through a modem with wireless router which distributes internet to 2 laptops and connection to a printer from 1 laptop. Last week I had an...
View Article"Entering power save mode" issue
I recently built a computer with the following parts: MSI a78-e35m motherboard 8gb crucial ballistix sport ram 1tb western digital caviar blue HD evga gtx 650 corsair cx 430m athlon x4 750k I put...
View ArticleScreen shakes on startup
Whenever I started the computer, the screen shakes up and down for a very long time, so fast the image gets blurry. It's like there's more than one picture and it's moving it all up and down at...
View ArticleUSB peripherals cut out.
tried everything i could think of to solve this, after 3-4 days of no avail i even went as far as to hit it. so - this seems to happen all the time, but most commonly when playing a game of some sort,...
View Article"Cleaning" a hard drive
There's this process I've been using for some years now called Zeroing. It's part of Linux and uses a command similar to this Code: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb I use it to write zeroes to every byte on...
View ArticleSolved: new monitor
I need to know the difference between a backlit monitor and a non-backlit monitor in regards to personal computing use. I am looking for a new desktop computer system that will have either Windows 7 or...
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