Unstable Sectors
I scanned my harddrive's health with HD tune and it says I have 224 unstable sectors. I just want to know if this is normal? My hard drive has failed before but I got it replaced. I have noticed my...
View ArticleNo Audio Output Device is installed
Hi I have a Eec PC Seashell Netbook which has a red cross on the speaker item bottom right Tried all I know - uninstalling drivers - checking bios There is a service called Realtek audio service that...
View ArticleToshiba Satellite C660-18C - HDD failure
Hi Tech Guys, I have a friends laptop that I am trying to fix, their laptop HDD is failing which has been confirmed by Crystalmark and the Toshiba HDD/SDD monitor tool. I have a spare HDD lieing around...
View ArticleThe recommended PSU brands discussion thread
So 10 years ago the recommended power supplies were Thermaltake, Enermax, Sparkle and Antec. Now it seems like the recommended brands are Corsair, Seasonic, PC Power & Cooling, and FSP. Four...
View ArticleToshiba Satellite - new keyboard?
I thought I post this here, maybe someone can help: Has anyone here replaced his Toshiba Satellite A100-998 and still has a well-working keyboard (or knows where to get one)? I have a Toshiba Satellite...
View ArticleMouse only scrolls UP
hello... not sure if i killed my mouse, or if there's something i can do to fix this one, but it's suddenly only scrolling up. when i try to scroll down, it might go a couple lines and then nothing. i...
View Articleexternal hard drive not recognized
Finally bought new computers. took old xp sp3 hard drive and turned into external drive. plugged it in and it powered up. plugged into laptop with xp sp3 installed. got the two beep tones, said it...
View ArticleODD not recognized
I have a TSST corp CDDVDW SH-222BB ATA DEVICE that my computer doesn't recognize anymore. The Device Manager shows little yellow signs by the device but updating doesn't help. I uninstalled and had the...
View ArticleCompaq Presario 6320US Boot Problems
Hi, Whenever I boot up my Presario it does things in this order: Starts making the fan noise Displays the red Compaq logo The Compaq logo gets weirdly distorted It reboots and does it all over again! I...
View Articleusing ddresure to image corrupt drive
Hi I have a 2tb drive which is corrupted . Has anyone used ddrescue to make an image to another drive ? the drive only shows up in windows 7 under computer manager and the error I get is " needs...
View ArticleMy Monitor shuts down after 5 seconds
Processor: AMD A6-5400K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, AMD64 Family 21 Model 16 Stepping 1 Processor Count: 2 RAM: 5527 Mb Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7540D, 512 Mb Hard Drives: C: Total - 932093...
View ArticleSolved: USB to Sata/IDE powered adapter recommendations
I'm looking to purchase in the UK a powered USB to IDE/SATA lead and having looked on ebay and amazon, I have not seen a unit with a decent set of reviews and UK plug anyone actually purchased on of...
View ArticleSeagate Expansion Desktop strange failure
Yesterday my USB drive (Seagate Expansion Desktop 2TB) failed in a strange way. Let me describe the symptoms: - When I power on the laptop with the disk attached, the boot process (or rather POST) is...
View ArticleSolved: Raid
I currently have an SSD boot drive and a HDD storage drive. I want to add a second HDD in RAID 0 using Intel RAID on my motherboard. I only want RAID on the HDDs and not the SSD boot drive. Is there...
View ArticleCompaq CQ60 boot Problem
Laptop powers on and all power lights come on accordingly. Fan powers on OK. But no BIOS or anything else comes on screen and HDD does not power up, HDD light does not come on either. I have taken out...
View ArticleIs my motherboard running hot?
Hi, I recently ran the program Speccy which I haven't run in a long time.. just to check things out and what not. I noticed this: Motherboard Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC. Model P5WD2-Premium...
View ArticleAMD Eyefinity Resolutions.
Hello! I have two 1440 x 900 monitors and one 1920 x 1080 monitor that I am wanting you use for Eyefinity/Triple Monitor Gaming. When I set up a group in catalyst, it sets the middle monitor (1920 x...
View ArticleErratic movement and clicks on touch-pad.
So i have a Sony Vaio laptop, windows 7 that has been ok-ish for 2+ years. the when i was watching a movie the cursor started to very slightly move just so the play-stop buttons came up. then after...
View ArticleLoading BIOS or hard drives
Hi, I'm having trouble with loading up with BIOS or any hard drives or just booting up with a CD with a COMPAQ Presario 5000. It's been doing this for a while but it was working before it happened....
View Articletrouble accessing hard drive via SATA cable
hello! i recently got blackscreened on my old dell. it would boot up to the log in screen and allow me to pass but would not load from there. from what i read online, this SATA cable would allow me to...
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