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Water damage repair?

A few weeks ago I accidentally spilled water on my laptop keyboard. At the time I tried everything but the damage was already done. Now, the laptop is mostly functional but various keys don't work. For...

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Computer auto shut off problems

I recently have started having a problem with my dell vostro laptop running windows 7 32 bit. After turning it on and running windows for anywhere from 3-10 minutes the computer would automatically...

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Best universal laptop charger

Trying to find a best univeral laptop charger to use in laptop repairs and so on. Ebay is full of them but i cant seem to find the one i might consider great. Does anyone know if there is anything that...

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Graphics Drivers

I'm using an HP Pavilion g7 laptop running Windows 7 64-bit. The AMD Radeon 7670 graphics driver I have doesn't seem to work properly. When I have it installed, my monitor doesn't wake up from sleep....

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Is This A PCI-E Card

Hi! I've decided to get video card, but I'm not sure if this card is a PCI-E card. The card: NVIDIA GEFORCE 560Ti GRAPHICS CARD DIRECTX11 16X 1GB GDDR5 3D VISION SLI PHYSX What I can see of the picture...

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Sony GDM-5402 Monitor Failure

Hi, So I turned my computer on this morning and my monitor seems to have failed... Its a Sony GDM-5402 21" CRT display, yes I know its ancient and very obsolete but it worked perfectly up to last night...

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Solved: Configuration Problems

Hi, I use a COMPAQ Presario working off VISTA OS, and I seem to be getting configuration problems with peripherals. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but the problem started when I had my...

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Lenovo B570 wont pass POST

I recently acquired a lenovo laptop B570 CHEAP. had cracked screen and I knew so when I bought it, figured it might be worth fixing seeing as lenovo is GOOD stuff, right? Anyways I turned it on after...

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Laptop Battery Issue

I bought a new battery for my Acer Aspire AOA150, this is a new battery. It says it's 100% charged but once I unplug charger, it shuts off.

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Solved: motherboard wont see SATA drive?

I have gotten a load of spare parts, im building a PC for friend,,, just an old thing with P4, 1Gb - but thing is the MSI motherboard MSI MS-7211 keeps going into RAID mode or something? tried 2 drives...

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Flash video freezes in Windows 7

Hello, I for the life of me cannot figure out what the problem is. I have the same issue (video freezing when watching flash videos ie. youtube, VEVO etc...)I have updated my flash software as well as...

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white dashes , blue screen ?

i get little white dashes (look like minus signs) all over screen, then blue screen ? sporadic ;not a monitor problem; video card ? happens when running games that require good graphics eg, call of...

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Computer has power for a quick second

AMD FX 8320 8 Core 3.5 GHz (Black Edition) ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 Motherboard 8GB DDR3 1333MHz Corsair XMS3 Radeon HD 6950 2GB 120GB SSD & 512GB SSD Okay, so my desktop randomly stopped working. The...

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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250

Just replaced my single tuner avermedia with a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 dual tuner. Aver had a tv and an antenna connection, so it was easy to connect a cable box and a separate antenna cable....

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Failures at booting, CPU problems.

I recently installed a new CPU in my pc (intel 2 quad q9400 ) Asus p5b motherboard intel 2 quad q9400 2.66ghz 2gig ram. nvidia 9800GT Before I installed the CPU i flashed the bios (too 2104) because...

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Quality looks strange using my new TV as a monitor.

I'm using this TV http://www.amazon.com/Sharp-LC22DV17.../dp/B002RZCHF2 as a monitor. I just got it for free from my girlfriend while she's away and am using the VGA cable from my old PC monitor to...

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Laptop stuck on Toshiba splash screen

Hi, my boyfriend's laptop is a Toshiba Satellite. About 3 weeks ago he spilled coffee in it. I got it cleaned up and working perfectly. Then, about week and half ago, he spilled a BIG glass of milk in...

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Mootherboard Compatible with Wireless Adapter

Hello, I'm buying a PC soon, piece by piece, I've chosen my motherboard, it's the Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3. I found an adapter, and here's my problem. Mo motherboard has 3 PCI Express x16 ports and 1 PCI...

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Gaming Computer

I was thinking of saving up for a gaming PC. Can anyone tell me about how much money (minimum) I'd have to spend to make a decent Gaming PC?

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Solution needed - Motherboard drive port is malfunctioning

Well, My problem is regarding the Secondary IDE channel (port/interface) on the motherboard of my desktop PC. My motherboard is Intel D845GVAD2. (MicoATX Factor) Well, Earlier each desktop motherboard...

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