Archive for the ‘Q_and_A’ category
World of Warcraft and Ventrilo keep crashing!
Name: Rob Mackay Hi, I have a Pentium 4 3.6 Ghz processor (on an Asus P5N32 motherboard I think), 2 gigs of RAM, and 2 nVidia 6600′s in an SLI configuration. The problem that I am having is that if I am running Ventrilo, World of Warcraft, and some other applications at the same [...]
My PC Keeps Killing Hard Drives! – Recurring HD Failure
Name: Robert Malone PC keeps killing hard drives. install new hard drive, load all software, seem to run fine for a while then hd dies, machine will no longer see hd. Had done this to 3 hd’s, scared to put anything else in. Any ideas? I suppose the first item of business is: Are you [...]
Trying to remove Spyware – Safe mode cannot be accessed!
Name: Ryan When i try to access safe mode in attempting to remove spyware, it does not work; as in, it wont load the safe mode. Is there something i need to do to allow it to work? Getting into Safe Mode is pretty straightforward. You simply reboot the computer, and press F8 a whole [...]
“Operating system not found” – HP Pavilion 7925
Name: Terry Robinson “Operating system not found” is the only thing my H.P.Pavilion 7925 do. Please help. Well, in order to be more helpful it’d be nice to have some clarifying information, so feel free to post a reply on this page if you feel it necessary. First and foremost, you will want to remove [...]
OS will not reinstall after partition merge
Name: Shannon Louden Im the computer genius of the family. I havent encountered a problem I couldnt fix until now. I have a toshiba satellite a200 with a 160gb hard disk drive. I had 2 partitions set up (using partition magic) as I was going to run 2 systems. XP and Vista. I had only [...]
Rebooting in circles – Laptop overheats
Name: Christopher Smith Hi, My computer a Toshiba Satellite A35-S159 very often over heats and shuts off. horrible design by Toshiba engineers. fans on the bottom to get air by the heat sink? anyhow i usually just restart my computer. this time however when i restarted, it went to a safety mode restart. i choose [...]
Windows Install Crashes After Linux Install
Name: McCarthy I had windows installed, then i installed Linux, and when i try to go back to Windows, i put the CD in and it said “setup is inspecting your hardware configuration” then the screen will go blank. How can i remove Linux and get windows back on? If the Windows installer is crashing, [...]
Blue screen – Monitor displays everything in a blueish hue
Name: Colin Sandberg I turned on my computer after opening it up and poking around a bit. I did remove the power supply and replaced it. When I turned my computer back on, the screen was blue, however, besides this, it functions normally. I hope you can help me. Is your monitor connected via a [...]