Archive for the ‘Q_and_A’ category
Laptop Battery
Name: Betsy We have an HP Pavilion laptop, about 2 yrs old. We just replaced the battery, charged it up and it worked fine. Then we left it on the counter, unplugged, and when we tried to power it up today it was dead. Plugged it in and it is fine and the battery is [...]
Forgotten Password
Name: lynnora i have forgotten my windows password and didn’t create a back-up cd, just wanted to know what my options are, please help ;) thanks Best Wishes, Lynnora Lourenco The first, and easiest way to make the correction is to boot to safe mode, and log in as the administrator. The vast majority of [...]
Key problem
I am having a problem with one of my letter key one won’t type or not working. I have a Dell Latitude 99% of the time it’s a problem with the keyboard itself. Try hooking up a different keyboard to the machine and see what happens. If it’s still an issue then it could be [...]
BSOD
I get three different BSODs BAD_POOL_HEADER least common one IRQL_whateveritis most common one PFN_LIST_CORRUPT at first I thought it was an overheating problem then I thought it was a RAM error and I uninstalled AVG virus software and my comp was fine for a week and now the BSODs are back. They are like a [...]
Electrical Surge – Computer won’t power up
After an electrical surge my computer is dead, nothing powers up. A friend thought it mught be a fuse. Is there such a thing and where would it be in the computer? There usually is a fuse in the power supply of the computer, but because of the capacitors and such inside of the power [...]
Disk Drive Problems
A little while ago I took my computer to a guy who was going to remove a computer virus, ever since I haven’t been able to use my D drive, I have installed a E drive but when I go to play some of my games it tells me that my computer cannot locate my [...]
Gaming Rig Help – Windows won’t install
I have a great gaming rig with an AMD Athlon 64 3400, 512 Mb Corsair DDR ram (x2), Ati Radeon Pro 9800 video with 128 Mb video ram, Zenith Chaintech znf150 ez motherboard, 80 Gig SATA HDD (x2), 40 Gig IDE HDD, Vantec Vortex HDD coolers(x2), 6 80mm blue LED case fans, Aopen H700 full [...]
Upgrade RAM – What is the procedure?
Name: bong what are the procedure to upgrade the RAM? pls help me.i want to do the job personally RAM is probably the easiest thing to upgrade hardware-wise in a computer. What you need to do is take the case side off, and look at the RAM chips. If they’ve got 2 notches in the [...]