Archive for the ‘Q_and_A’ category

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 [...]

Windows Display Upside Down

Name: Mel Lee just wondering if you can help me out. My granddaughter was leaning on the keyboard and everything on the monitor went upside down. I resarted the computer and it is still upside down. How do I get it right side up. Thanks in advance Where you say your granddaughter leaned on the [...]

Windows 98 – Not booting after format

Name: Harold hawkins i reformated my windows 98 and now am getting message invalid system disk replace the disk and then press any key So is there any way to get back into windows without taking it to the shop hope you might be able to help me out THANK YOU The most common reason [...]

Task Manager Dissapears

Name: Tausif When I Hit ctrl,alt,delete to bring up task manager, it starts up, flashes onto the screen and then disappears leaving the icon down in the task bar. So I then run my cursor over it and it disappears. I reinstalled xp and run virus checkers adware remover spyware remover. Nothing works and I’ve [...]

Installation Problem – PFN_LIST_CORRUPT or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Name: Niladri Saha I am getting either of the two error messages when i goung to install XP in my Pc which are IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or PFN_LIST_CORRUPT. tThis not the first time i am going to install the XP.The configuration worked well before. Is my HDD corrupted ? or something else? Something wrong with your hard [...]

Crash – Computer crashes right after turned on

Name: Bill Phillips Turn it on, the screen runs for 20 sec. and freezes. It’s a good possibility that your CPU’s heatsink has come undone or loose. Once the processor gets past a certian temperature then it no longer functions properly and it will cause all kinds of errors; most commonly what your describing. However, [...]