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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 [...]
Windows Vista 5384 is great, but still definitely a beta
As mentioned in my last post, Windows Vista 5384 is great. I can distinctly remember my first experience with the O/S some time ago, and at the time was unable to get it to even finish booting properly without crashing. It just didn’t like my ATi Radeon 9800 Pro. As soon as the drivers were [...]
Me = Slacking Off. My apologies.
Sorry for the lack of updates; especially to those of you that have sent in questions. I formatted my machine (it was due) and installed Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384. I did recieve some e-mails while I had this installed; but while I definitely liked it, there were still too many small issues to [...]
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 [...]
Vista Beta 5384 Install Error Code 80070241
An interesting thing happened to me over this weekend. I got an invite to join the Windows Vista Beta program, and obviously jumped at the opportunity. I went to their site, gave my .NET passport and was given a link to download the x86 or x64 versions of Vista (In quite a few languages actually) [...]