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Trying to get a laptop running again as it wont boot due to messed up video drivers and it freezes trying to load the display drivers going into safe mode. Trying to reinstall xp (tablet edition) and when I boot from cd, and choose to install windows, it says "Setup did not find any hard disk...

Bought a dual stereo 1/4 -> 1/8 stereo adapter off ebay, and 2 mic -> 1/4 cables because I wanted to record in stereo. Plug it into my mic port, and using audicity I only have sound from one mic. Ac'97 audio. Whats my weak link?

I just got my acer al2216w from ebay hooked er up and got a screen that looks like this. http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/7456/monitor001mf7.jpg As you can see the right half is extremely bright and fuzzy, almost windows 98 pixelated look, while the left side looks great. Could it just be a...

Hi, when my grandparents open outlook express (a shortcut from the desktop) it opens a specific email rather then the inbox. Im sure its a simple button or something to click, but im not sure which, does anyone have any idea?

I've got a computer with the internet explorer homepage hijacked to about blank. Normally I know this would just be a coolweb search hijack, but hijackthis and CWSShredder dont find anything, nore does spybot, adaware, windows defender, sypware nuker, or such. I tried removing it manually...

I am wanted to watercool my 7600 gt, and I will be making a homemade waterblock. The ram is spaced way apart from the VPU and with the stock heatsink its a huge (4"x2") heatsink with some fins with a fan blowing through them. Is passive ramsinks good enough cooling for overclocked ram, and...

It seems my recent xp installed screwed up the xp security center and I get an error when I try to start the Windows firewall/internet sharing service that says 'error 1075: the dependancy service does not exist or is marked for deletion' Thus I think the firewall is enabled and blocking...

I cannot for the life of me get it to pick up my connection. "Network connections|" has no adapters installed and under device manager 'Nvidia ethernet contrller" is installed fine, but "ethernet contrller" is errored. Any suggestions?

Got a trojan somehow, I have 2 weird instances when I run hijack, googleing the dll's brings no results so obviously its a trojan that just replicates itself with random file names. Ive scanned with AVG, AdAware and Antivir to no avail. When I try to fix the instances in hijack this they...

Well I was trying to isolate what was making this dying fan like noise in my computer so I was sticking paperclips in fans to stop them one by one. Well the PSU one wasnt a good idea. Nice burn marks on the finger. :rolleyes: What doesnt kill you... is a lesson learnt. Anyway, no power leds...

I ask this because I have a couple old heatpipe heatsinks that id like to utilize; ghetto style and see if my temps improve. If they can, how many degrees might be too far (obviously 90 would stop the flow. Hopefully someone has an idea. Thanks. Edit: Secondly, I have an EVGA 7600...

I just built a new system, it is my first build. The system has two IDE hard drives, one new seagate 80 GB which is running windows and the other is a 200 GB Maxtor diamond max 10 which was about 1/2 ful of data. after getting the system to boot, it will recognize the maxtor but only as 74.5 GB...

I have a mobo (dfi lanparty ut nf4 ultra) that has fire wire headers and a port on the back. I installed the nf4 chip set drivers and my firewire device(iPod) will not mount. Any ideas on where to get firewire drivers?

I salvaged an early 90's fax/copier/printer and found a neat LCD. The only model number on it returns nothing on Google. It has 16 pins and the only thing on the PCB that I could find that looks like a driver (Its a small square chip near it) is model BU12307-00. Any way I could drive this on a...

Im trying to create a dvd and Ive been constantly getting this error aftera bout 25 minutes of encoding. Ive tried firmware flash, different jumpers and removing ffdshow filters. Heres the log [00:21:43] GCHW Compressor '@device:cm:{33D9A760-90C8-11D0-BD43-00A0C911CE86}\i420' is...

I can get both cases for about the same price give or take 10 bucks and both have identical innards but the bezel has a different look. To owners, which one would I best get for modding? I assume all the components are rivited on both and thus I have to punch out the rivits and replace them with...

I havnt built a computer in about 4 years as I've been putting my money elsewhere. I havnt modded any cases in about 3 years. So now I have 750 (cad) put away for a new rig plus whatever I can get for a radeon 9200, athlon 2500, mobo, heatsink, ram + case. (150 bucks maybe?) Ive picked this...

I have been plugging my guitar into my line in to record but I want to record from the software I use on my guitar signal but audicity wont record it. Are there any apps that will record the audio coming from a specific program? Thanks.

I use bit-comet at school because its standalone and runs without installing, it adds .bc! to the end of uncomplete downloads. When Ive recently taken unfinished data to home though (Azeurus + utorrent) I need to remove the .bc! on 650 files to allow my clients to check the data and finish them...

I have a bandwidth contstraint of 10 gigs a month. I know this is unethnical but I was wondering if there was a program where I could block outgoing traffic on bit-torrent. Thanks.

Last night, after OC'ing when I restarted my task bar would appear for a fraction of asecond and then dissapear. It is there in safe mode where I checked for viruses and spyware. Ive also ran the windows file validation utility thing that checks if all the system files are there. Lastly my...

I have my DVD collection ripped to my hdd and used dvd decrypter/shrink to just get the main movie file. I was wondering if someone can suggest a program to convert the .vobs to .avi or rather .mpg to .avi since I can just rename the .vob and it still plays. Id prefere freeware but im willing...

I have like 3000 pictures from my trip over France (Im a shutterbug). I tried burning them to a CD on my old CD burner but my DVD players only seem to support 150 pictures per directory and the slideshow didnt even work or would go back to the directory menu after hitting play. I bought a dvd...

Hi, Ive been looking for a app launch bar like apples got. Id like to be able to put my most launched applications there duh features for a winner would be -Ability to change icon -Small memory footprint -Not on top -Stylish or skinnable. If anyone has any suggestions let me know...

How when I am installing/after I install xp can I make it so this time I can totally remove stuff I dont use such as wireless networking to make XP run faster? Such as in those small xp packages. Thanks.

To give a breif introduction I've had 2 maxtor harddrives in the past few years fail within a year. I finally got a WD 120 gig off ebay (Made in 2002, installed in 2005) and now I just ordered a 250 gig because I ran outta space. Id like to keep a backup of my unreplacable stuff (Media...

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4885/untitled35jm.jpg Im overhauling a layout from a script I downloaded. Its written in php and css obviously. Ive got a few questions about. A) Does the color scheme attract you? B) Where ive drawn the squiggly line is where my logo ends and it...

How do I disallow a certain IP from accessing a website. I have some 3rd party using my website to send spam (Possibly with fake headers though :( ) Thanks.

When I was on vacation for a week I had my computer off, it was all good before then. Now I have been getting random restarts so I thought it may be my video card overheating (and when I scanned, i got artifacts) so I set it to stock speeds and I set all my voltages to stock) but this morning...

Just bought an asus mobo and it seems whenever i plug usb devices in (usb/printer/camera etc) they will show up in device manager with an exclimation mark but they wont mount, any ideas on what I should check before seeing if its a bad mobo?

Had a trouble with my houses wireing shorting out and now Im having problems. Opon post it would have one long beep so I reseated the memory and cleared the cmos and it booted, but now my voltages seem off is +3.3 is 3.42 +5 is 5.02 +12 is 12.41 My socket sensor is reporting LA (down...

I got my ol athlon 2500+ still running strong but it hasn't seen the light of overclocking in a while, I almost forgot I was really involved in it at one time. So Ive got this overclocked to 2.1 [email protected] right now [200x10.5, although MBM is reporting 2203 mhz and xp is reporting 2.2ghz] and...

Is a router needed for sharing printers from a laptop to PC?

Me and a friend are trying to transfer files to eachother [large, like 9 gigs in total] but its going super slow. [1-4 kb/sec] I suspect NIS is completly killing his connection with its firewall because I can send to non-firewalled people perfecly fine. What can he do about this to get it to...

Ive been getting about 0.6mbit upload to my friend [over msn, same isp] and to testmy.net. Now, the connection from my ISP he said was about 2 mbits. Also dslreports.com gets about 1.8mbits. I do have a dlink router is this what is causing this? Any other ideas or testing I should do to figure...

Looking to upgrade RAM,CPU and mobo for under 400 bucks CDN (348 USD) First thoughts are to get a 3200+ (64), 2x basic 3200 400mhz ram which would run $342 ($297us). So what advice for a motherboard, or is there better bang for the buck with a different processor and some mobo? Thanks.

Quick question, dunno if this is in the right forum. As we know outlook encodes attachment headers differently then Thunderbird so when I try to view attached pictures in an outlook message, I dont see them, I have to manually open them. Is there a fix? Thanks.