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for some reason, i have always had a problem getting my pc to boot from the XP disc. i have tried a couple different xp discs and my computer refuses to boot from CD. i have 2 plextors and 1 pioneer. in the bios, i have first boot set to CD ROM, then a plextor, then the hard disk. for some...

my friend just got windows vista ultimate, and he is going to let me use a copy so i was wondering if , when he let me borrow it, i install it, will i be able to format the hdd and put xp back on if things dont work out? or is it true that if you install vista on a hdd , you cant remove it...? thx

my monitor was working perfectly for a year untill one day, the power shut off on it by itself. i was like hmm thats strange so i go to turn it back on but that was a no go. i then unplugged it for a bit, then plugged it back in, and it worked. it turned on, then like 4 min later it shut off...

a while back my cats had pissed on the inside of my case that had honeycomb ventilation ( thermaltake shark case ). my sound card and my video card had the most shit on it. a friend of mine cleaned my videocard with some kind of solution and the card worked perfectly. i also needed my...

i went to install vista ultimate from cd in windows, but when it asks me which drive i want to install on, it wont allow itself to be installed on the one drive i want it on. The drive i want it installed on is my Maxtor 300GB IDE drive. There is nothing wrong with the drive that i know of...

i am running windows xp pro w/sp2. how come i when i try to use the tracert command it says "tracert not a valid win32 application"? for example if i say tracert mediacollege.com it then gives me that error...following by stating in the command prompt directly below it "Denied".

my friend and i are having problems with this sound card that we bought especially for the 360 so that i can have sound with my existing pc speakers. im using klipsche pro media 5.1 and a dynex 7.1 sound card with a model number DX-SC71. We can get pc audio working no problem but when we...

While i was ripping a movie the other day, i had put in my usb flash drive, then my computer rebooted : ( i have no idea why...anyways. So the computer boots back up, and now the keyboard and mouse functions do not work, i can no longer log into windows. i thought maybe it was a random thing, so...

i have told the bios in this old HP to startup using the cdrom, then the floppy. when i bootup with windows xp cd it looks lik eit checks it, but the setup screen for xp doesnt come up. i have also tried booting with the windows startup disk, but that doesnt seem to be working either. it...

:swear: i am starting to lead towards a heat issue from my crash problems, but i will let you guys have a look at these 3 pictures i snapped directly after i received a " system has recovered from a serious error" message after my full boot. here they are ...

damn blackouts again!!! i dont understand this, a while ago i had posted about half life 2 crashing, or auto rebooting after a short time of playing, its been a few months since then, and i tried half life 2 again, seemed to last a little longer, in fact it did, id say about half an hour, and it...

:confused: i have a computer here that will not boot, because it brings up an error box 2 times. This error occurs on the windows xp pro blue screen, just before desktop loading. "Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low" Your System is low on Virtual Memory. Windows is increasing the size of your...

i have run out of patience with my new build as of yesterday. I dont know what the problem is, but i suspect it is lack of power juice. Here is the problem: Almost always, during Half life 2, id say anywhere from 5-10 minutes, my computer reboots, with a blank screen, or reboots to desktop...

in my living room i have just a standard toshiba 19 inch tv. i was wondering what i need to hook up, my stereo speakers, 2 subs + 1 center to the tv. the tv only has av connections in the back. i need some more volume coming outta that tv, but i dont wanna buy a new tv, just use the speakers...

i get this error, right after my computer automatically reboots itself, after running half life 2 for a short time. it only happens while playing this game. right before it boots, it sorta crashes, it goes to a black screen, repeating the last sound used in the game, like over and over, like a...

i am having some big time stablitiy issues with my system. but first thing is first, how hot does my 6800GT have to be , to render my system frozen or w/e , reboot, etc. i dont know whats causing my system to reboot, im guessing a heat issue, and i dont know what sensor program to beleive. i...

does anybody know what the latest and/or greatest drivers are for my 6800GT? thx

i was tryin to remove the applique from the opaque side, and it keeps on sticking. i have tried pressing into it so much, using a credit card, and just leaving it for awhile, but it just keeps on sticking to the wrong piece. does anybody have any ideas how i can get it to stick to the...

im about to install the final piece of my newest pc, the proc. is it true that i should put arctic silver 5 on the base of my xp-120 as well? i dont see the reason for this if i do, that would just make a double layer of as 5 for the proc, and why not just put more on the proc, instead of one...

my friend of mine recently brought over a computer for me to fix, that is rather old p3 450mhz 384 megs of ram. he told me it wont boot , and if i did manage to get it to work, just do a fresh install of xp preferably. so i go to boot, and it wont boot, in no mode. so i use a win 98 boot disk (...