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    laptop dies after start

    I got an hp laptop , bateri is dead, but i ahve the power cord for it, when i tr started i need to leave it plug in a while i guess for the batter to charge a bit , but i think he baterr is bad all toguether, ,So do u think the reason wh I cant operate the lapp is becasue m bateri is dead or...
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    help with a dell xps400

    I have a dell xps 400 desktop, today while onlin i got a blue screen with messages, i rebooted the computer and now all i get at boot up is this message on a black background screen: X300XT Bios P/N 113-A33437-102 the pc willnot go into windows or anthing, is anyone has a system like this...
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    why i cant get transmission from my router?

    I just installed a linksys pci 54mbs wireless network card on my old pc, and i can conect to my router and see my other pc's and even access shared folders, but i cant go online with the share internet. basically is conected but no receiving the dns and other things required for online surfing
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    how can i set up a mixed network(wired and wireless)

    Until now i had a desktop that conected to my internet via a dsl modem. I since bougth two laptops with wireless capabilities, i got me a wireless router and conected my dsl line form the pc to the router and the desktop to one of the open slots on the back of the router. I can go online fine...
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    wirelees network security configuration

    I had an internet sharing connection with my wireless router for a while now, and yesterday i decided to turned that into a wireless network , so that my wife could print from her laptop. Question, i was setting the security festures on the router, i used wep2, this made me created a tx key, now...
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    Can someone help with this?

    I have a good friend of mine that bought some hardware and have some trouble, i told him I would put his email to me here and see if you guys could lend a hand , so here goes: ya I'll give you a quick rundown of what I have and what problems the damn things givin me. I bought a motherboard...
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    computer restarts on it's own

    The problem only seems to be happening if I play my pc games, short into the game the pc reboots, sometimes is the screen that just go blank. I have a compaq presario 2.2 gig athlon xp processor, win xp, 768 megs of ram, ati radeon 9550 256 megs onboard. I thought maybe was heat realted issue ...
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    memory

    I found some memory and I would like to know the amount and the latency, how can I determine this just going by the markings??
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    compaq presario 5140s

    basically the pc is reboting when I play certain games, like world of warcraft can this this be atributed to cooling, this has always happened with the system, all game hardware is compatible with the games. this is my pc specs: amd xp 2800 nvidia geforce 440 mx 64 ddr 768 megs pc 2700 win...
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    need help setting up a wireless router

    I have a motorola wr850g wireless broadband router, my dsl modem as I was told also can be set as a router, so they told me to access the configuration page and switch the dsl modem to bridge, now I was to take the ethernet cable from the back of my pc, plug that into my motorola (wan) port...
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    cd tray wont stay shut

    my new pc started acting up today, the cd tray will not stay close, I was playing a game fine , then I decided to removed the cd from the cd rom and now the tray just opens back up when I try to close it, any ideas?
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    presario s5140wm

    I got this compaq presario s 5140wm, the pc started to just reboot at first, then the display on the monitor used to go black, and the cp would stay idle, at this moment i tried to started up again and it did went into wondows I try to reboot and it stayed on idle with a black screen, is doing...
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    error on vdx

    I been trying unsuscesfully to format and install windows on an old 40gig hd, I get the hd to reformat but during installation of the OS I never finishes and gives me an error on a file with this extension .vdx , I tried several OS, win 2000 win me, win xp win 98, they never finish a clean...
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    scsi question

    I was given a scsi drive and the card to go along with it. Im runing win xp pro, this is the dilema, I went home plug the card on the available pci slot and conected the ribbon cable to the card and the other end to the scsi drive. I started up my pc, it found the scsi card and installed drivers...
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    one long beep at start up follow by many consecutive beeps, no display on monitor

    as the add title says, I came home this morning to find my kids computer doing this monkey dance, one long beep at power up then a series of consecutive beeps, that dont stop, there is no display of the bios or nothing on the screen. I havent mess with it yet, but I will like some ideas. thanks
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    I'm stump on this one????????????

    a friends computer will start up go into windows xp and then a few minutes later the video goes off, computer stays runing and he has to shut the pc down in order to get video back on and it just keeps on doing the same thing. keep no in mind, I tested the memory, the video card the hard drive...
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    winxp only runing at 10mbps on my 10/100 setup

    I have two pc's with win xp on a basic home lan, both pc's have a 10/100 pci card as far as I know both have the auto sensing for the speed, and I have a 10/100 four way hub, the network conection only runs at 10mbps and it doesn't change to the full 100, before when I had win 98se I had no...
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    computer hangs at boot up

    Im powering the computer and after the post it hangs and stays , on the black screen, the computer says "building dmi pool and that is all she does. I check the memory and all other stuff, cpu, hard drives and all seem fine, any susgestions?? . this is the setup the motherboard is generic this...
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    paypal question on refunds

    Are refunds made to you by a seller supposed to be but on a temporary hold from paypal?? this is the first time I got money refunded bacjk to me and my account shows the money come in and then place on hold by paypal, says it should take 2-3 days, is this commonm practice , has anyone here...
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    "Check S Cable"

    I just shipped a computer to a good friend of mine, and the pc was runing fine at home, when she got it and hook up the monitor, keyboard and mouse, at boot up the computer would look at a black screen with this error "check s cable". anybody have any clues. I forgot , she is runing windows ME...
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    Pc loads win ME and reboots on it's own continuosly????

    I'm pretty good with my pc's but this time I'm kind of stump, and posibly is even something not hard to fix, okay here we go: I got a cely 900 with windows ME on it, lately it started to reboot as I was under windows doning whatever, playing games or even online, I thought maybe i need it to...
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    How do I set up tcp/ip for a lan game

    I got two computers set up at home on a lan, using a crossover cat5e cable, I'm able to share files but I can't start any lan games they don't show at all. almost like if there was no lan, a frined mention that what I had was a basic peer to peer conection and not a true lan setup and that this...
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    why can't I see the lan game ????

    A couple of days ago I came here for some tips on how to go about conecting to pc's for gaming , I decided to go with a crossover cable and the two nic cards, I have them both configure basically the same and I can access the files and share them also, but when I lunch the lan game on one...
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    how can I connect 2 pc's

    I basically want to conect my computer and my kids at home so we can play some game over a lan setting, I'm new to this, all I have is this, both computers have a base 10/100 tx nic, and just a crossover rj45 cable. Is this all I need? Do I need some router or a switch? I'm running win98 on both...
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    Mustek 8432 cdrw

    latelly it started to give me errors like "buffer overun" and stuff, it does not write on the cd basically, I have no idea what's the problem, the software easy cd creator 4.04 says to check the data cable, they are fine, I tried to upgrade the firmware on the cdrw itself and tried...
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    overclocking t-bird 900

    I tried to o'clock my system using a guide from tom's hardware, at first It wouldn't boot at all, now it giving me this error message, something "boot strap " use F10 to disable, the darn thing wont go away, it goes into windows after it pauses at the win98 logo for a long time , then...