Can anyone direct me to a website that gives info on replacing motherboards. I am trying to find out if I would be able to keep my hard drives in tact or if I would have to reinstall Windows and lose my data with a different motherboard
Thanks
I built my system a little over 3 years ago and had to replace the board after a year and a half. Now my computer is no longer booting up. First it would not boot up sporadically - now it just just stops/dies in the middle of the boot up and I think the board is bad.
Is there a way that I can...
I built my system 3 years ago when the AMD Athlon X2 4400+ dual core came out. I have a A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard that just died for the second time - had to replace it about 18 months ago. My nephew thinks it's better for me to wait until Nehalem comes out before redoing my system and I agree...
I was about to buy a new cpu and figured they would go down in price when the Quad-Core Nehalem Chips come out. Does anyone know when they will be announced?
Thanks
Corkyg,
This looks good. Can you tell me if I need an enclosure with it or do I just take out my internal hard drive and connect it through a SATA cable?
thanks
I ma upgrading my rig due to a bad mobo and want a really quiet PS. I am probably putting in a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor and keeping my old graphics card. I am trying to make everything as quiet as possible as I run this in the bedroom and my current...
Thanks, ihyagp.
I think my mobo died. I built it 3 years ago and am going to upgrade now that I pretty much have to.
I have a Thinkpad running XP Pro as was my rig. How would I know in advance if I can boot from my hard drive?
Also, if I have SATA II, will that make a difference in which...
My system just stopped working and I'm still trying to figure out how to repair it. In the meantime I want to buy a case that I can use to take one of my Hitachi SATA hard drives and use it to boot up on my laptop. Can someone recommend a good external USB case that would work>
TIA
My system just stopped working and I'm still trying to figure out how to repair it. In the meantime I want to buy a case that I can use to take one of my Hitachi SATA hard drives and use it to boot up on my laptop. Can someone recommend a good external USB case that would work>
TIA
Thanks everyone. Have been running Bitdefender for a week on 2 machines and like it's "unintrusiveness". Had been using ZoneAlarm and Kaspersky.
Spike99- Thanks for feedback. FYI I checked "create rule" 25 times and it kept asking every time I opened the same program. I used to be able to...
I would appreciate some feedback. I am changing Security programs. Bought Kaspersky and the new one is a big hassle on my wife's Lenovo notebook. It keeps asking for "allow" time after time for the same programs. I have tried contacting them and they only refer me to FAQ's which do not answer my...
I have a home built system with a NEC 3550-A DVD/CD. I run XP Pro w/SP2. For some reason I can no longer send data to my CD drive and write CD's. It will still read and play movies.
Can someone give me some guidance on how to repair it. I am sure it's software related and not a problem with...
I have several programs on my computer that I use occassionally that have the services stopped every time I go to use them. Can someone offer some suggestions on how this happens without me doing it and no one else uses this computer.
The programs are: AdAware; AVG Anti-spyware; Diskeeper...
I have been running Diskeeper for over a year on my computer and all of a sudden I can no longer open it. I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times with the same result.
I get error message 1062 which says that the program cannot be started. Every time I open "services" and try to start...
Can someone tell me if the Kaspersky firewall in their suite is their own firewall or somoene else's and if someone has experience with it, I would appreciate feedback.
I know that the Zone Alarm suite now uses Kaspersky anti virus so I thought that Kaspersky may use the ZA fireall.
Thanks...
Lately my IE7 has been taking a long time to shut down. If I click the X in the upper right hand corner, it takes the screen about 25 seconds to shut down and I can hear the HD clicking away. Other than that the computer runs great and this has just started a couple of weeks ago. It seems that...
I highly recommend Acronis True Image. You used to be able to go to their site and download free 30 day trial. It creates a true bootable hard drive that is a mirror of your original drive.
I just reformatted my wife's Thinkpad and am having a problem. For some reason after (numerous times) of setting the home page in both Firefox 2.0.0.6 (newest version) and in IE7, when she reboots the computer the home page reverts to MSN. Firefox is the default browser. Can someone tell me how...
It's XP Pro and I do know how to do it and for some reason it just does not work on the 2 laptops. Works fine on desktop. One of those weird Windows things.
Thanks anyway
I have tried this over 100 times. My homebuilt computer works fine. But I have 2 notebooks and I get the double headed arrow and my only options are a hidden taskbar or a double thick taskbar. I try to stop it about halfway done and nothing happens. It just reverts to a double thickness. If I...
On 2 laptops my wife uses the thickness/depth of the Taskbar is double the normal thickness. I like a single thickness for the Taskbar and I just can't figure out how to restore it. Can anyone please assist me?
TIA
I run Kaspersky AntiVirus and had been running ZoneAlarm Firewall. Recently my browsers started loading blank pages (FireFox2.01, IE7 & Opera) and I kept looking for the problem. I didn't think it would be ZA since I had been using it for a long time. Anyway I finally uninstalled ZA and now I'm...
tweekah,
1. Did the "netsh winsock reset catalog"
2. Will power down modem and router now.
3. Physical connection ok
4. Disabled ZoneAlarm and will try that for a while
5. tracert 10.1.1.6 Pasted below
Tracing route to 10.1.1.6 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms 1 ms 1...
Thanks for assistance. Here's what makes this strange.
1. Time Warner cable - same for 15 months - no change
2. 3 computers - only mine has problem - my other computer
and my wife's are fine.
3. Other 2 use wireless, mine is a desktop and plugged
directly into router and hasn't...
Please help! Don't know what happened but I have IE7, Firefox2.0 and Opera on my computer. All of a sudden I started having problems gewtting pages to load. Many internet pages in Firefox say they are done and the page is blank. I have to refresh 1 or 2 times to get the page to show up. It...
Please help! Don't know what happened but I have IE7, Firefox2.0 and Opera on my computer. All of a sudden I started having problems gewtting pages to load. Many internet pages in Firefox say they are done and the page is blank. I have to refresh 1 or 2 times to get the page to show up. It...
Thanks for input Nocturnal. I have done both several times - I removed the battery and then moved the jumpers and I just moved the jumpers.
I have 2 HDD and both are connected to the SATA connectors on MB, not the SATA Raid connectors. How would I know if they are connected to SilSATA...
My problem is that after the ASUS screen on bootup that says enter "Delete" to get into setup, another window comes up which is the Silicon Raid Bios Version window that asks if I want to get into RAID configuaration. If I have entered the "DELETE" key to go into BIOS, all I get is a blank...
My problem is that after the ASUS screen on bootup that says enter "Delete" to get into setup, another window comes up which is the Silicon Raid Bios Version window that asks if I want to get into RAID configuaration. If I have entered the "DELETE" key to go into BIOS, all I get is a blank...
I would so appreciate any assistance with this problem.
I had a HDD (Hitachi 80 GB 8MB 7200 SATA HD) go bad about 2 months ago and Hitachi replaced it with a new one. Then yesterday the new drive again went bad and I had to switch to my backup drive. I run HD Tach software to check the health...
I would so appreciate any assistance with this problem.
I had a HDD (Hitachi 80 GB 8MB 7200 SATA HD) go bad about 2 months ago and Hitachi replaced it with a new one. Then yesterday the new drive again went bad and I had to switch to my backup drive. I run HD Tach software to check the...
I have Speedfan and although I may not know how to use all the functions, my temps seem ok. I will give a Bios update a try - am currently using Bios 1013 from ASUS. I ama currently running the the HDD in IDE mode with MSFT drivers and no Nvidea drivers for controllers. Would appreciate any...
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