DVD burner, buying advice?
which brand to go? There are five brands sold in the nearby computer shop. LiteOn, LG, Asus, Pioneer and Plextor. Their prices are close but Plextor and Pioneer are at the higher ends while LiteOn and...
View ArticleMy laptop fan doesnt speed up to keep the laptop cool
hi. i have an ASUS N56VZ-4283H . Normally laptops fan speeds up while playing a game to keep the laptop cool. But mine doesnt. The problem started when i formatted windows 7 and reinstalled it. Please...
View ArticleiPad,iPhone recognized but not showing in Windows Explorer
Everything worked until about a week ago. I could hook up my iPhone or iPad and they would show up as portable device (don't remember the exact wording) in explorer, without a drive letter. I could get...
View ArticleMigrating a 32Gb partition to a bigger one using Norton Ghost
Hey people. I'm a bit of a complete noob about all this. I already asked a bit of help before about SSD replacement, but here's my latest issue. I wanted to completely replace my Laptop's internal SSD...
View ArticleMP3 Write Protection USB problem.
Hello Im confused with this guys answer here, it seems to be the solution to the problem im having. Ive insert my sony mp3 player and when I went to delete a folder i got this message:MP3 Write...
View ArticleSolved I need help with my computer, something about physical memory
Suddenly, I got the BSOD (I use Windows 7 Utimate). It said something about psyhical memory. I have turned off my PC, then when I turned it back on it didn't post. I need help... *Here are my PC specs:...
View ArticlePuzzling Permissions Quandary
My son just recently sent away for (how sad that you just can't go to a store and buy) a Windows 7 desktop from HP. His old XP was becoming more trouble than it was worth. So I went over to his place,...
View ArticleHArd Disk Smart Status Bad - Western Digital
When I plug in my Western Digital it gives me the following error: "IDE Channel 2 Slave Hard Disk..... S.m.a.r.t Status Bad Warning: Immediately Back Up" It is a WD 5000YS, I guess....... It will not...
View ArticleWebcam microphone stopped working, error codes 1/19 in Device Manager
My *Logitech C920 HD Webcam*'s stereo microphone disappeared from the Recording Devices list after I deactivated it temporarily in order to facilitate troubleshooting of an unrelated(?) error with the...
View ArticleNo luck wiping a drive
Am trying to wipe a drive and Partition Wizard froze at 49% an a clean all just returned this which I have no idea is about .
View ArticleA3 printing
I have an Epson A3 printer. It prints A4 documents from any Microsoft software successfully. However when printing an A3 image it reduces it down to A4 regardless of settings. Has anyone else had this...
View ArticleGame Controller and mouse causes laptop to freeze.
so this is what im experiencing: when i play a game, i plug in my wired xbox 360 controller. game and laptop works fine. when i close the game and leave the controller plugged in, computer freezes. if...
View Articlehow to make DDR3-1333 DDR3 4 GB work on my Gigabyte G41-M Combo mobo?
I wanted to upgrade my RAM with a 4GB stick running instead of old 2 GB DDR3 stick bought a new ram for my Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo motherboard, when i plug my 4gb ram the pc doesnt boot This 4GB DDR3...
View ArticleSolved Can't prevent power on with mouse
Hi, I have 7 x64 SP1 I can't prevent the PC from waking up with the mouse. * It is disabled in the advanced power management options in the device properties. * It is disabled in BIOS...
View Articlewd external hard disk
Im realy fed up ....... I have wd 500gb elements (external)...driver shows on device manager and even shows on disk management as disk 1 with a deffirent letter as F I changed it as it was G but no...
View ArticleAccessing SATA drive in USB docking station?
Hi Guys, I have an 80g sata drive (secondary internal) that was getting quite full. I went to buy a new terabyte drive and bought an external docking station while at it. I swapped out the the two...
View ArticleWeird HDD space issue
I have two 1TB storage drives in a Lian Li EX-503 setup as individual disks. One is a old WD 1TB Black and one is a newer (2012) Hitachi. These drives are not in RAID1 but I have them both synced with...
View ArticleAnyone Using A (older) Brother 2140 B&W Laser Printer ?
Hello, Have a Brother 2140 Laser B&W Printer. Several years old now, but it just keeps on working, very well. Actually, one of the best products I've ever purchased. Really happy with it. But, For...
View Articleamd phenom x3 triple core processor 8650 2.3 ghz toliman
hey all, wanted opinions and thoughts about an amd phenom triple core processor 8650 2.3 ghz L3 2048mb. found 2 of these at a thrift store brand new for $15.00 each. thanks poorguy
View ArticleExternal Hard Drive Not Recognized in Windows Each Time Via USB
There are many articles here within the forum and elsewhere on how to use Disk Management to get your External USB Hard Drive to be recognized in Windows so I won't repeat that process here. The lack...
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