Start Up Repairing not Working
Hello. I hope this is the right place to post. I have a HP Pavillion with Windows 7. My computer will not load up today. When I turn on the computer it goes to "Windows Error Recovery" screen. I have...
View ArticleUSB 2.0 will not show up.
I recently bought a Kingston 128GB USB. I used a few time but for some silly reason I formatted it to exFAT. I don't have access to anything Apple so I am unable to format it that way. When I plug it...
View ArticleMouse button unresponsive for 1s after key press
This is very odd and a new phenomenon: after I use the keyboard, I get no response to a mouse click for about 1 second. It is particularly noticeable in SketchUp because of the way I work. It is the...
View ArticleI want to change boot HDD
Hi all, I have a very simple (to you experts) problem with which I would greatly value your help. I have 2x1TB HDDs. One is the boot disk and is a Samsung 103SI (C on SATA 1). The other is a backup...
View ArticleSolved SD Card won't appear in laptop.
So for the last hour and a half I've been trying to plug my SD card into the SD drive on my laptop and it wont show up in the computer section where all the HDDs are. The SD card is perfectly intact,...
View ArticleCannot Load Up OS - Black Screen with Cursor
Firstly, this isn't my laptop. It's a low-quality laptop that was bought 3 years ago, so not in the best of shapes. Apparently this has occured before, but when I try a normal startup it spends ages...
View ArticleUSB printer conflicts with PS2 Keyboard
Hello, I'm trying to connect a USB HP PSC 2410 Photosmart all-in-one printer to my computer but as soon as I connect this printer to a USB port my PS2 Keyboard stops working, if I disconnect it the...
View ArticleSSHD drive & M/B port
I am replacing a recently failed Corsair 128GB SSD with a Seagate 1TB SSHD drive. My O/S is on another SSD, plugged into one of the two Marvell 6GB ports on my M/B. I am assuming I am best connecting...
View ArticleExternal USB HD cannot be safely removed
Cannot safely remove ext-HD Toshiba laptop, Win7 x32, Home Premium Mains powered hub > Ext-USB powered HD. (Western Digital) I am using a third party "USB Safely Remove" app because it gives me more...
View Articleneed help with data transfer via SATA to USB
i'm going abroad for a while with my laptop. i can't take my desktop pc, but i can take the hard drive which has 1.5 TB of data on it. my laptop top hard drive is only 750GB big so i bought a USB 3.0...
View ArticleHelp required - Building a new PC
Hey guys I fixed on these parts. processor- AMD FX 8350 / 8320 gpu - nvidia gtx 660 / 760 ram - Corsair Vengeance ddr3 (1x8gb) motherboard - msi 970a-g46 case- cool master elite 431 plus mid tower...
View ArticleTrying to determine if my hard drive is about to die
I don't know if this is a hardware or a software issue, so I put it in this section. I'm really worried that one of my hard drives is failing, but I don't know for sure. Here's the story: Fed up with...
View ArticleBeeping/Chirping HDD- help interpreting SMART results
Hello folks, I've got a laptop drive thats beeping/chirping so I hit up the WD forum and the guy that responded pointed me to the Smartmontools site and I just wanted to get a second opinion(s) about...
View ArticleProblem with Verbatim USB 3.0 portable drive and USB 3.0 port
Bought a brand new Verbatim Store 'n' Go Portable HDD. It was to be my first taste of USB 3.0 on my (nearly) year old gaming system. When I connected it had a couple of problems. 1. The first USB 3.0...
View ArticleUpgrade HP Compaq 6000 Pro Microtower PSU
Hi everyone. I want to upgrade HP Compaq 6000 Pro Microtower PSU which has 320W. I want to upgrade in order to accommodate the right wattage for my MSI GTX650. The problem is that no standard unit with...
View ArticleHow to increase h/drive partition size in win7
running out of c:\drive space on a 1TB drive that has 5 partitions, would like to move space from 1 partition to increase c:\drive
View ArticleHard Drive gone!!!
I have C drive and 3 data drives on my computer. I did a Repair install to fix another issue (thanks Ztruker) but when i started Win 7 one of my drives was not recognized on "Computer", although it...
View ArticleBest internal DVD burner
I have lost two consecutive ASUS burners, both, at the end of 6/7 months, produce coasters consistently (especially on dual-layer DVDs) :mad:...money down the toilet. Can you please tell me which DVD...
View ArticleHow to replace crashed hard disk & re-install windows 7 using USB
Hi All, I am facing a serious problem with my laptop. System Details ============= Dell Inspiron N4010 OS: Windows 7 Home Basic (64-bit) What has happened to the system:
View ArticleM/board stops when cpu installed
I have an old socket 754 motherboard which was given to me 2 weeks ago. It was working ok but after a week it froze then after that it would boot up ok and then not the next time. I took it apart and...
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