CPU stuck to heatsink. Help!
I was replacing my heatsink for my cpu. Unfortunately the cpu came up with the heatsink. Before I get out a chisel and hammer,;) I thought I might first check on the forum for some advice on how to...
View ArticleMobo Compatibility
Hey peoples, I just wanted to check with the people who actually know about matching hardware (i'm a novice comparatively) if the following pieces of hardware are compatible. I want to buy a Gigabyte...
View ArticleSome more good sites for laptops
I posted the irisvista.com site for dissembling Toshiba laptops the other day and have now stumbled across this reference it is excellent - haven't been through the lot but seems to have a fair few of...
View ArticleHard drive and start up issues
Hello. I've been experiencing some problems with my hard drive which seems related to my computer starting up. Recently my computer has been stalling on the start up screen and then refused to boot at...
View ArticleFreeze problem,again...
I tried to do everything to fix the problem of freezing. I failed. I reinstaled Windows, reinstaled drivers, changed RAM slots, tried new RAM. Temperature of my computers are great, no overheating, I...
View ArticleCan someone confirm my PSU requirements please?
I'm finally bringing my home PC into this decade by installing Win7 Pro x64 this week. The current XP x86 installation has been having some bad problems the past couple of weeks, I think partly because...
View ArticleSolved Can't remove hard drive. Held in place with weird scews.
So I'm having moving this 500gb harddrive from one computer to another. It's not removing the hard drive itself that's hard, but the metal casing its held in. It's bolted inside the computer and I have...
View ArticleUnable to access Harddrive
Hello all, My PC running Windows Vista recently crashed with a BSoD (not sure which error code) and now does not boot into Vista. I tried booting into Ubuntu LiveCD and I figured out that the problem...
View ArticleNeed new Hard Drive, choices, choices...
Hi there. I recently have had hard drive failure, and I am in need of an upgrade. However, I'm not sure what I should get... I have been referred to this site: Best High-End Gaming PC | Hardware...
View ArticleBluetooth mice (2) Jerky after reboot-
New Inspiron 5720, i7 quad, 8gb ram, Home Premium, fully up to date. AVG a/v, Comodo Firewall (only firewall- Geekbuddy is back yonder somewhere in the ditch. Bluetooth mice detected at boot, install...
View ArticleKeyboard and mouse both start acting strangely after a few hours
Okay so, I've been getting this problem lately where both my mouse and my keyboard start acting up after a few hours of the computer being turned on. What happens is that the keyboard stops using it's...
View ArticleFirst Build; Comments/Ideas?
So right now I am running on a laptop, and that really isn't giving me the juice I want to play games and run demanding programs. I am constantly on Photoshop rendering 3D images and such, all the...
View Articlei5 430M v i5 560M
Currently cleaning up my L550 Toshiba laptop and am redoing the thermals now at present I have the i5 430M installed and have been given an i5 560M. Now the 430 is Clock Speed 2.26 GHzMax Turbo...
View ArticleWindows won't boot of SSD
I got a new SSD OCZ vertex4 few months back and replaced my HDD and installed Windows 7 64b on it and everything was fine until last week. I downloaded last weeks windows update and since then my...
View ArticleProblems after running SeaTools
Hi all :) This started after I ran SeaTools for Windows, Long generic test..which passed but I'm having few issues ever since: 1. I usually turn off my computer before going to bed, but the morning...
View ArticleHave I killed my laptop?
Hum well I think I just killed my lappy I cleaned it all up even tried a a better i5 in in but power on and the opto clunks clunks and the fan runs slow for a bit then races up to fast then stops...
View ArticleProblem with my Windows 7 Sony Vaio DVD Drive (Code 19)
I have an issue with my Windows 7 Sony Vaio DVD Drive. I had the DVD Drive replaced by Sony last fortnight which worked fine up until a couple of days ago. I've tried everything I can think of to get...
View ArticleDead hdd (C) on HP Envy notebook can I recover data?
Hi, I´m new to the forum and not really a computer ceek. I got following problem, my hdd partition C on my HP Envy notebook is destroyed, the notebook has an recovery partition d which is also 500MB,...
View ArticleWant to install more RAM
...I have 3GB of RAM , 2 and i , I think . ...Can I replace both of those with 4 and 4 to total 8GB? I have a toshiba satellite L505 , running Windows 7 and Chrome as a browser. I also have 88% Free...
View ArticlePSU died, new PSU, bios wont recognize SATA devices, now wont turn on
Synopsis: PSU died, replaced PSU with different model, system boots to bios successfully but does not recognize any devices in SATA ports, nor do those devices appear to be getting power. Now can't...
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