Recent content by ranco58

When you say a noise from the PC sounds like you may have a cup fan problem causing the CPU to overheat causing all your problems Ranco58

well what ever you are using to talk on the forum (like a smart phone) go to dell support and put in the service number of the laptop and download the driver to your phone, plug it into the laptop with a usb cord and copy the driver to the desktop then install the driver from there

well what ever you are using to talk on the forum (like a smart phone) go to dell support and put in the service number of the laptop and download the driver to your phone, plug it into the laptop with a usb cord and copy the driver to the desktop then install the driver from there

Unless window's is loaded doing a fresh install the system will not boot as the driver's for the motherboard will not be installed with the OS your only recourse is to do a clean install of windows on the new hard drive and then load the drivers for the motherboard, then install the hunter...

If it is the same identical card you will not have to change or reinstall any drivers, install the card in the same slot. Ranco58

http://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=148397 Here is the download page for the router you just need the version number which is on the model tag by the serial number. But you do not need any software to access the router simply type 192.168.1.1 in the address bar of your...

Sounds like a installed drive is corrupted or a file is, try uninstalling all video drivers and reboot if it starts and reinstalls the drive itself that may fix the problem, If not the system may be too corrupted and a windows reinstall may be needed. Ranco58

Windows 7 and up should install the mouse drivers nothing special is need since it is not one with multiple (6 or8) programmable buttons like a lot of gamming mice are. I the control panel you can set the scroll speed and the 2 side buttons will "page up & page down" Ranco58

Have been using Acronis for more than 15 years (back in Windows 95 and 98 days) I highly recommend it Ranco58

Uninstall the drivers in hardware manager reboot the laptop and let it reinstall the drivers itself (that is if it "finds new hardware" when you restart it. if it does and installs the drivers if the "sound card chip" on the mother board is good you will have sound if mot it has a problem with...

No that should not have affected it, Does the GPU have connections for power cable from the power supply ? If so then I have seen people use too small of a PS not capable of enough power damage the video cards just like not connecting the PS to video card if required damaging it also. Ranco58

While sometime CPU's of different speed may work on any dual CPU motherboard they shoud be the exactly the same. Ranco58

No way of knowing what all was damaged with out just trying to power it up with a good PSU. Could have damaged the motherboard, ram or any add in cards. Ranco58

Is the CPU fan running when the system is on ? It should be running at all times, if not the fan may be going bad, If it is running all the time then the fan could be also bad there is a speed sensor that is part of the fan and it sends a signal to the Bios telling it the CPU fan speed. Ranco58