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I recently upgraded my Dell Inspiron 660 with an EVGA 760 video card and a 500 watt EVGA PSU. Now, whenever I put it to sleep, it shuts off. I checked under power options, and it says it should be sleeping, but not. Any idea what caused this? My other systems specs are an i5-3330, 8 GB RAM, 2TB...

Hi, My laptop is about a year old now and the fans inside have obviously gone bad. It's really noisy and hot to the touch. HP has demonstrated fan cleaning by getting compressed air and blowing it on the outside-in. However, on some websites like youtube, it seems that opening your own laptop...

Hello All, So, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me with a little problem. I have two external HDs - I store my movies and music on them. I have all files perfectly linked to iTunes and XBMC; however, at times I need to put a virtual drive on my system with Power ISO. This is...

Dear all, I am currently planning on building the following system:http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2r67d I have been warned that I should not buy 1.65v memory modules with this setup - because of the processor I assume. I would greatly appreciate some help with this, as I have just ordered the...

I am having problem with my new toshiba laptop. it say's connected but no internet access. I am having this problem at work. others can connect only mine couldn't. please help me.

I am looking for the best priced micro or uATX AM3+ Motherboard for my build that will fit a fx 8320 or 8350 and preferably is around $50-60. All answers are welcomed

Hi I have been interested in getting a new 3D monitor but I don't know which to get. Passive or active - I have no idea which is better and thus which one to buy. I will be using tridef 3D with a radeon hd 6870 MSI OC edition so it must be compatible there. My budget is around £150 but I could...

So, I have Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. I went to the link on Java's website and it told me to download this. https://www.java.com/en/download/win8.jsp It downloads as 'chrome-install...exe' So I installed it, and it works fine in my browser (chrome), but then, I ran Minecraft, and it gave me the...

I took a peek on a gift that someone is getting for me... I dont see that I will use this for right now but can you tell how good this graphics card is on the windows experience index, how well it plays low end games like league of legends, starcraft, etc. I dont really care about the looks of...

Ok, so I want to play skyrim on high/ultra and I don't have much money, I can spend at most 70$ and I would prefer nvidia card. Please help me. My config: MBO: Asrock B75M-GL R2.0 CPU: Intel i5 2500 3.3 GHz RAM: 2x4GB DDR3 1333MHZ Kingstone Power: LC POWER 650W ATX v2.3 80+ bronze Hard Disc...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) For some reason, my CD/DVD drive doesn't autoplay any discs I insert. The registry has the autoplay parameter set to 1 to do autoplay. What else should I check?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) Hi Yesterday I had a signal for an automatic update download and install. The process proceeded to shutdown and restart at which time I noticed that the update symbol was still in the tray and when selected notified that...

Has anyone used any of the compact projectors to display their work? I saw an HP unit last night that used an LED light sources (long life, unbreakable, cooler operation). I saw some incredibly small units that fit into one hand. I saw some medium small units that were the size of a large...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) Hi I'm using an new laptop with XP Pro and Windows Media Player 10, which sometimes won't accept perfectly good CDs. I get "No CD in drive" -- and they just won't play. I'm not sure but I think it's some kind of copy...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) My friends toolbar does not show open windows! That's bizzare. We opened & closed all possible toolbars with no effect. Any suggestions?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) hello, > > I am trying to allow a dos application to print to a network printer. When i > type the command: > net use lpt1: \\computername\printsharename /persistent:yes an error message > is returned: > > System error 66 has...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.storage,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) Good day ladies, gentlemen, I'm having a problem sharing the NUL. device. Well actually it's shared and mapped, but I cannot write to it. And that's what I would like to do. We need to be able...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?) OMG! It has 1001 lives!!! 1. The LAN on my PC cannot be disabled to remove the icon because it causes my dialup ISP to fail with an ntdll.dll error on the second disconnection. So I need to find a way to disable/hide...

Hello, I have a hp nx9010 and i installed windows 7 on it but there was no audio driver and i don't know where to download it from please help find a solution to this

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.games (More info?) For over half my games, they run but while in-game the screen flickers in blocky patterns. Semi-hard to describe. it seems large, squarish potions dim and blink, hence flickering. Now if i reboot my PC and that game is the...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) Received an error when I started my computer saying Windows could not start becasue the following file is missing or corrupt. \Windows System 32\Config\System You can attempt to repari this file by starting...

Hey, I want to build a computer. So I wanted to ask if these components are good or if there are any improvements I could make: CPU: i5 4670k Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Case: CM Storm Trooper RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB @ 1600 MHz HDD: WD Blue 1TB SSD: Toshiba Q-Series SSD 128GB PSU: be quiet...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) I installed a new hard drive on my WinXP Home system. Instead of restoring the system from a disk image, I used Western Digital's Disk Copy utility that came with the new drive. After a few minor tweaks everything runs...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely (More info?) I've setup a VPN connection to a remote server and can connect fine. But here's the stupid question, now what do I do? How do I view the remote computer and browse that network? Thanks for help.

I would like to have my email icon on my desk top. I do not know how to do this . Can you help me?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) Hi, I run Windows XP, SP 2, MS IntelliPoint 4.1. I have plain old Microsoft Mouse "Optical Blue". I couldn't find a way to be able to use the "wheel click" as "middle click". Please help me out. Thanks.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) Does anyone have any idea as to why my PC - XP Home just installed SP2 - would suddenly decide to go into what appears to be some sort of hibernation mode sometime during the night? I can leave it on all day and it's...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) I have a laptop which i use to connect wirelessly to my home pc using wireless card and wireless router laptop has problems wiv the hard drive and i want to do a system recovery. will i lose this connection if i...

ok for example this video below it copies a 4.5gb file from a NAS to the laptop thenb back out to a different drive on the nas how can it copy so fast? i assume it copies to laptop and back out at the same time but how can it pull data off a harddrive and copy it so fast i thought the hard drive...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) How can I connect up my printers so that they are independant of any computer. They are all connected to the Router and have own IP addresses. When I add a printer to one computer using the IP address, the other...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) My pc currently has 1 HDD, a CD-RW and DVD drive. Am about to get a second HDD. Using XP Home. Configuration suggested to me is to have the C: drive on IDE 0, with CD-RW as slave, and 2nd HDD on IDE 1 cable, with DVD drive...

Hi have have built my own computer see specs below, recently i have encountered a problem where the system will randomly turn off for no apparent reason with no warning or shutdown screen. The system will then proceed to automatically restart. It then loads up the BIOS screen and sometimes will...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) when irun the add/remove programs item, this item does not run and an error is shown : the application rundll32.exe has problem and must be terminated. please help me because i can,t see my installed progams.

Hey guys, So I just built a new computer and there is this annoying humming sound that is coming from it. I have narrowed the problem down to the two 120mm top fans of my p280 case, and the side panel of the p280 case vibrating as a result of the two top fans. I would like to rid my computer...

This mother board will not give any audio. and when I try and install the audio drivers the program haults and sys it can't find the driver. No matter what directory and sub directory I try or what setup program to install the driver it always ends the same can't find the driver. I have never...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) When I try to set up a specific backup job in task scheduler I am doing something wrong because when the scheduled task occurs all that happens is the backup utility opens but does not load the specific job I want it to...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?) What should i look for when buying a new hard drive? I am after a good quality one with over 100Gb.

Good morning everyone! I have a friend who asked if I could build him a gaming machine for at or below $500 that will play Final Fantasy Online. He doesn't need a monitor or keyboard and mouse, just the tower itself. I was perusing around the specs online and they seem a little daunting for...

This was my very first build. I had never gotten anything but a premade before now. I am hoping that the build went okay. I got a lot of advice from some friends and from the Tom's community. Hopefully, I did okay. I did my first foray into overclocking today too. I decided to stop at about...

All I have is an HDMI cord right now, and that doesn't seem to work. Do I need to use a RGB cord to start out?