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My laptop(Dell Inspiron 1100) is 5 years old. Suddenly, its power supply seems to have died. It will not start(neither the CPU,hard drive or monitor LED's power up when I press the power on button)with the AC adapter or battery. I suspect its power supply is malfunctioning. I opened it up, cleaned the dust and saw for any broken connections, but did not find any. I presume the power ...

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I need to change my motherboard and am considering ASUS. I need: - x16 SLI (to use my 8800GT) - on board RAID controller - to use Intel E8400 CPU - I assume an NFORCE4 chipset? - 1394 and at least 6 USB2 - at least 5 SATA and 1 ATA - HD sound chip - 1333MHz FSB and with good overclocking capabiltiy I have looked at the vast list of ASUS MB and the selection menus but found...

My laptop(Dell Inspiron 1100) is 5 years old. Suddenly, its power supply seems to have died. It will not start(neither the CPU,hard drive or monitor LED's power up when I press the power on button)with the AC adapter or battery. I suspect its power supply is gone. I opened it up, cleaned the dust and saw for any broken connections, but did not find any. I presume the power supply ...

Just recently I tried to defrag one of my laptops, and noticed while the defrag was going on, the disk space increases gradually. This was contrary to my experience ...As I find it rather strange I stopped the process. I would like to ask... Is this considered normal or just an exception... maybe because as the files are rearrange the can cover slightly more space...? TIA Roy

hey guys, ive got a nice shiny new Gigabyte AM2+ mobo and 4870X2 on order and am using Vista 64bit with PC2-6400 4 GiB of ram and a Athlon X2 6000+, ive been wondering if i should look at uping that to PC2-1066 16 GiB or so. With vista taking up so much ram, im worried that as soon as i get back into video converting/editing and heavy gaming having less might serve as a seriously ...

Imam LG Flatrona 915 FT Plus i sam od sebe se gasi. Nekada radi bez problema satima, a ponekad ukljuèim komp i ok dodje u WIN i onda samo kao da slika propadne (fade-out) i gotovo. Gasim ga, prèkam po izlazu iz TV kartice, vadim kabel od struje.. no nista. I da bi opet proradio moram komp restartat i nadat se da nece ponovno krepat. Jebemu.. sto mu je !? Pomoc ljudi.....

Hi Can anyone shed light on this. I received an email telling me of Open office suite 2009. but It appears that I have to pay for it through a subscription of £1.27 / month. This can't be right. https://secure.signupsecurity.com/p0...ionid=softw are Desmond.

Hello from France again. After what I explained right here ("How dead is my Dell" thread started Sept. 19th), I finally contacted the out-of-warranty Dell phone service (after a few friends tried their professional technical services, to no avail), and found that my GC can be changed right here, at home, for 284 euros all tax included. That seems quite close to what Christopher Muto...

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I am having the weirdest problem. I have an XPS410 running XP. Boot the machine, it works fine. Internet access works. File shares on other machines work. Other machines can see file shares on this machine. After awhile, from minutes to days, other machines can no longer see the file shares on this machine and RealVNC can't connect. This machine can still connect to other ...

Trying to decide between dual core and quad core for my next Dell desktop. From what I understand, Intel's current quad-core processors (at least, the ones offered by Dell) are not truly quad core, but more like two dual-core processors glued together. There are four cores there, no doubt, but certain components are shared between the two halves. Obviously, I'm missing a lot of ...

A (apparently) motherboard died in my Vostro 1500. The chat guy asks me to remote optical drive, HD and RAM and try powering it on. I got the optical drive out. I got two screws of the HD out. They were tight, and released with a loud ``crack'' when they started turning. Do they impact-wrench them on? The other two screws won't loosen. Apparently even tighter than the ...