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  • PC restarts OK, but won’t turn on (after shutdown) without PSU rocker switch

    On an XP Pro machine, when we restart the PC it works fine. But if we shut down the PC, and wait a while, and then try to turn on the PC with the power button on the front, there is a throbbing / wavy sound and the led’s / lights on the fans and motherboard and psu pulsate in the same way – and the PC...
    Posted to Fans / Cooling (Forum) by hardware on 11-03-2009

  • Installing Striped RAID After XP is Installed

    My son and I are building a socket 939 machine using an ASUS A8NE motherboard with the NForce 4 chipset which includes the functions of a RAID controller card. XP Pro is installed on a Maxtor SATA HDD (non RAID) and have a pair of identical blank NTSF formatted Hitachi SATA HDD's for the RAID 0 array...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 08-23-2009

  • Blue screen after copying an image to a new desktop

    Hi, I have a load of Dell Optiplex 160L s. I have always kept an original computer upto date and then created a backup using Ghost 9. I then restore this to my new desktop PC to be given to who ever requires it. This has worked fine while I have only had 160L s. Dell now don't do 160L s so I bought...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 08-17-2009

  • No Sound after Clean install of XP Pro SP2 on Toshiba Satellite M15-S405

    I had a hard drive crash on a Toshiba Satellite M15-S405 Laptop. I installed a new drive and installed XP Pro SP2. I installed the drivers from the Toshiba support website. The PC was shipped with the AD1981 AC97 Codec, and I installed the SoundMax driver. I can't get sound from the speakers or headphone...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 07-01-2009

  • Running a script after Cisco VPN client connects

    We are using VPN Client 4.0.3 on Win98-WinXP PCs. What I need to do is have users' network drives connected after they connect to the VPN -- without having to manually run a script after the connection. Right now they have to doubleclick a batch file, after connecting, to remap their drives (for...
    Posted to VPN (Forum) by hardware on 06-30-2009

  • Restarting Computer After Power Failure Requires Removing Power Plug

    When my computer needs to be started after a power failure or if I manually shut it down, it won't restart until I first disconnect the power cable for a few seconds. Then it restarts fine. I notice that there's a green LED on the motherboard that remains lit for a while after the computer shuts...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 06-29-2009

  • Computer hangs/freezes after short period

    I have a home-built PC. General specs are Althon 2000+ 512 Mb DDR Ram (in one slot) VIA KT266B Maxtor 80Gb and 40 Gb drives Plextor DVD rewriter Nvidia 5900 graphics card SoundBlaster 128 Ethernet card Firewire card Windows XP Pro sp2 The problem is that my computer has started to hang, commonly within...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 06-27-2009

  • how to recover data after formatting a hard drive

    Hi Experts! My question may not be new, but I was not able to find a help. The problem is the following: my computer was infected by a lot of spyware and I had to reformat the hard drive, then reinstall Win Xp and the other software. During the formatting, I forgot to make a backup copy of all my e-mails...
    Posted to Hard Drives (Forum) by hardware on 06-27-2009

  • Problems with PC after power surge

    A non techy mate's pc 'stopped' working after a power surge at his home, he asked me to have a look as it would not boot without hanging and could not enter BIOS. He brought it round to my place and plugged it into my kvm switch, it booted enough for me to initiate a scandisk which revealed...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 06-27-2009

  • Recover data form IDE hard disk after format

    the installation of windows 98 has automatically formated my all partitions and now i want to recover the data. Specification of hard disk are Matrox, Firball, 40 GB. * now, windows 98 is installed. i know it has deleted the data on the area of disk where OS is installed but i want to reconver data from...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 06-27-2009
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