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  • Power Supply / Motherboard Failure

    Hi, I have a possible failing power supply (or it could be the motherboard). Symptoms include: Powering up for for a few seconds then cutting out. If I hold in the power button (front panel) for a few seconds and let it out it will kick on. But every time I do this it appears to need to be held in longer...
    Posted to Power Supplies / UPS (Forum) by hardware on 03-06-2010
  • How flash BIOS on Gigabyte EP45-UD3P (rev. 1.6) motherboard?

    I have a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (rev. 1.6) motherboard, and want to update the BIOS using QFlash. I put the BIOS bin file on a FAT32 thumb drive, rebooted into the BIOS, and opened QFlash. When in QFlash, I went to find the file, however it consistently comes back with an error message saying drive not...
    Posted to Motherboards (Forum) by hardware on 01-13-2010
  • Motherboard Infrared port

    I just upgraded to a new motherboard/CPU, MB from Tyan. The manual says there is an infrared header on it. It did not come with an infrared cable, and the only place on the MB that talks about it is over where the "small wires" connect, such as HDD light, reset, etc. What would I need to purchas...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 01-11-2010
  • acer aspire 5520 continuous reset loop during power up.

    Hello, I have an acer aspire 5520 laptop which has recently began being unable to boot. Upon pressing the power button, the fan comes on and you can hear and feel the vibration from the harddrive spinning up, the power light comes on briefly and the dvd drive light comes on and you can open the dvd drive...
    Posted to PC Laptops (Forum) by hardware on 12-31-2009
  • Trying to power an IDE device with a SATA motherboard

    I have an IDE backup device (REV 35Gb/90Gb ATAPI int drive). I'm trying to connect it to a new PC that only has SATA type sockets and leads. I have a SATA to IDE adapter but it needs a floppy driver type power supply and the drive itself needs a standard Molex connector. My questions is: Is there...
    Posted to Power Supplies / UPS (Forum) by hardware on 12-25-2009
  • Adding a SATA HDD to an ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard

    I have an ASUS A7V8X-X MB connected to two IDE drives (160GB/180GB) and two DVDs (1xPlextor, 1 xLite-On). I have 2 spare PCI slots. Runnning XP Pro SP2. I have just bought a 400GB SATA Hitachi Deskstar HDD (72000/16MB) and my question is, if I use a IDE to SATA Hard Drive Motherboard Adapter Bridge,...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 12-09-2009
  • Is it my MotherBoard? CPU? Video Card?!

    please help me out, i have P4 1.5GHz, Intel D850GB MotherBoard and ATI RADEON 9800 AGP 128mb. the computer was working JUST FINE, till one day (4 days ago), the monitor just got blanked while working on the computer. i had to make Cold reboot intend for the computer to work again. ive done that, and...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 12-08-2009
  • Dell Motherboard replacement

    I am needing to replace a motherboard on a Dell inspiron 530 desktop computer, Tag number 4TBMF1 but can't seem to find one. I am not necessarily needing the same motherboard, but I just need the same socket type since I want to keep the same heat sink and memory (to cut down on cost replacement...
    Posted to Motherboards (Forum) by hardware on 12-01-2009
  • MSI Motherboard Freeze on Bootup?

    Spec: MSI 865PE-NEO2LS motherboard 1GB DDR RAM 2.4 P4 Processor 4 Year 20GB HD (Boot Drive) 1 Year Barracuda 160 GB HD Windows XP I had a problem witht the wirless keyboard (thought the batteries were dead) so replaced the batteries and still had a problem typing. Restarted the PC and then it froze for...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 11-29-2009
  • Motherboard works only with one RAM installed.

    Hi, experts. Yesterday I've bought new motherboard Asus P5QL Pro. There is a problem. It works only with one RAM installed. When I install 2 or all 4 RAMs - it starts (coolers are working), but screen is black. The RAMs are: 2x 1GB DDR2 Samsung 6400U (M378T2863DZS) 2x 1GB DDR2 Hynix 5300U (HYMP112U64CP8...
    Posted to Motherboards (Forum) by hardware on 11-05-2009
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