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During the early POST stage (Award BIOS post code 49 [Calculate total memory by testing the last double word of each 64k page.]) the speaker makes a grinding like sound (I am 100% sure its not a hard drive or any physical device). During this it will often crash and restart the boot process...

This is really odd issue. I have just built a new computer (everything is new). On the desktop, the tooltips in the corner seem very fuzzy/fainted (It could be everything in the corner, I can't tell very well). When a window is maximized, everything seems clear. I have a ati 9800pro 128mb...

I just built a new compter, but I have been having a very odd problem. The PS/2 Ports seem to suddenly stop working, though the computer continues to work (I can turn it off by pressing the power button, and windows starts the shutdown procedure). They always both turn off at the same time, and...

I have Windows XP Pro, and lately I have been having blue screen of death errors with several different messages. The first, and most common, is something like KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR with ftdisk.sys. The second is no all uppercase message referring to atapi.sys. The third is...

I would like to setup a linux box as a network switch (not router). Would simply turning on ip forwarding do the job? Any tutorials/howtos that anyone knows about would be nice. Thanks in advance, SirNuke

It seems that a hard drive in a computer I am repairing is having issues. On every boot up, the bios takes forever to find the hard drive, but its runs okay once windows starts booting up. One time, however, the bios did not find the hard drive at all. I'm going to try using a different hard...

I am repairing a referbished gateway e-3600 (p4 1.8ghz, 256mb). It appears the power supply is dying, so I am attempted to replace the case (old case uses odd power supply size, real standard does not fit). However, there is two issues with the new case. One is the specs given to me were not...

I have a duron 800mhz (200mhz bus) Due to odd pin configuration of the computer, 266mhz ddr is only aviable, will this work? Thanks in advance SirNuke

I having trouble getting a stable windows xp pro installation. I will be able to install okay, then after some random piece of software, the computer will shutdown, and when it reboots right before the startup message appears, it will display blue screen of hardware death. But before the error...

Simple questions to someone who was real-life php experience Under php4 and IIS 5, what happens when multiple sessions/executions of a php script try to read the same file? In a program I am writing, the files are locked (flock(name, typeOfLock)) when read and unlocked when done. If two try to...