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[tt]"I can play the CD on my computer, but I can't play it in a regular CD player." When you say this, did you use a CDR disc or a CDRW disc? Burned CDRs can be read on normal CDROM drives, but with CDRWs you'll need somme special software to read them on normal CDROM drives. You'll be...

[tt]Is your sound card built-in on your motherboard? what motherboard are you using that allows you to actually have both front and rear audio ports but only allows you to use one at a time? Else, if your sound card is a separate card, what's the brand and model of the sound card? have you tried...

[tt]Hi paparazi, quoting you, "The other common problem is some newer types only reporting half there size" what may cause that problem? I have a Kingston PC2100 512MB and there was this one time my ECS K7S5A mobo reported only 256MB. Dont know what I did ( I was a little frantic...

[tt]Hi Eskimo69, be careful of how you configure your HDD jumpers. You should try to figure out whether your pins are shorted correctly. In such a case as yours, I would check the pins where they are soldered to the PCB of the HDD. You might get to see which pin is pin 1 or better you might see...

[tt]Hi yamafopa, try out what G0AOZ suggested, but if you still cant open it, try removing some of the rubber fittings which can be found around the bottom of the NB. You might find some screws hidden by them. BTW, isn't there any easier way to take out an optical drive from a NB? I take care...

[tt]Hi Eskimo69, you could also try switching the cables for your CD-ROM drive and your HDD. If both are old/reused cables try getting one from a working PC. It's trial and error. By the way, you stated that it's on CS? Try making the HDD on MASTER and the CD-ROM drive SLAVE instead of relying...

[tt]Hi busuabo, Quoting Ed Fair, "virus writers are ahead of the anti-virus writers", that may well have happened to your friend. How do we get updates from the anti-virus companies? After they get alerted to a new virus, they try their method of killing it, then they upload on their...

[tt]Hi Sashanan, why not make sure your heatsink+fan are placed properly on the CPU and that you've used thermal grease/paste in between the heatsink and the CPU while you're at it. Of course, try out what Martin had stated above before you do anything else. A little cleaning can do wonders to...

[tt]Hi DaTreyster, have you tried taking out the cd-rom drive from the bay and cleaning the contacts? The errors could also be due to memory failure, either RAM or HDD. Do you have any spare NB RAMs or NB HDDs to use for testing? My bet is on the HDD though, but I cant really tell much from...

[tt]Hi Jamessr, your mobo does not have any on board vga, last I checked on the website. Also to note, the mobo supports only 1.5V display card. I had difficulty in checking your graphic card details for you though, but I think there are graphic boards that are rated 1.7V?? Can someone help...

[tt]Hi Zoldy, does your motherboard come with the optional on board sound chip? If yes, try disabling it in the BIOS first before you plug in the sound card. Do you have any other cards plugged in?(other than the video graphics array card, of course) If yes, you can also try taking them out...

[tt]I take care of several Armada E500s, but have never encountered the above message that you described. I've even upgraded one of my NBs' OS from Win98 to WinXP Pro, with no problems(of course, I reformatted the hard drive/partitions to NTFS during setup). Do you have any PCMCIA cards plugged...

[tt]hi pirateike, maybe you could change your boot sequence in BIOS before trying to boot from a floppy disk. But anyways, how did you do up your dual boot? Did you install Red Hat first or did you install XP first? OK, you want to format the Linux partition. Do you have a bootable Win XP setup...

[tt]OK, alright. I've just taken to note the differences between A/C shock and D/C shock. (God I just had to have to experience it today) It seems my PC is leaking D/C voltage. Now I just need to find out how the leak occurred and how to ground it.

hi martingg, have you tried getting the video/display drivers for that old PC? from what you described, it would really help if you get the right drivers for the version of windows you are going to install on your PC. It cant accept your newer 32x CD-ROM drive? old PCs, with older motherboard...

[tt]Have you ever tried touching the PC casing only to get a mild electric shock? I get this kinda often and it gets real irritating when troubleshooting. Tried to feel whether the heatsink got warm, even that gives a shock. Anything metallic that I touch in the casing, even with the PC turned...

Hi Anxiety, here's the link to the downloads list for socket A mobos from ECS. http://www.ecs.com.tw/download/dw_list.asp?submenu_id=26&function_id=4 be careful of the model and version number. this info can be found on the mobo itself. same applies to the BIOS, make sure you download the one...

Zalman coolers look great! you ordered the fan shaped heatsink am I right? do inform how well it performs... and also whether you ordered the all-copper based, half alum half copper or all aluminium based heatsink. Thanks

[tt]do you have ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, or any other online messaging software installed? (sorry for any mispelled words) you'd have to configure these software so as not to automatically connect to the internet when they start. They usually startup with windows by default, and as...

[tt]KS75A mobo?? or issit K7S5A?? hey you can download the overclockers' verwsion of the BIOS (cheepoman's) on http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=35 What the overclockers' version does its that it unlocks the FSB limiting on the ECS mobo. if you're using the v3.1...