It's about $25.00 so what is that in Stirling please? Many thanks

I've found a really, really strange bug with my computer today. Whenever anything is rendered to the screen, it makes noise. Not much noise, but it's noticeable if I have my speakers turned up. It doesn't get louder or quieter when I adjust the computer's volume, so it must be just some sort of static that's coming through. It's sort of annoying. I realized today when listening to some music through Youtube, and I noticed that anything from hovering over a button (causing it to light up), or pressing keys on my keyboard would make some static from the speakers. But it doesn't seem to happen when nothing goes to the screen. For example, if I press a key like ctrl that doesn't do anything, I get no noise.
What could possibly cause this? Is my sound card not in properly?

hi folks

sorry for the lack on introductions but im at my whits end.

im sure u guys have had this question 1001 times....

basicaly my daughter tryed to connect her mp3 player to my toshiba satelite L300d laptop and corrupted the hdd somehow.

i tryed rebooting rebooting several times but with no luck.

just to get me out the the woods i tryed installing windows 98 but i guess the 64 bit isnt compatible.

ive lost my old copy of xp home so downloaded a copy using utorrent but for the life of me cant figure out how to access the setup.exe file using the prompts with windows 98 cd-rom with support.

is there anyway i can open a burnt disk using dos or support commands to open the setup.exe... i know this is a big ask but i really want to get this reasonabley new laptop back up and running without coughing up silly money for another os.

many thanks in advance.

shroomskunk

Every once in awhile, I'll see in a forum where a large file is being offered for free, and it says to click on a link from Rapidshare, Torrent, etc. When I make the download to the desktop, I then try to open it, only to get a message saying that Windows doesn't recognize it, or can't open it for some other reason. The files are usually RAR or Zip.

So what does it take to open one of these? Keep in mind that I'm on a public library computer where I can't run programs, but I do have a flashdrive where I can run "portable" programs from. I currently have "7 Zip Portable" which I use to create zip files with password protection for sensitive stuff. But can this program be used to open RAR and Zip files gotten from Rapidshare, etc.? I guess I'd have to download the file to the FD instead of the desktop then. My drive is only 500MB, so it'd mean making a purchase of a bigger one.

Anyway, would 7 zip portable work, and what steps do I have to do to open the file with it? Or what else would I need instead of 7 zip?

Does anyone know of a non-Java script web based email service?

Hotmail requires JS. I don't think gmail does, but gmail requires SMS-verification to sign up..

I know thunderbird doesn't require js but that's not an option.

Whenever I open my cd/dvd drive, my wireless usb adapter drops my internet for a couple of minutes. It doesn't interfere with any of my other usb devices, only the wireless adapter. I've downloaded the newest versions of my drivers. Just wondering if anything can be done about it. It's not a big issue, but it does get annoying sometimes.

Sony Vaio Model "PCG-7M1L" will not boot.
Windows XP-Home.
will not go into BIOS !!!
or at least appears not to, cuz the hard drive light stays lite for about 2 minutes before going out.
monitor will not light.
external monitor will not light even toggling the Fn keys.
there is a very brief hum when the hard drive starts or tries to start.
then i can hear the arm on the hard drive move and a few clicks then nothing from the hard drive even through hard drive light is lite.
these are very quite sounds, I have to have my ear against the case to here them.
no beeps.
Also sometimes it will not turn on or off when u push the power button.
then i tried an
Unbuntu 9.1 Boot/installation disk in the DVD-Drive will not boot either.
the DVD drive makes all the normal sounds at the right time, as if it is actually booting from the disk then nothing.
then It turns off the drive and no change. no sounds, hard drive light out, dvd drive light out. screen off, external monitor black.
***(Alpha-Lock light, Num-Lock light, and other 3rd Lock light on the right, are ALL on SOLID constant and WILL NOT TOGGLE with the keys.
wifi light turns on and off with its switch.
Ethernet lights lite.
.
I'm thinking it is:
1) an under-volt or under-current from the Power Supply.
2) maybe frayed wires in the power cord reducing current.
3) maybe a crack in the mother board.
4) maybe someone spilled liquid in the computer and never told me.
.
Help! i took a Dell Inspiron apart one time.
getting it back together right was a nightmare,
even when i have parts labled and in a dozen ziplock bags it was a freaken nightnare.
Please tell me this will be easier.

I have two computers in the household. One, we recently hooked up directly to a cable television jack in order to watch TV through the computer. It is an older Gateway model, but has never had an issue. Two days ago, I got home from work and turned the computer on. I walked out of the room to change clothes, and when I returned, the monitor was off, but the PC was still running. I did a hard restart, and watched a little closer. There were $$ signs during the bootup process, and it passed the POST. Windows XP starts to boot up, and then the screen goes black. The screen then turns off. The PC stays on for a little longer and then powers down on its own. I am able to boot up in safe mode, and my antivirus comes up nil. I have done a system restore (both destructive and non-destructive) and still have the same issue. Following the system restore, as soon as the system restarts in order for the Windows installation to complete, same thing happens. $$$ are all over the screen during bootup process. Also, during startup, when it asks if I want to boot in safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, etc... there are also several $$ signs on the screen, and most of the letters are mixed up.

I'm in my second year as a network and internet security student, and I'm stumped. Any ideas??

Do any of you know of a program that can wipe a HD (Replace with random data, not zeros). That can be run off of a flash drive or CD? And is also free?

Or do you know of one that can be run in ubuntu?

when i started my computer build, it included a biostar a770e motherboard and this for memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820148097

today i just came into possession of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820211066
is it safe to add these for more ram? or can someone at least confirm or deny that testing a stick won't risk burning out the motherboard or something? I dont know if mixing memory like that is okay or high risk, I just would like to make use of the extra 2 GB if I can..

I'm wanting to make sure that my PSU is working correctly when my GPU is at full load. I'm wondering if someone has advice for testing 6 and 8 pin connectors or would simply testing the molex connector be enough? I got a reading of 12.15v on the molex and my PSU is a CUQ-1200B and the GPU is a GTX 480 Superclocked. Thank you.

Hi everyone I hope you can help.

I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 1501

I tried to load quite a hardware demanding game earlier, it struggled on start up so I tried to get rid of it using the task manager. It wouldn't go and I got the whole broken screen scenario so I had to do a shut down by pulling out the plug (removed battery a long time ago as it's faulty, been running the laptop off the mains for about 2 years and never had a problem).

Anyway upon restarting the laptop it was very slow and now I get this error every time I start



Usually I press ok, either or it doesn't seem to make much difference.

Anyway it starts okay after this but then starts to lag very badly, everything freezes and locks completely then suddenly comes back again. I presuming something has happened to the RAM? But I don't see how the manual shut down would effect it so badly.

Also after a while I sometimes get this error message.



I'm not too tech-savvy so if anyone could help me out I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.

I have used the Acronis System Cleanup on a regular basis & it has always removed everything except 1 item, which was either #1 or #2 in the list below. Suddenly there are 3 additional items it will not remove. I have made no changes to my system.
What are they?
Are they dangerous?
How do I remove these items?
The items are:
1. Direct ErrorLog.txt
2. FXSAPIDebugLogFile.txt
3. ZNPF8B0.tmp
4. ZNPF94D.tmp
Thanks . . . . . .

Recently my hard drive has been dying and I bought a 2TB to replace it. I'm planning on puting my os on it, but I'm not sure if it's a wise decision.

I heard that if you partition your drive into one for os and one for storage it will save your data if your system crash. I'm not sure if I remember correctly what was said.

This is the drive that I bought.

I would appreciate any advice.

Dunno if this is spyware or Torrent or hack related but..

I'm having trouble with WinRar....

I can open the file i wanna extract... i can view images... while winrar's open

Problem is.. when i go to extract it says "skipping"

And no password is needed to open or extract this... it just won't extract..

Anybody know what i'm doing wrong?



Thanks in Advance..

Shadow