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Ghost "inaccessible boot device"

Lewisusa1
Hello Everyone; I need help. Here is my problem. (this worked on my sons system) Well, I ghosted my 120 to the 300 (2. 75 hours) and all appeared to go well. 5 partitions of roughly 57GB and 1 of 1GB.
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HP Scanner issue

giskard
Hi, I have an HP 2200c scanner which is exhibiting some funny behavior. When it is plugged into the USB port, i immediately get hiss through my speakers. (seems to do this with the SBLive or the onboard audio).
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System fan seized, suspect hardware damage ...

EvilMessiah
My system fan failed a few days ago. I noticed this when the alarms started going off before a very abrupt shutdown. Now very little works like it should. This is the 2nd time I've badly overheated this due to faulty fans (first time cost me a better CPU).
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How To Replace/Upgrade Dynamic Disk

yutao
Currently I have a PVR system based on BT4. My shows are recorded to 2 80GB drives that are dynamic to look like one 160GB drive. I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade one or both 80B drives. For example I have a 250GB drive that I would like to use and replace one of the 80GB drives, thus giving me about 33 ...
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Radeon x1300 pro vs 9700 pro

Hiber
My Radeon 9700pro went dead on me today so I hurried to the store and got x1300pro. I'm wondering just how bad it is compared to 9700pro and what should I get instead that's cheap but a bit faster than 9700pro.
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nVidia GeForce 6600GT PROBLEMS

DaKo
hi, i have problems with my graphic card, it was half year funkctional without no problems, one day it starts, in all 3D games it making some problems, when i start some game it start with blinking dots on my monitor, after 1-3 minutes I can see black triangles heading to the center of my monitor, it start with few ...
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PCMCIA MTD-0002

AdslBoy
Everytime I insert a PC Card it detects it as a PCMCIA MTD-0002 device, no matter what PC Card I use. Cardbus controller is the Texas Instruments PCI-1211. Anyone have this problem under Win2k, Win98 SE is fine.
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GeForce MX 4000 128mb PCI

Murk
I just installed WinXP on my second machine, and I'm having problems with the my graphics card now. The BIOS are set to use the PCI as the primary, which it does, however, it is reverting to the onboard graphics once it hits the desktop.
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Upgrade Help

Dr Dave
Hi first Of all Im Dave and Im new around here like so many other unlucky souls Ive been dumped with A Dell Dimension 2350 Desktop. (It Was free So its ok) Currently its carrying a pentium 4 - 2. 6 processor 512 ram Intergrated graphics card 60 GB hard drive CD-RW Rewriter I want to upgrade the following 512 ram in ...
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NEED HELP WITH WEBCAM AND AUDIO DRIVER

bumble_b18
Originally, we had another webcam. . . some old one that screwed into the back of the computer. It never worked, but we assumed that the webcam was the problem, so we bought a new one. We installed the appropriate driver for it, but the same problem still show up.
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harddrive problem (at least i think it is), data loss, etc.

vitamin_w
Alright, I bought a new hard drive this last summer (Western Digital 160gb, if it makes any difference), and I use that as the drive to store mp3 files and such, and on two occasions, one a couple months ago, one about 20 minutes ago, I noticed that a number of my music files would seemingly disappear.
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X850 pro

Katana_Thriller
Here's the story. I have a socket 478 motherboard, kinda bad. (ASRock P4i45GV) I purchased an ATI Radeon X850 Pro, AGP 256 mb. nothing would show up on my monitor going thru the VGA port. So now I want to get a new motherboard.
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HELP!!! PRINTER PROBLEMS

kmc8511
I am running WINXP PRO and have a HP OfficeJet G85 printer that is new with no physical problems, BUT when i have tried installing it to the system i end up not being able to use SOME of the functions, and sometimes it doesnt even PRINT, one function that hardly ever works is the scanner.
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WinNt USB??

boombastic2
Does WinNT SP4 support USB PEn Drive?I've got an old P200 MMX with a 1. 0 USB port and would like to use a SanDisk 256MB Cruzer Mini:is there anyway?If i just plug it and nothing happens. . . edit:i found these drivers but i don't have a dell computer,can i safely install it?.
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New RAM Problems

pk_lipp
Please help! I recently purchased some new RAM for my Dell 8200 series. When I installed it the computer stated that it was unsupported and that I needed 40 ns or faster. I had purchased a Samsung 512MB (2 sticks of 256MB) PC800 ECC 45ns, supposedly this was guaranteed to work on my computer.
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Help!! I just cant figure this one out!

mugzy
I have a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 motherboard, Celeron 2. 53/533, 256 Micron ram and a basic agp video card. I have tried different power supplies, ram, motherboard, and a celeron 2. 66. . . . this thing will just not post.
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Formatting

tool_462
I am wondering if there is anyway to format my HD with saving alot of the data I have on it, like pictures, music, drivers, windows settings and stuff like that. Is there a way to just totally delete anything i dont want to keep, and gaining some of my PC's old 'out of the box' speed back?.
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GeForce MX4000 problems on NT4.0

MichaelH
I am replacing a failing 8MB PCI video card on an old NT system. So in a nutshell, I was looking for a very low-end PCI card that is NT compatible. The MX4000 64MB is the closest match I could find locally.
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Problem with Geforce MX 4000 in XP

hanif
hello everyone. . . . I got a Geforce MX 4000 AGP card. . i installed it on 98 by deleting all my prev drivers of my old card n its workin fine. . but i tried to do same on XP but couldn install it properly.
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Keyboard cause computer to freeze, please help!!

mimi_puss
Hi, I have a PB Laptop it was working fine until yesterday,now everytime i press a key on the keyboard (any key) the computer freezes and has to be restarted. The mouse is working fine and all the programs but as soon as i touch the keyboard it freezes, so i cannot type anything.
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