I have a home built PC that’s worked flawlessly for a year, and now it won’t power on reliably. It’s an MSI MS-7103 motherboard with a Celeron D 2.66. I opened the side panel and reseated the power switch leads that connect the front panel switch to the mother board and it worked. But, now I have do this every so often. Is there a better solution? Thanks.
If the fan vent on the back of the power supply is dusty, take the computer OUTSIDE and get a vacuum with an exhaust hose and use a crevice tool as a nozzle and clean out the power supply.
Then flip the voltage selector switch from 110 to 220 and then back to 110.
Bad virus caused me to partition this pc. But now with another op system installed it doesnt have any programs that came with it. It doesnt recognize usb ports, no lightscribe, built in wireless lan, media center. And i have no backup disc so can i get my pc back to how i bought it originally?
It depends on what operating system you are running. For a fact, it has a way to recover it. If it was XP, you WILL get recovery disks unless it is a netbook (which is pointless, as there are no CD drives), if it is Vista, or 7, you get a recovery partition and software to burn your own.
You can recover your PC from the partition if it is still installed, provided you didn’t overwrite it with the new OS, by holding down 0 at startup. If that doesn’t work, you will need to purchase recovery disks of your manufacturer, which cost about $30, then be more careful in the future.
I have purchased a new PC and I am in the process of backing up all my documents to discs to transfer to my new PC. However the music on my old PC takes up too much disc space to justify copying it to discs. I would like to somehow save my music. But how?
Wow..This is absolutely a controversial question…
I have a new home PC in my bedroom. Our PC in the family room is hooked up to a router. How would I be able to get a wireless connection on my PC in my room? Do I have to set up a network on the initial computer or what? If, so PLEASE HELP!
Do you have a wireless router? Does the PC in your room have a wireless card? If yes and yes, you should be good to go. No, you don’t have to do anything on the first computer.
when i turn on my PC it always says "turn on window defender". is there a way to turn window defender on automatically when my PC start up?
Once you have turned on Windows Defender, it should remain on until you turn it off again, regardless.
So I’ve been using my family pc which is windows vista. I was just given a windows 98 pc for my room. How do I connect to the wireless internet?
you have to install the "wireless network assistant" to windows 98 PC and run it to confiure it to connect to access point from your vista machine
I want to access Internet on my pc with the help of mobile phone sony ericsson w205. Please someone help.
for this you need GPRS connection, contact ur mobile operator and get GPRS connection.
I am building a PC on Dell’s website, but there is a huge sale on Samsung monitors at Best Buy. I know that technically, they can be attached, but am I going to be losing anything quality or performance-wise with doing it this way?
None at all. I recommend not buying a Dell monitor. Dell’s monitors are very nice but very overpriced. 95/100 people won’t notice the difference between a top of the line Dell and a cheaper Acer or Hanns-G or Samsung for that matter. Like someone else said go to NewEgg.com. odds are they can beat any deal you find at a store.
I have a laptop with Windows 7 and am using Internet Explorer 8. It is annoying for PC Dock to come up on my desktop when I start my computer. What do I do in order for that to stop?
Thanks.
You can stop programs from starting automatically by removing them from your system’s Startup List. You can access and edit the Startup List through a program called “System Configuration Utility”, or “msconfig”. To get into msconfig, do the following:
Click Start-> Click Run-> Type msconfig-> Click OK.
When the System Configuration Utility window opens, look at the set of tabs across the top of the window. Find the last tab, labeled “Startup”, and click it. This will show you the Startup List, which contains all of the items that start automatically when you boot your computer and Windows begins to load.
Now, you can remove programs that don’t necessarily need to load when your computer boots up.
When finished, you’ll need to reboot before your changes can take effect.
I am a Mac user but pc offers more games and online games that I can access. I’m wondering what my cost would be for a pc.
Actually, good PC hardware is not so much cheaper now - Apple narrowed the difference in price. What makes you think that Apple don’t make PC’s?
Equivalent quality might be had from IBM hardware, but it doesn’t have the same style - and your PC will be completely unable to run Mac OSX.
I looked into this last year, and to buy the gaming rig I’d be interested in would be around 1500, for a nice big iMac, the price was 1700 (with a slightly smaller graphics card).
It’s worth the little extra for MacOSX - so your internet browsing is worry free, and if ever one of them fails to boot (does that happen with OSX the way it does in Windows?) then you can always reboot and choose the other.
Remember also, with a normal PC you sit and watch BIOS booting for 20 seconds before you get to the stage where you turn on a Mac…
Can anyone possibly tell me - why would I get a thumbs down for this answer?