Hardware

hard drive problems

Thu, 09/26/2013 - 7:26am — PCDestroyer

Hi all

I have a samsung hard drive Spinpoint HM501II It intermittendly stops working. I have ran the windows scan disk and it passed the sea tools long generic test it also passed. All seems fine but a can not copy anything to the drive. I low level formatted the drive thinking it will solve the problem but it prevails is there any other help someone can offer

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How To Fix an Overheating Laptop (WITHOUT having to take it apart!)

Fri, 04/26/2013 - 10:27am — STaRDoGG

I recently was repairing a few problems with a Toshiba Satellite laptop (L305D-S5938 in this particular case) for someone and was getting nowhere real fast, because it overheated if you just looked at it funny. The second something normal caused the fan to get a little louder, *poof*, off it went; just shut right off in the middle of whatever you were doing. And on top of that, when it wasn't shutting off, it just took foreverrrrr to do anything. Anything.

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How Do Turn On Sony Vaio Touchpad??

Wed, 12/05/2012 - 4:10am — jeff4justice

Hello,

I need help with a problem with my Sony Vaio laptop serial # PCG-71318L.

I need to replace my wireless mouse.
The touchpad is turned off and I cannot figure out how to turn it on among the control panel options. I see on online forums others had this problem but I see no solutions.
I have tried to install 2 new wireless mice. When I do this the new mice do not work.

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USB Won't Install My Device!

Fri, 10/26/2012 - 7:59pm — kaka

I finally got my USB to re-detect my device thanks to STaRDoGG's instructions (mod note: Fix USB Detect Problems | Solution | Tutorial) but now it keeps telling me that it can't install the device drivers for it, it says error. Does anyone have any usefully advice? Thank you!

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USB Won't Detect My Device!

Fri, 10/26/2012 - 6:46pm — kaka

HELP! I bought a new USB device, plugged it in, got the popup in my Windows tray area saying it was installing the device drivers and then after a long wait it said it couldn't install the device's drivers. Now whenever I unplug and plug the device back into the USB port I hear the plugged-in sound but nothing else happens so I can't re-try to install the drivers for the device! When I unplug it from the USB port I also heat the unplugged sound, so I KNOW my computer is detecting it, it just won't install the drivers.

Please help!

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Kickass Invention! USB Copulates with Wall Outlet, Gives Birth to Bouncing Baby USB-Wallplug!

Wed, 10/10/2012 - 7:23pm — BRIANNA

Dude, how cool is this?! ThinkGeek has merged a standard wall power outlet, the kind we all (in America) plug everything into, with USB charging ports!

Check it out!

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HP Power on Password reset/removal

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 1:06pm — garyhal

Bought a used HP nc8230 and user informed me they could not get into bios. No problem I have diconnected the cmos battery plenty of times to reset bios. It does not work with this model because after a lot of research I found out it has the trusted platform module (TPM). Hp tells me the power on password is permenent in CMOS and the only way to get around this is to replace the motherboard. Just to inform you further about this, the minute you turn it on it ask for the power on password with a picture of a key. You don't even get a chance to try to Fkey into bios.

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Need help with my iPod

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 7:37pm — YancyDefingus2

I recently bought a new laptop because my mom didnt want me downloading music and what not on her computer. My iPod updated and erased everything so now there's nothing on it. I'm trying to put the music I have on my computer on it but my laptop doesnt recognize it. I looked under my devices and it's under the category unspecified. All it says is Apple mobile device USB driver. It sees that it's an iPod but that it's. My friend told me to try all of the USB ports but that didn't work. Any idea how to fix this? Help is greatly appreciated!

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Gaming / TV headset?

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 12:45pm — Evil Monkey

I'm looking for a decient set of wireless head phones I can use with my 2 samsung TV's I have. One is a 51 inch LED and the other is a 37 inch LCD I just got after christmas. I was kind of hoping to find soemthing that would also work on my PC for online gaming if I could that had a mic. I'm having trouble finding much in my price range really wich is 50ish dollars. Maybe I'll just be better off getting a set of sony's for 70 bucks and be done with it but they are only for TV's. I just figured it would be nice to get more use out them since i'm spending the money.

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