my computer keeps shutting down without notice. i'll be chatting online or typing up my homework and it will just shut off. when i boot up it either acts normal as in booting up regularly OR i get a message saying my cmos settings are wrong and on some cases it will say CMOS/GPNV CHECKSUM BAD. i can ...
Windows xp,Intel core 2 duo,I sorry......vs windows xp forums> No replyBefore, Wrong bios update have.....And Wrong this>> update msi files, 4gb ram request, I have 2 gb ramCreate boot disk fail>>< Can't run boot disk.Emergency bios update need, And can't run boot disk.I know bios ...
Here you go Futz:What I did:Popped out CMOS battery, moved the jumper cap over to pins 2 and 3 for 10 seconds then moved them back to 1 and 2 (all this with the power cable unplugged) I then moved some fan power hookups around so that I could use the fan controller in the case to control one of the ...
When I got home from work, my computer had shut down. We'd had some thunderstorm that day.When trying to reboot it takes a while and then a screen comes up where I can choose to enter BIOS setup, flash bios etc. It also says "wrong CMOS settings". I've tried to clear the settings by using ...
My computer had been working perfectly until just about an hour ago, when I powered on and witnessed the Asus motherboard splash screen sit there for a good five to ten minutes. Patient man I am, I waited it out, and it eventually gave me an error message saying "Overclocking failed!" and ...
Every other boot-up one thing or another happens (and these two things alternately precisely every other time):I get no display at all; the monitor is on with a completely black screen; or...I get that warning about overclocking before the kernel loads, specifically:Overclocking failed! Please enter ...
The problem I will explain here is really causing me a headache.I faced it more than 6 times till now. (on different machines)Anyway, let's speak about a specific situation that happened today.PC Specs: CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (2.8 GHz) (1 MB L2) Mainboard: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P5P800 Rev 1.xxHard Dis ...
I stupidly (apparently) decided that I would like to build myself a new pc for the first time. Today I finally got all of the parts together and set everything up. At first, everything seemed to be ok, I was able to install Ubuntu onto my hard drive. I rebooted loading from the hard drive and everyt ...
I set my location correctly but it is displaying +2 hours from my correct time ... I can't understand from where is it getting this wrong information .. did the whole world decide to jump 2 extra hours today? ...
Firefox will not connect to the Internet. Mozilla works fine -- difference is in the Proxy settings. Firefox page for Proxy settings has all choices greyed out and has checkec "Manual Proxy configuration" and added an HTTP address with a 4 digit port number. This occurred after updating to ...
Firefox will not connect to the Internet. Mozilla works fine -- difference is in the Proxy settings. Firefox page for Proxy settings has all choices grayed out and has checked "Manual Proxy configuration" and added an HTTP address with a 4 digit port number. This occurred after updating to ...
I've upgraded my Kubuntu MythTV box to Intrepid and the remote control for my Hauppauge Nova-T doesn't work again. The remote control is the same as for an HVR-1300 card and it works for all buttons except the back/exit button. The problem existed on previous versions but could be fixed by editing t ...
I removed the CMOS battery trying to clear charge but now I getthis message when I try to boot:CMOS Settings WrongCMOS Checksum BadCMOS Display Type WrongUnlock KeyboardPress F1 to run SetupPress F2 to load default values and continue=================This system was my computer up until this past No ...
Ok, i build my own computer:ASUS p4800SE mobo HTp4 3.0GHz 800FSB HT w/heatsink1 GB PC3200 RAM80GB Seagate 7200RPMOnboard LAN2x80mm fansand my POWER SUPPLY is 550w power magic psu!My computer has been running for about almost a week and everything was running fine until tonight. I wanted to install a ...
there. New user so u'll have to put up with me.I bought the 875p Neo in September of last year. Now, I've always heard the phrase if somethings fine, don't fix it! When I started up the pc, I got a message saying "No Device Found, BIOS not installed!". But my PC would start up fine :S. Any ...
everyone! recently i flashed my bios on my asus P4P800-VM to upgrade it using the asus update utility. Everything went well, no errors or anything. then it told me to reboot and so i did. when it boots up, the bios screen comes up with errors saying "CMOS settings wrong" and "CMOS dat ...
I have big problem. My pc random reboots(winxp, dos, sometimes in bios). After this sometimes i get CMOS settings wrong, DRAM settings wrong or something like this. What's wrong?Please help!!!Hardware: P4 2.6C, MSI 875p (MS-6758) motherboard, 2*256 DDR Mushkin Blue Line PC3200(dual channel), ati all ...
I am so frustrated! I am trying to add a "send to a friend" link on a web page and it won't work right. Unfortunately, I don't know php myself, so I'm trying to stumble through this whole thing.I have been able to get the form to send an e-mail to a friend with a link to the web site; howe ...
ever since my cmos battery died and I replaced it my pc will not boot up right. I get 2 different errors one is "overclocking field enter setup to re-configure system" and the other is no drive attached to fast track controller the BIOS not installed and also that the CMOS settings are wro ...
I have an Asus P5B Deluxe/Wi-fi AP Motherboard (Intel socket 775) an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 GB of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz RAM, an nVidia 7800GT 256MB PCI Express x16, Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4, a Zalman heatsink fan, an Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA HDD, a Lite-On SATA DVD Multi-reco ...
depends on who makes your motherboard though. Dell especially are quite secretive about motherboard components.when you open up your machine have a look and see if you can determine whos the manufacturer of your motherboard and chipset and what not. take out the CMOS battery and let it be for a shor ...
I have a Gigabyte GA-7ZMMH mobo. When i turned it on for the 1st time I got a mesage saying CMOS setings wrong. What dose that mean? Now I cant do anything with it. I have a photo attachment below if you want to see. ...
An elderly friend has been given an old Windows XP desktop - her first ever computer. All she wants to do with it is e-mail relatives abroad and write the odd letter. To save her from the hassle and expense of anti-virus software, and all the other problems of Windows, we thought it would be useful ...
I have a curious setup and the problems are the same:)I'm running on an Ubuntu 8.04 NxServer...and Nx only knows regarding multimedia to use it's own copy / emulation of esd, called NxESD.It sets an env. variable $ESPEAKER and so far so good...Now comes the problem.I've uninstalled pulseaudio and in ...
This maybe a dumb question, but. Is the CMOS Batery only for Windows? Do I need it in order to use Linux Ubuntu? http://www.ehow.com/how_113689_replace-pcs-battery.html"All Windows PCs contain a small battery that powers a chip, which in turn stores important system data called the CMOS setting ...
Okay, this problem has started appearing on my ASUS P4P800SE motherboard recently, everytime the computer is powered off(every night pretty much) The CMOS settings magically disappear leading to the date being reset in 00:00:00 1/1/02 and various other settings being completely wiped.this is particu ...
I have just started to use Sound Juicer to create mp3 and ogg files. Things began well but I am now unable to edit the GStreamer settings. All windows open but I cannot edit any fields. They are all locked. I created a profile to use lame but realized I had some settings wrong but I cannot go back t ...
Are any of these settings wrong? ...
My computer's been slowly dying for a while now - I have issues with my graphics cards I think, but now an issue with my hard drives has popped up.The graphics cards sometimes do not work on boot, so it hangs on the motherboard bios screen, then beeps and says OVERCLOCKING FAILED!The only solution t ...
All you experts out there who are dying for an actual challenge, here it is!! (I promise to keep this as concise as I can to cut down on excess verbiage and unnecessary reading.)I have a laptop that I am dual booting with (XP and Linux). Initially, I had PCLOS on there, but three weeks ago decided t ...
So in light of the problems I'm having with Ubuntu I decided to unistale it and go back to XP on my Gateway Tablet. Thinking of puting Ubuntu back on as a dual boot to use when I need a reason to get stressed.S I go to install XP using my recovery discs.... no dice. Says Recovery failed and won't gi ...
All you experts out there who are dying for an actual challenge, here it is!! (I promise to keep this as concise as I can to cut down on excess verbiage and unnecessary reading.)I have a laptop that I am dual booting with (XP and Linux). Initially, I had PCLOS on there, but three weeks ago decided t ...
I just upgraded my whole system. New motherboard, hard drive, cpu, heatsink, ram, and video card. i was able to get through the vista install quite roughly, but whenever I boot up my computer it restarts after about 2 minutes. I was wondering if it was a power supply failure because I'm connecting a ...
I've installed DB2 on a standalone Laptop before, and it worked fine. Now I tried to Install it on a virtual Machine, and the installaation also succeeds, but when I trie to check for new updates after the installation I get:"The Agent has failed to Install properly. In order for the Agent to proper ...
Overclocked or Over Voltage Failure! Hi!The problem I will explain here is really causing me a headache, Big Time.i bought my computer about 18 months ago from mesh computers uk, been working great but started getting very slow n lagging, mainly because its used 24/7 by myself, wife and 3 kids, so w ...
First let me say that I may be a newbie but I'm no idiot... That said... I can't even get the install started. The way I understand it I should be able to boot off the CD but it isn't working.I downloaded and burned the following...FC3-i386-disc1.isoFC3-i386-disc2.isoFC3-i386-disc3.isoFC3-i386-disc4 ...
I have a fedora 5 system installed on the primary drive. Windows xp installed on the secondary drive.Suddenly, fedora refuses to boot. Everything worked well until yesterday.I set the boot order in the cmos settings to boot fedora first. When trying to boot, I get a black screen for 5 seconds, and t ...
The BIOS date is from '97, so I'm not going to hold my breath for a solution to this, but it can't hurt to ask.When I boot up the computer with the disk in the drive, (I tested disk on another computer, it works fine, and disk drive is fine too.) The blue "IBM" pops up, then the screen tur ...
I have friends pc that i have installed a new hard drive and new memory. Since installing the components the pc will not boot or even beep at start up.Basically nothing happens other than power to the fan and drives etc. I have tried booting with none of the drives connected and with the old memory ...
I was introduced to Linux through Knoppix which I used once in order to get data from a corrupted windows installation. The idea of Linux has always appealed to me so yesterday I decided to take the plunge and install it. I've now got myself in a right pickle. I can't boot up my system at all (I'm w ...
I got the new copy of redhat and installed it on a 20gb hdd but after rebooting the system while booting from hdd it gives me statement as 'ERROR BOOTING OPERATING SYSTEM'should i change something in cmos\bios i did everything as i should, format n load windows then why this error even when i loaded ...
people of the forum.I am having a scary problem, and I fear I've lost all my partitions. Here's some background:I have a dual boot setup - XP and Ubuntu 8.10I'm running with an ASUS P4P800 boardSeagate 250GB SATA hddThe tower had been on the floor for a while - quite dustyI moved the computer back u ...
My professor assigned us a compare and contrast essay, and I decided to do mine on Windows and Ubuntu. Now, I tried not to be TOO biased, but I'll openly admit its still pretty rediculously biased. Luckily my professor is cool and was all like, "Look, it can be hard not to be biased, especially ...
In the last few days I have had trouble booting up. I have been getting messages saying CMOS time settings wrong, so have reset. Also I have changed the 3v battery for a new one. Now this message appears: Any suggestions would be welcome. ...
Ok, i had to help out a friend by backing up some imp files frm a windows system which was refusing to boot.it was a compaq v3000 series laptop [dunno th exact model]. whats wierd is it refused to boot from all the live cds i tried. [i tried knoppix, DSL, puppy, gentoo; all latest versions]. I check ...
ok. i have tried everything to install ubuntu 10.04 ....i used wubi and it hangs on boot...ive written an iso, and it still hangs...i turn on. it says boot from cd. the keyboard=human screen comes up then goes blacknice looking ubuntu splash with scrolling dots appear. after about a Minuit it hangs ...
I have a mysterious hardware problem on my home-built machine. Every now and then, it will completely lock-up, for no apparent reason. Sometimes, it only requires a hard reboot to fix, while others, I have to let it sit for 20-30 minutes, before I can successfully boot.Occasionally, upon booting, I ...
there, sorry if this is the wrong section.I am having trouble burning discs in Ubuntu. I've tried the built-in CD/DVD creator, k3d, Brasero, GnomeBaker but all of them fail. CD/DVD creator just says 'There was an error writing to the disk'.The error message I get in GnomeBaker is:Executing 'genisoim ...
Have tried installing Hardy, it kept giving me "Grub Loading... Error 2". Googled it and found this:"The Way To Solve This Grub Error I Found Was To Set My Bios To Auto I Cant Remember Much Of What I Did Because Im Now Back On Windows Xp But This Problem Is Nothing To Do With Going Th ...
I've been given a Packard-Bell Club 60 PC which I would like to pass on to my parents so they can experience the internet at home rather than in the local library. It came with Windows 98 installed but the v5 explorer didn't work properly (it kept identifying "runtime errors" in every webp ...