Computer Won’t Boot Cold

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Computer Won’t Boot Cold

By Computer Lady on Thursday, May 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Dear computer lady, I have an E-machines desktop pc with windows vista premium. amd athlon 64×2 processor 4000+, dvd rw super multi-format dual layer optical drive, 320 gig hard drive, 1gig DDR2 dual channel memory and Nvidia Ge Force 6150SE video card After 3 1/2 years of almost flawless service, it now has a boot [...]

Noisy Computer Problem

By Computer Lady on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Dear Computer Lady, I purchased a refurbished Dell desktop (Windows XP). It runs great except that sometimes the fan(?) makes so much noise it sounds like it is ready for take-off! Other times, it doesn’t make any noise. I have been unable to figure out what triggers the noise. Mostly I am concerned if this [...]

Double beep

By Computer Lady on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, I have recently bought a new PC which is i3 530 and 55hc board. The problem is every time I start my PC, its on board speaker beeps twice. Is it a message of error or is it normal? Because my old pc didn’t do this. I know the on board speaker [...]

SMART Hard Drive Errors

By Computer Lady on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, Windows xp purchased in 2002 cybertron from tiger direct. Been having slow start up problems always get started but not easy latest problem computor said pri master hard drive disk s.m.a.r.t. status bad backup and replace. Also lots of error messages says program not responding.once said system has recovered from a serious [...]

Error Checking

By Computer Lady on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, I use Error checking and it helps my pc. Some people don’t even know where to find it in XP or why they should use it. I wish you would send some info on this in your newsletters. Everyone knew and used it in windows 98. Thank you, A

Upgrade RAM

By Computer Lady on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, Before my question, I must say when my brother sent me your newsletter many years ago he did me one of the greatest services a big brother can! May I ask how I can check the amount of RAM on my Dell laptop? It is only a couple years old, but things [...]

Change Resolution

By Computer Lady on Thursday, May 19th, 2005 | Comments Off

Dear Computer Lady, Is there a way I can resize the displayed webpages so I don’t have to use the scrolling from side to side, basically I want to know how to see the entire webpage left to right without scrolling side to side. Thanks for any help, Angela

Change Display Properties

By Computer Lady on Thursday, April 21st, 2005 | Comments Off

Dear Computer Lady, How do you change your color under properties from 16 colors to 256 and more. I have tried and it said it will happen if I restart the computer but nothing never happens. Will

Firewall Protection

By Computer Lady on Thursday, February 17th, 2005 | Comments Off

Dear Computer Lady, For the past 2 months or so, I’ve been getting these text-only pop up messages, even when I don’t actually have a web browser open. I have a cable internet connection, not dial up so I’m always connected to the internet. Some of the messages that pop up say that my computer [...]

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