Hardware
Computer Won’t Boot Cold
[ad]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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Change Resolution
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
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
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 […]