Dave_LeBoss

From what you've posted there doesn't really seem to be anything wrong. The flashing dash and black screen is just the system looking for your boot drive, there's nothing wrong with that. As for the beeping, some motherboards do that as code to signify if something is wrong or not. If it never changes and you're not having any problems with startup, it ok. But if it really concerns you, there might be a diagnostics page in your motherboard manual that will tell you what kind of beeps are good and which are bad. Hope this helps

Ya,like kilrah said, I tried installing XP on a usb, but that never worked since its quite old. So i doubt ubuntu would either

Im trying to get an old pentium 3 computer my family has had sitting away to work again. I thought it would be cool to go back and experience some tech I hadn't really seen before The HDD was wiped so i burned a windows xp iso to a disk to install it with, aswell as getting a IDE to Sata converter for a newer HD and the CD drive im using. The pc boots up with the splash screen, but after it only comes up with a blinking underscore and doesn't do anything after that. I also looked in the Bios, only to find that it doesn't recognize any drives I have in the computer, even the drive that is an IDE. I tried resetting the cmos, but that didn't work. So now im stumped. Could anyone with knowledge on older computers (or anyone really) help me with this?

I have an old HP laptop that I started using again. I did a wipe on the Hard Drive and reinstalled windows. Everything works just fine, except for the fact that the CPU and GPU temps go through the roof when just on idle. CPU is somewhere around 55-70 celsius and GPU in 50's. Also the fan goes to like 100% in 5 minutes of starting up. Is there a way to take care of this? Btw, there is no dust inside the laptop, it's completely clean. Specs: i7 4700mq gt 740m 1TB Hard Drive

Well that has my OS on that

Tried it, didn't work

Doesn't work

Me and my friend have built a computer and everything is working swimmingly except that the Hard drive isn't being recognised in the bios or Windows setup. I've tested the Hdd on my own computer and works fine. I've tried using all Sata ports and have made sure they are completely connected. And We haven't changed any settings to be safe. Any help is appreciated. Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M Usb3 Hard drive: WD blue 1tb

I've been having an issue on my Battlefield 1 game where it starts up on the loading screen and just freezes up, but when I alt tab out and back in, the video is freeze framed on the main menu, and stays that way unless I alt tab out again. It seems that the game itself works fine, but it is an issue about the video. I've tried repairing the game files, but that is about it. Can you guys give any assistance?

Alright, thanks for the help.

Ok, I understand. I thought that if I added my friend on Xbox that would be able to play BattleFront together. But is there anyway me and my friends can play together?

When I tried to add a friends that plays over Xbox in my origin client, it doesn't work and gives me this error, "SERVER ERROR System error, please try again or contact system administrator." Can anyone help me with this?

I recently found my families old gateway desktop that we used back in the early 2000's. My dad said I could to use it since it was aging and had nothing important on there, so I decided I could toy around with it since after all I am a tecchie. But once the computer booted it wanted a username and password, but my parents or siblings don't know what the password. So my question is: Is there any software or work around that I could use so I could bypass the login?

Averaged 40-50fps on medium with a laptop that had a GT 740m, so you should get something like 60+fps on medium-high settings

My older brother bought a EVGA GTX 970 FTW edition for my brother since he had the money. I installed it for him since he knows little to nothing about building computers. Once I downloaded the latest drivers and whatnot I ran a stress test (Kombustor & 3D Mark) on it to see how it performed while having AfterBurner open. But when running Kombustor I saw that the temps were extremely high @ 90 degrees Celsius. During the stress test, I looked at the Graphics card to see that one of the fans were not spinning. And I do know about the fans not spinning up until 60 celsius, but it still wasn't spinning even after it hit that temp. Are there any solutions I can try before having to RMA it? Thanks.