20 Most Recent HP Media Center M370N (DM163A#ABA) PC Desktop Questions & Answers

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If the clock keeps on getting out - dated, the most probable cause would be the CMOS battery. It is a small circular battery that is located on the motherboard that keeps the time and of your system up to date even when it is turned off. Replace the battery and it should work fine.

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Sounds like you have a boot error on the hard drive. Time to get out your rescue discs and reload Windows. When reloaded run CHKDSK/F to clear any errors. If you can run CHKDSK/F before having to format your hard drive, that may save you a lot of time.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-20048-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&os=228&product=367282&sw_lang= is the driver you need

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835150086 this is a compatible cpu fan and heatsink or you can search ebay and find the oem fan and heatsink quite easily

Relative easy. Open up the case and be careful to see what wires are connect. Replace each one carefully. There is the big wire that containes a bundle. This goes to the motherboard. There is only one way to install it. There is a 4 prong molex wire that goes to the hard drive. There are extra wires just in case you need to add another hard drive for example. There shoudl be 4 screws holding the power supply in place. Remove them from the back of the PC

Look at the front panel of the computer you will see the connections you have. Should be power, reset, power led, usb etc. These are connected to your current motherboard and most times all the connections will be labeled in the case, on the wire connector ends. IE the end that connects to the motherboard. The only exception to this is the usb ports, and they can be hooked up to new usb connectors on the motherboard. Also note, read i said READ the proper way to connect the usb to the motherboard, this is usually a one shot deal, get it wrong and you kill that usb connector.

for firefox go to tools menu, click on options, click on the Applications, scroll down to mail to change the option from hotmail to yahoo.

for IE, on the menu bar click on internet options, the options are General, Security,piracy, Content, connection, program, advance, please click on the program options, you will see E-mail edit it to suit your purpose

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check the drivers and check that Media Center settings are optimized

think you'll find the drivers for the tuner are not compatible with windows 7. according to the hp website this is an xp machine. download the windows 7 compatibility checker from here to check http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B544E90-7659-4BD9-9E51-2497C146AF15&displaylang=en

You should see the HP logo splash regardless of any virus or what the Hard Drive is doing. Abscence of the splash screen at boot means something more essential, such as the power supply or a motherboard or processor is amiss. You may want to substitute another working power supply. Also inspect the large standup capacitors on the motherboard for swelled tops. If you see swelling then the caps have failed. Most people will look for a replacement motherboard when that happens, though the capacitors can be replaced. Replacement requires a 100 watt regulated soldering iron and good soldering skills, the capacitors themselves are not expensive.

If you are seeing the HP splash at boot, then your bios settings may have gotten corrupted (which you can set to the defaults to clear), or the Hard Drive may have a failure. To default the bios, hold the "delete" key at boot to enter the bios setup page. If you can enter the bios, load the defaults (typically F7) save and exit The system will reboot, and perhaps come back to life.

Sounds like the switch is out to me or it is mis connected to the motherboard

try going into ur BIOS and select load failsafe defaults...save and exit and it should be fine...if it works LEAVE UR BIOS ALONE...

One of the fan monitors in the BIOS is detecting a problem with a fan.
This would be a good time to pull the cover off the computer and clean ALL the fans. either a fan is dead or struggling. any fan in your computer can be replaced for less than 40 dollars.
Keep in mind that of the fan is weak and goes out, it may take the cpu or a video card with it.
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Go to the following website to view information on your problem:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph06788&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=434549

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A normal ATX power supply will work for your system. When purchasing make sure it is an ATX style psu. Hope this helps & please remember to rate my answer. Thanks.

I think that particular model has the fan mounted in the back of the case just below the power supply. It has a duct that goes from the fan to the processsor. Remove case cover and remove the duct by pressing the 2 tabs on the top of the duct and rolling it back and out. Unplug the fan cable from the mainboard . Make sure you remember the connector as you will have to plug the new fan cable back in. Remove the screws that hold the fan to the case and remove the old fan. Install the new fan, plug in the cable and if your computer is dusty on the inside blow it out with some canned air . Re-install duct by sliding tab at bottom in first then pull up to lock in top tabs. Replace case cover and she's done.

IF IT THE POWER SUPPLY FAN YES I WOULD REPLACE ASAP.RICHARDM69

OH ! I see now , you installed some extra software or it got installed by accident

and now you don't have the key for it well there are solutions.

You can unintall those programs as they are extra garbage really and you don't actually need them
as media player is quite capable of doing those things be default from what I've seen.

or you can enter the dank underground of hacking and look for a crack or keygenerator for that.

but honestly you can simply ignore those extra programs as you can do those things using
many other programs which are far better solutions for doing those particular tasks.

my strongest recomendation is to simply get rid of them , that CAN be done by totaly uninistallig media player , and loading up new ones from the windows update site , and keep going till you have media player 11 the current media player

lets hope you're using windows XP or greater with all it's updates and service packs that we dispise so much yet love.

shalom >:D<