Well, atleast that wasn't completly useless. You may have something wrong with your hard drive, thats why you have bad sectors in your hard drive. You could try a format and reinstall, but it...

You need the real disks...

Put that hard drive in another computer as a slave hard drive. Check out the folders of your computer for your files. Hopefully they will still be there

Did you get a warrenty? It sounds like your drive is damaged or dead. Gateway should replace it under warrenty. Also, you may wish to try and clean the lens with the special cleaners you can get for...

No offense, but if you searched the forum, you would have seen i posted a solution to this about a year ago....

pull out your cmos battery for about 10 seconds to clear the bios and reset it. put it back in and fire it up. see if it posts then.

Dang...why the old post revivals?

My statement was interms of the graphics card...

and by monitoring, i mean that the motherboard can get a reading from the chip which can be displayed in the os...

Does it say media test failure with the error?

It might work fine so long as both are the same versions of xp (ie. both home, or both pro). You may just have to visit HP's website to get some drivers for your computer after the windows...

You could be squishing the hard drive. Im not sure where it is located, but it is likely the case.

Open your bios, and check to see if boot to nic is enabled. It may not be exactly boot to nic, it may be like network boot etc. If it is enabled disable it and the error should dissapear.

If it is a desktop hard drive (3.5") they need to be powered by an ac outlet also. Is this your case?

You may just want to format and reinstall windows then, it seams like the easiest solution.

Did AVG detect this many viruses?

It could be either a problem with the charger or the motherboard. It is hard to say which without testing. Try a charger from another laptop of the same kind. If it works then you need a new charger....

nah, it could be overheating slightly. make sure your heatsink is firmly clicked down on all sides (takes some force). It should do the trick.

open the case up and pull out the ram sticks. blow some air in the slots you pulled the ram out of and put the ram back in and make sure they are firmly clicked down on both sides. turn it back on...

depends on what type of socket you have. not all heatsinks are created equal. some are great for extreme cooling but costs lots, and others do the trick and are releatively cheap. which route would...

It does make a lot of sense that it would be the mobo. I always replace the mobo before a cpu anyways, but it is most likely about 90% of the time the mobo not the cpu.

the mobo should have a sensor that shuts the machine off if the processor gets too hot though, so i doubt the cpu would be damaged even if the fan was just bad. with the fan not spinning up it is...

put the windows cd in the drive like you would be running a windows repair...hit r for repair...when you get to the command promot, type chkdsk c: /r and hit enter. it will run check disk to see if...

well you will need to go to sonys website in the support section, and you will have to find your specific model computer (every model will have a differenct cd) and there will be an option to...

you can get a passive cooler for any prosessor ever made.

you can get the drivers from sony's website, and they will be all up to date. Plus, sony charges a lot of money for a cd that should have come with your computer to begin with...i mean you did...

Before you bid and buy a computer, make sure it is compatable! Make sure your computer has the correct sockets (PCI or agp 2, agp 4, or agp 8). Even if they are only 5 bucks, if it wont fit, it isnt...

No offense, but that tip isn't one of the smartest things i have heard. A cpu fan might not turn and the chip will still be running if: the fan is broken, the fan has something blocking the fins, the...

The battery in the motherboard is not rechargeable, so your motherboard should not be recharging it. Also, did you try hitting f2 to get into the bios?

hold down the power button for about 10 seconds while it is on. Your computer probably just went to sleep mode. It should then turn on normal for you. If it doesnt, unplug it from the wall, and pull...

its possible. does your motherboard have integrated graphics?

Great to hear that! If you have more computer issues, post they on this site as well. Maybe we can help you with those too. :)

I was thinking about that myself before i finished posting...i am not sure. That may not even tbe the problem either. its hard to say

Altough i have never expirenced this issue personally, others here at daniweb have found out that it is likely that your motherboard is warped and your ram modules are not getting full connection...

im not sure what keystroke your laptop uses, but most laptops you have to hit the fn key and f6 or something to switch screens. there should be a little icon on the f key that it corresponds to.

Thats what i was wondering too! I think you should get the switch working first, then move on from there.

Is it possible that your screens resolution got changed to something higher than it can support? In safe mode the resolution is set low to aviod this problem. Also, i dont know if it will work with...

if you saw the motherboard spark it is most likely the motherboard. Most damage isnt noticable either, unless it is out of the ordinary terrible severe.

What kindof computer do you have? What were you playing with inside of your computer? What beeps does it make (ie. 4 beeps: short, short, long, short). Did you try pulling out your ram cleaning out...

how about anything like remote boot, or remote startup, or start to nic...its really hard to say what the phrase might be without actually seeing the bios first hand...

Are you still able to boot...

Every bios is different, so its next to impossible to tell you specific directions. Once you enter your bios, look for some setting that sounds like boot to network or something on the words of that.