Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines May 26th, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 3,008 I had a computer repair job similar to this the other day.
The computer would work fine and then switch off randomly (may last 2 mins, may last hours) and unable to power back on until it was left... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Apr 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,514 Try pulling the printers plugs (both USB and power) for 20 seconds, this will make sure anything in its memory will be removed (such as a print job that failed).
Also, some printers want to be... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Apr 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,132 Next time it happens. Get a pen and write down what the error is. It would be something along the lines of:
STOP: 0x000008 SOME_SORT_OF_ERROR
Then repost here. We cant really help you unless we... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Apr 26th, 2006 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 30,808 Being that this is a DRIVER_IRQL and not just a IRQL then I would say that the problem with this is a driver issue. Did you change any drivers/install new hardware recently?
According to... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Apr 26th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 2,744 Well, when a computer beeps endlessly and doesnt make it to post, it is definitely the ram that has a problem.
As you mentioned you've already tried to diagnose the problem by swapping the ram but... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Mar 16th, 2006 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 33,769 There is a good writeup at ComputerRepairTalk.com to help you diagnose your rebooting problem (at least so you can see what the Blue screen of death error is):
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