I couldn't boot into Safe Mode. I did do what THINKA had suggested and IT WORKED !!!!!!! Thank you ALL for yer replies and especially Thinka for the right combo !

HP Pavilion 510n , Windows XP Home Edition,some RAM, and a 40GB hard drive. I was updating the computer through Microsoft, already had SP1 & SP2 on it. I already had Internet Explorer 7 on it. It...

Well, the freezer trick didn't work so I ordered an Installation disc form Dell and tried that. Nothing worked so I just replaced the broken hard drive with a new one that is the same make and model....

I will try that "freezer" suggestion tonight. Thank you !!!

Hello Family !
I have a Dell Dimension E310, with an 80GB Samsung hard drive in it. It had/has Windows Media Center on it.
The hard drive went bad and gave me the error that said.... Loading PBR...

It turns out that one of the sticks of RAM was bad, causing all the problems. Thanks to ALL who worked with me and helped me greatly on this issue !!!!!!!!!!!

I got the new installation on the new hard drive fine. I washed the installation disc and that seemed to really help. But, now that all the files are loaded on it and its fully updated thru...

I always do a full format. I have taken the old hard drive and reinserted it into the laptop to see what would happen. At first, it blue screened. Then I swapped out a RAM stick and it booted into...

Could it be a motherboard issue ?

I have put Windows XP on many other "non-Dell" hard drives before. This one is just REALLY giving me a hard time. I have tried 2 different cd/dvd drives and other XP installation disc's. I get the...

Whats the proper/best way to wash a disc ?

I will try another drive. Could there be a problem with the disc, sitting soo long ?

Hellow Daniweb !!
I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop that has given me fits when it comes to trying to install a Windows XP Home Edition on a new hard drive. I have the original installation disc...

Hi Family !
I have a Western Digital , external hard drive. The model number is WD25001032-001.
It was dropped last week and now shows signs of problems. After plugging it in, it loads up ok....

I found the problem.....
Somewhere in this computer there is a setting that MAKES the user right click on the I.E. icon and choose RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.
How do I turn that off ? I just want to...

I found the problem.....
Somewhere in this computer there is a setting that MAKES the user right click on the I.E. icon and choose RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.
How do I turn that off ? I just want to...

Thank you for your reply ! I looked on that page and never did see Internet Explorer for Windows Vista. I saw I E for Windows XP and Servise 2003, but not Vista

I installed FireFox and it works perfect. So how do I get Internet Explorer working ? If I can uninstall it and reinstall it it, where is a good place to get the right Internet Explorer for this...

I tried that and nothing happened. It's as if Internet Explorer isn't even there. But, I know it is there, it's just not responding. I sent a HijackThis log to the spyware folkes but they never...

Yes, but that did the same thing. I got another ,(used), board in but it was bad. I sent it back to where I bought it from and am waiting for a replasement board.

Hi Daniweb family !!!
I have an Acer Aspire 4520 with Vista Home Premium and 2GB of RAM.
The Internet Explorer just quit working. When I click on the icon to start it, nothing at all happends. I...

Ok, I have run a few virus scans with Malwarebytes, Spybot, SuperAnti Spyware.... They found a few trogans, viruses, etc...
I still can't get the icon to bring up Internet Explorer at all so I ran...

I will. Thank you for your fast reply ! The charger is in the back of a car and won't be back till Monday so I will have to do what you suggested then ! Thank you !!!

Hi Daniweb family !!!
I have an Acer Aspire 4520 with Vista Home Premium and 2GB of RAM.
The Internet Explorer just quit working. When I click on the icon to start it, nothing at all happends. I...

Hey Compuchip..... When I try to go into SAFE MODE WITH COMAND PROMPT, i get the same thing as if I try to go into SAFE MODE. It ends up as a black screen, with the words SAFE MODE in the 4 corrners...

I will have to try that tomorrow. Thank you for your reply ! I hope it works !

cd rom is first, hard drive second. What do I need to change ?

I got a new power supply and a CPU. I hooked it all up and the only thing that happends is the fans spin. I think it's the motherboard.....what do you think ?

I had already tried ctrl+alt+del , and nothing happend. I plugged up a different hard drive that I have and it fired right up. I tried hitting and clicking and yet nothing happends at all.

Hi to all !!
I have a Compaq Presario SR1602HM. Windows XP Home. I think the hard drive has went bad. When the computer is booting up, the Compaq screen shows up , then the Windows XP screen shows...

Hi everyone at Daniweb !!

I have an Emachine W3611, Windows Vista Basic, 2GB of RAM and a 3.0GHz processor.
I believe it took a lightning stike, not too long ago. It doen't want to boot up....

After looking at the prices of the PC2100 and the PC2700...I will just go with the PC2700. There wasn't much a difference in price.

Thank you both for your replys. I will try the PC2100 and see how that works out !

Hi everyone !!!
I have a Dell Inspiron 5150, with an A38 BIOS , a 2.8 GHz processor and a 60GB hard drive in it. I know that it calls for PC2700 RAM, up to 2GB. I want to know , since PC2700 is so...

Hi to my great family at Daniweb !!!
I have a Toshiba Satellite A105-S1712 laptop , with a 1.6MHz processor in it and I'd like to find out how big of a processor I can put in it. The processor thats...

It's fixed now. Here is what a friend suggested.
Go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
There is a registry fix there to download and I put it on a thumb drive and loaded it on the laptop....

No. I couldn't "roll back" the driver. Whats wierd is , when I go to the properties of the "device status", it says that "Windows cannot load the device driver fpr this hardware. The driver may be...

I have a Compaq Presario V2000 laptop. The dvd/cd drive doesn't show up in MY COMPUTER anymore. It has also stopped reading any disc that I put in it.
I went to DEVICE MANAGER and there is a yellow...

I tried twice to install UBCD4WIN. Niether time did it install right. I went http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
and I selected "CD IMAGE", made a bootup disc and that fixed the hard...

I just got the discs in today. One Operating System CD disc and one driver recovery disc. I will try the above suggestion when I get off work tonight at about 12 midnight. Thanks for all your...