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I am trying to troubleshoot a homebuilt computer that won't boot. It has been working for about 2 years without issue but when I went to boot it today all I got was one beep ( Award BIOS and a Asus P5N-e SLI MB ) and a message on the …

i just built my new computer i hooked the monster to the grafix card and the black screen said a bunch of stuff and then verifying dmi pool data.............. could not boot, insert boot disk so i inserted the xp disk and it said verifying dmi pool data.............. then it …

My computer wont start up straight away, when holding down the start button it revvs like an engine and after 3 minutes if I am lucky it will turn on. The computer is an emachines about 2 years old and this has intermittantly happened over the las t6 months now …

my desktop pc has a error i turn it on everything starts up great gets to windows xp runs any program perfectly until i go into any type of online game that is full screen and its only while im online that it happens the internet connection isnt bad because …

the computer turns on but the monitor stays on standby i have check the monitors working there is an initial beep when u first turn on the computer cpu fan working have checked everything is in properly have no idea what it is

Just installed a NVIDIA GEFORCE4 MX 4000 with 128 memory in my PCI slot. Doesnt work as well as the onboard graphics which only has 64 memory. What could be wrong with this setup? I845gv is the chipset for motherboard. Any help would be appreciated.....Should my bit show 64 now …

Hi in a system with configuration P III 1 Ghz, 256MB SD RAM, 40 GB Hard disk Due to some problems, i formatted the system and installed windows xp sp2, It all took the drivers automatically. After a clean install, I installed AVG antivirus 8.0, after installing the monitor displays …

OK my PC started freezing I scanned viruses and spy-ware. I cleaned out all the temp files, Internet files and so on. It still kept freezing so i said f it and i reformatted and reinstalled windows, updated everything to date. And......IT STILL FREEZES. this has never happened to me …

Hey guys, Here's the problem: [LIST=1] [*]The unit is powered on via the case power switch [*]The HDD & Power LEDs on the case flash once but the unit does not turn on. No fans spin up or other activity occurs [*]Pressing the case power switch again results in no …

I come home from a long day driving grandparents around and come in to a pc that I turned off before I left. I now find that the PC isn't starting nothing happens when I push the buttons no beeps, no screen nothing. I do see that the motherboard is …

Built this system in 03 Asus A7N8X nForce2 Athlon(XP)/Duron SktA DDR ATX Motherboard AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83GHz 333FSB 512KB Processor Kingston KVR400X64C25/512 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CL2.5 Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD800JB 80GB ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer Asus CRW-4824A 48x24x52 EIDE CD-RW Drive w/Flextralink eVGA NV52 GeForce2 …

If you were to buy a new graphics card what would you buy? I want to spend less than $300 if possible. I would like it to be quiet if possible and I think that 256mb is what I need to get. I need this for video editing and running …

Hello All: Can someone give me a suggestion about this? Thanks; About a month ago my computer started shutting down spontaneously. No prompt from me, no error message, no nothing. It does give a warning thus; System shutting down. please save all work. That's it. About 3 months ago the …

I'm trying to replace my Thinkpad T22 CMOS battery, and am having what I hope to be a simple and easily solved problem. I have the repair manual in front of me. Here's what I've done, following the instructions: - Disconnect the power. Check. - Remove the main battery. Check. …

While working with outlook via remote assistance connection where we were simply making a back up file of outlook....the keyboard on the laptop generated charecters that were not the same as the keys pressed. Interestingly t e s t works but other keys do not. For example abcdefgh are ok …

I have a SATA DVD drive thats not working. I have an IDE drive on hand and wanted to use it for now. My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe. There is only ine IDE header on this MOBO and one IDE cable included in the box that the MOBO came …

Hello. Im running an Acer Power1000 small form factor, well 9 of them. within a week 4 motherboards fried, just 1 month out of warranty. I happened to find a company which deals with acer parts and replaced the mboards for 150 ea. vs 500 which is what acer wanted... …

I'm trying to get a friends compaq presario to work and had a question I hope someone can answer. The only way the bios and config data is retained in the system is to keep the ac adaptor plugged in. When the unit is unplugged the config data resets itself …

just a few days ago , I simply clicked the file calc.exe to open it and ... got an error message "its about the file user.dll war relocated in memory ,so this app may not run properly" ( see the pic below for detail ) . Now the problem just …

Hey guys!, two questions regarding my intel core 2 duo processor (E6600 2.4Ghz) first off, when i bought it and the rest of my last major upgrade's when installing it, i realized that there was actually no mention of thermal paste in the packaging, nor did it come with any, …

My friend sent me his Hp pavilion ZT1000 for me to fix. Normally, i am very good at computers, but this laptop has gotten me stumped. Sometimes it boots up 100% perfectly, runs a few hours, and then the screen is still, but the mouse/keyboard doesn't work, nor does anything …

I am trying to accomplish One thing and either way I will be happy. I had a HP Laserjet with No Mac OS support and every third party drive didn't work at all. So I sold the windows only LJ and just bought a Mac OS X compatible HP LJ. …

Hey All, I've been having this problem for a week now and it's driving me crazy. I work in IT, do network set-up/network administration/troubleshooting, pc repair and web design so I like to think that I know my way around computers but this has me pulling out my hair. I …

I bought a Samsung 226BW montior and hooked it up to my A8Js. Everything was fine, the 226BW was just a clone of my laptop display. Then I did something that I can't remember (could be set the resolution to 1680x1050, which is higher than the laptop LCD's native resolution …

Hello...first post here. I should preface this by admitting I am just a regular layperson who really knows very little about computers. Last night I was using my laptop and it suddenly went completely dead. Black screen, no indicator lights would come on, unable to repower, was 85% charged and …

I am hoping someone can give me some insight on making a SATA raid with a PCMCIA card. I have a new Alienware laptop that kicks butt and I want to make it rock hard with a raid. I want to stick 2 250gig hard drives on a two channel …

I have a Dell desktop that appears to be killing USB thumbdrives. It has turned two different thumbdrives to stone. The first time I was swapping the drive between the Dell and another computer and after a few swaps it would no longer work. At the time I figured it …

Hey, I am seeking a new laptop and was thinking about getting a RAM upgrade as soon as I got the laptop, how ever i've found looking at 4gb ram it's usually (2X 2GB) and i was just wondering if this is two different cards and if so does your …

The problem is this, a few weeks ago my desktop PC broke down, for the third time in a month, which I soon had to replace due to my college course being IT related. I now have a new computer that has similar specifications to the preceding one which seems …

It takes me roughly 4 to 5 hours, start to finish, to assemble a new PC and load the OS. I lost count of how many systems I've built over the years, but this one has me stumped, I've never seen anything like it!! I hope there's someone out there …

I have a major issue with my old Dell Dimension XPS T500. The thing has always been a little cooky, but now it's gone off the charts. My brother recently moved out, so I decided to uninstall all of his old games and software to free up some space on …

i got a problem with my computer unit , my unit hangs after rebooting it. as i open my unit i discovered that my old video card haS A blown out capacitor then i replaced it into new one after replacing the old im still suffering in this cpu hang. …

Hi guys I have a problem with my monitor ... i turn on the cpu and it starts but the monitor does not respond and it says "in safe mode .. press the monitor power button or move the mouse" .... i tried all this and it does not respond …

I have a motherboard problem I have power to the drives ie hardrive cd dvd, powersupply works fine. I have two case fans,one only works, I don't know if the processor is getting power. videocard is getting power. and i'm not getting any error beeps if anybody can help me …

I tried the freezer idea but it didn't work. Does anyone have any other ideas? It's a Dell laptop with a Seagate 160GB SATA drive

My I-mac G-5 gives the start up sound, then I get the blue screen with the apple in the center. After about a minute the computer begins to make a loud noise-as if the fan is running in overdrive, it will not complete the start up process. I have to …

Hello all, new here and baffled! Well this recently just maybe a month ago that it wouldn't read CD roms. It reads and loads DVD roms fine. Sometimes I can get it to read the CD roms by opening and closing the tray with the cd rom in it like …

Hello, I just purchased a Belkin KVM switch in order to switch between two computers at my workplace. One computer is a very, very old Gateway (over 8yrs old) that runs Microsoft Server 2000. There is a program installed on that computer that my manager refuses to lose access to, …

My grandaughter has an Advent 3105 desktop.It was never any trouble until one day it just wouldn't start-no lights,no anything.I thought it might be the psu,after first checking the cable.When switched on the fan doesn't work,but the smaller case fan beside it comes on for a few seconds and a …

Hi everyone , I am employed as a manager in a firm. I have a problem that I had like to talk about. My system was working fine the other day, but while copying a file by nero….the system hanged and I had to restart it. But I got a …

Hey, i have a computer that i built. It has been freezing and restarting lateley. I did memtest, and THAT froze. I went out and purchased compatible high quality corsair RAM thinking that would solve my problem. THis failed, and my computer still freezes on memtest. When my computer does …

I had a windows xp problem...computer wouldn't boot up..and I decided to restore it with a quick restore cd. Thinking the restore cd would carefully prompt me through each step before proceeding to the final restore, it started to restore both the C and D drives. (My computer initially came …

I use a Gameboy emulator called VisualBoyAdvance. When you press space, it speeds up the emulator very fast, which makes using the game so much easier. However, that puts a lot of strain on my CPU, and therefore my fan. I want to know if overuse of this function may …

Hello alll I've been having problems on my hard drive. It has been working fine but all of sudden, when i restart my computer, there is a blue screen which says that my drive e, the Nt drive , needs to be checked for consistency. It does this everytime i …

Can someone point me to where I might get a hold of fan schematics for a Compaq ML570 G1 /G2 server and of a 4300 series drive array. THe equipment is great but far too noisy for a media server environment. I need to slow these fans down to drop …

i have a vaio lap top model (sz 670 n ) while i am upgrading my bios with one of file update that i found in vaio update site my bios is damaged . now i cant see any thing on my displayer and it doesn't boot what can i …

my daughter has a laptop she used in college but will not boot up for some reason. it was bought in 2001 can anyone help? thanks PHIl

MY NOTEBOOK WON'T BOOT/LOAD/START Hi Ive been looking over a lot of the other posts but their problems don't seem to be exactly the same. And a lot are yet to get any replies to their posts..so I'm going to start a new one. The Story. I took my laptop …

Hi, i currently have 512mb of ram and i would like to upgrade it. I have 1 available space for ram. is it possible for me to remove the 512mb and replace it with 2x 1gbs? also how do you know what ur max amount of RAM is? My motherboard …

Is there a noticable performance increase with choosing a higher speed of the following ram: DDR2: 667 mhz 800 1066 1142 1250 DDR3: 1066 1333 1600 1800 1866 2000 what about ddr2 1250 vs ddr3 1066, which is better. also, what are the benefits of ddr3 over ddr2. is it …