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My Hp Lapton wont turn on at all. i took out the battery had it plug right to the AC and nothing, just can see a little light blinking next to the AC jack. that is all.

Hi, thanks for having a look at my problem. I have a dell PC that i bought a while ago (a few years) and it has worked perfectly until yesterday. I got back from my cottage to a dead computer. I had aparently left it on over the weekend, as …

After experiencing loss of 2 hard drives, i realize its time to set up raid. First off, I have 2 via 6421 cards that havent been touched in a while. I was looking at the specs and they are "150 mbps" per sata. Is this fast enough? Or slower than …

My laptop start black screen few days ago. now still happen every 5 minutes. it can wake the screen up when the screen saver run. Can anybody tell me how to fix it?

Hi can any one help me i have just bought a used 24" iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 800MHz from a man in USA and did not check to see if it will work in the UK......Does any one know the answer to this Question ???

I was trying to install a new video card and the manual said to remove any previously installed drivers. I did so but I think it removed the onboard video driver as well. Now when I start my PC one monitor stays in sleep mode and another monitor says there …

22 Year old, Jon Lech Johansen who previously hacked DVD encryption in his teens has now hacked through the iPod copy protection. This copy protection stops iPod users from playing downloaded music from online music stores other than iTunes. This "copy protection" also stops music that has been bought off …

3 days ago I plugged in my external into a USB hub to connect it to my laptop and be able to use a USB mouse and keyboard at the same time. I was running music off it (My iTunes library is on my external) when I heard it make …

HI, My sons T40 freezes when in use and then takes 5/6 times to boot in safe mode. I've tried without the battery as this was suggested elsewhere. Could it be a RAM problem? Thanks.

Kind: HP ProBook 4510s hi all, I last time switched off my laptop after using it on projector. i disconnected projector fine, then turn it off normal. Then next day I turned on and screen was black and blue light at power button as usual. I decided that I would …

I'm working on another Pavilion (the 750n this time) and when you plug it in, it automatically turns on without the power button, does one solid beep for probably 5 seconds, and turns off, won't let you press the power button to try again. The only way to get it …

I am working on a friends Dell Latitude D610 that suddenly lost all video. [U]Failure mode was described as:[/U] using the computer on lap, it got very hot all of a sudden, video started to go fuzzy so the computer was shutdown. Once the computer cooled down for a while …

Hey people. Basically, what I want to do is detach my laptop's LCD screen and have it less that a meter away from the laptop itself. The reason why I would like to do this is that I am constructing a small table, in which in the middle I plan …

In February, 2008 I wrote a blog post called [URL="http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2008/02/is-apple-workin.html"]Is Apple Working on an eBook Reader: Does It Matter?[/URL] Today, I would answer my own question with "Hell yes it maters." If Apple enters the eBook market, you know it would be expensive, but it would be a desirable device, …

A lot of people dont like this topic but a lot of people agree with me. Overclocking now is becoming pointless any body agree with me I talking about from Processors to Video Cards just completely pointless. Water cooling is cool as well but just not worth it no more. …

I have HP Pavilion dv6516tx Entertainment Notebook PC. Its DVD drive reading CD, DVD. Burning CD. But when i try to burn DVD its not burning. Is their any way i can check if hardware is working properly or not. Is it due to any software reason? Or its hardware …

I was playing a game on my (~2 yr old) computer a while ago when it locked up on me, and then crashed. Since then, when attempting to power on the system, one of 3 things will happen: 1) It will successfully POST, and then give me an "DISK BOOT …

Sorry guys, don't flame me! Couldn't find a suitable forum for my question. I think this may be my best bet. I've got a Dell inspiron 1545 which does not have a NumLock - so no ASCII codes with ALt/Fn. Bit of a bummer seeing as all my work is …

Hello all--my first post in the forums Anyway, I have a Maxtor One Touch II 200GB USB external hard drive as a backup. I had problems with my system, so I reloaded everything from scratch on my main HDD. I made an attempt to get my data from my Maxtor, …

I have read thread "My PC won't start - Read this first!" but still cannot solve my problem! My onboard LAN port was crashed yesterday. Also from some month ago when I start PC show these messages Flopy failed... Pres F1 to continue, and in Windows change my date/time. Yesterday …

I want to go to the bios setup to make some settings changes so that I can run windows startup disk as it not being recognised as of now. The problem is that I cant get to the setup no matter how hard i try to do it .I tried …

I have bought all new parts for my comp... [LIST] ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO USB3 AMD 880G AM3 Motherboard Ultra Gladiator Blk w/Clear Side Mid-Tower Case Ultra LSP650 650w Power Supply 2 Sets of Corsair XMS3 4GB PC10666 DDR3 Dual Channel 1333MHz HIS Radeon HD 5670 1GB GDDR5 PCIe Eyefinity IceQ …

ok so heres my problem. ive had my computre for just over 2 years now. never had a problem with it til recently. when i turn the computer on it starts up, all the fans and everything kick on, but after 5 seconds the computer just powers down, waits a …

I have a Gateway P-6860FX laptop that is not booting. I previously had a blue screen hardware error the night previous while gaming (Screen glitched up with horizontal lines, went to blue screen). The next morning I attempted to boot it, but it went to start-up repair. There the screen …

My laptop has been working for years - now it won't boot. I press the power button, the fan whirrs up as normal. About 3-5 seconds of normal whirring. Then it dies. Nothing appears on screen. It sounds like it does when I try to boot from battery when the …

I have a button that connects to my computer through a USB connection. When it is clicked it goes to a certain web site and when clicked again it goes to a different web site, it will alternate between the two web sites. It does this by entering a web …

i was searching but i cant find anything here... whats the difference between the both? is there a clockspeed difference?

I got this blemish t23 IBM Thinkpad Laptop that did not come with a hard drive, a hard drive caddy, RAM, RAM cover, and some other things. I got all the stuff for it and installed WinXP on it. I got all the needed updates and Anti-Virus and everything. It …

Whenever I turn on my gaming PC, I get green scanlines on the BIOS screen. Does this mean my video card is FUBAR? Thanks in advance

Hi! I got a stationary pc with Windows Vista, as it's not having bluetooth, I thought of connecting my Sony Ericsson W595 mobile phone via USB, and access it's bluetooth on my stationary pc. But when I tried to Google this, I came up with nothing :( Please help! And …

hey there! i got a problem with my CPU, it's power is interrupting. i opened the cpu the i notice that a part of the power supply is broken. then i bought a new power supply. then after plugging all the cables it my cpu suddenly stopped working..is my mobo …

So my computer was orginally just shutting off by itself, at perhaps 30 minute intervals, then at quicker and quicker intervals until it would just start up and instantly shut down. When it did start up the processor fan would stutter and there would be no image on screen. Took …

I know that there is a sticky about not being able to turn on your computer, but none of those answers applied to me. I really hope someone can help me with this, I'm utterly helpless without my computer. (Sadly.) I was doing some stuff on my computer, then I …

Can anyone please help me? I have a computer with athlon processor and 1 and a half Gig ram, two hard discs. It was a very expensive machine that in a few months after I bought it needed a new main board because the original was of poor quality and …

Hi all, ok i have a Geforce 5700 FX graphics card. And a major problem with it, its about 5-6 months old. The problem is is that when running a game everything goes shaky including the menu screen - all the colours are blended to red. Heres an Example : …

[quote=hawk4561]laptop will not start. Intermitent lights. Power supply is good and there is power to the motherboard. I have seen a lot of postings of people having the same problem. Is there any help out there? :rolleyes:[/quote] I'm having a similar problem with an Inspiron 8000. Did you ever resolve …

Hello, I think my laptop problem may be quite serious, so I would be glad to read what anyone has to say. I’m just hoping to make the right decision, about whether or not I have to buy new hardware for example. My laptop is an ASUS A8JS (a little …

Hi everyone! I'm hoping that someone might be able to provide me with a few ideas on what might be wrong with my LCD laptop display. (The laptop is reasonably aged, however, a couple of months ago, I replaced the LCD panel as the CCFL backlight stopped working) When I …

Hi, I'm running two 1 TB Western Digital drives, and in Windows 7, the secondary one is slow to access. I have it mounted as M:, and Windows Explorer shows a green progress bar at the top when it loads the root directory. Here's the weird part. It's VERY fast …

What type of video card or whatever would anyone recommend for this setting. I have a guy that wants to hook up his computer to his standard monitor but also at times wants it to be able to be able to watch it on his big tv. The tv has …

Hi dell xps m1530 nvidia GS4000 ram: 2G My graphic card is dead. in order to replace it i have to replace all the mother board? Is it better to buy a new computer?

I just replaced a fried hard drive, I don't know much about computers, but this is what happened. With the old drive a got a fatel error blue screen, replaced the hard drive, and now it's a black screen that reads Primary drive 0 or 1 not found. Hit F1 …

I have a lenovo 3000 n200 laptop. It does charge the battery 4% in whole the night. when i opened it i found a burnt IC in it. for more detial plz see this image.[URL="http://www.freeuploadimages.org/images/07ch5fypi7w92pkl6ph0.gif"]http://www.freeuploadimages.org/images/07ch5fypi7w92pkl6ph0.gif[/URL]

Hello Everyone Glad I found what looks like to be a nice forum with knowledgable people. I have a big problem that has been haunting me for a while now. About 8 months ago, my younger sister was using my laptop, a Compaq Persario X1000, she called me and said …

Hey lately i have currently been looking for a new cpu cooler considering that i still have the default stock cooler that came with the cpu and/or case... Which isn't really doing its job too well not cooling and extremely loud (doesn't help that the computer is in the hottest …

Hi everyone! I have a strange problem, I haven't been able to solve, even with quite some knowledge of videocards, and computers. I have an nVidia 250 GTS, purchased a year ago (all new, no second-hand). Everything worked very well, until about a month ago. Sometimes, when I power on …

I format my windows xp and reload xp but my some folder are encrypted they do not open ! they are in another drive . How to open?

Hello guys.. my laptop always show this error error when i turn on. "Cmos checksum error default configuration used" i thought it is just a cmos battery so i changed it with new cmos battery but the problem still the same.. does anyone of u know the solution for this …

I was wondering if there's a way that I can recover data from a storage drive that crashed. The only problem is that when I insert my old HDD the PC freezes at startup right by the beginning of the POST (in fact it shows the model of my Asus …

Hi! please help!! someone recently removed the hard disks from the server as they were doing some preventive maintain. Now, the server is not booting. the model is a dell poweredge 2850.