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 | Whenever I plug in a Honeywell 3800g scanner into my Windows XP professional sp3 computer, the pop up "Windows detected a new device - composite USB device' appears in the lower right, and within seconds of that the computer either freezes or blue screens, with this error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL the stop …  |
| | I am trying to help a customer restore their connectivity to their server. earlier this week, a power outage wiped out thier servers' internet connection and the connection to 2 computers, I'll call them 1 and 2. We advised them to replace the wireless usb adapter they were using to …  |
| | I installed a Synchrotech cardbus reader into a new PC today. It fits into a 3.5" drive bay and has a IDE cable that connects to the PCI slot on the back of the board. After installing it, the mouse driver disappeared and I had to reinstall the drivers. I … |
| | I have a couple of computers here, a friend wanted me to make an image of an old XP hard drive with all her work files, emails, etc, and put them on a hard drive in a newer computer. The newer computer runs Windows 7 and I feel like that … |
| | I'm having an issue where a computer that was seemingly working fine a couple days ago is now freezing whenever I try to click on anything on the desktop. This happens right after startup. I can sometimes get the start menu to open, but once I try to click on …  |
| | 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 … |
| | Someone gave me a computer and asked me to look at it, they told me they couldn't load Windows. I have the computer, and this is what it's doing: -HP splash screen comes up -The very next screen is the screen for Windows Safe Mode (with the only options being … |
 | you probably shorted the motherboard. It still has power running through it so your devices will power on, but it sounds like you shorted it somehow. Not looking at your specs, I don't know what kind of video card you're using (AGP or PCIe) but take it out and try … |
| | Someone asked me to remedy a problem on a laptop running XP Media Center SP3...has a Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive, but Seagate Manager isn't recognizing the drive. When I plug the drive in, Windows recognizes and reads from the drive. I cannot uninstall the Seagate utility to reinstall it … |
| | Have you checked the jumpers? Make sure its set properly, and if set to cable select make sure you have a cable select cable. If not, set Master/Slave on both drives. |
| | are you sure you attached the PC speaker? Not your computer speakers where the sound comes out, but the tiny speaker that connects to the motherboard to beep when it finds problems. Also, make sure your video card is seated properly, and check the monitor cable to make sure it … |
| | Hi all, my uncle handed me his laptop and asked me to clean a virus. I used Kaspersky AV Boot to clean out the virus, and I was able to restore internet connectivity once that was done. I tried to run a virus scan and it kept getting stuck in … |
| | This post is marked as solved, but what did you do to solve it? |
| | Sounds like a dead or dying hard drive, they really only last so long. Can you describe the weird screen you've never seen before? There are a couple of utilities you can use to see if it's the hard drive, such as Check Disk (look it up for Windows 98, … |
| | A friend of mine is having lock up problem, the PC always boots up but randomly locks up every couple of days, sometimes more. On two occasions, at least, the computer locked up while surfing the web, the monitor went black, and the PC started beeping until I turned it … |
| | I agree with Abu, try it in a different computer with a different cable. If it works, try it in a different computer with the same cable. If that doesn't work, it was the cable. |
| | I have a Compaq with Vista Basic and it has a recovery partition, I can't imagine that yours doesn't. My laptop didn't even come with a Installation/Recovery CD, everything is on the partition. Once you get it up and running, be sure to make yourself a set of recovery disks. |
| | You said the motherboard manufacturer's logo pops up when you turn on the PC, or is Samsung the monitor manufacturer? Can you see BIOS information loading? Most of the logos you will see are the computer manufacturer and then the OS logo. It sounds like there is a problem loading … |
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