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 | Gateway Zx6971-UB10P AIO appears to not be getting power, it comes on with logo and an overlay that says PC Mode in blue. also gives One short beep code, then immediately goes off and shows No Signal on monitor screen. Have tried a hard reset ( remove power and hold …  |
| | HP Pavilion dv6636 (dv6500) Screen is totally black. Machine boots up and displays on external monitor just fine. Have checked the Inverter - no change. Did a hard reset (battery out, power cord out, power button held 40 sec., no change. what am I missing ? I'd hate to have … |
| | Hi all. the Lunatic here. Running an ACER aspire 5250 (stock) with Win7home. Attached a 250GB WD external hd with usb adapter for storage/ space. HAD stupidly forgotten the network password for the dang drive, so i can't get in without resetting that.....but cannot for the life of me remember …  |
| | Acer Aspire, wearing Win7, everythings' current, etc. factory hardware - nothing remarkable. 250GB hard drive. 68 % free space still. I have a heap (more than 35,000) photos spread all over this thing in such nasty order. Some are work related, most are one grandchild or another or family set, …  |
| | Hi, Acer Aspire, Win7, standard stuff. Installed a Kodak ESP C310 on the IBM NetVista computer yesterday... and selected USB connecting. That machine cannot 'do' wireless. Now, I'd like to attach my laptop to the printer (and use their disk to install) But This Time, I want to select Wireless … |
| | I am struggling with a Gateway laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium, SP1. I have tried to fix the problem of Windows Update error 80070490 - with the System readiness tool, the Windows Update Fix-it tool, done all the requested restarts and retries, and nothing is working. Right now I … |
| | Hi, Acer inspire5250, Running Win 7 home prem., standard hardware - recently grabbed the new WU's. soon after that, two of my kids on Cricket cell phone networks - and Use To always receive the ''texts'' I sent thru their phones via my Incredimail - are now reporting that the … |
| | Gateway EL500C desktop. Runs XP. No idea what else is "on" it, have not been able to gain access, other than opening and looking. [U]Started with[/U] a whisking noise inside at start, and she inquired around, ended up buying and sticking in a [U]new hard drive[/U]. Novice mistakes were made, … |
| | Hi folks, I am working with a HP Pavilion, running WinXP, 1024RAM, and normal factory parts. It is however, USB 1.0 - and I believe this is part of the problem. I am trying to get a Kodak ESPOffice 2150 AIO printer installed and followed all of kodak's instructions for …  |
| | Hi folks, Got a customer who is using a Dell Inspiron laptop , a MyBook external drive and has a karaoke business they run on weekends. They store approx. 67GB of music on the two 'drives' - They are running Vista home prem. problem is : when the boy downloads … |
| | Oh yes, I have checked everywhere for solution. Now very curious. I got it to where it would boot and display without all the display corruption ( many thousand stripes like a tv on horrible horiz.hold problem. Booted it 20 - 30 different times to test over & over. Worked … |
| | Applied the most recent Adobe update, and now computer will not boot [U]any further than [/U]the safe mode,? , last good config., debug, etc. [U]screen in DOS [/U]. None of the selections react when selected, it just stays frozen at that screen until machine is powered off again. same thing …  |
| | Laptop, dell Inspiron MP061,1.73 gigahertz Intel Core Duo 64 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache, Board: Dell Inc. 0FF049 , Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Dell Inc. A02 06/09/2006, Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family [Display adapter] (2x) Seiko Epson [Monitor] WIN XP home, SP3 Recently (within … |
| | Dimension XPS 4500 WinXP, Raid 0 striping shows Normal, but it gives error message Primary IDE...exceeded parameters.....F1 or F2, When it does get to Windows logo screen it just hangs as if trying to boot. Help. Two WD hard drives are apparent in BIOS, SATA Raid is set ON. [B]I … |
| | Running XP home, sp2 on Dell workstation. etc. etc. All hardware and software fully functional and fully updated. Starting to rebuild a website I ran a while ago. Had saved tons of image files (pictures, drawings, graphics, etc.). Now when I go to search for them I have to look …  |
| | Machine is CompaqEVO d510, running WinXP Pro. Machine is 'located' in Quebec, Canada....(a college girlfriend)...and I am in W.Pa., USA. [B]We are using GoToMyPC as a remote assistance tool[/B], and [B]RecoverMyFiles[/B] (paid) as recovery [B]tool[/B] Back story: Her machine was hacked. [B]Primary functions are carrying on just fine[/B]. Major issue … |
| | Compaq EVO d512, WinXP Pro, normal factory machine from there. I'm trying to help a friend up north fix her problem. Started as: Son using her machine did a bunch 'o downloads, disk cleanup, and defrag last week. When she got back to PC for her own needs - her …  |
| | Hi I'm working on an IBM NetVista 8315KHU , WinXP, [COLOR=red]New[/COLOR] 256 DDR SD[COLOR=red]RAM[/COLOR], [COLOR=red]New[/COLOR] 80mm[COLOR=red]CaseFan[/COLOR] , other parts are as per original specs. Orig. [COLOR=blue]problem began as[/COLOR] an "out of blue" worked fine til bedtime, tomorrow after work - no boot. No household power issues or anything weird. Opened, … |
 | Hi folks, You came up in my own search. I am trying to get a replacement fan for my prec.wrkstation - and going by the dell [B]diagram[/B] - it is just like the one in the [U]"link"[/U] from these chats. My problem is - [COLOR=blue]what the heck is the difference … |
| | I've been asked if you can run an EIDE drive with a SCSI drive on the same machine ? The SCSI was original. He's adding the EIDE and tried chg'g Bios to boot. Now having problems booting. [COLOR=blue]"" [/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]I used Norton GHOST to transfer system and everything from the … |
| | All righty then... Dell Opti.GX1 (yep I know, a dinosaur), suppose to be W98, shows NT 4.1. Purch. on ebay for a steal. Assured it worked. Yeah, right. Well. I did only pay $5.50 . Sounds normal. No unusual beeps. Inside appears secure & proper. [B]1)[/B] F2 gets you into … |
| | Same machine issues [B]also posted[/B] in Dead Machines. [COLOR=#0000ff]Press spacebar NOW to invoke Hardware Profile/Last Known Good Menu Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray]Boot error message after Dell screen. [B]GX1[/B] machine, 'spose to be [B]running 98[/B], purch. ebay for dirt cheap, … |
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