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| | Hi, I found a PC by the side of the road that was only missing the hard drive, so I thought I'd try to fix it up. I bought a decent HD from a reputable seller on eBay, and connected it properly, and tried to boot up the PC with …  |
| | I am seeing the following symptoms: 1. No video. Black screen. 2. Can't get into bios via reboot. 3. hard drive access light is solid amber/on. Trouble shooting i've done so far: 1. swapped out the monitor for a known good monitor... no change... still no video. Any suggestions on … |
| | Hi this happened to me about 1 month ago and I thought I had fixed it by resetting the CMOS it has worked flawlessly for a month till today and this same issue has reappeared: Hi, I'm not too computer literate but I do know a little, my computer was … |
| | I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC running Win 2000 Server. Currently there are two hard drives controlled by an ATA-100 Host bus Raid adaptor for Poweredge SC. (#9K646) in a Raid 1 (Mirroring) configuration. I want to leave the raid configuration intact but add a third hard drive as backup …  |
| | I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop, 1.5 years old (unfortunately out of warranty). One day a few weeks ago, when I turned it on, the screen lit up but nothing showed up on the screen. Fans were running and Windows XP seemed to start properly (I could log in … |
| | Well i bought a Hel-80 from Ibuypower last year and amazingly enough the warranty went up 3 days before my laptop just magically stopped working. It was running fine, never ran extremely hot, never random strange locks ups etc. But the other day i went to get online and it … |
| | So I got a new computer recently (posted below) and I decided that instead of taking out the extra 80gig i ordered with it and replacing it with my 300gig hard drive, that i'd just put the 300gig in there. Now, I didn't have any more IDE slots so I …  |
| | Hi, I installed an add-on to IE7 and my computer stalled. After forcing a restart, the started getting a variety of error messages during boot-up, all pointing to corrupted or not found - \windows\system32\config\system or <windows root>\system32\hal.dl or <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe or \windows\inf\biosinfo.inf I have tried the repair process - it … |
| | Overview -------- Approx. 3 weeks ago my Toshiba A60 failed to boot. I have used several tools to try to recover the drive but it currently fails to boot or reinstall XP and I would appreciate your advice as to next steps. Start of problem ---------------- The problem started after … |
| | I have got a Toshiba M40. PSM40A-08L009. Its about 2 nd half year old. few days ago i updated the bios. i got the bios from toshiba's website. it worked fine until yesterday. i turned the computer off the day before, it didn'b turn on the firt time then it … |
| | So I got a new computer but the guys installed windows to the wrong Hard Drive. I ordered three with the computer. Two 500 gigs which are raided and an 80 gig which I planned on taking out and replacing with a 300gig that has all the files from my … |
| | If you help me solve my problem, I'll make sure you go to heaven : ) I've scoured the net looking for a solution. I know nothing about computers, and desperate for an answer. My Maxtor DV3000 Ext. Hard Drive is flashing a green light and the icon won't who … |
| | So I just got my new computer, everything works great, it sounds great, however when I went to check the C drive under my computer I found a problem. The C drive read 74gigs free out of 79 gigs. Now, that wouldn't normally be a problem except its reading the … |
| | ok so i have a five year old system that i just got serviced it has a new hard drive and new ram now. when i took it to get serviced, theguys told me that the SDRAM slots had gone bad and that i had to switch to DDR so … |
| | I know in a standard OSX text edit document one can place, audio file, a movie file, a picture file and a click-able web-link. is there a way to make click-able link that could send Me to a specific folder or file on my computer or external hard drive? I've … |
 | A power outage shut down my Dell Latitude D800, running XP Sp2. When I powered it back up, it won't get past the black Dell initialization screen. The progress bar gets nearly to the end as usual, but stops short at about 95%. Before, it would complete the bar quickly, … |
| | I have a problem over the past month and a half my computer will turn on and boot up perfectly fine. But after about 4 or 5 days I will go to work on the computer and it is still on but the operating system is not running. I have … |
| | Hi: I have a weird problem with my laptop. It's a 3-4 year old Dell Inspiron 8500. Basically, when I turn it on, it boots fine, loads up XP pro, I can login and work on it for 1-2 minutes. After 1-2 minutes, the display slowly starts to decay (these …  |
| | Recently I noticed that my hard drive seemed to be running excessively and slowing my computer down. Using Process Explorer I noticed that I had Hardware Interrupts using up as much as 50% of my CPU. I have scanned my computer with Spybot, Adaware and Symantec AV and everything was … |
| | HI, I have 1 GB RAM on my PC but it shows to be 960 MB.. so i belive it is shared by my onboard Ge Force Graphics Card.. AND My DVD shows frames when i play them Can i increase this from 64 MB.. System Specs AMD Athlon 3200+ …  |
| | Ok, thanks in advace for any help anyone can give me. I am not to good at computer things so sorry if my question is a stupid one. Ok first off I am in Japan so the computer that I am having problems with is running Japanese operating systems. I … |
| | [B][/B]Hi, For the past week or so I have been getting the same stupid pop-up whenever i log onto Windows XP...[/b]"can't load admdll.dll"[/b] ! I looked on the net already and have come to the conclusion it was a virus and went into the registry and took out some Radmin …  |
| | Hello, A couple of months ago I was charging my iPod shuffle on my 3-years old Vaio VGN-T1XP/L using the USB pod. I clicked on remove hardware to unplug my MP3, got the message "it is now safe to remove your harware" clicked OK, removed my iPod from the base … |
| | I just recently installed my intel core 2 duo in my computer, not sure if thats the problem. Somebody said that I should set something in my BIOS, but I don't know what to configure, hopefully you guys know. I'm getting this when I try to start up my computer, … |
| | Hello everybody, I had a problem with my vaio VGN-A130 laptop booting up (blue sreens).... took it to geek squad technicians and they told me my harddrive was going bad so it needs to be replaced and gave me a killer price. Then I thought I should do it myself … |
| | I am helping my brother in law out trying to do a non destructive repair using the installation disc. When we went through all the steps and got to the section that shows the hard drives it does not recognize the hard drive and won't let us do a repair. … |
| | Hello! I have been trying to clean out my laptop for the past few days and I think I've gotten most of it under control. However, these two items keep popping up in my AVG scans even after I've quarantined them. I have included my AVG and HJT logs. Any … |
| | Everything seems to go fine, everything copy's to the hard drive and it is partioned fine, but when it reboots to go into the GUI mode for the rest of the setup it just sits on "Press any key to boot from cd-rom....." no matter how long I leave it. … |
| | awhile ago, i was having this problem logging in to normal mode without explorer.exe running... [COLOR="Red"]jbennet[/COLOR] ( [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/member33110.html[/url] ) suggested me to run [B][I]sfc /scannow[/I][/B] and a scandisk to check my drive for errors... i did all those things but i worsen the situation... to see the whole thread: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread102213.html[/url] … |
| | I have a eMachines computer, quite new (Vista new), and i am attempting to put in a Western Digital Caviar SE16 hard drive as a secondary. the only problem is when i put it in, my computer doesnt recognize that it is a hard drive. it detects that something is … |
| | Hello, Issue: In game sound and other people's voices are picked up and retransmitted causing an echo. Makes using Ventrilo impossible. System: Win XP Home 2003 SP2 8600 GTS graphics card Realtek HD Audio w/driver version 5.10.0.5366 It is a new hard drive, the previous one had the same hardware … |
| | When the power button is pressed the computer seems to be running fine. The power and activity lights both come on, the fans start and the hard drive and cd roms both start up. After that there is nothing, doesn't even come close to loading the OS. There is no … |
| | Hi, I was trying to install Win XP PRO w/SP2 on a 20GB hdd and after formating the hard drive it started to copy the files and after copying about 57% an error popped up (Setup cannot copy the file "wininet.dll") first I tried to retry but no luck so … |
| | Battery power only, it boots and display screen has a pink tint to it but not very bright. With ac power, it will boot up but a few seconds into the boot process the screen will go blank. However the computer is still on, hard drive led is active but …  |
| | Hi everyone, I'm new *blush*... This is my first post to a techical forum on any topic aside from modding games, usually I call or fix it myself. I've built this pc but I dont' always have a good memory so bear with me. I built the machine several years … |
| | A real poser here I think. Can anyone help please??? My server has a 40Gb hard drive partitioned into 2 (C & D). The second partition (D) has 2 mapped drives which are visible on the network of 20 Pc's to all users. As both partitions are now full I … |
| | Hi, For the past week or so I have been getting the same stupid pop-up whenever i log onto Windows XP...[/B]"can't load admdll.dll"[/B] ! I looked on the net already and have come to the conclusion it was a virus and went into the registry and took out some Radmin …  |
 | I know a need a new computer but I thought I would get a second opinion on what is causing my Firefox to stall when I'm trying to view sites (like this one). Also, it slows down on project playlist. Sometimes I see the java icon when it slows down. … |
| | I'm trying to install Windows XP Professional. I go through all the steps; partioning my drive, copying all the files on to the hd, ect. Then when it goes to reboot it says "Primary master hard disk fail". I've looked at many things that could of caused such an error, … |
| | Hi all My Advent 7082 Keyboard & Mouse stop working after 2 mins. I first thought my laptop was freezing up but I done some investigating last night and found that the screen is not actually freezing what is happening is that the Keyboard and mouse stop working within 2 … |
| | I recently installed a new disk drive and left the old one in the box for backup. There was software that came with the new drive that transferred data, programs, etc. to the new drive and made it the c: drive and made the old drive f: In running the … |
| | Hi I cannot access my hard drive on my hp nx6310 laptop. The DVD rom will also not read any discs. Please help |
| | Dear Members I have started the following program, and I do not know how to solve the issue to store names in an array and retrieve them again, and how tos tore the names in a file in the Hard drive. If somebody could help me with my issue. Thanks …  |
| | hey guys...do you know naything about these cmoputers? I have a choice fo three and am having a tough time with each. ideas? opinions? pros vs cons that you see? thanks for the info! #1 The Acer Aspire 5050 is ideal for the entertainment enthusiast who requires reliability and performance. … |
 | Hello, I have this problem from past few week now, which i haven't rectified. Hope I get some suggestion from here. I bought a new SATA2 Hdd 2 weeks before and there is no problem with that hard disk what so ever. The problem is with all my old hard … |
| | i recently got a virus on my computer and i had to clean the entire hard drive, so i transferred all my documents to an external hd and i dont have a reboot disk so now all my system is messed up(i have windows xp). i have no active camera … |
| | Hi guys, I'm having a strange problem with my SATA drive and I am totally at a loss at what to do. 2 days ago I had been using 2 hard drives, 1 80GB IDE Seagate hd with Windows XP and my games & programs on it, the other was …  |
| | Hello everyone, This is my first post on DW and hopefully my last of this nature. I was searching for a solution when I found this forum and saw how you guys did it here. So, I hope I'm not being bold by posting this. I was running low on … |
| | Folks, After a clean XPSP2 install on a new hard disc, after POST the system fails to boot from the hard drive. However, if I press ESC to get to the BOOT menu, I can select the Hard Drive with the XP installed, and the system boots normally into windows. … |
| | I have a g4 that stays on the white screen after turning it on. I took it to a mac shop and the guy ran disk warrior on it. I got it back and was able to boot it up once and backup everything, but now it stays on the … |
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