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| | Hi everyone! Im trying to fix a computer for a friend, the computer was all unplugged and moved upstairs but when they come to turn it on at the wall the computer starts straight away, the usb devices connected power up and you can hear the hard drive starts to …  |
| | Hi :icon_wink: I was working with my laptop (power cord connected and battery fully charged) when the screen just got dark, I thought it was the autoshutdown of the screen, but it did not respond even when moving the touchpad or pressing the keyboard I force shutd:icon_cool: own it by … |
| | I would appreciate it if someone could please have a look at this logfile. I am experiencing sudden and unexplained program crashes, and have just recovered from a trojan attack and a missing ntldr problem. I have done everything I can think of, short of reformatting the hard drive and …  |
| | I have a huge database in SQL on my hard drive, I am trying to figure out how I can get it online with a decent looking interface to allow my sales people to run querries on it simmilar to what infousa has going on. My database knowledge is not … |
| | Hi ;) I was working with my laptop (power cord connected and battery fully charged) when the screen just got dark, I thought it was the autoshutdown of the screen, but it did not respond even when moving the touchpad or pressing the keyboard I force shutdown it by pressing … |
| | Yes, I still run Windows 2000 Pro, at least up until yesterday! Now, I cannot boot the computer. Windows 2000 has three splash screen in the boot-up. The first screen is a DOS screen which says, "Starting Windows", and my system makes it through this screen fine. The next screen …  |
 | Hello all! I am new to this site and I wanted to start by posting my problem. I work for a k-12 scool, and I have 40 new barebones systems. I recieved these from cyberpowerpc.com and I cannot load any OS, or mainboard drivers. We have a standard cd-rom drive, … |
| | I have just received my PC system with no OS installed. Here are the specs: - AMD AM2 4200+ Dual Core Processor - 2 x Samsung 512MB DDR2 667 RAM - Maxtor 10GB SATAII 7200RPM HDD - Samsung 18x DVDRW - Asus M2A-VM-HDMI Motherboard I have tried installing Windows 98, … |
| | ok first let me say hello to all ... now im confused about this pc im trying to start to keep it short but to the piont blank hard drive (20 GB) winxp pro trying to install xp pro on drive was getting the blue screen of death now drive …  |
| | I recently had a defective MOBO replaced by ASUS. It's a P5B Deluxe. After reinstalling the MOBO and all original components the BIOS wouldn't recognize the HDD, a Seagate 320 Gb SATA drive. After checking everything and several restarts it finally recognized the hard drive. Once past the BIOS screen … |
| | Getting "Windows\system32\config\systemd is missing or corrupt" message at boot up after i choose my XP OS at the duel boot screen & its telling me to use recovery council but which CD recovery council windows 2000 CD or XP to fix the problem..... I m thinking how is a windows … |
| | I have successfully rebuilt a machine I lost to a snowstorm a few years ago. Nearly every part of the old machine has been replaced, but I salvaged the old hard drive, and hope to continue using it as a slave drive to the newer, larger one I purchased. Everything … |
| | When I try to start my wife's machine, power supply lights come on, fans run, but no video, no audio, no lights on the keyboard. Sounds like the hard drive starts ok. I have checked all connections and reset the CMOS. What should I try next? My wife is NOT … |
| | Hi Techies, I have a (dead) desktop pc... NEW motherboard NF4SK8AA sli, a NEW AMD 64 3200 1 gb of kingston, 6200 tc pci-express 256+, a 550watt psu (1.5 yrs old), ide hard drive. I am not inexperienced with computers but this one has me beat. It just stopped responding … |
| | I seem to be getting a lot of program crashes lately - either when I open one, or while I'm working. Suddenly a window opens that says "This program has stopped working. Any work you my have done will be lost" or something t tht effect. Then there is no … |
| | So, the other day, I had tried to uninstall a program and by doing so, had lost or affected a folder on my hard drive that I wanted. I tried to do a System Restore and it froze up, for over an hour, it sat on the green initialization screen, … |
| | I have a Compaq model 5835 w/celeron processor running Win98. The hard drive crashed, something came loose inside the drive. I replaced the drive with a good one from another computer, with Windows ME o/s. When I boot the computer, I get the 1782 Disk Controller Failure message, and I'm … |
| | I just assembled a new computer and I can't get the darn thing to boot. I have power going to the cpu fan and the fan on the power supply. My hard drive on spins when the IDE cable is disconnected, and the rom drive also. The power button works … |
| | hi guys, I've simple question is what happen as general when setup is running i mean what and why the program setup store some settings in registry or hard drive instead of running without setup, i see some applications could run without setup just click and run. i hope someone … |
| | To start off, I am trying to fix my friends computer because his hard drive has failed. He is planning on building a whole new computer in about six months, however he wants to get his current one going until then. I went out and bought a 250 GB/SATA 16Mb … |
| | Im not sure if im doing this right as im new at this. I took 200 plus of a 90th birthday party and put them in my Lap top powerbook. I did move the entire library to another hard drive as the mac only had 2GB left. 2 weeks later … |
| | Hello. I recently bought a new HP desktop (AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ 2.60 GHz, 2.942 GB RAM, 400 GB hard drive, current video card is NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE graphics with TurboCache and up to 128MB dedicated video memory; up to 632MB total available video memory as … |
| | This is my first build and I'm a bit discouraged with the results. Once everything is hooked up, the power supply is switched on, and the power button on the front panel is pushed, two things happen: the lights on the fans flash on, and the fans budge a little. …  |
| | I recently received an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop with a Hard Drive Failure post (fixed disk 0 failure). I immediately assumed the hard drive wasn't plugged in securely or it had failed. I proceeded to swap the drive out and test the old hard drive in another computer. It turns … |
| | Hi All. Thanks for reading. So this is my challenge... I've got an older gateway desktop, was running fine, Windows XP. All of the sudden now I've got nada. Gateway screen comes up with F1 and Tab options under the image, but nothing happens when I push either or any. … |
| | Hi I want to add one Baracuda HD and one Sony DVD RW in my computer which has already one Baracuda HD and Samsung DVD rom. How can I connect with the IDE 1 and IDE 2 and how should I arrange the jumper in all these IDEs Pl help … |
 | ok well heres the scoop: I got a new 120 gig hard drive that im adding to my computer. I plugged it in, got it up and working as a Slave. Win XP sees it and everything, under the Device Manager, but i cant seem to get to assigning it … |
| | I set a partition up for my pc to run linux. This made me lose 130gb form my hard drive. i removed the partition but still no luck. i checked the partition again, i tried to deletd the partiton with windows installed in it but was unable to. anyway of … |
| | Well, My friend have a laptop which monitor goes blank random times. I hooked it up to my monitor and it happened the same thing. However; when I take the memory out of the laptop and plug back in. It lasts long without screen going blank. I also set to … |
| | Hi there, I have an Acer Aspire 5610 laptop. Windows died recently and if I use the Acer recovery program I will lose the contents of my hard drives - something I am very keen to avoid. So I got my hands on a Windows XP Pro CD and have … |
| | Hello I`m turning to you in despair, please kindly help me as I am technologically impared . Briefly, I have a [B]Dell 800 laptop with Windows XP[/B], which now gives me the same dead-end message on a black screen: error loading OS. Indices: This has happened after [B]I have tried … |
| | Ok I am running vista home, with amd turion 64 x2 mobile tech TL-56 1.8 ghz I have 98 Gigs of open hard drive and 989 mbs of memory . I guess thats the system. Now the hard part, it all started 2 days ago with lots of lagging things … |
| | Okay so last year I obtained a used Acer Veriton 7100 to play around with. Since before I recieved it it has had a start up problem issue of some sort. When ever you turn it on and it boots to the log on screen of 98 or XP (tried … |
| | Hi everone, i came to this site for help because i am really unsure of what is going on. I had a working computer (to put it one way but it had an out dated motherboard, recently i bought a new one and installed it with a new AMD dual … |
| | I bought a new SATA Hard Drive, and I want it to be secondary to my first hard drive. After I connected the device to my computer, how do I install it so I could see it in the "My Computer" folder? I'm also having problems setting it up on … |
| | Hi, Can anyone help. Something has taken hold of my machine. It drops focus on a window and I keep getting virus tk58 trojan virus message from AVG but I can't find anything thats doing this? Here is the Hijackthis log file. Thanks for anyhelp that can be offered. Regards, … |
| | Hi, Can anyone help. Something has taken hold of my machine. It drops focus on a window and I keep getting virus tk58 trojan virus message from AVG but I can't find anything thats doing this? Here is the Hijackthis log file. Thanks for anyhelp that can be offered. Regards, … |
| | I have a lap top that will not start correctly, I have windows 2000. I have tried reloading windows 2000 OS and it worked ok for half a day. I'm getting hard drive error, registry errors, partition errors, is there anyway to save this computer. I wondered if I should … |
| | Hey All, Joined the site here and have been a lurker for a while now. I've learned quite a bit reading here on many subjects. Just thought this new Wubi installer was a great thing for those of you that are new to Linux as I am. I found it … |
| | Hello people, INTRODUCTION I need help...i've just built myself a new comp and am trying to install Windows Vista Buisness (which my university provides free). I have built the comp and all seems well and fine. The BIOS recognises the dvd/cd drive and the HDD and does'nt make any weird … |
| | Hey guys... Just finished up a new pc with a MSI motherboard (K8M890 chipset) with a WD sata hard drive. All of the hardware appears to be functioning properly, and the hard drive is present in BIOS. When trying to load Windows XP I receive an error - no hard … |
| | Hi, I tried to open internet options from within IE7. IE7 froze, popped up an error message, offered to send to MS and finally closed. The explanation from MS was that there was an error reading inetcp.cpl, and suggested chkdsk to fix hard drive errors. I ran chkdsk and it … |
| | ok, i recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windowsXP. but now i have the "safely remove hardware" icon in the system tray, and when i click on it, it gives me the option to remove C drive, which obviously cant be done. and i just cant seem to get … |
| | ok, i recently formatted my hard drive and reistalled windowsXP. but now i have the "safely remove hardware" icon in the system tray, and when i click on it, it gives me the option to remove C drive, which obviously cant be done. and i just cant seem to get … |
| | Hi: First let me just say thank you to anyone who is willing to offer help. I haven't worked on computers in quite a while and I am very rusty. My new boss would like for me to change his computer network so that there is only one My Documents …  |
| | My hard drive crashed and I recently replaced the hard drive to a Maxtor 500 Gb. I installed Windows XP Pro and everything went fine after I installed the SATA drive specific to my Intel Motherboard. Windows XP Pro boots up and brings me to the desk top. My problem … |
| | I recently installed a new graphics card (128 mb radeon 9800 pro) and in the process, I moved my network card because it was sort of in the way. Upon rebooting after everything was in, I noticed the light on the back on my wirless card was on, so it … |
| | Hi, My motherboard is an Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe and my hard drive is 200GB Seagate Barracuda. Here goes, I had the hard drive up and running and all working fine. Then something happend and my best option was just to format the drive and start all over again. When I … |
| | It's an older laptop that died a while ago that I'm trying to revive. Basically when I turn it on the fan cycles twice and the power light is on then turns off. Screen remains black the entire time. I've opened it a few times and adjusted the fan, unplugged … |
| | I have a computer with the following specs: Pentium 4, 2.6Ghz 1Gb DDR RAM 120 Gb Hard Drive Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 I have had it for 3 years, and everything was fine. Then suddenly, there was a big thunderstorm close to where I live, and … |
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