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Hi all, this is my first post, hoping you guys can help me out with this. I Play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 alot, But i get these freezes that last about 10-15 seconds, sometimes longer, and i have got the blue screen of death a few times, i have all …

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hi all i just lost my laptop's power-on password and i could not remember it, can any one help me recover it ? my laptop is toshiba satellite M100 model

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So last night, I was turning my computer off after playing a video game, and went through the start menu to turn off the computer. I was tired and lazy, so instead of clicking "Turn off" like I normally do, I just hit enter... which I noticed put my computer …

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When I have to reformat my computer , i done it completely with the use of my cd rom... and when I insert it in another computer then other computer doest recognize my cd rom.... i insert it in another pc again and same problem occur... Why is this so? …

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When I push the power button, the fans come on and it turns on fine, however, immediately after turning it on, it makes this beeping sound and then something in the floppy disk drive makes a sound. There is no floppy disk in the drive. The machine doesn't boot up, …

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I realise that there are other threads on a theme but none have answered my problem, so.........PLEASE HELP;) I have a Toshiba A60 not yet 2 years old. It was working fine yeasterday, it was shut down properly and has had no software updates, new programmes or hardware added. Today …

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I was adding a ram module to my computer. When I started ii I smelt burning. I replaced the power supply and now the light goes on but nothing happens. Will I have to buy a new motherboard?

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Hi, just yesturday i reformatted my computer and there was no sound. i Reintalled Windows XP and all, and now i have no sound. i have quite a bit of knowledge in computers (the basics) and i would really apreciate every piece of help. thank you

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[B][COLOR=Red][I]I have a dell inspiron 1000, whih has just died on me, it will not boot up even in safe mode, it displays error codes, can anyone help... Ganbino...:sad:[/I][/COLOR][/B]

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My grandma has been having problems with my grandfather's computer. I went up there and it would boot to a screen saying Boot Failure: System Halted. I immediately go for the CMOS battery and get a replacement. Teh next time I booted the computer it worked fine, but a few …

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My beautiful HP Media Center desktop has stopped working. When I turn on the computer, fans start revving fast, but nothing happens. The fan will simply continue to rev. I have tried all electricity sources, plugged and unplugged everything, but to no avail. I have WindowsXP installed, my computer is …

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Hi, I have been facing a problem on all my 3 Pentium III 1.13A Ghz with Intel 810e Chipset PCs. The problem is after power on, PC doesnt POST. CPU Fan Runs, Lights etc OK but No Display, No beep, No keyboard light and NO POST... I tried removing everything …

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I just shut down this computer and at first when i pressed the power up button. I would hear fans whirl, and start up(never got to boot screen stage or anything). I pressed it like 3 times at 5,10,15 minute intervals... thinking oh, it might be overheated, what I did …

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I have a ASUS P4B266-LA motherboard and cannot get any video out. Tried new video card, and monitor is good. Even tried S-video output from new card. Screen goes straight black and monitor light turns orange. Even tried new CPU. Any other possiblities before I try finding a new motherboard? …

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Help I just had the thing on eariler. Now when I turned it on the monitor flashes and green, blue and red message. I tried to hold in the power button to shut it off and the only way I can shut it off is to unplug. I unplugged it …

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my cpu was running and it froze! I held in the power button to reset it. I press the button to start it back up and the fans run but it won't boot the monitor stays off. HELP ME OR I WILL GO BANANAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i hav been gettin a unmountable boot volume error when i try to start up my pc. it usually appears right after the loading xp screen then either displays a blue screen or restarts by it self. I have tired serverall different things to fix this such as formatting the …

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Hi I'm new here to the forms and I really need some help. I have a Sony pcg fx140 (pcg-954a) I purchased. I knew it didn't work, but I have work on and fixed several different Sony laptops so i thought i could fix this one, boy was i wrong. …

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Can anyone help me trough this problem? I've searched all the tech forums for possible solutions but still my pc restarts!:-| My computer restarts when playing in some online games Before it restarts, it either flashes a blue screen(BSOD) or wihout BSOD. (I've already unchecked the "automatically restart" in the …

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To someone that can help! I connected my Compaq Presario V2205US to my car cigarette lighter power inverter and it somehow short circuited causing the fuse to blow. I managed to change the fuse in the car so that the cigarette lighter and car stereo started to work. Unfortunately the …

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I have a friend's PC here that will not start up at all. The system spec's aren't relevant - I just need pointers on what may be up. Basically, all that happens on switch on is a brief 'grunt' from the cd drive and a 'twitch' of the cpu fan. …

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hi I need help badly...:sad: I tried installing win Xp on my new pc with gigabite ga-945p-s3 motherboard, the first time went ok. After installing the graphic card driver, monitor and all, i noticed part of the HD I partitioned at setup showed 0 volume. So unfortunately I decided to …

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Please help me! The keyboard for my laptop has gone haywire! Eg. the key 'K' also has a little '3' in the top corner, which was fine, something to do with the function key I imagined, but now something has happened and whenever I press K (or any key with …

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Hi Everyone, I have a sony vaio (PCG-K66P) It worked fine for a year but now some keys are not working! I can only decrease the volume and brightness (using FN keys) but can't increase them. Backspace and delete are also not working. Please Help!!!!!!!!:sad:

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Alright... here's my problem. My parents have a gateway that they use. It's their only comp at the moment. Lately, it's been going through a lot of problems so I'm attempting to restore it back to factory settings. I want to clear the hard drive, reinstall windows and go through …

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Okay... here's the problem... I have a wireless home network setup using DLink adapters and router. I am getting the connection just fine on one of my computers, so I know the network is working. However, on the second computer, I have a problem. It says it is connected to …

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I'm using an Elitegroup AM2 (C51GM-M) motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 processor with 1 stick of 512 Samsung DDR2 RAM. I've tried to do a barebone test and booting the computer with all parts connected. I've switched my RAM into both slots, multiple times to no avail. In both …

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I tried to recover the system using my system recovery disc. The process stops with an error message "disc access: sense operation failed" I follwed recommendation from this site. Downloaded Kill disk software and wiped out the disc. Even then the same error message is coming with the system recovery …

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My son has an Acer 3002Lci laptop that just started having problems after we bought a new battery. All was fine before the new battery was installed. (Also bought a new A/C cord )It now freezes after start up screen goes black (he gets the run Windows safe mode screen). …

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Hi all, I have a maddening problem (actually two!), just can't work it out. I have an Advent 3215 pc, with an ECS L4S5MG3 motherboard, award bios, P4 2.8ghz cpu, Geforce 4 440SE MX video card, 1GB RAM...anything else you need to know please ask me. I was using the …

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