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I have a Compaq M700 that when i plug in the ac adapter the power button lights turn on and off with no display on the screen at all. does anyone know the solution?

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I built MSI neo4 platinum computer several years ago and while on xp and now windows 7 randomly shuts off. I have upgraded the cooling fan, replaced the Power supply unit, opened the case, changed the RAM. All of this to no avail. The strange thing is that the computer …

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Model PSAKAE - 003003KS Took my laptop on holiday recently. When l left home it was working fine. When l got on the plane and tried to switch it on, it was dead. When l had the opportunity to get to some mains supply, it was still dead. L have …

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I have a 2-3 year old HP DX2080MT which was working fine till now, except for a known problem that we could not use pen drives on the USB ports (used to crash). Well, yesterday I must have forgot and plugged a pen drive in to the front panel USB …

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So I'm 25 and really want to be an Information Technologist but I have this problem where the past 5 years of my work experience has been in customer sales and service. While I am good at customer sales I hate it. I dislike having to talk to, and convince …

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I have an old HP Pavillion 7955 that I got from my Dad that I was trying to add some memory to. I encountered a couple of problems in the install and now the whole machine will not boot up. When I was inside the case, I was using an …

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I bought this machine about 2 weeks ago and it was working fine until yesterday. Each time I turn on the machine it brings up the boot menu list (safe mode, Last known good config, etc.) I have selected every option on the list and all it does is reboot …

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My friend spilled food on her computer. She turned her keyboard upside down to shake crunbs from it. Now the entire screen is shown sideways or tilted....how can this be corrected?

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I had a problem with my Dell Optiplex GX270, When I turned on the CPU the light of the hard drive activity light and the power light were freezed. No video on the screen. I need help with my problem.Thank you.

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Hi Yesterday when I started my computer it would not run. Today I have looked around the web and the syptoms seem to link the problem to the hard drive. I have bought another but still no luck. I have had the cover off, cleaned off the fans (they work …

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When i try to boot up a message shows hard disk ###########595b the system primary HDD is protected by a password authentcation system. you cannot access data on this hard drive without the correct password. i dont know what the password is. then a ran a test and it says …

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I have a 2 year old Gateway desktop. Usually the power light blinks. For the past 2 mornings, the PC will not power on unless I do a cold start a couple of times. Also, now the power light no longer blinks. Can anyone tell me what is probably wrong? …

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I have a Lenovo N200 laptop and have re installed Vista Home Premium recently. It now intermittently Powers off on the Vista loading screen when you turn the machine on. It also intermittently powers off when resuming from sleep mode. It does not restart, it just powers off. If it …

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I am haveing a issue with the motherboard powering on then shutting off instantly on a dell d600. Any one no if there is a way to check for a bad transsitor or maybe had same issue and was able to repair the motherboard?

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Hello everyone, I have one friend who works in port richey, Florida and he dropped his laptop with Seagate momentus drive, now his drive is not detected, no response, no clicking, it seems completely dead...Who can recommends one good data recovery company there equipped with clean room and good data …

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Hi, I ocassionally got blue screen when I using my HP destop (Pavilion Elite e9270t). My system is Win7 64-bit. It can happen when I was surfing, watching movie or other circumstances. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3 Locale ID: 2052 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: …

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Heres the problem: When i turn on my computer and the monitor like always, it says "no signal input" on the monitor and the light goes orange. and After a while the computer restarts itself. over and over again, no beeps. I tried checking the wires and cleaning my computer.. …

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dell inspiron just quit running. and did nothing at all. i checked the power supply and fount that there was no 12 v power anywhere. replaced it with a new 300w unit and all the voltages are present but nothing hsppends...nothing at all

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i had alaptop which had dvd writer,it was working well but one time it stoped writing dvds but it could burn vcd.then i went and buy an external dvd writer,when put it on that verylaptop it did the same like the other internal dvd writer,i formated the laptop and i …

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i have an IBM thinkpad T40 laptop that had hardware issue that is resolved now but after removing the CMOS battery but i forgot to remove the laptop battery before doing that now the system is powering on.what can i do?

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Hello: I am trying to troubleshoot my sons Toshiba Satellite laptop. I was in the process of uninstalling a print driver. The unit said it needed to be restarted. When I went to restart, the lights on the base light up, but absolutely nothing on screen. I tried plugging into …

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My brother already posted about this a while ago here: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread99367.html[/url]. He's not so technically savvy. Anyway, this has been gathering dust until it was given to me recently. I don't have the charger for it right now, and there's no power in the battery. I was going to purchase …

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Hi, I've been looking on various forums on how to fix this issue but with no luck. I can't seem to find anything which refers to this specific problem. It is not a Windows 7 software issue as far as I'm aware. The screen on my computer will sometimes go …

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Acer TXsomething(can't remember the rest of the name, other than it is a TX) Windows XP Home Edition 512mb RAM Ok, My desktop is completely screwed, literally. The screen won't turn on, and I mean it won't turn on, its completely plugged in and screwed tight. When I press the …

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Hi there I know you guys had other people with a similar problem here but in my case it seems to be differente and I don't know what to do. I have an HP Pavillion 6000 2 years old and wont start for me,I press de start botton and the …

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First thread and only semi-tech savvy so please bear with me... My daughters HP Pavillion 6700 (6835nr) is past warranty and over a year old. It will not boot properly. I can access some set-up menus but everything I try does not allow me to start the Win Vista system …

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[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecUvZu13htQ[/url] please watch this video, its just some of the footage about my laptop not being able to turn on when i press the power button. sorry about the audio. please if u can, tell me whats wrong with this laptop, so maybe i could look for help and fix …

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i have a hp pavilion dv2000 that won't boot up,when i plug in the adapter it shows that it actually is getting current because the led which indicates that the adapter is plugged in lights up but when i press the power button it does not come on,i tried removing …

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I have my friends computer to reformat for him, so I went round to his yesterday to pick it up and it was on, so he shut it down etc. I brought it back to my plugged all the writes in, monitor, power, keyboard and mouse, turned the power switch …

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Hi everyone i'm new to this site, but would be very gratefull for any help offered. My pc when turned on is basically dead no lights at all, then for whatever reason around twenty seconds later it will turn on??? i thought it might be the internal power supply, but …

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I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with Windows XP, SP2. I just got a blue screen with the following error message: <<Hardware Malfunction NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error The system has halted>> The computer still boots and this error message comes after some time. What can I do …

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sony vaio pcg-8n1l will not turn on, removed battery no chnage, removed battery, no change, took 1 memory stick then did reverse on second, no change, checked voltage on power brick ok, tried new HDD no chnage, Push start button make a tick sound, then both battery leds stay on, …

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Hi, I have a problem with my PC, I searched online and in the posted threads but I couldn't find a solution, or I couldn't find an exact matching case to mine. The PC is assembled and was working fine, until all of the sudden it shut down without any …

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I got up this morning to find 5 keys not working on my wifes Medion Laptop ( H L N T V )the problem is that one of them is in her password. The peculiar thing is that at first I thought no problem, I can use the on screen …

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It worked normally yesterday, but when I tried to start it up this afternoon , I got no response (not even the power light). I have no idea what to do D: I tried pulling out the batter and also the "f7 + f8 power" thing, to no avail. Please …

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This started a couple days ago. The laptop was working fine until then. I dint know what went wrong. I closed it before and the next time I opened it, it wouldn't open. It just stayed the black screen and the lights flickered blue and then it just stopped doing …

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I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FS8900 Laptop that suddenly won't boot up. It was working fine one day, and the next day without warning all of a sudden it just won't boot. When you hit the power button, the power light goes on, you hear the DVD drive initialize, the …

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Hello folks, I just built my self a quite good computer, after 4 days I finally made it start! All fans are working, graphics are OK, 4 CPU leds showing it work proprely are on, no problems on hardware side. But when it starts I first see a moboo splash …

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I have a Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5TB HDD. Seems as if my computer is on its last legs! It's very frustrating as I've spent the past week organising so many files and making it a perfect setup. (I reformatted a week ago.) I have Win 7 x64 installed, but it …

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I have a Dell 8400, with Xp. It was purchassed in 2006. I was having lock up problems and was told by Best Buy that my OS was bad and needed to be reinstalled. I formated my hard using the CD that came with the computer and reinstalled windows. Now …

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I have a 2005 Dell Model 8400 that WILL not reinstall Windows XP Pro from the factory disk. This machine was sent by a friend to a local NON Dell repair shop after a Windows crash. The friend did not know how to reimage. The repair shop gave it back …

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When i try to boot up a message shows hard disk ###########595b the system primary HDD is protected by a password authentcation system. you cannot access data on this hard drive without the correct password. i dont know what the password is. then a ran a test and it says …

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my computer just hung the other day. so i decided to restart it and when i did it would find a bootable disk.so what could be the problem . please assist

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I have a hard disk which is 80gb in size, but when I open disk management I can only see 74.5 gb. can someone help me know why?. And is there a way to fix that? And is my hard disk dying? I have tried to run chkdsk but nothing. …

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Ok, I just finished building a computer. Stats - - Intel Celeron E3300 GA775 (new) - msi G41TM-E43 mobo (new) - 1gb PNY DDR2 PC2-5300 ram Now, here is the problem.. This lovely thing will not boot, will not POST, will not do anything, the monitor only shows a black …

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Hi I have a Dell D620 Laptop running Windows XP Pro. A few days ago, my computer crashed (blue screen) when I downloaded and started using Google Earth. Upon reboot, the screen is black -- but I hooked up an external monitor and everything looks fine. Once in a while …

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Hi, Cant get my Medion laptop to boot up, i have tried the removing the battery and mains leads and holding down the power button to no avail. i bought another hard drive,still nothing. The power light comes on and the cd starts,but nothing from the hard drive light and …

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[B]Hi Folks, I am a new member & after a quick look around the site I think I will gain some valuable advice & learn some stuff in areas where I only have basic Knowledge. My problem at the moment is a dead Mobo, I purchased a "bundle" from Maplins …

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I've had this computer for several years. My wife uses it and recently acquired a virus that forced me to take the hardrive out, connect it to my own PC, and run a virus scan to clean it. When I reinstalled it, the computer would no longer turn on. NOTHING …

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