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recantly had an issue with spillin water on my laptop as well the cap and number lock buttons flash and schreen is black if anyone knows if there is still a chance please let me know SNIP thanks

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When I press the power on switch absolutely nothing happens. No power light comes on. The power output shows the correct 19.8 volt output so do you think this is simply a faulty on/off switch or something more drastic. Is it likely I can replace anything or, as I suspect, …

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I have a compaq persario i got last year. well lightning hit by my house the other day and made the screen freez up so i shut it off and unplugged everything. After the storm was over i pulugged it back in turned it on and i was getting no …

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we would like to ask if do you have a problems in your windows calculator..? because we want to develop windows calculator with undo function.. and we need a citation of this.. please state your problem about this function.. and also we want to apply save file and print in …

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My daughter's Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop screen went blank. The problem was not the backlight, so we installed a new screen. When turning the laptop on, the screen slowly flashes from red to green to blue etc. When using an external monitor, we can see that Windows always starts in …

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My laptop is VGN-CS17G . It automatically shuts down as soon as i switch it on. I am not able to view its first screen. It just shows the safe mode option screen. [email]piyushisgenius@gmail.com[/email]

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The following is one typical handling process of head replacement and platter swap. Here in my data recovery clean room, I use one of the [URL="http://www.salvationdata.com/data-recovery-equipment/index.htm"]HDD repair suite[/URL]-HD HPE PRO. HDD repair suite includes HD Doctor suite and HD HPE PRO which integrates solutions of head swap, platter swap and …

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This all started when my labtop contracted the the Nugel.E and BankerFox.A virus. At first, I was able to enter safe mode, but not any longer. Using F8, I can select safe mode, it starts and looks like it's launching in safe mode, but 10 seconds in, it starts to …

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I've had this problem. Ever since I upgraded my HDD my computer has been freezing up. Usually when I play video, but I'll get it at other times too. Any help would be appreciated. CLStew32559

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Hi! I don't know exactly how I should change the booting sequence of my machine (IBM Pentium III model 64u). Earlie on, it could just boot from the CD drive directly. I have three of them but then none is responding to booting from the cd drive. Compaq is responding …

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Hi, can anyone please help me. I'm so not technical, just use my sony vaio notebook for email and invoicing my clients. About two weeks ago the screen started freezing so I would reboot it, or remove battery and power plug overnight and reboot. Then after a few times of …

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Hi, I have a toshiba sattellite A 135-S2266 The power light will come on, but the computer will not boot up the screen is dark.What advice can you foffer for troubleshooting.

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Hello, I have pulled out my hair over this one for so long, couldn`t find the answer. Practically i have good experience with disassembling laptops, soldering, changing parts and so on. But this one is over my head! So, a friend of mine gave me his AMILO L7310GW notebook with …

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My son dropped my laptop today. I have an Inspiron 1545 which, now will POST and I can get through BIOS setup with no problems. But, all it will do when trying to boot id give me the microsoft screen with the sliding bar. I'm running Vista Premium (well, was …

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Would someone please tell me what I can do to get into my comp so I can reset the resolution without having to do recovery on it??? Please email me at [email]sagittarius1602@yahoo.com[/email] Thanks, Karen

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Hello, When i go to boot my laptop, it wont boot correctly. what happens is that when i turn it on, the fan whurrles and the pwr light and the hdd light are on. i left it like that for a long time, and it does the same thing. Also, …

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I've posted this over in the vista thread as well, hopefully it won't be considered spamming, but I really need some ideas on this... I'm desperate..... I have a Vaio laptop running vista, it started having problems starting up, so I diagnosed it as a faulty HD and replaced it. …

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heello; I am having issues with a model of the afore mentioned laptop, i try to start it up and it come to a menu allways giving options of safe mode (and three versions of sed mode) and normal mode,in normal mode it refuses to pass the "please wait screen" …

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My desktop computer wont start the monitor anymore. It starts but it makes no connection to the monitor as if it was not connected. I tried it on several screens and figured out that it is a problem with the tower. Maybe the video card is not working anymore because …

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Hello, I am a 59 year old wood machinist, made redundant, without much hope of gaining future employment because of obvious reasons. Am volunteering as Job Search Adviser and have been trawling the net for information and resource sites that would help my clients find work and/or vocational training. I …

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After noon, This computer I am working on for a person, and I cant get it to boot. I have tried: Different Monitors, cables, using hd drive in another comp. MS-DOS boot disk. When you turn on the lights on the cd drives flash, and the power on is solid …

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Hi all, Can anyone tell me how I can test a Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop if it has no hard drive? I want to be sure it will work before throwing money at it. It doesn't have an optical drive either. How can I check that the Bios will be …

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My sony laptop will no longer boot I get no splash screen with the BIOS I only get a blank screen I have unpluged the BIOS battery to hopefully reset the BIOS but this did not work. It appears the BIOS is not being read or is corrupted. Help!!!!

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hi all, I was cleaning my sons laptop - Compaq Presario v6000(it was shutting down after 10 mins from overheating) I had it working well but opened it back up to put all screws back in place & when i switched on to make sure everything was ok the screen …

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I put my (2 year old P34xx?) laptop into sleep mode as I normally do. The next day I powered it up, it started to boot and then froze before getting to windows. I shut it off and it hasn't booted up since. The blue power light on the button …

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Hey guys, I have a whole host of issues to ask about - pretty bad for a new poster. :) Thanks in advance for your help. I have a 3-year-old Pavilion dv6000 with Vista. Yesterday morning, when I tried to start it up, it never reached the login screen - …

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Hi, my Dell studio 1555 won't start up. I had it on yesterday, carried it into the other room and when i got there the computer wouldn't come out of sleep mode. I turned off the computer and now it won't boot up. When i press the power button it …

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Hello everyone, My son was playing Maplestory on my laptop and the screen suddenly started displaying jarbled colors, verticle and horizontal color stripes and blocks, sometimes flashing blocks mixed in. It had done this a couple times prior, but a simple restart would fix it. Now, it won't display correctly …

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My boyfriend's laptop keeps freezing up after only a few minutes use. He's tried defragmenting, scanned for viruses, taken the battery out and disk cleanup. Everything short of throwing it against the wall. It's and Acer Aspire 5610. Any help out there??? :o)

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I have a Inspiron 8600 that will only power up when I put it some where cold. When it does power up everything appears to work normal but it only runs for 5-10 minutes then shuts off. It does this on or off the power cord, with or with out …

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help me,, my laptop won't start and have a problem with the hardware connection,, what should I do???

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A few weeks ago my laptop started acting strange. Sometime when I turn it on, I have no problem, the display is fine and all. But most of the time, when the computer is working, the screen is black. nothing displays at all. I took it to laptop repair shop, …

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Would like to install xp on latitude c400 but cannot change the boot order. Up and down work, enable and disable work, there is no primary password, no admin password, no hdd password. Setup is accessed with FN-F1 and appears normal. The boot order will not respond. There is external …

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Hi Guys, first time here so be gentle with me please.. i have a pc that won't boot past the windows logo, it restarts itself when it gets to that point. it just keeps restarting and restarting. i tried to boot of a windows installation disk and it wouldn't do …

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I've been developing in lot's of other languages, and never had this difficult a time setting up. On a XPSP3 machine, I have WAMP in the root folder, with all parts installed. Then I have eclipse-helios for php installed as well. My file path is C:\www\HelloWorld\hello.php The follow code renders …

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The scanner on my 2575 has recently developed a thck black vertical line down the centre of the page. It's not due to anything on the glass. I'm running it on a Vista PC. Otherwise it works (prints) well. Thanks in advance for any advice. Steve

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Hi, a few days ago my wife's computer stopped at the black boot screen where it shows processor ram hd and so forth and stopped. I went in, turned it off, waited 10 seconds, then turned it back on and it was fine. Now last night she turned it on …

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hello guys... my customer complain that the pc he bought from us was no display, no beeps but the cpu fan and LED are working.. but when he brought the unit in our shop.. its working fine... what possible cause with this problem? it could be a shorted of electricity? …

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Hi I've had my laptop for about a year now. A while ago I left it in a car and it got really hot. Ever since then I've had sparatic fits of it not working. It always seemed to fix itself. Now it starts up and works fine for about …

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I recently built a computer. Here is the hardware I am using. CPU- Intel Core i5-660 Clarkdale 3.33GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Power Supply- Rosewill Xtreme Series RX750-D-B 750W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91 Hard Disk Drive- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 …

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I'm at my wit's end! Reset and restart but can't get past "SYstem BIOS Shadowed, Video BIOS shadowed." "ESC" does not redirect; "F2 - Set Up" stops there; and "F12 - LAN ..." stops there. Also, I hear a clicking noise under the keyboard. I've removed and replaced the battery> …

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Hi Even though I signed up here 4 years ago I know squat about tech stuff, so Please: speak slowly...lol My computer old, ancient really, a Heinz-ish, but we've gotten along with each other fine until: -scan on Primary drive C: first took 3 hours, then 3 days even after: …

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Last night I turned my laptop back on after it was off for approximately 2 hours. It started, loaded up to the desktop screen and then stopped. It showed the desktop design but none of the icons, start menu, toolbars...nothing. It worked fine the 2 hours before. I contacted Dell …

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Hey guys, I have had a problem with my laptop where when started up the screen remained blank however i fixed this problem via a post on the forum so thanx for that.... ....but now when the laptop is booted up it goes to the Toshiba screen where you can …

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No matter how I turn the system off OS wise the laptop restarts in 5 secounds every time even from safe mode shutdown.Now if I wait till the leds all go out and the screen goes blank and use the Power Button on the laptop and hold it down till …

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Get flashing amber light and nothing else,tried battery alone and ac alone but still won't come on,any ideas?? Laptop fell off bed but nothing more than that.Any assistance greatly appreciated.Thanks

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gateway laptop will not boot up in windows or the bios. the monitor is just black. i hear a fan on. gateway laptop model 450SX4. i tried changing the memory and reset the hard drive.

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Hi there, I've had 3 years of problem free use of my Dell Latitude 505 laptop. That is until the last few days when all hell has broken loose. The first in a catalogue of errors was a blue screen message saying "unmountable_boot_volume" together with instructions to start in windows …

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start computer and it will not let me in says need hard drve password can anyone help me????????? gmosz

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