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specs:- mobo-gigabyte ga-m61pme-s2 hdd- Seagate 250 gb SATA Samsung 80 gb IDE Samsung 40 gb IDE psu-cooler master 500 w gpu-9800 gt my computer was working fine from last year. Lately i substituted my psu to cooler master 500 w lately my machine reports an error of no post beep …

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Hey all! My brother's computer is making some random beeping sounds lately (it's like the motherboard's speaker's sound). It only occurs while he's playing games though. And it doesn't even happen with all games, but just some, which seems awfully strange to me. It usually starts like a minute or …

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Hey guys. Ive got a (less than 4 years old) lenovo laptop. The HDD on it failed (click of death) about just before xmas. I replaced it soon after and that one is now showing 4kb of bad sectors a few months on. Makes me rage. Is it something i …

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Hey does anyone know if HP put a fuse or fusible link on there DV6500 series mother boards? I don't see one on the power connector board, and actually i am getting power through that board to the mother board. But lap top is DOA. ARt: :(

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i have a toshiba tecra laptop of which doesnt boot at all. power led shows up but when power button is placed nothing comes up rather than hdd spine noisy, what might be the problem?

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Bought a second hand Toshiba laptop and wont boot, keeps on asking for HDD password. Am stuck...

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My laptop will startup with a external monitor after playing around with Fn + F8 and works fine there after, windows installs the updates which includes the Nvidia driver the laptop hangs up on the reboot. You have to remove the battery and power supply to restart the laptop using …

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Hi All If someone could help me I would greatly appreciate it. I am using Toshiba Tecra 9100 and when I powered on, the power on LED becomes green & nothing appears on screen. Also I noticed that notebook gets heated up at the bottom. The notebook is loaded with …

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I'm trying to get my friends PC up and running again. I've read forum posts on this problem already. I can't solve this issue. The PC is a Dell Dimension 4600 with an 80 gb Maxtor IDE drive. I've tested the drive...it works in an external hard drive case on …

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Not sure if this is a virus or spyware issue... but my Sony Vaio desktop is shutting off about 5-7 times a day, seems like something is causing it to crash... It shuts off when the computer isn't being used as well. Any idea what might be causing this? Any …

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Hi all am having a problem with my brothers IBM T43 laptop(Windows XP PRO) I see that it's common problem I have read other threads to try to fix this problem I have tried the suggestons but have done no good.The machine will not boot I see the windows first …

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I had this problem before, press the button and nothing happens, then my brother was messing with the switch and all of a sudden it started. Worked fine for 6 months and yesterday it stopped, all of a sudden. I opened it, played with the switch, moved it around but …

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Not really sure if this is the right forum but it seems to best match my question. I am looking for a computer tool kit that I can use for work. Requirements are able to carry basic tools to to fix computer hardware and also it needs to have a …

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I have a problem with a Sony Vaio laptop that will no longer boot up. Last time it was used, we got the blue screen of death and a message about "dumping physical memory". Now when we try to power-up the machine nothing much happens. The hard drive indicator light …

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I have a Advent computer that is around 3 years old running on XP. Today it completely died. When I switch the machine on the green power light comes on, as does the orange HD light comes on, and so does the green light on the DVD-RW drive. The fans …

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Hi, I recently inherited a dell optiplex gx1. I upgraded the ram, and made some other minor adjustments, but now when I try to boot the system, It tells me "Alert! Cover was previously removed" and after that "invalid configuration information - please run SETUP program" No matter how I …

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Dear friends, Anyone can explain what are CPUT and CPUC in a clock synthesizer? If possible please do it in one or two days.

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my daughter has an Acer Extensa 5620-4025 laptor computer that flashes briefly when I try to turn it on and then is dead. I tried refitting the battery and start it with and without the charger with identical results. Any clue of what may be happening ?

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Hi any help with the following problem would be greatly appreciated as I have a deadline with my work!! (argh!), OK - I have an Advent laptop that has a dead screen, on starting it appears to start fine - I get the windows starting sounds all the right lights …

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I'm having some trouble with my girlfriends laptop. It's a dell Latitude D505. the issue is when you turn it on, the hard drive makes this kind of grinding sound and will get to the windows boot screen and will remain there. and when it doesn't do that it sounds …

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Hi, First-off: I'm fairly amateur at repairing hardware components of computers, but I know most of the basics. The Problem: When I turn on my computer, it turns on but the monitor goes immediately into Power Saver Mode (the usually green light on the monitor turns orange). I know this …

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I have a friend emachine t3508 that won't start. The power supply fan comes on and the light on the motherboard inside for the ethernet is lit but the hd or cpu, cpu fan or other fan's don't come on.

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No Post No error Code just a black screen and LED lights. I have already done the basics. Now i need to know if there is a solution at all or if anyone else has run into a similar issue with this model.

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Ok... So a buddy of mine had a problem with his HP Pavilion 700 Desktop PC. Upon examining the machine, I was determined that the issue must be with the power supply (no fan's running, no activity other than a lite sequel from the power supply). I ordered the power …

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I own a Gateway 450ROG laptop. the problem all started two weeks ago when i was using it and a popup balloon said low virtual memory. Next time I went to start the laptop it would try and start up but I would only see a black screen, a faint …

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I have a Gateway MX8711 laptop and it has started to have problems. Upon turning on the machine the light comes on to show it has power, I hear the fan start up but the screen never comes on. I turned it off then tried again and it booted up, …

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hi, i recently moved my pc from one room 2 another and when turning on everything began to run as normal for about 5-10 secs bios page ect.. until smoke came from inside and then nothing all went dead, i disconnected lead @ plug then psu. the fuse has blown …

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I have a laptop that has been through hell and back recently. Long story short, my HDD crashed last month and I bought a brand new one to replace the now dead one. I lost everything and was unable to recover anything. I had a bit of trouble installing the …

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I keep getting this error.........IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL string of numbers Stop: 0x0000000A (0x4912EOE3, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804D9EFE) Any suggestions?

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I am having Dell laptop Vostro 1500. Two years old. One bad day , While i Click the Power ON button in the laptop, the LED s are blinked and went OFF. I tried the same with direct without battery(by connecting charger pin).. But the same problem continuing.. Another one …

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I have a sony vgn s-260 that i replaced the hard drive. It will power up, the cd drive turns but then everything stops. I get no start up of the screen. For a while it seemed if i pressed f8 while it was starting i could get it going …

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My Gateway laptop froze at the screen saver. I restarted and hit F11 during boot up to go to restore with backup. It did backup data and files but when applic. were reinstalling it froze at 17/73 (something called "wild tangent') Any ideas for a solution?

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I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and I installed the hard drive put the pin in the master slot and everything. But when I go to setup it says the master drive isn't recognized. What can I do to fix it, or can I fix it at all

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I have an ACER 1640, when powering up the fans tsarts for a few seconds then stops, i have taken the memory cards out and refitted , tried holding the power key on for 30 secs etc with no power attahed and then restarting, tried everything The power lightstays on …

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hello.. my dell laptop inspiron 5100 is not starting... When I trun it on the screen stays black (does not turn on) and I can hear the fan and all work fine. I also see the cap key and num lock key blinking... Left it on overnight next morning same …

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I cannot get my laptop to boot up. I get a blue screen with the message unmountable boot volume does anyone know what this means and what is the cure?

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I have an Acer aspire5100 laptop. I have been unable to use it going on 8 months now, because the mouse and keyboard stopped working. I have tried numorous things from resetting the BIOS from the motherboard (J2 switch) to loading with just the battery or just the AC power. …

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I have a new Toshiba Satellite 350 laptop that was working fine. For no apparent reason it shut down and I can't get it to start again. I've checked the obvious things like battery & and power supply and they check out ok. Any ideas on what to do? I …

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hello guys, i am having a problem with my thinkpad, it always auto reset my bios setting when i boot it up therefore making my comp can't start normally , so i have to change the IRQ numbers and date everytime i start up comp! any help on this? Spec: …

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can any one help he on this one i disable my system an cant see my screen no more what do i do now

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It's a compaq thing. M700 PIII - 650, Just installed new processor fan. Restarted laptop everything is great. Loaded Windows Service Pac 2. Laptop went to "Sleep Mode" and will not wake up. Removed power supply - Removed Battery (actually I don't have the battery) - Unpluged the BIOS battery …

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Hi Everyone - I am Semi PC literate but have recently experienced problems with my laptop which have confused the life out of me. My Dell Latitude D531 Laptop allows me to Power on but after running through the Dell welcome screen it goes Blank & does not shift from …

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My Mom's Compaq Presario V6000 is showing no picture on the screen and continuously power cycles about every 30 seconds unless you hold the power button down to turn it off. All of the lights are working and you can hear the disk drive working when it first comes on. …

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My HP Pavilion Desktop started acting weird. The screen started distorting ( like bad tv reception). And then started to freeze up and completely crash down. Upon reboot an error message popped up saying "hard-drive failure is imminent, please back up blah blah blah...." Later, the hard-drive just didn't boot …

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Hello, I'm new. I came across this site while searching for solutions to my problem. You guys seem to know your stuff so I'm hoping you can help me as no one else can. I bought a Fujitsu Siemens L7320 from eBay. It had a smashed screen and no hard …

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I have submitted the below to HP but as yet they haven't been too helpful. Hope someone can help! Whilst using my HP Compaq nx9010 today the machine cluescreened whilst it was running several applications, one (WinAmp) which had crashed and I was attempting to close. The bluescreen said KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR …

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Last Night (12-30-09) My PC got a Blue Screen of Death and restarted. I got the First Blue Screen of death while watching Adultswim Video. When the Computer Restarted It got to the Windows Vista log-in screen and then Blue Screened a second time, but froze before it restarted. I …

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I have a Toshiba Satellite Model # A135-S7404 that I am working on for a friend. When I turn it on the screen does nothing but the power light and the battery light come on. It sounds like it is turning on but nothing happens, it posts nothing. The cd …

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I assembled a PC from scratch about 3 year ago. It has worked well for all these years other than a slight heat problem that I solved by adding an extra fan. I used a ASUS P4P800 SSE mobo P4 CPU, nvida FX5200, 2GB ram. All of a suden it …

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