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| | I have a Dell Inpiron 1150 with the 14.1 in screen. The hinges over a periood of time broke and eventually the LCD cable was partially exposed. After several more weeks, the cable finally tore some and display worked at times depending on how i position the screen. Now I … |
| | [my computer used to work brilliantly but just the other day as i was trying to boot the screen was blue and nothing else please if someone knows the solution to my problem kindly help] ikhabi |
| | Hi there, I'm new to the site and have been having a problem with my Presario 2500 laptop (Compaq). When I turn it on it starts up normal and all, I get the windows logo with the loading bar beneath it. As soon as it goes to switch screens to … |
| | Hey everyone. I woke up this morning and turned on my computer and everything worked fine. I realized that my computer was displaying the wrong date and I remembered my old computer's BIOS having an option to change the system date. With that, I restarted my computer and opened up …  |
| | Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 8100. I was having troubles with it starting. It would boot up and get a screen that said it could not locate a boot device. It would not find the cd rom drive or locate the hard drive. This is after an extended … |
| | Ok here is the what has happened... In the past few weeks, I have noticed that everytime I start my PC I have to change my CMOs. It kept telling me that it couldn't boot from the Floppy drive, the thing is my PC doesn't have a Floppy drive and … |
| | Hello i am having a problem with my friends computer. When I boot the computer everything seems OK and the windows loading screen comes up, but then it says "Setup is being restarted" then it goes to a blue screen and says "STOP: c00002la fatal system error". There's no valuable …  |
| | Ok so heres the problem, my girlfriends laptop (toshiba satellite L100-170) will not start, it's very tempermental sometimes it will and sometimes it won't. If it was a PC I would go straight for a short on the motherboard but I'm not sure will be that :/ If you take … |
| | Hey all! So my buddy just gave me his "dead" laptop. He pretty much gave up on it because it won't boot up. He says it was dead, but I disagree with him. I am guessing it's a power issue at some point. I know that it is getting some … |
| | the other day, i dug up my old hp pavillion 6640c with the intention of turning it into a basic ssh server. i hooked it up, and turned it on all seemed well except there was no image on screen. so i tore it apart. it currently has: motherboard (asus … |
 | Hi there I have a problem with my home built PC. I was working away everything fine, then I couldn't get the mouse pointer on screen to move (mouse basically stopped working) then everything simply went dead. Shut down completely. Not sure if the mouse dying first is relevant but … |
| | mb is getting power...hdd , battery, and power connectewd lights are on and hard drive spins up but no beep code and screen is black.... i've tried new ram but still no boot... removed hdd and used usb cable and accessed hdd on another computer, and it works good....what to … |
| | Hello, i recently decided to build my own computer. I have everything assembled, however when I turn the computer on the monitor displays a "no signal" message. I have recently exchanged the motherboard, video card, and processor for the same model. And when i took it to the computer store … |
| | Hi all, First of all, thanks for this great forum and I apologize ahead of time if this is maddeningly incomplete; I'm trying to work on a machine for a friend of mine. So, here's the dealio: I was told in a very generic fashion that this Dimension 4500 would … |
| | *** Hardware Malfunction Call your hardware vendor for support NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error *** The system has halted *** I experiencing the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH huhuhu!!! any one help me pls... I am using DELL DIMENSION E520 |
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| | hello all, i am facing this very annoying problem with my OS. My Win XP Prof SP1 does not detect USB mass storage devices. but on the other hand i have a usb mouse,scanner,printer all working good... so i know that the usb slots are all proper. todayi tried connecting … |
| | Hello all I have a dell inspiron 6400(1.6 Ghz Core Duo processor with 2 GB RAM). The battery of the laptop is dead and even the DVD drive functions very rarely(:-\). when i power my latop on, the gray status bar completes itself, then the windows XP screen comes. After … |
| | Help me plz. My laptop's(HP pavilion dv5115nr notebook pc) f8 key is not working. For this im facing difficulty to setup win xp to my laptop. i tried everything possible that i can. searching net via google, asking HP to provide solution, asking people to tell me the solution and …  |
| | I am having an issue with my computer starting up. It will power up, I hear the hard drives spinning, the fans all come on including the CPU fan. But I get no visual, no beeps. I tried to wait out around 5 min or so to see if it … |
| | When I start my hp compaq nc 6302 it starts and trips as soon as the cooling fan starts. this then happens repeatedly. when it happens thepower LED and the battery charging LED are illuminated and then go off when it trips. |
| | Hello all. I was wondering if someone would be able to help me. I have a Maxtor 100 gig external harddrive which isn't being read by windows. Basically, I'll turn it on, I hear it start up and all...but it is just not showing up in My Computer. At first, … |
| | computer started screen was fuzzy , came up to a gray screen wouldn;t boot any further  |
| | I have 3 hard disks in my computer. All the 3 were working perfectly. Lately I have installed Windows 7. In the beginning everything was fine but later, one of the hard disks was reported to have problems. Now I have reinstalled Windows XP and the problem persists. Under ‘Computer … |
| | HELP PLEASE My roommate's laptop stated: Primary hard disk drive 0 not found No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility This problem was so immediate, we don't know what happened. It sounds as if the hard drive may be crashing but I have a rare circumstance. … |
| | how to restore my hp dv1000 to factory settings, no cd here, and i tried restoring to a previous date, please help |
| | I have just had to replace a DVD/RW drive.and now I cannot get the monitor to show any onscreen display.I know that the Pc is running, as it goes through its cycle as it starts. But nothing on monitor. I have tried the monitor on my other pc to try … |
| | when I turn on my Dell laptop, it says that it has no bootable device. I pressed F2 and in the device it said primary device-none.What shall I do? Which CD shall I put in the computer. I have the CD for booting and I have the CD for the … |
| | hey everyone. I have a problem.I have laptop 5150 from dell and today I started it up and when the windows xp finished loading an error with BLUe screen. where running a symptom tree test and so far I have the following found SYSTEM MEMORY MARCH A TEST ERROR CODE … |
| | my destop was working fine and i shut it down every night like I always do by clicking turn off. The next day we tried turning the pc back on and the monitor came on but the brainbox will not power on at all. what do you think is wrong … |
| | my laptop wont turn on, it turns on for 3 seconds then restarts, and it just keeps repeating, i dont think its my ram or anything, what could it be? please can someone help. |
| | How do you remove the on off panel from the laptop? Can the panel be removed without getting into the laptop? I am trying to fix a stuck power on off button. I read a thread that was 3 months old where cleaning the panel helped solve the problem. Thanks … |
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| | We just put a new battery into a Compaq Presario 710US. The system sees the battery there but indicates that the battery is at 0% of charge and is charging 0%. It does not charge. According to the meter on the battery if is at at least 25% charge. Any … |
| | My computer turns off completely at times while i'm working on it. It sometimes goes 48 hrs without stop- ping and sometimes it stops after 30 min use. I bought a new battery, but the problem is still here. I then bought a new power cord, but again the problem …  |
| | I have a t22 ibm think pad,never had a problem with it.Now I try to turn it on and i get nothing.Just the battery picture lights when i press the on/off button.I have several extra batteries and tried charging a new one ,same thing.DEAD.Any suggestions? you can even e-mail me … |
| | Hi everyone I need help, My laptop computer is only 1 yr old, it started making a weird noise on the fan about 3 months after I bought it but I didn’t think nothing of it. But now the laptop is completely dead, first I plugged it up and the … |
| | My Dell Inspiron 1526 won't restore after hibernation. After a recent Vista update the laptop was placed in hibernation mode before the normal 'restart to complete update' process. After a minute or so i press a button expecting to see a logon screen, instead the monitor was off, blank screen …  |
| | hi all, im definately NOT a techie, so PLEASE bear with me. i have an older compaq armada model #1750. when it starts, it only lashes the compaq name & then goes all greyish black. a friend had been doing something with its bios & this helped for a while … |
| | Hi all, I'm having this issue with my laptop, When i boot it, it start making a continuous beeping noise and just hangs until i press a button (any button). At a point these buttons too werent working (d,z,x,c,v,b,n). Now they are but the (Right) button is not working and … |
| | charger works,battery works but wont charge not evev with battery out. any suggestions please??!! |
| | Hello, I have a 4 year old gaming computer from Ibuypower. It was kind of dirty so it has noices when it's running. So I bought a duster but I didn't know you shouldn't spray it up-side down. So I did it.. About 2 weeks later, the ethernet plug on … |
| | please help i just got a dell d610, been working fine. plugged in charger then a bang. charger light still green but wont charge or boot up at all its dead. i tried charging with battery out and tried swapping memory etc but nothing no life at all. battery is … |
| | i have a brand new dell inspiron that after first set refuses to complete post.Dell cant seem to help but they promised to replace the mobo but the pc is with me in jamaica .i have tried almost very thing |
| | Hi all, I have a Tecra S2 with the 6600go GFX card. The machine is great but exhibits the following problem. After the machine has been off for a while it will not start reliably. You press the power button. Either immediately after you release the power button or a … |
| | Was giving a HPze500 laptop and now it will not reboot and says no operating system can be found. I get a black screen that says it tries to reboot and then a message "PXE-E61- Media text failure, check cable" shows up and it goes directly to Operating system not … |
| | Right, Got my new PC last week, and yesterday i got my copy of WindowsXP 64-bit Edition Upgrade (the trial one). I currently have WinXP Professional. Tried to install it, but the setup won't detect my hard drive. Which is impossible since my PC is working mighty fine as it … |
| | I have a serious problem, my laptop gives me some safemode options, but no matter what I have done so far, it always ends up rebooting in some way. It started after I did a manual shutdown when it froze while the antivirus BitDefender was updating. Any ideas? |
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 | I have a Gateway system that has the OS in a protected partition on the hard drive and you use F11 to do a system restore. In the process of recovering from a system crash I lost the functionality of the F11 key during the boot process. Everything is there … |
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