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| | I have a HP Pavillion 2 Gb laptop . Its only 14 months old and 4 months ago the hard drive died . Got that replaced , however last week my lovely wifey asked me to put Net nanny on the laptop to keep an eye on our sneaky boy … |
 | My laptop keeps shutting down when I try to turn it on. It will always stay on until the XP's loading screen appears(the screen where there is a bar kinda thing that makes it look like its loading). It does turn on sometimes but after when it shuts off, I … |
| | I’ve had my computer for over 6 Months now, built it piece by piece over a couple weeks. Windows XP Professional Pentium 4 2.8Ghz 1GB DDR PC32000 80GB Western Digital HD nVidia GeForce 6800GT 400W Power Supply It’s a tragic computer.... Spent about $1900 maybe more, and ever since the …  |
| | Hi, I've recently put together a new system as shown below: Asus P5N-D SLi Motherboard Core2Duo E7300 2666mhz with Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Fan 2 x 1Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800mhz Zotac Geforce 9800GT 512mb 550w ATX PSU 1 x 120Gb IDE HDD (Master) 1 x 240Gb SATA HDD …  |
| | I bought an HP DV4T-1000 model laptop 8 months back.It worked fine for 6months, When I start (sometimes it works fine) it up at first the screen will not come on(only black screen is seen) but lights on and the fan on. In order to get it to start right …  |
 | Hi, I was formatted my machine two days back. after installed windows when i was started my machine it showing line like (- - -) after some tine one message was showing insert rebootable disc in your system, i am getting irritation with my system, please help me out of … |
| | To start off i have a custom built pc. XFX Nforce 780i SLI intel socket 775 mobo 2 SLI XFX geforce 8800gt Alphas 2 OC 2gb dual Ch RAM Intel quad core 2.40ghz/8m Western Dig 120gb HD OCZ 700watt PS Well recently when i've been playing a game wether it … |
| | Hi, Can someone please help me? I am having problems with my laptop, it is about 4 months old. Never had any problems with it before and for some reason now it wont start ujp properly. It also wont start in F8 safe mode! If I start up normally it … |
| | Hi I have a boot problem on an Acer 630 laptop which is driving me insane. The machine is newly set up running Windows 2000 installed from a copy I have successfully used on other machines (tsck, tsch) I cannot use the XP disk image version that came with the … |
| | Hello all! I really hope one you you's can help me on my problem. My PC wont start. Whenever i turn it on, it powers up, but it just makes a funny beeping sound and doesnt show anything on the monitor. The monitor says there is no PC connected to … |
| | Hi I'm new here and this is my first post and really hope someone can help and sorry for asking something before even introducing myself but I'm very worried. I have a Toshiba Satelliete Pro 4600 laptop and today I'm been scaning a picture for tomorrows exam, and restarted Windows … |
 | My parent's computer has stopped booting. It will post the blue HP logo screen and then bring up the "Windows has not shut down properly" screen with the usual choices, safe mode, etc. When clicking on any of these it flashes a black screen and then returns to the blue … |
| | When i turn on my pc, the power light blinks and pc fan turns. but the monitor remain black, i hve reconnect each connection but it does not work. when i pressed the "caps lock" or "num lock" button 4m keyboard the light does not shows up. It seems that … |
| | [QUOTE]Windows xp/Vista crash[/QUOTE] I am reparing a friend's Dell xps and I've never ran onto a hardware problem. When he brought it to me, the computer would start with the [QUOTE]windows did not terminate correctly, Start windows normally or on safe mode blah blah blah[/QUOTE] I tried to start windows … |
| | allright, hi guys, I have a problem there's this toshiba notebook, satelite A105. the keyboard stopped working added external keyboard + mouse, works fine now what could be the problem? |
 | This is will take some explaining so please bear with me.... I had a copy of Windows 7 Beta on my laptop and decided to install the Windows 7 RC. I burned the iso file and started the install and had a read file error so I figured I had … |
| | Hi all, I was recently given one of these laptops and told 'if you can fix it, you can keep it'. Happy days! Anyway. The BIOS reports that there's no hard drive attached, the drive itself makes some odd noises during the boot process, and then the computer eventually reports … |
| | Hi I bought a gaming computer awhile back like about 6months ago or so i'd say. When i first got it the hardrive which already had windows XP pro installed had trouble detecting the hardrive. Only after 30minutes or so of reconnecting the SATA cable that it was finally able … |
| | Hello, My pc is having problems booting up. When I try to boot it up I get an error message "Boot Failure: System Halted" Now when I go to boot options it comes up with a pass code which I can't remember what it was if I ever even knew … |
| | Power light on the side for power adapter is on but when i push the power button the light on the front blinks 3 times . everything else is dead. A couple of days ago there was a message saying that the battery needed changing. |
| | I have had problems with my computer for a while, I noticed little by little I kept getting my messgaes of files missing and things not working properly. Today, I tried to do a system restore. I tried 3 times. Every time the computer turned back on the message NTLDR … |
| | I have a Windows Home Server 2003 with three hard drives: one for the WHS OS and two 500GB disks for data storage. Suddenly, the server can't be connected to by any of the network PCs. On giving it a monitor, I can see the error message : BOOT DISK …  |
| | My laptop recently got a bad virus. I decided to reformat using the recovery disk I burned originally. All was going well until I put in the 2nd recovery disk. The disk is bad I put it in another to confirm no info is left on it. My question is: … |
 | Hello again my fello daniweb people, hope you can help me out with this interesting problem. On friday i powered down my machine, turned off all the plugs and left it to go to work (i leave it at uni as i work closer to my actual house). I return …  |
| | Hi! This is really confusing. When I Push the power-button on my pc, the mall lights on the front panel starts to "twinkle" and sometimes it comes weird sounds from it. But Windows never starts, the monitor is sometimes black and sometimes the message "Check signal cable" shows up. And … |
| | Hello all, Please help. I just upgraded my Dell deminsion 9100 2.8ghz pentium D with 4GD ram and a new Nvidia 9500 graphics card. All was working great. then I went to turn on my PC a week later and nothing would happen. I unplugged the PC and waited 10 … |
| | Hi, everybody, nice forum. I've been using computers since 1965 (programming with Fortran!)...probably before a lot of you were born. But I've primarily used Apple computers for the past 25 years, although I have used PCs too, and right now my grandson's PC is having a peculiar problem. I found … |
| | first i apologise for this being my first post i built a pc about 2-3 months ago the spec is below nvidia geforce gtx280 1gb graphics card 2x 500gb maxtor hdd AMD phenom 9950 quad core cpu corsair 4gb (2x2gb) 800mhz ddr2 asus m3n72-d i have been using the machine … |
| | My machine will not post to bios, nay even beep. The trouble started when I plugged in a Sony Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1 20GB MP3 Player in a front USB slot. During operation the player (slot) stopped working. After I shut off my machine, it won't boot or post. I check …  |
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| | I have a Gateway GT5018E with Microsoft Medica Center 2004 Service Pack 3. The drive works sporadically. I spoke with Gateway, and they said replace the drive. Took it in for a new drive, and did not fix the problem. The repair specialist said he repaired the software. I have … |
| | I have a dell 1000 Laptop it wont let me boot unless it have a bios password. I try taken the battery out and still nothing I even try the backdoor still nothing can you pleasseeeee help me |
| | Hi, I bought my HP pavilion lx 2000 in August 2008 and everything was working fine until about a month ago. It started seriously overheating and would turn off at random times. I'm assuming this was not good for the hard disk and all of a sudden a couple of … |
| | The dreaded blue screen. I've got a windows xp and here is the deal. When I start windows normally I get the Unmountable_Boot_Volume blue screen. I can't open in safe mode, it simply starts and stops at the same place. Where it sais system32/DRIVERS/agp.Cpq.sys. Everytime it stops there. I have …  |
| | My machine boots very slowly at start up to only shows the boot options and then says that i should check my cable. The hard disk does not even spin. Your help will bee gratefully appreciated. |
| | It does go to BIOS SetUp and runs cd-rom when I insert operating system installation cd. The problem is: when i start the laptop, there's very strange noice going around the hard disk and it shows the following error in red "Hard drive not installed... If operating system not found... … |
| | Hello everyone: I think I fried my RAM memory Stick by removing with out shutting Power off. Would that make my CPU to beep and not reboot. |
| | Hi My daughter has a Dell inspiron 1501 and has just bought a new charger. When I plug it in and switch on it says 'Battery not recognised' After doing diagnostic tests I got the following error codes 4E36:0749 ivalid AC adaptor reported and 4E36: 0122 reporting disconected charger. The … |
| | I have a dead Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop, I am a TV technition, so am familiar with most of the power connectors. The suppy connector to this laptop is different from anything I have seen before. It has an outer ring that is negative, an inner ring that seems to … |
| | I understand this is an old machine... but it just died the other day. i am troubleshooting it for a coworker but am a little stuck. after posting, it would go to a blank screen that says "strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility" and no other error …  |
| | Hi My Dell Inspiron 2200 just started to shut down after being on for a few minutes. If I let it sit I can restart it but then it shuts down again. Any ideas? |
| | Hi My hp Pavilion dv4-1117nr laptop that I got 3 months ago (160gb 2 gb ram and 2.2 core2 duo processor) screen that is monitor has been off that is not dispalying anything but the sound continues and internet speed decreases and system gets hot while I watch movies. The … |
| | Hi all, I'm currently trying to resurrect this machine for a client. I have tried 4 different OS disks including a Dell recovery drive, and in all cases, as the machine starts copying files, it fails the CDAUDIO.SYS file then about a hundred others, which appear to all relate to … |
| | My hp got left on over night and the hard drive is gone, I replaced the hard drive and been tring to restore my system, I finally got windows xp on floppy, cause my cd or dvd drives were not reading in bios, now I turn on the pc and … |
| | Hi All, I have an XFX nForce 780I SLI motherboard and an 8800GTX g-card which is great. Until today, went to turn on the PC today and well it just wont POST, it is stuck in start-up mode. On the motherboard the digital display start at: Off>> P1 and goes … |
| | Hello :) I have a problem with my computer startup - when I turn the power on sometimes after counting the ram and processor it just freezes for no reason...occassionally it starts and goes into XP as normal and when it does the computer works fine. I've tried changing the … |
| | My Compaq Presario 710us stopped working suddenly. Can anyone shed some suggestions. |
| | Hello, I'm having the same problem but a week prior my computer started acting funny. The monitor would blink erradically every now and then and sometime either come back to the screen i was on and have color squares everywhere and nothing on the screen would work or the monitor … |
| | hi every one.... i need the recovery cd's to reinstall the OS in my notebook, i try to restart on safe mode but I got a message saying that the OS is corrumpt :'( , so i contact HP-Compact and they don't fabricate those CD's anymore.... is there anyone that … |
| | Hi, i am facing a problem from a very long period i.e when ever my computer boot up so it gave me the option CMOS LOW BATTERY,i replace the cell twice but this problem is exicit. Now when i put the new cell then 1st time my compter run but … |
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