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| | I have a Dell M1730 laptop (expired warranty <sigh>) A few weeks ago I rebooted the machine and the video wouldn't come on. No bios no nothing. The machine does seem to be booting, or at least there is some disk activity, and it does acquire a network address. It …  |
| | Hi, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop that I'm having problems with. Yesterday I turned it on and after a few minutes, my mouse froze. Restarted and freezing happened again. Restarted once more and now screen is black. When I start, I can hear the fan kick in, the … |
 | I have just built the pc this weekend AMD Phenom II x4 940 cpu 4gb corsair ram MSI DKA790GX Platinum mbd with on-board ATI Radeon 3300 graphics Saphire Radeon HD4870 gpu Antec 650w modular psu Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO PWM Fan 1tb samsung hard drive - new 250gb maxtor … |
| | I just installed a new PSU on a working system. The new PSU has more power than the one I replaced (550 W vs 520 W). When I close the circuit to the PSU, the green LED on the Motherboard lights up. When I hit the power on button, it … |
| | I'm new here.. I have a 2yr old Sony Vaio VGN-TX17GP bought in KL, upgraded to 1GB RAM. It had windows XP. I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 & erased windows XP. After unsatisfactory results with Ubuntu, as the sound was gone, the F3, F4 function keys did not work & Ubuntu … |
| | I have a Gateway 3018 and the other day the screen went off. Now it will not come back on. When I press the power button the power light comes on and the busy icon will flash once. The fan will come on after a few minutes. I can also … |
| | Hello About a month ago I was beta testing Win 7. It worked fine for a while and then the keybord and mouse went off whilst I was using the pc. So I restarted the pc. Now the pc wont start and I get a message "keyboard error or no … |
| | Went away for the weekend and switched off PC at powersocket. Come back and swtiched back on and there is a blinking gren flashing light at the front, near the start button. There is also a blinking green flashing light at the back under the power cable. Other than that …  |
| | Hey, I recently got the yellow light of death and was wondering, since my ps3 is out of warranty i have to pay $150 to send it in to sony so that I can get a refurbished one, can I fix it easily??? Because I wouldn't want to take it … |
| | Ok, so the usual problem : when I try to boot up laptop it just runs the fan and blinks the HDD light a couple of times while the screen remains w/o output. If I put a CD/DVD into the drive it spins it around otherwise doing nothing. I tried … |
| | Hi to everyone. I had some problems after changing my motherboard processor. My motherboard was a S-series Gigabyte GA-m57SLI-S4 rev2.0 and the processor amd AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6000. I bought a Phenom 2 940 to change the current one but i didn't check the motherboard support list and i … |
| | Hey, I recently got the yellow light of death and was wondering, since my ps3 is out of warranty i have to pay $150 to send it in to sony so that I can get a refurbished one, can I fix it easily??? Because I wouldn't want to take it …  |
| | Alright guys... I'm not a complete moron when it comes to computer hardware, but I feel like one now. I recently bought parts to build my new computer: Mach Speed Motherboard MSNV-939 Athlon 3200 CPU GEforce 6200 256 mb PCI-Express Video Card SATA 160 GB Hard Drive 400 Watt Power …  |
| | The other day I made a huge mistake using my laptop while I was feeding my 2 month old daughter, and she so happened to get sick and then spit up all over the laptop keyboard. Seeing that this was a liquid type spill, I immediately unplugged the laptop and … |
| | I just received an Inspiron 8000 from my father in law. He said it has never run on battery power. He believed he through out the battery with the packaging. He did not of course. it has a battery in the primary bay. It is the right bay. bios sees … |
| | I'm new to this list, so please bear with me and forgive any dumb errors that I make. I've got an IBM 365XD laptop that had a main board problem. I've replaced the chassis with another 365XD chassis. All seems to be OK but it will only boot into suspend … |
| | In CD writing is done from innerside to outer side.. how is data written into hard disk? |
| | I finished putting together my first computer, im semi-experienced with it and am pretty sure all the hardware was installed correctly. i tried installing windows xp with a "windows xp reinstallation disk" but that gave me a blue screen about halfway into setup. i then reformatted my HDD and tried … |
| | I have a emachine model # M2352 that i dropped while plugged in to the 110Volt/charger. The port on the laptop is now wallowed out and the male/female on the 110v/charger cord does not fit in correctly. The battery will only charge to 50% and the display does not brighten …  |
| | Hi! My friend's PC isn't booting anymore neither the POST test or memory checking. When you turn on the computer, a black screen appears with a message like this: Award BIOS block 1998 BIOS checksum error Insert floppy disk A: Insert system disk and press enter. The computer beeps, but … |
| | Hi, I have a dell xps m170 laptop running windows media center. Recently the screen froze and small lines appeared and the pc crashed. I restarted and ir worked ok , but the same problem ocurred again. After this I tried to restart my laptop but I could't even recieve … |
| | Hi, My 4 year old Gateway desktop is on 24/7, then one day I got home and it was off. I tried starting it, but only the on light came on. I tried a new power source, then a another mother board, but still nothing. There is a light on … |
| | Hi Guys, I'm new to the site, must say, there's some really helpful stuff on here, I'm sure there's an introductory forum on here and I'll present myself properly but in the mean time I'd like to ask a quick question. I've got a Dell Opitplex GX620 that is lterally … |
| | Hello, firstly thank you for being here for dupes like me to come to when all hell breaks loose. I have a toshiba laptop/paperweight. I am not sure why it has done what it is doing, but I will try to explain. When i try to power up the system, … |
| | I have an HTPC that I use for primarily recording shows (playback is handled by other client devices). It had been working fine till late Saturday night. Here's the configuration: PC Chips M811LU Socket A Motherboard AMD AthlonXP 2200+, Crucial 2048MB RAM - brand new purchased in December and ran … |
| | I have a Dell Latitude C640 which is a couple of years old. Now it will not charge the battery. I have put a new battery and a new mains lead but it will NOT charge the battery. If I put in a fully charged battery from another laptop into … |
| | I'm really hoping for a solution before I kick this machine out the window :rolleyes: This is a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, BIOS v.A06 (yea I see there's an update available but it's been fine till today), 512mb ram, 20gb HD, Win XP Home SP2 (with all updates). I started … |
| | Windows XP Media Center Version 2005 with update rollup 2 Dell XPS 410 System will not fully boot to anything. When running Dell utility disk using diagnostics the system displays the title message. I am unsure if this a harddrive or RAM issue or possible something else? Please help. |
 | My computer blacks out randomly. The screen goes back and it acts almost like its in sleep mode. The hard drive seems to stop but the fans are still going? It does it at random times sometimes 10 sec after login sometimes 2 hours. It does it while im running … |
| | Have a dell d630 and it suddenly won't take me to the sign in screen. Have the wallpaper, the cursor works...but no sign in??? I've rebooted several times-no luck. HELP! |
| | I have a [URL="http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1014737R/1014737Rsp3.shtml"]Gateway GT5628[/URL] that's not booting up at all. I press the power button, and it all lights up. But it doesn't load up anything on the screen. I opened up the the computer and cleaned up all the dust and stuff, but it still doesn't work. One … |
| | Where can i download the solution manual of the book Robotics, control, sensing, vision and intelligence? This book is written by three authors K. S. Fu R. C. Gonzalez C. S. Lee Thanx, Hope any one will provide some guidance about it... If not all chapters solutions are available then … |
| | When i plug in my computer the on light comes on without me even pushing the on button. I hear a faint noise, dunno from what, but the fan won't come on. No monitor display. What could be wrong. Maybe a connection came loose inside? Any ideas are appreciated! Thanks |
| | So last night my cpu to my 2005 Dell Dimension fell to the floor. It was sitting on a low ledge which is attached to my desk. The fall was about 4 inches at most. No cords were disconnected or anything. I went to boot up this morning and of … |
| | Hello to everyone...I'm the new guy in need of major help. There was quite a storm today and when I got home...the screen on the PC was black. I hit the reset button, thinking that it would just boot up and would be well. I built the machine 8 years … |
| | Hiee I have got a weird problem in my System.When i start my pc all works fine but there is no display and the led of monitor blinks. I tried to restart again and again upto 4 or 5 times and finally it got started but only once and now … |
| | [COLOR="Red"]Hi guys :?: I'm in my final year and I'm supposed to do an eCommerce assignment, but I'm new to eCommerce world. So I just need some hints and guidance to work on this assignment. I have very short time to do it, so I just need your kind help … |
| | :rolleyes: I need help here, even e-mailing compaq isn't helping. This is ridiculous, I took over an old old compaq presario 4716 just to play around with. But I can't get into bios, I tried f10, doesn't work. I tried combo's of alt f10, cntrl f10, shift f10, esc, f1, … |
| | My computer keeps making that small little clicking noise, the one that usually plays on internet explorer. Even when I am not using Internet Explorer and when I am in Fire Fox it goes off. Also many times random pop ups come up when i am not using a browser … |
| | i have this hitachi flora NB1/NB2 laptop that was given to my aunt,its quite old but i was hoping to make it work...at first there was no problem with the monitor when my aunt said she tried it out,but when i get to try it the montior just stayed blank,then … |
| | My laptop has been turning off while I'm still on the computer. The screen would turn off but the power light will still be on. When I try to turn it back or or press ctrl+alt+delete, nothing happens. I have to take out the battery and unplug the cord just … |
| | hi my friend has an hp pavillion 6405 running on windows 98!! is it possible to upgrade the system to windows xp or vista?? |
| | My compaq Evo N115 indicates that it is plugged in, and the battery charging light is orange, However whenever i push the power on button, the computer will not start? Any ideas? Need Help |
| | Custom built PC been working great for 3 years, then it stopped booting up. Well, that's not entirely true, but I'll explain further. Basically you push the power button, fans come on whirling but the HD light never lights up, and nothing comes on the screen. I get no beeps … |
| | i have two e-machines one being etower /c633cd and the other emachines 270 .The tower has no hard drive and the 270 has no mother board so i tryed taking the hard drive out the 270 and putting it in the 633 but it starts but just get blank screen … |
| | Hi Guys, I have dell inspiron 6000. I am using it since 2006. But I am having problem with it since last 2 months. Well I am an advanced computer user. Problem Type: Lid problem can be with Video driver. Description: I am using windows Xp Pro with this laptop. … |
| | I have a computer that started freezing after a few minutes from being turned on. The OS is Vista. I have tried reinstalling Vista as well as XP on both the original hard drive and a new hard drive. During installation of both OS's it froze. I would retry and … |
| | Have an old but great abit nf7-s v2 that was running, surge protected with isobar isotell surge protector with another computer. Lights went out----everything connected to this surge protecter works except for the abit computer. It powers up, but will not post and NO video. I have replace the AGP … |
| | hi, I first had this problem when I installed a new game: rome total war. it installed fine then wen playin the pc just turned itself off. I was going to reinstall windows anyway so I started to do that. booted the machine from the cd rom an started to … |
| | I have an Acer 3620 series laptop Model No: MS2180 Aspire 3624WXCI I power it on and goes through POST. It takes a long time for it to finish, when it finally does it makes a long, loud, and continuous beep noise and never boots from a disc (cd rom … |
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