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| | Hi, last night while watching a Camtasia presentation online my computer crashed and a blue screen error was thrown up on the screen. Since then sometimes I can boot successfully, just as many times I can't. Also when I click on a program or a file there is hang time...sometimes … |
| | I have an old dell c800 latitude it was originally formated with windows me and has since been reformated with xp. it now will start up and go straight to the screen where you can choose to run it in safe mode,last known config so on and so forth. no … |
| | Hi, I have an omnibook xe3 gf model with a problem which seems very common. The computer will turn on for about 20 seconds and then immediately power down. The fans spin up for about 5 seconds. Nothing appears on the screen and only very occaisionally do i hear the … |
| | Over the summer my computer developed a weird problem where it would turn on to a gray screen, turn off and turn back on, do that a few times till the logo finally came up. I did some troubleshooting, couldn't figure out what it was, and eventually it stopped happening. …  |
| | Hi to my great family at Daniweb ! I bought a cheap laptop to add to a network in my home. It is a Thinkpad 600. When I bought it, it had Windows 98 on it and it ran fine. But, me being a little experimental is the real problem …  |
| | Hi, I havea homebuilt computer, about 2 months old. It has been working perfectly until today. Build is as follows: XFX nForce 790i Ultra SLI Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz OCZ 2GB DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz EVGA GeForce GTX 280 1024MB So I decide to play the L4D … |
| | All working fine , but after replacing the bios battery the unit dont startup , just the 3 green leds please help |
| | Emachines t3410- WinXP - when you plug it in, it immediately comes on, no pushing the power button to start. Both fans run, power button lights up, LED flashes yellow once or twice and goes dark, no beeps from motherboard. Screen never changes from black. Cannot get to BIOS, safe … |
 | Hi all. I've been asked to fix a Dell Optiplex 330 (cringe) at work as it will not boot up. The user told be that it gone on to standby, and then it would not turn back on. Now I have looked at it I can see it power up … |
| | Hello, when I turn my computer on, I get a boot failure, but I can't open the cd rom drive to check for a disk or put a disk in to help it boot. I assume the failure to boot and the lack of power to the cd rom drive … |
| | Asus P5N-E SLI Intel Quad Core Processor 4x2.4 Samuri Cooler 4 Gigabytes Corsair 533 Ram XFX Geforce 8800 GTX 768mb Ram PCI-E 500Watt PSU Samsung 160 Sata HD Thermaltake Shark Case Fujitsu Siemens 22" Monitor Computer has ran perfectly for approx eleven months. Started to get error on startup "Something … |
| | Hi, My computer had a few viruses recently so i removed them using Spyware Doctor. It required i do a restart to clear the memory. My computer froze doing this and hasn't been able to start since. It gets to a point just before it would usually begin loading Windows … |
| | I have a acer laptop, which opperating system is vista home. It was running well for a while, but then would not shut down. I brought the laptop of a friend which was brand new when i got it still in it's packaging. I have had t for 6 weeks … |
| | I just assembled a D620 from spare parts. The LCD, MB, CPU, DIMMS and heatsink are new. The rest of the components are from other system repairs. On power up, the system LEDs light up as normal then after about 5 seconds, it shuts down. We never get to the … |
| | Dear All, I am new here and am not a profesional about computers, for I am only 14 and still need 2 concertrate on school work. I play games quite alot and use my computer for hours non-stop, however, recently I have been getting a very annoying problem with my … |
| | Ok, so my PC has stopped booting 9 out of 10 times. When it does boot though it runs rock solid every time without issue. If I power completely off, chances are I won't be able to boot the PC, but if I hibernate, I can wake the PC back … |
| | Hello.. I'm staring into my Vista 250gig Gateway GT5404..... comp was working till I turned it off one day....When i turn it on now i have No signal to monitor and the tower beeps 3x's...And the fan seems to be cranking a bit louder and wont settle down. I guessed … |
| | Something is wrong with my laptop cause it doesnt charge. Please let me know what could go wrong.... Toshiba Notebook a135 Charger works good. When i move the back where it connects, it charges and doenst charge as i move it. Sometimes i have to take the battery out and … |
| | Hi, I Flashed my BIOS for my ASUS P5E motherboard from the initial BIOS to the 0607 update. After a successfull Flash and rebooting, the second time I rebooted, the computer would not POST. Reseting the CMOS (removing and re-inserting the battery) works, and the computer posts, BIOS loads (asks … |
| | My computer has stopped starting from this week. I have made no changes to it at all. I have opened it up and cleaned out the dust since it was overheating. There have not been any symptoms until this week. My computer doesn't have a POST beep anymore. I replugged … |
| | when i go to start up my pc i get power to all my fans but nothing else. help please?? |
| | Good Morning All .. I accidentally spilled some coffe on the keyboard of my HP Pavillion zv6000. The laptop will still boot to the XP login screen but I get alot of beeping like keys have already been pressed. I can't login because the keys won't register. So I know … |
| | when i turn on pc ..exactly after 10 mins it automatically hangs itself, and then i hav restart it again..similarly when i turn off it dosent turn to off in the first attempt.....wat can b the problem..could u rectify it plz  |
| | Lifting up the cables coming out of the PSU back fan seems to give me a POST beep. I've nailed down the possibilities. I can make the RAM and Graphics card function properly. I replaced hard drives, but the computer still froze. I'm guessing the problem lies in either the … |
| | I have a PC I built a little over 2 years ago, and it has worked fine until about a few weeks ago. The first oddity was that after I turned it off, it would turn on by itself about 5 minutes later. I didn't think much of this and … |
| | specs first: Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Mobo AMD 3800+ 64 Cheapo PC3200 Ram (512x2) (Aeneon chips) WD 250 GB HDD IDE Toshiba DVD+-RW ATI X1300XT PCIE x16 CoolMax 500W psu So, i took my buddies computer to reinstall windows for him. (he killed his with wicked viruses). so, i was gonna … |
| | OK this laptop I have just got back from pc world and was ment to be fixed!!! now the light comes on for about 10 seconds then off so i can not even boot it up !! any one have any ideas what i can do so when i take … |
| | Hi, When i start my laptop(Dell Inspiron 5100) i'm getting the following error: windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: "windows\system32\config\system missing or corrupt" Please help!! |
| | im having trouble keeping my computer on, i suspect it to be trojan or virus so i downloaded a free version of avg. it picked up 3 trojans and i thought everything was okay again, but then it started turning off on me again! it will stay on for about … |
| | Hi, Need someones help. This is for my parent's PC, it will not start up, and all it does it make noises. The monitor doesn't even get a signal. The pattern for the noises goes like this: L (long) about 4 second long beep M (medium) about 2 second long … |
| | I have two R50 Thinkpads, one a victim of BSOD. It will not read the HD and the DIMM chips are good. I swapped the HD from the victim to the good laptop and it reads it. Any suggestions on how I can reset the BIOS in the victim, assuming … |
| | Last friday in the wee small hours, I heard my pc restart. I got up saturday morning and the computer was frozen up, I have no idea for how long. So I hit the reset button, and then nothing. It won't POST or anything. So, I reset the jumper, and … |
| | Hello! If memory clock speed is set to Auto PC, starts and windows boot. When in Auto speed is set to PC-533. Now if speed is set PC-800 the blue screen shows up after showing boot sequence or PC will not start but power up. Specs: CPU: Athlon 6400 X2 … |
| | 3 year old gateway 3200xl (desktop) XP Pro windows Intel (Seabreeze T3) Motherboard R0 [Part #4000979] Intel Celeron D 340 Processor [Part #4501084] MEM DDR 512MB PC3200 R0 [Part #5000694] No problems with the system and NO new hardware/software in months, then...... Received No Keyboard message on startup one day, … |
| | Hi I have a problem with a Acer travelmate 5720G. One of my friends powered of his laptop by pressing the power button and now it doesn't see the hdd after post. I originally thought that it was the hdd, but Ireplaced it with a new one and still the … |
| | I keep getting an error message"failed to initialise properly (0xc000001d) " when I try to load a game. I have tried to find out what this is and have been told it could be my CPU. It is an AMD and so does not have SSE. |
| | Hello, I have a mesh windows vista pc and stupidly went messing about with system32 to customize my themes. I ended up replacing the shell32.dll with an alternative off the internet. At first nothing changed but when I booted up today, I reached the logon screen but when clicking on …  |
| | Hi My computer was working perfectly fine but this morning when i turned it on it got to the windows start-up screen where the boxes move along and it runs fine at first but once the boxes do a few revolutions, its slows down nd you can see each box … |
| | The last time I use my p.c. it worked properly but when i used it earlier this afternoon, it runs but no display on the monitor and no beeps. I test the speaker of the motherboard and it is fine. So i concluded that my on board video graphics adapter/video … |
| | Hallo All, My son bought the Amilo D 7830 about 4 years ago. Some months ago it stopped booting up. He eventually put it in the cupboard and got a notebook from work. I have now got it and am trying to get it going again. Symptoms. Totally dead. Wont …  |
| | I recently built a new computer with the following components: Asus P5Q SE/R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 processor Crucial 4GB Kit (2GBx2) 240-pin PC2-8500 DDR2-1066 memory 2 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (Setup with … |
| | After starting computer an alarm starts and computer will not boot up. |
| | Hi there, this is kind of a long story, but [I]please[/I] bear with me. After having read about being able to use a Sixaxis (PS3) controller on a PC, I decided to try it. This consisted of a libusb driver (LibUsb-win32) and an executable file called ps3sixaxis_en.exe. I had to … |
| | Ok, I have a compaq prissario with a standard DVD/CD ROM, NVIDIA 8500 Graphics, and 4 GB RAM. For the past few months I have been having issues witht he CD/DVD ROM reading some of my disks, and the amount is spreading. It will load up the auto run for … |
| | I have just dust cleaned my machine as the fan was becoming very noisy, now when I try to switch on I get the POST screen then when windows is supposed to load it switches off, the HDD are spinning all fans are working, sometimes I get the start windows … |
| | Hey Everyone! I'm preacher219 and believe it or not I'm still new enough to laptops to be naive. I have an old Dell latitude Cpi R400gt laptop that I bought for my son to use when he was in college. While cleaning out his old room I found it stuffed … |
| | I have a three+ year old Sony VGN-S260 and one day out of the blue it did not start. Some times it will start just fine, but others it will not. The symptoms are odd because the led lights that display battery, wifi, and hard drive are lighting up as … |
| | I have a Presario 2100 series laptop ( 2190us ) , running XP SP 2, 256 MB memory , 40 gig disk, CD-RW/DVD Read Combo integrated, internal modem, internal Ethernet 10/100, . This unit has perfomed flawlessly since December 2003 when purchased new. Here is the problem. It will perform … |
| | Hello: Can anyone tell me what is going on if my computer freezes on the POST startup. My compaq Persario froze on the compaq screen and would not go any farther this morning. I left it for about 30 minutes with no change on the screen. Thanks, Everett |
| | Would a failing power supply start up the computer after all power was drained including removing of the CMOS battery. But, just shutting off the computer waiting and then turning on the computer cause the computer not to start up and give the impression that the video chip on the … |
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