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I am getting the above error message and then everything freezes at boot up. Can anyone help with what to try next? I've removed the cover and pressed the trip switch manually while bootting. I've cleaned out the entire chasis and made sure all connections are secure. :?: It's a …

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Ok heres my problem. For the past few weeks My computer Has been shutting down on its own, the thing is sometimes it restarts right away and other times it could be an hour or two It will just boot back up on its own. I have tried everything I …

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Ok. I've been using computers for 23 years, even have a small computer repair service that I run on the side but I have NEVER run across this particular circumstance before. All my media plays toooo fast. Almost sounds like chipmunks. I don't have access to the internals of this …

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I'm still looking for an answer as to why my work pc plays all media a bit too quickly?? Is it actually possible to overclock a soundcard? I don't have any likely explanation as to why everything sounds almost like chipmunks. Even streaming media doesn't play correctly. If my media …

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Hello all. Thus far, my computer has been dead for about 5 days, and I've narrowed down what the problem may be, and I need a bit of help on that part. First, the background story: My sister, one day, happened to be playing GTA:Vice City, when the computer suddenly …

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Hello, I recently attempted to reinstall windows and would recieve corrupted or missing file messeges that would discontinue process and only allow me to restart. So I got the bright idea to run a all zero's kill disk but still receive messeages:intelide.sys, file i386/biosinfo.inf could not be located- error code …

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when i turn my computer on the power button flashes red and turns itself off please help my daughter needs computer for school work i asked pc world on phone they said sounds like motherboard and expensive job i cant afford to pay alot

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Hey everyone. I've been having trouble booting up my desktop computer. It was restarting randomly a few days earlier, but I thought it was just because it was overheating. I put an additional fan next to my computer, and the crashes seemed to stop. However, this stopped working and now …

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I am having some wierd issues on one of the email accounts for a customer I manage. Recently his exchange account when accessed in outlook 2003 will start deleting all email messages in the inbox. I had to create another folder and have all message routed to that on to …

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1st and foremost i'm not too familiar with the internal workings of computers :(. The problem i'm having with my Compaq desktop computer is the orange light on the front comes on and stays on as soon as i push the power. No green light at all. My HD isn't …

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Hi i have a laptop HP Pavilion Ze4500 it is coming up with operating system not found? I know nothing about computers and this just happened one day. Any one who can help i would really appreciate it, My friend tried to change the hard drive and it made no …

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Help please! I have a sony vaio notebook which I bought in 2002. I just reinstalled it completely because it was getting slow. Everything went fine. I then downloaded all the updates since 2002 from the sony website. After installing software download taxi and downloading in there all the new …

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Hi New to group and you seem to be a helpful group of people so I'll post here as a last effort before the go to the scrap box. I have an hp pavillion 8660C (got it cheap) heres the problem; When booting i goto the black screen and get …

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am trying to format dell optiplex 330, have used all the OS cds that i have it is still giving me error blue screen, i have change the cd rom and the cd it self but it will start the installation and give blue screen some minute in the course …

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I have an HP Pavilion 7850 and it will not boot up. I have unplugged the machine and tried a new outlet but that did not work. As soon as I plugged it in there is a green light that will flash on the back of the machine but that …

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Sorry for the non-specific title. I'll try and elaborate more here. I went over the 'MY PC Won't Start' sticky, and did a search for other titles, but my problem seems to fall in-between troubleshooting steps that I see. By that I mean, when I hit the power button on …

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Hi, This might be lengthy, so my apologies! I've recently run into a problem with my laptop. It's an HP Pavillion dv2036ea.. I'm not too sure of the specs. The other day, I turned it on in the morning, used it for a while, and then fell asleep. I woke …

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Hi my sony vaio notebook will not boot it starts up then goes to a window saying windows did not start successfully and gives me options to start in safe mode etc.. but when you click on any of the options the screen goes blank then says something about physical …

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My pc was working fine. Today I purchased two items. 1. more memory went from 512 to 1gig. The motherboard supports it. I installed the memory and we're still good. The other item purchased was an audio card. My son installed that for me. Now here's the problem. My pc …

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hello everyone, I own one laptop repair shop in Brugnera and recently I got many dead hard drives from Italy, especially Seagate and Western Digital, none of them are detected in the PC. I have over 200 hard disks each month asking for repair and data recovery. I am therefore …

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Ok, I have an ASUS m4a7bt-e motherboard that had been working fine. One day it powered on but didn't boot. The configuration of my pc is as follows: 8 gb ram AMD six core cpu blue-ray burner/player 1 tb HD I'm using the onboard video All cables are connected properly, …

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Hi All I just acquired at Dell Dimension 8200 XP (2.0 Ghz, 256 RAM) from a friend who said it was broken. Turned it on noticed a clunking from his hard drive and the machine not booting up at all. Figured his drive was dead and I purchased a new …

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My computer was working fine until tonight. I was sitting watching a movie on TV, and all of a sudden my computer just shut off. I tried to turn it back on, but I got nothing except that my optical USB mouse was still on. None of the fans in …

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looked around a lot online and never really found my specific problem. I contracted one of the many fake antivirus trojans on my computer. I restarted so that i could boot in safe mode, use rkill and then run my antivirus to clean. when restarting, my toshiba screen comes up, …

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My pc restart when i reached win xp screen. This problem starts when i perform the disk check operation.During this it delete some files.plz help me out

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Hi, My Sony Vaio is dead, it doesn´t start anymore. I surfed on internet last night and today in the morning it doesn´t start up. Nothing on screen, no led, no sound, no..nothing. I tried everything, plugged with battery, unplugged with battery, plugged without battery, removed and reinserted the ram …

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my pc is not booting up? when i open it, its full of dust. what is the suggestion to boot it? joni ____ [URL=" http://www.wondershare.com/disk-utility/pen-drive-data-recovery.html/"] Recovery Pen Drive [/URL] [URL=" http://www.wondershare.com/disk-utility/pen-drive-data-recovery.html/"] Data Recovery Pen Drive [/URL]

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I've been having this problem for a while now. Basically what happens is at random times my computer will lock up for about 2 seconds and then just turn itself off. If I try to turn it back on it will start up for about 3 seconds and then just …

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Hey. I've been having this problem for about a month now, my PC will shut down after about 5 minutes without any warning. I've dust it often so dust can't be the problem and the fan seems to work fine. Sometimes after this happens the power supply will be really …

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My Vaio laptop (model VGN-FS742/W) will not power up and does not show that the battery is charging. I was using it and the battery was getting low (but not too low that it was going to shut down). I pluged in the AC power cable and the laptop just …

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I have a inspiron 2200 i'm not sure what happen I had been online and went out of the room and went i came back in to get back on it i was off and wouldn't come on. i have other inspiron 2200 i have try its battary and hard …

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I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467 that I upgraded to 2x2 gig of ram (paired set). Have run the laptop several days and now suddenly won't boot up. I've reseated the ram and removed battery, and it booted right up and worked fine. Shut it down, left it for an …

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hi! guys.. i need some help here.... u know what.. my laptop is beeping while loading windows files.. but unfortunately after the loading is done it will goes through and the beeps is gone too... i couldn't diagnose it whether its the memory or the video... cause everything is fine... …

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OK, so I've got a Gateway FX P-7805u laptop with power up issues. Here's the whole story: One day, even though the laptop itself was plugged into the wall, when I hovered on the battery indicator, the windows 7 notification said "plugged in, not charging" and the battery was stuck …

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I have an off the shelf Gateway that recently stopped responding. Powers up, HD and Optical Drives spin up but nothing else. As a self admitted newbie I want to troubleshoot and to repair myself but other than checking connections and looking for possible visible signs of a short or …

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ok problem has been started 2 days ago first pc restarted for several times than it showed blue screen showing hardware issues than i tried to start pc through Linux live cd pc started i take all the backup form my hard drive to another portable hardisk than i tried …

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Hi, I am currently trying to fix my HP pavilion a000 desktop. I was working fine then after turning it off i tried to start it again and it just beeps at me. I have tried cleaning all the fans and dust of all components but its doesn't help. I …

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I recently formatted my PC, loaded Windows 98SE and now the pc is so slow that it is virtually unuasable. If I click on START, for instance, it takes about 30 seconds for the PC to act on the click. I have to assume it is a hardware problem. The …

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I have a Dell XPS M1210. I have been reading the forums trying to gather ideas that I could use to fix my computer. The problem: When I start the computer the screen stays black, the Power LED stays lit showing that it is indeed turned on, and the LED …

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Hi, I have an "old" (5years) DELL Latitude D610. Everything was fine, until it hung in Windows. When I tried to reboot it, something very strange happend : Most of the time Bios load stops at approx. 1/5th of the full bar. Other symptoms which happen sometimes : - Bios …

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I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 which had a problem with the plug (solder cracked through normal use). I bought a new part, desoldered the old one, soldered in the new one, and put everything back together. Unfortunately, now the laptop won't start. The symptoms are: Power Light comes on. …

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Hello, I'm experiencing a problem again, my screen went to blue then when I turned on the computer the screen stopped on the Toshiba opening page with f2 setup, f12 for boot device selection menu on the bottom left. I hit f12 then a repeating message of pxt-e61 (media test …

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ok so here is the skinny. i had this computer for some time. i got a new case and moved everything to the new case now i cannot get any beeps, no post and the mobo has the power light on it. this was working fine in the old cae. …

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Hi all, I have a Acer Aspire M1641, that wont boot, normally. I turn on the the power button, the light comes on, and no display on the monitor. Its not the graphics card, which i'll come into later. At first i tried many methods to figure out what went …

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I've never encountered anything like this and have no idea where to begin to troubleshoot. What happens is when I turn on the computer, it will show the motherboard (gigabyte) splash screen, then cut to black and monitor says it's going to sleep... meaning the display signal got cut right …

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I've had it for more than a year. When I turn it on the power lights and DVD control button lights come on and even beep when touched. The screen remains blank and about every 15 seconds the lights will blink. When plugged in the power light comes on as …

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I have a Gateway GT5032 and it won't post, it does not beep or anything!!! Specs: RAM: Installed: 1024 MB 400 MHz (PC3200) DDR memory (two 512 MB modules) Expandable to: 4 GB CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor 4200+ * 2.2 GHz * 2000 MHz front side bus …

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I recently installed a new video card and memory in my M2N-SLI mobo, everything has been working fine for a couple days until this morning. I booted the comp up this morning but the keyboard, mouse, and sound are not working. Its weird cuz a few short hours b4 i …

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