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My friend handed me his laptop today claiming it was dead and that it would not start and work. i turned it on and found that it was in the middle of a fresh windows installation of windows xp home sp 3. i called him and asked what he had …

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Yesterday my computer crashed, showing a blue screen that said there was a problem with the hardware, to restart and try again. Well, I restarted and now the computer only makes the sound of the Cooler constantly, the leds of the pc and disc drives turn on, but nothing appears …

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I bought a closeout of PC barebones, several GX270 and GX280s, the 270s are harder to figure out when not working, however, the GX280 appear to directly suffer from bent PGA775 pins on the motherboard, unlike the straight pin on CPUs past, these appear much harder for a user to …

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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 …

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[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

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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*** 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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, …

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computer started screen was fuzzy , came up to a gray screen wouldn;t boot any further

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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 …

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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. …

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