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| | i have a compaq presairo 2100 at start up comes to a point were it says operating system not found ? |
| | About an hour ago my PC shut itself down, and now it won't start back up. A few times over the past few weeks when I go to turn it on there has been this noise, sounds like something is sticking. To resolve this I have been pulling out the … |
| | Hello, Please help. My PC windows XP Dell Dimension 2100 will not reboot. I tried to boot it from most recent and safe mode. Neither worked. I ran a diagnostics check it says IDE Device failed and IDE DOS DDG Disk 260 068 and 030 068 failed also. I tried … |
| | booted up my PC yesterday to find a unwanted BSOD. as the title says, that is what i get. UNMOUNTED_BOOT_VOLUME. i've had this before, and i know how to fix it. Run the XP Boot disk, chkdisk /r blah blah etc, only problem this time is i can't find the … |
| | Hi I just found this forumn and has quite a bit of useful information hope someone can help me out I was just given an Hp a210n tower problem is when I push the button on the front nothing happens the fans will not turn on but the LED on … |
| | [COLOR="Red"]Good evening, I have a problem with my mt3422 gateway laptop. after trying to boot up the screen stays blank, I tried reseating the hd,ram and i have taken out the cdrom, battery,and even tried it after replacing the bios battery, and also tried an external monitor and still no … |
| | My computer will switch on, stay on for about 3 seconds, and switch off. It just keeps doing this over and over and over. I have removed everything and replaced the power supply. Right now I have the motherboard (Asus P5B Deluxe w/wifi) out on my bench with power supplied. … |
| | Hi, I just purchased a Barebones AOpen MP945-VX miniPC. I've installed the CPU, RAM and HDD. Then I power up after connecting to a monitor, and fans and lights all power up but no signal is received by the monitor. The monitor does recognise when I power up as it … |
| | After starting up and running normally my PC using Windows XP will freeze up with a multi-color vertical strip screen. Never stays running long enough to run any kind of diagnostic. Help. Dave |
| | I found this site by searching for title. Found a few, but none of their solutions worked and threads were rather old. I'm basically a newbie (I know just enough about computers to get into trouble) so HELP!!! It all started when my Windows Live OneCare installed nine upgrades; after … |
| | Hi everyone I was unable to turn off my pc a few months ago and had to turn off power supply to shut it down, I was then unable to reboot so gave up on it and brought a new one. I am now wanting to get photos etc out … |
| | Hello! I have a Gateway, 520GB, it recently got wet while powered down but after that i dried it out and it worked fine, about 2 weeks later, i tried to boot it up and it doesnt work, i get three long beeps and the fan goes crazy but no … |
| | Need help guys! There was a power surge in my place while my pc is running. The pc restarted and won't start. When I try to reboot my pc, same thing happens, the windows xp logo will appear but after that, the screen will just turn into dimly lit blank … |
| | Just performed a complete format/OS recovery using original recovery discs. Everything was fine for a few days until I installed MS Office. During the installation the screen went blank, hasn't restarted since. Power supply rating: 15VDC, actual: 15.4VDC. External power indicator (LED) is on, battery indicator (LED) blinks continuously. When … |
| | Everything turns on OK, but won't post. Tried different video card, no difference. Tried clearing the CMOS, no difference. I guess I don't know what to try next. Thanks. |
| | please help. I have an ibm thinkpad and when i turn it on the screenis totaly blank,black. The battery light is on and the light next to it on the left. I dont know what to do as i am a bit of a techno joanha. help help help |
| | I brought the ferrari 4000 laptop earlier this month (second hand, but it's had a performance upgrade), and it has been running superbly well until I went to turn it on this afternoon with a broadband connection plugged in (I'm not sure if that's relevant) and it wouldn't boot up, … |
| | Hi guys, new to the forum. Having problems with my PC, basically, it won't boot. To cut a long story short, here's the chain of events. I replaced my 256MB of DDR RAM with two new 1GB cards, this was about 4 weeks ago and the PC was running great. … |
| | I was playing a game and it froze. I manually turned off laptop. Pressed start button and only one indicator light came on but screen remained black. Tried a second time and everything is dead. All 3 indicator lights are off, no sound, nothing. Tried all the regular things like … |
| | My Hp Pavillion was exhibiting symptoms of a dying power supply--it would boot but only stay on for a few minutes, then flash morse code that it was dying. So I got a new power supply (LONG painful story for another time but avoid buy.com unless you KNOW you won't … |
| | Please help, I'm getting beeps on startup and the computer hangs... |
 | When I attempt to power up my Gateway ELP 500C all I get is an orange light [it used to be green]. My screen power button stays orange too and the screen stays black. Sometimes when I unplug my PC for a few hours it will start up as usual. …  |
| | My computer randomly shuts down, its like someone unplugged, but my monitor, speakers, printer, external hard drive right next to the computer remain on when the computer shuts down...and it doesnt go through the normal shut down process, it just switches off...than when i turn it back on it says … |
| | Hi all I found this site searching for answers to the PBR2...done problem and found the solution, but when i tried booting from CD I figured out the CD drive does not work. The only other boot option is Onboard NIC and I hve no idea how i would go … |
| | Fan on no video no external video no internal video help!!!!!! |
| | heatsink under fan of micro choked with dust,pwr supply okey,fans work,drives have pwr,motherboard has pwr but won't load bios.caps appear okey no poptops.  |
| | My mothers T6536 emachine suddenly stopped working two days ago and ive been trying to figure out why. At first i was thinking it was just surged becasue we have had a few electrical storms lately. unfortunatly im begining to think thats not the case. Nothing is singed or smells … |
| | I own a Vaio FJ 270, which I purchased just over a year ago. This afternoon, I open the notebook and press the power button, only to find the machine mysteriously and totally dead. No lights, no fan, no indication whatsoever that the machine knew I had even pushed the … |
| | I have the following self-built system which has worked great for the past 2 years: MSI K9N Platinum MB AMD 64 X2 4200+ CPU ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 Video card 2 GB Crucial Memory 450 Watt Antec Power Supply Machine locked up yesterday. When I tried to restart I get no … |
| | My Dell Inspiron laptop (runs Vista) was working fine this morning, then I turned it off. When I tried to turn it back on, some lights came on and the welcome tones, but no screen at all. I've taken the battery in and out as this was the only thing … |
| | I have a compaq presario v5000 series and it wont start anymore I have a new ac adapter for it an i know it works but is there a sure fire way to know if it is the battery that needs replacement or is there a way to fix this … |
| | Presario V6254 laptop just out of warranty (didnt extend). So just 14 months old. Working normally then battery ran out, left to recharge, now will not boot. POST is 4 short beeps. power button and leds continue to flash. Drive can be heard working initially. have reseated dimms, unplugged RTC …  |
| | I have a 5 year old Dell Dimension 4500. When I power up the computer, there is this weird whirring sound and the lights on the DVD and CD player blink. They make a weird noise as well. The monitor or the keyboard never come on. Any ideas? Thank you … |
| | Maybe someone can help a little with some of the problems my mother-in-law's computer is having. She's had her 1210 for a few years without incident until this week. It was running like molasses even though the CPU was supposedly mostly freed up, and it randomly powered off. No big … |
| | Hi. I visit my 81 year old father once or twice a year and always try to clean up his computer and get it running better. I delete all the strange things that he "doesn't know" how they got installed.. and run a registry cleaner... (can't remember the which one, … |
| | I have a three year old Inspiron 9200. Has been perfect until now. Installed Vista Ultimate 5 months ago. No problems. Last night my 11 year old son was using it and running Action Replay for Nintendo DS. Not sure what happened when he was done. The system was off … |
| | Last week my wife was on my pc, she went to her email inbox and the PC froze, she rebooted and received the error cant remember exacly but no drive present hook up and press enter, not that exact error, Compaq Presario PC, Sata to HD and DVD. Hooked up … |
| | Alright so I got my new power supply and graphics card and after a while of putting a huge graphics card and psu in my minitower I tried everything and it didnt work. I turned it on and after about 3 mins the screen went blank and said no video … |
| | Hi, I have a Demension 2400 desktop with XP installed. I was playing a game on the computer and I accidently deleted the Microsoft registry file via run>regedit.exe. My computer still worked but I noticed the recycle bin was missing. I thought it was an error so I restarted. An … |
| | hi i have this comp and all lights come on and fans but no picture on moniter its sounds like it want to boot up but then dies but lights and fans still run what could this be .help on this would be great thanks . |
| | I have a Dell Latitude CPx-J laptop BIOS A16. It recently got the BSD and wouldn't boot. I removed the HDD(20GB) and heard a rattling sound. No problem (so I thought) and bought a new 80GB HDD(IDE ATA-6). I replaced the disk and now the laptop won't recognize it. When … |
| | So basically at this point I cant turn the comp on from the power button. Before hand it did it once before and at the time my wife had brought it in to Geek Squad ( I know, I know...) anywho they shrugged it off said it was the motherboard … |
| | By pressing the power on nothing happens no beeps no fan running just dead. Replaced battery new power supply Please help. |
| | what happend well i dont know its my friends laptop but when ever u plug it into the wall it freezes then a minitue later the computer beeps 2 times i think its the charger plug because it dosent say charging when its it and its not the charger because … |
| | Hi New to this but here goes.I have read all the help there is but this has me stumped.I have an Asus A8N Sli Deluxe mobo AMD64 3200 with two 6800 Ultras and 1gb Corsair memory and 2x Maxtor 80Gb in raid0 run on a Antec truepower 2 550w Psu.Have … |
| | Hello, today I had my old toshiba a65 laptop sitting on my bed, turned on with the screen saver on, when i went outside to set up for my party. When I came back inside I had just gotten my 1 GB ram chip in the mail and i was … |
 | I have a laptop (Sony Vaio) running Vista, which has recently received a sharp tap (with fingertips) to the surface, just in front of the touchpad. It immediately froze and now, on start up, it displays ‘Windows Error Recovery Screen’, which then loads ‘Start-up Repair’, which runs for quite some … |
| | This isn't really a dead PC question, more like a quirk I'm having with my rig. Whenever I shutdown the PC all the parts turn off, but the Power LED light stays on. The only way I can turn it off is by holding down the power button for 5 … |
| | I'm a no0b in the forums here and not the most knowledgeable about laptop hardware. I've read on numerous sites that pretty much everyone has the same problems with the PCG-K23 that I've had since August 2004. The fan sounds like a small aircraft. The underside of my machine gets … |
| | When I power up the pc it eventually makes its way to a screen that says pri hdd error. power led on solid red hdd light on. |
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