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Hi Guys, I hope someone can help me. I have a Pavillion laptop and there is a problem with the AC power supply, I have purchased a couple of new adapters as my original one blew, i bought replacements, offical HP ones recommended by HP for the problem, and two …

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Hello. Thanks in advance for reading the thread and trying to help. A year ago I bought this pc: Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz Memory: 1024MB RAM Hard Drive: 320 GB Total Video Card: MSI NX7600 GS (NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS) Monitor: LG Flatron L1919 S …

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My Toshiba Sattelite A55 S26 has been working like a champ for over 3 years, For some reason it has failed to boot today. The F12 key does nothing, before I buy a new hard drive and start from scratch anyone have any ideas?

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hey guys, i've had this laptop for about 6 months now, and although the problems have always been there, they've never been as annoying as now. i'm hoping i can get some help with the main 2. ------- 1) Startup problems i should start by saying that it was bought …

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I am constructing an Intel sysetm: Intel D945PSN/Pentium D, D945 3.4 Mhz processor, Windows XP Professional (will not load). All components check out as compatible. System boots to bios, no problem. All components register, but after the boot to bios, CD spins with XP installation disk, but all I get …

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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dell Optiplex 150, computer only recognises Primary channel for hd and doesnt pick up the cd rom, tried several cd roms and still the same, it only comes up as unknown device, got bios A05, any help much appreciated before it goes in bin lol tia Wayne

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Allo-ha, friendlies! This was a custom-built job completed at the end of last year. It had been working absolutely fine, booted up with no probs at all at least three times already today. No internal changes. The only change made was to plug a dvi-vga cable into the extra monitor-out …

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hey everyone, i've had my toshiba satellite a215 for about a year now, and its been through a move as well as ONE drop which happened not to recently. when i turn it on it goes through the start up menu and just as its about to go to the …

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Hello All, I thought I would try to post here as I am stumped with this problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite M45-S359 Laptop. It is in good condition and worked perfectly for about a year with no problems until last week. Best laptop I have ever owned. Last week …

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I need some serious help. I am getting the BSOD on my laptop. I've had laptop for many years and it just started when I recently created a new restrictive account. Not sure if that had anything to do with it because some tell me it would not have caused …

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Today when i woke up and turned on my computer, the XP loading screen (with the three blue blocks always going) stayed like that and never changed. i tried running my comp in start mode, but 2-3 seconds after i see the login screen, my computer restarts. what should i …

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I have a 2yr. old dell desktop and I cant figure out what is wrong with it. I can't get it to start back up, when i plug the power cord in the power light just blinks very fast then slows down after some time. Please help!!!

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Hi, I have a Dell D600 laptop (windows xp sp2) - its been working fine for 4-5 years suddenly last week the screen froze and when I switched it off and back on the caps lock and scroll lock lights will blink for a while and then the whole laptop …

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Hi, I'm new in this forum. My old laptop (4 years) has developed some estrange symptoms. It turns on normally, but once it is on if I adjust the angle of the screen or move the laptop a little hard (the screen shakes) it goes black and appears to crush. …

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Guys 'n' Gals, A month or so ago I tried to plug my [URL="http://www.popvoucher.co.uk/cheap-sandisk-cruzer-micro-8gb-u3-readyboost-_lid-mmpcmmam.html"]USB PEN[/URL] into my Notebook (XP SP2) to download some photos. The PEN said it was being charged but the Notebook seems to have no inkling that it's connected. I can't force it to pick it up …

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Model: Satellite M35X-S311 symtom: Power wont come on Checked: AC plug and battery - looks good Laptop is not abused and in excellent condition can you help with troubleshooting. thanks. Dave

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now i moment when I open my computer after loading os immedatly it log off please help me hwo to solve this problem

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Built this simple system for wife and kid. Gigabyte 7VKMLS ver 3.0 AMD Duron 1 gig processor 1 gig of memory Two 20 gig hard drives 1 multi optical drive (DVD, CD, etc) Windows XP home edition System has always run well, until I noticed the CPU cooler fan had …

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I have a Gateway Tablet CX2618. A few weeks ago I noticed my adapter cord had gotten frayed. I went to WorstBuy and reported it under the warranty. They sent me a new, but different adapter. I didnt like it from the beginning, because sometimes I had to wiggle the …

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Hi, I have been using a PC analyiser card and have 2 pc's that have issues 1 Bios issue.. I have tried the battery out and restarting and reset cmos but no good. Is it now a dead mobo? 2.. i have pc that will not turn on 2 different …

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I have a computer in my possession that is having a very odd problem. If the PC sits for an extended period of time, say over night, it will not boot on the first attempt. The LED on the power will light, but you get no visual from the monitor, …

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Hi, this is my pc configuration: intel p4 3.4ghz asus p5nsli mobo 4gb 667mhz mem 1 maxtor 60gb hdd ide 2 seagate 250gb hdd sata dvd-burner asus 512mb 128-bit graphic card my problem is that couple of days ago i tried to set up my seagate hard disks as raid …

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During the boot process (W2k, 500gb maxtor hd, 1gb ram, 1.8 ghz AMD), computer launched Checkdisk to repair a problem, which it had done once before a month, or so ago, successfully. Not the case this time. Checkdisk was unable to fix the problem! I tried to reboot, but Windows …

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Hi Guys, I have an Acer ASPIRE 3683WXMi, and recently the Keyboard just simply stopped working. Funny enough, the On-Screen Keyboard is still working perfectly. Please any clues for resolving this problem will be greatly appreciated.

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Hey, Nanino here. Recently, after a power outage, my computer's keyboard stopped responding to anything. I've tried multiple keyboards, but none of them work now. Though when I connect them the num lock/caps lock/scroll lock lights all blink then turn off, which makes me think the keyboards are still recieving …

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When starting my PC, NO SIGNAL is displayed on the monitor though fan and processor are running. May you solve this problem for me because I need to know what to do as I have unpluged all cables and pluged them again but still experiencing the same problem.

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Perhaps you guys should put together a new article for us. may I suggest: "Lapping a TNT2 - OCA asks whats the bloody point when you gan get a gf2mx for about the same price as the grinding paste?"

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Anybody but me notice that Rizen choose some middle of the road HSF to compete with the Dragon Orb?   Where was the SK6, CAK38, or the ones from swiftech?

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hi guys, I've just put together my new system consisting of: Phenom x4 2.6ghz, Asus m3n-ht deluxe mempipe mother board, Tagan 900w bz psu, 4gb 2x2gb ocz reaper 8500 1066mhz ram, seagate 7200 500gb sata hd and xfx geforce 9800 1gb gx2 gpu. I put all this in my old …

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hai i have problem with my laptop screen it is blank my fan runs lights on laptop turn on but screen is black help me

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I get blue box after starting up my laptop sony pcg-v505 bx---the sony icon shows then it skips to a black screen w/ a blue box asking for a password.........after putting the wrong password in 4 x's it says disabled.....if I restart and press f2 the screen goes to phoenix …

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I have an old lan party socket A board. This board was working great and then one day just stopped working. I've tried different ram, new power supply, i've tested the cpu in other boards (worked fine), etc. etc. Basically it all comes down to the board and i've tried …

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Well in the last week, me computer has started to play up a bit it keeps freezing. I have never had any problems like this before, right before it freezes i hear a noise, it almost sounds like something is turning off inside... Any ideas???

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I am currently running Windows XP Home edition on my Dell computer. This morning, all of a sudden, my computer froze up and pulled up a screen I hadn't seen before. Something about emptying disk something or other. Then the computer rebooted past the Dell logo and I got a …

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Hi everyone, I am new here and I have been trying to fix this on my own for a week now... I am not very experienced, however I've read through some previous threads and tried a few things based on previous advice to other unlucky people with the same symptoms... …

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Hey there, i'm kinda new in here, but i was wondering if anyone might could help me with this problem: When i start my computer everything seems to run as it should do, but theres no screen will show up at my pc monitor, iv tried nearly everything. first i …

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Hello guys, I have a VAIO laptop that came with Vista and other Sony SW I ran Killdisk and wrote "0"'s to entire hard drive. Tried to load XP Pro, and after a minute of loading drivers, it asks if I want to load Windows. I select yes, and it …

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Sorry if this is the wrong place, but this seems tp be the most general forum, seeing as I don't know what the source of the problem is... The problem is my compiuter instantly powers down for some unknown reason, this seems to only be when its under load, and …

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I have a Gateway W340UI with Vista. Anyway - for some reason, I went to start it up, and got nothing. Now..I have two identical machines - The pretty little lights in the front.. on the working one -when Plugged in, I have one solid blue light, and one that …

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I have a Dell XPS desktop system that is a little over a year old (I think)... the other night I ran the windows dos based program that does many things...the thing I had it do was overwrite "free" disk space.Cipher.exe is the program that i used...i used the /w …

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hi i figured that posting on a forum would get me better advice than my friends who know nothing about computers. i have an acer travelmate which is my pride and joy, and lately its just been getting slower and slower, when i click to ope a programe my hard …

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Hi, I have a desktop computer that has been working fine for about 2+ years until yesterday. We had a power failure yesterday and ever since, it is behaving like a beast. Initially it would not come on at all. There were no beeps but i did have lights and …

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I decided to try and overclock my eMachine t3524 earlier and when I reset my computer my computer was able to boot, and I noticed that the fan is much louder, but the monitor isn't loading up, the keyboard "Num lock" and laser mouse don't light up like normally. But …

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I am trying to repair my friends notebook. He dropped it off his house (I didn't ask). It is in perfect physical condition. It will boot from the bios but after like 5 seconds or so it just goes off. I removed the hard drive and it still does the …

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I have a Gateway Laptop Model# M350CRV. Running Windows XP.. 1 gig memory 30 Gig Hd. The computer has been running hot...but I started using a cooling pad that has 2 fans... usb connection. This laptop was super fast without ever missing a beat... 2 days ago...I was using it …

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Hello , I did something stupid and made a partitiion active and now it wont reboot (it says bootmgr missing) - Is there a way i can revert the partition back to its original state . Thanks neil

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Hi, I have a problem I need advise for. MY computer was turning itself off. This problem started out a couple of times a day and then escalated to every 10 minutes. The computer did not restart itself. I replaced the power supply and this seemed to fix the problem …

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I think it really hates me.....I built this rig about 2 years ago and it's been working very well until recently. The Lian Li case I have doesn't have a restart button, so anytime it locks up, I've had to yank the power plug, wait, reattach and restart. Holding down …

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My friend has a Satellite P205d-S7436. One moment it was working fine now it won't power on. I get nothing except a blue light indicating that the AC is plugged in...... Any suggestions????

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