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hi just decided to clean the inside of the tower it was very dusty vacumed the inside cleaned all fans and cpu fan plugged everytthing back in and nothing fans start lights on computer and cd/dvd drives light up but monitor is blank and no beeps tested the ram took …

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Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum and I have an ASUS Commando as my motherboard with Intel Quad Core 2 Duo, ATI X1950 graphics card, and a Kingston 2 GB 667 Ram running Windows XP Pro. Before, everything was running perfectly until everything went nuts. I haven't done any …

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Hey everyone, This is my first post here and I must say that I'm very happy I found this place. Well here is my issue. Yesterday my mother was cleaning my room and managed to strike the side of my PC case which happened to have a side USB port …

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My PC is having problems...and by that I mean it crashed and wont turn back on (dead). Basically...it gives off the burning smell when you take off the case. I tried taking everything off the Motherboard (even the CPU), and just plugging in the Power Supply to it, and a …

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My computer won't turn on. I tried taking out the battery but it still doesn't turn on. Someone suggested the reset button. Will this completely wipe out my computer and its programs?

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My Hp Satellite notebook dead. The first problem came by when I turned off the machine it playing Media player. It simply display-> "Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0(build 082) Copy Right Intel Corporation For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810x PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13(020326) PXE-E61: Media test failure, Check cable PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM." The …

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Hello all well I'm writing cause I have a rather pricey problem. I own a TOSHIBA Satellite P105-S9722 It began with a slew of problems, initially it began shutting down at random times, running for hours, or just minutes. Also included with crazy messages on the blue screen of death, …

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I have a Compaq Presario 501NR that I bought from Best Buy in March of 2007. We went on a trip to New Orleans a couple of days ago and when I went to plugged it in at the Hilton, it would not power on. The battery has been bad, …

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I just bought a new machine to make into a media center but when I connect the cd drive to the power and the IDE cable ( When connected just to the power it is fine ) it wont work it wont get powered. The drive is a Phillips CD-RW/DVD-ROM …

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Hey everybody. So I ordered all new parts for a brand new PC recently. Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P 2GB DDR2 RAM Seagate 500GB HDD Atrix Gaming Case GeForce 8800 GT Sonic Here is my problem... I hooked up my mobo, PSU, CPU, heatsink and GFX card. The …

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i dont know what happened to it. games that worked fine couple of days ago is now making my computer crash to a black screen and locks up. ive downloaded all the updates for windows and my graphics card (ati radeon x700 pro), i even called the ati costumer support …

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Hello everyone I am new to the site with what it seems to be a common error with this model. I own a Compaq Presario 2100. Its been thru a 13 month deployment in Iraq recently. Needless to say I am encountering a Boot up error. My system will not …

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Hey all, aight well this is a first for me and just to let everyone know i'm not computer savye at all. I know enough to run my computer and that's pretty much it so if you reply make sure to dumb it down for me thanks. So here's the …

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Well guys, long story short. Very old laptop, Toshiba Satellite 2400 with intel pentium4 with XP Pro. About 4 years ago i gave it to my brother when it was working just fine apart frpm the CD/DVD drive which had given up but i gave it to him as he …

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aint getting anything from post intel pentium 4 cpu 3.2 ghz 1 gig stick just added it was able to before but now it wont could it be the thermal grease that i put on to the cpu could i have not put enuf ??? should i put the 256 …

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This is my first post, I hope I'm in the right spot. Here is my deal: 1.- Got a hold of an HP Pavilion a642n which was already abandoned by the owner as unfixable and replaced by a new DELL. 2.- Plugged it on and it purred on past the …

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Basically this is what happened. My wireless connection was having troubles, I clicked repair connection and the process hung at disabling network adaptor. I was kind of annoyed and so I tried finding the right process to shut down in the task manager so that I could manually disable the …

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Hi guys Ohk this one I havent spent some time on yet but I can tell that this is not gonna be a good one.Ohk problem is a friend of mine has a Gigabyte mobo and is experiencing a the following when starting his machine [COLOR="Green"]Scanning BIOS image in Hard …

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I am currently working on a PC belonging to a friend and am experiencing the following problem. The PC will start up ok but as it is going through the Post process it comes up with KEYBOARD ERROR - KEYBOARD MISSING OR NOT FOUND. I have tried two brand new …

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I need some help. I am working on a Gateway M520CS originally the power button was damaged. I got it to work while waiting for a new replacement power button panel. It had a broken at the arm and the small plastic contact the hits the micro switch. Anyway once …

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Hey Guys, I've been working on fixing my pc since last night, I goes through the post and sometimes gets to the xp splash screen, blut always black after this. I can't get into safe mode and it seems to be speeding like crazy, why i can't get into safe …

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TOSHIBA A65 - was using it and it turned itself off - it was running on battery at the time. Plugged it up and the 2 LED lights that are normally lit when the laptop is plugged in are lit but I cannot get it to power on. I waited …

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Hello good folks at Dani Web !!!! I hope I'm posting this in the right place, if I'm not, let me know and I'll repost it where I'm supposed to. I have a Dell Dimention 3000, Windows XP Home, 2.8GHz, 80 GIG hard drive A friend of mine gave me …

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hi guys .. i hope yu guys have a solution for me .. my window xp OS on my c drive had a fatal error where everytimei load and get to the blue screen it restarts endlessly .. im not sure how that happened .. this happened after i restarted …

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What's up guys, my names Alex. 20 y/o from NJ. computer animator/digital artist, and hardware fanatic. After about 2.5 years on a socket 939 Athalon X2 4400+/2 gig DDR400 system, I decided I wanted something a little more up to date, and of course, I was gonna save money to …

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Laptop is 13 1/2 months old and appears dead. Will not turn on with or without power supply, whether battery is in or not. Voltmeter on power supply shows 19.78V DC output so it is functioning. No lights of any kind light up on laptop when power supply plugged in. …

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Satellite 1135-s1554 laptop will not boot up from battery or power supply. The first time the error came up was in Sept. 06, since then it has been operating great. The first signs of trouble was the lcd screen display was garbled and you could correct the lcd display screen …

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My little kid, spilled some water [B][COLOR="Red"](very little)[/COLOR][/B] on the keyboard, and the mouse pad,, I removed the battery,, and the power source then I dried it up with warm air, carefull enough not to over heat it,,, After a while I tried to switch on,, what happens is that …

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I have a Sony Vaio VGN-S260 laptop and I opened just to clean the motherboard and the ventilator. I disconnected the pad, the screen, the power buttons and the motherboard battery just to clean better every part. Then I carefully plug everything again. In addition, when I tried to power …

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hi all, my 1st post here. I have a dell gx260, celery 1.7ghz cpu, 512 meg, 40 gig hd. sometimes the power switch works fine, sometimes it doesn't work at all. by that I mean it does nothing! no lights/beeps/fans. it's as though it's not even connected (I checked & …

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I own a dell latitude d600 with windows xp pro. On startup it takes me to a screen for selecting how to start windows, regardless of my selection the computer reboots. An error message does appear, but only briefly. I do not know what this message says because it does …

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My PC had the blue screen of death "physical dump" menu this morning and then shut down. When I powered it back up it has no display, keyboard, or mouse activity. Has anyone else seen this before?

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Hey everyone. I've gotten some great help before, and this community is fantastic!! But now I have another problem. A week ago I installed a floppy drive on my machine - or, at least, got a floppy drive to read and transfer files (maybe I didn't install correctly?). Anyway, all …

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Hi hope someone can help me fix this extremely frustrating PC problem. Please excuse my lack of PC know-how, but I will try to explain my problem as best I can. For some time now, our main desk-top PC has been crashing out randomly, and displaying a black screen. "No …

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When I apply power, all three LEDs will blink and go out, then, the center one will blink 9 times and then go off. When the power supply is hooked up, there is only a faint glow on the sensor LED that indicates that it is plugged in. Any Idea …

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Hi All, I am new and possibly have not searched enough. I cannot find any discussion/troubleshooting/ideas/etc. concerning laptops. This is my own little area of interest and have been fairly successful in the power connector/motherboard area but other areas I need help. If anyone can point me to a forum …

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I work at home , but sometimes , i need go to my company to finish my work.however,the data and favorites software are all at home,sometimes i need to purchase the same software which i have at home. What should i do?Hope someone help.

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Hi guest...I'm beginner, I have problem with my notebook Sony Vaio V505. The Power not come suddenly. What should I do? thank you for advice.

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When booting up my dell desktop, I recieved the following message "strike F1 to retry boot F12 for set up utility". I replaced the hard Drive and I still get the same message. The BIOS shows that the HD is there. Any hope for this machine?

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So here's the deal. This laptop won't boot anymore. One day I hit the power switch, it starts to boot giving me the Gateway splash screen, then it clicks off and reboots. It'll do this a couple times then shuts off. It never makes it to the Windows XP screen …

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I have a toshiba satellte x205-sl1. I downloaded and updated the bios, but forgot to plug in the laptop and the battery died while rebooting, now i have nothing! The computer will power up and thats it no screen or hard drive nothing. Any ideas will be welcome. Thanks

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My computer won't Post (bios won't turn on) after a power outage at my house. What Happened: There was a power outage at my house, all the electricity including my computer got turned off all of a sudden. I decided to go to bed because there was no electricity to …

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Im looking to buy a really powerful and good looking laptop. I run a lot of big programs at once and download a lot of music. Can you point me towards a very powerful laptop that will do what I want? Budget is about a grand.

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What reasons do you need to be at the office, do you need to be working on a computer they have there, or do you just need to be in the office? If the computer is irrelevant you can use remote desktop software to access your home computer from a …

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I been trying to fix a graphics problem with the laptop 450sx4, and decided tio clean the filters and the laptop up. The owner is a smoker so perhaps overheating might be the cause. I made the mistake in starting removing the basescrews and not joy in removin the base …

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I just bought an Acer Extensa 5620-4020 2 months ago. Long story short it restarted itself in my carrying case and fried. I had an error saying the operating system was not found. After calling Acer support they mailed me sytem and recovery disks. After excitedly reading the instructions I …

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Hey guys. It's not an old computer or anything. AMD Athlon X2 processor, NVidia Geforce 7900 GTX graphics card, 360GB SATA HDD, 2GB RAM, the works. The problem is, that a couple days back one of the fans died on me. I kept it off for until I could get …

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Hi, i bought a dell inspiron 6000 and every time i shut the lid and re-open it the screen is all black but you can here the noise and everything. if u guys can suggest something ill be very gratefull. thanks

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I read the recent thread started by Kpack08 about a similar machine not starting. My mother in law has the same machine for 4 years. Today, it would not start - no sound, no fan, no front light- -nothing. I replaced the power supply, and can see the green light …

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My homebuilt PC died last night after running fine for several months in its current configuration. My external USB HD (MyBook) was acting up so I unplugged it and rebooted. When Windows started again I plugged the drive in, it initialized, and then the PC rebooted. It didn't POST however …

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