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| | Hello all, I'm trying to fix a problem. This E-machine did not boot up, so I changed the power supply, puter came on but no beeps, or anything on the monitor. All the fans run, could it be the mobo? |
| | can some one please help me. i got a dell as a second comp for my son to mess with. its a dell dimension 2100,pentium3,pc133 256mb,20g hard drive. this dell had windows 2000 so i formatted it,now i have tryed to install windows xp with no joy the CD drive … |
| | hey ppl, i've just joined da forum so hello to everyone... i've gotta a boot up problem...i scraped my PC down to it bare bones with only the mother board powered yesterday but the machine refuses to boot..i've replaced the RAM, reset the CMOS....still no result... though it did boot … |
| | Have the above laptop, and it simply won't power on. Have done what Sony helpfully suggested and held down the power button for 15secs with and without the battery. Have tested the AC power and its reading a 19.5v. Hard drive is working ok with a 2.5" USB caddy - … |
| | I have a 4-year-old PC that all of a sudden froze during some routine tasks. It hasn't really done that before. I did a re-boot and got nothing. SYMPTOMS - PC turns on with all fans and LEDs (including RAM LED) - No image at any point on monitor (have … |
| | So here's the problem folks. I had just turned my computer on and started working on it when it suddenly powered off as if I had unplugged the laptop without the battery in. It has done this once in the past and after a few days miraculously started working again. … |
| | I have a Compaq 5300US, running Windows XP. Last night I noticed the screen displaying this message. "non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready" the cursor is blinking right under these two lines. the screen looks like the MS - Dos command mode screen. all … |
| | Hello I intalled a new hdtv capture card to my pc and i'm pretty sure it got damaged by a static shot through the my house airel. My pc now reboots itself pretty randomly it sometimes gets to the welcome screen and sometimes boots up all the way, then some … |
| | This is really a followup to a previous post that I did. Here is the situation. Lightning strike took out my dsl modem and router. No power response when trying to turn on the computer. I fugured the MOBO was fried since network card on MOBO. Got a new MOBO … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario SR2150NX about a year old. The Recovery partition worked before because I used it but every since I upgraded from home basic to home premium it just doesn't work. |
| | hello daniweb community, can any one help me? my xp machine cannot log in to my desktop, after loading xp and when it shows the blue windows where the logo of xp is shown , it is stuck there forever. even if in safe mode its like that. is there … |
| | Hey all, Im new to the forums here so bare with me. My computer is an XPS/Dimension 710 Desktop its about a year old 2 gigs of ram 7900 gtx Originally XP now Vista at first id get a message saying a system 32 file was corrupted at startup i … |
| | I have 2 Toshiba A75 notebooks and they both have issues. One was onboard memory problems that I think I may have licked, but the other machine has a very strange problem. When I push the "on" button for the other machine, the fans start running, but the blue power … |
| | This unit shuts itself down after a minute or so. If I try to start it back immediately it only runs a few seconds. I noticed the Heatsink holder (plastic) was broken and not allowing any cooling to the CPU and replaced it. The unit and fans are all clean. … |
| | I have toshiba dynabook satellite 1860. After I install windows xp professional SP2, I try to install driver VGA, did not finish, hang. I shut down the laptop. When I try to power on again, it's on for 1-2 second only and then off, but the power led is blink … |
 | I had installed a new video card on my pc. Palit 8800gt sonic 512mb PCIE. The only problem is, I cant enjoy playing games with it cause my pc shuts down after 20-30 mins playing games. I tired it on these games: Halo 2 for Vista, Rise of Legends, Titan … |
| | hi guys, i'm having alot of trouble with a brand new motherboard...:( i recently bought the m/board with a Cpu and a 1gb stick of ram, Motherboard - MSI K9N6SGM-V (el cheapo) CPU - Amd athlon 4800+ x2 (socket AM2 i'm assuming) RAM - Elixer DDR2 PC-5300 The problem i'm … |
| | I recently cleaned the Heatsink, and cleaned off the cpu with Isopropyl Alcohol and applied Arctiv Silver 5. I did this because I was having some bad heating issues. My problem now is my laptop is either not staring up or something is wrong with the LCD. When I turn … |
| | hi guys today my pc at work turned-off without doing any thing....so i fromatted it and reinsalled windows and the pc AGAIN turned of and then i turn it on it just showed me the first screen (the one that showes master and slave things and tells u to press … |
| | I sure hope I'm posting this in the right place ! If not, someone let me know please. Compaq Presario S4020WM, Windows XP HOME . Young teenager messed around with this computer and has really done some damage ! When I turn on the computer, all I get is a … |
| | My pc will not startup and run normally. I receive a message on power up "that windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows root>/system 32 hal.dll please re-install a copy of the above file". I have a hp media center m7463w and it doesn't … |
| | Hi: My dell inspiron 5160 laptop will not start when turned on. With the battery as I press the on-button, I only see a green ac-power led light come on and at the same time I can hear the fan on. Suddenly the laptop turns off just like that. When … |
| | Last monday a thunderstorm knocked out power in our house and only our house. my dsl modem was toes up and the computer would not power on. My router was also dead. everything was shut dpown and powered off at the time of the outage. The next day I tested …  |
| | It allows me 3 tries then I have to abort. the next thing that appears is harddrive 0 not found. what would cause this? |
| | My Dell laptop is saying"Primary harddrive disk 0 not found No bootable devices-strike F1 to retry boot F12 for set up utility" and is making a clicking noise. On the set up page it says "Bios version A20" and "Latitude C600"(not sure if that info matters,very new to computers) Please … |
| | I was on the internet last night and suddenly, without warning, the computer went off. It may be my imagination, but I thought that I heard a click, perhaps a very quiet pop. It may have just been me clicking the keyboard. My computer is completely dead: no lights, no … |
| | PSU: Xion SupernNova 600 Watt (Model No. XON-600F14R-201) Mobo- MSI P35-Neo-F CPU- Q6600 Memory- 2 sticks of 1GB Mushkin HP2-6400 GPU- XFX GeForce 8800GTX I managed to get Windows Vista Installed without it shutting down on me, or having problems with random other things. But now when I boot into … |
| | hi Guy! I am new here and this is my first post. My pc wont start anymore. This is what happen, i was just playing and suddenly my pc shutdown itself. as i tried turning it on again it wont. First thing i did was open the case and observe … |
| | my son's e-machine suddenly "died" (well, it was never really alive...). When I push the on-off button I get absolutely nothing- no lights, fans, etc. I checked the power cord, I opened up the front and bypassed the on-off switch, looked around inside for loose connectors, found nothing obviously burned … |
| | I have an HP compaq nc6000 laptop. One day the system shut down on me. I tried to restart it but the only thing that happened was the light showing that power was going to the system came on as well as the fan. I left the computer alone overnight … |
| | I am having winxp sp2 OS. Whenever i open my computer on cd rom icon it shows red circle symbol ( like No Action Taken symbol). I tried to open cd it giving error access denied. If pendrive connect it shows same error which i mentioned above. Pls send reply … |
| | The girlfriend was using my laptop and Windows began generally misbehaving. She became frustrated and decided to just close the laptop and wait until I got home to solve whatever problems may exist. Opened the laptop and found a black screen... power light lit, but no other apparent activity. Assumed … |
| | I have a problem my comp starts up but no video, the motherboard light turns on hard drive reads the fans work for the vid card and everything else, and it doesnt POST either |
| | my hubby's computer died and can't get it to restart. it has vista on it it is a hp the hard drive just beeps and nothing. can you please help or tell me where to find help?  |
| | Okay I am sorry if this is in the wrong area, please move it if it is. Basically my computer has been running fine, it has an asus m3e mother board 1g or ddr2, 500 gig hard drive yadadada. But two days ago I finally got a valid version of …  |
| | This is a Dell Dimension 4500 that was working fine, and then was switched off for a few months. Now, when plugged in, the green LED on the mobo lights up, and there is faint green glow behind the power switch, but pressing the power switch does absolutely nothing. The … |
| | My comp died, so i bought a new mobo Now the lights will go on and fans will go on adn they stay on, Cd drive flashes and i can ope nand close it, but monitors not going on, and neither is the hard drive. Any reasons why? motherboards gettin … |
| | My computer don't start. How could I check if it the power source is out? |
| | Hello, I am a newbie poster with a laptop question. I have a Dell Latitude laptop that won't boot to Windows (only to the BIOS screen). What steps do I need to take to troubleshoot this problem and then fix it? Thanks, Rod |
| | I was lowering the voltage on my processor (not a lot) using my ASUS AI Overclocking program which came with my motherboard, and I suddenly got a blue screen. When I tried restarting my computer Windows XP wouldn't load. I get to the point immediately before the windows icon and … |
| | hi,, just today i cleaned my CPU fan and cleaned HotSink.. and after that my pc wont start.. fans run in normal speed.. but not high speed (generally in startup for first 2 sec it run slow speed.. than run on high speed) and even my screen is not getting … |
| | Philips MT5000. Spec as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6420 2.13GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB Cache Genuine Windows Vista(TM) Home Premium 2048MB RAM Memory 400GB Hard Drive Dual Layer DVD Re-Writer Drive 256MB ATI Radeon X1550 Graphics 802.11b/g Wireless Network Ready 8-In-1 Media Card Reader Switch it on - no … |
| | hi, i m having trouble with my sony vaio t1xp laptop , it was working perfect but one i bough watch mobile phone and was trying to connect it with my sony vis usb but as soon as i connect it with my laptop my laptop shut suddenly and never … |
| | A couple of months ago I built a new PC which apart from glitches working with Vista x64 has been a very well behaved machine. Recently I had a couple of lock ups (don't know the cause) and I also once when booting I got a coloured pattern on the … |
| | hey peeps, i just tried to install a new gfx card in my compaque and it would not let me. So i just putt the old one back in. There was no problems for a few day's and all of a sudden a message popped up when my pc was … |
 | I just moved my computers to a larger space. When I set up one of my computers it didn't find the mouse so I shut the system down. When I restarted it the error message referred to in the title popped up. 303-Keyboard Controller Error This is an unrecoverable error. … |
| | Okay I left my computer on pretty long last night, I have an Antec 900 case though so it shouldn't be problem (I hoped) This morning i go to turn on my computer and the lights and fans turn on for a second and then it powers down. Nothing comes … |
| | I used it last night just fine. No power surges or storms, it just won't turn on! The only thing that turns on is the little green light below where the power cord connects, I'm assuming that's indicating that there is nothing wrong with the power cord. Please help me!!! |
| | Hi i amtrying to Flashmy XBOX 360 and downloaded the slax21 disc, school boy error, put it in to see if it had burned, now i can't boot my PC up. I have tried retoring it to default settings, but all i get is this messsage Reboot and select proper … |
| | Hey all, I'm [I]attempting[/I] to work on a customers laptop and am completely stumped. I was told that it was working fine until he installed software for his iPod. The installation told him to reboot and now it won't power up at all. The battery seems to be fully charged … |
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