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| | yesterday, i was repairing my PC using the recovery console when suddenly, the PC turned off. I don't know what happened. everytime i try to start the computer, the fan turns for a second then stops. please help. i haven't solved the first problem yet and here is another one …  |
| | Hello all. I have a Gateway GT5032 Desktop PC running Vista Ultimate. I recently installed a program called Paragon Partition Manager. After setting it to format one of my partitions it asked me to reboot; which I did. The Partition Manger screen came up and it began to do its … |
| | Hello Everyone {experts}, I am a quite "pedestrian" computer user. But have run up against a "Bios" problem I am curious to "solve/cure". One of my computers, at home {e-machine}, has a Phoenix award Bios {about 3 yrs old} that during the last week began to post strange errors. The … |
| | I have a gateway m520,i turned it on the other day and heard the fans start up but the screen was blank.I pushed the power button but it wouldnt turn off so I unpluged it then pluged it back in and turned it on but the screen was still blank. … |
| | Hi! The problem I will explain here is really causing me a headache. I faced it more than 6 times till now. (on different machines) Anyway, let's speak about a specific situation that happened today. PC Specs: CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (2.8 GHz) (1 MB L2) Mainboard: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. … |
| | THis Isn't Like all the other screen issues i've seen here. I Have a Toshiba Laptop. It's a Toshiba Satellite P25-S5262. It Was Working Properly a Few months Ago, But within the last month, its gotten to the point, of not being useable... Anymore. When I boot it on, it … |
| | current kit: MB: as7V8X-X Athlon 1300+ CPU (?) 256mb RAM Western Digital Caviar HDD (3x) 40gb/20gb/4gb c/d/e respectively. At any time, from during POST to hours after startup, drive 1 will randomly park and re-init for seemingly no reason at all. I have tried in vain to duplicate circumstances to … |
| | hey, I realize there are plenty of threads with same problem (read them all) but i figure that getting advice for my specific situation would be better. I recently made some upgrades to my computer and after fitting up all the parts I attempted to power up. However I get … |
| | I am new to this please help if possible. I have a dell dimension 8100- I was told the motherboard must have a short in it. I purchased a used one from ebay with socket 423 as dell told me that is what i needed. It fits in casing perfect. … |
| | i hav problem woth my inspiron 1150 Laptop make dell. it is not detecting the Hard disk. showing primary Hard disk 0 not found. how ever hard is working fine and i dont see any thing wrong with the PC.pl solve my problem  |
| | I attempted to do a restore on my Gateway laptop from the restore DVD. The disk would keep stopping and a screen telling me to choice either F2 or F10 would come up. Nothing would happen after hitting either of these keys. Know when I try to start the disc … |
| | Ok, let me set up the background: My computer kind of died. Right now, though, I'm trying to fix up my bro's PC. We do use our PC's for gaming, but were never the types to buy high end machines. Basically, I rebuilt his machine to near-identical stats as my … |
| | Ok, here's the deal: I think I know what to do but am not sure. I deleted a hardrive completely using fdsk. I didn't make a boot disk. I have a windows disk that I want to install on the drive. I know the drive is good. I recieve a … |
| | Hello, Emachine totally dead, no fan, no lights no anything. I figured it must be the PSU. Mthr Brd, or front panel switch. I installed a new PSU and it made no difference. What should I check next? I took the old PS to Best Buy and they confirmed it … |
| | OK, lets start with the basics. Sony Vaio PCG-FRV35 CD-ROM NO Floppy Initially I recieved a hard drive error and that a crash/failure was iminent. I ordered the same Hitachi hard drive that it came with, brand new. (Amazon) I physically installed the new hard drive, entered the BIOS setup, … |
| | Hi, I'm trying to fix my housemate's laptop, it's a HP Pavillion dv4000. I turn it on, the screen with <f2> enter setup <f10> change boot order It then goes to the windows xp loading screen with the blue scrolling bar for an abnormally long time... maybe 2 minutes. Then … |
| | ok so ive done tons of research trying to find out what is wrong with my screen and no luck so maybe you all can help. ok so when i start it up i sometimes have to tap the top of the screen to get it to show the part … |
| | Current Dell moniter works fine, but E Machine flat monitor screen is blank. It has power, at least the on/off button lights. Does the E machine require a specific video card? Any help? |
| | i bought a post test card on ebay...typical impulse buy thing....but i do have a dead computer to test it on...i was curious if anyone has actually used 1...i found nothing on google...i was really most curious...can they damage my computer? GREAT site guys....thanks for the input! BTW it was …  |
| | I thought this would be a very basic install but it's turning out to be a little more involved than I imagined. Here are the specs of install. I used Acronis True Image to make a bootable rescue disk, and then I also backed up my whole laptop's hard drive … |
| | I'm sure a lot of people have come across this problem, and I can't seem to find a way to fix it. A while ago, I reformatted my laptop, everything on it works great, but I cant seem to get the internet working. The other computers I have at home … |
| | HI guys ...my pc spec is as follows AMD 3200+ processor Asus A8NE mob with Nvidia 6200 gc...and 1gb ram..... My probelm started when i restarted the comp when it got stuck.... Since then i get cmos error ...i replaced the battery even then i get the error ...i hve … |
| | About 4 months ago I added a secondary hard drive to my computer. I had the power plug from the cd drive plugged into the secondary hard drive. Although the cd drive and the secondary hard drive couldn't both be plugged in at the same time everything was working fine … |
| | compaq evo 510 sff; getting 7 bios beeps, a little research tells me to replace AGP card, but i get these beeps even pulling the card out. shouldn't i be able to at least get to bios to switch to use "on board" video? replaced memory but that wasn't it. … |
| | Hey All- My cat knocked a glass of water on my DELL Inspiron 6000 around Xmas. Now the computer will turn on and than go immediately back off. I have done the following: Completely disassembled and let everything 'dry' out overnight Was able to hook up the laptop's hard drive … |
 | Somebody at work gave me an Athlon XP 2000+ computer which is faster than my old p4 and it only has 256 mb RAM but it has 3 more slots; mine uses RAMBUS memory which is too expensive, so I was going to put my hard drive in this computer, …  |
| | i have an emachine and i was putting in a network card to make it wireless to our network. so anyway i plugged everything back in and booted it up and it came on but nothing happened. It didnt load up the only thing it did was the lights on … |
| | Hi every one I am new to the posting thing... Here is my dilema... Came home the other day and found my dell laptop with the black reboot screen on (the one where you choose which mode to start windows in) and no matter which mode i choose the system … |
| | I have a comp that was built about 2 years ago. A couple of nights ago I was gaming then the comp just went dead. I traced my problem down to my PSU. It was obvious since when removed you could see a capacitor sitting in the bottom of the … |
| | My laptop will turn on but the screen is just blank. :cry: <BLACK> :cry: When it turns on it gives me this code like a long beep followed by 3 short ones and then repeats the same beep. Like this: _ . . . _ . . . It was … |
| | Recently bought the AMD 6400+ x2 cpu on the GIGABYTE GA-MA790FX-DS5 AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard. Was blazing while it lasted. After a week and a half started having random lock ups which eventually lead into lock ups during bios load. Finally wouldn't boot at all. Machine was still … |
| | Two nighrs ago i got my new compenents to my computer, a Cooler master 820 Case, ABS BZ800 Watt puwer supply, and a few fans. So i replaced my PSU, which was previously a 500 watt supply with the new one, and moved everything into the new case. So the … |
| | Dell optiplex GX270 wont boot floppy drive clicks on push of the start button with both the light in the power button flashing and the light to the right of it flashing green. the screen does not even come on. I disconnect5ed everything including taking out the video card. when … |
| | I have replaced the power supply and the new onedoes work but the computer will still not power up. I desperately need information that is on it. The day it shut down the keyboard didn't work, but mouse did when I tried to repower nothing. E-machines said that it was …  |
| | HP Pavilion ze4400, been around for 4 years. Just a couple of days ago, comp stopped booting properly. I tried the quick restore to restore to factory settings but it would always end at 80ish percent with a write error. Tried the windows xp operating system cd. when formatting the …  |
| | Hay everyone ! Hello my name is pete and im kinda a self fixit kinda guy im working on my mother in laws hp pavillion 700 . She called this afternoon and had a dead computer, so i went down there figuring just really dirty maybe got warm and shut … |
| | Hi all, I have (actually my wifes has) a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. 800mhz proc., 512 mem, 20 gig HD. About 2 months ago, it kinda just stopped working. All 3 lights would come on HD, power, and battery, but it would not go past this. I went on the … |
| | toshiba qosmio f30 Anytime i tried to boot the laptop, i get this massage: Bad Checksum ROM Data block press any key to continue after pressing any key i get this massage: bad checksum (ROM) check... |
| | so my dv6000 is dying please anyhelp would be appreciated.! when i boot up my comp a fuzzy white screen displays for about 7-10 sec, then it clicks over to black but the back light appears to be on, i can hear windows loading and my updates instaling but i … |
| | Hello everyone, I am writing to plead for help to fix the screen on my laptop, which for seemingly no reason, has decided to forget about the couple of inches of screen on the right and a line the exact size of the normal "start" button status bar... I realise … |
 | Hey Guys, I have read other threads here that are similar to my situation, but it seems that all of these people could access Windows. I have a Windows XP SP2 PC that I tried to partition the 80 GB HD into 3 partitions for dual OS. I was shortening … |
| | This morning everything was just fine... I was running XP media center, and wanted to create another partition to install XP Pro on. I used partition magic 8 to move my primary partition and create another bootable partition for XPpro. In the middle of moving the partition the computer crashed. … |
| | I am starting this thread in the hope that I might get some help to restore my laptop. On New Years Eve as I booted up I got the "Windows cannot start system32/config/.... file is missing or corrupted. Spoke with Toshiba and since I could not locate my recovery cd … |
| | Hi, I added a hard drive from one pc to another & the graphics on the screen looks blurry and bad. when i download the manufacturer which is gateway video drive for that specific drive. when i try to install it following the guide it doesn't. the guide does say … |
| | I have my friend's PC which is almost identical to my so i told him i would look at it. When you start it, you don't get video. The screen wont even turn on. These are the troubleshooting steps i took. There is no internal speaker unfortunately. Yes, the DVD/CD … |
| | Hi all, just found this forum and I could do with some help! :-) My wife has an old Time laptop, bought on Ebay second hand,about a year ago. Recently, over the last week or three it's started randomly shutting down - instantly, like the power went off suddenly. Tonight … |
| | OK i just built my first machine. asus p5e, E6750, 8g ddr2 800, ati 3870, vista HP 64bit. i had the machine up and running on the first boot. has run like a charm for 2 weeks now. i had a brand new hanns-g 28" lcd hooked up and everything … |
| | I am at my wits end with this one. PS/2 Keyboard and mouse (known working, default) will not function after windows xp (sp2) startup. The keyboard works fine in BIOS setup. Neither will function in windows, even in safe mode. Windows boots just fine, no errors, nothing in event log; … |
| | I transplanted all new components for in my old AMD 2800 (not sure if the change to intel matters). New: Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI ATX Intel Video Card: POWERCOLOR X1950PRO512MBAC Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Supported Processor: Intel Core 2 … |
| | Okay, this seasoned computer wrangler is about to give up... I was looking for a blown fuse but no-joy. Pammie undocked the CD-ROM while running W2K. It froze up. Unplugged and replugged power and batts to do a restart but now the laptop is totally dead- no lights, spin-up, sounds, … |
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