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| | so wel... i have this problem that when ever i'm installing or, opening a program, my pc restarts, dont know how come but its anoying, whenever i do something that needs a little bit more work for my pc, "a little" like watching a movie on youtube, or installing a … |
| | I have a samsung 40 Gb Hard disk. Freequently It is re-boot for a long time. For this data is lost and may be physically damage. HDD is dedect by mother board but Operating system can not be dedect. By segate disk manager I am able to dedect it. I … |
| | My previous computer setup was: motherboard(P5NSLI), processor(Intel Core 2 2.4), video card(7950 GTX), 550 watt power supply, 2 CD drives, 1 floppy. I purchased a new case that came with a 1000 watt power supply, and also a zalman cpu fan. I transferred everything over to the new case. Swapped … |
| | dear sir, compaq presario 1200 xl 222 laptop ,when i pressed power switch power on laptop but no display on lcd & external monitor,no beep ,even cpu is heating & fan is mooving but not booting from hdd or cdrom or fdd, so i want to test the fash bios … |
| | I recently put together a pc with an Intel DP35DM motherboard, Core Duo e6750 , 2 gb of 5300 ddr 2 PNY ram, gigabyte 8600 gt video card. It has worked for about a month, until it shut down while in use yesterday. It beeped a couple of times, then … |
| | The Toshiba Satellite A55-s1066 will not boot at all (no sounds from the hardware, no display). All that shows up is the ambar ac light blinking (tried with and without the battery with and get same light blinking). No other light comes on. The amber light blinks with the following … |
| | just upgrades my pc. I put in a intel do core E6750, MSI platimum p35 board 2x1 gib crucial balistix, artic pro seven cooler,jeantech 600w modular PSU, samsung spinpoint 500gig disk. HOwever it wont POST, i turn on fans comes on sounds live, no pic on monitor then it cuts … |
| | Printer: Brother HL-1440 Statement of the Problem: The printer was working beautifully, but it suddenly stopped feeding paper through. It receives data and warms up, but then it does not pick up the paper from the tray, nor will it grab paper from the manual feed slot. I really don't … |
| | Okay, i think the samsung 160gb SATA drive on my dell dimension 5150 is dying I keep getting BSOD error 0x24 and the dreaded "non system disk or disk error" mesage but booting into recovery mode from the XP cd and running chkdsk /r , fixboot and fixmbr has fixed … |
| | Hey guys. I received my new Alienware M9750 Notebook yesterday, and when I initially plugged it in, it would not turn on, and there was no LED lit (on the computer, adapter is fine) indicating the machine was plugged in. I called support, and they informed me to remove the …  |
| | Last night my computer was working fine, and I shut it down properly. The next morning I hit the power button and get no response. So after checking connections and all the simple stuff, I open the computer up. I removed the powersupply, and tested it by only pluggin it … |
| | I have a Thinkpad T60 that has Vista 64 bit installed on it. It ran well for 2 weeks and then I did a BIOS update that froze and never finished. Now the machine is a brick. When I boot, all I get is the power and battery indicators. I … |
| | I had been having a problem for a while with my CPU overheating. Having built the computer maybe 3 years ago, I thought it might be due to have the thermal paste reapplied. So I got some thermal paste and thermal paste remover, reapplied to my CPU and heat sink. … |
| | Hi all I have a problem with my IBM A31 laptop that is driving me nuts. It is a pentium M 1.6, 512 ram, 30gig hdd, Windows XP Pro SP2. Everything is up to date, Bios, Windows XP, Drivers everything. It continually Locks up or freezes randomly. I have reinstalled … |
| | computer just beeps and will not start up. HDD, all cdrom& everything getting pwr. replaced motherboard, tried new pwr sply, reinstalled amd duron 950 socket 462 cpu, was doing the same thing with old motherboard. thought it might be memory, removed 512m pc2100 from dimm socket, put in 256m sdram, …  |
| | Hello all. I am having a weird issue, that as always would happen to me. :) Anyhow here goes... I don't exactly know how the power/battery thing works, but for the last two months my laptop has had the battery in, and also plugged up to the wall. I guess … |
| | I replaced the cmos battery a few days ago, and now the laptop won't boot. The power comes on, the USB ports get power (mouse lit up), fan starts, HD starts for a few secs, then stops, screen stays blank. There are no beeps. I have an averatec 6115. I … |
| | I have a lap top that will not start correctly, I have windows 2000. I have tried reloading windows 2000 OS and it worked ok for half a day. I'm getting hard drive error, registry errors, partition errors, is there anyway to save this computer. I wondered if I should …  |
 | I'm new to this web so I would like to say hi to everyone! Okay so maybe the problem with my laptop is minimal but since I'm not much of an computer expert here goes- My Dell Inspiron is a old little (Okay...not little) laptop, it's over 6 years old … |
| | Acts like it is loading normally but finishes with a blank screen. Won't respond to Ctrl/Alt/Delete. Has to be shut down manually. Can be brought to the desktop by hitting F8 and last known good, but will have the same problem next time it reboots normally. Since this started after … |
| | I recently had this problem and came upon this websight which fixed my problem. I was only hours away from wiping the drive and giving the laptop away. Make sure you unscrew the screw in the middle near the back of the laptop. I screwed up my F3 key trying … |
| | Got a machine socket 775 it powers on, but no video or peripheral power (usb optical mouse light doesn't go on) I changed the ram, changed the power supply, disconnected everything but the essentials. Friend reported it froze up a few times, then just reboot it.. now it does the … |
| | Hi, I have a Compaq Presario R3000 notebook that I was reinstalling windows xp on and at the last restart of the installation the machine died. It will not turn on at all nothing lights up except the little lightning bolt light that I think means that the machine is … |
| | Hey! here's a strange case for you ;) In the summer my computer started to act strange - beginning with a bad install of Vista (crap). Went back to XP and then the comp wouldent start up - I opend the case side and then suddently it worked. - This … |
| | help me please! somehow i found that there is a password in the bios and i did never put that password and nobody touched my laptop. so i found a program to reset the password and after the reset it said that something ni the bios changed and asked if … |
| | I have come into possession of a thinkpad t40 that was stuck away in a storage area of my nephews apartment. it seems to have been there longer than any of the roommates so no one knows anythin about it. Since I have the proper power supply for one of … |
| | G'Day all. I've been doing a fair bit of googling, asking friends and reading old posts in this forum. If you'd be so kind I could use a little help :) [B]Problem:[/B] Newly upgraded self-assembled Desktop won't POST and simply loops in a 5 second cycle of cutting power then … |
| | i bought a dell machine and anytime i leave it on for an hour or so this amber light come on and the machine cannot boot unless i leave it for overnight. how can i over come this problem. |
| | [B]I have a Sony Vaio PGC-K33 and I CAN'T GET IT TO WORK[/B] OK, I am an Mac person :cool: , but I have a Vaio PGC-k33 model, two years old. Was my daughter's. She buggered it up somehow so I am trying to fix. When you turn it on, … |
| | I have a emachine amd pros. ati 9600 graphics card 512 ram. my computer turns on but monitor says *no signal* tried plugging monitor in both ports, monitor is good using it right now to post this... took the card ou and plugged it back in, took the ram out … |
| | I have a HP Pavilion N5190 that won't start up, balck screen, nothing. Fans turns on, that's it. I stripped down to the CPU and fan and get the same result. Is this a f'd motherboard or what? Not that knowledgable, need some advice... |
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| | Hello, I am building a new computer and I can not get it started. I have built other PCs before but have not encountered this problem before. I put all the parts together and when I try to boot up I see the option to enter the BIOS, a few … |
| | Ok, So i just recently upgraded my computer's motherboard, cpu and ram a week ago. From the get go there was problems. Firstly, sometimes my monitor wouldn't recognize that the computer was plugged into it, and was sending out data, so it just said no inputs. This would happen multiple … |
 | I am still stuck with my half dead HP laptop, that died for no apparent reason and it is under a year old and is one of the latest models... From reading the posts on this forums last weak I see in recent posts about 4- 5 people that having … |
| | It's an older laptop that died a while ago that I'm trying to revive. Basically when I turn it on the fan cycles twice and the power light is on then turns off. Screen remains black the entire time. I've opened it a few times and adjusted the fan, unplugged … |
| | I have been working on a friend's [URL="http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1030305017#"]laptop[/URL] over several power issues. The first was that the AC brick died. Fortunately, his wife had a "compatible" brick. His brick that died was a 90W and his wife's was a 65W but it claimed it was charging and worked for some … |
| | Hi everyone. ;) Got a problem that I am hoping someone can help me with. I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop that I really like. It is great machine. But last June it died on me. Long story short, I thought it had been the victim of a power … |
| | Hi all, First timer here, so be gentle! I have a brand new (2 weeks old) HP DV9548 (notebook) running Vista Home Premium that worked FINE for the last two weeks, and this morning..... it was stuck on the Windows boot sequence where it shows the yellow and black (scrolling … |
| | My HP Pav zv6000 won't boot up. All lights and fan comes on and the screen appears to lighten up (likes its starting to come on from black to grey) and then goes dark. I've tried the following: -- hooking up an alternative monitor; no luck, still no video -- … |
| | First, some quick specs on my homebuild: Rosewill Case (cheap) Antec 480W PS Gigabyte p965-S3 Mobo E6600 cpu NVidia 7900GS video card Seagate 500GB Barracuda HDD Corsair XMS2 2GB RAM So, I turned off my PC for the first time in a while last night and when I later tried … |
| | I am working on a computer that will not boot up at all, just get a blue screen of dealth. This is in safe mode as well. I tried to boot up by the windows xp cd and go to recovery concole but when i do that I recover the … |
| | Dell Latitude D600, won't see the harddrive. I took the harddrive out and stuck it in a desktop(with a 2.5" adapter) and was able to boot all the way up to XP just fine. Now I am aware that these latitudes are notorious for failing motherboards, but was hoping someone … |
| | Hey there, I'm running a system that was built for me but I am not completely familiar with the specs. Its about 2 and half years old. Its a WinXP, 200gb, Asus Mobo, AMD Athlon, 2gbRAM, 400W PSU system as far as I know. Maybe a month ago, the computer … |
| | I'm rebuilding old computers for test equipment at my company because they are too cheap to purchase a cheap computer. It's costed more in my labor alone so far than a new cheap computer would cost. After installing the HD and booting up the machine, I get the error HDD … |
| | dropped my external harddrive yetserday... plugged it back in and it worked fine, about 3 hours later it started clicking <click click click ect..> so turn off computer.. still clicking.... i had to pull it out the main power to get it to stop... now... this morning i booted up … |
| | hey there, im a new person here... anywho. I have a Medion M³ director 4500 In January, I had a problem where I woke up, in the morning (I had left my computer on all night) and the screen was frozen, even the date and time was frozen, so I … |
| | Hello, I am building a new computer and I can not get it started. I have built other PCs before but have not encountered this problem before. I put all the parts together and when I try to boot up I see the option to enter the BIOS, a few … |
| | my laptops keypad doesn't work when logged onto the domain, but it works when logged on locally. it happens just after i type my username and password to enter the domain.... need assistance.. |
| | Hello, My Sony Vaio VGN-FS35GP hangs at Vaio logo each time I turn it on. When I switch it on, the power indicator turns on, the HDD light blinks for a moment then goes off. If I press F2, it will say "Entering settings..." and stays there. Sometimes when I … |
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