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| | I just got a new Overdrive PC less than 24 hours ago. The PC has a Core2 Duo E6700 processor, an XFX 7950 GX2 1GB ram graphics card (two DVI ports), and a 22" LCD Viewsonic monitor with built-in speakers, a DVI port, and an Analog port. I follwed the … |
| | Hello I just bought a Compaq Armada M700 on ebay. It came with everything I needed but I cant get past the boot up screen. :sad: I will turn on the computer and it will get to like 120 ram and then shut off. So I took out the hard … |
| | I have a Dell Inspiron 1000 Laptop running windows xp , it boots fine but if i move the screen an inch it shuts down. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
| | I have problems trying to turn on my laptop. As i turn on the laptop it starts going on standy by mode. I can not do anything else but turn it off again. What should i do now? It would be helpful if you posted and ideas. |
| | When I power up my Compaq Presario S3000NX I can hear the fan and the HD running then I hear single beeps about every two seconds. Also, there is also no output showing on the monitor. Is there anyone who might know what the problem could be? The Presario has: … |
| | One problem I have is I can't get the disk to even bring up the start up menu???? |
| | i have a gateway solo laptop 1100 that i cant get to boot up .I can get to the bios screen and it says entering setup but then it just hangs there .Any ideas what i can do to fix this problem |
| | Hi, I was wondering if you could help me out with this issue. I have tried almost everything, even read similar posts but nothing did help at all. Usually when I'm playing games like Battle For Middle Earth or Farcry, computer completely freezes up after some minutes of playing. And … |
| | Greetings: I just joined DaniWeb and this is my first post here. I could really use everyone's collective expertise here and I would truly appreciate it because I am totally stumped by what happened. I have an HP Pavillion runnning Windows XP, nothing very fancy. My wife was working in … |
| | Hello, I have a problem with my pc. It is an old HP Compaq Presario 5716 (about 6 years old). When I turned on the computer, the usual "COMPAQ" screen appears, however, instead of continuing to the usual Microsoft blue screen to start up, it just stays frozen on the … |
| | Hi...I built a machine about a year ago, my first build. Asus P4P800E, Pentium 3.0, 1 gig kingston, a few HD's, DVD ROM and DVD R, ATI AIW 9800 video card, and just put in a Sound Blaster Platinum something or other a few weeks ago. No real problems recently … |
| | Hi you all. I've got an A60 tosh that has an apparent short in the power socket. When you attempt to insert the barrel plug about 1/3 of the way in the ac adapter goes off. I assume it flips the internal protective breaker. So whatdya think? It was fine … |
| | This is the first computer my brother has put together. He used an ECS Elitegroup L7VMM3 v3.0c mobo. He was able to power up, but when he tried to install Windows 2000, a STOP-IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error message came up. He went and changed some settings in the CMOS, and tried again. …  |
| | My computer was running one day after I re-built it a few weeks prior to this, and when I got back to it, It had shut off and wouldn't restart. I changed the power supply and tested the CPU so both are good. I tried anouther HDD in it that … |
| | Having major problems, Tried to do a quick restore on my hp ze4547wm and now it will not reboot and says no operating system can be found. I get a black screen that says it tries to reboot and then a message "PXE-E61- Media text faliure, check cable" shows up … |
| | just bought an hp pavilion laptop about six months ago... moved out of state- and something must have fallen on it- i'm not too sure. whenever i start it up, i get nothing but a black screen. all of the lights come on on the keyboard- and it sounds as … |
 | Hi everyone, the other week my mom bought a new computer because her old one was dead, and she didnt know how to fix it, I told her I could have tried, but I guess she really wanted a new one, or didnt have time to wait. I tried to … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satillite piece of **** from about 5 years ago, with Windows XP Pro SP1 installed on it. I was installing Microsoft Office Small Business Edition, and when it prompted me to restart my machine, I clicked "Restart Now." When it restarted, it said: [code]Operating System not …  |
 | Okay, been having a problem with random restarts recently and it's really starting to irritate me. System: Power Supply: ULTRA 500W ATX Mainboard: MSI K7N2 Delta2 Platinum (nForce 2) Memory: 2 - 512 MB Crucial PC3200 DDR DualChanneled (1 GB Total) CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2 GHz HDD: Western … |
| | I am building a new computer my first and I am having trouble. I flashed the bios with the lates upgrade loaded a boot disk and the hard drives can not be recognized. Any Ideas? |
| | Alright guys I could use some pointer as to what is wrong here is the problem Compaq Presario 2100 with amd 2800+ 256mb ram no os yet... Computer will not post. CPU is seated correctly RAM works Here are a few thing I have tried: Boot from AC: cpu does … |
| | Hi All Experi. Guys, I have a problem with Inspiron 6000(Motherboard is DAL30) Laptop .It stuck on First screen in POST. I remove All peripherals one by one but no luck. now i removed complete Motherboard from chasis and contect it do directly to monitor(CRT monitor) not pluged any device … |
| | I have a brand new macbook pro and can't boot up on internal hard drive. I have run the hardware test and have done the option re-start as well as attempted to re- install osx - but still no hard drive. Do i need to give up and take this … |
| | Hi guys heres the deal. Ive just built up a system in the usual "very carefully" way but when i power up, the lights come on and the fans spin for a second then the system shuts off. This was the first boot so never been in bios or had … |
| | I have an IBM NetVista personal computer 8314, and I bought a Western Digital Cavier SE EIDE 160GB which I already had Windows XP Home installed. When I put it in my IBM personal computer, the computer won't boot up. I get a message saying that Windows hasn't started successfully … |
| | Hello, For awhile now, my computer has been suddenly turning off whenever I watch movies. I am getting a brand new comp in a couple of months or so, therefore I decided that I'd just avoid watching movies on here until then. However, now it's shutting down even when I'm … |
| | Whenever I login on my Vaio desktop (I share it with other users), the system runs slow for two or so minutes and then stops responding. Any ideas? It uses XP Service Pack 2 by the way. |
| | Anyone know what keystrokes are required to enter bios for a Toshiba Techra 8100 ? I would appreciate any information anyone can give me. Thank you for your time. |
| | I have a Toshiba a25-s207 (PS20U-02HKLV) when you power it up the screen goes directly to enter a password power on password :rolleyes: (the password is not known to me I bought this machine at a resale shop and the owner does not know the password either. After 3 tries … |
| | Howdy, here is my sucky problem: First off, my specs: ASUS P4C800 Motherboard (I'm sure there's a zillion different p4c800 models but i can't find any other numbers right now) P4 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB MSI 256MB GPU (Again, I'm tired of wrecking my knees looking for the number) 2 x … |
| | My box when I boot it up has no video, including no bios or anything. Last time it was up i had a dialog box saying my ATI Radeon 9600 card had a catastrophic failure and froze. I rebooted the machine and thats when this happened, no video .. I … |
| | My problem is that when i start my laptop it goes through the bios set up with the suspend to disk message (ram upgrade) then to a blinking currser on the screen.Cannot boot from a floppy or get the cd rom going at this point. Now with the harddrive out … |
| | Hi i am looking at my dads pc which recently died. The psu has failed and i fear the mobo or the cpu are damaged.I have changed psu and now when turned on pc won't boot and lights on front panel flash continually. I have tried unplugging all cards and … |
| | i have a problem with my computer not starting up. at first it would not do anything so i replaced the psu with a new one of same type. now i get constant blinking lights on switch and hdd led's on the front panel. the hdd was making a clicking … |
| | My Dell inspiron 2500 starts up but will not go past the dell page if i hit f2 on switch on sometimes the message Enterin Setup appaers and stays for some time sometimes up to two or three hours if it enters setup i am asked for the bios password … |
| | ok so this problem is pretty complicated. ok so about a month ago i go to restart my computer. only it doesnt restart. the monitor goes black and the tower is still on. i let it sit for a few hours and came back and its the same problem. then … |
| | Opened up my pc on sunday night to check for space for some upgrades i wanted to purchase this week. Put it back together and thought it was fine. Went to boot it up yesterday and all i got was a beep code! No signal to monitor, just a continuous … |
| | I've got an HP ZV5000 laptop which has not had any problems up until now. This morning when I tried starting it up, I was taken to the screen that tells me it was not shut down properly. I'm given the option of starting normally, use last known good configuration, …  |
| | :eek: [COLOR=#8b0000][B]I gave an Dell 2400 to a friend of mine a few days ago. He just called and said[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#8b0000][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000080] I power up and see WindowsXP then a blank screen. I then tried F8 to go into safemode but the screen went blank again. Next I hit F1, … |
| | hello all whilst working on line earlier today my mouse froze ..the only thing we cud do was turn pc off by mains ....when trying to boot pc up after this all would could get was the flashing power light obviously not enough power to allow it to work...maybe.... we … |
| | [B][COLOR=black]Hi I have a compaq aramada M700. i noticed that when i bought it that when I plug it up it wont charge. It will power on then shut off. Also when its plugged with the adapter no lights come on, the only lights i see is when I press … |
| | hello guys i have a problem i just put together a pc but the board didnt have an onboard video so im using a pci e card, but after the assemble and i turn on the comp nothing comes on all the fans are spinning and every thing, any suggestions |
 | I have just bought the parts to make a computer. After carefully installing everything. I tried to install xp 64 bit. Sometimes it installs to 'Setup is starting windows' and freezes (ctrl alt del won't restart it), sometimes the memory doesn't check good, sometimes it freezes in other stages of … |
| | My computer won't turn on after being shut off until I unplug cord and plug back in! I know there are many things it could be but I will explain a little of the situation. It started about a little while ago when I came to turn the computer on. … |
| | I signned up to this forum yesterday because I finished building a computer. However... when I plugged it in and turned it on, the green light on the CD ROM and the little LCD screen on the front was blinking really fast and the meters on it showed that the … |
| | Hello all, I'm at my wits end so I'm hoping someone here can help me, if only to confirm my worst fears, at least then I'll know. I have a Packard Bell laptop, coming up to 2 yrs old. Basically he won't recognise his primary hard drive. He can recognise … |
| | I've been having this problem lately My laptop has been rebooting byitself lately and I really don't know what's happening.It starts o reboot more frequently after I install the orange livebox. After the reboot I'll have an option to send a report to Microsoft.The reports state that error was caused … |
| | Hi, I have been having problems w/ my Compaq Presario 2218Rs Laptop for a while now. I've used the recovery disk a few times and it reinstalled the operating system, but it would only last a day or maybe a couple days and then it would crash again. Now I … |
| | Recently my hard drive stopped working completely. I was getting an error saying "Unmountable Boot Volume". Eventually, the tech people at Dell came to the conclusion that I needed a new hard drive. Does anybody have any idea as to what the cause of this might have been? |
 | :-| Hi all,... im facingn this terrible problem after upgrading my chipset from celronD to Pentium 4 HT 331. My PC SHUTS DOWN RANDOMLY while playing games, doing work, etc. I dont know alot about this stufff, bucuz im only 12 yrs old. I went to look at my bios … |
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