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| | I moved my computer to a new room, when I go to turn it on... it doesn't turn on. I moved back to my room and it will turn on, but it doesn't boot up. The Light on the front of the case stays on and when I plug my … |
| | my PC keeps on restartng/shutting down on irregular intervals without any apparent reason, the intervals at which the computer restarts or just shuts down are very random sometimes it restarts just when windows starts to boot and sometimes it restarts after running for many hours without any problem sometimes I … |
| | I left the room with my computer on, and came back to the screen being frozen. I tried control alt delete and it didn't work. I hit the reset button and then the computer kept starting up and shutting down over and over. I thought maybe the reset button was … |
| | hi, my problem is that i have formated my thinkpad 365xd and when i went to install win98 from the cd , its starts up with the thinkpad logo and then tells me INVALID SYSTEMS DISK ????:sad: can anyone help thinkpad 365xd nofloppy just a cd/rom drive thanks |
| | [COLOR=#555555]Hello everyone! This is my first post on this forum, and I wish it was under different circumstances.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The power went out for 2 hours at my house. When it came back on, my wife restarted our Dell computer but didn’t use it. She basically pressed the power button and … |
| | Here is the lowdown. Today, at random, my PC quit booting all the way. It does turn on, run through the BIOS, etc. But after the "Windows XP" boot screen comes up, the monitor goes black, it is still receiving a signal, but it is black. I am able to … |
| | Has anyone had the experience of upgrading this laptop? I can't tell if the Toshiba Satellite 2805-S202 can handle a simple upgrade or if I need to do a clean install. Also, I have a corporate CD-RW from the office but the laptop will not read it. I get an …  |
| | i have a problem with my computer, i just recently bought a cmos battery because recently my pc wont start up and beep, 3 beeps <pause> 2 beeps, what i do is remove the cmos for variable length of time then it would boot while showing low cmos battert cmos … |
| | Hi there, This problem is so annoying. When I am playing games (FSX, FS9, COD2, BF2 etc) my computer randomly freezes. I can't do anything, no ctrl-alt-del, alt-tab or slt-f4..nothing works! my USB ports also die, my joysticks lights go off. There is nothing I can do but reboot. There … |
| | I have an HP Pavilion A1000N. When I boot it, it gets stuck at the HP screen, before bios I think (where you can hit F10 to restore or Fsomething for setup). If I power back down, unplug it from the wall for 10 seconds and reboot, it boots up … |
| | i own a compaq 5410us, 1.3 celeron 512mb running windows xp home, i use this mostly for gaming and lastnight i went to bed and left my game running, when i woke up the screen was froze, i couldnt get cntl-alt-del to open up to close the window so i … |
| | Ok im working on my friends Compaq 2200. I'v installed a new harddrive and proceeded to install xp. Xp seamed to install properly however once it restarts and gets past the windows load screen, screen goes blank but i can hear the startup sound and it seems to be working … |
| | Hey everyone - I have been trying to troubleshoot this machine for a year now. It started with random strange images, then failure to produce a screen.... then a burning smell then failure to do ANYTHING! Here's what I've done: RMA'd/replaced the Vid Card - still nothing. Replaced power supply … |
| | Hi Just built a pc with asus a7n8x-x motherboard, athlon xp 2500+, 512 ddr 333 ram. It works fine with Win 98 but wont install XP. About 5 mins into the installation it reports hardware problems tells me to try disabling a couple of cache's in the bios and try … |
| | Hi, I hope someone can help as I don't have a clue what is causing the following problem. I have just put together a new PC, which powers on beautifully, POSTs and is happy, goes into the BIOS, and even gets as far as looking for the system disk, which … |
| | I have Windows XP SP2 (32-bit) with all the latest updates installed. I have an AMD64 3200+ system. Since last few days, I've been facing a serious problem. Whenever I simply click on a video file (not open it) or open any other program, my Windows freezes. I am not … |
| | hi there, its not really a dead machine...well actualli im not sure coz ive never started it, but i was wondering if anyone knows much about these computer systems? i currently have an SGI model no. CMN A004 that i use to place my TV on top of it :P … |
| | Hello, Newbee here. I am not very computer literate. But I do know how to research. From the homework I have done. I discovered that my comp is a "no POST." I tried disconnecting the power and battery to no avail. I did a PAS alternate boot to attain the … |
| | Ok, so here is the whole story. At first my PSU died on my old computer, but since i didn't realize that, i thought it was the motherboard, so i bought a new one. Then obviously with the new mb comes a new proc and new video card and the …  |
| | Hi, Ive been having this problem for a few months now. When I reboot, or power up the PC, I get error beeps and then nothing. The beeps happen before [U]anything[/U] is displayed on the screen. The beeps are 2 extremely short beeps, back to back, then 6 independant short … |
| | I am really confused. I was working on my computer and it hung up trying to recognize a USB drive. I restarted the computer and everything appeared fine. The Bios Post was fine and when I expected to see the Windows screen I didn't get anything except for a black … |
| | My friends hp pavilion ze1250 laptop stopped working, so now I am trying to fix it. The laptop will power up, you will hear the hard drive working a little, the fan will be on high, then in about a couple seconds the fan will turn to low, and there … |
| | Ive just installed a SATA II drive on my system, after the PATA gave me problems.. now whenever i run demanding programs such as Photoshop, Audio processing programs, DC++ server or demanding games( BF 2142, UT 2004) the sytem just freezes .. and i have to reset the system this … |
| | Hey, My problem is that my system freezes when playing games, I played war rock for around 5 minutes then it froze and I had to restart, it's been doing it ever since. My CPU runs at 34c idle or when just a few programs running and around 39c when … |
| | [quote=mercury049;272311]Hi, I have Vista and XP set as dual boot on my machine with no problems. HOWEVER, I have noticed that on most of the forums I'm a member of that people are having a LOT of issues surrouding the install of Vista on their existing machines and some are … |
| | My parents own an old Compaq Pasorio w/ windows 98 second edition. It boots into windows fine but every time the computer would restart when they are doing someting online/in a application program or the computer is in idel. I would like to know your opinion on how to fix … |
| | Our usually working well emachines desktop just stopped working tonight. It'll start when you press the power button but gets to the first screen (emachines) and turns itself off. Any ideas? |
| | All I did was reboot to download expl 7 which I had done on second machine with no problem. On my main computer I had uninstalled spybot and was rebooting to go forward computer now will not go past Gigabyte Titan intro screen and just sits with the mb process … |
| | a couple of days ago when i turned my computer on there was a delay of about half an hour before it would actually start, now it just wont turn on at all. it makes no noise, no lights turn on, no fans spin. I've tried different power supply cables … |
| | Hi newbie here :mrgreen: I posted this message at the bottom of a similiar thread but thought i would actually start my own :cool: Im not pc stupid and understand the basics and have built many, but this problem bugging me. Lets say to start with my pc is running … |
| | Hello to all I am new to this group and am in need of advice regarding booting a G5 that isn't responding following an attempt to use a firewire enclosure as start up device with a cloned sytem drive. After cloning drive and checking that it was seen as a … |
| | Hi All, I was using my PC when it just shut down. It will not start up again. No lights, no fans, nothing. I checked the power cables and the outlet, they are fine. If I unplug the PC and plug it back in and push the power button I … |
| | About 2 months ago I bought 2, 1 GBs ram sticks, that I was going to put in both my computer and my moms. Now first let me say that I worked at a computer store for a few months and I know the parts and how to put a … |
| | A couple weeks ago I put my computer in standby. Came back an hour later to find it dead. The fans in the psu spin, all case fans spin, cpu fans spin, motherboard light is on. No signal to the monitor. After a week of troubleshooting I decided to get … |
| | My brother's cpu, cpu fan, and hard drive randomly shuts off at random times, like I can get it to start to boot then the cpu and hard drive will shut off but other components will still have power, like the cd-rom drive doors will be able to open and …  |
| | Please help, I have the blue screen of death on my laptop and the following error message STOP:c0000221 {bad image checksum} The image kernel32.dll is possibly corrupt. The header checksum does not match the computed checksum. Normally this would prompt a restart in safe mode but I can t access … |
| | My laptop is not dead, but dying, so I hope it's OK to post here Sometimes the scrollbars won't show up in certain applications, most notably a Visual Basic app I wrote myself. I'll open a form and there will be text and objects going off the screen to the … |
| | [B]Rig [/B] [LIST] [*]Manufacturer: Alienware Laptop [*]CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz w/ Hyper Threading [*]GFX Card: nVidia 7800 GTX [*]RAM: 1 GB[/LIST][B]Problem [/B] Well all of the sudden a few days ago I went to my computer (which I leave on) and the screen was black but the computer was … |
| | hello, a couple of days ago i was surfing the net minding my own business, when all uf a sudden, my IDE 60gb HDD started making a familiar clicking noise .. and sure enough its now dead. thats fine though, because i recently bought a 250GB maxtor maxline III SATA … |
| | My HP pavilion dv1100 laptop will not boot up. When I turn it on, the HP logo shows and it freezes there. The HD makes clicky noises, and after about a minute it goes to a blank screen. Sometimes if i push the space bar during the blank screen, the … |
 | ok.. lately my computer has been restarting randomly while playing World of Warcraft, however only when i play WoW does this happen, and time incriments in between when it happens varies from day to day. The other day it happened and when it restarted an error came up telling me … |
| | i have used my mp3 player months from now when the problem occurs, i cant get enter to the main menu of my mp3 player, it will go direct playing music.. why is it? pls help. |
| | Hi you all. My first thread, usually can find a solution off someone else's misery. I have possession of an ibm G40 laptop(?) huge machine. Anyway, it's getting zero power, although the battery connector points does show a small amount of current. In any case, no lights, no one home … |
| | I had a laptop gave to me that doesn't work. When you turn it on the power light comes on, you hear the hard drive spin, cd-rom has power, but there is no picture on the monitor. Also you cannot hear it go through any boot process. Does this sound … |
| | Hi there, my problem simply put is that my motherboard * a P4P800* no longer seems to be sending out a display signal to the AGP slot...i think :( i thought i may hav fried my motherboard and i have examined it properly...and there seems too b no burn or … |
| | Hey guys, new user here because I am having an issue with my Laptop. Bear with me here, kind of long, but I would appreciate it if you could give your time to help. First the specs: Compaq Presario R3000Z Notebook (2 years old) AMD Athalon 64 3400 processor 768MB … |
| | I tried to install windows 2003 on my desktop system. While doing that I deleted all the partitions in the HDD and tried to create new partitions, but while doing I reseted the system by mistake. Now I am trying to install Windows OS, but is coming upto boot from … |
| | im having a problem in my machine. my computer restarts randomly whenever i boot my computer and whenever i am playing games, but when i do normal things like surf and all other things except gaming it does not restart. can anyone tell me whats the problem? thanks. my video … |
| | I have been having problems over the last few months with my PC rebooting. It mainly seems to be whenever I view a high res video or browse through large photo files. This is the event report, if it helps: Error code 0000009c, parameter1 00000000, parameter2 8054d370, parameter3 c4104000, parameter4 … |
| | Hi All, I'm very helpless right now... my notebook acer TravelMate4102W is dead. Whenever i try to on my notebook, the power light in on. But nothing shown in the screen. And normally i will need to press the power button around 5 second to force the windows shut down. …  |
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