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| | My laptop overheated, shut down and won't power up, it has a burnt smell. This happened 4 years ago so the burnt smell is gone but it still won't power up and i'm trying to resurrect it if it is worth it, own my own. I already begun the teardown …  |
 | I have an old EVGA gaming machine that is about 3 yrs old. I am not sure if this thing was ever 100% even when it was brand new. I was always using the current drivers, dx9 ect… 1. For the first few months I would lose my resolution every … |
| | The above mentioned laptop boots and runs fine on battery power but will not boot with the AC adapter. The adapter appears to be charging the battery fine. When I use the adapter I get a blue screen and immediate shutdown. Also, the machine runs MUCH hotter with the adapter … |
| | i was having problems getting the sound to work and i was looking for the markings on the mother board. i removed the hard drive and replaced it. when i tried to boot it back up nothing came up on the screen and there was no hard drive activity what … |
| | Well first off ima newb... =) i came across your forums while surfing for a solution for my dead laptop issue and your site seemed promising. the laptop is a 4 year old compaq presario 2100 and from what i understand just stopped working one day about a year ago. …  |
| | I have a new system: Biostar MB FT 7050 OCZ platinum revised 2 gigs Ultra 600 watt PS seagate 250 gig harddrive My problem, My system will not boot up properly after it has been off for a while(15 + Min). It boots to the BIOS and allows me to … |
| | I have a new system: Biostar MB FT 7050 OCZ platinum revised 2 gigs Ultra 600 watt PS seagate 250 gig harddrive My problem, My system will not boot up properly after it has been off for a while(15 + Min). It boots to the BIOS and allows me to … |
| | Hi there folks. I had a look around the forums, but couldn't find the answer to this one, so thought I'd put up a message to see if any one's got any bright ideas. My girlfriend's got an 18-month old Dell Inspiron 1000 with standard specs, though the RAM reported … |
| | I have a gateway computer with a 2.8 MHz P4 w/ HT that stopped working. When booting, it gets stuck on the 3.5" floppy drive & just loops back to that divice & won't continue booting. I've tried disconnecting all my cards & the floppy & still get no bootup. … |
| | Dear sir, i have a laptop Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 notworkin Faction key after new instaltion windows XP i need software .............. |
| | I was just using my computer, listening to some music, and suddenly this "Brown Screen of Death" appeared. Kind of light brown in color, cut off the music. My OS is Vista, but I 've never had a problem even similar to this before. Ctrl+Alt+Del wouldn't work, so I hit … |
| | I'm trying to find out if things that run on my PC are necessary, boot up takes forever. I saw that realplay.exe is running and can't find where it gets started, it is not in the system services folder yet starts up when booting. I read where this application on … |
| | I have an Acer Aspire 5601 and a couple of months ago it shut down without any warning whilst I was using it. It wouldn't turn back on until the following day, and showed no record of ever having shut down, no error reports, no system check ups, nothing. It … |
| | My PC has ceased to function and will not boot. Config:MSI m/b, Intel 2.3Ghz CPU, 512Mb RAM, The machine is about 5 years old and it had been working fine, and I had left it on hibernate. We had a couple of power cuts lasting no more than 1 second … |
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| | Last night every programme I tried to use stopped responding, so i rebooted and i was offered to start in safe mode which i stupidly declined, but it wouldnt start normally then. now today have the same problem. When I put my XP disc in, it says its repairing and … |
| | [QUOTE=xargon;375103]I had random shut downs and spent two days trying to sort it out. it was only the dicky psu. Get a new one before anything else. Mine only cost £20. Poor psu's cause weird and wonderful effects to a computer. Computers should be sold with a spare! Psu fail … |
| | please tell what's going on and how do i fix it. i have a t6544 emachine its 2 years old. |
| | Just today I was just browsing the web, watching some funny youtube videos, then my computer just freaks out, and then freezes. I wait for about 30 minutes, come back, still frozen, so I turned it off and tried turning it back on. My Dell Logo comes up and does … |
| | Hi guys, My first post on here so bare with me and tell me if i am doing something wrong. I have a customers machine that is an advent 7102 laptop and it will not get past the post bios screen and the keyboard is not working either.I have done … |
| | 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. …  |
| | Hey guys, I have an Hp media center pc m7250n and I seem to have some problems with it lately. I'd be on the computer for about 15-20 minutes and then it will automatically shut itself off. Afterwards, I have to wait about a minute before I can restart it … |
| | Hello, I need help, after dust cleaning my computer with celeron466, 256RAM, it will not boot through post at all, it will power up and just stay there with no screen and nothing. re-sit RAM and try different video card with no luck. Can anyone please help!! It is a … |
| | I decided to try and revive an old compaq presario 2264 pc that has been collecting dust in my basement for the last 4 years. We shelved it due to a corrupted hard drive so I installed an 80GB one that I took from a dead dell computer. To the … |
| | When I turn my PC (HP Media Center M370n) on, its boots up, then after about a minute or so, the computer just shuts off.. What the hell???? I'm lost, someone please help.... |
| | Hi All, Newbie here building my first machine (have done upgrades before but first shot starting from scratch. Got my machine put together, hit the power button, held my breath, and nothing.... Well a little more than nothing. The fans kicked on, the hard disk appears to be running, the … |
| | HI,i was using my laptop and just before i log out it prompted me that there is an update going on and the pc should not be shut down so i left it like that and went to bed but the next morning it was totally dead.My son took out … |
| | Hi all! I'm a new member, working on my friend's Dell Dimension 3000. It's about three years old, and never had any hardware changes other than a wireless card install. At first, it wasn't completing booting. It would go through the opening splash screen, but then would go to a … |
| | Hi, Well I'm having some trouble with my custom built PC. While at work my computer turned off and now it won't turn back on. I usually leave my computer running, so it was strange to see it off when I came home. It seems to be getting power, the … |
| | I put 1G of RAM (Crucial) into my Compaq R3000 laptop (in addition to the existing 256M). I fired it up and it booted fine - maybe a little faster than before. I opened the System window, verified it recognized the additional RAM – 1.2G RAM present, no problem! Then … |
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