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hey guys, i have a HP Pavilion zv5210ca notebook pc and sometimes the ac power works and sometimes it doesn't, when i turn it off though it charges, i don't know if i have some virus that makes it so i can't use ac power or if something is defective, …

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I have gateway solo 2150. I bought a new battery for it and installed it. It charged up and looked like it was going to work fine. It went dead, so I charged it again and it won't take a charge.. Thought it was the battery, sent it back and …

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The back light on my Presario x1050 laptop did not fire up when I turned on today. Prior to this there had been no display problem whatsoever, specifally no flickering, dimming or red tinge. I have taken the machine apart and wiggled the video connector cable but this produced no …

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Hello! I own a Dell Inspiron 4150 (yes, old laptop, but I love it). Yesterday I took it for a bike ride in my backpack and then when I came back later in the day I resumed work on a project. The computer worked fine until all of a sudden …

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OK guys, im new to this forum, and would like some help pls. This was my set-up AMD 64 3500+ K8N Neo2 Plat 1gb TWINMOS DDR 400 250GB HDD * MAXTOR 9 256MB GEFORCE 6800 GT agp 550 W COLOURS IT PSU One night whilst watching TV downstairs there was …

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Intel Pentium 4 630 EMT64 Asus Phr 5ND2-SLI Deluxe motherboard Galaxy Geforce 6800GT PCI-e Maxtor 80GB Corsair DDR2 512 PC4200 XP Pro x64 I was just taking out a wireless network card as i recently upgraded my OS and x64 does not support netgear WG113T cards and in the process …

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Hello, I'm new here...great site... Anyway...so I have this problem with a Compaq Presario 5304... It used to have some trouble starting up (ie. you'd plug it in and turn it on, and all the LED lights would blink but it wouldn't actually start) I think someone came and repaired …

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My computer cannot get into windows. I get as far as the when the Windows logo background comes on the screen but then my computer gives me the error message and the BLUE screen. The problem may have to do with a virus. I loaded an old diskette and I …

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I have an old PowerBook 5300 that won't start up. The battery is probably dead. I haven't used the machine in a very long time. I tried letting it charge overnight but it doesn't even get warm. I removed the battery but it still won't start up with the ac …

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Hello all, Specs: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Mobo AMD Athlon XP 2700+ 768MB Samsung DDR DIMMs (3x256) ASUS GeForce FX 5900 128MB 2 250GB WD 7200rpm HDDs 1 120GB WD 7200rpm HDD Plextor DVD-R drive Problem: I came home from the Rose Bowl (Texas Nat'l Champs btw) and my friends tell …

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I have a T2682 Emachine, and it won't power up. After taking a look in it, I found that the wire had been disconnected from the power on button, and that the power up button is broken. The computer's power supply is fine, but without the power up button, the …

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My PC has lost internet acces - IP address is now blank I think I have something that's taking over the PC - here is a chronlogy of what happened: My son downloaded a Div X player& then removed it when he couldn't get it to work. It looks like …

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i recently baught a comp with ASUS A89-E motherboard,AMD 64 bit athlon processor, 1 gb ram and 256mb graphics card .. the problem is that the comp shuts down suddenly in the middle of any game with high graphics.. what may be the reason???

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My laptop which is an HP pavilion ze5500 has a corrupted BIOS. After i flashed the BIOS the computer doesn't start up. I took it to a technician. he says i have to pay $400 for a new motherboard. does anyone know anything I can do to startup the laptop …

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Hello everyone, I have a laptop M700 that boots and after few minutes will shut down. I am not sure that this is a cpu problem overheating or what by the way this is a M700 PIII windows 2000 OS with Docking stations. any help would be appreciated. :sad:

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Hi I wanted to renew the tech issue of the eMachine A-socket AMD 2400+ T2482. If you look at these on eBay alone, then do a search, you find they all suffer from the same issues, the ones that seemingly fail w/o warning...they boot, drive lights up but no video.... …

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I have a dead integrated video on my emachine. Since it is dead I can't get into the bios to disable the video.... hence I can't add a video card because it won't work! Anything I can do to disable it??

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Hi, I'm new to this forum in needing of some help :- Recently i installed Norton, After that everytime i restarted or standby'd it, It froze for 2 mins, It was called Scanner NT or something And a TXT File in the same folder They where in my Temp folder,So …

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My computer specs are: Intel Pentium4 660 Hyper Threading 3.6 Gigabyte LGA775 GA-81945P (PRO)(-G) G5 looking Case with (New) Enermax SLi 535w ATX 12v v.2.0 2x 512 ddr20 668MHz Dual channel(With heat sinks) XFX Geforce 7600GT 2 Dvd drives 320GB Zalman Copper Heatsink/Fan - 92 mm 2 80 mm Fans(1 …

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I have a P4 pc based on the Intel D845WN motherboard with an ATI Rage 128 Pro video adapter. The machine had been running perfectly well until today, when it would not even POST. There was no keyboard functionality, I could not boot from a floppy or even access the …

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Is it possible that the reason my laptop shuts down after a minute, or so, is because my "universal replacement" AC Adapter is rated at 65 Watts and Compaq specs 90 Watts for its original equipment AC Adapter? Maybe I just need a new AC Adapter and don't need to …

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My PC was locked up this morning and my son turned off the power. It will no longer reboot. It stalls at the Windows XP logo screen. I will not boot in Safe Mode either. It stalls after agpCPQ.sys. I'm currently booted from a Win XP CD and running CHKDSK …

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Computer has shortcut problems, MS shared problems as well as ActiveX\Com problems. How do I troubleshoot?

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right i got my p4 3.2ghz processor asus p5wd premium mobo and 1gb ram pny..and geforce t6600 with turbo cache. i connected the cpu and processor to the mobo including the akasa powerpax psu 400watt. i turned it on everyting was spining fine. then i turned it off from the …

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I have a toshiba laptop that froze. Next time I tried to start it, it brings up a message saying operating system not found, I still have the recovery disc. My question is if I use this will I lose everything already saved on my computer. I have many photos …

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My computer specs are: Intel Pentium4 660 Hyper Threading 3.6 Gigabyte LGA775 G5 looking Case with Enermax Noisetaker 485w ATX12v v.2.0 1GB ddr2 Dual channel XFX Geforce 7600GT 2 Dvd drives 320GB Zalman Heatsink/Fan 2 80 mm Fans A week ago I added a 120mm fan to the outside of …

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I am at a loss, this machine will not power on or charge the battery, when it is plugged in to the adaptor the light under the litte picture of the plug in flashes and the blue light on the adaptor flashes. Sometimes the display screen or other lights will …

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Here are my computer's Specifications: *Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire Ready Mother Board socket 939 *AMD 64 Bit 3500+ CPU *(2x) ATI x850 Crossfire Edition 256 Videocards (I believe these are the source of the problem in some way) *Dual Channel DDR400 Ram, 1GB *Volcanic 630w Power Supply *80GB Hard Drive (Taken …

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help me plz (on my hands and neas?) my pc keeps on rebooting when under stress and when i nugge my pc by acedeint it reboots :( right because ive been looking around all the forums i noticed a man with a msi mother board (same make as mine) he …

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I have recently put together my first computer, and it worked...for a while It worked for about 2 weeks, when it first hung up during the BIOS boot. It hung up after identifying my processore, and just froze. I reseated all of my hardware, and it still didn't work. I …

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HELP.... WINDOWS (XP PRO ) Won't open, Screen has mesg saying..... ' A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER............. ' Can someone HELP me direct me where to get help. [email]WALCH_NJ@hotmail.com[/email]

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A couple days ago I tried to update my bios and got a failed verification error _MSI K8N neo board. No problems until I needed to restart the computer today. The computer will start-up for about 5 seconds - just enough time to show the first 5 lines of the …

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you see, my ibm laptop suddenly was acting strangly and it wont go passed that " press f1 for boots options " screen and now when i turn it on the screen is blank! and the standby light is on when the lid is up! maybe the lid button is …

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Hi, I am working on a customers computer and it displays the error message: PXE-E61 Media Test failure PXE-M0F Exiting LANDesk Service Agent II Instert System Disk in drive press any key when ready The laptop is rather old, but the customer wants it fixed. It's a Toshiba Portege 3110CT. …

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i have a vaio fs115e and when i turned it on after going out for an hour or so it came to a screen that said the last attempt to restart the system from its previous location failed. attempt to restart again? it then gives me a couple of options …

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[color=#555555]Hey everyone,[/color] [color=#555555][/color] [color=#555555]I want to recover data from an old partition....the partition used to have win xp sp2 on it...and it all happened when I tried to use some free space from it to create another partition using acronis partition expert...but I was unsuccessful in creating the partition and …

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Thanks in advance to anyone who can lend assistance. I am trying to determine if I have a faulty motherboard. Heres the system I put together. Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2 GHZ Processor Intel BOXD955XBKLKR ATX Intel Motherboard eVGA Geforce 6800GS 256-P2-N386-AX Video Card CORSAIR 1GB DDR2 Dual Channel RAM …

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Hi this is my first thread on this forum. Recently my pc is behaving in a strange way. It simply crashes randomly and without warning. When it happens the pc stays like this: . power led on . hard driver led constantly on . no screen output (monitor warns there's …

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Well my last motherboard started acting up, so I bought an ASUS A8V K8T800PRO. I decided to reformat my hard drive and do a fresh install of Windows while I was at it. Boothing Windows XP installation off a CD, and reformating works fine. When the installation process starts, does …

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Ok, so here's the story: a game I had was running really choppy so I restarted my computer and held delete at the bootup screen to enter setup mode. From here I decided to change my graphics accelerator speed from Turbo to F1 (the highest setting) even though it said …

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All of sudden, this morning, all my video and audio (including MP3) are playing too fast! I'm using Windows Media Player. I reinstalled all the codecs but still the same (Using K-lite Codec). Even mp3 in iTunes or Winamp are playing too fast. Tried ReClock, the video plays at the …

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Hi all. My Laptop started making this beep when I press keys with certain combination. Such as... u & i u & o 7 & 8 5 & 7 ...etc It gets pretty annoying since those combination often appears by just typing something regular, especially when I do that fast, …

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My laptop was working fine a few hours ago and I left it to go do something and came back to a blank screen. I thought it was in standby but when I touched a key and the pad nothing happened. The battery says 100% charged. I can hear the …

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Lap top was working fine until it completely lost power. Main batt was removed and cmos battery dead. Unit will boot into win 98 just fine, but keybd is not working. Mouse and mouse buttons OK. Sometimes I get a 301 (keybd error). Restarted in DOS mode, keybd still dead. …

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When I attempt to boot up it shows me the POST messages, then the Windows XP loading screen. After a couple of minutes it returns to the POST messages. I can boot Windows if I boot up from the boot options menu in Directory Services mode, but that's it. What …

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Ok so i just got the parts to build a whole new comp. My specs are opteron 165 asus a8n sli aspire 520w psu evga 7900 gt 1 gig corsair xms So heres the issue. This is my first time building a computer and i felt fairly confident i could …

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and I can't figure it out. I've run several scans by a bunch of antispyware/adware stuff but they haven't shown anything yet. Anyone have any ideas why its running so slow? I can't play any music, let alone movies or games. Unfortuneatly it started slowing down about a week or …

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This is my problem and Juno just sends me boiler plate, cookie cutter replys?? I keep loosing my juno info and have to restore. >This seems to happen about every 3 to 4 months. No other problems. >I started juno with the free account then up graded on line to …

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This is very URGENT! Please, I'm a student and I have some very important papers in my computer that I have to turn in. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND PATIENCE. It has been a problem that I've been delaying to deal with. Often times I cannot turn …

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device. Last time it would loop on start, but I system restored and it was just fine. I'm thinking that I could boot from a Windows XP CD and fix the boot settings, but the thing is, I don't have a windows XP disc, nor do I have a working …

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