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| | Ok I have a computer I put together my self and my main hard drive had Windows XP and my other hard drive had a beta version of Windows Vista, I tried to set up a dual boot thing but it never really worked. I took out the second hard … |
| | i scrubbed my laptop's hard drive with acronis drive scrubber now i cant install new o s getting mbr error messages?? what do i do??? |
| | My computer has worked fine for the past few months, but all of a sudden it has started restarting randomly. Sometimes it will boot into Windows and run for up to a few hours, other times it will restart during the Windows loading and sometimes it won't even POST. The …  |
| | [B]Boot Disks[/B] A very important, but separate, part of your backup strategy should be the creation and maintenance of boot disks. These disks are used in the event of an emergency with your system (they are in fact sometimes called emergency boot disks). They are designed to enable you to … |
| | When I flashed the bios using Compaq's SP file in XP, I received an error message "Unable to write block 4". The computer then shut down and will not post. I can get a new bios chip and have it written, but I need the binary file with 512K. Compaq … |
| | this is my 1st time to this forum! my computer is not powering on and before that it had problems after booting!that is,after booting win xp, some error info comes up referring to memory addresses and won't go further than that! help! :eek: |
 | Hi everyone, I have this HP Pavillion a1030n desktop computer. It was working earlier today. I restarted it, and now it won't boot. The power light should turn blue on startup, but now it just stays yellow. I have tried replacing the power supply and that did nothing. I now … |
| | I have a 1998 CTX EZBOOK laptop. When I turn it on I get an error message that reads "Operating System Not Found". When I insert my Windows 98 CD I get the same message. When I inserted my CTX Restore 98 CD I gotthe message: "Checking HD partitions... Invalid … |
| | will keep this msg short and straight.. bought a vaio s-series, xp home with sp2 preinnstalled....fine formatted once bcos of some problem...installed and used winxp prof for few days. ordered from sony and tried using vaio reovery cd to gt it to original factory state....but after whole installation...the 'infamous' blue … |
| | hi, i have the following problem. When I start up my Dell desktop Dimension 8400 there are some troubles. First i hear some beeps, somewhat around 5 (not in a logical order). Then my fans jump on, followed by the rest of the computer. However when i look at my … |
| | I am working on a compaq presario 700, when it powers up it runs fantastic. However, once you shut it down it will not start back up. This does not happen all the time, it happens about every other time. It is getting power, but aparently not to the board. … |
| | Hi! My eMachine wont boot and hard disk wont run. As soon as it turns on it beeps 1, 3 times, 3 times and 1 more. The lights on the CD and DVD flashes and in about 30 to 40 seconds it goes off. What happened prior to this? I … |
| | I have an HP Laser Jet 1300 which I am switching to a different machine. I can't get the driver to work. One that I dowloaded says I need administrator right to run the program (Setconfig_RmTool). The other (lj1300pcl6win9xme-en opens as a zip file and autmatically creates a folder and … |
| | I apologize that I'm not a user that logs on very often. I've been doing this close to 30 years now, I just haven't kept up with newer tech. I have an old Compaq with XP Pro installed and a new WD 250GB drive which was working fine. In the … |
| | I have just swapped out my mobo for a foxconn NF4K8AC with Athlon64 3000+ cpu and geforce 6600GT 128MB PCI-E graphics card. The graphics card, cpu and mainboard fans spin up as do the CD/DVD drives and harddrive but the system simply emits a series of single prolonged beeps :sad: … |
| | My Dell died yesterday. I have tried everything I could think of, but no luck. A few days ago, when it was running, I received a system message saying there was no space left on the hard drive. I thought this funny because a couple days before I had checked … |
| | Custom built AMD about 3yrs old, never a problem! I was doing some online gaming the other day and it restarted all of a sudden, didn’t POST, lights and fan came on but no monitor. Also the case switches wouldn’t work, the only way to get it to restart was … |
| | Ok guys I have a serious problem with my computer Here are my Specs: AMD Athalon 2200+, 640MBs RAM, 1 40GB HD(master), 1 100GB HD(slave), I bought it from Fry's Electronics about 3 years ago The Problem: The computer was running good for those 3 years, but it kept getting … |
| | Hey everyone! I have a rather annoying problem with a custom build pc. I reciently upgraded to a new gigabyte motherboard. Everything went fine, and it runs great. However, when i go to start shutdown or hit the power button, the computer goes through the shutdown procedure, but then instantly … |
| | Hi guys , i have just replaced the power connector on a hp pavilion zt1000 notebook, and i am sure i have reconnected all cables etc but now when i try to boot up the damn thing it whirs like its try boot but then powers down after 4 or … |
| | I have, through an ill advised keystroke, started the Flash Recovery in my Bios. It has been running for more than 3 hours. So I have a few questions: Is this normal? How long should a flash recovery take? Is there some way to stop it? and do I want …  |
| | Four year old Athlon 1800 XP, Jetway 866 AS Ultra mainboard, running well when last shutdown. Now refuses to POST, and no code beeps, also dead monitor screen. All drives and fans have power on. Have tried the usual, removing cards and memory sticks, and reseated CPU with Arctic Silver, … |
| | I built a HTPC100 with a FoxConn 760GxK8MB motherboard and a Sempron 2800+ CPU a few months ago. The machine was set up to go into standby mode after 30 minutes and it had been doing that just fine for months. To wake it up, I would just press the … |
| | Hi, i have started building my first computer yesterday with the following... AMD athlon 64 3200+ CPU Corsair dual channel 512x2 (whatever lol) Asus a8n-e mobo nvidia 6200 OC PCI video card Seagate HD SATA X-Infinity case Anywho, After installing everything, I turn the computer on and the LED's light … |
| | My laptop died after a virus infection deleted the wininet.dll file and I couldn't start Windows. I was restarting from the command prompt safe mode in WinXP and the laptop locked up at the "F2 Bios Setup" Prompt at startup. It wouldn't respond to any keys and the Press/Hold power … |
| | Video CD or audio CD when inserted in the CD drive, is playing in autorun mode.But when I try to explore to see the contents of the CD,the display skips to desktop view.I am not at all able to read data CD. CD drive is visible when I open my … |
| | my computer doesn't boot right, i can't see anything cuz i have a black screen when booting. the cpu makes beeps but after around a minute it shuts down alone. what can i do? please help!  |
| | ok, wow this is amazing, ive got a good computer here, psu is fine so we can rule that out, when i turn on my computer, clear side window, all things start whirring, fans, cpu, water pump, but nothing shows on screen herm. so lets reset the cmos, nope nothing, … |
| | I came home last week Friday, (just happened to be Friday the 13th) and my computer was completely dead. I trouble shooted everything, turns out (well I thought so at the time) that I placed a motherboard mount where it shouldn't have been and it scratched it until it shorted … |
| | I have had a look at other threads about this, but here is what is happening. worked fine last week, now it wont boot at all. With battery in, and power unhooked, upon pushing power button, power light flashes briefly, and thats it. With battery in or out, and power … |
| | i am having MAJOR issues and any and everyone's help would be SUPER appreciated!! i thought i knew about computers until i had these problems!! i purchased a used Dell Latitude LS from ebay almost a year ago. it was slow and all that, so i asked a friend, an … |
| | I have a m305crv laptop that is dead and wont boot. I have heard that these units have some problems with the dc link or something like that. I am wondering if this could be it. When plugged in i have no lights, wont do anything with the power button, … |
| | Hi, Sorry for the "urgent" topic, but I've got a real problem. I have a Fujitsu Amilo L 1300 laptop and during BIOS flashing it Windows hung. Now I have a half-updated BIOS, ie the machine won't even start; no POST, no keyboard response, nothing! Is there a BIOS reset … |
| | I have a compaq presario with a Turion 64 chip and 1+GB ram in a 1024 stick and a 256 stick. The laptop is only about 5 months old and I've never had any problems until now. I recently got a blue screen (which I didn't read the error code … |
| | Hello I recently had a problem of my computer booting over and over again and again Guess what I found out At sometime microsoft decided to make a change in windows XP And this change has a very dramatic effect on how your processor reads and writes to the hard … |
| | I recently ran an ad-aware scan and it topped my memory, this has happened before, I shut the computer off and the next time I turned it on, it got stuck on the Windows Is Loading screen Here's my computers details Computer: Laptop Presario 2100 Ram: 750 MB Hard Drive: … |
| | hey. the problem is that SOMETIMES the computer (whenever it is in windows OR even hardly reaches BIOS) restarts and goes into cycles of turning on and loading to the same point (sometimes not even managing to load POST) and off. Sometimes it works fine for a couple of days … |
| | hi there,here is the problem yesterday when i was surfing the net,my comp suddenly froze,so i restarted the comp,but the comp again froze while it was loading window,so i thought my comp maybe overheated so i turned it off,this morning when i attempt to turn on my comp,a screen pop … |
| | specs: ASUS A7N8X-X AMD Athlon 2100+ Radeon x700 1.5 gig ddr ram 3 hard drives dvd burner ok i believe thats all as far as specs go, now to the actual problem. my pc was working fine until my girlfriend plugged a space heater into an outlet on the same … |
| | Was working on company machine yesterday, a Compaq Presario 2100. Employee had brought it in to get a wireless card put it for an out of state hotel. I didn't have it plugged in, as I was moving around the office with it, trying to get this and that, and … |
| | I Have A Pentium 3 Computer Set Which When I Try To Boot It Up It Is Giving Me The Message Unknown Flash Type.Ive So Far Tried To Change The Bios Set Up But It Is Not Helping Anything. Please Help |
| | So i'm trying to get an old computer to work...it's a 446 mhz processor or something...it's old and it's a gateway...i connected the wires for the keyboard, monitor, and mouse. When i turn it on it boots up and i can see the gateway sign and everying...and it looks like … |
| | My daughter's PC has completely died. When she called me to look at the problem there was nothing on the monitor and all the lights on the case were on (CD and CDRW drives, floppy, HDD activity light, etc). The mobo power light was on so there was powet going … |
| | hi i have just finished building my first pc it has asus a7n8xe deluxe mobo athlon 3200 xp 160gb maxtor hard drive and 512 memory, my problem is every thing powered up ok but it told me it dident recognise my keyboard so i borrowed a usb type it now … |
| | I have a kenwood soverign reciver with surround sound speakers, and a computer. I would like to hook my cmputer up to my reciver to gain surround sound from it as well as my TV. Is there a audio card that allows me to hook my computer up to my … |
| | Hi, For ages my computer has been crashing\freezing at random points. I have Windows XP 1.25 ghz Athlon processor 768mb RAM 40gb disk space Radeon 9600 graphics card After much investigation I think it may have something to do with the internet connection, but maybe not. When I am home … |
| | Hi, I am just a computer user (don't know much about what's inside it). My Satellite Pro 6100 (notebook) came with Windows XP and IDE 30GB hard drive. Recently, the hard drive packed up. After a brief consultation (now I know I should have consulted more) I bought a Toshiba … |
| | Hi everyone, I just installed a new Diablo Expansion Slot 80mm LED Case Fan for my video card. I connected it parallel to the 4 pin But obviously I did something very bad - when I started my PC there was a high-spinning noise and then a black screen came … |
| | I have a compaq armada 1700 Pentium II based Note Book. My problem is when I switch on the notebook it will complete post (memory test etc) and after that continues beep will start, it even some time boot also but the beep sound exist. Please help me |
| | I have a question and I hope someone has an answer for me. I have two Compaq Armada 1500c laptops. Having problems with a broken screen on one and a main board problem on the other. I'm trying to make one out of two but have troubles getting the screen … |
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