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| | Since yesterday, I have been having some serious problems with my Compaq Presario 2100 laptop (AMD Athlon XP version). Whenever I used this laptop it would run fine for about thirty minutes, then it would display the Blue Screen of Death with a message mentioning the atapi.sys driver. At first, …  |
| | currently recieve this laptop, but it has a password on start up in the bios I guess. wanting to reset it. I have tried to find the cmos battery in attempt to reset but can not locate? Any hellp will be great! thanx!!!!! |
| | Okay, so I'm running on a Dell with Windows 98. So just recently I tried booting the computer and as it started the booting, it stopped and said. set path= C:WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\ULEADS~1\MPEG Program can not be run in DOS mode. So, I'm not sure where the problem lies in that error. … |
| | I posted a problem two days ago about the cursor freezing up on a Toshiba Tecra 8100. I deleted the existing OS, in case it was a software problem, and reinstalled XP Pro. It still happens. I guess it might be a hardware problem, but I don't know what to …  |
| | This happened to this PC before but it strangely corrected itself after being unplugged several days and has worked fine for the past few months. This is a self-built. Turns on fine, all LED's light, fans start and drives spin up. Get a good load of video then POST continues … |
| | Recently I've tried to boot using rescue floppies and after POST the screen would flicker. I opened the case to check for loose connections. I found no loose connections but a whole lot of dust & lint on the CPU heat sink. I removed and cleaned the heat sink and … |
| | Having a strange problem with my Compaq Presario/AMD Athlon (1.5 yrs old). As long as it's running, everything is fine. But, if you shut it off, for any reason, and pull power, even for an instant, it won't restart. Looking at the power supply on the back, I noticed that … |
| | My computer keeps rebooting. It's two years old and it has done it since I purchased it. Is the problem overheat? EVEREST Home Edition tells that there's about 130 farenheits inside. Is it too much? The problem is not MSBlast, I'm sure of it. I can't run any virusscans because … |
| | Ihave a Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop. After I boot up, the cursor freezes up. Sometimes it might take ten minutes, but it alwats freezes. Is it an OS problem(XP Pro) or a hardware problem? I'm lost! |
| | Ok, well my computer has been working awesome for the longest time....all of a sudden I got to turn the computer on this morning, and i get 8 short beeps... I think i've traced the problem to a display read/write memory text..i think... What can i do to fix this … |
| | My P.C is riddled with spyware so I decided to restore the image I'd backed-up using Powerquest Drive Image 5.0. The program requires you to create 2 rescue diskettes. I rebooted my P.C, set the floppy drive as 1st boot device, saved and exited. I inserted the 1st diskette, the … |
| | I just decided to rebuild my PC but I'm having some issues. I tried 2 different motherboards and have the same problem. Mobos - PC Chips M848ALU and ABit AN7 Memory - DDR 400MHz PC3200 Processor - XP3200 Graphics Card - Radeon 9800 AGP 400W PSU When I boot the … |
| | About a month ago I put together a PC. The system consists of an MSI 8N Platinum MB, AMD 64 3200 CPU, ABIT (ASEUS) Vid card, 1GB RAM, ATEC 480 watt power supply, and WD SATA HD. It worked great until yesterday. I was converting a CD to MP3 files … |
| | Hello Everyone! I'm new here and lukily to be a major pain, sorry about that. I apologize for my English and for my lack of knowledge about computers. My husband put together our computers, but he died last year, so I'm not able to tell you about the components, unless … |
| | Working on a friends compaq PC - 900 Meg CPU, 512 RAM, DVD/CD RW 40 Gig HDD - has intermitent boot failure/lock up/freeze Symptoms: power on - fans run, CD/floppy leds light, keyboard lights flash, HD led lights, monitor led stays amber, no compaq spash or video on screen, HD … |
| | Okay, my computer comes on and everything and displays well, like it shows the the eMachines (the maker of the PC) screen and then it freezes up. Of course the eMachines page is the very screen to come up, I am lost, the front of the PC case is damaged … |
| | Just received Dell Optiplex GX1 with Windows XP installed. Plugged it in, turned it on and it worked. Installed modem, sound card, plugged it in and the power light turned on by itself, the fan started working, but it never booted up. The only way to turn it off is … |
| | I have an IBM Think Pad laptop which cant start. The power on light just blinks and so does the battry charging light. I do not think it has something to do with the power supply. In a month I have only managed to start it twice. Please help. I …  |
| | I have the same problem as this person here: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread1114.html[/url] The problem: I cannot boot into windows, I get as far as the screen asking me to boot to safe mode, with networking, with cmd prompt, last good settings, normal boot... but no matter what I choose, the computer just … |
| | Hi I have a old pc, TM-586 TX1 Motherboard, with a pentium 166 I had 2 16 MB sticks of RAM (32 MB) I had come accross an old pc, about the same age as mine, and took the ram out and added, it to mine. Everything worked fine. So … |
| | Hi I Am So Glad I Found This Board, First Let Me Say I Do Not Know Alot About Computers, But I Learn Quicklyand Follow Directions Well, I Have A Compaq Presario 4716 With Windows 95. The Computer Sat For Along Time Without Ever Being Started Up. My Friend Started … |
| | Currently I am running: XFX Motherboard kt-400 w/ 512 mb ram XFX GeForce-4 ti4200 graphics When I turn my computer on, it starts fine, all the fans run, all the lights blink in the cd rom and floppy, but the monitor does not respond. The speakers also do no make … |
| | With over 7years experience as a PC Technician, id like to share with you guys a few of my most valuable diagnostic tools and tricks to fixing any Computer, easily. 1: a PCI PC POST card- which you can pick up from CompUSA (tells you exactly what is wrong with … |
 | When I shutdown the PC there was nothing wrong, now it won't start. It's dead, but when I take the battery on the motherboard in/out it start again. But when I shutdown, same problem, dead. I have tried with another battery but no luck, and I have updated the BIOS … |
| | I have an IBM Think Pad laptop which cant start. The power on light just blinks and so does the battry charging light. I do not think it has something to do with the power supply. In a month I have only managed to start it twice. Please help. I … |
| | Lately my Xp monitor has benn having these 5 second blackouts wehre the screen will go black for 5 seconds and then coem pack to the preavius picture. IT will do this three times until the screen goes black for about 30 seconds and then the computer reboots it selft. … |
| | Its dead. Had no problems then this morning attemtped to power the system up and nothing. Any ideas? |
| | G'day!here's the problem. I was listening to music on my comp and it suddenly froze,i then thought it was just lagging so i just wait a few sec than it crash,the screen turned off and fan and everything stopped but the light on machine still on,i than press restart than … |
| | Hello, I'm posting this on behalf of my brother. He was using some kind of crack to get a program he wanted when his computer stopped working properly. He thought he had some kind of virus and for some reason removed his E drive to see if this fixed the … |
| | I have a Compaq 12xL 401 and I was transporting to a friend when the DVD drive stopped working. He sent it back to me and now the computer will not boot up at all. It is stuck on the Compaq Logo when turned on. I tried entering the BIOS … |
| | When starting my fujitsu amilo laptop ,windows xp will not run rather an error message pops up saying Isass.exe unable to initalise. The computer then shortly afterwards shuts down. I have tried re booting windows however during the re boot the computer shutsdown roughly at the same time. Please Help! |
| | ok im hoping maybe one of u clever ppl can give me some advice, ive got an old IBM T22 thinkpad laptop, the damn thing just wont behave rationally, sometimes it boots n sometimes it doesnt, sometimes it runs for 3 hours before crashing sometimes the moment it boots up … |
| | I have a brand new P4 3.4ghz with a gig of RAM. Was exiting a game last nite and suddenly it just froze, I tried restarting it and now all that happends is the fans and lights go on but no beeps or anything on screen appear. Any ideas what … |
| | hey yll, it seems 2 be a simple but rather irritating prob.....k here goes....the green light or power light doesnt come on,though everyting else(read- CD rom, monitor,fan)are turned on..... and yeah it does take ages nearly an hour for the green light 2 flash ,but once tats on its smooth … |
| | Okay Guys Please help me out wit this (For those who dont know the whole story go to the old post) AT: [url]http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6141-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=96492&messageID=1095726[/url] I No Longer have a Compaq Computer. Now what i have done is Bought this MSI K7N2 DELTA2 MotherBoard and case.I did buy a new in the … |
| | Computer is 3-4yrs old PIII-500MHz, Win98SE OS. When I attempt to power up the computer, everything appears to load as it has in the past. However it never gets past the Windows logo display. I have attempted to boot in safe mode (same issue). I am able to access the … |
| | Hello all... I have a problem with my laptop battery not wanting to charge all the time. I have one or two ideas and what to run them by some other folks and get their opinion. Background info: Toshiba Satellite 3005-S304 - (1 GHz machine with XP home installed) I … |
| | I have a Gateway laptop 9300 solo series that has a very wierd temper. When i have the external power supply hooked up the computer it will lock up so I turned it off. On power up the Gateway logo will come up and then beep which is normal then … |
| | can anyone please help or advise, my pc kept crashing mostly when i was on the net, BIOS error was the most common message. so went to mercury website (motherboard manufacturer) printed out details to reset & update bios. basically it said use flash file on CD, save BIOS which … |
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My new rig has been running for about a week without a problem, until i rebooted windows and my raid 0 disapeared. All the connectors are connected, the BIOS is all set correctly. Could one of them have failed? The only thing it says is read disk failed press …  |
| | I just put this together, here are my specs: Chaintech MPM800-3 motherboard 512 DDR400 RAM on-board video card Pentium 4 2.26 processor All seem to be installed correctly, the computer starts up and all the fans and everything starts, but it doesn't seem to want to work. I've tried resetting … |
| | Heres What I am Running: - Soyo Dragon Lite P4x400 (already updated BIOS) - 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 Processor 533/400 MHz - 160GB Seagate Barracuda Harddrive (Partitioned into Drives C(100 GB), and D (50Gb) - 512 MB DDR Kingston Ram - 128 MB DDR ATI 7200SE Video Card - Sony … |
| | My LCD screen on my hp zt1000 has just gone black. Im usually pretty good with computers and fixing things with them if something goes wrong but im just not to sure how to handle this one and any suggestions on how to fix it would be great! The only … |
| | my girlfreind has a computer she built 2 yrs ago and is now having problems with it she cannot solve. i will get a full list from her later but heres some info to start us out its a amd 2.1ghz processor 64mb ram 40 gig hd windows xp os …  |
| | I have a Gateway 450SX laptop. I had to remove the motherboard to resolder the power supply input jack. Since then the screen will "scramble" at any given time for no apparent reason. I tried removing the lcd screen and plugging in a crt monitor and the same thing happens. … |
| | [B]I have a Fujitsu notebook...a Lifebook 142 that someone gave me a while back and I just got around to looking at it and it works!....It has windows 2000 Pro on it but I do not know the password to get past the Login screen!...I know this is a dangerous … |
| | Hi All I have friend's PC which was reporting errors and had to be rebooted regularly. We decided the best option was to reformat the machine and start again. So after backing up all data I reformatted his hard drive and then reinstalled Windows Professional from the genuine CD. It … |
| | OK guys, this should be the correct place to post this. Recently I have been hearing strange sounds inside my PC. It sounds like a fan, kind of slowing down and almost churning, before sounding like starting up again and the sound goes. It's not a clicking or anything like … |
| | I recently put together the following computer: Asus A7N8x-x mboard AMD 3200+ chip Corsair 400MHz 512MB ram Antec 350W power supply ATI 9800 pro video card Windows XP After several errors when running the computer at 400MHz FSB, I finally got my board and ram replaced from the companies. This …  |
| | Hi, can opne of you nice people help me with my laptop, When I press the power button eveything powers up fine, The Hard Disk spins and the Cd drive's light flashes and the processor gets warm (if left long enough) after this I don't think it boots, and there … |
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