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 | Sounds like insulation inside the monitor is breaking down allowing high voltage to arc. Often cause by dust inside (and be very careful if you open up the back lest you receive discharge). CRT is old hat and it sounds like this one is even older and ready for the … |
| | [url]http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/bootSequence-c.html[/url] The above link is a very useful explanation of the boot sequence. I don't see a bad processor here because it is executing to the 75% point in your CPU. Bad RAM is unlikely based on what you've said. I suspect that it is getting hung on a device …  |
| | [QUOTE=BrianDamage;948408]Thanks for the assumptions and attitude, yet no solutions. Can anyone direct me to a site where someone might actually have a solution to the original question because I have the same problem. -- P.S. You can't run Windows Update or add a service pack if you can't get into … |
| | There's another post in this forum where the dog chewed through the power cord. Pity it was on the wrong side of the block! Anyway, it seems more probable than not that the effect of doing this was to short the power section of the laptop mobo which is now … |
| | It's ATI's responsibility to provide drivers for their products. Take it out on them not Microsoft. |
| | In this case legal = lawyer. We assume you've got the purchase receipt. |
| | WebDave has it right. Core2Duo is far better for gaming. Certain AMD levels are better at internal memory access than Intel, but the benchmarks consistently favour Intel IMHO. |
| | Foergive me if this is a red herring - I can't be arsed to do a full search of the forum; but wasn't there a thread here where a so called "magnet piece" was becoming detached from its solder point on the motherboard and basically falling off onto the casing? … |
| | When a computer shuts down on its own it's a power or motherboard hardware problem. If software is reporting an error or the system is freezing, then the problem in order of likelihood according to my experience (might not be so in your case, of course) is: 1. Device driver … |
| | If your laptop screen is bust the controller might still think its OK (depends on the bust). if that's the case, then pressing the appropriate function key to go to the attached monitor might work in normal mode. I've never thought about the safe mode situation but I'm guessing that … |
 | Have you looked at Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management That will tell you exactly how your disk is set up. There may be more than one partition and indeed the other partition could be hidden. |
| | I think the grey taskbar is not the thing to worry about. In my experience, the sound problem is usually caused by a conflict - like IRQ. This would cause the dound service to disable. This can usually be restarted from Admin Manager/Services - but you need to get to …  |
| | loki_ is basically correct. But since your emachine is a desktop, presumably you don't have an additional external monitor to try. You've also probably checked that the screen is properly plugged in. You say there's no activity at all; I take this to mean that it hasn't booted (insufficient disk … |
 | [U]VISTA MEMORY HOG MYTH[/U] Vista is a vast improvement on XP. It treats the RAM as a flexible cache to feed applications 100 times faster than from disk. Applications take priority and squeeze that cache right down. [U]VISTA VERSIONS - SHITE[/U] Damn Microsoft! And Toshiba for that matter. But Microsoft … |
| | Disable Macros security setting when you load Excel? That should enable you to get to the code & correct it. |
| | Or more correctly: shutdown /s /t 01 If you type shutdown /? you'll get a list of command line options in case you need them. |
| | In Safe mode, you might need to right click on Desktop, and in Properties/Settings choose the external monitor as the primary display. Then, hopefully, it will boot in normal mode with the external display. This then means that laptop screen circuitry or the screem iteslf has failed and can't be … |
| | If nobody else replies with one of the "standard" methods you'll find in most threads, and since you've been working on this for a few days (the way I would have), you cold do worse than search the forum using the term "Virtunonde" (which I delibrately mispelt so that it … |
| | So it's the video driver settings. I have a laptop with an nVidia card; for movies I have to go into the nVidia control panel and reset Video settings to default. It then brightens up properly but these settings don't survive a reboot. I can't be bothered to find out … |
| | [QUOTE=mickoh27;979157][COLOR="Red"]I think from what I gather are called look ups[/COLOR]. When I play songs on media player 11 some parts of the song have a stuttering problem but it happens while streaming too. Not sure where to go.[/QUOTE] What's this about [COLOR="red"]look-ups[/COLOR]? Anyway, the usual reason, if not what kaninelupus … |
| | [QUOTE=mdk2k4;1001938]Try reseting the BIOS, CMOS and see if it help, just make sure you change all the setting on your first boot. Look for any loose or not plug wires in the motherboard. What i would also do, is check that memory in another pc see if it's good.[/QUOTE] This …  |
| | You haven't said whether or not you told the BIOS to boot from CD. |
| | What is the error message that goes with this BSOD? Is it "Inaccessible Boot Device"? Also what's your configurastion, particulary disk drive(s) and disk controller. |
| | If you get no boot data on the screen from the ROM BIOS and if you're sure there is no continued disk activity to indicate that it is booting through, then it seems to me that it can't execute the ROM BIOS. That's a CPU or motherboard failure. If it … |
| | [QUOTE=cguan_77;938922]have you tried to scan your system for any virus?[/QUOTE] Absolutely the right question! Who ever has intentionally installed this : "bbrfbpmlweq-exe" |
| | Generically, the absence of a POST screen pr beeps at boot up means that it's buggered. The CPU has to execute the ROM BIOS. If it can't, nothing can happen. It can be anything on the motherboard that prevents the CPU from working or the CPU itself has gone. A … |
| | First of all, welcome! Now to subject. When you're in XP normally, can your system read the Windows CD? Otherwise treat "Boot from CD" as a prompt to press a key (any key or D) to boot from the CD. If no key is pressed then the computer will proceed … |
| | Did you read your way through this: [url]http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6ebbd[/url]  |
| | The additional info you've now provided (wrt your other thread) is key information. If you have to jiggle the power input, there's an internal hardware condition that needs fixing. That's the end of it really. Whoever fixes it can check that the other symptoms disappear. If you have the funds, … |
| | A damn fine answer from kfawcett that will be much appreciated by many who don't quite know what's what with licences. |
| | Re: Troublesome RAM Is there possibly an ECC/Non-ECC RAM issue? i.e. the PC is non-ECC and the troublesome RAM is ECC? Also did you try shorting the CMOS pins and let the configuration find its own POST state? You'll be surprised at how often this sort of thing gets sorted out this way. |
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| | RAM, CPU speed and disk RPM are the three factors affecting load times as much as what to load. Rather than keeping it vague which makes our replies vague, you should do the following: 1/ Tell us your configuration on VISTA bearing in mind what I've said above. 2/ Tell … |
| | We'd prolly need to see what else is runnig. A list from Task Manager/Processes would be helpful (sorted by CPU usage). e.g. new anti-virus version now using more CPU. |
| | You can google this and you'll find a lot of it around. Usual reason is a capacitor or a piezo component has failed in the monitor. I've got one of those and it eventually comes on after about an hour when the capacitor is charged (I guess).  |
| | In my opinion, if the machine boots (you see disk activity as per normal boot) but the screen stays blank at all times then there is usually something wrong in the output side of the video card, or the cable. If you used the same cable when connecting to other … |
 | [QUOTE=javaAddict;950187]Hi everybody. I have a problem and I need some suggestions. A few weeks ago, my monitor suddenly turned off on its own. Then I shut down my computer and switched it on again, and after 5 minutes the monitor turned off again. This happened several times in a row. … |
| | Re: Display dead Load Windows in Safe Mode (Press F8 during boot) and it will display in VGA. Then you can deal with the driver and boot again normally. |
 | Keep us posted please. If you hadn't given us post #2 you might have had a suggestion that the MBR could be corrupt - which it clearly isn't. There is autility you can download called HD Tune (I use v2.55). That might provide useful diagnostics. |
| | [QUOTE=majstor Derim;963397]The problem: I have Desktop computer connected to my Motorola Cable modem by USB cable (I did not know how to set up the Ethernet connection, when I wanted to remove the USB driver and to set up the Ethernet connection with my modem, it did not want to …  |
| | Perhaps you could do this search in Google: "led screen circuit diagram"' there appears to be something to get your teeth into. |
| | One to store for reference. It would be nice if the solder whizzos here could also come in and share what they've found on repaired laptop mobos. |
| | [QUOTE=yalew.a;998699]larry thank you please tell me how i can go to prior configration thanks[/QUOTE] google "how do i go back to last known good configuration". Also google "How to restore my windows system". Also Search this forum. It's all here including the IRQL_NOT stop code. |
| | What does "hang up" mean? We need some more precise information. What happens if you just disconnect his ethernet cable with the PC still running? |
| | Onboard graphics should work when you remove a graphics card. Maybe there is a BIOS setting you can change with the graphics card in, to enable onboard VGA. In any case if your onboard VGA was working, your Boot screen would at least appear. |
| | I can tell you in principle how to do this. But the BT HomeHub is a piece of sh*t that shouldn't be allowed because it has no easy user configurability. In principle, the second router (not the HomeHub) should be set up in WDS mode to wirelessly see the HomeHub. … |
| | I've gotta back caperjack here. 4GB is 4/5 of 5/8 of f***-all disk space. Compression might yield c. 50% of 4/5 of 5/8 of f***-all and a whole load of support issues to follow. |
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| | Your information isn't quite enough to enable a reasonable diagnosis at distance. First gut reaction to the LCD remaining dark is that the system still thinks it should be booting and displaying on the CRT. But detail is everything so: 1/ Do you mean that only occasionally, when you bring … |
| | What about another port on the linksys router/modem? Does that work with your PC? |
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