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| | Hi guys, I have just registered and finding a bit tricky to get the button if I want to post my message. Any help!! How do I post? I have a compaq pentium II that has stopped booting. Initially, I had to press power button twice or three times to … |
| | Whenever I try to start my pc after it has been off for a while, I get a blinking power light and it won't start. If I unplug the power cable and plug it back in, it will then start up most of the time. Does this indicate my power … |
| | Nice to meet you! Me and my 13-yr-old son are newbie nerds, we are planning to build a desktop together. We saved up and bought our striker motherboard but, its going to be a while before we can afford the rest of the parts. In the interm, we really need … |
| | Hey everyone, A plea for sanity and help I have a Toshiba Satellite P30 Laptop. Whenever I boot, I get the following error message looping: 'Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082) For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326) PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exciting PXE ROM' Firstly, … |
| | I bought a refurbished Presario 2585US on Ebay with WIN XP and upgraded to 1 GB of ram. It had trouble booting at first but finally came on after several attempts. The date was something like Jan. 2002 and time was also wrong. I realize this sounds like CMOS battery. … |
| | Hello all, This is my first time to daniweb but from other threads I've found everyone is extremely nice and helpful...hopefully you can help me. Basically I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 that is dead as a door nail. No lights, fans, noises, nothing. I've tried different outlets and power-cords … |
| | Hi...hoping that this is the correct post. Older version Win xp pro. Short story. Not long ago I clicked an 'okay' instead of a 'no' and completely screwed up my laptop. I had to format and, of course, when I went to get my recovery disk it wasn't anywhere to …  |
| | I had a windows XP Pro SP2 machine with 2 HDDs. the first one had OS and the second one had data. The computer died, hence took the data drive and put in as secondary drive in a newer computer. It now says...74 GB available out of 160 GB, but … |
| | After 2 weeks of 90 degree heat and being left on, I came home to my computer shut off and now it wont turn on. It is not the hard drive, I tried a new one in it and still nothing. When I press power the computer turns on but … |
| | just as my hp was about to go into hibernate mode the other night (it was closed), all the lights came on and it made 3 loud beeps. now when i try to start it up all the lights come on and it makes the three loud beeps but the …  |
| | Ok, first off i want to say that, im a new member, this is my first time posting but i've read around and it seems alot of people have helpful info on here, so i figured i'd give this a try. Alright to my problem then, I have an Hp … |
| | So Heres my story... My System shuts off either while im running things for a while(if they require little ram) and it is very predictable. Common things I try to do that kill it are... Play Half-life, Doom 3, Quake 4, Farcry, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R These as you know use alot … |
| | hey can anyone help me? my dell inspiron 1100 laptop is not turning on any more, I have taken it apart since and done everything I can think of but I can't figure out how to fix it, or if anyone knows how to take the hard drive out of … |
| | My emachine has been getting slower and slower. I thought it had to be the hard drive, so I bought a 400 gig, 16 meg Seagate. Did not help. When I double click to autofill, it might take 8 seconds. Pages take forever to load, and the machine restarts itsself …  |
| | When i try to boot up my pc i get a long beep followed by a long pause and then another long beep and a pause and so on. Any help to what this may mean would be greatly appreciated. |
| | The power connector is is loose on my Gateway M305CRV laptop - I've been searching/reading, etc the net all morning and it appears as if the connector is soldered onto to the motherboard. At some point, it's not going to connect at all and I've have no way to power … |
| | First off here are my system specs, Intel p4 3.4ghz HT Asus P5WD2 Premium Mobo ATI X800XL 512mb vid card 1gb ddr2 800 Mushkin Ram 430w Antec Power Supply Alright, so the basis off this problem is my monitor is no longer giving me any picture from my computer. This … |
| | Hello Sorry for a bad english I some hardware problem, hope you can help. i have to write in detail to be clear for you ! Last week my computer was infected with some nasty Viruses.Due to that i got an Email through Outlook Express with a message "hey someone …  |
| | Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a NC6000. It keeps freezing while in the middle of working, not on any one programme, could be anything, and after 3 mins, or half hour. To rule out O/S errors, i reinstalled XP on it, it all went in fine, was running … |
| | A friend gave me a Dell Inspiron 5000 that won't start. Press the start button and the fan starts, there is a short burst of hard drive activity, then about two seconds later, it just stops. The power on light is still green but otherwise no activity. I have to … |
| | I was using my computer at the airport the other day and it suddenly powered off as though the plug had been pulled. I unplugged its AC plug, plugged it into a different outlet and the computer functioned fine. A couple days later, it did it again, I did the … |
| | I don't know what happened, but the laptop's screen suddenly went completely black. It is a Toshiba laptop (that's all I know about it). The strange thing about this state it is in is that the power button is glowing and wont turn off, no matter how many times or … |
| | Hi, I've taken a look all over this forum for a problem similar to mine, but I can't seem to find it. Here's the issue: My computer was working just fine until last night, when my girlfriend started it up and it did not boot up. All the fans came … |
| | Good afternoon: I have a Dell 5000e laptop that I purchased used off eBay. It was pretty much a stripped down laptop. I bought a new Dell power supply (correct PA-6 model) for the laptop and 128 MByte RAM to see if it would work or not. When I turn … |
| | Okay I have a Zx5000 laptop with a pentium 4 and 1.2 gb of ram and have been having problems with it lately a little while ago the laptop kept on giving me a blank screen on boot, it would just sit there forever and nothing, but everything powered on, … |
| | brand new power cord but still no power, laptop will not turn on no lites ..nothing...won't charge battery dead machine does anyone have any ides?/ if the battery is shorted will it still work off ac? is there a master reset switch???help please.. |
| | Hello. My name is Micov, and I am from Russia. [Well, the soviet union, back then.] I am currently working on a 2004 Compaq Presario, that a friend has brought to me. Im currently ON this machine, because it will boot via a LiveCD [BartPE, and a "Damn Small Linux" … |
| | Hey, I have a Acer Travelmate 2300 and I want to bring it to the dump and get rid of it right now. I need to get rid of everything on my computer but the first time I had it fixed by someone else they messed it up. Now instead … |
| | Alright well just today has my monitor stopped working. I was fiddling around with settings because i have two monitors hooked up to my computer and i wanted to switch their position. so i just did that, which i've done before, and then hit apply. then everything stopped working. the … |
| | hello everyone, I just got this Dell Inspiron 3500 Laptop yesterday from someone and it wont boot up...the fan runs for 2-3 seconds the lights come on and then it just sits there...the lights stay on but the fan turns off and nothing. any help would be great...I have taken … |
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