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| | I've tried to troubleshoot my way through this, but find myself too frustrated with my own machine to think straight. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The problem started with my monitor (seemingly at random) going into power saving mode. I wouldn't be able to bring it back out of … |
| | A week ago I build a new comp. Worked fine, decided to go legal and purchased several licenses of Vista. All installs have been flaky, mainly with power. So I got tired of Vista and went back to XP. The machine in question was fine, XP installed fine. Everything looked … |
 | Hello Iv been a comptuer tech for a few years now and im posting this thread to see if any one has any ideas. Yesterday it was lighting very bad and my brothers house got struck by lighting, and his computer went out. He told me what happened and i … |
| | Hello everyone, this is my first time posting and I wish it was for a better thread. I have an Asus laptop, M6000, with windows XP. Last time it worked I turned it off by hibernating, as I often do. Since then, when I turn it on it starts for … |
| | Ok guys im new here and i need help. Today i was cleaning out my computer with a sort-of damp rag I took the cooler master fan off and got all the dust out etc. Put it all together, plugged the power supply back in. and after that i pressed … |
| | I haved a Dell Dimension that I bought new. It was working fine until one day it wouldn't turn on. I checked all the normal things like power cord, different outlet, taking out any cards and disconnecting the power to hard drive and DVD rom. I left the RAM in … |
| | Okay my computer was accidentally unplugged by my cat last night (Don't ask) anyway when I got up this morning my comp was completly off so I plugged it back in and attempted to turn it back on however, I was greeted with only a green blinking light. I unplugged … |
| | Hey I am building two 3d/CAD machines. Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz Intel D955XBK MOBO with Crossfire Seagate 500gb SATA 14 mb Maxtor 40 gb hd 550w dual fan power supply Kingston KVR667D2N5 1 gb x8 Masscool CPU fan with copper pipes Samsung Litescribe DVD_RW nVidia GeForce 6600LE 512 … |
| | While posting the computer will stop and say "Fatal Error DMA" HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
 | Let me start off by letting you know that I have installed a new PSU. A new MB. And a new CPU. I have pulled all non-essentials out of the pc...but it still will not POST. That is why I have the new parts. It stopped booting/POST with the older … |
| | hey, i've browsed this site frot he last couple of days looking to remedy a problem that sounds very similar to the poster on the last two threads with this title. my acer 1640 laptop, purchased may 2006, has been since christmas struggling to carry out two processes at once, … |
| | On the top of of the KBoard there is a silver oval with the center oblong button I have used OK for year to start/stop this laptop. A few days ago, attemting to speed up this box I removed some programs (Ctr Panel). Mistakenly, removed also the Twister display driver. … |
| | Hey first time posting on these forums, so thanks ahead of time for anyone who responds. Anywho, i got an NEC laptop Model #07FF21950. System boots up fine on an external monitor and such, but trying to get the LCD working again is being difficult. Originally the LCD went bad, … |
| | Hello everyone , this is my first time posting, so i would like to say hello to all. Anyway, the pc in question is a Hi-Grade, 128 memory, windows xp home edition pc. Sorry i don't know much else about it, as it's my friends pc, and he is at …  |
| | HI I have a strange problem with my HP dv5020us Laptop. A couple weeks back, it started acting strangely and froze. I suspected that the Harddrive must have poped out,as it sometimes does( HP forgot to screw it up). SO I shut down the machine and opened it but the … |
| | primery master s.m.a.r.t command error at startup (f4 to resume) what would I do. Last operating system was xp pro.  |
| | Using Indian Laptop in UK...adapter getting extremely heated...??? Hi I am using 3212NWXMi Acer Laptop which i had purchased in India. The indian plugs are round shaped. But the sockets in UK require square pins. So i purchased one adapter through which i can plug indian round pins into sockets … |
| | Hi there is this computer that its user quited her job and had put the power-on password and bios setup password and no one knows this passwords.I want to work on this computer so much but I cant go past power on password as well as in the bios.I have …  |
| | My computer has been working fine until recently when it froze up playing solitaire. I tried to shut down by holding the power button on the tower, but it wouldn't shut down, so I just hit the power switch on my extension cord. Now when you try to start up … |
| | We have been gone for 16 days and in the mean time I have had the computer shut down. We came home and I turned on the computer and it started fine. After several minutes on the computer I updated Skype and after it downloaded and installed it just restarted …  |
| | I was working on a friend's Presario 2500 and I think I killed it. It had numerous problems - would not boot with a battery in it, the mouse touchpad did not work, and it seemed as if the A drive could read but not write. I used a usb … |
| | What might cause my Dell Inspiron 600m to flash to a blue screen (of death) for a split second then turn off? I'm guessing because it gets like overheated from playing games or something, but it's happened like 4 or 5 times recently and never before that so I'm just … |
| | well i ahve a dell dimension 3100 desktop it was working fine but yesterday when i was on the computer it just shut off and the power light turns orange when it is supposed to be yellow . I turn it off and on again and it does work but … |
| | Ok i have had this pc for about a month its a Advent T9317 Dual Layer DVD-ReWriter Intel Core 2 duo processer e6300 250 gb hard disc (7200rpm) 1024mb DDr2 Memory Ok the problem is everytime i try to watch a movies or clips on Windows media player after a …  |
| | I have a 5 year old desktop computer which had workded well until the hard drive (C) was reformatted to get rid of unwanted programs, data, and a suspected virus infection. I made a 3.5 system disk and can boot from the A Drive. I would like to now reinstall … |
| | I have an old Gateway 450 that I haven't used for about a year. Recently I have been trying to get it running. It would not boot so I messed around with it (I don't really remember what I did) and finally got it to boot. After I logged in … |
| | MB ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 MB AMD 3500 CPU I installed, by mistake a memory with a frequency higher than the board recommends, this still works on another M/C but naturally not on my M/C My PC is now dead using its original memory. I have Tried resetting the bios, no use. … |
| | Hi Guys, I've had my pc (a phillips LS 1500) for over a year now (brought it from pc world) and its been causing me nothing but problems over the last year. I've twice had to get the motherboard replaced under warrenty becuase it kept failing and another time i … |
| | I am running win98SE (fully updated) and often have the problem of retaining my desktop resolution (1600X1200x32) when certain games crash. Upon reboot, windows plays stupid and actually thinks I want a 320X240X16 display, or whatever the last video mode was. I realize I am using a far-outdated OS, but … |
| | It started as a disc read error so I tried to repair XP using an external disc because I could not boot up the maching. When it came to entering the reg codes I put the ones off the vaio licence and it rejected them. I can only now access … |
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