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| | I have a Gateway Notebook about a year and a half old. Periodically the screen locks up. Keys do not work. I unplug power and battery. It can restart in about 10 minutes. Yikes!! Thanks DB |
| | I got this vgn b100.... VAIO and found this great trick for turning it of by makeing a shortcut on the desk top to the shutdown file, (btw it works very nice too) that is the ;>shutdown -1 -2 01< comand in the target link. All was good but now … |
| | Ok I know this topic may have been talked about before but I still want to ask this. Everytime I play a game in xp i get an siren sound coming from the box, why is that? I have looked to clean the fans but it did not help any. … |
| | I'm fairly new on this site and I see where a lot of you worry about power spikes and outages. Just about everyone has a sruge protector but it seems as if no one has a power back up system. I have two computers and both of them are on … |
| | Hey guys, I'm new here and after seeing how helpful the community is I thought I'd give it a shot. Heres the specs ECS PT890T-A board w/ E6420 Ultra 500 watt X-Connect PSU Ultra 1gb dual channel (shipping) 60gb WD UDMA 200gb Seagate Barracuda UDMA evga 7600 gs 256mb pci-e … |
| | When I pit a cd in the cd romand try to open it in "my computer", "my computer" doesn't respond. This is in the HP computer that crashed and burned a few weeks back.Have gotten it back up and running and this I hope is the last problem I have … |
| | I have a weird problem with my Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDT. It sometime work good, but sometime it freeze (hang) when I work with it and can't do anything except I just reboot with slide the power. After I reboot, the leds indicator (the power, monitor and the battery indicator) … |
| | I just purchased parts to build a new computer, which ended up costing me about $450 dollars. I have had a good amount of expierence working with computers and so thought that i was easily up to the task. However when i assembled the computer (A Pentium 4 2.4ghz with … |
| | I just got a Toshiba Satellite A70 from a friend who was gonna trash it. It took a nasty fall and now when you turn it on it displays: "For Realtek RTL8139(x)/8130/810x PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v 2.13 (020326) PXE-E61: Media test faillure, check cable PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM" repeatedly, …  |
| | I cold not login to IBM Think PAD T22 Laptop due to Alt Ctrl and DEL key are not working.I tried with following 1. Removed Key board and cleaned 2.By attached External USB Key board still I could not login.External keyboard is not recoconising. Plesae kelp me in this regrd. … |
| | I have a Compaq 700 celeron the386mb ram and 15gb hard drirve. It originally came with Windows ME, but I upgraded to XP. I've had no problems until I tried to install the SP2. The first time I tried,it said I did not have enough hard drive space, so I … |
| | when i got home from work, my computer was turned off and the light was glowing orange. (i have an old pentium 4 2ghz gateway. cant find specifics on the model etc...). i would try to boot up the computer and nothing, i mean nothing at all was happening. i … |
| | Hi Guyz, I dont know where to post this....but i am having a very big problem with my wireless adapter. suddenly during working my connection got lost...i am able to connect thru ethernet. In device manager..my device manager is showing an excalamation mark over the network adapter with error code … |
| | OK. i admit i messed up. i was deleting useless files when i accidently deleted some system files. I need help. When i start the computer up it say's it's missing some computer files. It says enter setup and when i go to setup i don't know what to do. … |
| | My laptop keeps crashing, in any situation, usually if its just on desktop. Then a blue screen comes up saying something about Kernel Data Error and loads of numbers. Then when it restarts the desktop comes up with a message saying there was a serious hardrive error. and most of … |
| | I bought a new computer with a MSI 865pe board. It will not post. No beeps! Please help. |
| | I have a computer that i have built and upgraded and it has been a work in process for some time. About 2 weeks ago i had an issue in which my motherboard would not boot at all. I RMAd the motheboard, received a new one and am now having …  |
| | I have a tecra 8100 that has had a post problem. originally i did not get any disk drive spin, fan spin, dvd power, or screen activity. it turned out that the cpu was not fully locked in the socket. after locking the cpu i now get the hd to … |
| | My 1150 Dell laptop will not start up. The DC powerjack on the motherboard broke off on it. It was a clean break and the laptop still worked perfectly but I could obviously not charge it. I used it for a few hours until the battery got weak. I very …  |
| | So this is how it started. I was working on my pc last week had music players and bearshare running at that time and suddenly pc just froze. i restarted it but it came up with different options like start normally blah blah blah start with last known good configuration. … |
| | I have a RCA RT2390 surround sound receiver and I am attempting to hook it up to my computer. Does anyone even know if this could be done? |
| | Hi all, new member here. I am looking for some advice on a Toshiba Tecra 9100 that a friend is troubleshooting. Initially there was no power to the laptop, so he did a complete disassembly, checking all connections. On this laptop the mainboard is basically in 2 parts as I … |
| | looking for some help... Please ok heres the deal. i recently had to replace the mother board on my laptop and the lcd inverter (guess its common for these to die) well anyways now when i try to start the laptop up i get a screen that just displays this … |
| | Sometimes the power switch works sometimes it doesn't .I've disconnected the switch and touched the leads together. I've replaced both the power supply and the motherboard to no avail. The video card doesn't seem to work either( no picture) although removing it doesn't change anything, so its probably a separate … |
| | Help! The most urgent problem is my pc keeps restarting when i do certian things like open setups most installations i open reset the pc before i can do anything run and reset and another thing is logging into MSN ect infact after a certain time it resets anyway AND... … |
| | I am not able to play any sounds through current system ever since the install of Vista. There is a little equalizer (sort of) in the system tray that says music is playing, but it will not play on the speakers. The speakers work fine. Any ideas? |
| | I am hoping someone will be able to help with this problem. I went to get on my computer this morning and noticed it was off, I went to power it up and nothing happened. Well I checked all of my cables and plugs and everything seemed fine so I …  |
| | Hello I'm new here to this forum and like to post a question on a laptop. I got a laptop from a friend which does not work. I don't know the history of it either. It' a Toshiba Tecra A3 and the symtoms are as follows: Power's on but no … |
| | Have a hp computer that has gone toes up. Think it is the hdd, but not sure. here is what happened. turn the unit on and it started to spool up then went into recycle mode. wounld not load up windows. tryed to restart in safe mode, nothing there, would … |
| | Has anyone done this and if so what kind of problems am I getting myself into? My adaptor board is due in on Monday, it is a Rosewill RC212 4xSATA +1XIDE R .Any advice on setting it up! |
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