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My PC keeps shutting down. It will go into the blue screen sometimes even load windowsxp but shuts down (fully as if I turned it off) in seconds. Even if I try to go into safe mode, it shuts down while still on the black screen. When it shuts down, …

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Alright, I bought the parts to build my girlfriend a computer. Right now, I have the mobo mounted, and the cpu&heatsink installed. The ram is in inplace, and I believe all the jumpers are confiured correctly. The only thing about the jumpers is this... This is how they look.. [ …

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Okay I found this laptop at my job,and so i decided to bring it and see if it still works and running there is a problem thou.I turned it on first there was a problem with the bios time and set i set that all up,and then they said operating …

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My computer likes to show this screen: (see attachment) I have recently installed a new psu and gfx card, they are a Trust 570W dual fan psu and an Sapphire ATI Radeon X1600XT gfx card This allways seems to happen when playing bf2, and no other game is affected ~ …

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Just rebuilt my Dell Laptop Its an OLD Latitude C400 As it was given to me, i never had the recovery disk, so just rebuilt it with a normal XP disc. All of a sudden, the graphics were Naff and the Wireless PCMCIA Card was not recognised. Got the graphics …

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Hi When my friend was transporting her computer, she dropped it. The left side of the case and the front panel jarred loose. Everything looks okay inside, BUT...upon boot-up, the 'puter' beeps three times, the fan starts up as does the hard drive, seems to go thru their routine for …

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hi guys... what going on with my PC situation is... as usuall i log on into my computer CPU running as always but the problem here is for monitor which is nothing appear on screen. i have check the power cable and it ok even the monitor light a are …

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Hello. Well yeterday my comp shut down while i wansnt at it. I tried to turn it back on but it wont start. The Green Light on my motherboad is on so its getting power but when i press the power button on front it wont boot. I dont know …

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I have a backup computer that I have been working on lately. After placing the components back together I plugged the power cable into the PSU. It promptly started spinning the fans but no display or posting tones. The hard disks spin as well. I attempt to hold down the …

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my comptuer was working fine the night before. i shut it down properly. the next day i try and turn it on and it just keeps restarting. it dosent even get to the desktop. i tryed using F8 and starting with last known good configuration but nothing works. HELP PLEASE???

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Just this morning I woke up to find that my Dell Inspiron B130 isn't turning on. At first the battery light was on whenever it was connected to the AC adapter, but after 1 hr of charging it just turned off.I've tried removing the battery while the laptop connected to …

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Ok, Well what happened is I bought a used computer that was better then my moms....It was a desktop case, but the motherboard was compatible with my tower case. So I installed the used computers motherboard into my moms case and as soon as I plugged it in I got …

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I recently made a PC with some old parts some new parts i booted it up and it got to the windows xp loading screen and it restarted so i turned it off i turned it back on again and it stayed on the bios screen i turned it off …

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Hi, My friend has bought a second hand Sony Vaio PCG-FX55S/BP laptop. So there were no CD drivers. He asked me to search for some drivers for him, I can't find any website for drivers, just a few japanese website, which I can't understand at all. The missing drivers are …

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It happened so I've erased boot.ini file on my laptop machine. What tool can be used to recover it? (i need the tool to boot also, as boot.ini is gone and i can't boot normally). HDD is internal, NTFS format.

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I have a Dell Inspiron B130, the other day it froze and I could only turn it off manually by holding the power button. I then tried to restart it and all I got were two indicator lights and nothing else. So I took out the battery and left it …

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Ok so I took my Inspiron 8600 to the Geek Squad to see if I could get it fixed. The cooling fan quit and now the computer will boot only up to the OS (XP). The guy told me that it looked like my hard drive was fried and that …

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:?: I want to reformat my pc but it seems my own computer does not want me to. It always gives out a stop error message saying something like this: >>Your windows had been shut down to avoid damage. 1.Please scan your PC for viruses. 2.Scan hard drives so it …

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HELP!! Just bought a brand new acer powerf6 tower (with windows XP pro) all i can get on screen is the Acer Intel start up logo?? then switches to 'microsoft windows xp' and a loading bar of some sort, for 3 seconds or more then,:@ :'( .............the same again and …

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I built my first pc about 10 months ago, but the motherboard broke so I ordered a new similar one. I am having problems installing the new motherboard. When I boot up, all the drives are recognised, but i then get the error message: "remove disks or other media. press …

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About a week back I was at my PC reading the news and playing Football Manager. Then for no reason my PC seemed to shut down and the monitor went into stand by. I thought I had somehow lost power but the PC was still running, the front LED was …

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Hi Every1 I'm havin a problem with the Standby Feature... My computer is not comin out from standby and i need to restart my computer everytime i put it in the standby mode... how can i solve this problem? Thanks Anand

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Hi This seems to be the place I will find my answer! I have a PC that will not always boot up. Will only work perhaps 1 out of 10 starts. Motherboard is Foxconn 760GXK8MC I have read about beep codes but this one does not give out any beeps …

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Hi all. Im building a comp using old parts and the new parts are a new hard drive and thing that holds all the parts together. Its all been put together but its not starting. I think i havent conected the motherboard too the On button correctly. my mobo is …

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Hi, On a really hot day windows closed heating on ect. I smelled burning coming from my computer but it was still working i turned it off but it worked fine the next time i used it. The psu is still working??? but it turns off and restarts during gaming. …

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Hello All I have stupidly touched the motherboard of my lappy and it sparked and now only the CPU fan works and it wont do anything else. I was touched the screen connector port on the board as the screen was staying white so I thought it had a loose …

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I am about to replace my old SCSI drives with 3 new SCSI drives. I have a ghost image of my C drive. how do I go about configuring my new HDD, and installing the Ghost image from scratch - do I have to fdisk, and make primary partitions etc? …

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Ok here's the problem. Please excuse the details but I think they are necessary for you to understand all facets of the issue. Thank you in advance for your help! Here's how it all started. My sister was copying a DVD image to my hard disk drive when suddenly she …

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I have a Sony Vaio laptop computer. the model # is pcg-grx560. i got it about 3 years ago. it is a windows xp. ok here's my problem. when i try to play 'the sims 2' or any dvd in the laptop, the screen flickers. this just started happening about …

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I built a computer and installed BeOS 5 on it. It was running fine until I decided to upgrade(uh... upgrade?) it and put an extra fan in the front since the only fan it had was the CPU heatsink. However, now when I [try to] start the computer, not only …

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