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Good day! My computer is no longer turning on. I hear the motor and fan but the display screen is blank except for "video input No Signal". I haven't downloaded or installed any new hardware so I don't know if my computer has crashed?? Please help!! Thanks! Alisa

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Hi, I am facing very weird kind of problem. I have a IBM thinkpad R52 laptop. It's configuration is pantium M 1.73GHz, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB hard disk. I have installed windows xp and fedora core 4 linux. My problem is that I want to reinstall windows xp but …

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Hey okay well the worst thing ever happend my girlfriend dropped her laptop and we need help first her cd drive broke off like cracked in half are they cheep hard to replace? then the laptop would not stay on long like maybe a minute she took it apart (the …

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I have a sony pcv rs 400 pc with xp sp2. I had a virus called cws.mscofig. This and associated files were scanned and removed by different spyware programs. When I started the computer, Win xp did not start. I tried safe mode, it starts but hangs, nothing on screen. …

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After my laptop automatically downloaded updates recently, my lappy wont bootup windows anymore. Not even in safe mode.Has anyone else had this problem recently?? Does anyone have a solution? I have Norton anti virus 2005 and that never picked up anything dodgy.

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Sirs, I'm sorry to bother you. My laptop seems to be dead. I would try to solve problem step by step. First problem I noted is that the power led (and the other leds) flashs when I insert the power connector but it does not remain light. Then it restart …

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hi, since there is only one user in my computer i wanted to adjust my user account setting so that my computer will automatically login as I read in this thread ([URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread4530.html"]Automatically [B]Log On[/B] a User Account in Windows XP[/URL]) anyhow, accessing "user account" in the control panel does not …

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i was tinkering with my pc and i saw this "ASP.NET Machine A..." account in user accounts in control panel. since i don't know what it is or what it is for; i wanted to ask what it's for and if it is safe for me to delete this account? …

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Someone please help me! At first i was really calm but now i am about to panic. I have a VGN-S360 Vaio Laptop. I have had it for about a year and a half. The other day while it was up and running it suddenly had a message on the …

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Okay this is what i get when i reboot my viao: CPU = Intel (R) Pentium (R) M processor 1.70GHz 639K System RAM Passed 510M Extended RAM Passed 2048K Cache SRAM Passed System BIOS shadowed Video BIOS shadowed Fixed Disk 0: K ATAPI CD-ROM: UJDA765aDVD/CDRW Mouse initialized S/N: System Configuration …

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Greetings, I have recently acquired a free Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop. After getting a WORKING power cord for it from ebay i plugged it in. When the power button is pressed the light on the front shows that the computer is on, the power cord is plugged in, and that …

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This morning I got a 1g stick of ram that was pc2100 which is what my computer takes. I put it in my computer and when I booted up, my computer would beep 4-5 seconds long at 2 second intervals. I later found out that the ram i got does …

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Using my pc as normal.Shut it down as normal(no problems),when,an hour or two later I turned it on,BIG problems!It starts ok and will get through POST,but then the screen stays blank and disk activity stops.The only other thing of note is that the numlock light sticks on.Does this mean the …

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On a HP A610N Computer: After using the HP Recovery CDs, that were built from this computer, the following error was displayed: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows\System32\Hal.dll I read the MS Bulletin about the boot.ini. I used my BartsPE boot disk to …

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A few days before my Laptop was working pefectly alright. One fine morning, I tried to start my Laptop, but only I get is a blank screen. I have almost gone to every Repair shop near my area in hamburg but no one knows what can be the problem. Previouly …

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I need some help, My laptop was working great then 10 mins ago the screen froze, I turned it off and tried to turn it on again and the screen is blank, the fan is running and there are beeps. 2 short beeps 1 long beeep then 3 short beeps. …

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[COLOR=#000000]Few months’ back, I had my laptop (LT1 - Compaq 2710) not booting up 'Operating System not found'. It removed the HD from the laptop and used it as an external HD for another laptop (LT2 - Toshiba) but the 2nd laptop will not recognize this HD and after running …

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Last night I ran the defrag on my computer, then this morning I ran the scandisk. It seemed that after the scandisk had finished my computer had booted up, and all was well because I saw my desktop. I went outside for about an hour, came back in and my …

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In a vain effort to solve this problem I've signed up to this forum. We're beyond frustrated with our laptop. Acer 1680 Notebook, Windows XP SP2. Up until last monday we'd not had a problem with it (the machine was bought in Australia by a friend who sold it to …

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Hy Sirs, Please let me explain my problem: Laptop worked well. I used battery from friend of mine. Laptop worked well. Turn off the pc on the evening On the morning try to turn it on but it reboot everytime after the TravelMate first page I noted that when I …

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i have a hp pavilion ze4700 and it was fine wen i last used it... but wen i turned it on this mornin, the screen was completley black! When it 1st comes on, it quickly flickers the 'hp' sign up in white then it stays black! I can just about …

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Came home from work today to the house smelling of a burnt plastic type smell...of all the things I didn't want it to be, it had to be my server.:twisted: I immediately thought to power supply had blown, but then I noticed the Power on LAN LED was lit. Sure …

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I recently moved back home from school. When I left school, my computer worked fine. I shut it down, unplugged everything, and packed it home. When I got home, I plugged everything back together, and thats where things get fun. I turn on the power supply, and then hit my …

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When I try to uninstall this driver the computer reboot. I try from Remove/add programs. I try from MI PC/Properties/Hardware/Device Adminstrator (I dont know the exactly name in english version. In spanish is Administrador de Dispositivos) Thanks for suggestions :o

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Hello everyone, I've encountered a very nasty problem with my computer and I do not know where else to turn but here, hopefully someone can help me out. Few weeks ago, I noticed that my computer started taking awfully long to shut down (approx 5 minutes). Since then I scanned …

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i recently had a computer crash and had to erase a hard drive to get it back. i'm not sure what the problem was but i think it had someting to do with a raid 0 issue. i was using the software raid in win xp. the system is a …

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I managed to spill some water on the table my laptop was n and some went underneath. I followed the manual instructions to dry it off, remove all drives and the battery and lay it out to dry. Now when I replace the battery nothing happens its completely dead, no …

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Hello people! I've inherited a Satellite A30 complete with imaged recovery CDs. I put Vista RC1 on it, as RTM Vista wouldn't install. But anyway, there are still a few issues with RC1 on this, so I thought I'd go back to the original recovery CD's and start from scratch …

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Hello this is my first post and I am a complete idiot when it comes to computers. I have inherited a emachine t 1840 and was not able to use some software programs because the monitors resolution was so low. And in my blissful ignorance I purchased a new shiny …

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Yesterday I tried to upgrade my pc a bit. It is a PII 33mhz with 64mb ram. It had obtained a 10 gig HDD and popped it in as well as a 64 mb stick of ram which i put next to 2 32 mb sticks. I realized that this …

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