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When I load up my laptop, Sony Vaio VGN-FS980, the windows XP loading screen takes and extraordinary amount of time then before and also when I get to my desktop, my network connections is stopped and norton is stopped. They wont even load. When I click help and support and …

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I bought a friends Inspiron 5000. While he was removing his files, the machine froze-up. When I try to start, something starts to run, but turns off before anything else happens. Won't boot up. Help! In order to get it from trying to start, I [I]have to unplug and remove …

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Hi Everyone! My dell 1100 laptop wont start. It shut down because of low battery power and I havent been able to start it up. I checked the power supply an the green light is on but I noticed its not warm. So I bought another one, its cold too. …

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Hi, my daughter has Windows XP and she gets a message saying..... File Name: VDD(03) + 00001816 Error: 00 : 0028 : C0231D9E and her screen comes up blue. can anyone help?:sad:

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Ok so here is my problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 that refuses to turn on. I have taken out the battery and then applied AC power. Nothing. I have disassembled the system made sure the connections were nice and secure. It worked for a couple days and then …

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I have a IBM T22 that I just purchased a new battery for. Its a brand new battery, not a referb. Even though it is fully charged the laptop wont power up about half the time under battery power. It powers on every time when plugged into the wall. And …

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I have a 120GB western digital hard disk that locked up suddenly when i was using the operating system. When i restarted the computer it did nothing. it is detected by the BIOS and when i researched further i realised it had locked down. i have tried different password reseting …

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I just built this computer a couple days ago, Its an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ processer with built in sound and video on the motherboard. I have a spider-man coolant case and an DVD rw/CD-rw drive and a basic disc drive. No one wants to buy windows again, so i …

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My brother has a Dell C610 with issues. Over the summer a thunderstorm knocked the electricity out. He had the computer plugged into a surge protector, however, when he rebooted the computer would not find the hard drive. I bought him a new hard drive and installed it for him …

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Hey is a compaq presario; it has a socket 478B, 2.5Ghz processor, 512MB Ram the problem is that when I turn the pc on the pc start the power supply the cpu fan and then goes to the compaq main screen and starts beeping the beeping pattern is one short …

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I'm a font fanatic who was silly enough to load too many fonts into my Windows\Fonts folder. When I realized my mistake, I decided to move all of the new fonts into a separate folder, burn everything onto a CD, and leave the original ones intact. I even used a …

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Hey can some one could help me? I have a compaq pc, when I turn the pc on the computer starts then I get constantly beeps then it boot to the main screen and stays there what it say compaq on the lower right <F1 setup><F10> and from their it …

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A couple of weeks ago, my trusty IBM T22 would occasionally lock up and freeze to the point that the only way I could shut down and restart the machine was to hold down the power button. I suspected that the CPU was getting too hot. I cleaned the fan …

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hello, i'm having a problem booting my armada, when i press the blue on button the green hdd led and amber recharge batery led come on but thats all, someone please help!!!

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I'm still a newbie, so please bear with me. I have an HP Pavilion xL946 with an AMD Athlon 1.1 GHz 200 FSB base processor. Yes, it's old, but it still works just fine, and is enough for what I need right now. (Not to mention that a new computer …

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All, I have a Compaq H3975. I inadvertently plugged a 9 or 12 volt dc power supply into it and "took it out". Nothing works now. Any suggestions on what I need to repair? I have a new replacement battery coming, but wondered if there is a internal fuse that …

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I just got a new Overdrive PC less than 24 hours ago. The PC has a Core2 Duo E6700 processor, an XFX 7950 GX2 1GB ram graphics card (two DVI ports), and a 22" LCD Viewsonic monitor with built-in speakers, a DVI port, and an Analog port. I follwed the …

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Hello I just bought a Compaq Armada M700 on ebay. It came with everything I needed but I cant get past the boot up screen. :sad: I will turn on the computer and it will get to like 120 ram and then shut off. So I took out the hard …

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I have a Dell Inspiron 1000 Laptop running windows xp , it boots fine but if i move the screen an inch it shuts down. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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I have problems trying to turn on my laptop. As i turn on the laptop it starts going on standy by mode. I can not do anything else but turn it off again. What should i do now? It would be helpful if you posted and ideas.

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When I power up my Compaq Presario S3000NX I can hear the fan and the HD running then I hear single beeps about every two seconds. Also, there is also no output showing on the monitor. Is there anyone who might know what the problem could be? The Presario has: …

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i have a gateway solo laptop 1100 that i cant get to boot up .I can get to the bios screen and it says entering setup but then it just hangs there .Any ideas what i can do to fix this problem

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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me out with this issue. I have tried almost everything, even read similar posts but nothing did help at all. Usually when I'm playing games like Battle For Middle Earth or Farcry, computer completely freezes up after some minutes of playing. And …

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Greetings: I just joined DaniWeb and this is my first post here. I could really use everyone's collective expertise here and I would truly appreciate it because I am totally stumped by what happened. I have an HP Pavillion runnning Windows XP, nothing very fancy. My wife was working in …

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Hello, I have a problem with my pc. It is an old HP Compaq Presario 5716 (about 6 years old). When I turned on the computer, the usual "COMPAQ" screen appears, however, instead of continuing to the usual Microsoft blue screen to start up, it just stays frozen on the …

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Hi...I built a machine about a year ago, my first build. Asus P4P800E, Pentium 3.0, 1 gig kingston, a few HD's, DVD ROM and DVD R, ATI AIW 9800 video card, and just put in a Sound Blaster Platinum something or other a few weeks ago. No real problems recently …

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Hi you all. I've got an A60 tosh that has an apparent short in the power socket. When you attempt to insert the barrel plug about 1/3 of the way in the ac adapter goes off. I assume it flips the internal protective breaker. So whatdya think? It was fine …

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This is the first computer my brother has put together. He used an ECS Elitegroup L7VMM3 v3.0c mobo. He was able to power up, but when he tried to install Windows 2000, a STOP-IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error message came up. He went and changed some settings in the CMOS, and tried again. …

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My computer was running one day after I re-built it a few weeks prior to this, and when I got back to it, It had shut off and wouldn't restart. I changed the power supply and tested the CPU so both are good. I tried anouther HDD in it that …

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