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| | I signned up to this forum yesterday because I finished building a computer. However... when I plugged it in and turned it on, the green light on the CD ROM and the little LCD screen on the front was blinking really fast and the meters on it showed that the … |
| | Hello all, I'm at my wits end so I'm hoping someone here can help me, if only to confirm my worst fears, at least then I'll know. I have a Packard Bell laptop, coming up to 2 yrs old. Basically he won't recognise his primary hard drive. He can recognise … |
| | I've been having this problem lately My laptop has been rebooting byitself lately and I really don't know what's happening.It starts o reboot more frequently after I install the orange livebox. After the reboot I'll have an option to send a report to Microsoft.The reports state that error was caused … |
| | Hi, I have been having problems w/ my Compaq Presario 2218Rs Laptop for a while now. I've used the recovery disk a few times and it reinstalled the operating system, but it would only last a day or maybe a couple days and then it would crash again. Now I … |
| | Recently my hard drive stopped working completely. I was getting an error saying "Unmountable Boot Volume". Eventually, the tech people at Dell came to the conclusion that I needed a new hard drive. Does anybody have any idea as to what the cause of this might have been? |
 | :-| Hi all,... im facingn this terrible problem after upgrading my chipset from celronD to Pentium 4 HT 331. My PC SHUTS DOWN RANDOMLY while playing games, doing work, etc. I dont know alot about this stufff, bucuz im only 12 yrs old. I went to look at my bios … |
| | I moved my computer to a new room, when I go to turn it on... it doesn't turn on. I moved back to my room and it will turn on, but it doesn't boot up. The Light on the front of the case stays on and when I plug my … |
| | my PC keeps on restartng/shutting down on irregular intervals without any apparent reason, the intervals at which the computer restarts or just shuts down are very random sometimes it restarts just when windows starts to boot and sometimes it restarts after running for many hours without any problem sometimes I … |
| | I left the room with my computer on, and came back to the screen being frozen. I tried control alt delete and it didn't work. I hit the reset button and then the computer kept starting up and shutting down over and over. I thought maybe the reset button was … |
| | hi, my problem is that i have formated my thinkpad 365xd and when i went to install win98 from the cd , its starts up with the thinkpad logo and then tells me INVALID SYSTEMS DISK ????:sad: can anyone help thinkpad 365xd nofloppy just a cd/rom drive thanks |
| | [COLOR=#555555]Hello everyone! This is my first post on this forum, and I wish it was under different circumstances.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The power went out for 2 hours at my house. When it came back on, my wife restarted our Dell computer but didn’t use it. She basically pressed the power button and … |
| | Here is the lowdown. Today, at random, my PC quit booting all the way. It does turn on, run through the BIOS, etc. But after the "Windows XP" boot screen comes up, the monitor goes black, it is still receiving a signal, but it is black. I am able to … |
| | Has anyone had the experience of upgrading this laptop? I can't tell if the Toshiba Satellite 2805-S202 can handle a simple upgrade or if I need to do a clean install. Also, I have a corporate CD-RW from the office but the laptop will not read it. I get an …  |
| | i have a problem with my computer, i just recently bought a cmos battery because recently my pc wont start up and beep, 3 beeps <pause> 2 beeps, what i do is remove the cmos for variable length of time then it would boot while showing low cmos battert cmos … |
| | Hi there, This problem is so annoying. When I am playing games (FSX, FS9, COD2, BF2 etc) my computer randomly freezes. I can't do anything, no ctrl-alt-del, alt-tab or slt-f4..nothing works! my USB ports also die, my joysticks lights go off. There is nothing I can do but reboot. There … |
| | I have an HP Pavilion A1000N. When I boot it, it gets stuck at the HP screen, before bios I think (where you can hit F10 to restore or Fsomething for setup). If I power back down, unplug it from the wall for 10 seconds and reboot, it boots up … |
| | i own a compaq 5410us, 1.3 celeron 512mb running windows xp home, i use this mostly for gaming and lastnight i went to bed and left my game running, when i woke up the screen was froze, i couldnt get cntl-alt-del to open up to close the window so i … |
| | Ok im working on my friends Compaq 2200. I'v installed a new harddrive and proceeded to install xp. Xp seamed to install properly however once it restarts and gets past the windows load screen, screen goes blank but i can hear the startup sound and it seems to be working … |
| | Hey everyone - I have been trying to troubleshoot this machine for a year now. It started with random strange images, then failure to produce a screen.... then a burning smell then failure to do ANYTHING! Here's what I've done: RMA'd/replaced the Vid Card - still nothing. Replaced power supply … |
| | Hi Just built a pc with asus a7n8x-x motherboard, athlon xp 2500+, 512 ddr 333 ram. It works fine with Win 98 but wont install XP. About 5 mins into the installation it reports hardware problems tells me to try disabling a couple of cache's in the bios and try … |
| | Hi, I hope someone can help as I don't have a clue what is causing the following problem. I have just put together a new PC, which powers on beautifully, POSTs and is happy, goes into the BIOS, and even gets as far as looking for the system disk, which … |
| | I have Windows XP SP2 (32-bit) with all the latest updates installed. I have an AMD64 3200+ system. Since last few days, I've been facing a serious problem. Whenever I simply click on a video file (not open it) or open any other program, my Windows freezes. I am not … |
| | hi there, its not really a dead machine...well actualli im not sure coz ive never started it, but i was wondering if anyone knows much about these computer systems? i currently have an SGI model no. CMN A004 that i use to place my TV on top of it :P … |
| | Hello, Newbee here. I am not very computer literate. But I do know how to research. From the homework I have done. I discovered that my comp is a "no POST." I tried disconnecting the power and battery to no avail. I did a PAS alternate boot to attain the … |
| | Ok, so here is the whole story. At first my PSU died on my old computer, but since i didn't realize that, i thought it was the motherboard, so i bought a new one. Then obviously with the new mb comes a new proc and new video card and the … |
| | Hi, Ive been having this problem for a few months now. When I reboot, or power up the PC, I get error beeps and then nothing. The beeps happen before [U]anything[/U] is displayed on the screen. The beeps are 2 extremely short beeps, back to back, then 6 independant short … |
| | I am really confused. I was working on my computer and it hung up trying to recognize a USB drive. I restarted the computer and everything appeared fine. The Bios Post was fine and when I expected to see the Windows screen I didn't get anything except for a black … |
| | My friends hp pavilion ze1250 laptop stopped working, so now I am trying to fix it. The laptop will power up, you will hear the hard drive working a little, the fan will be on high, then in about a couple seconds the fan will turn to low, and there … |
| | Ive just installed a SATA II drive on my system, after the PATA gave me problems.. now whenever i run demanding programs such as Photoshop, Audio processing programs, DC++ server or demanding games( BF 2142, UT 2004) the sytem just freezes .. and i have to reset the system this … |
| | Hey, My problem is that my system freezes when playing games, I played war rock for around 5 minutes then it froze and I had to restart, it's been doing it ever since. My CPU runs at 34c idle or when just a few programs running and around 39c when … |
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