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| | [quote=mercury049;272311]Hi, I have Vista and XP set as dual boot on my machine with no problems. HOWEVER, I have noticed that on most of the forums I'm a member of that people are having a LOT of issues surrouding the install of Vista on their existing machines and some are … |
| | My parents own an old Compaq Pasorio w/ windows 98 second edition. It boots into windows fine but every time the computer would restart when they are doing someting online/in a application program or the computer is in idel. I would like to know your opinion on how to fix … |
| | Our usually working well emachines desktop just stopped working tonight. It'll start when you press the power button but gets to the first screen (emachines) and turns itself off. Any ideas? |
| | All I did was reboot to download expl 7 which I had done on second machine with no problem. On my main computer I had uninstalled spybot and was rebooting to go forward computer now will not go past Gigabyte Titan intro screen and just sits with the mb process … |
| | a couple of days ago when i turned my computer on there was a delay of about half an hour before it would actually start, now it just wont turn on at all. it makes no noise, no lights turn on, no fans spin. I've tried different power supply cables … |
| | Hi newbie here :mrgreen: I posted this message at the bottom of a similiar thread but thought i would actually start my own :cool: Im not pc stupid and understand the basics and have built many, but this problem bugging me. Lets say to start with my pc is running … |
| | Hello to all I am new to this group and am in need of advice regarding booting a G5 that isn't responding following an attempt to use a firewire enclosure as start up device with a cloned sytem drive. After cloning drive and checking that it was seen as a … |
| | Hi All, I was using my PC when it just shut down. It will not start up again. No lights, no fans, nothing. I checked the power cables and the outlet, they are fine. If I unplug the PC and plug it back in and push the power button I … |
| | About 2 months ago I bought 2, 1 GBs ram sticks, that I was going to put in both my computer and my moms. Now first let me say that I worked at a computer store for a few months and I know the parts and how to put a … |
| | A couple weeks ago I put my computer in standby. Came back an hour later to find it dead. The fans in the psu spin, all case fans spin, cpu fans spin, motherboard light is on. No signal to the monitor. After a week of troubleshooting I decided to get … |
| | My brother's cpu, cpu fan, and hard drive randomly shuts off at random times, like I can get it to start to boot then the cpu and hard drive will shut off but other components will still have power, like the cd-rom drive doors will be able to open and …  |
| | Please help, I have the blue screen of death on my laptop and the following error message STOP:c0000221 {bad image checksum} The image kernel32.dll is possibly corrupt. The header checksum does not match the computed checksum. Normally this would prompt a restart in safe mode but I can t access … |
| | My laptop is not dead, but dying, so I hope it's OK to post here Sometimes the scrollbars won't show up in certain applications, most notably a Visual Basic app I wrote myself. I'll open a form and there will be text and objects going off the screen to the … |
| | [B]Rig [/B] [LIST] [*]Manufacturer: Alienware Laptop [*]CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz w/ Hyper Threading [*]GFX Card: nVidia 7800 GTX [*]RAM: 1 GB[/LIST][B]Problem [/B] Well all of the sudden a few days ago I went to my computer (which I leave on) and the screen was black but the computer was … |
| | hello, a couple of days ago i was surfing the net minding my own business, when all uf a sudden, my IDE 60gb HDD started making a familiar clicking noise .. and sure enough its now dead. thats fine though, because i recently bought a 250GB maxtor maxline III SATA … |
| | My HP pavilion dv1100 laptop will not boot up. When I turn it on, the HP logo shows and it freezes there. The HD makes clicky noises, and after about a minute it goes to a blank screen. Sometimes if i push the space bar during the blank screen, the … |
 | ok.. lately my computer has been restarting randomly while playing World of Warcraft, however only when i play WoW does this happen, and time incriments in between when it happens varies from day to day. The other day it happened and when it restarted an error came up telling me … |
| | i have used my mp3 player months from now when the problem occurs, i cant get enter to the main menu of my mp3 player, it will go direct playing music.. why is it? pls help. |
| | Hi you all. My first thread, usually can find a solution off someone else's misery. I have possession of an ibm G40 laptop(?) huge machine. Anyway, it's getting zero power, although the battery connector points does show a small amount of current. In any case, no lights, no one home … |
| | I had a laptop gave to me that doesn't work. When you turn it on the power light comes on, you hear the hard drive spin, cd-rom has power, but there is no picture on the monitor. Also you cannot hear it go through any boot process. Does this sound … |
| | Hi there, my problem simply put is that my motherboard * a P4P800* no longer seems to be sending out a display signal to the AGP slot...i think :( i thought i may hav fried my motherboard and i have examined it properly...and there seems too b no burn or … |
| | Hey guys, new user here because I am having an issue with my Laptop. Bear with me here, kind of long, but I would appreciate it if you could give your time to help. First the specs: Compaq Presario R3000Z Notebook (2 years old) AMD Athalon 64 3400 processor 768MB … |
| | I tried to install windows 2003 on my desktop system. While doing that I deleted all the partitions in the HDD and tried to create new partitions, but while doing I reseted the system by mistake. Now I am trying to install Windows OS, but is coming upto boot from … |
| | im having a problem in my machine. my computer restarts randomly whenever i boot my computer and whenever i am playing games, but when i do normal things like surf and all other things except gaming it does not restart. can anyone tell me whats the problem? thanks. my video … |
| | I have been having problems over the last few months with my PC rebooting. It mainly seems to be whenever I view a high res video or browse through large photo files. This is the event report, if it helps: Error code 0000009c, parameter1 00000000, parameter2 8054d370, parameter3 c4104000, parameter4 … |
| | Hi All, I'm very helpless right now... my notebook acer TravelMate4102W is dead. Whenever i try to on my notebook, the power light in on. But nothing shown in the screen. And normally i will need to press the power button around 5 second to force the windows shut down. …  |
| | :cry: i have left my pc on for a few days downloading everything was fine, i go to work this morning and my gf tells me she was using it and it "suddenly shut down" asked her if it was hot she said it was, (the case and the inside) … |
 | Hi there I have a feeling i might know the answer to this already but I'm not positive. My brother has a custom built computer AMD sempron 2400, 512MB RAM, Abit Motherboard, 300GB hard drive. This computer was running XP Professional and Linux, but after a recent reformat it is … |
| | The following happened when I tried to turn off the laptop from Windows XP prompt. After an extended period that the screen indicated Windows was shutting down, the blue screen memory dump came on briefly. Then the screen blanked and the computer restarted instead of turning off. While restarting, it …  |
| | I have a kind of wierd issue. My pc will boot up fine in the mornings. If i ever have to do some hardware swaps or hard drive upgrades or anything that requires a restart, my pc wont post, I can't even get a monitor turn-on. Some times at random … |
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