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I used to have a 65 Gb Music folder. The truth is, that I still have it, only that now it has 0b and no files or folders inside it. It hasn't been deleted, cause I still have the same amount of free space as before (that would be round …

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Hi, my sister just got a Mac within the past year, and its giving us trouble. Freezes during startup, screen gets all glitchy, tells you to shut down. It's not the OS, we tried reinstalling alrdy. I think it's the memory or hard drive, but I dunno how to run …

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help! I realy need some advice on wat to do. I have an Asus Travelmate514xv. when i plug it in, the cd drive light blinks, the power light blinks, and the cd drive makes a cliking sound. this happens whether the bnattery is in or out, or the cd drive …

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Hi, I recently came back home from a trip of 2 days, when I came back home to switch on my PC, I heard a "pop" noise from the processor, and when I hit the main button on the processor to switch it on, nothin happens. I was told there …

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When i switch my computer on it plays a long beep over and over again untill i get pissed off and switch the computer off, I have tryed removing the RAM puting it back, puting RAM in from another computer, removing hardware ect but it has had no effect and …

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I have a HP 753N 2.53GHz P4 Desktop System w/CD-RW/DVD. When the power button is pushed it just makes a clicking sound but will not stay powered. The fans momentarily come on, hard drive tries to spin up, but when I release the power button it just shuts off. Have …

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when i turn my sony vaio on it skips the boot-up screen and goes to the Microsoft Windows xp screen, then it goes to a blue screen and says (windows is starting up....) but it never starts up. the screen just stays blue. i dont know what to do..... any …

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I have an old pent.111 : 15 gig hd : 320 mem. I just loaded win xp. It was loading fine up till the last 5 min. which took 30 min. However, it finnished loading. Whenever I try to load anything or even play pinball it may take 5 minutes …

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I Can Get My My Computer To Start Up In Safe Mode But It Stops At The Point When The Screen Is Full Of A List Of Start Up Items But Goes No Further, I Am Using Win Xp Home Sp2, Nero 7 And In Cd Are Installed It Has …

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I have a problem with the Toshiba Tecra 8100. I had a virus three weeks ago, the problem was fixed. Since then, the computer had problems booting. Now the computer does not even load up. The computer does not even go past the "post" setup or even has display. My …

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[COLOR=#000000]I first start my Windows XP, and then turn on my HP monitor. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The monitor light is green, but soon turns orange to signal a standby mode. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The computer itself appears to be running constantly because the orange light is being constantly lit. [/COLOR] …

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Hello, I am new to this forum. I just aquired a Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop from a friend. It's a Pentium III, 500MHZ, with 128 Megs of RAM and a 12 Gig Hard Drive. It's in very nice condition and running Windows 2000 when I received it. Loaded with all …

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Just installed photoshop cs2 all nicely installed, worked fine.. i rebot and came up with windows starting up.. i waited and its still like that.. Then i rebot windows from cd and started all over again.. and still came up with it. Im using windows home ed. Anyone know what …

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I have a insignia D400a and i was cruising along on the web when the pc froze. i shut it off then pushed the power on button. the lights come on on the keyboard, the power lights to the pc come on and the fans are running. i even put …

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Hi all, Pain here. Alright quick run down....HP Laptop, has XP on it, along with Nortons GoBack proggie. Tried to boot up this morning and I am getting an error message that says this: ====GoBack internal error==== Failure Code: gb_ui_support(1147) Press any key to reboot I then press the "go …

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I'm almost too embarassed to post this problem as I am an IT professional supporting +a network of users over 2500 strong covering EMEA! I have a second laptop which I bought in January 2005, and it just won't stay on any longer. I have done everything possible and even …

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On Friday morning, the electric went off for a very short amount of time. My Gateway is plugged into a power surge protector. Monitor works on another computer but goes into "analog power save mode" within seconds of rebooting offending computer. On startup, the fan runs and runs and runs …

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Hey all, Long time reader -- first time poster. I have a Toshiba M40 Laptop (canadain version) and as luck would have it 1 month after my warranty expired... bam, the computer refused to work. First off, I dropped the pc a while back, and as a result the DVD …

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Hi--Built a new PC using: ECS NFORCE3-A motherboard AMD Sempron 3100+ processor with Coolmaster heatsink Corsair memory (DDR 1GB PC-3200)-single module ATI Radeon 9200 video card (128M) Raidmax Scorpio 868 case - 420W power supply 6GB Maxtor hard drive LG CRD-8400B CD-ROM Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG Eventually got everything working perfectly …

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Hello all, I have an Asus p4p800 MOBO, with 2GB Corsair duel channel RAM and a EVGA Geforce 7800GT CO vid card, All my hardware components have been in use for about a year now, no problems. When i turned on my computer last night i smelled a funny burning …

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OK I have a 2-yr old comp I bought from Frye's electronics, a unit they built themselves that I cannot get to start up. 2 weeks ago, I had a harddrive problem and when I attempted to have it repaired the shop advised me that I needed the original WinXP …

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About 2 weeks ago, hubby opened the case & changed the master & slave on the burners. Since then the computer will start booting up & will shut down before everything has finished loading up. It always gets to where we can see XP logos, often the entire desktop. Sometimes …

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Hiya, I got a new sony Vaio ([COLOR=#0000ff]Sony Vaio FS515H Pentium M 740[/COLOR]) today and set about installing wondows xp professional. Everything was fine. Then I tried to instal a tv tuner but had to keep restarting. Next I know the laptop loads up but freezes on the xp welcome …

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Hi everyone. I know this isn't the usual tech problem people ask about, but Ive been racking my brain, and I can't come up with a solution to my problem. To make it short and sweet, basically, out of nowhere games like Half Life2(CS:S, Deathmatch..etc), Hitman Bloodmoney.. for a couple …

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I have a similar problem to the person whose "kids did it"... My wee fella's only 5 but somehow after he got up early and tried shutting down the PC with the "on" button... found a message asking if I wanted to continue shutting down because other people were logged …

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Hi Everyone. I'm brand new here, I have bought a used, refurbished GX150 I found on Ebay to replace my daughters dead comp, It came without an operating system. My plan was to put the HDD from her old comp in it and she would be good to go! When …

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Hello everyone, I have a hand-me-down notebook, specifically a Toshiba Portege 4010. I got it from someone who's workplace was upgrading and didn't need this one anymore. After digging around on the Toshiba website, I found out this laptop is 4 yrs old. I opened it up and it has …

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[B][COLOR=darkgreen]Ok, I KNOW there are a couple of guys out tere rolling their eyes right now, but REALLY, it's NOT MY FAULT!! The other day, while I was AT WORK, the kids were playing on the computer and it suddenly shut down on them. The exact details are pretty murky, …

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Help, my Toshiba Satelite will not turn off. I tried to shut it down from Windows and the screen is locked up. What should I do?

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