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After a botched upgrade of the bios (the flash prog from toshiba was faulty, their mistake but they refuse to fix it) the machine won't boot. Have lights drive and fan noise but no screen. 100% sure eeprom write error. Can you flash these eeproms via parallel, surley toshiba don't …

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hey all Im running a 2.4ghz P4 processor, with a Asus P4PE motherboard, 330W ATX power supply, a CD-RW drive, a DVD rom drive, and a 160gig western digital hard drive i was using my computer around half an hour ago, and the computer just turned off, as if someone …

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Hi I'm new to the site and wondered if anyone could help me with my dead machine. It has been running fine up until recently when I added sonicstage 3.3 software. I then came to it several times to find a black screen with the message "operating system cannot be …

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I need some help. I had an old PC I was using as a file server running Windows 2000 server with active directory. The motherboard died but the Hard Drive is still working. I need to get the data stored on the hard drive. My problem is this, I hooked …

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I tried to re install my xp. and some of the key and mouse does not work properly. anyone haver recovery cd for sony vaio grx316mp. please help. [email]prada0615@ec21.com[/email]

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Hi, im posting on behalf of a friend who's pc has died. It was fine yesterday, today it only gets as far as the black screen with the lists of things on your pc (as you can tell we are not very technically minded). It lists main processor amd duron …

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Well when I start any game, like counter-strike, the game works for a while, then it suddenly freezes, sound buzzes, the cursor freezes and I can't bring up the mouse cursor. I tried reformatting my computer already and the problem still persists. The freezing lasts for about 30 seconds to …

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Iam a system analyst but yesterday I was working on certain computer which is failing to boot whenevre i restart it it is giving me amessage to say"[B]unknown flash type file system missing please insert system Disk"[/B]i will be happy if you help me this problem

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Hi there, i know you have been asked this question so many times before but i am having so much trouble getting XP to shut down. I select shutdown and it goes through its whole process until it gets to the "windows is shutting down" screen and it just stays …

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Hello .. I have recently bought a secondhand IBM M42 netvista CPU. It works fine except that when I start the PC the Fan works for the first few minutes then stops...then it will start to work again randomly while I am using the PC. Is there a problem with …

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hello there i have a amd something not interesting 1.2ghz computer in my room and firstly i had to flash the bios to get the graphics :cool: working then i installed windows :cool: and then i insalled the graphics driver and then i stopped it halfway through it booting up …

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Hi everyone, I have a computer with no operating system on it. I have been trying to put one on for a long time. The computer recognizes the floppy drive and so I got some generic CD-ROM drivers, put them on a floppy, and stuck it in the machine. The …

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I have a toshiba laptop. when turned on all the lights turn on and the fan is running but there is no activity. the screen is black and the os cant boot. a possible solution to this is that it is overheating, but not sure about it. Can some one …

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Got a compaq 700 with athalon 4 1.4 ghz. One night last week it just started rebooting over and over again. Out of frustration I reinstalled windows xp (took 8 hours) and got it to work..sort of. Now it takes 15 minutes for the computer to start up and load …

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i was playing a game yesterday when my comp restarted. i thought nothing of it because this has happened to me before but as soon as i got back in the game after 3-4 mins the comp restarted again. this time it just turned off at the BOIS screen. after …

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I hope someone can explain this to me because I don't understand it at all it, is an ADVENT 7001, turn the power on and the laptop will shut down almost straignt away. Boot to DOS and it sits there for hours but as soon as I go to run …

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I have recently had a few minor problems with my pc so I decided to try to repair it with my Windows XP disc. What I actually ended up doing was to reinstall windows xp again and now my pc is back to the day it was made, well almost. …

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I have an IBM R31 laptop with 128 mb RAM installed, but when i check the system configuration, it shows only 120 mb. what's the problem?

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my computer is a 2002 packard bell imedia. I recently decided to restore my computer to factory setting as if it jus came from the factory. I booted from floppy disk and it asked me for master cd 1 which i inserted and pressed Ok but it keeps on showing …

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i have a dell inspiron 1150 running windows xp home edition and i belive has service pack 1a installed on it. my problems is this: I will go to turn on my computer and sometimes it will turn on, and other times, it won't. When it does, sometimes the fan …

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I have three self-built computers which will power up right now but not post. Two of these computers were working previously, but were bumped and then stopped working. The other is a new computer. I have stripped them down to just a power supply (which has been tested to verify …

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problem I do not have any video from the pc everything internally seems to be running fine i.e. powers on and off but I am staring at a black screen. Any help would be appreciated.

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Let the stress begin! :( A friend of mine asked me to take a look at her laptop due to recent overheating issues. She said that whenever it was running a movie or mp3s or a game, it would restart itself. She had managed to figure out that if she …

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The scenario: We tried to install WinXp in it but we failed. So we installed MacOs in it again. Before it came to completion, the installation freezes. We tried to eject the MacOs installation cd but we it didnt work. We poked it but still no effect. The pc displays …

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Hey there, Would be great if someone could clarify what is wrong with my computer before I go off and spend a fortune on getting it fixed! I have an old Hewlett Packard Pavillion 7970. About a week ago it seized up so I restarted it. On restarting I got …

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Hiya Everyone, My PC is currently running WIN XP and it keeps restarting. I have tried changing the OS setting so it does'nt automatically restart and so it starts under safe mode, but this has had no effect. I have also tried changing the boot sequence so that it starts …

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I have an optiplex gx1 400 tbrt. Bios revision Ao6. :?: :confused: The problem is, when i cut it on the optiplex, the load bar show that it is staring to load. It then stops 1\5 into the loading process. It freezes there getting no where near the bios set …

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my pc shuts down for no apparent reason, i have replaced power supply unit (twice now) 1st time with cheap one and then upgraded it with 550w. Im runing xp home with p4 2gig , 512 ram, i have done a hijack logfile and wondered if anyone could help to …

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Hey Gang, I have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S202 and need to reinstall Windows 2000 on it. I have the drivers, but they have to be installed in a specific sequence and I can't recall what the sequence is any longer. Anyone happen to know? Mark

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Hi This is my first post and I have a a problem that is driving me crazy. My computer suddenly stopped booting. The power gets to the machine but nothing else. No POST just dead. I have replaced the PSU thinking this was the problem (It works ok). The hard …

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