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| | My Inspiron 8000 won't boot up. The Inspiron flash page with "press F2 for setup" and 'press F12 for boot page, comes up and then just a cursor. The flash page won't respond to the F2/F12 keys and the blank page that comes up after the flash page won't respond … |
| | [QUOTE=DMR]The sequence of the beeps is important; each particular beep sequence is a BIOS POST error code which points to a specific problem (bad ram, faulty drive, etc.). We can tell you what the error code means if you can tell us the make and version of your BIOS, and … |
| | My benq 3000 notebook is now out of warranty, it died 2 months ago and under warranty installed a new HDD and heat sink telling me that the problem was casued by the heatsink being full of dust, and overheating, which I can believe, it is very dusty in our … |
| | Hi guys, I woke up yesterday morning to find my computers power light flashing and making a strange drilling sound. i thought this was strange as i hadnt left my computer on all night. I turned it on and it powered up ok, then it locked up when i tried …  |
| | Appreciate help. I have a good working computer: 500Mhz 256Mb 20Gb, which I bought on e-Bay to use for learning Linux. I installed Mepis Linux OS completely on the hardrive. I just cannot work with Linux with the password all the time, and, it just remains over my head. Now …  |
| | OK... This time I really managed to screw things up. I downloaded a program called FREE-BROWSER [url]http://www.lilsarge.com/FreeBrowser.htm[/url]. While installing it I got a message saying something about problems regestering a file and unfortunately I didn't write it down but I chose the option of RETRY, and then it said theb … |
| | Hi, Here's the problem. I was in the process of troubleshooting my internal modem by de-installing and reinstalling it. I had the tower on its side at the time as I didn't want to have to mess around with the screws again if it still didn't work. Landlady's kid suddenly …  |
| | Alright, so here goes. Im into computers and such, so i know my way around them. I just cant figure out whats going on wrong. I did something really stupid with a new card i bought, i just wasnt thinking literally. My computer was on and i plugged the card … |
| | Hello I have 2 5150 laptops that will not post no fans nothing no power. Only the light from the battery button. Can someone tell me what could be the problem. I would really hate to throw these laptops out. Please help Thank you, Bernardo Valdes :cry:  |
| | Hi.. Thank you for reading this. I can't get windows xp home to work. I restart, windows loads and 5 seconds later it freezes. mouse, keyboard the whole thing. I went into startup in safe mode and removed a couple useless items and now i get that window when windows … |
| | Hi and thanks in advance for any help! Ok I updated spyware doctor (registered and paid for) ( I have contacted them too) and re-started as told to and now i get to the page where it says to click on your user id to log on, only it doesn't … |
| | My other computer has started giving a page fault error whenever IE6(SP1) is opened. I have run scan disk, defrag, spybot, Ad-aware, snd Trends sysclean. No fix. WIN98SE. Thanks |
| | Alright my computer has been shutting down lately while playing World of Warcraft. I just bought a new video card ATI 9550 256mb card, a new 512 ram stick, and a new 480watt powersupply for it. I was told it was the power supply, but it still shuts off. Any … |
| | o.k, where to start............well it all started when i booted up my presario 2100 with the compaq operating system c.d(forgot it was in my drive) and it gave me some options to boot up(i was in a rush so i held down the power button to turn it off, took … |
| | Trouble since day one! It just shuts down now and then showing a blue screen error display. Finally got it checked out in a service station ( AND it took three weeks to get it back )... well... the shutting down stopped... but now it´s slower in all..AND It crashes … |
| | Hi there, my name is Don & new to the Forum & I hope This is the right section, I unfortunately suffered the net result of an Operating System malfunction (XP Home service pack 2 etc).and I am not very impressed, more highly stressed at the moment & I would … |
| | Hi my computer will not start. I have a HP Pavillion 512c and it is not starting. I used a diagnostic card to troubleshooting the problem. The error I got in the card is A0 which means Set time of day. I belived my CMOS had been reset. I don't … |
| | Hello There! I was chatting on skype and MSN one night with a friend and all of a sudden my USB mouse tablet stopped responding, everything else kept going fine, so i rebooted. Now when the computer posts it returns an error saying something to the effect of "DRAM timing … |
| | Hi folks. I have a serious problem, and I hope that someone out there can provide me some answers. I just built a new PC (my first attempt at this) and everything seemed to be working fine. The machine will POST just fine, and I even get to the Windows … |
| | I put the disc in, but burning programs or pc will recognise that it is in there. It plays on my dvd player though as a dvd-movie. Can anyone help suggest why or a program which will identify it? Thanks  |
| | i have an ibm thinkpad 600e pentium 2. a couple of days ago i was using it ok when it started to make some very suspicious clicking noises. i think it could be the hard disk drive that has failed as when i tried to restart the machine the ibm … |
| | when I power it up the fan starts and the blue lights at the top come on then nothing, won't boot up fan stops and blue lights stay on, It is an expensive one i need some help. thanks |
| | I have a Gateway laptop thats never been great since day one. At rest it stays at about 55 C, and when compiling, or something thats a load on the processor, it stays around 88 C . Needless to say it shuts down on me a lot. Anyways, I had … |
| | Hi everyone. I apologize for my first post being a doozy of a problem but I'm at my wit's end. Less than 2 weeks ago, my son's friend, a self-proclaimed computer genius, offered me new RAM for my system. My computer came with 128MB RAM about 5 years ago, bought … |
| | Hello everybody: I think that my notebook is dead. After trying to update the bios with the Hp update program, i had a problem with the screen of the notebook, it didn't work, so i had to use and external screen in order to back to the las bios version. … |
| | How do you set the proper resolution? Instruction booklet says nothing about how to set it up. |
| | Well, the problem usually happens when I try to open a movie (.wma, .avi, whatever) or even browse a folder with movies. The symptoms are pixelated screen (reminds a TV, or like having the screen set to 400x300 resolution), only a part of the upper-left "view" fits into the screen … |
| | I have a PC with Windows XP loaded. Whilst using the PC last weekend, it shut down without notice, I was in the middle of typing in Word and the machine powered down. I switched it back on, it went through the screen to access the bios, memory check etc, … |
 | Hey all, Went to a local computer show with a friend. Working on building him a ccomputer. Any ways, he got hold of an HP pavilion 7850. The machine had been caught in a lightning storm and the only pieces that worked were the Processor, Ram, floppy and cd-roms. The … |
| | Hi there, I have a computer which has been working fine for a long time (4months) but up till last wednesday it has started to freeze. What is strange that is it freezes at and after 1:50pm. After this time the computer keeps freezing every 5 mins. I have scanned … |
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