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| | My computer - Windows XP Pro - Athlon 64 3400 - 1GB RAM - Maxtor Serial ATA 80GB - Radeon 9800 The last time i remember using my computer i shut it down properly and all was working well. When i came to turn my computer on again it reached …  |
| | I have a 2000 gateway E-3400 and when i turn it on it does not beep, but the cdrom drive has power, the keyboard is lighted up, the front light is on, and the fan is running. Nothing on the monitor comes up though and the monitor works. Does anybody … |
| | I accidentally spilled a drink onto the keyboard of my Toshiba Satellite 2455S305 laptop. Immediately after this occurred, the computer turned off. The only lights on it were an amber power plug. I removed the battery and then put it back in, and now no lights are on. I've been … |
| | Hubby was given this laptop by a friend at work knowing it wasn't working properly. We're just trying to figure out what might be wrong & if it's worth our effort to try fixing it up. Per the previous owner, the screen would randomly go black like the computer had … |
| | Hi Great site, new member here and first post! Gericom Overd.2 PIII 800mhz laptop came to me with a loose power supply pin connector, so no power, battery dead too. De-soldiered connector then re-soldierd connector back onto mainboard. Laptop powers up fine now, only to develop what seems to be … |
| | I have an AMD64 set up with an ASUS MB. My 15 year old son was playing Diablo II and he said weird noises came out of the speakers, and then the PC crashed. It will not boot up now. The CPU fan and video card and Hard Drive all …  |
| | Hi guys, I came across your site whilst looking for answers to my building nightmare. It's my first go at building a PC (for my mother dearest) from scratch... you seem to know your onions, try and help me solve this badboy :rolleyes: I've read your guide on the forum. … |
| | Hey everybody, I've been having this problem for the past seven months. My computer just randomly shuts off every so often (usually happens at least twice in one week). I use it extensively (have gotten into the habbit of obsessively pushing ctrl+s), and when I first got it, I was … |
| | Hi, :-| I have a problem with my pc that I have just put together. I have never done this before so I might have done something wrong. My pc is made of the following parts: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ A8N-SLI DeLuxe Motherboard 2 x Crucial 512 MB 184 - … |
| | I have a soyo kt600 mobo amd athlon 2500+ cpu w/heatsink 2 ddr ram @ 256mb and a ATI radeon video card PCI slot. everything turns on, but nothing on display will not post. mobo light turns on and is solid. ps everything is new I also have a pcchips … |
| | I've had a machine lying around for awhile now and recently decided to install Fedora on it. It used to run redhat fine, but I haven't used the pc in over a year. Sometimes, the computer just sits at a black screen with no signal being sent to the monitor. … |
| | Hey, I am on a different computer now because my computer is not working. It boots up and it continues to run, however the keyboard and mouse do not work. They are plugged in and everything and I even tried a new mouse, so I'm pretty sure it's the computer … |
| | recently been given a second hand Latitude CP that does not work. The orignal thought was a dodgy switch. I have stripped and freed this. The PC powers up then switches off after 30 secs or so and the BIOS does not even run. No noise from fan, hard or … |
| | My computer wont boot. It keeps switching off to no signal and restarts. error messages displayed *pri. master disk hdd s.m.a.r.t capability...... disabled I tried the last resort and inserted a reload cd..error messages *failed whilst redefining max address *failed to initiate recovery *error whilst redefining max address it fails … |
| | I have a Samsung P10C laptop. Its main specs are: CPU Type Mobile Intel Pentium 4M, 1900 MHz (19 x 100) System Memory 512 MB (DDR SDRAM) I run XP Prof SP2 and IE6.0. I keep the Microsoft software updated. I have AVG AntiVirus, ZoneAlarm and Ad-Ware. Several months ago … |
| | Greetings, I need help! I have an IBM THinkpad T-22. It was working fine until one day I went to turn it on, and when I press the button it just makes a little mechanical sounding click, and the battery light stays on, and disk drive light flashes for a …  |
| | [COLOR=RoyalBlue]hello everyone[/COLOR] my friend got [COLOR=DarkRed]gta san andreas [/COLOR] that he couldnt play because of the crash..he was thrown away to the desktop i told him that the problem is in the video driver and he need to update it...after done pc wont boot and the "no signal" message is … |
| | I'm trying to use adobe audition (an audio editing program) to convert a MIDI file into a .wav file. whenever i try to open the "windows recording mixer", the following error message pops up: [IMG]http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/4240/errormsg3di.jpg[/IMG] i know its not the programs fault, because i have tried to export the midi … |
| | this might seem as if im beating about the bush a little bit but i'll try to keep it as short as i can:D i have just brought a copy of windows xp professional (OEM) today and have taken it home to install on a machine of which i have … |
| | I have a celeron 800 Mhz with windows 98 Second Edition This machine starts only at day, from 1am to 7am it stops in the Bios Screen it says Intel Celeron (tm) - 1.06 GHz (its overclocked) Checking NVRAM <-------(sometimes takes more than a minute to appear this) 262144KB OK … |
| | Recently built machine that was working before being transported into a new case. The problem is that when we press the power button, the fans twitch and then nothing happens. Keyboard and LAN both show that power is being received, yet the system will not start up. Thanks. If more … |
| | I am replacing an old Nvidia GeForce video card with a new Nvidia Geforce card (5200LE). The old one works fine, but I can't get the computer to recognize the new one. There is no picture on the monitor and nothing seems to happen at all. I tried removing the … |
| | I have an Armada 7800 that just won't start up. When I connect it to the AC socket the battery starts charging and the fan starts to blow but when I try to power it up the green LED's light up but nothing happens. I have checked all the fuses … |
| | i have cleaned my machine, run a new reg unbridge REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run] "RunDLL"=- ran register fix help i hate this s email [email]tdrwn@yahoo.com[/email] |
| | My Compaq Presario 5716 is out of warranty and I tried fixing a hard drive problem but I erased both partitions and now I can't get the System Recovery/Restore CDs to work. I get a 'runtime error 6300' after hitting ENTER once. So the computer has absolutely no Operating System … |
| | :sad: [COLOR=Magenta]Hello everyone!! Im new here and Im having a problem with my computer. Im running off of Windows XP home edition and my computer keeps freezing up. Ill be searching the web or listing to music or even around my computer then all of a sudden it freezez up … |
| | Hello all, I'm currently trying to resolve an issue with a corrupt registry. I have a fix from Microsoft where I have to use the Recovery Console from the XP CD. My only problem is that Bios will only let me change the System Date/Time and or create a Password. … |
 | After fixing my own computer shorting troubles, my friend's custom has a newfound issue relating, apparently, to hard drives. One day, approximately a month ago, his computer shut down during a defrag. He had a Quantum Fireball 14GB (IDE, naturally), and I found it unsurprising for the drive to have … |
| | Hey, I have a p4 3.0, 768K, Windows 2000, 430W power supply. I put this machine together a year ago and have not had any problems until the other day. Out of nowhere, my pc powers off completely and won't get any power back until I unplug, replug, power cord … |
| | I have asus's new sli board and an enermax 600w sli power suply. 1 stick of 512 ddr and a nvida 7800 gtx video card and amd's 64 3000. Ihave checked all the connections more times than i can count, they all seam to be in place. The problem i … |
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