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my Dell insprion 1501 was showing a messag everytime i turned it on "Battery nor recognised, system will be unsable to charge battery" However, i pressed enter, ignored this messgae and it was fine. the other day i turned it on, had the same message and this time it didnt …

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first let me just say Im not sure where this should be posted. I checked the forum and didnt find anything related to this. ok so Im recently new to servers. Im currently working on Dell PowerEdge 2850's. when they post part of the post shows that they either detect …

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Hi, My Sony Vaio VGN-FZ38M wont boot up, it just freezes on the logo and then says no operating system found, it was dropped yesterday and that is when the prioblems began, from searching google i read that my hard drive might be shot but BIOS recognises that the HDD …

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Hey yall, I've recently encountered a very annoying and discouraging problem. The other day, I was on my laptop; Windows Vista, Inspiron 1501, I'd say about 2.5 years old; When it suddenly shut down. Now this is not new to me, my laptop would usually shut down on me after …

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So I inherited a Sony VGN-S170 (PCG-6C2L) laptop. It randomly shuts-down, regardless of the activity. First, I thought it was the damaged DC power jack - replaced it, but still shuts down. The battery is completely dead - won't do anything on just battery power, so I've ordered a new …

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Hi Everyone, I am ready to pull my hair out. Have a 301 keyboard error on another computer and figure it is a missing or corrupt driver, but unable to do anything on that computer. Which leaves out going online to fix. Have any of you experienced this before? Thanks …

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Hi there!! I have some hardware experience and never seen this. My problem is that I have a computer that sometimes, after i press Power On, starts the fans and after 3-4 seconds shuts everything down... The fans stop working but the front light keeps turned on. I have tried …

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A friend brought me a laptop with an unknown history. Its Intel Celeron Vista Basic... beyond that I dont know what's in the machine. When I try to turn it on it goes from the TOSHIBA screen where I can boot to an error message relating to winload.exe status 0xc00000e9 …

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I have two related problems that I really need help with: Problem 1 Somehow my registry in Windows XP Pro SP2 got corrupted - it's giving me the following message: "Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" So I've gone and done the …

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Hello, Just yesterday I picked up parts for a new computer that I'd planned to build. I had a couple of friends over to help me out. It went quite well considering none of us have ever built a PC from scratch before, only upgraded certain parts and so on. …

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I have a Medion MD5000 computer that I removed the CPU (I've done this 100's of times and never had a problem) well i do now. I replaced the CPU and my computer turns on the HDD, CD/DVD, Video Card all have power, but the monitor, mouse, keyboard and anyother …

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Hi My dell inspiron laptop has gone loopy,keeps restarting and no access to safe mode(f8) I wanted to test the hard drive of the dell laptop using an old tecra 8100 wont recongnise hard drive from dell laptop but does recongnise old wd external hard disk. The hard drive is …

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Hello, I have a media center desktop PC for like 4 years, and yesterday a blue screen came up a few times about a hardware and software problem. Then today it does the something. I was going to look around the computer when it was on. and was looking for …

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My Presario R3000 laptop recently got a virus and i would like to restore the system back to factory settings. I have already backed up the files i want to keep and have been trying to work out how to do this all evening and night without success. Can anybody …

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I can not see the screen on this computer. I bought it used yesterday hoping to just turn it into a small home server this week but without it working I am no where. When powering I do NOT here any post beeps, and I even took out the ram …

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Hi I have an apple powerbook G4 1.67GHz 15" Screen etc.... (a1138). I bought it and am working on it (fix computers here and there) I had to replace the bottom case because it had a few large dents (one was by the charging port so I had to buy …

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Hi Folks, I've added two pictures of my set-up. It's a XPS 8000 with a BLU-LED LCD Samsung BX2450 Monitor. The only problem with the PC is the low powered power-supply and cheap graphics card. To be precise, 350W PSU and a weak 512MB ATI HD 4350 Graphics Card. Do …

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I have a compaq presario v5000 that keeps on turning off. I am fixing the laptop but everytime I go to install windows 7 the computer shuts off. I have tried new ram / new hard drives and etc But everything fails The computers fan works when it comes on …

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I have some customers saying certain pages never load for them and actually freeze their computer or make their internet connection drop. I asked one if they knew if they were using Internet Explorer as their internet browser and she said: "no, google". I was surprised and said: "oh, you …

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I have a T23 IBM Thinkpad Laptop with 512mb RAM and a 1.13ghz processor. just today(11-5-07), this morning, it was working fine. The most recent things i had downloaded were a few music files(.mp3) and i had installed updates with THinkvantage's System Update. (I had yet to reboot my computer …

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I recently brought my Desktop from Singapore to Australia.. now it can turn on fine, fans spinning LED lights on and such, but when i connect to a monitor, it doesnt show up on the monitor. I have tried removing all the RAMS and troubleshooting it, but that doesnt work. …

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Hi all,I have a problem getting back into my bios settings as i have no display,I was in the setting in Primary Graphics Adapter and changed it from internal to pci which was wrong but now i cant see my screen to be able to get back into Bios settings,Please …

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I have a Dell optiplex 150 windows XP operating system. I get the dell logo screen fully loaded and that's as far as I get. I can access the setup screen. I opened the CPU in setup and it tells me that the CD Rom Drive is not installed and …

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Hello everyone i need some help! I have an Acer Aspire 5051, now when i try and turn it on, the power light comes on, fans kick in as normal but no screen just black, the hard drive light is constantly on though. It will turn on with the power …

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I have a Dell Latitude D610 that will not power up with the ac adapter but will fire up with the battery, when I plug the ac adapter into the jack on the main board the green light on the ac adapter goes off which I've read means a short …

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[B][COLOR=red]HELP PLEASE[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=black]When I put my laptop on it stated:[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]Primary hard disk drive 0 not found[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000](F1 Repeats the No bootable devices line again)[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000](F2 takes me to Dell Computer Corporation ([URL="http://www.dell.com"]www.dell.com[/URL]) [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]Page 1 of 7 Dell …

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Hello Crew, I currently am working on a Sony Vaio VGC-JS230J all in on machine. The hard drive is bad which is the root of our problems. I need to disassemble the machine to reach the hard drive but I have small experience working on the sony all in ones …

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My Dell studio xps 16 notebook turns off without any warning randomly.Sometimes it can be kept on for 2 days straight while sometimes it fails to do so for even 30 minutes.I installed a software for checking the temperature,and found out that it was always below 65F and was rarely …

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can anyone tell me how to start my computer its stuck on insert boot disk an i dont have a boot disk

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