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| | I found my computer all of sudden was making an alarm-like noise (through an internal speaker) when I came home after work, and the monitor would not turn on. When I opened the case, the CPU fan and heatsink had snapped off the cpu and were just hanging loose. Now, … |
| | Hi, My Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop is not booting up: when you turn it on, the lights come on but the hard drive and cd drive dont engage and nothing loads, after about 15 seconds it turns off. It seems to happen every now and then ,and previously Ive just … |
| | I need some computer help. The other day my gf was on my computer and it shut down so she wait a few minutes and tried to restart it and it started but the win xp screen comes up and then restarts. I've tried to get in to safe mode … |
| | Heres how it started out I left my computer on last night went to school and got home around 3 PM. turned off my pc. turned it back on a few hours later to listen to music. 30 mins later my computer just retarts on its own. ok? not normal. … |
| | hey, so my zt1000 died. sometimes it will half boot up, most of the time it won't at all. all the lights come on, but no sound no screen. when it does actually boot, most of the time it won't make it past the windows xp splash screen, and when … |
| | There was a thunderstorm on Sunday. We heard/saw lightening hit across the street and a subsequent pop came from somewhere in the back of our house. Since my computer was plugged into a surge protecter as well as turned off I thought nothing of it. When I went to start …  |
| | Hello Everyone, I am in dire need of help for my laptop. Its a toshiba satellite. I started having problems right after i installed dreamweaver on it. Actually, maybe a day or two later. The symptoms sound like a hardware problem, so i'm not sure if that installation was a …  |
| | Originally Posted by caphrikorn12 hi!! im new here, i just search for some1 to help me out with my computer problems, im from philippines. i just wanna ask if my processor is defective or what, this what just happened, i have a p4 2.4ghz ecs motherboard 256 ddram. my pc … |
| | Since yesterday, I have been having some serious problems with my Compaq Presario 2100 laptop (AMD Athlon XP version). Whenever I used this laptop it would run fine for about thirty minutes, then it would display the Blue Screen of Death with a message mentioning the atapi.sys driver. At first, …  |
| | currently recieve this laptop, but it has a password on start up in the bios I guess. wanting to reset it. I have tried to find the cmos battery in attempt to reset but can not locate? Any hellp will be great! thanx!!!!! |
| | Okay, so I'm running on a Dell with Windows 98. So just recently I tried booting the computer and as it started the booting, it stopped and said. set path= C:WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\ULEADS~1\MPEG Program can not be run in DOS mode. So, I'm not sure where the problem lies in that error. … |
| | I posted a problem two days ago about the cursor freezing up on a Toshiba Tecra 8100. I deleted the existing OS, in case it was a software problem, and reinstalled XP Pro. It still happens. I guess it might be a hardware problem, but I don't know what to …  |
| | This happened to this PC before but it strangely corrected itself after being unplugged several days and has worked fine for the past few months. This is a self-built. Turns on fine, all LED's light, fans start and drives spin up. Get a good load of video then POST continues … |
| | Recently I've tried to boot using rescue floppies and after POST the screen would flicker. I opened the case to check for loose connections. I found no loose connections but a whole lot of dust & lint on the CPU heat sink. I removed and cleaned the heat sink and … |
| | Having a strange problem with my Compaq Presario/AMD Athlon (1.5 yrs old). As long as it's running, everything is fine. But, if you shut it off, for any reason, and pull power, even for an instant, it won't restart. Looking at the power supply on the back, I noticed that … |
| | My computer keeps rebooting. It's two years old and it has done it since I purchased it. Is the problem overheat? EVEREST Home Edition tells that there's about 130 farenheits inside. Is it too much? The problem is not MSBlast, I'm sure of it. I can't run any virusscans because … |
| | Ihave a Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop. After I boot up, the cursor freezes up. Sometimes it might take ten minutes, but it alwats freezes. Is it an OS problem(XP Pro) or a hardware problem? I'm lost! |
| | Ok, well my computer has been working awesome for the longest time....all of a sudden I got to turn the computer on this morning, and i get 8 short beeps... I think i've traced the problem to a display read/write memory text..i think... What can i do to fix this … |
| | My P.C is riddled with spyware so I decided to restore the image I'd backed-up using Powerquest Drive Image 5.0. The program requires you to create 2 rescue diskettes. I rebooted my P.C, set the floppy drive as 1st boot device, saved and exited. I inserted the 1st diskette, the … |
| | I just decided to rebuild my PC but I'm having some issues. I tried 2 different motherboards and have the same problem. Mobos - PC Chips M848ALU and ABit AN7 Memory - DDR 400MHz PC3200 Processor - XP3200 Graphics Card - Radeon 9800 AGP 400W PSU When I boot the … |
| | About a month ago I put together a PC. The system consists of an MSI 8N Platinum MB, AMD 64 3200 CPU, ABIT (ASEUS) Vid card, 1GB RAM, ATEC 480 watt power supply, and WD SATA HD. It worked great until yesterday. I was converting a CD to MP3 files … |
| | Hello Everyone! I'm new here and lukily to be a major pain, sorry about that. I apologize for my English and for my lack of knowledge about computers. My husband put together our computers, but he died last year, so I'm not able to tell you about the components, unless … |
| | Working on a friends compaq PC - 900 Meg CPU, 512 RAM, DVD/CD RW 40 Gig HDD - has intermitent boot failure/lock up/freeze Symptoms: power on - fans run, CD/floppy leds light, keyboard lights flash, HD led lights, monitor led stays amber, no compaq spash or video on screen, HD … |
| | Okay, my computer comes on and everything and displays well, like it shows the the eMachines (the maker of the PC) screen and then it freezes up. Of course the eMachines page is the very screen to come up, I am lost, the front of the PC case is damaged … |
| | Just received Dell Optiplex GX1 with Windows XP installed. Plugged it in, turned it on and it worked. Installed modem, sound card, plugged it in and the power light turned on by itself, the fan started working, but it never booted up. The only way to turn it off is … |
| | I have an IBM Think Pad laptop which cant start. The power on light just blinks and so does the battry charging light. I do not think it has something to do with the power supply. In a month I have only managed to start it twice. Please help. I …  |
| | I have the same problem as this person here: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread1114.html[/url] The problem: I cannot boot into windows, I get as far as the screen asking me to boot to safe mode, with networking, with cmd prompt, last good settings, normal boot... but no matter what I choose, the computer just … |
| | Hi I have a old pc, TM-586 TX1 Motherboard, with a pentium 166 I had 2 16 MB sticks of RAM (32 MB) I had come accross an old pc, about the same age as mine, and took the ram out and added, it to mine. Everything worked fine. So … |
| | Hi I Am So Glad I Found This Board, First Let Me Say I Do Not Know Alot About Computers, But I Learn Quicklyand Follow Directions Well, I Have A Compaq Presario 4716 With Windows 95. The Computer Sat For Along Time Without Ever Being Started Up. My Friend Started … |
| | Currently I am running: XFX Motherboard kt-400 w/ 512 mb ram XFX GeForce-4 ti4200 graphics When I turn my computer on, it starts fine, all the fans run, all the lights blink in the cd rom and floppy, but the monitor does not respond. The speakers also do no make … |
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