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| | With over 7years experience as a PC Technician, id like to share with you guys a few of my most valuable diagnostic tools and tricks to fixing any Computer, easily. 1: a PCI PC POST card- which you can pick up from CompUSA (tells you exactly what is wrong with … |
 | When I shutdown the PC there was nothing wrong, now it won't start. It's dead, but when I take the battery on the motherboard in/out it start again. But when I shutdown, same problem, dead. I have tried with another battery but no luck, and I have updated the BIOS … |
| | 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 … |
| | Lately my Xp monitor has benn having these 5 second blackouts wehre the screen will go black for 5 seconds and then coem pack to the preavius picture. IT will do this three times until the screen goes black for about 30 seconds and then the computer reboots it selft. … |
| | Its dead. Had no problems then this morning attemtped to power the system up and nothing. Any ideas? |
| | G'day!here's the problem. I was listening to music on my comp and it suddenly froze,i then thought it was just lagging so i just wait a few sec than it crash,the screen turned off and fan and everything stopped but the light on machine still on,i than press restart than … |
| | Hello, I'm posting this on behalf of my brother. He was using some kind of crack to get a program he wanted when his computer stopped working properly. He thought he had some kind of virus and for some reason removed his E drive to see if this fixed the … |
| | I have a Compaq 12xL 401 and I was transporting to a friend when the DVD drive stopped working. He sent it back to me and now the computer will not boot up at all. It is stuck on the Compaq Logo when turned on. I tried entering the BIOS … |
| | When starting my fujitsu amilo laptop ,windows xp will not run rather an error message pops up saying Isass.exe unable to initalise. The computer then shortly afterwards shuts down. I have tried re booting windows however during the re boot the computer shutsdown roughly at the same time. Please Help!  |
| | ok im hoping maybe one of u clever ppl can give me some advice, ive got an old IBM T22 thinkpad laptop, the damn thing just wont behave rationally, sometimes it boots n sometimes it doesnt, sometimes it runs for 3 hours before crashing sometimes the moment it boots up … |
| | I have a brand new P4 3.4ghz with a gig of RAM. Was exiting a game last nite and suddenly it just froze, I tried restarting it and now all that happends is the fans and lights go on but no beeps or anything on screen appear. Any ideas what … |
| | hey yll, it seems 2 be a simple but rather irritating prob.....k here goes....the green light or power light doesnt come on,though everyting else(read- CD rom, monitor,fan)are turned on..... and yeah it does take ages nearly an hour for the green light 2 flash ,but once tats on its smooth … |
| | Okay Guys Please help me out wit this (For those who dont know the whole story go to the old post) AT: [url]http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6141-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=96492&messageID=1095726[/url] I No Longer have a Compaq Computer. Now what i have done is Bought this MSI K7N2 DELTA2 MotherBoard and case.I did buy a new in the … |
| | Computer is 3-4yrs old PIII-500MHz, Win98SE OS. When I attempt to power up the computer, everything appears to load as it has in the past. However it never gets past the Windows logo display. I have attempted to boot in safe mode (same issue). I am able to access the … |
| | Hello all... I have a problem with my laptop battery not wanting to charge all the time. I have one or two ideas and what to run them by some other folks and get their opinion. Background info: Toshiba Satellite 3005-S304 - (1 GHz machine with XP home installed) I … |
| | I have a Gateway laptop 9300 solo series that has a very wierd temper. When i have the external power supply hooked up the computer it will lock up so I turned it off. On power up the Gateway logo will come up and then beep which is normal then … |
| | can anyone please help or advise, my pc kept crashing mostly when i was on the net, BIOS error was the most common message. so went to mercury website (motherboard manufacturer) printed out details to reset & update bios. basically it said use flash file on CD, save BIOS which …  |
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My new rig has been running for about a week without a problem, until i rebooted windows and my raid 0 disapeared. All the connectors are connected, the BIOS is all set correctly. Could one of them have failed? The only thing it says is read disk failed press …  |
| | I just put this together, here are my specs: Chaintech MPM800-3 motherboard 512 DDR400 RAM on-board video card Pentium 4 2.26 processor All seem to be installed correctly, the computer starts up and all the fans and everything starts, but it doesn't seem to want to work. I've tried resetting … |
| | Heres What I am Running: - Soyo Dragon Lite P4x400 (already updated BIOS) - 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 Processor 533/400 MHz - 160GB Seagate Barracuda Harddrive (Partitioned into Drives C(100 GB), and D (50Gb) - 512 MB DDR Kingston Ram - 128 MB DDR ATI 7200SE Video Card - Sony … |
| | My LCD screen on my hp zt1000 has just gone black. Im usually pretty good with computers and fixing things with them if something goes wrong but im just not to sure how to handle this one and any suggestions on how to fix it would be great! The only … |
| | my girlfreind has a computer she built 2 yrs ago and is now having problems with it she cannot solve. i will get a full list from her later but heres some info to start us out its a amd 2.1ghz processor 64mb ram 40 gig hd windows xp os …  |
| | I have a Gateway 450SX laptop. I had to remove the motherboard to resolder the power supply input jack. Since then the screen will "scramble" at any given time for no apparent reason. I tried removing the lcd screen and plugging in a crt monitor and the same thing happens. … |
| | [B]I have a Fujitsu notebook...a Lifebook 142 that someone gave me a while back and I just got around to looking at it and it works!....It has windows 2000 Pro on it but I do not know the password to get past the Login screen!...I know this is a dangerous … |
| | Hi All I have friend's PC which was reporting errors and had to be rebooted regularly. We decided the best option was to reformat the machine and start again. So after backing up all data I reformatted his hard drive and then reinstalled Windows Professional from the genuine CD. It … |
| | OK guys, this should be the correct place to post this. Recently I have been hearing strange sounds inside my PC. It sounds like a fan, kind of slowing down and almost churning, before sounding like starting up again and the sound goes. It's not a clicking or anything like … |
| | I recently put together the following computer: Asus A7N8x-x mboard AMD 3200+ chip Corsair 400MHz 512MB ram Antec 350W power supply ATI 9800 pro video card Windows XP After several errors when running the computer at 400MHz FSB, I finally got my board and ram replaced from the companies. This …  |
| | Hi, can opne of you nice people help me with my laptop, When I press the power button eveything powers up fine, The Hard Disk spins and the Cd drive's light flashes and the processor gets warm (if left long enough) after this I don't think it boots, and there … |
| | Hi everyone this is my first post for some much needed help. I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Laptop with a big problem, the laptop will not power up via the power supply it will only power up from the battery. I have also noticed the metal prong which inserts … |
| | Hi All, We are having the following problem on one home comp, this happens without warrning and with no visible pattern, sometimes when idle, sometimes when browsing files and even during games. The computer is about 2-3 years old and has: P4 -2.4 Ghz 256 DDR 333 Win 2000 pro … |
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