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Approx (x3) weeks ago my dell crashed out of the blue. Working away then i get a green screen and the laptop crashes. Could not start it up for about (x2) days and on the third day it starts up oput of the blue. Now a couple of days ago …

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Hey Everyone! I'm stuck and could use a hand ^-^ I have a Toshiba Portege M200 thats giving me a head ache :P I just got the machine, it was working great but was used, and I wanted to erase everything on it and start fresh. I preformed the steps …

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My wife has a presario R3000, infected by virus corrupted registry and affected DVD RW therefore cannot restore via disc in DVD drive. How do I restore it to factory settings. Tried system restore but for some reason calender only goes back to April 2007 which is no use at …

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I have been working on this laptop and only receive 2 options, one to repair and the other to start windows normally. The message states that software or hardware installation was done incorrectly. Either option takes me to a black screen where no activity is heard. I have tried the …

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Hi there, Everyone: I have a dead HP zv6000 laptop that just died on me after I tried to replace the CPU fan late last night. (replacing it required me to remove the thermal mount, replace the fan, and then put the thermal mount back on - among numerous other …

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Well this laptop is having a problem. When you turn it on it won't boot (black screen) and then shuts down then boots up, then shuts down, then boots up and so forth. It has a Pentium 4. I took out a intel centrino chip from another laptop and the …

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Gateway GT5476e Windows Vista Home Premium Alright, so I'm trying to Restore to Factory Settings. I do the normal routine... F8 at startup Choose the "Repair your Computer" option Everything seems to go fine at first, until computer loads up to the Welcome Screen. Except on this screen, there are …

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Hi When I boot up my PC i get the following error Drive 0 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-0 Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility I really need to fix my PC My PC is a Dell 5150C Thanks All help would be greatly …

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I have opened up my TravelMate 2300 and I'm looking for the cmos battery (I'm pretty sure it needs replacing) but I can't seem to locate the battery anywhere...does anyone know where I would find it? Thanks! Noelle

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A few days ago, after being on computer for about half an hour it randomly shut off by itself. I opened the case and cleaned all the dust out, turned it back on accordingly, and after being on another 30 minutes or so it shut down again. Sometimes I noticed …

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its got : cd-rom 52x intel p4 641 cpu Ultra 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Memory Golden Orb 2 cpu fan radeon 9200 videocard belkin wireless network card seagate 250 gb sata harddrive floppy drive PT88BS Pro motherboard from mach speed 500 watt powersupply anyone got ideas it would be much …

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I have a computer that I have recently built using an:ASUS M4A88T-M MOTHERBOARD,AMD PHENOM 2 multi-core processor,500W Eagle Voltas PSU,and I dont know if this helpful information but a Sector 5 Patriot DDR3 4GB MEMORY.After building the computer,I attempted to turn it on but everything in the computer(LED's,fans,ect.) Just turned …

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My desktop computer recently died on me. When I turn it on nothing shows up on the monitor. The fans and power are on (everything lights up at least) but there's nothing there. Then when I try to turn it off by holding the power button in it won't turn …

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ok so basically ive just installed a new evga 470 GTX. my power supply [url]http://www.apevia.com/ProductsInfo.asp?KEY=ATX-IB680W-BL[/url] my mobo nvida nforce 750i sli mcp wireless linkysys adapter g the problem is my pc randomly freezes up and i have to do a manual shutdown. I talked to the evga support they said …

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Hello, i have a problem when i play games on my pc...e.g. call of duty modern warfare 2 , call of duty black ops, rainbow six vegas 2.... my computer just totally freezes and i have to manually restart, the computer does not respond to ctrl+alt+delete or alt+tab, and when …

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I've been reading some of the topics on here, and I'm not sure if anyone has the specific problem I have. I own a Sony VAIO PCG-K23. It's four years old and has only stopped working once due to an overheating issue about six months ago (has been working fine …

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Hello. Just had a brand new acer laptop. I had it in Linux and I just changed it to windows XP. I didn't copy any file from Linux, I deleted eveything immediately. Now, I can't connect to our wifi internet connection. It can't even open Movie Maker because the required …

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When I turn on my computer, the screen comes up a weird light blues with Parser Message. taskmgr.exe-Application Error Then if I hit control alt delete, I get Window's can not load the user's profile but has logged on w/the default profile for the systme Also get this message Details: …

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I have an older laptop I am trying to repair. The problem started when one day last summer I had the laptop plugged in where I usually have it. I had left It plugged in after I read my e mail that morning and left it there for the day. …

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My PC is dead. I have taken out everything. The Cards, Drives, Memory. When I switch it on the light comes on but there is a sharp constant beep and it does not start.

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Hi, Good day! My problem is that I can't install any anti-virus on a PC... I strongly believe it has many viruses because it slow-ups the unit. Almost all of the anti-virus I run ([URL="http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus"]Avira[/URL], [URL="http://www.avast.com/index"]Avast[/URL], [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com/kaspersky_internet_security"]KIS[/URL], [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com/"]KAV[/URL] and [URL="http://free.avg.com/ww-en/homepage"]AVG[/URL]) cannot install successfully as if being destroyed or blocked by …

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I´ve got a PC HP Media Center m7350la. It´s got a GEForce 6200SE video card. I´m planning to buy a new monitor for it. Does anyone know the maximun monitor resolution it can handle? It´s got Windows 7 installed already. Any comment/suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

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my friend just updated his bois and when he did that some reason it saved the drivers in c drive he then formated the drive. he lost his bios drivers and is unable to install anything. any ideas on how to get it back?

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Hey guys this must be computer crappy week because i've had problems with two computers. One is SOLVED thanks to jholland and Crunchie. The other problem is with my laptop(not the current PC i'm using) yesterday for the first time i got a fuzzy screen like the static on a …

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When plugged in the battery light comes on but none of the battery lights are lit. When you push the power button the fan comes for a second or two and stops. The wifi lights start blinking then and the power light is on but it does nothing else, nothing …

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Hi, My two-year old Dell Dimension 2400 died three days ago in the middle of computing -- The notorious blue screen appeared and saying physical memory is dumped. When I tried to reboot, it says 'primary hard drive disk 0 not found'. In BIOS it says 'hard drive (device unknow)'. …

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So i have a 2005 compaq desktop. And i will from here post the specs then go on to describe my problem OS : ubuntu 10.04 G Card : Nvidia 8600 Ram : 1.5 gigs on 2 sticks So i did a thermal paste job on mny computer about 1 …

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Hey to all, I have a older Compaq Presario which has been upgraded with two hard drives, 512 MB of RAM. IT is basic, however, one day while playing music in Windows Media player the computer froze and stopped playing. I rebooted the computer and since then (Feb.) the computer …

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