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| | Hi everyone! I am sorry if this is a repeated post, I have tried looking for an answer before posting. I am not very computer savvy, but I know a tiny bit :-) Ok, we have a Compaq presario desktop which is relatively old (about 4 years). It is stock … |
| | I buy a new laptop battery from [URL="http://www.laptop-battery-chargers.com/toshiba-pa3536u-1brs.html"]http://www.laptop-battery-chargers.com/toshiba-pa3536u-1brs.html[/URL] we replaced the battery with the new 9 cell one . Unfortunately, the Toshiba laptop says that the battery is not connected. Sometimes when I reinstall the battery it says connected but not charging.....then will go back to battery not connected. I … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Emachine won’t boot. When power is applied, the keyboard leds and the hard drive led blink. That’s it, no output to monitor, no beeps from cpu. Through troubleshooting I have found I can boot by removing the CMOS battery and power to the hard drive. When I have these removed … |
| | A friend brought me their computer hoping I could fix it. No signal to the monitor. Tried new video card, did not help. Since Acer used a 250 watt power supply to run a 2ghz, 2 gig Ram, duo processor, I considered that perhaps the power supplied might be enough …  |
 | Okay so I was pulling some hair off my motherboard and bumped the powercable that connects the PSU to the Motherboard (not the 4 pin one, the bigger one that is like 16-pin) any way the system all of a sudden just shut down all I can think is that … |
| | I have a thinkpad after i have written my password he cannot boot on windows i can't enter the bios either anyone could help me with that plz thank you |
| | I just received a system to see if i can 'salvage' anything from it. When i got home, i tore it all apart to clean the components and see what i had to work with... Decent antec case with card reader Intel E210882 desktop board P4 2.66ghz 800fsb CPU 1gb … |
| | So, my gaming rig crashed last night when I tried to quit the game I was playing, Team Fortress 2. The screen just went black. I couldn't get task manager or anything, so I held down power & did a hard shut down. I went to bed. Today I power …  |
| | OK – this is the worst of all horror stories. I purchased memory to upgrade a pair of Gateway machines (in preparation to upgrade the OS). The mother board is an INTEL DQ965MTG1 in a Gateway E-4610 workstation. Specs say you can upgrade to 8GB. Respecting limits of OS, only … |
| | I have hp DV6000 that I have abandoned for more than two years and now it has issues coming up. when i power on for the first time, i will have to press and hold the power button for like 10 secs after which i will have to wait for … |
| | ok so the other day i spilled pepsi all over the right half of my mom's netbook. now the keys are sticking. i wiped it all off right away but these keys stick (j k l ; n m , . u i and space) i have no idea how …  |
| | My HP dc5000 suddenly turned it's self off while i was browsing the Internet using it.It was running ubuntu 10.04.When I try to turn it back on the power LED does not light up but the one indicating hard disk activity does,the led on the mother board also blinks!After this … |
| | So I got home from work yesterday and I went to get on my Laptop (Hp Pavilion dv6000) and it was off, so I attempted to turn it on, but nothing happened, except the blue service light flashed real quick under the lightning bolt. I am assuming it has something … |
 | :( i had a laptop computer - Sony Vaio - K series - PCG-K315M I dont know what i did but now my computer is having no operation system. Before it was Window XP Home edition - Service Pack 2. Then, i tried to install another Window ( Window XP … |
| | Hey, TL;DR Computer restarted itself repeatedly, after leaving it on all night (presumably restarting itself occasionally) it no longer starts at all. No POST just a little fan spin. A few nights ago my computer began restarting randomly, doesn't seem to matter what I am doing, mid game or even … |
 | i have dell optiplex 360, i have use this pc for about six month now but this morning i put on my pc and is not booting but blinking amber or orange light on the power button, i pull off the power cable for some time and connect it again … |
 | Hi there, about a week ago, i managed to get my hands on an old compaq ml350 server. the server had two thirty gig seagate scsi hdds in it. these two drives were attached, via a scsi cable, to the features board of the server - a pci daughter board. … |
| | Ok. I have a Acer Laptop. I don't have the make or model in front of me. I'm actually at work. The other night I had my laptop on and open. My kitten was niffing around. He walked across it, nothing new. Then he laid down next to it. I … |
| | A windstorm knocked out power to my house for three days. I don not believe my Dell XPS 400 desktop was running, but after power was restored, neither the pc nor the monitor will start. I press the start button, and nothing happens. The printer is hooked up to the …  |
| | Hi, Previously, my computer was showing "No A: Drive Found" and also after POST the"NTLDR" file was missing. So I tried to repair it with one of my windows CD. The repairing reached to "Starting Windows" before choosing windows installation destination. Then the computer automatically restarted. Now it is not …  |
| | Hello, Problem I have with my pc is :- start windows normally appears on boot up? It counts down then attempts to boot up windows but the same screen appears 2 to 3 times before boot up windows is successfull. After that I don't have a problem booting up windows, … |
| | Hi! I've just assembled a computer, and it's not starting up properly. I followed the advice from the sticky thread about troubleshooting from 'bare bones.' AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor GIGABYTE GA-880GM-UD2H AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard CORSAIR XMS3 … |
| | I've been messing with my desktop for a while now trying to figure out why it keeps shutting off. I have an HP Media Center PC, 820 Pentium D, 2.8 Ghz. I have replaced the mobo (cuz I was told it was bad), have a new power supply (cuz the … |
| | I have a compaq 2200 and have not used it since July. I put another battery in; the power was low which is strange as it was plugged in. This battery charged and I did a few things. I then got a blue screen that said windows discovered a problem … |
| | Hi, My friends computer is dead. It shows the error "Dumping physical memory" and after the restart the BIOS is now not detecting the hard drive. Please help! Thank you in advance. Love and Peace, JK  |
| | so im back with another good one... my in-laws came to me and told me that their computer wouldn't turn on. they told me that for the past little while, the power would work only some of the time, until recently when it wouldn't work at all. i tested the … |
| | I disassembled an Asus A7S-A1 2 nights ago for a BGA reflow. Following reflow I inserted a stick of RAM, had the heatsinks re-seated with fan, attached the power button to motherboard and then connected the battery to test if reflow attempt was succesfull... good so far but heres where … |
| | While perusing Facebook, my avast anti-virus blocked a Win32 Alureon virus. Firefox crashed then computer went to blue screen with some words at top (don't remember what it said). No control. Disconnected power. Turned computer back on, computer starts, shows bios screen with F2 and F12 only, then goes to … |
| | Hi Guys, i have a compaq presario 2100 laptop, recently the screen turned black when i tried to boot it, though the machine is running as usual and i could hear the boot sound but i cant view anything on the display screen, when i connect it to an external … |
| | Myself and my uncle has the same model laptop. He asked me to look at it as it would not boot up properly. This indeed was the case, It seems it was full of virus's and spyware. I managed to save his files/pictures and then load up the recovery console. …  |
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