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| | hi, I am having problem with my Hp nc6000 laptop. If powered on(ie when the adapter is plugged in), the LED on the charger blinks rapidly and the coolant fan spin awhile then stops. I am led to believe that this is probably caused by a short somewhere on the …  |
| | Hi all, Bought a used MPC Transport T3100 off ebay about a month ago and has been working great. Today my brother used it on battery power for about an hour. When I went back to plug it in it stayed on battery power and would not recognize the a/c … |
| | I have a HP Pavillion A6500F with a start up problem that I need some help diagnosing a problem with it or rebuilding it the cheapest way possible. Problem (1): Last time I used the computer I noticed it had a software virus on it. The Virus presented itself as … |
| | Compaq Presario V1000 (possibly bought outside US) OS Window's XP Home boot and black screen reads on top: "1720-SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure (failing Attr: 05) Please backup contents of hd and run HDD self Test in f10 setup" f10 setup ask for admin password which user doesn't have... … |
| | This situation is a bit... Complicated. It involves a power surge. I had an old PC and a power surge virtually ruined everything in my computer except for my dvd-rom drive and, to the best of my knowledge, my processor. Allow me to elaborate: A power surge caused my power … |
| | Well, this is frustrating... M6755, 2+ yrs old, no extended warranty, won't power up. Press power button and it's light as well as the wireless light flashes once very quickly and then...nothing. No post no beep, nothing. Backstory: power adapter low voltage wire where it exits the transformer started to … |
| | Hi. i get this blue screen when starting my PC very often. Here are my PC specs (report from everest) [QUOTE]Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 (WinXP RTM) Date 2010-08-25 Time 19:24 --------[ Summary ]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer: Computer Type ACPI Uniprocessor PC Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional OS Service … |
| | So i've been having my pc for 2 years now.Here is it's speccs: OS : Microsoft Windows Xp HE SP3 CPU : Intel Core 2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80Ghz Ram : 1gb Graphic Card :Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT 250mb MB : Asus P5L-MX When i got my pc i could …  |
| | I have a [URL="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic76992.html#"]Gateway[/URL] 7215GX and some how it seems the power button is now unresponsive. I believe it was caused by my fiance mashing down too hard which caused the button to be pushed under and slightly over, I managed to move it back into place and it has … |
| | Back in May, my hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive)crashed so I turned it in under its warranty. When I got the new one, I plugged it in only to find I had no video. I bought a new …  |
| | Hey guys, I awoke the other day to find my PC with a black screen saying "insert boot disk then press any key." I tried restarting the PC and it a attempted to do a CHDSK scan, which i allowed to scan. After the scan it gave the same error … |
| | I have a HP Pavilion N5250 that is a couple of years old. Recently, my dad gave it to me and it has been sitting around unused for about 6 months. As far as I know, it ran fine before that. When I hit the power switch (whether it's plugged … |
| | This situation is a bit... Complicated. It involves a power surge. I had an old PC and a power surge virtually ruined everything in my computer except for my dvd-rom drive and, to the best of my knowledge, my processor. Allow me to elaborate: A power surge came causing my … |
| | [B]I'm not very techno-savvy, but i know enough to get by. Not enough in this case though :P I start up the tower and it dose it's Memory test whereas I can hit F1 to get to set up.[/B] [I](There is no issue of freezing in the [BIOS?] Set up.) …  |
| | My laptop overheated and shut down. Since then it does not stay on more than a few seconds sometimes it gets all the way to window's login. I opened it and replaced the heat sink and fan that had failed. Still no luck. I added some thermal paste on top … |
| | my dell dimension c521 is restarting itself all the time.I turn on the computer and see the screen - start windows normaly,I scrool down to the comand and I hit the enter key,it does its thing then I see the windows ep logo for about 30 seconds then it starts … |
| | I left the notebook on for a few hours and came home to find out that it wont power up completely anymore. I've tried unplugging the AC adapter and pressing the power button. When I do that it still only powers up for 5 seconds then cuts off. I sent … |
| | Hi all, I'm back with a new problem. :) I have a Medion Akoya E1210, a MSI Wind U100 copy, netbook. Whenever I unplug the power adapter the netbook dies. Replugging it boots it up again. At first I thought it was the battery but I have another battery (we …  |
| | I guess I have a few questions. I've built a few computers before but the one I am working on now has me scratching my head. So hopefully someone knowledgeable can help me. First off, for the life of me I cannot figure out what bios manufacturer (phoenix, AMI, etc) … |
| | I have a year and a half old Sony Vaio notebook that just developed a problem. It boots up normally but then when you click on any app, the timer spins and spins and the program never comes up. Control-alt-delete doesn't work at that point; the hard drive LED doesn't … |
| | Hello. This is my first post here and from what I have seen, this is the best site when in need of PC help. I have 2 PC's that are not working and I cant figure out why. The first one is a PC I have had for a while … |
| | [QUOTE=;][/QUOTE] I have a Toshiba Satelite Pro A200. These days whenever i put it on, there is this beeping sound that stays on for a couple of minuets after which a page appears asking me to select boot option after which everything works normally. What could be the problem and …  |
| | My six month old NV52 laptop Gateway computer will not start. The front light for power lights up blue but the machine will not turn on when the on switch pressed. Totally dead. I've tried unplugging, removing the battery, pressing the on switch for 15 seconds and trying to restart … |
| | Hey guys, i really need some help with a really frustrating problem im having, my pc has been sat in the corner of my spare room for about 2 years, then last week, i thought id rebuild it, so i went out and bought a new motherboard, processor, ram , … |
| | when i set up xp 2 my pc it shows a msg that "cannot find hard disk" wat shuld i do?? |
 | Ok, this is going to be dead in the water, but I have a tascam PCI 822 audio card running XP. tascam no longer supports this card, but they released a driver hack to get it to work with XP. I had it working at one time, then my PC … |
| | Hello all, I just acquired a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop from a vacant unit in my blding. It has no charging cable but aside from that, everything appears to be 'there'. It doesnt power up or do anything. Ive pulled out the battery and found it has a charge level … |
| | I first installed windows 7 and then fedora 10 , while installing fedora 10 there was power cut and now i am unable to see any of Operating system I tried to install widows 7 again it says some problem with the hardware and now i am unable to install … |
| | Hello, Picked this one up but I'm thinking I should have passed up on it. This unit will partially start to boot. For one moment,I hear the CPU fan start and the HHD light's up follow for a very brief flash of "VAIO" in the center of the screen and … |
| | I have a hp pavilion 9720us laptop. I have the error message operating system not found. It was woriking perfectly until I inserted a usb flash drive. It then went to a black screen with the error message operating system not found. I have tried taking the cmos battery out …  |
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