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I have a Aspire Ax1300 then one time my brother told me ablue screen showed up, it was like 3 months ago and I have no idea what bsod was that time. so yeah i was like idc and i thought this was a one time error. the day passes …

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Hello everyone, I have a problem with my dell 1501 laptop with windows vista. The laptop was in sleep mode when i opened it up it was frozen, ctl alt del did nothing so i just powered it down. Now when i try to start it up it powers on, …

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Ok... i am trying to repair a friends computer (Intel Celeron 2.8Ghz 1GB Ram - custom build from some computer shop) initially the problem was that it no longer turned on... so i replaced the power supply. The computer now turns on, however it does not boot from the hard …

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Its dead I think... First thing that happen was that it turned off automatically. When I then turn it on again, it worked for 30sec or so and then, suddenly, goes dead again. The weird thing was that if I turned it on immediately after it crashed, nothing happened - …

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A few weeks ago my pc just cut out for no reason and when i tried to restart, there was no POST beep. I stripped it down completely and reconnected everything in case the mobo was getting shorted and put back together. After restarting there was still no POST. I …

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laptop will not start. Intermitent lights. Power supply is good and there is power to the motherboard. I have seen a lot of postings of people having the same problem. Is there any help out there? :rolleyes:

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Okay, so I still have a Dell XPS 410 with Windows XP. For no discernible reason (no new hardware or software recently and I haven't been playing with settings lately) the area around the on-screen mouse turned blue for a brief time before the whole computer finally shut down. Now, …

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I'm running XP on a Acer Net Book. I could not boot into windows XP. Screen said:" Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file." so I press F8 try to boot into safe mode but …

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Hi, My lap top has suddenly decided to display a black screen and nothing else. I'm doing the following: [LIST] [*]I plug the the power lead in and the power led and battery led both light up. [*]The power button has no effect, can't switch off with this. [*]The hard …

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GUYS, help me! my father pc having a problem.. it appear this message: searching for a boot record from SCSI.. not found insert boot diskette in A: press any key when ready. i can no longer go to starting window... and im not familiar with the programs that was install …

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System specs below Processor: AMD Athlon (tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3.00GHz Memory: 3.00GB Max Bandwidth: PC2-6400 System type: 64-bit Operating System Windows 7 Mainboard: Biostar Model: TA770 A2+ SE 6.0 Graphics Card: Sapphire HD Radeon 3870 512MB Power supply: 500Watt My computer crashes whenever I start Sims …

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Yesterday night I turn off the laptop, today at around noon I go to turn it on and it seems as it is going to start, all the lights fire up the hdd light flashes just once, checks the cd drive, then nothing. screen stays blank the whole time. power …

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I have a Dell Dimension 4600. I recently reformatted the hard drive, and everything worked fine; however, the next morning the computer would not load Windows and simply said "Primary Drive 0 Not Found," and then, "Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility." Because I thought that I …

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Hi, I stumbled on this forum looking for an answer to an issue I faced with my laptop today. My laptop was running slow and shutting down due to overheating by itself so a friend recommended I clean out the fan and heatsink. I opened it up (unscrewing the bottom) …

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For a couple months now, my computer has been freezing after it has been turned on for about 10 min. When i go too restart it, it has "no signal" on the monitor, but the computer is still on. What could this be?

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I'm not the greatest hardware person in the world. Overview: My "test" computer is an HP of some sort...I'm not too fond of HP .. my casing is long gone, and is bare metal now.. and don't remember what type of HP it is... so calling HP would be pointless. …

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Placed laptop in sleep mode before bed and woke up to find only the A/C plug light on. When I push the power button, the green LED on the button itself lights up as well as the front power indicator. It only stays lit for about 1-2 sec before turning …

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Hi, My PC works well while booting from HDD but freezes at different instances each time when trying to boot from CD. I tried changing CD Drive but the result is same. The bootable CD is also working well in other PC. Can it be corrupt BIOS or hardware fault?

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[B]Can anyone nhelp me with my laptop? When I try turing it on it will turn on but the screen turns black also when i put light at it it will show alittle of the screen. help? and my laptop is a gateway[/B]

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My Sony Vaio PCG-V505BC won't boot. I've tried to boot it, with the battery alone. Screen stays black. The same with two different ac power supplies. Please advise! Thanks, Fred

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huhuhu.... i hav a problem with my Acer Aspire 3620 laptop.. as i say,CD Driver of my laptop was missing.. n now i cannot do anything with it.. even to format this laptop,coz i need using it to run a cd.. So Anybody can help me to solve this thing?? …

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I have a laptop HP Omnibook xt1500, it was working good, but I presses fn+Q+B and now the laptop does not boot at all, leds are on, but not sound, nothing at all, I have tried to reset the laptop using the hole on the back of the laptop,but did …

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Hi. I built myself a new PC out of old computer parts and it won't boot (It got no power buttion but I use a screw driver). I know that it got power as the ethonet port lights up but it won't boot. Can you help me?

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Hello, I plugged in a PS2 mouse to my Inspiron 8000 laptop which made the system freeze but when i rebooted all I got was a white screen. No HDD activity or HDD light. More or less dead other than a white {off white} screen. There have been no problems …

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Hi! Thanks in advance for any help! I recently installed xp pro sp2 on a new wd hard drive. Yesterday, it shut down for no reason....restarted several times and came back up. The last time, I got a boot failure message. When I use my cd and start the recovery …

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the caps lock blinks, the power and hard drive indicator come on, the hard drive spins up...then it turns off. Never posts, no fan comes on, no bios screen appears. What can i do? (the keyboard is missing 15 keys lol)

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Hey, I hope this is in the correct place and that someone will be able to help out. I have an old computer, where I installed ubuntu 9.10 on and it told me that my 80Gb WD hdd was failing imminently. So I went and bought a 500Gb SATA hdd …

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Have been playing Chuzzle game, sometimes everything freezes, mouse, computer. All I can do is shut down computer. I don't think is right thing to do. Don't want to ruin computer, should I just delete game? Is fast moving with much graphics. Any answers?

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Hi guys, I bought Acronis True Image 9.0 build 3677 a few days ago and I'm having problems. Trying to create a secure zone and apparently all I did was create 50GB of unallocated space on my hard drive. Acronis support had me run a chkdsk C: /r. This came …

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Specs: Shuttle AK32A Motherboard Kingston 256MB RAM Maxtor 20GB HDD Nvidia GeForce MX440 500W PSU Amd Athlon CPU It's a custom-built PC, and when I powered it on for the first time, all the fans came on, the HDD's spun, and it seemed to be recieving power. But, I get …

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