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| | I got up this morning to check my e-mail so when i opened my laptop i pressed the powere button to resume it from hibernation and about 2 minutes later the hardrive stoppped and the screen went blank. It was plugged into the AC adapter and had the battery in. … |
| | Good Day to all. Please find below my unfortunate story. I bought my laptop a few months ago. Everything was just fine until one day. Turned off the laptop, unplugged it and left my cabin (currently working on a cruiseship therefore I have limited to none, acces to landbase service …  |
| | Error on Gateway CX210S Ok, so my friends computer stopped working. I get an error message after the gateway boot screen or splash screen is gone. It allows you to press F10 for boot menu but it goes right to the error message. When trying to F2 for the bios …  |
| | Hi, I've came across this Compaq Presario PC that wont boot up. It's really the Motherboard that's faulty (ASUS A8M2N-LA). When power is applied it starts automatically without pressing the power button although it can be turned off by pressing and holding power button. When it's on the fans spin … |
| | Hello everyone, I have an e-machine T2984 computer that recently stopped powering on. The monitor powers on fine but the tower itself does not power on. I checked the AC outlet and the power cord supplying the unit. Both of them are working fine. I also opened the computer with … |
| | [www.unitedinblue.com](http://www.unitedinblue.com) There's a lot of JS and ajax and extra scripts and things (far as I can tell at a first look) on this website, some of which don't even seem to serve any purpose. If you look in the source (via Inspect Element, not actually viewing the page source, … |
| | Hello I'm trying to fix my sister's inspiron 5100 but have no clue what I'm doing. when I plug in the adapter all 3 lights in the front blink, with or without the battery. what's wrong with it? |
| | I have an older sony vaio laptop, model PCG-K315B, I am currently not able to load the operating system as once the PC is switched on the Error Message: 'Error loading operating system' is displayed. I have attempted the F10 system recovery, following the wizard and selecting 'complete recovering' (also … |
| | My Compaq 2500 (2538CL) laptop will not boot. The first error message that appears says a hard drive failure is imminent, press F1 to continue. I press F1 and then a message appears saying media test failure, then operating system not found. I have tried wiping the hard drive using … |
| | After I switched the power off from the back of PC to force shutdown the PC due to it freeze, the PC could not bootup again. When I powered it on, the fans runnng, all of the lits on, the CD lit on, the CPU heats up, and Hard Drive … |
| | I recently created a computer from spare parts that I found in my garage, cleaned them out, and through out the damged ones that would not work. So, once I was complete, I started the computer, I heard about 5 beeps, and then nothing, the fan was on, I could … |
| | When I switch on my computer it gives a Long beeping sound and there is no display in the moniter. What will be the problem. Can anyone pls reply..? |
| | After a reformat of a Dell Dimension 2400, the resolution of the machine will not go above 480X640. I can not get any sound to play. In device manager, I get the big Yellow Question Mark of Death for all of the "Other Devices," including my ethernet controller, multimedia controller, …  |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite a75 S209 that does not power on. When I plug in my power adapter all I get is the green led on the front of the laptop for power blinking non stop, no sequence just fast blips for ever. The led on power supply stays … |
| | I have written this code to variably test Prim's algorithm and I am timing it using clock(). For some reason it always returns 0 as its running time. I have other code that I have used this exact implementation in and they are returning the currect running times. The code …  |
| | For the past 5 hours my self built desktop has crashed at startup, just after reaching the Windows XP loading screen (it never makes it to login). It has a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Processor, 1024Mbs of memory, and all its fans are working. I suspect it's some kind of power …  |
| | I just got a new computer, my friend and I put it together. When ever i turn it on, I get a message PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent I have no idea why it's doing this. Please someone, help me figure this out |
| | Hi My laptop froze the other night, and wouldn't respond to anything i did, and so i had to manually take out its battery to turn it off. I think it froze again once i restarted it so i took out the battery a second time. Now, i cant get … |
| | Please help me I think I am going crazy. I am building a comuter, I have everything setup and when I try to boot windows from a CD, I keep getting the same error PXE-E61: Media test failure, Check cable. PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE-ROM Boot failure: System Halted I have … |
| | I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop, 1.5 years old. I have been having some VGA problems since 6 months: laptop hanging due to infinite loop caused by the VGA process (ati2dvag). But it was gone since 3 weeks. Now the Laptop isn't booting, yesterday it gave the same symptoms … |
| | Hey guys, I cant access the BIOS for my friends Sony Vaio VGN-NR38M. Im trying to boot from CD to install Windows 7. On turn on there is a Vaio logo and then a black screen with a blinking underscore and then then Windows Vista loads. No BIOS key is …  |
| | First i had the problem that my laptop could not run without having the screen shutt off cause the battery was too weak to give the screen some power but no i found out it wont even charge from its ac adapter! What can i do. I know this is …  |
| | hello ,my Compaq V2000 model is melting the power cord where it plugs into the motherboard ,laptop still works ,any ideas as to why it getting hot enough to melt/soften the plastic tip and finger grip of the power cord . |
| | My laptop won't boot, doesn't POST and am trying to see if it's terminal or prohibitively repairable. When powering up, it whirs, the fan starts and a few seconds later ( between 3 & 10) it shuts down never reaching the onscreen COMPAQ logo. Happened after a restart when I … |
| | I dropped my inspiron 1150 (windows xp home, pentium 4), and after much fiddling with it and a $40 call to Dell, ended up needing a new hard drive. Before I installed the new drive, on boot up it would go to the Dell logo, and even let me reinstall …  |
| | I have a HP 5060zx laptop that does not boot up sometimes: The power light comes on, but there is no display. I tried connecting to an external display and nothing happens on that as well. This problem happens seems to happen intermittently. After this problem occurs if I leave … |
| | Hi all I just built my own pc everything went great and as far as im aware everything is working although i cant be to sure as the monitor has no signal going to it as i said.The motherboard is an infinity 865pe and my monitor is an AOC 9G1rs …  |
| | I built the computer that I am currently using last year, it is an asus A8n5x mb w/ amd 3200+ processor and 1 gig of ram.. its a great build, has never given me trouble before.. however, in the past week it has been very dificult to start it up. … |
| | I need some help please! I have a Asus p4b533, pentium 4 2.4GHz, windows XP pro. I'm getting a blue screen that says: Driver_IRQL_not_less_or_equal Idechnrd.sys Address F7488364 Base at F7484000 datestamp 3cb4d2c0. I tryed to restart the computer in safe mode, but its not letting me, when I select safe … |
| | OK...I saw many people had similar problems with other brands, but I think I should still start a new post... This is SONY VAIO VGN-T27C/L It started to shut down by itself about a week ago. Feels like it loses power all of a sudden, while in fact it is … |
| | So I was working on my computer and everything was fine and then all of a sudden it restarts itself and i get this error about the win32 file. It tells me that my computer cant boot because of a missing or corrupr win32 file and to use yhe repair … |
 | Hello everyone! I don't know if I am in the right place to post my problem. My apology. Well I have a problem regarding on my computer. Everytime I turn it on, white vertical bars shows and it takes more than 30 minutes to load. Very slow to start up. …  |
| | I am running windows xp on my pc and recently I have had a "blue box" with a lock inside that appears locked sometimes and then flashes to unlock. It is always in the center of the screen and briefly disappears at times. Whatever is on the screen this blue … |
| | Hello! My friend has Acer Aspire 9305WSMi laptop which does no longer boot when powered, it only gives error message with sound, which is three beeps: One longer, two short. Screen does not react a bit, attached external screen does not react at all. Harddrive does a little of work … |
| | Greetings! 1) What is the switchboard PCA for? (Please?) 2) How do I tell the difference between a keyboard problem and a screen problem? Compaq 2570US. Original everything (as far as I know). Troubleshooting: When powered up, I hear the fan for a few. If I press lots of keys, … |
| | Hi there,. I recently brought my computer to my families to do some work over the holidays...Basically whats going wrong is when I plug in my computer ( a HP a500n ), the power supply on the back blinks rapidly and there is a clicking sound if I lean close …  |
| | Hi, The WLAN switch on my new Vaio laptop is switched to on but the light will not come on and the machine is not connecting to my wireless network. When i restart the machine the light comes on at first and it momentarily connects to the wireless but then … |
| | Hello all. I'm new here and in desperate need of some help. , I have a toshiba satellite model number M65-S809. Last night I was watching a movie and then set it aside and went to bed. I left it on like I do every night. When I woke up …  |
| | Hello, everyone. I am knew to this site and I have already learned some stuff :) but I have this sony vaio laptop... and I tried to reformat it but some stuff happened and it turns out that the CD can not put the BIOS on this computer.... aghh... But …  |
| | Everytime i start up my computer, it gets to the microsoft xp loading screen and then shuts down again. Sometimes I very breifly, for about half a second, get a blue screen. Its not on long enough to read. |
| | Hi, I created few guides about Toshiba notebook disassembly. If you want to disassemble, repair, upgrade or clean you laptop, my website might be useful for you. I already created teardown guides with pictures for the following models: [B]Toshiba Satellite 1415 Toshiba Satellite 1805 Toshiba Satellite 2435 Toshiba Satellite M35X … |
| | Hi guys, I just built brand new computer. For some reason, I am having problems installing ANY type of operating system onto this computer. These are the specs of the computer: ----------------------------------- *GeForce FX 5700LE 128Mb DDR w/TV-Out & DVI 8xAGP *ECS NFORCE3-A (1.0A) Socket754/nForce3 250/FSB1600/A&L/ATX Motherboard *AMD Socket 754 … |
 | Hi everybody. If y'all will remember my Toshiba A100 "System Restore not working" post, thanks to all involved, my laptop is once again shiny! But there is still one remaining problemo. When I try to use my inbuilt CD/DVD drive, the disk, whether it be music, movies or anything else, … |
| | I Saw that others Posted similar problems but mine still does not work after reading solutions. I Installed a new hardDrive and naturally lost my drivers. I downloaded my LAN driver and my chipset driver for my Asus M5A 88-V EVO and installed theM on my PC and still no … |
| | My computer simply just stops progressing when the Windows is starting up... sign is up. I have tried booting in safe mode and all the other modes nothing helps! I am baffeled? what do i do? Please could somebody help me. |
| | A few days back the battery led started flashing continuously, while I was still using the laptop. I turned off the laptop immediatedly and noticed that the laptop was quite hot. I let it cool down and powered it up after 20 minutes. This time the Power led came on, … |
| | My Dell Inspiron 6000 refuses to startup. When I press the power or the play button to turn it on, the Numbers, caps and scroll lights flash as usual. The power light and the one next to that also turns on (the light in-between the power indicator and the charger …  |
| | I don't understand why my pc get slower this pass few days. please help!!!:sad: |
| | I am getting the above error message and then everything freezes at boot up. Can anyone help with what to try next? I've removed the cover and pressed the trip switch manually while bootting. I've cleaned out the entire chasis and made sure all connections are secure. :?: It's a … |
| | Ok heres my problem. For the past few weeks My computer Has been shutting down on its own, the thing is sometimes it restarts right away and other times it could be an hour or two It will just boot back up on its own. I have tried everything I … |
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