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I have a Inspiron 8600 that will only power up when I put it some where cold. When it does power up everything appears to work normal but it only runs for 5-10 minutes then shuts off. It does this on or off the power cord, with or with out …

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help me,, my laptop won't start and have a problem with the hardware connection,, what should I do???

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A few weeks ago my laptop started acting strange. Sometime when I turn it on, I have no problem, the display is fine and all. But most of the time, when the computer is working, the screen is black. nothing displays at all. I took it to laptop repair shop, …

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Would like to install xp on latitude c400 but cannot change the boot order. Up and down work, enable and disable work, there is no primary password, no admin password, no hdd password. Setup is accessed with FN-F1 and appears normal. The boot order will not respond. There is external …

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Hi Guys, first time here so be gentle with me please.. i have a pc that won't boot past the windows logo, it restarts itself when it gets to that point. it just keeps restarting and restarting. i tried to boot of a windows installation disk and it wouldn't do …

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I've been developing in lot's of other languages, and never had this difficult a time setting up. On a XPSP3 machine, I have WAMP in the root folder, with all parts installed. Then I have eclipse-helios for php installed as well. My file path is C:\www\HelloWorld\hello.php The follow code renders …

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The scanner on my 2575 has recently developed a thck black vertical line down the centre of the page. It's not due to anything on the glass. I'm running it on a Vista PC. Otherwise it works (prints) well. Thanks in advance for any advice. Steve

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Hi, a few days ago my wife's computer stopped at the black boot screen where it shows processor ram hd and so forth and stopped. I went in, turned it off, waited 10 seconds, then turned it back on and it was fine. Now last night she turned it on …

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hello guys... my customer complain that the pc he bought from us was no display, no beeps but the cpu fan and LED are working.. but when he brought the unit in our shop.. its working fine... what possible cause with this problem? it could be a shorted of electricity? …

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Hi I've had my laptop for about a year now. A while ago I left it in a car and it got really hot. Ever since then I've had sparatic fits of it not working. It always seemed to fix itself. Now it starts up and works fine for about …

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I recently built a computer. Here is the hardware I am using. CPU- Intel Core i5-660 Clarkdale 3.33GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Power Supply- Rosewill Xtreme Series RX750-D-B 750W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91 Hard Disk Drive- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 …

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I'm at my wit's end! Reset and restart but can't get past "SYstem BIOS Shadowed, Video BIOS shadowed." "ESC" does not redirect; "F2 - Set Up" stops there; and "F12 - LAN ..." stops there. Also, I hear a clicking noise under the keyboard. I've removed and replaced the battery> …

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Hi Even though I signed up here 4 years ago I know squat about tech stuff, so Please: speak slowly...lol My computer old, ancient really, a Heinz-ish, but we've gotten along with each other fine until: -scan on Primary drive C: first took 3 hours, then 3 days even after: …

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Last night I turned my laptop back on after it was off for approximately 2 hours. It started, loaded up to the desktop screen and then stopped. It showed the desktop design but none of the icons, start menu, toolbars...nothing. It worked fine the 2 hours before. I contacted Dell …

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Hey guys, I have had a problem with my laptop where when started up the screen remained blank however i fixed this problem via a post on the forum so thanx for that.... ....but now when the laptop is booted up it goes to the Toshiba screen where you can …

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No matter how I turn the system off OS wise the laptop restarts in 5 secounds every time even from safe mode shutdown.Now if I wait till the leds all go out and the screen goes blank and use the Power Button on the laptop and hold it down till …

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Get flashing amber light and nothing else,tried battery alone and ac alone but still won't come on,any ideas?? Laptop fell off bed but nothing more than that.Any assistance greatly appreciated.Thanks

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gateway laptop will not boot up in windows or the bios. the monitor is just black. i hear a fan on. gateway laptop model 450SX4. i tried changing the memory and reset the hard drive.

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Hi there, I've had 3 years of problem free use of my Dell Latitude 505 laptop. That is until the last few days when all hell has broken loose. The first in a catalogue of errors was a blue screen message saying "unmountable_boot_volume" together with instructions to start in windows …

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start computer and it will not let me in says need hard drve password can anyone help me????????? gmosz

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Hello, I have recently built my own Windows 7 Media Center PC I used the Gigabyte S775 Intel G41 motherboard and the Hauppauge WinTv Nova-S2 HD TV Card. The motherboard has a built in Intel GMA X4500 graphics controller. It all [I]worked [/I]fine for a couple of days I had …

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One day was working fine next day dead no power lights. Checked power supply ok. Took out battery and held down power switch for 30sec still nothing. Will not power up on battery also. Help

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I have a dell 9300 laptop that required a power jack replacemernt. after replacind the jack, the laptop turns on {power light only) , for about 3 seconds, then shuts off. any suggestions??

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Hey guys. I have an old HP desktop I recently began using again after having it dormant for a couple years or so. It's an HP Pavilion a530e running Windows XP, with an AMD Athlon video card, and it's hard for me to give more details than that unfortunately because …

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Hi dear, I bought an used dell optiplex gx1 and start but and say: press <ctrl><alt><enter> for system setup (and I do it but nothing happen> my key board is ok I allredy try it with another computer and work) also say erro 8602 auxiliare device failure. pxe-moo:initializing landesk service …

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Hi Ladies and Gents. Ive got an Advent 7106 laptop, after installing a firewall program my computer just shuts off with a blue screen and this error message - stop: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0x80614bcd,0xAA473B64,0x00000000) This happens roughly thirty seconds into turning the laptop on and then shuts down and restarts for the …

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Ok, let's try one more. I'm working on a Toshi M35X Satellite that runs perfectly fine with one small problem. When you turn it on, no matter if it's from the a/c adapter, battery, both, it won't finish posting until you insert the adapter plug, withdraw it from the socket …

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I turned my computer on this morning and the green light came on but nothing happens. I don't even hear the fan running. When I hold the green button in to turn it off nothing happens. Does anyone know what could be the problem.

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Hi All, I have a Hp pavillion 2500 laptop i just cleared the heat sink as it was shutting again and again bcs of heat but now after reassmebly it is not detecting my hard drive and this is a big problem i have gone to two technicians and they …

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Hello, I am using 2 OS, 1-Vista Ultimate, 2-XP professional in order basis to open bootup screen to choose which OS. I have Intel DG35EC motherboard, Intel Core2QUAD Processor-Q6600@2.4Ghz , 2GB Kingston DDR2, Seagate 250GB HDD SATA. Today i cleaned my cpmputer table mostly because of DUST, so also little …

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