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| | Hello, a friend of mine gave me their T6426 to repair and it appears that the on-board video card is not working. The MB is a MS-7207. I've done some research and found that inserting a GFX card will solve my problem. Does anyone know this for sure before I … |
| | Does anyone know how I would replace the power on board on a Gateway M305CRV laptop. The laptop works fine but it is hard to turn on. The cooling fan is a little loud and runs constantly. |
| | When I turn on my computer, the power light turns on, and I can hear it starting up like normal; but the monitor, keyboard, and mouse make no response. By this I mean, nothing is displayed on the monitor, the laser mouse doesn't turn on, and the lights on the … |
| | I recently put on my laptop and when it booted up ok the screen was dull as if the battery was low but the icon said it was charging. It remained at 2% and never rose up to full charge. When I take it off mains power the screen brightens … |
| | I just bought a refurbished Toshiba Tecra 9000 Laptop. It works fine except when I try to use it on battery power. When I try to boot it with batter power I receive this message: NMI: Channel Check / IOCHK . Anyone have an idea on this? The battery charges … |
| | Hi all.I am having trouble with my Dell M90 laptop.When I power it up the monitor lights up but no image appears.Both the CPU and graphics card fans don't come on.If a cd is put in the drive it spins. About 2 mouths ago I had the graphics card repaired … |
| | Hi all, I wanted to upgrade my current PCs Graphics, so went and bought a new card. Made sure it was the right connection etc. After opening the case for the first time ever, I pushed in the card. But then had this urge to clean the CPU, undone the … |
| | I've been having a lot of problems with my desktop recently. It all started when i got a new graphics card. For a few weeks the screen would sometimes be kind of wavy for a few minutes and go away. A week ago it started shutting itself down and i …  |
| | I can get to a DOS prompt and have completed CHKDSK /R successfully but cannot boot in any mode. When I go to start Windows XP in any mode the system appears to dump all its driver files, displaying them down the screen as they go. I've tried everything I …  |
| | It powers on and freezes at the Gateway Logo. The fan runs continuously and to turn the laptop off I have to hold the power button down for about 5 seconds. Before this started it was working perfectly. |
| | Was in the middle of installing Windows 7 on a pc. Power outage and 1 hours later when electricity came back everything looked fine. windows even finished installing and i typed i my username/password for new account and then switched to my other desktop because i had stuff to do. … |
| | I have had my computer for over a year so it is not in warranty anymore. I did not put any updates in it. Now it does not start up at all. I hit the power button and all the lights come on for about a second. Then all the … |
| | i have a toshiba equium m40x laptop that up till today was working fine but now when i push the power button it does not boot (not even into post) the power supply is connecting fine all lights are on the power button lights up blue but that is as …  |
| | Laptop will not power up. Using an FSB power adapter (universal) model#: FSP090-DMCB1. Laptop flashes the Power button for about 10 seconds then cuts out, only the charging light flashes after that, no other activity noted on system. Unknown whether or not this is the cause of a dead Ion … |
| | I finished putting together an Asus P6T system last night and started it up. It started fine and went through several re-boots as it downloaded new drivers. I shut it off and now it won't start. The only thing I did this morning was to tie the power lines running … |
| | Hi, I've recently bought a new laptop and whenever I play a game my laptop crashes after about 30 minutes, after the first crash it then happens more and more often, sometimes the game will exit to the desktop with no error message, other times I will get a blue … |
 | Hey all, tl;dr - As soon as power cord is connected to computer and the PSU switch is flicked the computer will start turninig itself off and on. No response from the monitor, even when the off/on cycle is stopped. What is this usually a symptom of? Where should i …  |
| | hello , my laptop is having a few problems , CAN ANYONE HELP as its really annoying .........................i can turn it on it gives me the options to start windows normally etc but when i select either of the options it lays in waiting doing the same thing the longest … |
| | start up and programs run very slow!!! tried everything !!! help!!!  |
| | Hi folks, seen a few useful posts around here ... I have an Inspiron mini, excellent little machine, but after joggling around in a train froze while on and would not shut off. Removed power & battery but when switched on cannot seem to recognize the 16 GB solid hard … |
| | Hi, I have an HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop that I have been using since 2007. This morning when I turned it on it was working fine for a minute then it just shut down and would not start again. I could hear a clicking sound a few seconds apart. When … |
| | ok..... i dont know if this is the right place to post this but i dont know and anyway heres my problem when i turn on my computer it gets to the windows loading screen with the blue bars moving across the screen and just sorta stalls there and continues … |
| | Hello, I am running a Dell XPS 420 Intel Core 2 Windows Vista and the display monitor will turn off and when you try to turn it back on it says "Entering Power Save" on the screen and then the screen will go black. And no matter what I do, … |
| | Hello, I have Windows XP Home Edition. I am getting a message when i turn on my toshiba satellite A65-S1026; it says "we apologize for the inconvenience, etc." and gives me a number of options to start up. None works - no matter which i select, i will get a … |
| | had computer appx 1.5 yrs and battery lasted bout 1.2 yr then nothing. purchase a new battery on ebay for $30 that had a charge on it when it came. when it went down it would not charge back up. I was sent another battery and the exact same thing … |
 | [B]Is there a way to open PDD pictures without purchasing photoshop? Sometimes friends send these types of files that I am unable to open. Thank You Jim [/B] |
| | Ok what if your computer doesn't go to start up window. I just goes black. I have tried F8 and nothing. I have tried safe mode and nothing. I am wits end. That is the computer I use for my kids homework and homeschool. So its not a light matter. … |
| | I have an old computer Gateway with Windows 98. I took it to my local computer shop to recover the pictures from the computer. They gave me a flash drive with some pictures on it. They didn't find all the pictures on my computer. Some of the pictures on the … |
| | The other night the screen suddenly went dim. (first time ever) I was able to jiggle the power cord and get it to go bright for one second. Stayed on but dim for 2 hiurs, then suddenly the entire computer died. No power. Nothing at all happens when I press … |
| | I have a pc that doesn't boot up properly, will go up after a few attempts but, says boot failure and press f1 to continue. when I do it does just fine. But it freezes and crashes without warning. not right away but sometimes it runs fine then occasionally just …  |
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