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i have a toshiba tecra laptop of which doesnt boot at all. power led shows up but when power button is placed nothing comes up rather than hdd spine noisy, what might be the problem?

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Bought a second hand Toshiba laptop and wont boot, keeps on asking for HDD password. Am stuck...

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My laptop will startup with a external monitor after playing around with Fn + F8 and works fine there after, windows installs the updates which includes the Nvidia driver the laptop hangs up on the reboot. You have to remove the battery and power supply to restart the laptop using …

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Hi All If someone could help me I would greatly appreciate it. I am using Toshiba Tecra 9100 and when I powered on, the power on LED becomes green & nothing appears on screen. Also I noticed that notebook gets heated up at the bottom. The notebook is loaded with …

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I'm trying to get my friends PC up and running again. I've read forum posts on this problem already. I can't solve this issue. The PC is a Dell Dimension 4600 with an 80 gb Maxtor IDE drive. I've tested the drive...it works in an external hard drive case on …

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Not sure if this is a virus or spyware issue... but my Sony Vaio desktop is shutting off about 5-7 times a day, seems like something is causing it to crash... It shuts off when the computer isn't being used as well. Any idea what might be causing this? Any …

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Hi all am having a problem with my brothers IBM T43 laptop(Windows XP PRO) I see that it's common problem I have read other threads to try to fix this problem I have tried the suggestons but have done no good.The machine will not boot I see the windows first …

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I had this problem before, press the button and nothing happens, then my brother was messing with the switch and all of a sudden it started. Worked fine for 6 months and yesterday it stopped, all of a sudden. I opened it, played with the switch, moved it around but …

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Not really sure if this is the right forum but it seems to best match my question. I am looking for a computer tool kit that I can use for work. Requirements are able to carry basic tools to to fix computer hardware and also it needs to have a …

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I have a problem with a Sony Vaio laptop that will no longer boot up. Last time it was used, we got the blue screen of death and a message about "dumping physical memory". Now when we try to power-up the machine nothing much happens. The hard drive indicator light …

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I have a Advent computer that is around 3 years old running on XP. Today it completely died. When I switch the machine on the green power light comes on, as does the orange HD light comes on, and so does the green light on the DVD-RW drive. The fans …

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Hi, I recently inherited a dell optiplex gx1. I upgraded the ram, and made some other minor adjustments, but now when I try to boot the system, It tells me "Alert! Cover was previously removed" and after that "invalid configuration information - please run SETUP program" No matter how I …

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Dear friends, Anyone can explain what are CPUT and CPUC in a clock synthesizer? If possible please do it in one or two days.

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my daughter has an Acer Extensa 5620-4025 laptor computer that flashes briefly when I try to turn it on and then is dead. I tried refitting the battery and start it with and without the charger with identical results. Any clue of what may be happening ?

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Hi any help with the following problem would be greatly appreciated as I have a deadline with my work!! (argh!), OK - I have an Advent laptop that has a dead screen, on starting it appears to start fine - I get the windows starting sounds all the right lights …

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I'm having some trouble with my girlfriends laptop. It's a dell Latitude D505. the issue is when you turn it on, the hard drive makes this kind of grinding sound and will get to the windows boot screen and will remain there. and when it doesn't do that it sounds …

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Hi, First-off: I'm fairly amateur at repairing hardware components of computers, but I know most of the basics. The Problem: When I turn on my computer, it turns on but the monitor goes immediately into Power Saver Mode (the usually green light on the monitor turns orange). I know this …

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I have a friend emachine t3508 that won't start. The power supply fan comes on and the light on the motherboard inside for the ethernet is lit but the hd or cpu, cpu fan or other fan's don't come on.

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No Post No error Code just a black screen and LED lights. I have already done the basics. Now i need to know if there is a solution at all or if anyone else has run into a similar issue with this model.

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Ok... So a buddy of mine had a problem with his HP Pavilion 700 Desktop PC. Upon examining the machine, I was determined that the issue must be with the power supply (no fan's running, no activity other than a lite sequel from the power supply). I ordered the power …

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I own a Gateway 450ROG laptop. the problem all started two weeks ago when i was using it and a popup balloon said low virtual memory. Next time I went to start the laptop it would try and start up but I would only see a black screen, a faint …

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I have a Gateway MX8711 laptop and it has started to have problems. Upon turning on the machine the light comes on to show it has power, I hear the fan start up but the screen never comes on. I turned it off then tried again and it booted up, …

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hi, i recently moved my pc from one room 2 another and when turning on everything began to run as normal for about 5-10 secs bios page ect.. until smoke came from inside and then nothing all went dead, i disconnected lead @ plug then psu. the fuse has blown …

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I have a laptop that has been through hell and back recently. Long story short, my HDD crashed last month and I bought a brand new one to replace the now dead one. I lost everything and was unable to recover anything. I had a bit of trouble installing the …

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I keep getting this error.........IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL string of numbers Stop: 0x0000000A (0x4912EOE3, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804D9EFE) Any suggestions?

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I am having Dell laptop Vostro 1500. Two years old. One bad day , While i Click the Power ON button in the laptop, the LED s are blinked and went OFF. I tried the same with direct without battery(by connecting charger pin).. But the same problem continuing.. Another one …

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I have a sony vgn s-260 that i replaced the hard drive. It will power up, the cd drive turns but then everything stops. I get no start up of the screen. For a while it seemed if i pressed f8 while it was starting i could get it going …

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My Gateway laptop froze at the screen saver. I restarted and hit F11 during boot up to go to restore with backup. It did backup data and files but when applic. were reinstalling it froze at 17/73 (something called "wild tangent') Any ideas for a solution?

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I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and I installed the hard drive put the pin in the master slot and everything. But when I go to setup it says the master drive isn't recognized. What can I do to fix it, or can I fix it at all

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I have an ACER 1640, when powering up the fans tsarts for a few seconds then stops, i have taken the memory cards out and refitted , tried holding the power key on for 30 secs etc with no power attahed and then restarting, tried everything The power lightstays on …

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