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I have a customers Toshiba laptop, it is working fine while on battery power but as soon as external power is plugged in it dies. If you try to power up after that with it plugged it it will light up and 3 seconds later shut off. It wouldn't hold …

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I have 5 year old 'off the shelf' HP Pavilion 8695 -specs: AMD Athlon 750, AMD 751 Chipset, 20.4gb ultra DMA Hard drive, CD-WR drive, DVD-Rom Drive, Floppy disk drive. came preinstalled with Windows 98se. I had many problems with viruses and such - the hp recovery cd disk would …

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I have a dell d600 laptop that seems to be shorted out...it wont work with battery or plugged in. No lights appear on laptop. Seems like no power to laptop when plugged in. Wont charge battery either. When I attached plugged in power unit to laptop it seems to short …

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Anyone please, help my acer aspire one stuck at window xp logo loading. I try everthing in F8 button, it didn't work, even in safe mode stuck at 'window starting up'. Please anyone, help me, i don't want waste my money to fix this (T-T)

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I hope I'm posting this on the right forum :S Before I describe the problem, I would like to say I am in no way "computer smart." I was stumped when given the option for safe mode and etc. If possible, go for a understandable response. So, after having my …

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A friend of mine said this would be the place to get some answers that there was a bunch of smart people at this site. I can usually dig till I figure things out but this time it’s a no go. I bought a Toshiba satellite P105-S6177 with no hard …

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Hi, I have here an Acer Aspire 3000 (Windows XP SP3) which freezes on the login screen, the cursor keeps flashing but all input sources (keyboard/mouse/touchpad) become disabled. Weird enough, the battery seems to be the culprit. When the battery is detached from the machine (thus only the mains), it …

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Hi everybody, I have a sony vaio VGN-NW 130D and it turns off by itself, it does one of two things every time I move it even a slight little bit; - It completely turns off (no warning, no proper shut down) and the power to it goes, after about …

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My daughter had problems starting her laptop for about a year. She would press the power key and sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't. Sometimes it would take 10 or more tries before it worked and then it would power on. Other times even after 10 tries she …

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I have a Toshiba laptop that I bought back in 2005. I haven't really used it in the past year and a half because it shuts off within 20 seconds or less. The battery will no longer hold a charge, but even when it's plugged into the wall it still …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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[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, …

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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?

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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..?

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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