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| | Hi, have had my Dell desktop PC with XP for about 5 years. a couple of weeks ago it started to randomly switch off after about 30 minutes of use. The problem has become increasingly worse, and it now only stays on for a couple of minutes. There is no … |
| | Have two Thinkpad r50's in front of me. One a victum of BSOD and won't detect the cd drive to reboot from XP disc. Any suggestions for using the good unit to start the bad one?  |
| | I am having a similar problem, however when i do click the start button on my compaq presario, the compaq logo, COMPAQ, appears on the screne, the fan starts and what seems to be the processor, and then it goes dead, switches off Help!! |
| | I got home from work to find my pc off. A storm had just passed through so i thought the power had shut off for a time. I started it up and i couldnt connect to the internet, so i restarted it. Thats when my problems started. All my computer … |
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| | My Dell Desktop stopped working. There was a loud noise like a fan, could not switch it off, so I piulled the plug. Any ideas. Chris |
| | Dear friends, i dont know where to post this question. i was writing a program using glut library in c++. i compile and run program. but there was a bug in the program that halts my system. i restart the system and system works fine for half of an hour … |
| | I have messed with computers for years. I can tell I have nothing on any of you. But, as many times as I've seen this problem since i've been here, I must point something out, and it seems if anyone can explain this , it would solve alot of peoples … |
| | I have a dell inspiron E 1705 with a nvidia geforce go 7900 gs. I believe the problem is with the graphics. I have recently downgraded from Vista to Xp pro. Everything worked great for the first 10 hours. Now i cant boot into the operating system. When trying to … |
| | a few months back i noticed the light for the power button had stopped working, but the comp turned on. this happened on and off. a short time later, the button stopped starting my computer reliably. but heres the strange part...i could press the button and the comp would start … |
| | help me please... my nightmare begin when I smell something fried from my power supply, then suddenly my PC went off. I try to buy the new one, and I install it. first try switch on my PC, my monitor didn't response. I try to unplug my video card, clean … |
| | i have a gateway laptop that was installed windows vista business 64bit though its has no partition i have tried several partitioning tools like paragon ,partition magic etc at no luck please assist me what to do |
| | Hey everyone. I have been using this Compaq V6000 laptop for two years now. Very recently, like for a couple of months I noticed my laptop would show up a blue screen with white text and restart itself. It would happen without no apparant reason. Since last month it started …  |
| | hi, another problem!. i have a computer that has worked flawlessley for years, all of a sudden it wont turn on. for a while it would do several power cycles and then turn off, but now it turns on but will not load the post screen or anything. the computer … |
| | hi everyone! my gateway laptop got the blue screen of death a couple of times. i pulled the battery and plug and recharged it. the most recent time i did that was last night. today i open it and it wouldn't start it, it was waiting by the blank screen … |
| | I have a Toshiba Equuim A80, 512Mb RAM 60G hdd etc. I have recently had a problem with the CD/DVD. The HDD then failed. Luckily I managed to keep the original rebuild CD. I connected the HDD to my desktop and managed to backup all my data files. I then … |
| | Hi, I am have had this laptop for 3 years now and suddenly yesterday it decided to die on me. When starting up and getting to the VAIO screen it goes black screen and says "Operating system not found". Using either F10 and/or F8 to get to recovery mode doesnt …  |
| | After searching the cause for the dead machine I found some light smoking components on the motherboard near the power connector. But I do not understand the function without a schematic circuit diagram for the board: 1P-0061100-8011 MSS1-M/B REV:1.1 MBX-155 Where can I get (or buy) the complete service diagrams … |
| | When I push the button on my computer to turn it on, nothing comes on, no fans, harddrive, NOTHING. So, the button basically doesn't work. When I have the power cord in and open the PC up, there is a light on the motherboard on, so the cord is fine. … |
| | I'm running a Gateway desktop and recently my computer began acting strangely. Any time I try to run a program or executable, it asks me to select with program to open that type of file with (as if it doesn't associate a program with the extension .exe). Also, only an …  |
| | Hello. I have an HP Pavilion 4500 laptop and it won't turn on. I've tried everything to get it to turn back on. There are no flashes or beeps or anything when I hit the power button. Also, before all this came up, my charger wasn't charging correctly. It would … |
 | My computer didn't turn on one morning. Nothing. After changing out wires, checking connections etc, I replaced the psu. Now I do get power to fan, the power button works, but I get a message "no signal" on my monitor. I rechecked all the monitor connections. How do I know …  |
| | Hi All I have a friends laptop, that will not run with out the power supply connected. I have tried a new battery with the same result. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to cure this problem? My thoughts are that there is maybe a problem with the … |
| | I have a toshiba Tecra S1 laptop running windows XP. I am unable to boot it up. I get 2 short beeps, 1 long beep, a pause and 3 short beeps. Then the beeps start all over. This does not happen each time I try to boot, sometimes it just … |
| | Dear Peers, My PC does not start by pressing the power switch on mu CPU. It was working fine..and suddenly shut down and never start again ever since. On pressing the power button, no indication is shown, nor any LED glows..its just dead. I noticed the tiny yellow LED on … |
| | Hi. I'm considering myself VERY lucky because my Sony Vaio was starting to act up (Display driver would quite functioning now and again, and PC would not always boot first time), so we got everything saved to an external disk drive, bought a new PC and I now have that … |
| | Good evening fellow techs, Thank you for welcoming me into this prestigious forum. I have an issue that by reading in this forum I can see a lot of people are having with Gateway Laptops. Mine is a MX6421. Basically the laptop is dead, the power supply, DC power jack, … |
| | Hi, Brand new here and this is my first post. I have a Dell Deminson 4700 that won't boot and here is some background: Found two leaking Caps on motherboard yet system was running fine; later it blued screened and wouldn't power on after being shutdown. - ordered new motherboard, … |
| | I have a windows XP computer and it has gone to the blue error window. I cant use the mouse or get it start so cannot download a programme to fix it. Its a very old computer that I acquired with no discs etc with it, but its worked perfectly … |
| | i dont know if its weird but here it goes: my computer seems to be fine last night. just right now, im so surprised that its not working anymore. as soon as i turned on the AVR, the LEDs(red and green) in front kept blinking. The funny thing is that … |
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