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| | A friend of mine has a HP pavillion 700 that just won't boot. When I turn it on, it won't post and the monitor isn't getting any type of signal. [I]The system is an Athlon XP, ASUS A7N8X-LA MB with 256 MB PC2700 RAM, built in audio, video & LAN.[/I] … |
| | I'd be grateful if anyone could help. I have a 3yr old dell inspiron 8000. Couple of days ago, internet explorer froze, so switch laptop off by pressing power off button, This usually works, but this time scan diskdidn't work. Ran Dell diagnostics which reported a few ?disk areas were … |
| | My laptop is Gateway MX8716B PA6A. After pressing power button blue led blinks and nothing happen. Ive tried to take out the battery and start on ac adapter and it wont start too. Ive tried also to take out battery and wait few hours, taking out the hard drive.. What … |
| | My Acer Aspire T180 will not boot up, I have researched the beep codes and can't find the relevant match, it just continually gives even long beeps with no screen display. Occasionally it does boot up after 15 mins, 1 hour, 1 day... then it will only run for a … |
| | I have a linksys modem which just started to act up.I have to reset the modem every 10minutes to stay on th internet. I always lose the connection but the signal on my labtop says signal is excellent and connected. The modem says everything is running but i still dont … |
| | Dear All, (Firstly, allow me to apologise for being yet another ignorant "Average Joe" who has never contributed anything to a tech forum in my life, yet comes here crying for help when something goes badly wrong - I have sworn that I will donate to this forum if somebody … |
| | Ok, here's the situation. I've done almost all i can think of other then replacing the motherboard. I have a Gateway 600 YGR laptop.... win XP pro, 512MB ram, 60GB 7200 spin HD..... and i've been getting blue screens of death in the past, and finally, it didnt reboot like … |
| | hi. i'm new to daniweb and i'm a hybrid electronics repair guy that works on everthing including laptop motherboards. i reflow bga chips and just lately have been getting into reballing bga's. i am usually pretty good with diagnosing and repairing power issues like no power, won't charge battery or … |
| | This morning my high speed was so slow that my laptop jammed up. I coud not unfreeze the windows and resorted to holding down the Power Button for 4 seconds until the entire system shut off. When I came back 45 minutes later to do a fresh boot I got … |
| | Anyone with a clue to how to start troubleshooting a dead HP laptop motherboard? Component level of course. I have a scope and basic computer hardware knowledge.... Thanks for your help |
| | Hey guys, i am not really a computer pro so i dont much about it >_< if you can take a few seconds read over this and help I'll be really appreciated! the problems is when i start my computer, the lights on motherboard lights up and we can hear … |
| | Hi guys, first off my pc is running on an Asus K8VSE Deluxe w/ am AMD 64 bit processor. My PSU was a Thermaltake Purepower ATX 12 V with a Max Load of 420W. 1 Gig of Memory and a Radeon 9600 256MB gpu. Well about a year ago I … |
| | tMy Compaq desktop lost video after plugging ipod into the front USB port. Monitor works but says it is not linked to anything. The power light is on on CPU and fan on power supply is running. The board looks fine. What did I fry? Steve  |
| | I have a VGN 260.The laptop does not start when i press the power on switch.If i keep doing it repeatedly it comes on after number of attempts which is frustrating. i have replaced the RAM with a new one as suggested by local Sony Service.Still the problem is not … |
| | Hey guys ... posting here after replacing intel e6600 cpu and P5N32-E SLI motherboard in attempt to get this homebuilt rig to light up the monitor, keyboard and mouse. Was getting a message in BIOS "cpu has changed" ... this problem (the harddrive seems to fire up but now the … |
| | Helllo all. I have a custom built pc which was working fine untill today when i decided to clean the massive amount of dust that had builtup. I un-plugged it, opened and cleaned it, and put it all back together. However, when i turn it on my monitor stays blank. … |
| | The laptop turns on beeps twice and then displays the following message Press <F1> to resume, <F10> to Setup. I tried pressing both and nothting happens. it just stays on that screen. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. |
| | A friend's T3958 EMachine stopped working. Have tried replacing the battery. Tried replacing the hard drive (duh!). I see a green light on the motherboard and I hear a slight windy sound coming out of the case when I plug the system in. If it's the power supply, I am … |
| | I have someone who asked me to look at a machine that won't turn on. I opened the case and the motherboard light is on yet nothing happens when the power button is pressed. I mean nothing happens, no fans, no lights, nothing. I have taken the power supply out … |
| | I played with the monitor settings in windows xp on another computer to fix resolution. I unselected driver for monitor now i dont have any picture after windows loads. Any answers on how to fix? Computer is a Dell, dont know what model as i just got it. |
| | My Optiplex 260 was upgraded with memory and an additional HDD. The upgrade caused a CMOS change; that change apparently interefered with systems settings established when an AGP Graphics card was added to the machine 3 years ago. Result: This Dell Optiplex 260 computer would not POST or boot. The … |
| | Hi I'm an educated novice at computer problems. I'm having a problem booting to safe mode. Hard drive started not recognizing boot file-NTLDR- now I can't get safe mode to initialize. All help greatly welcome. Thanks D4100 |
| | I have a compaq desktop pro workstation its windows xp 2000 professional and when i went to turn it on this morning it makes this clicking sound and just shows compaq and wont go on so i tried to boot it and it said that it failed and check cable. … |
| | hey...i have an Inspiron 2200 laptop that wont boot. when you press the power button, the 3 lock leds stay solid for a few seconds before the laptop turns off again. The Hd Led does not turn on. it happens that when i squeeze the area below the mousepad (above … |
| | A few weeks ago I had a lady bring in her new HP and her old, dead, giant desktop. She was obviously a heavy smoker, as EVERYTHING was covered in not just dust...but solid dirt. Like it was carpeted. I switched her data to the new computer, she left me …  |
| | please tell me how to restore my dell laptop to an earlier date, my system restore only takes me back to the month we are on also my recycle bin does not work please help |
| | Hello, I had a system up and running that died one fine afternoon.. Very sad. I press power, it starts and the fans begin to whirr--like any other boot--, and then it all shuts down after 3 seconds or so... It never POSTs. She was: (barebones listed) Biostar M7VIT Pro … |
| | I hope i'm putting this post in the correct spot The problem: I had a computer that needed formating, and so i Formated it. I used a seagate utility (it takes about 8 hours to format!) that i had used before for this same computer.Every thing went normal, it installed … |
| | I'm scared to turn my computer off. The last time I did, it didn't want to start when I pressed the start button. Nothing happened. Finally, after pressing, and pressing, and punching with the tip of a pen, and pressing some more (and praying a whole lot), it 'clicked' and …  |
| | I've been getting some random shutdowns while playing hardware intensive games (like crysis) lately. The computer simply shuts down and I have to wait a while before it can be turned on again. I've been monitoring the temperature of my components and here are the results (all at full load): … |
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