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Hi, Can someone please help me? I am having problems with my laptop, it is about 4 months old. Never had any problems with it before and for some reason now it wont start ujp properly. It also wont start in F8 safe mode! If I start up normally it …

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Hi I have a boot problem on an Acer 630 laptop which is driving me insane. The machine is newly set up running Windows 2000 installed from a copy I have successfully used on other machines (tsck, tsch) I cannot use the XP disk image version that came with the …

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Hello all! I really hope one you you's can help me on my problem. My PC wont start. Whenever i turn it on, it powers up, but it just makes a funny beeping sound and doesnt show anything on the monitor. The monitor says there is no PC connected to …

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Hi I'm new here and this is my first post and really hope someone can help and sorry for asking something before even introducing myself but I'm very worried. I have a Toshiba Satelliete Pro 4600 laptop and today I'm been scaning a picture for tomorrows exam, and restarted Windows …

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My parent's computer has stopped booting. It will post the blue HP logo screen and then bring up the "Windows has not shut down properly" screen with the usual choices, safe mode, etc. When clicking on any of these it flashes a black screen and then returns to the blue …

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When i turn on my pc, the power light blinks and pc fan turns. but the monitor remain black, i hve reconnect each connection but it does not work. when i pressed the "caps lock" or "num lock" button 4m keyboard the light does not shows up. It seems that …

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[QUOTE]Windows xp/Vista crash[/QUOTE] I am reparing a friend's Dell xps and I've never ran onto a hardware problem. When he brought it to me, the computer would start with the [QUOTE]windows did not terminate correctly, Start windows normally or on safe mode blah blah blah[/QUOTE] I tried to start windows …

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allright, hi guys, I have a problem there's this toshiba notebook, satelite A105. the keyboard stopped working added external keyboard + mouse, works fine now what could be the problem?

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This is will take some explaining so please bear with me.... I had a copy of Windows 7 Beta on my laptop and decided to install the Windows 7 RC. I burned the iso file and started the install and had a read file error so I figured I had …

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Hi all, I was recently given one of these laptops and told 'if you can fix it, you can keep it'. Happy days! Anyway. The BIOS reports that there's no hard drive attached, the drive itself makes some odd noises during the boot process, and then the computer eventually reports …

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Hi I bought a gaming computer awhile back like about 6months ago or so i'd say. When i first got it the hardrive which already had windows XP pro installed had trouble detecting the hardrive. Only after 30minutes or so of reconnecting the SATA cable that it was finally able …

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Hello, My pc is having problems booting up. When I try to boot it up I get an error message "Boot Failure: System Halted" Now when I go to boot options it comes up with a pass code which I can't remember what it was if I ever even knew …

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Power light on the side for power adapter is on but when i push the power button the light on the front blinks 3 times . everything else is dead. A couple of days ago there was a message saying that the battery needed changing.

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I have had problems with my computer for a while, I noticed little by little I kept getting my messgaes of files missing and things not working properly. Today, I tried to do a system restore. I tried 3 times. Every time the computer turned back on the message NTLDR …

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I have a Windows Home Server 2003 with three hard drives: one for the WHS OS and two 500GB disks for data storage. Suddenly, the server can't be connected to by any of the network PCs. On giving it a monitor, I can see the error message : BOOT DISK …

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My laptop recently got a bad virus. I decided to reformat using the recovery disk I burned originally. All was going well until I put in the 2nd recovery disk. The disk is bad I put it in another to confirm no info is left on it. My question is: …

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Hello again my fello daniweb people, hope you can help me out with this interesting problem. On friday i powered down my machine, turned off all the plugs and left it to go to work (i leave it at uni as i work closer to my actual house). I return …

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Hi! This is really confusing. When I Push the power-button on my pc, the mall lights on the front panel starts to "twinkle" and sometimes it comes weird sounds from it. But Windows never starts, the monitor is sometimes black and sometimes the message "Check signal cable" shows up. And …

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Hello all, Please help. I just upgraded my Dell deminsion 9100 2.8ghz pentium D with 4GD ram and a new Nvidia 9500 graphics card. All was working great. then I went to turn on my PC a week later and nothing would happen. I unplugged the PC and waited 10 …

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Hi, everybody, nice forum. I've been using computers since 1965 (programming with Fortran!)...probably before a lot of you were born. But I've primarily used Apple computers for the past 25 years, although I have used PCs too, and right now my grandson's PC is having a peculiar problem. I found …

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first i apologise for this being my first post i built a pc about 2-3 months ago the spec is below nvidia geforce gtx280 1gb graphics card 2x 500gb maxtor hdd AMD phenom 9950 quad core cpu corsair 4gb (2x2gb) 800mhz ddr2 asus m3n72-d i have been using the machine …

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My machine will not post to bios, nay even beep. The trouble started when I plugged in a Sony Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1 20GB MP3 Player in a front USB slot. During operation the player (slot) stopped working. After I shut off my machine, it won't boot or post. I check …

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DaniWeb Home > Forums RSS Forums RSS Hardware and Software Please support our Hardware and Software advertiser: Programming Forums Our Hardware and Software forum category encompasses topics related to end-user computer technical support troubleshooting, tips and tweaks. Please be sure to always post in the appropriate sub-forum and do not …

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I have a Gateway GT5018E with Microsoft Medica Center 2004 Service Pack 3. The drive works sporadically. I spoke with Gateway, and they said replace the drive. Took it in for a new drive, and did not fix the problem. The repair specialist said he repaired the software. I have …

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I have a dell 1000 Laptop it wont let me boot unless it have a bios password. I try taken the battery out and still nothing I even try the backdoor still nothing can you pleasseeeee help me

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Hi, I bought my HP pavilion lx 2000 in August 2008 and everything was working fine until about a month ago. It started seriously overheating and would turn off at random times. I'm assuming this was not good for the hard disk and all of a sudden a couple of …

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The dreaded blue screen. I've got a windows xp and here is the deal. When I start windows normally I get the Unmountable_Boot_Volume blue screen. I can't open in safe mode, it simply starts and stops at the same place. Where it sais system32/DRIVERS/agp.Cpq.sys. Everytime it stops there. I have …

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My machine boots very slowly at start up to only shows the boot options and then says that i should check my cable. The hard disk does not even spin. Your help will bee gratefully appreciated.

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It does go to BIOS SetUp and runs cd-rom when I insert operating system installation cd. The problem is: when i start the laptop, there's very strange noice going around the hard disk and it shows the following error in red "Hard drive not installed... If operating system not found... …

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Hello everyone: I think I fried my RAM memory Stick by removing with out shutting Power off. Would that make my CPU to beep and not reboot.

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