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Hallo All, My son bought the Amilo D 7830 about 4 years ago. Some months ago it stopped booting up. He eventually put it in the cupboard and got a notebook from work. I have now got it and am trying to get it going again. Symptoms. Totally dead. Wont …

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I recently built a new computer with the following components: Asus P5Q SE/R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 processor Crucial 4GB Kit (2GBx2) 240-pin PC2-8500 DDR2-1066 memory 2 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (Setup with …

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Hi there, this is kind of a long story, but [I]please[/I] bear with me. After having read about being able to use a Sixaxis (PS3) controller on a PC, I decided to try it. This consisted of a libusb driver (LibUsb-win32) and an executable file called ps3sixaxis_en.exe. I had to …

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Ok, I have a compaq prissario with a standard DVD/CD ROM, NVIDIA 8500 Graphics, and 4 GB RAM. For the past few months I have been having issues witht he CD/DVD ROM reading some of my disks, and the amount is spreading. It will load up the auto run for …

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I have just dust cleaned my machine as the fan was becoming very noisy, now when I try to switch on I get the POST screen then when windows is supposed to load it switches off, the HDD are spinning all fans are working, sometimes I get the start windows …

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Hey Everyone! I'm preacher219 and believe it or not I'm still new enough to laptops to be naive. I have an old Dell latitude Cpi R400gt laptop that I bought for my son to use when he was in college. While cleaning out his old room I found it stuffed …

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I have a three+ year old Sony VGN-S260 and one day out of the blue it did not start. Some times it will start just fine, but others it will not. The symptoms are odd because the led lights that display battery, wifi, and hard drive are lighting up as …

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I have a Presario 2100 series laptop ( 2190us ) , running XP SP 2, 256 MB memory , 40 gig disk, CD-RW/DVD Read Combo integrated, internal modem, internal Ethernet 10/100, . This unit has perfomed flawlessly since December 2003 when purchased new. Here is the problem. It will perform …

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Hello: Can anyone tell me what is going on if my computer freezes on the POST startup. My compaq Persario froze on the compaq screen and would not go any farther this morning. I left it for about 30 minutes with no change on the screen. Thanks, Everett

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Would a failing power supply start up the computer after all power was drained including removing of the CMOS battery. But, just shutting off the computer waiting and then turning on the computer cause the computer not to start up and give the impression that the video chip on the …

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I have two Thinkpad R50s', one of which I cannot reboot as it's a victim of BSOD. Question: can I simply take out the hard drive of the downed computer and put it in the other to check to see if it's okay?

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Ok i need help please. This is driving me insane. Here is what going from beginning. Processor fan went out on my motherboard so i shut computer off and waited for new one to arrive. Well i installed new one and then computer would not come back on. the power …

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Hi i'm new here i have a problem with my pc and i thought you guys could help. It's a Compaq Presario 6000 PC running windows XP. I was going to replace the RAM uprage to 1GB. I bought two 512MB when i replaced the RAM i went to turn …

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Hi everyone, I'm a new member. I just joined this forum in the hopes that someone can help me fix my laptop. Basically, its been acting a little strange and freezing up a lot. Yesterday it froze and I had to hold the power button to force a shut down, …

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I have a computer of a friend where there is no video when it starts up. He thinks that it has a virus on it but I am not able to see as I get no video capability on any of my monitors. I have reset the cmos by changing …

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Hi, Well, here I am again. With a new problem: Acer Aspire 1511LMi, AMD 64 3000+ notebook. It powers on, but after a variable amount of seconds (10-30 seconds) turns off. I get the acer logo, even had a small moment of Ubuntu but it just doesn't stay on. Yes, …

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My gateway laptop last week decided to not start one day. I would hit the power on nutton, the hdd would spin for 3 seconds, then shut down, then wait 3-5 seconds and spin up for 3 seconds, then shut down for good. The screen never came on except one …

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Hello, I'm new to building PC's (it shows i'm afraid).. If the following has a really pathetic simple fix - I can take it on the chin .. I just need some support... Background:- New Build MSI 945GCM5 V2 Motherboard with Pentium dual core E2180 LGA 775 2Ghz. Kingston 2GB …

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My PC did not start properly. The main problem are 1. Sometimes i switch on the pc, at that time if a small beep sound arises, then PC will not start. The post will completete,then windows emblem will come. after that it will not go further. In this situation i …

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does any 1 no how i can fix my pc that keeps restarting its self i cant even get on desk top or in safe mode can any 1 help me please ..

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hey alright, my laptop has been overheating lately and i tried to clean it of dust, while opening the compartments, i opened the one for my hard drive, unknowingly, and i didnt touch it or anything just pulled it out half way, and put it back. started up my computer …

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Hi my laptop will not load up..A black screen appears ..asking to select the operating system when I do select ..it acts as if it will start up....windos xp..shows up on the screen...then an error message saying the application or DLL: windows/system32/shlwapI.dll is not validwindows image.Please check against your installation …

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Hi! My PC does not boot but all fans are working(including video card), hard drive makes sound on start up, and so does optical drive. After turning on the PC the Hard drive LED lights up for quite some time. And I do not have to prolong pressing the power …

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my dell inspiron 1100 wont load. when i turn it on i get an error message saying "no bootable devices". can someone help me with this please

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Hi, There was a problem with my computer system, so i decided to remove the hard disk to be slaved in another system. After adding the hdd, I discovered that it won't go past the windows logo screen, the monitor will just turn black. I changed the ram, remove all …

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gateway 600gyr laptop problem After a few minutes the scrren fills up with many pixels and can't see what is on the screen.. I pulled the keyboard and it looks like the fan was not running.. I order and installed a new fan/heatsink. now the fan runs until it boots …

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My inspiron 630m has a problem. I works fine if the battery is removed from the system, but if the battery is connected, orange light (for battery charge)blinks and cannot be turned on(even with AC). The battery looks fine with 3 LEDs on when checked for charge. Can anyone please …

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I have a Dell Latitude D610 that I was working on for a friend. When I plug the adapter in the wall the led is on. When I plug into the computer the led on adapter goes off. I have no power to computer. What could be the problem? It's …

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Help please! everytime i type a b or an n my laptop does this: b5 n6 any suggestions?

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