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hi all im here tryna sort out this issue with my pc, it powers up and jus freeze no beeps no nothing not even a signal going through to monitor. a few weeks a go i unpluged the pc to move it when i plugged it back up n power …

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I need help to resolve a prob that has developed with my Vaio PCG-K64. The blue Fn key seems to have lost its function when working in combination with the F2 (mute), F3 & F4 (Volume control), F5 & F6 (brightness control) and F12 (Hibernate) keys. I bought this laptop …

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Hi Everyone It's a pleasure to join your Lounge. I have 12 yrs in the computer field but still learning day to day new things. My problem is when I first bootup my sons computer when its cold it goes through the whole boot cycle but blank screen. After it …

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[COLOR="Green"][B]Hello!! I recently put a new power supply in a Dell computer for a coworker, and the machine booted up fine for me and ran well. When he took the computer back home, he was able to use it for several hours, but the next day when he got home …

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Hi, I have acquired a HP ZD8000 laptop, which wont turn on. When I press the on button the LED's light up, and sometimes the fans begin to fire up, but only for a split second. When I press the on button whilst both the battery is connected and the …

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Hi guys, i have a problem. My computer was working fine yesterday morning. I was using it for a while, then turned it off to go to bed. When I woke up, my sister was using it and it was working fine. However she got sidetracked and left it there …

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First off, I blame myself for this one. But in my defense, our computers are all on the same circuit (independent of the rest of the house) on UPS backup and decent surge protection. Mainly due to we have 4 computers and a laptop in the house. (1 work computer, …

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My laptop is Acer branded and i think i just bought it half year n its like a dead machine lmao.. ok.. the problem is.. i inserted my adapter plug into the socket... got green light...i press the power start button...got green light... *crow flies over* few mins later.... nothing …

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hi guys i have a emachine 210 running xp home,,the problem i have is it wont start at all,,power supply is there but nothing is happening also the cpu fan is running all the time i need help im new to pcs this is doing my head in thanks in …

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When I turn on my computer's main switch and I press the button - On. It seems like nothing happened....and I switch and on my computer's main switch repeat for few times... it only boost up... can tell me why?

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i have a compaq presairo 2100 at start up comes to a point were it says operating system not found ?

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About an hour ago my PC shut itself down, and now it won't start back up. A few times over the past few weeks when I go to turn it on there has been this noise, sounds like something is sticking. To resolve this I have been pulling out the …

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Hello, Please help. My PC windows XP Dell Dimension 2100 will not reboot. I tried to boot it from most recent and safe mode. Neither worked. I ran a diagnostics check it says IDE Device failed and IDE DOS DDG Disk 260 068 and 030 068 failed also. I tried …

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booted up my PC yesterday to find a unwanted BSOD. as the title says, that is what i get. UNMOUNTED_BOOT_VOLUME. i've had this before, and i know how to fix it. Run the XP Boot disk, chkdisk /r blah blah etc, only problem this time is i can't find the …

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Hi I just found this forumn and has quite a bit of useful information hope someone can help me out I was just given an Hp a210n tower problem is when I push the button on the front nothing happens the fans will not turn on but the LED on …

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[COLOR="Red"]Good evening, I have a problem with my mt3422 gateway laptop. after trying to boot up the screen stays blank, I tried reseating the hd,ram and i have taken out the cdrom, battery,and even tried it after replacing the bios battery, and also tried an external monitor and still no …

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My computer will switch on, stay on for about 3 seconds, and switch off. It just keeps doing this over and over and over. I have removed everything and replaced the power supply. Right now I have the motherboard (Asus P5B Deluxe w/wifi) out on my bench with power supplied. …

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Hi, I just purchased a Barebones AOpen MP945-VX miniPC. I've installed the CPU, RAM and HDD. Then I power up after connecting to a monitor, and fans and lights all power up but no signal is received by the monitor. The monitor does recognise when I power up as it …

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After starting up and running normally my PC using Windows XP will freeze up with a multi-color vertical strip screen. Never stays running long enough to run any kind of diagnostic. Help. Dave

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I found this site by searching for title. Found a few, but none of their solutions worked and threads were rather old. I'm basically a newbie (I know just enough about computers to get into trouble) so HELP!!! It all started when my Windows Live OneCare installed nine upgrades; after …

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Hi everyone I was unable to turn off my pc a few months ago and had to turn off power supply to shut it down, I was then unable to reboot so gave up on it and brought a new one. I am now wanting to get photos etc out …

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Hello! I have a Gateway, 520GB, it recently got wet while powered down but after that i dried it out and it worked fine, about 2 weeks later, i tried to boot it up and it doesnt work, i get three long beeps and the fan goes crazy but no …

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Need help guys! There was a power surge in my place while my pc is running. The pc restarted and won't start. When I try to reboot my pc, same thing happens, the windows xp logo will appear but after that, the screen will just turn into dimly lit blank …

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Just performed a complete format/OS recovery using original recovery discs. Everything was fine for a few days until I installed MS Office. During the installation the screen went blank, hasn't restarted since. Power supply rating: 15VDC, actual: 15.4VDC. External power indicator (LED) is on, battery indicator (LED) blinks continuously. When …

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Everything turns on OK, but won't post. Tried different video card, no difference. Tried clearing the CMOS, no difference. I guess I don't know what to try next. Thanks.

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please help. I have an ibm thinkpad and when i turn it on the screenis totaly blank,black. The battery light is on and the light next to it on the left. I dont know what to do as i am a bit of a techno joanha. help help help

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I brought the ferrari 4000 laptop earlier this month (second hand, but it's had a performance upgrade), and it has been running superbly well until I went to turn it on this afternoon with a broadband connection plugged in (I'm not sure if that's relevant) and it wouldn't boot up, …

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Hi guys, new to the forum. Having problems with my PC, basically, it won't boot. To cut a long story short, here's the chain of events. I replaced my 256MB of DDR RAM with two new 1GB cards, this was about 4 weeks ago and the PC was running great. …

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I was playing a game and it froze. I manually turned off laptop. Pressed start button and only one indicator light came on but screen remained black. Tried a second time and everything is dead. All 3 indicator lights are off, no sound, nothing. Tried all the regular things like …

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