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 | So here's the deal. This laptop won't boot anymore. One day I hit the power switch, it starts to boot giving me the Gateway splash screen, then it clicks off and reboots. It'll do this a couple times then shuts off. It never makes it to the Windows XP screen … |
| | I have a toshiba satellte x205-sl1. I downloaded and updated the bios, but forgot to plug in the laptop and the battery died while rebooting, now i have nothing! The computer will power up and thats it no screen or hard drive nothing. Any ideas will be welcome. Thanks |
| | My computer won't Post (bios won't turn on) after a power outage at my house. What Happened: There was a power outage at my house, all the electricity including my computer got turned off all of a sudden. I decided to go to bed because there was no electricity to … |
| | Im looking to buy a really powerful and good looking laptop. I run a lot of big programs at once and download a lot of music. Can you point me towards a very powerful laptop that will do what I want? Budget is about a grand. |
| | What reasons do you need to be at the office, do you need to be working on a computer they have there, or do you just need to be in the office? If the computer is irrelevant you can use remote desktop software to access your home computer from a … |
| | I been trying to fix a graphics problem with the laptop 450sx4, and decided tio clean the filters and the laptop up. The owner is a smoker so perhaps overheating might be the cause. I made the mistake in starting removing the basescrews and not joy in removin the base … |
| | I just bought an Acer Extensa 5620-4020 2 months ago. Long story short it restarted itself in my carrying case and fried. I had an error saying the operating system was not found. After calling Acer support they mailed me sytem and recovery disks. After excitedly reading the instructions I … |
| | Hey guys. It's not an old computer or anything. AMD Athlon X2 processor, NVidia Geforce 7900 GTX graphics card, 360GB SATA HDD, 2GB RAM, the works. The problem is, that a couple days back one of the fans died on me. I kept it off for until I could get … |
| | Hi, i bought a dell inspiron 6000 and every time i shut the lid and re-open it the screen is all black but you can here the noise and everything. if u guys can suggest something ill be very gratefull. thanks |
| | I read the recent thread started by Kpack08 about a similar machine not starting. My mother in law has the same machine for 4 years. Today, it would not start - no sound, no fan, no front light- -nothing. I replaced the power supply, and can see the green light … |
| | My homebuilt PC died last night after running fine for several months in its current configuration. My external USB HD (MyBook) was acting up so I unplugged it and rebooted. When Windows started again I plugged the drive in, it initialized, and then the PC rebooted. It didn't POST however … |
| | Hello all, I'm trying to fix a problem. This E-machine did not boot up, so I changed the power supply, puter came on but no beeps, or anything on the monitor. All the fans run, could it be the mobo? |
| | can some one please help me. i got a dell as a second comp for my son to mess with. its a dell dimension 2100,pentium3,pc133 256mb,20g hard drive. this dell had windows 2000 so i formatted it,now i have tryed to install windows xp with no joy the CD drive … |
| | hey ppl, i've just joined da forum so hello to everyone... i've gotta a boot up problem...i scraped my PC down to it bare bones with only the mother board powered yesterday but the machine refuses to boot..i've replaced the RAM, reset the CMOS....still no result... though it did boot … |
| | Have the above laptop, and it simply won't power on. Have done what Sony helpfully suggested and held down the power button for 15secs with and without the battery. Have tested the AC power and its reading a 19.5v. Hard drive is working ok with a 2.5" USB caddy - … |
| | I have a 4-year-old PC that all of a sudden froze during some routine tasks. It hasn't really done that before. I did a re-boot and got nothing. SYMPTOMS - PC turns on with all fans and LEDs (including RAM LED) - No image at any point on monitor (have … |
| | So here's the problem folks. I had just turned my computer on and started working on it when it suddenly powered off as if I had unplugged the laptop without the battery in. It has done this once in the past and after a few days miraculously started working again. … |
| | I have a Compaq 5300US, running Windows XP. Last night I noticed the screen displaying this message. "non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready" the cursor is blinking right under these two lines. the screen looks like the MS - Dos command mode screen. all … |
| | Hello I intalled a new hdtv capture card to my pc and i'm pretty sure it got damaged by a static shot through the my house airel. My pc now reboots itself pretty randomly it sometimes gets to the welcome screen and sometimes boots up all the way, then some … |
| | This is really a followup to a previous post that I did. Here is the situation. Lightning strike took out my dsl modem and router. No power response when trying to turn on the computer. I fugured the MOBO was fried since network card on MOBO. Got a new MOBO … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario SR2150NX about a year old. The Recovery partition worked before because I used it but every since I upgraded from home basic to home premium it just doesn't work. |
| | hello daniweb community, can any one help me? my xp machine cannot log in to my desktop, after loading xp and when it shows the blue windows where the logo of xp is shown , it is stuck there forever. even if in safe mode its like that. is there … |
| | Hey all, Im new to the forums here so bare with me. My computer is an XPS/Dimension 710 Desktop its about a year old 2 gigs of ram 7900 gtx Originally XP now Vista at first id get a message saying a system 32 file was corrupted at startup i … |
| | I have 2 Toshiba A75 notebooks and they both have issues. One was onboard memory problems that I think I may have licked, but the other machine has a very strange problem. When I push the "on" button for the other machine, the fans start running, but the blue power … |
| | This unit shuts itself down after a minute or so. If I try to start it back immediately it only runs a few seconds. I noticed the Heatsink holder (plastic) was broken and not allowing any cooling to the CPU and replaced it. The unit and fans are all clean. … |
| | I have toshiba dynabook satellite 1860. After I install windows xp professional SP2, I try to install driver VGA, did not finish, hang. I shut down the laptop. When I try to power on again, it's on for 1-2 second only and then off, but the power led is blink … |
 | I had installed a new video card on my pc. Palit 8800gt sonic 512mb PCIE. The only problem is, I cant enjoy playing games with it cause my pc shuts down after 20-30 mins playing games. I tired it on these games: Halo 2 for Vista, Rise of Legends, Titan … |
| | hi guys, i'm having alot of trouble with a brand new motherboard...:( i recently bought the m/board with a Cpu and a 1gb stick of ram, Motherboard - MSI K9N6SGM-V (el cheapo) CPU - Amd athlon 4800+ x2 (socket AM2 i'm assuming) RAM - Elixer DDR2 PC-5300 The problem i'm … |
| | I recently cleaned the Heatsink, and cleaned off the cpu with Isopropyl Alcohol and applied Arctiv Silver 5. I did this because I was having some bad heating issues. My problem now is my laptop is either not staring up or something is wrong with the LCD. When I turn … |
| | hi guys today my pc at work turned-off without doing any thing....so i fromatted it and reinsalled windows and the pc AGAIN turned of and then i turn it on it just showed me the first screen (the one that showes master and slave things and tells u to press … |
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