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I'm also having an issue with my s260 not booting up. It powers on, but actually hangs before posting. Deterioration has been swift. This issue started rearing its ugly head about 2-3 days ago. In the beginning it seemed to boot up successfully after being tapped firmly on its underside …

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Hi, I am looking for some help. I have a T20 that has been sitting unused for many months and it now wont boot at all. I have tried taking out the battery and then re-booting but nothing happens. All I am getting is the green battery light and that …

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my presario 300 is not working. power light flashs continuous when plugged into the mains. i tried with battery and without battery no luck still...... any ideas on the problem?

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Hello friends! short version- my brand new computer will 'power up' but not much else. fans and hard drive all spin, including the one that attached to the heatsink, which is attached to the mobo. Nothing else looks to be functioning, and cannot powerdown by the power button (I have …

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my comp recently just stoped working the lights at the front just flash as soon as you turn it on at the wall, the proccesor fan starts up and the lights flash but that is all that happens , i thought it was the psu so i bought a new …

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I was trying to reboot my laptop because it has alot of popups and junk on it but it was working. I put in the 1st boot cd and all was fine. When I put in the second cd it read 1/2 of it, then said application error, cannot read …

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Mother-in-law just brought me a laptop that will not power up. It has been my experience in the past that mother board and/or processor is fried. I have checked the power cord and varified voltage to the computer but still getting no lights or fan. It is my opinion in …

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After updating the flash bios on an old Sony Vaio, I can no longer boot up (I got the message that the update was successful. I get the Sony screen (with the "Phoenix Technologies" logo in the corner), and it goes no further. I can't get into the bios, and …

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I have 5 different Browsers on my machine. Firefox, Neo Planet, Flock, IE and Netscape. The Firefox browser has been bugging me about "An Update Is Available" so I updated the browser to 2.0.0.14 Now the ONLY browser that will load [B][U][I]any[/I][/U][/B] pages is my Netsacpe browser. When I try …

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I posted this as a reply to a couple of people who reported eMachine problems similar to mine. What I'm looking for is: using a voltmeter, does anybody know what each pin should read and a "proper" technique for SAFELY testing a Power Supply, ATX w/4-Pin aux connector. ORIGINAL POST: …

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Hi I have a stunned problem with my company pc and would really appreciate any other suggestions.The computer I have is networked to exchange server and two other business related servers.Recently the user has started to complain about system freezes.So upon some research in I found a "bugcheck" complain that …

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So I go to use my desktop and the thing is shut down, hmm that's not normal. It has power to the LEDs and I tried swapping out the power supply to no avail. It don't matter how many times I mash the switch, or how long I push it, …

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I bought 80gb seagate hard disk st380215a, last year. Last month i cant boot t hd and cannot view t hd in bios. Than i installed my friend hd in my cpu, than that hd was view in bios. where my hd have 5yrs warranty i returned to seagate service …

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I am trying to troubleshoot a homebuilt computer that won't boot. It has been working for about 2 years without issue but when I went to boot it today all I got was one beep ( Award BIOS and a Asus P5N-e SLI MB ) and a message on the …

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i just built my new computer i hooked the monster to the grafix card and the black screen said a bunch of stuff and then verifying dmi pool data.............. could not boot, insert boot disk so i inserted the xp disk and it said verifying dmi pool data.............. then it …

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My pc is a p3 which i am trying to reload the operating sytem,but it is giving me error code 5 cannot boot from cdrom. how can i resolve this problem.

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My computer wont start up straight away, when holding down the start button it revvs like an engine and after 3 minutes if I am lucky it will turn on. The computer is an emachines about 2 years old and this has intermittantly happened over the las t6 months now …

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OK my PC started freezing I scanned viruses and spy-ware. I cleaned out all the temp files, Internet files and so on. It still kept freezing so i said f it and i reformatted and reinstalled windows, updated everything to date. And......IT STILL FREEZES. this has never happened to me …

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Hey guys, Here's the problem: [LIST=1] [*]The unit is powered on via the case power switch [*]The HDD & Power LEDs on the case flash once but the unit does not turn on. No fans spin up or other activity occurs [*]Pressing the case power switch again results in no …

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I come home from a long day driving grandparents around and come in to a pc that I turned off before I left. I now find that the PC isn't starting nothing happens when I push the buttons no beeps, no screen nothing. I do see that the motherboard is …

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Built this system in 03 Asus A7N8X nForce2 Athlon(XP)/Duron SktA DDR ATX Motherboard AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83GHz 333FSB 512KB Processor Kingston KVR400X64C25/512 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CL2.5 Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD800JB 80GB ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer Asus CRW-4824A 48x24x52 EIDE CD-RW Drive w/Flextralink eVGA NV52 GeForce2 …

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Hello All: Can someone give me a suggestion about this? Thanks; About a month ago my computer started shutting down spontaneously. No prompt from me, no error message, no nothing. It does give a warning thus; System shutting down. please save all work. That's it. About 3 months ago the …

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I'm trying to replace my Thinkpad T22 CMOS battery, and am having what I hope to be a simple and easily solved problem. I have the repair manual in front of me. Here's what I've done, following the instructions: - Disconnect the power. Check. - Remove the main battery. Check. …

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Hi all i have been getting a sysfader: iexplorer.exe - application error saying " the instruction at "0x10022d22" referenced memort at "0x10022d22". the memory could not be "read". click on ok to terminate." I don't have a clue as to why or how to fix this can anyone help please.

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While working with outlook via remote assistance connection where we were simply making a back up file of outlook....the keyboard on the laptop generated charecters that were not the same as the keys pressed. Interestingly t e s t works but other keys do not. For example abcdefgh are ok …

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Hello. Im running an Acer Power1000 small form factor, well 9 of them. within a week 4 motherboards fried, just 1 month out of warranty. I happened to find a company which deals with acer parts and replaced the mboards for 150 ea. vs 500 which is what acer wanted... …

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I'm trying to get a friends compaq presario to work and had a question I hope someone can answer. The only way the bios and config data is retained in the system is to keep the ac adaptor plugged in. When the unit is unplugged the config data resets itself …

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just a few days ago , I simply clicked the file calc.exe to open it and ... got an error message "its about the file user.dll war relocated in memory ,so this app may not run properly" ( see the pic below for detail ) . Now the problem just …

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"right so i work in a computer shop, and have run into the same issue. from what i can tell, it appears that one of the dimm slots on the memory has a tendancy to go bad. this is the second one ive had do this. there are 2 slots, …

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My friend sent me his Hp pavilion ZT1000 for me to fix. Normally, i am very good at computers, but this laptop has gotten me stumped. Sometimes it boots up 100% perfectly, runs a few hours, and then the screen is still, but the mouse/keyboard doesn't work, nor does anything …

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