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| | My friend asked me to help fix this computer dell 4550 dimension, he had someone replace the Hard drive froma 40mb to a 160mb it booted a couple of times but now power will sometimes starts then dies is this hard drive too big for this system?? I never get …  |
| | Hi everyone, I'm new here and would appreciate if anyone out there could give me some tips and suggestions on maintaining a Dell D600 LAPTOP that starts up and then the power cuts off again. Nothing appears on the screen except that this square icon with the Letter A in … |
| | Twice recently my Dell Dimesion 5000 has failed to power up. As if dead. The on light flashed yellow faintly, but otherwise there was no sound or movement anywhere. Both times it suddenly revived an hour or two later. In both case the mains power had been off. The first … |
| | Hello all, My HP Pavillion Zd8000 is locking up at the sign on screen, well not totally locking up, i can move mouse over name to log in but then nothing happens. It started when it crashed with Blue Fatal Exception Error Screen. I can boot up in Safe Mode, … |
| | So recently, about 50% of the time when I turned on my 2+ year old computer it would freeze at the motherboard manufacturers logo screen. It worked fine otherwise. Then I decided to load optimized defaults in the BIOS since I've had it running in fail-safe defaults since I don't … |
| | Read and search the forum, but I haven't found an answer that works yet. My computer a few months ago was fried ( no idea what happen, It was left on overnite, power went out, came back it was stuck on the windows loading screen, it was KIA, power supply … |
| | I have a Sony desktop VGC-M1 it's about 18 months old. I don't use it very often, just for university work. I turned it on to intall a new printer. I have no idea why but it went to system restore. So I thought I'd just restore it, there's nothing … |
| | Hi Everyone! I'm having problems with my Acer Travelmate 290 laptop. By me happens exactly the same, as described in following thread - [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread68023.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread68023.html[/URL]. The laptop doesn't boot - it just starts up, fan spins for few seconds and then everything dies. Screen all the time is black, I can't … |
| | Hi!! I recentley bought some new components and i started to asambel the PC at home. So far so good... The problem ocured when i powered on the PC, there is no display and no beep teling me that the computer is starting to boot. Al the fans are working … |
| | Last month, my PC would load the OS from startup, stay on the log in screen (Win XP Home) for as long as needed, but after logging in the screen would go black within 10 seconds. I did a system restore and it worked. Last night I shut down my … |
| | ok im not sure if i am in the right forum but here goes. im noy going to bore ya with the details but i have a dell dimension e310 pc. i had a problem so i went in to the setup utility and added admin and sys passwords and … |
| | my sisters got a 3 year old computer and she recently complained that it sounds like a race car when she watched videos. i have repeatedly told her to bring her computer home so i can put a new fan in for her but she has not listened. one week … |
 | I'm really bummed out, I tried to help my sister out and restore her laptop to the original form. I started with burning the DVD's from the restore partition, then ran them to restore the laptop to it's original state. All was well then I ran all my windows updates, … |
| | My computer stopped working all of a suddenly and there was no power coming on to the computer. I change the power supply and started booting up with just mother board, cpu and video card. I got the startup window, then I thought of hooking up the key board and … |
| | I just purchased a new 750watt power supply to put in my machine. Take my computer apart put in the new power supply hook it up and thats when this problem occurs. After checking cords etc; I figure it's just the new power supply. So take my computer apart put … |
| | HI all, Sorry, I don't post very often but I've got a problem and I sure could use some input. I working on a Compaq Presario S4120WM. The only specs I know for sure since it won't boot is it has a P4 CPU, 512 MB of RAM and a … |
| | I have an ATA drive that I want to recover old harddrive files from, but it doesn't seem I have any usable HDs to install XP on. Every time I tried to delete a partition and reformat it, I get an error message. I can't recall the exact message but … |
| | The rom drive refuse to read nor play any media. Windows xp home SP2 stops from opening up just before desktop comes on. i can only boot into safe mode. did all i know of troubleshooting i got no clue as to what is wrong. Now i just want to … |
| | Hello everyone. I'm having a bit of trouble with a laptop. I got the laptop from a friend who said he was having problems with the laptop shutting down spontaneously. The first time the laptop started, it seemed to run fine for about 20 minutes, at which point it froze. … |
| | Compaq Evo N800v w/XP Pro gives the following message during boot; [COLOR="red"]1720-SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure (Failing Attr:02).[/COLOR] If I ignore, it boots up and I log on normally (even the screeen, but then after a while it goes black and I have the SMART message... If I do … |
| | Hi, My Compaq Presario will not boot, I was watching a video from a safe website ([url]www.scarletknights.com[/url]) and it froze. I turned the power off and when i restarted it it goes to load windows XP and then to the screen where i can select safe mode, last known good … |
| | i have a toshiba a75 laptop, which had been working fine for me. a couple of days ago my friends were surfing the web on it and the low battery indicator came up so i went ahead and shut it off and put it on charge. about 30 minutes later … |
| | I have dell laditude d 600 laptop. 1.4 ghz. I was fine for last years. Now sometimes it does not get on. Three LEDs are trying on get on but only blinking bliking and then stops. After long time waiting it sometimes switched on. I removed the battery and try …  |
| | .unning XP Pro. When you power on the laptop, it appears to start fine showing the toshiba screen and then it gives the options to start in safe mode etc... have tried to start with all option, have tried to start with advanced options, have put a copy of a … |
| | i have a computer which i feel is dead (unmountable boot volume) when i start it. It will load to where it should normally have the login but i get the message. i do not have the win XP CD, consequently, my CD drive won't open for me to put … |
| | Hi All I didn't where to post this problem so if someone can guide me it wont happen again. Now for the problem my cousin's pc got infected we managed to clean the system but now he can't get onto the net, there is no ip address and no subnet … |
| | I just had a problem with my CPU. It was working perfectly but until recently it doesn't boot but still show the green light but the monitor is still black nothing showing,I've tried it on other machines but the problem is the CPU.What can be the problem with the CPU?Assist |
| | One day my DVD/RW just quite working; but hey, now I've got a real cool cup holder. It will open and close, all wires are secure (I removed and replaced). I'm sure it has something to do with the driver. The PC doesn't recognize the D: drive. The media I … |
| | The start button will not do anything. The battery doesn't do anything. The AC adaptor works fine. Of course, Dell isn't helping except but keep telling me I can replace the motherboard for a low-price of $650:D . Ha! I really need to figure this out. By the way, the … |
| | hi, i hav a problem.. last friday, i cleaned my processors fan n graphic card fan...and after putin everythin back again, i tried startin back n it couldnt detect my hardisk!! it was sayin NTLDR is missng press ctrl+alt+del... and i checked my bios and it was sayin my master … |
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