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| | Hi, Im having trouble booting this desktop. It gets to the Windows XP logo with the black background, and then it goes back to this: floppy diskeet seek failure drive 5 not found: parallel ata, pata1 (pri ide slave) strike f1 to continue f2 to run to enter setup utility. …  |
| | I am looking to buy a graphics card and was looking at VisionTek Radeon HD 6950 Graphics card (only because this one should go pretty cheap) but it is currently bricked. This is the exact wording of the person, "This graphics card is bricked meaning a bios flash gone wrong. … |
| | I'll start by listing my system specs: Motherboard: BIOSTAR TH67+ LGA 1155 Intel H67 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard Graphics: VisionTek 900338 Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 … |
| | my pc restarts its self before it gets start .no warning signal appers in my monitor and before i can acsses my acount it restarts automatically.i have bought a new ram of 2 gb but it doesnot work the problem remains the same  |
| | A friend asked me to look at their Dell Inspiron 1525 (Vista OS) because it's not starting up. Here's what happens. When you press the power button, a black screen flashes with the Dell Logo. Then immediately the laptop powers back off. The 'on' button remains lit but the fans … |
| | Hi I'm having a few problems with my Dell PC. Basically, when I turn it on, it boots normally. However, in less than 5 minutes, the two monitors either turn a solid colour or vertical stripes appear, causing the computer to be completely unresponsive (ie ctrl-alt-del does nothing, the keyboard …  |
| | I have this weird problem in my PC that I am encountering, last week, my PC runs fine, everything is a charm, then suddenly when I powered up my PC this Tuesday, then waited and when I was on the Desktop for a few seconds, it suddenly restarts without warning, … |
| | I built this computer 5-6 years ago. It has only frozen maybe 2 times and crashed maybe 3. What I mean when I say wont start is, It turns on motherboard lights come on, all fans work, everything seems to be going normally but it stays in high run mode … |
| | HI, I was working on my laptop for few hours (just surfing/chatting)..and suddenly now screen went blank... and wont comeback... i tried rebooting it but still no avail.... it wont show even the initial bios setting.. i tried to connect it to desktop monitor still blank.. but hard drive light … |
 | Gateway EL500C desktop. Runs XP. No idea what else is "on" it, have not been able to gain access, other than opening and looking. [U]Started with[/U] a whisking noise inside at start, and she inquired around, ended up buying and sticking in a [U]new hard drive[/U]. Novice mistakes were made, … |
| | Help? Someone? This is driving me NUTS. If it's a virus, then it's bad. I can't even hit the power button on the machine! It just stays white and glowing! Help? ANYONE? Will I have too get a new laptop? Because I spent all my money (I'm 9.) on a … |
| | I have a hp dv2000 series it's my experimental laptop was working fine when i unplugged it and since then only power light comes on have checked all the connections by opening it up but could'nt seems to get it working i have quiet a bit of experience disassembling and … |
 | "STOP 0x0000008e" error message during Windows XP setup Any help? |
| | Hi Guys, I have a Samsung P28 I just got from a company I deal with, if I fix it its mine. When I press the on button, I hear the CD Drive and thats it. Re the set of lights up over the keyboard, the right most light [ … |
| | Hi,This is my first post,I bought a second hand Samsung p29 laptop on ebay with the hope of fixing it for my son,It powers on fine but and you can hear the cd spining,but rarely does the screen turn on,I first thought it was a loose conection to the screen,but … |
| | Good day sir, I'm a computer technician and I have a patient: Dell Inspiron 600m. The first problem is the Bios Password which I removed manually by disassembling it. After removing the Bios Password, the second problem is the Hard Drive Password which I removed it through Password Generator. The … |
| | Hi, About 1 and half years ago purchased a computer , firstly it had -intel pentinum processor, 1 GB Ram and asrock G41VS2 motherboard . it was running properly. After a month i changed processor to Core 2 Duo E7500 and ram to 2GB. within a month my computer started …  |
| | i am fixing a computer and backed up files on the drive then reinstalled the os, after the reinstall the harddrive started to make a clicking noise and wont boot, is this drive broken now? all i did was reinstall the os and take a few files off. am i … |
| | i dont know much bout computers, but i need help fixing one i was messin around with the pins in my computer (award something or other, with a p3) when the processor fan sparked and stopped running.. and started smelling bad it worked but the fan wouldnt turn, so i … |
| | I have a 1.5 terabyte hdd with windows 7 loaded on it but recently got a ssd drive and installed that as the system drive. All worked fine for a few weeks, but i plugged my blue ray player in and i think what happened was the paging files were … |
| | Hi...I have done everything including the hokie pokie with my vaio laptop and it will not turn on :-( A week ago I CTL ALT DEL to lock it, came back to it 2 hours later and it was lifeless. It was on the charger with battery in. I have … |
| | I have a laptop toshiba Satellite M305D thats running vista home premium thats only 4 months old. I was using it fine on Sunday night, my daughter went on it Monday morning, still fine. she said it was running slow, so I told her to shut it down. She did, … |
| | Hi, I have bought this dell vostro 1015 laptop one and half year ago. Day before yesterday my windows xp hanged and I was unable to shut down. So I pressed power on button for few seconds to switch off my laptop. Now my laptop is not starting. I see … |
| | Hey, I'm hoping someone could help me. I received my 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666 today to upgrade my [URL="http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02035288&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=4125903"]HP DV6-2154ca[/URL] from 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 memory. I installed them successfully and even the BIOS did show 8129MB of RAM and showed the RAM modules placed (note: showed serial numbers as 00000.. …  |
| | Hey u all Im sitting here in DK, with a Dell inspiron 1501 with xp 32 bit home OS Have got a BSOD and after that a black screen only with the caps lock flashing, have tryed to reboot but nothing happens, have split the laptop totally and asamblet it … |
| | Hi i'm new to the forum, i'm looking for solution for one strange problem Computer boot up with no picture and without beep sound, after 10-15 min black screen picture show up and everything is fine, afterwards i hit restart and there is no problem, then i turn of computer … |
| | We have a Gateway ML6232 that will not turn on. It worked fine when we last used it, but today it is just dead! The charger is lighting up, so I know it is getting power but the computer has no lights. I tried the atx reset but that didn't … |
| | Hi everyone, I am currently working on my friends HP Pavilion DV2415nr and I'm in a world of trouble if I can't fix it. At first, the computer would randomly blackout and require a restart which cleared the issue. I ruled out software issues and thought that it had to …  |
| | I have a Gateway MA7 MX5669 running Windows 7 that will power up but the only activity that can be seen is the CD Rom and the hard drive startup for a few seconds. I tried a trick that I read about where you press the 'on' key down for … |
| | My computer won't start up? I am using a Dell Optiplex 6x620 computer (windows Xp), and apparantley it won't start up. I do not know why? Yesterday it was fine. The next day i tried to start up the computer, but it won't start up. When I pressed the power … |
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