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| | This is one I've never seen before and I'm hoping someone can help. I was a computer support person for over 20 years and am now retired. The machine in question has been in operation for about a year. No changes have been made to the hardware. At power on … |
| | Hi all, and thanks for reading. This is my 1st post, I'm not an expert at pc's, but do like to try to fix them, but now I give up!! lol I have a Samsung GT9000 laptop, win xp pro, SP2. I was doing a defrag, and seleted "shut down …  |
| | After creating a Msdos startup disk, I still have challenges accessing and formatting drive C. The file system in C: is NTFS. Can someone please give me a nice step by step black scree syntax? Thanx |
| | i am an IT officer for a small computer and we have been using the dell optiplex machines for sometime now but we are now facing some problems with the machines and i really need help. i have tried removing the RAM, checking the power supply and bios but these … |
| | HI guyz, I have a laptop which cannot boot from the CD drive. I cant change the boot sequence because I mispalced the setup configuration password. I cant actually do any configuration in the setup screen since its all disabled by the password. I have tried several CMOS masterpasswords all … |
| | i have had my laptop since june of 03 several people have tried to work on it i wasn't around but they said they got farther than i did i get it back and it is the same way i turn it on fan kicks on hardrive doesn't nor mouse … |
| | Hi, i dont know that much about computers, but it seems like the people on this forum do. So i was wondering if you could help. this is my first post! So hi everyone! When i play games like Warxraft 3 frozen throne, Starcraft brood war and others, ( I … |
| | First let me explain that I have little technical skill. I have used by laptop for 2 or 3 years fine. A week ago it started to intermittently NOT START. I mean nothing. No response to start button -- even battery charge led won't come on. After fussing around with … |
 | I was trying to fix a computer for somebody and he said his hard drive was corrupt, which may be the case, but I'm not sure if I have to reinstall windows. The error message I get when windows is about to start is "Unmountable boot device" and I get …  |
| | I do enjoy the challenge of pc repairs, however I am not a tech, looking for online resources (wiring diagrams, part specs etc) general assistance. |
| | I recently moved to Hawaii and packed up my computer in a box protected as well as it could be and then after unpacking it, the face to the case was smashed up pretty bad. I plugged it in and the it acts like it's powering up and then shuts … |
| | Last year I purchased the parts for a new computer and had my friend stick it all together. In the past few months the computer has showed slowing, the loading of Windows takes more time and so on. Today I rebooted my computer and was greeted with a BSOD. It … |
| | I have a compaq presario 2100 laptop in front of me. It starts up and everything sounds on and then it just stops at the start up screen. It says f2 to enter set up and f12 to boot from LAN. I have tried to press both of these buttons … |
| | I've done all the usual stuff like checking BIOS with an older pci card and tried different voltage, frequency on PCI-E, reset BIOS by taking the battery out, reset with jumper for 10 seconds and vice versa. I am not able to get this card working with the mobo. What …  |
| | The laptop is in the children's ministry and it had a HD replaced 6months ago but today they said it froze and then just shut down. It would not boot up the lights at first would come on but then only the one was green and one was amber. I'm …  |
| | I have a Compaq Presario 2140US got it in 04 stopped working by 06. I have had it just laying around now i have a use for it, so i need a lil trouble shooting help!!! Problem is the Lap Top will not boot up. It goes to the Compaq … |
| | Hi, this is my first post on this board! I have a Compaq Presario M2305NR laptop. I bought it to write papers and research for school. I have had it for about 2 years. The computer works fine unless I turn it off. If I leave it on and just … |
| | My friend's Alienware laptop mysteriously leaked a bunch of water out a couple mornings ago, to our knowledge nothing was spilled on it and no liquid was underneath it when it was set down. i've found threads on other forums about this happening with the macs, something about the batteries … |
| | Hi all! Having a bit of trouble with a Compaq Presario 700 Laptop. It's been working fine the whole time I've had it until tonight - I installed Flight Simulator 2004, launched it, found it ran badly, updated the graphics drivers, found flight sim played a lot better, played it … |
 | Hi All, First off - cool forum. Definately need this, this time! OK. I've got a Toshiba Satellite A20 (PSA20C-0CH4DP) that normally runs great. However my 18 month old son had something that didn't agree with him, so he decided to throw up on the machine. Yuck. So it's been … |
| | Running a Gigabyte GA-7Vm400M motherboard with AMD 2500 CPU, 80GB HD and win98.2K,Xp\P multi boot. Worked well for several years although had several blue screens of death when doing program updates with driver s that did not like Win 2k. Have 256 mg ddr memory. Trouble started after I tried … |
| | Please HELP!!! I have an R51 running XP SP2. Cell is also old LGVX8100... Data cable is new. I plugged it in and at first it didnt even see my phone. So i unplugged my phone, then repeated plugging it back in ....Now i have absolutely NO POWER!! ANY suggestions??? |
| | I have a Dell latitude cpx laptop. This just started. I push the on button it lights up like it is going to boot but then shuts down. Sometimes when I leave it for two or three days and try it it will boot up, and not give me problems …  |
| | Hi, firstly, I'm a doughnut:) my vaio FR415B was working fine apart from a noisy fan so I decided to clean the heat sink vents.. on taking the machine apart I found them to be completely blocked with fluff.. great, found the problem. Have cleaning and refitting everything, I now … |
| | Thanks to all the gentle people who kindly offer advice to those who are ignorant as I am. I am interested in hearing from anyone who has any other ideas besides the "take out the battery and completely discharge the CMOS by holding the power switch for 50 seconds, then … |
| | "STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive(file): \systemroot\system32\config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate It is corrupt, absent, or not writable" That's the error I get. I get it when the Windows loading bar fills up. Any idea what the problem is or how to fix it? … |
| | hey guys im new to this site so bare with , let me try to explain my problem... ok my computer wont start, last time i tried to turn it on it said a vga file was missing, then after, it completely stop saying anything, now all it says is … |
| | Hey guys I got a huge problem. Yesterday I had to shut off my computer because before it was on stand by but when i turned it on i had to enter a password for my user which i dont have, it does that which is weird but all i … |
| | I have had a thinkpad R51 for abotu 4 and half years now..Recently its been dying on me. The computer reboots if the screen moves a tiny bit..or the power cord shakes loose. Clearly there is a loose contact near the power input..but even with a charged battery the computer … |
| | Hey guys, I am having a problem with my Dell inspiron 9200 . A few weeks ago my laptop started to flicker from ac to batt. and right back again once in a while. then recently I started to notice that when I plugged it in there would be a … |
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