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| | Recently bought the AMD 6400+ x2 cpu on the GIGABYTE GA-MA790FX-DS5 AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard. Was blazing while it lasted. After a week and a half started having random lock ups which eventually lead into lock ups during bios load. Finally wouldn't boot at all. Machine was still …  |
| | Two nighrs ago i got my new compenents to my computer, a Cooler master 820 Case, ABS BZ800 Watt puwer supply, and a few fans. So i replaced my PSU, which was previously a 500 watt supply with the new one, and moved everything into the new case. So the … |
| | Dell optiplex GX270 wont boot floppy drive clicks on push of the start button with both the light in the power button flashing and the light to the right of it flashing green. the screen does not even come on. I disconnect5ed everything including taking out the video card. when …  |
| | I have replaced the power supply and the new onedoes work but the computer will still not power up. I desperately need information that is on it. The day it shut down the keyboard didn't work, but mouse did when I tried to repower nothing. E-machines said that it was …  |
| | HP Pavilion ze4400, been around for 4 years. Just a couple of days ago, comp stopped booting properly. I tried the quick restore to restore to factory settings but it would always end at 80ish percent with a write error. Tried the windows xp operating system cd. when formatting the …  |
| | Hay everyone ! Hello my name is pete and im kinda a self fixit kinda guy im working on my mother in laws hp pavillion 700 . She called this afternoon and had a dead computer, so i went down there figuring just really dirty maybe got warm and shut … |
| | Hi all, I have (actually my wifes has) a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. 800mhz proc., 512 mem, 20 gig HD. About 2 months ago, it kinda just stopped working. All 3 lights would come on HD, power, and battery, but it would not go past this. I went on the … |
| | toshiba qosmio f30 Anytime i tried to boot the laptop, i get this massage: Bad Checksum ROM Data block press any key to continue after pressing any key i get this massage: bad checksum (ROM) check... |
| | so my dv6000 is dying please anyhelp would be appreciated.! when i boot up my comp a fuzzy white screen displays for about 7-10 sec, then it clicks over to black but the back light appears to be on, i can hear windows loading and my updates instaling but i … |
| | Hello everyone, I am writing to plead for help to fix the screen on my laptop, which for seemingly no reason, has decided to forget about the couple of inches of screen on the right and a line the exact size of the normal "start" button status bar... I realise … |
 | Hey Guys, I have read other threads here that are similar to my situation, but it seems that all of these people could access Windows. I have a Windows XP SP2 PC that I tried to partition the 80 GB HD into 3 partitions for dual OS. I was shortening … |
| | This morning everything was just fine... I was running XP media center, and wanted to create another partition to install XP Pro on. I used partition magic 8 to move my primary partition and create another bootable partition for XPpro. In the middle of moving the partition the computer crashed. … |
| | I am starting this thread in the hope that I might get some help to restore my laptop. On New Years Eve as I booted up I got the "Windows cannot start system32/config/.... file is missing or corrupted. Spoke with Toshiba and since I could not locate my recovery cd … |
| | Hi, I added a hard drive from one pc to another & the graphics on the screen looks blurry and bad. when i download the manufacturer which is gateway video drive for that specific drive. when i try to install it following the guide it doesn't. the guide does say … |
| | I have my friend's PC which is almost identical to my so i told him i would look at it. When you start it, you don't get video. The screen wont even turn on. These are the troubleshooting steps i took. There is no internal speaker unfortunately. Yes, the DVD/CD … |
| | Hi all, just found this forum and I could do with some help! :-) My wife has an old Time laptop, bought on Ebay second hand,about a year ago. Recently, over the last week or three it's started randomly shutting down - instantly, like the power went off suddenly. Tonight … |
| | OK i just built my first machine. asus p5e, E6750, 8g ddr2 800, ati 3870, vista HP 64bit. i had the machine up and running on the first boot. has run like a charm for 2 weeks now. i had a brand new hanns-g 28" lcd hooked up and everything … |
| | I am at my wits end with this one. PS/2 Keyboard and mouse (known working, default) will not function after windows xp (sp2) startup. The keyboard works fine in BIOS setup. Neither will function in windows, even in safe mode. Windows boots just fine, no errors, nothing in event log; … |
| | I transplanted all new components for in my old AMD 2800 (not sure if the change to intel matters). New: Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI ATX Intel Video Card: POWERCOLOR X1950PRO512MBAC Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Supported Processor: Intel Core 2 … |
| | Okay, this seasoned computer wrangler is about to give up... I was looking for a blown fuse but no-joy. Pammie undocked the CD-ROM while running W2K. It froze up. Unplugged and replugged power and batts to do a restart but now the laptop is totally dead- no lights, spin-up, sounds, … |
 | Hi, I'm new here, so hello and thanks in advance for your help. I've had an HP Pavilion 511k for years and it hasn't given me any trouble, but over a year ago I had to go to another country and left it with a friend. Now that I'm back, … |
| | Hey, I get this error occasionally on PC: at top: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and at bottom: 0x0000000A (0x79280BEC, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804E65DE) This happends randomly but consistenly after computer has been on for a bit.. I read elswhere that it could be ram or other hardware.. but none of them had that specific … |
 | its only 40 gb i am trying to format it from : my computer and computer management neither working and i cannot acces until i format it what to do please help |
| | Hi, I found a PC by the side of the road that was only missing the hard drive, so I thought I'd try to fix it up. I bought a decent HD from a reputable seller on eBay, and connected it properly, and tried to boot up the PC with …  |
| | I am seeing the following symptoms: 1. No video. Black screen. 2. Can't get into bios via reboot. 3. hard drive access light is solid amber/on. Trouble shooting i've done so far: 1. swapped out the monitor for a known good monitor... no change... still no video. Any suggestions on … |
| | Howdy everyone, been reading the forums here and I'm very happy to have found you. My problem began yesterday when I decided to reseat my heatsink on my cpu and re-route a cable. I routed the 4 pin pwr cable to the mobo behind the sound card and the vid … |
| | I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop, 1.5 years old (unfortunately out of warranty). One day a few weeks ago, when I turned it on, the screen lit up but nothing showed up on the screen. Fans were running and Windows XP seemed to start properly (I could log in … |
| | I have had this Dell 8600 for several years. It has withstood being dropped numerous times and I even accidentally poured two cups of boiling water on top of the keyboard over a year ago. What did it in was my 2008 Streets and Trips Pharos USB GPS unit. I …  |
| | I found a Thinkpad A21M and i cant figure out how to login to the admin to put my user on it |
| | Well i bought a Hel-80 from Ibuypower last year and amazingly enough the warranty went up 3 days before my laptop just magically stopped working. It was running fine, never ran extremely hot, never random strange locks ups etc. But the other day i went to get online and it … |
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