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| | (Sorry for bad spelling typing fast before next BSOD) Well heres my story, my computer was running great, then over night after not changing a thing or installing anything, it just got extremely slow half hour to start and 45 minutes to come back from stand by. It was ridiculous … |
| | HI: After a three week vacation, I turned on my older computer and nothing happened -- no lights, fans, or any action whatsoever. I tore it apart, checked the push button switch and its wiring to the mother board. I opened up the power supply and checked what I thought … |
| | I have a dead laptop. When I press the power button, I hear the fans, DVD/CD, and the harddrive working. The only lights working are the power and the mouse indicators. At one time the screen would come on showing the Compaq logo. It did not do that this last …  |
| | hi i just got a computer two days ago and it worked perfectly on vista home edition. except i hate vista so i wanted to reboot it into xp. so this is what i exactly did 1. boot xp from cd 2. format c drive 3. wait for reboot and … |
| | Does anybody know how to reset battery for Compaq Presario 700 please help.  |
| | my dell is dead! it the power light comes on for 10 sec then goes off. i hit the key board and it started to boot but then went off ! what do i do ?! the screen does'nt come on except when i hit. latitude not inspiron, sorry  |
| | I was using my computer - several apps open at once, but nothing out of the ordinary. Then, the computer froze up (no Ctrl-Alt-Del response). I turned it off. On again... nothing. When I turn it on, the HD activity light just stays a solid red for about 5 seconds. … |
| | Working fine yesterday but when I switch on the power light / indicator flashes. Initially loud beeps then quieten to continuous beep - nothing on screen but orginally had "No signal". Tried removing cards, RAM, disconnecting HDD etc, re-siting CPU etc - all to no avail. Fans are working fine. … |
| | Hi i've spent the best part of today trying to do some research and can't seem to find any specific answers, so here's the problem and i hope someone can lend a hand. I'm running a dell xps m170 laptop with xp pro sp2. I was playing half-life 2 the … |
| | how do I fix my toshiba laptot 9100? when i reboot it goes thru everything normally but when it goes to windows the screen is black. need help! [email]alexander7300@yahoo.com[/email] |
 | Here's the deal - A WinXP HD that was crashed (supposedly) by a virus. To date, one 'tech' attempted data recovery using some utility which confirmed the data was still intact on the HD. This utility crashed shortly thereafter, and the tech could do nothing further. :( I know what … |
| | This Dell laptop randomly dies with vertical alternating Blue/Black stripes on display. Power off button only solution. Powers back up and runs normally until it decides to die again. When it occurs while running MS Word, work is saved and available after restart. Usually use with battery pack plugged in … |
| | ok its a custom built system MSI K8TNeo MOBO AMD 64 bit 3200 1gb (2x512) PC3200 Corsair XMS MSI 5600 Nvidia graphics card Maddog sound card (i think i cant remember for sure) ASUS 500w Power supply (fairly new) Windows XP sp2 Ok it all started like this, a few … |
| | Hi All, I'm hoping that someone might be able to help me with my IBM T40. Basically...I hooked it up at an internet cafe (very stupid of me as I have no anti-virus software installed) and I got a warning message saying something along the lines of "spyware has been …  |
| | I have a T6420 E Machines that powers up, but doesn't boot the keyboard/mouse is not reading. Plus the machine seems to be making a different noise than it normally did (sounds louder). Is this the motherboard or the processor. And what is an affordable alternative to put into the … |
| | E-Machine T3120. I have replaced all the hardware installed in this machine. New memory was also bought and installed. Also replaced the power supply and cd rom...nothing straightened this out. It stops at the post where it says "verifying DMI pool". I tried to re-install winxp home and it stopped … |
| | I recently replaced my motherboard, cpu, and ram in my desktop and it works fine. I had a spare power supply (about 1 year and 6 months old, NEVER used, it came with my case) so I decided to take my old hardware and build spare pc. I got everything … |
| | Twice in the last two days this has happened to my husband's computer. The monitor goes totally black but the power button is orange, so the monitor itself is fine, just not getting signal. The computer is so non-responsive that it has to be turned off at the power bar. …  |
| | Hey guys. Its me again! :D So every time i scan my computer i get this thing called Shell32.dll. And under where it says Result/Infection, it says Change. Is this a bad thing? I heard it a Trojan? i tried deleting it but it wont let me ): help please! … |
| | I just got a new hard drive ( old one is dead) and i can't get os to boot. I am trying to boot linux and it freees midway and will not continue. I tried booting live version and it freezes in also. it's on a laptop and bios recognizes … |
| | hi, I have a problem with my pc, in the sense that when I try to boot I get no signal to the monitor(which, by the way, is a 42" plasma that works on dvd and satellite and sky). for mobo I have a gygabyte sSseries, AMD 4600 dual core … |
 | hello there... My brother has asked me to ask you this question on his behalf as he isn't subscribed to daniweb ok down to the boiling point... my brother is running xp professional on a new pc (i built for him) over the last two or three days my brother … |
| | Hi Folks, I have a Compaq R3000 which is dead....when connected to the ac adaptor the lightening bolt flashes and when the power button is pressed it just illuminates and nothing happens. I replaced the power jack to no avail, there is about 17.9 volts getting to the motherboard. If … |
| | hi have a toshiba a60 sat pro when try to boot from hd passes self test and just get flashing cursor in top right of screen when try boot from cd passes self test and get no bootable media in atapi cd or black screen any one help regards marty |
| | Hello all, I have inspiron 1100 since new. I couldn’t find the xp reinstallation disks that came with the laptop so I tried the xp disk that came with my desktop. Guess what? Dead Inspiron! It seemed to take the reinstall and worked but after I shut it down, upon … |
| | My HP Pavillion Notebook has been giving me a hard time lately, and I'm going to reinstall it, but first I need to back up some of my files. It started by freezing when it started up, but eventually I was able to get around that. Now, I turn it … |
| | Recently, my computer has been turning itself off. When I turn it back on, the computer either boots up then turns off after a non-consistent matter of time, or it just turns on and doesn't boot. I've opened the computer and checked all 4 fans that are inside, all of …  |
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| | My windows installer keeps popping up and seems to be updating Sonic and ends up just erroring out. I am having to cancel it 3-4 times before it stops popping up. I need help please. |
| | its a customs built pc. has the m7ncd mobo with 1gb of mem winxp pro sp2 .. when the pc is being used it just shuts off and does a 2 tone beep.. high pitch then low pitch and just sits there. i suspect bad mobo or processor but dont … |
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