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Today I came home and tried to login to my pc, but XP just gave an error whenever I tried to type saying can not copy text from password field(or something of that sort). I shut down the pc, but instead of waiting for it to finish shutting down, I …

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hi there ppl.. i got a puzzle for u guys help me solve.... My computer is turning off right after i turn on... i hit the power button it starts every fans and leds... so far so good.. then comes the POST beep.. 1 beep (just like normal systems do) …

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TOSHIBA Notebook A135. When i press Fn +F7 or Fn+ F6 it wont change at all. The little icon will move though but the brightness wont do anything. I go to power options and move the box all the way to the brightest and nothing happens. It stays at a …

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Hello there, Bit of an issue that I've had a hard time pinning down. I have a eMachines T2615, it's kind of old but has been nothing but trustworthy for years. Specs after a few years of upgrades are: AMD 2600+ 1.5 gig of RAM (Not sure of brand, but …

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Have a dell deminsion & powersupply gives power to motherboard( green light on motherboard). I turn power on and power light stays on, doesn't post or turn on moniter, no harddrive activity. I noticed that the fan for the power supply doesn't come on when power button is pressed.should powersupply …

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Hi, I've got a Sony Vaio PCG-GRT270 which died on me. It's out of warranty. I'm not a geek, just a user but am willing to try to fix this. The screen just went blank and when I tried to reboot it the first time - it went on to …

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I have a HP Pavilion notebook that runs on win 98. It has been working fine but when I tried to boot it the other day, it is getting stuck on the splash screen. I then went into the F9 and recieved the following: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 Copyright 1985-1998 …

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Dear friends: How much users Hp ProLiant ML 370 G5 (2 X Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® E5345 (2.33GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 2x4MB L2)) server could support. Now we've 20 clients and we expect number of users rises to 35-55 with in the next 3-4 years. Could this server support that amount of …

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Hi, I have a Gateway E6000 desktop with an Intel Lexington 3 Pentium 4 HT - 3.06-GHz (533-MHz) motherboard. I got the machine used from a company that had it as their server. The first time I turned it on, I got a series of beeps from the BIOS : …

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Previously posted a startup problem with my Tecra laptop. A friend finally got it to boot by basically twisting the base of it over the corner of a table. Will boot but randomly will lock up/freeze etc. Took it apart (luckily no parts leftover when done) and reseated all connectors. …

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Hey everyone, first time here I ahve a Canadian Toshiba M40 which has a corrupted "sptd.sys" file that's preventing the machine from booting into windows. I've gone to a couple places and a cople forums and they all say I need to reinstall windows, or somehow replace the file with …

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This might be a bit lengthy so I will apologize in advance. While playing a game the other night my video froze, I couldn't Ctl Alt Del to fix the problem so I had to turn the computer completely off to try to get it to reset. Now after turning …

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When restarting my computer sometimes (not all the time) my hard drive starts but I have a black screen. I then turn it off wait a while and start it up again. Someone told me to pull the power cord out and plug it back in but yesterday it would …

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The computer I had that crashed was not connected to the internet but heres the error report, hope you can help me. BCCode : 9c BCP1 : 00000000 BCP2 : 8054D370 BCP3 : A2000000 BCP4 : 84010400 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

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I will try to be as explicit in details so you guys have as much to go on as possible. The basic problem is this. I built a pretty amazing machine six months ago (hardware is shown at the end of this post). It has been running pretty well. I …

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Compaq Presario 6370us. I turn it on, after a few seconds, the fans begin to spin and stop within 3-4 seconds. Nothing else happens. I put in a new power supply. No change. I cleaned it good (it was REALLY dirty). Thinking the compound on the heatsink might be degraded, …

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I have an acer aspire e360...amd dual core 4200 (about 4.4g total processing speed) with 2g ram 512mg ATI Radeon x1300 graphics...whenever i play a game like Counter Strike source or Warcraft 3 my comp freezes and makes scratching noises...the dude with the other post just like this had an …

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Hello, I'm the IT guy for our factory and I'm trying to determine what has killed several PCs. Here's the scenario - a computer runs fine but one day it either refuses to power on by the button or, we're using it and it suddenly shuts off, then refusing to …

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Well, I started up my comp yesterday and this blue thing popped up yesterday, and so I decided to reformat my HDD because I was too lazy to find out the problem. I put in a win98 boot up floppy so that I could use the format c: (I thought …

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Hey I have a Radeon 9600XT 256 mb, 1 gig of ram, A8V deluxe motherboard, and a AMD Athalon 3500 2.2Ghz running XP. Recently I've had this "No Signal" error out of no where and its really a pain, randomly my system will freeze my screen will go black and …

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Not sure what immediately happened when the problem first started because my wife was using the computer not me. As it stands now the power button on the front of the tower will not work. The only way to turn it off is to use the switch on the psu …

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I have a Gateway notebook, i turned it on, and it is stuck on the gateway screen, i have tried going through the boot menu, but it doesn't work, neither does Ctrl, Alt, Del to restart. I am not sure what the problem can be, the fan comes on, but …

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My laptop computer boots up really slow and shuts down really slowly. I have to hold down the power button just to turn it off. When I try to type I have to push each button a few times before it shows up. I just put new memory in because …

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Hi, my laptop keeps rebooting, and I can’t find any way to make it stop. When I turn on my laptop all I get is a "First picture screen" (I dont know what to call it) telling me what processor I have got. It says: H2 Insyde Intel Inside centrino …

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hi. i have got an E-System 3086 running on windows XP. i recently opened up my laptop to see if i could expand on it. To see how the things went together i took out the hard drive and the memory. I then obviously put every thing back together and …

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Hey Gang, I'm pretty frustrated with my desktop. It shuts off at different time intervals with no warning. I really have no explanation. I'm running windows xp and on the off chance, I have been able to make it to my desktop view and run notepad. So far I've ruled …

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I have a Compaq Presario 2500 laptop and the hard drive has "died", taking with it all my data, photos etc. I have been to a computer repair shop who charged me an arm and a leg to tell me they could not extract the data from the hard drive. …

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Okay, so i went to the eRecovery menu (Alt+F10) and i tried to click on reset to factory default. It won't even run, it dies at "Current file: \DOTNETFX\DOTNETFX.EXE " so i tried to do D2D recovery, no luck either. It stops working about 35-40 seconds into the second disk, …

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Hey, So my friend built this computer (or at least tried to) and the monitor doesnt turn on. I plugged everything in right and still didnt work. The motherboard has an integrated vga, and we also put in a graphics card. it doesnt work on either one (tried removing graphics …

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I just got a laptop from eBay - with no operating system installed. No software included. I have an XP CD and have tried resetting the BIOS to read from the CDROM first, with no luck. I pulled the hard drive out and all of the pins were intact and …

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