Summary: I have a Gateway Powerhouse Notebook computer with Vista Home Premium on it and cannot get it to boot up. The hinge on the left side for the display i...
Summary: Whenever you open the cdrom tray and then close it the cdrom spins up. When the PC boots up with a cd in, the cdrom spins up. It only takes a few se...
Summary: Re Post(no one has been able to help solve this yet) So I decided to upgrade my motherboard and processor. I bought a MSI P55-GD65, and a Intel I5, in...
Summary: can not get my laptop to boot up. purchased a new battery. let it fully charge - pc will not start. lights come on for 1.5 sec then dies - green wall ...
Summary: Here's my problem. I just got a new computer that had Windows Vista on it. It was probably dumb on my part because I really didn't have any issues w...
Summary: i have a hp pavilion dv6700 series and a few days a go i noticed that my cd-rom drive wasn't being detected. Its not under my computer, their is n...
Summary: Yes they will. When you boot up the machine, watch the screen to find out what key to press to enter the BIOS. It will probably say press (blank) to e...
Summary: I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC Laptop that came with Windows Vista installed. We are in s chool district where all our sysytems are running XP...
Summary: model is 510X tower # 1099787789. It does not write to cd when trying to backup files. If I put a new cd in it gets about half way throug the backup a...
Summary: It's not that you can get to a c:\windows> prompt but rather how you're doing it. If you're booting into the windows 'mini screen', opening a dos win...
Summary: computer started freezing up, then would not boot up at all, opened case, fans work but heat sink had fallen off, bracket saudering gave way. Is my ...
Summary: Correct, cannot get into windows since the initial time, on the first motherboard. I even tried going into bios (on the first motherboard ), and chan...
Summary: I was given an older PC with win 98. It has a WD300 30.0 GB HDD, System is unable to boot, even with the Win 98 Boot Disk. During the POST it recogniz...
Summary: Hi, I use the desktop with LITE-ON-DVDRW SOHW-1673S. I use the NERO 8 to burn CD with dics Cd-RW . But when the sw require me to insert the CD , I ins...
Summary: to clarify --- My original system had 2 IDE connectors on the mobo and 2 hd's and 2 optical drives. I now have a new MOBO with only 1 IDE connector. (...
Summary: Hello. I'm having troubles installing Windows 98 on a new logical partition. The partition is 12GB, and has nothing on it. I have a Windows 98 Reta...
Summary: Okay, well I used partition wizard 4.1 to mak some unallocated space on my drive. I booted in DOS, made a DOS parition for Windows 98. I already hav...
Summary: look...if the dvd-rom has been detected in BIOS, you probably do wrong the following: - You should manually set the BIOS to boot from a cd --- resetin...
Summary: Well it's not that easy...you need to hand NTLDR off to GRUB to handle the linux boot, need to follow all the steps here: http://ubuntuforums.org/show...
Summary: It's F8 not F2. Hold the F8 key and if that does not do it then you need to boot from your Windows CD -> Goto Recovery Console and run a CHKDSK on you...
Summary: I wanna set the bios boot priority from dos. I found a method but i don't know how to use it: > set AX = 9610h > set BL = 30h > set BH = 00h (A, C, CD...
Summary: Go back to response #8 & click on the link that I supplied. That is the menu that you *should* see when you press F8 at startup. Don't just press it o...
Summary: Bear with me on this one, its a doozy. Laptop would turn on, but no screen activity. CD/DVD rom was booting up, I hear the fan going, but black scre...
Summary: My computer powers up to the "windows cannot start normally" page and gives me option - safe mode, safe mode with networking, last known good configur...
Summary: Legally, you can't. If you do legally own the upgrade, there is a old workaround to installing it, without DOS (or disk 1 of Win3.1). See response #...
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