Summary: So for the past couple of weeks my system has seemingly randomly completley screwed itself on boot. It would go to the screen with the blinking unders...
Summary: I was trying to install slackware on my second hard drive but the isntaller failed. Now my hard drive is corrupt. If I view it in Partition Magic it i...
Summary: All the cables, connectors, ram, cpu are firmly in.. i have checked them many times. Also this might help in understanding problem, Yesterday i layed...
Summary: I have a Dell Dimension 4100 and it started locking up at random times about 3 months ago, and I had XP Pro installed. Since then Dell has had me rei...
Summary: Hi, everyone, I'm so happy to make your acquaintance for the first time. Thanks a whole lot in advance! I really, really appreciate it. Specs: XP Home...
Summary: Hi, I'm totally stuck on this one. For some unknown reason my notebook (a toshiba satellite pro a120 running windows vista 32bit) reported that it fou...
Summary: Ok, long story. My graphics card was having cooling problems about a month ago. No big deal, I'd just take off the side of my case, and put my desk f...
Summary: Older MSI mboards are more likely to have the bad capacitor problem than most other other mboard brands. Open up your case and examine the mboard to s...
Summary: MFT = Master File Table, for a NTFS partition As far I know there is no second copy. FAT32 and earlier FAT partition types have two identical FATs - F...
Summary: I'm having trouble with both of the DVD drives on my machine. Neither will recognize the data on the disks that I insert. They see the CDs, but I rec...
Summary: Mines had this little flashing light with a beep, but the computer was only on for a few seconds. I also saw the little puff of smoke before I complet...
Summary: The 10 gig drive i have in this system has bad sectors. It has 9 or 10 bad spaots in the surface area of the disk. Is it possible to fix this drive at...
Summary: From Badflash Recommends list at above (links) This one would probably cost you, in the UK, the least for shipping. http://www.flashbios.org/ The Net...
Summary: The other day my pc, while not being used, froze. I had to reset it, but it never finished rebooting. Instead I got a bad post test beep (I've check...
Summary: Due to some accidents recently, my hard drive (Maxtor 250G) having a bad partion (50G or so) with "master table corrupted". Anyone has a idea how to f...
Summary: The bad ram myth again. You probably are trying to use ram that is incompatible with your mboard. It is probably NOT bad. You cannot fix bad ram, but ...
Summary: Thanks for the replies. It pretty much looks like the motherboard is the problem. I can't think of anything else it could be but just in case listed b...
Summary: good news! turns out i don't need to change anything in bios as long as i always stay with hard drives no bigger than 100 GB each! i read some info on...
Summary: I have a 2.4Ghz-4600Ti card- 512 RAM and I play games and get horrid chop. I play at 1024 x 768 x 32. I always have and it never looked like this. J...
Summary: I'm also at a lose at why when tring to boot to normal mode you receive "Disk boot failure" but in safe mode it will boot. I would try first to take o...
Summary: As I've already said: "You do not need to load drivers for the standard keyboard, or many other keyboards -they are already in Windows, all the time."...
Summary: Test the hard drive you had in PC A Check your hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostics. See the latter part of response 1 in this: http://www....
Summary: You're very meticulous. Most people would not have a clue as to what to try, and would not try removing the optical drive on a laptop. Are you a Virgo...
Summary: If you have a brand name system, what is it's make and model? .... "Silly question but have you checked that the Kettle Lead Fuse is OK ??" Power supp...
Summary: I'm glad to hear you solved your problems! "I did not disconnect the AC." Usually things are not damaged anyway, but why take a chance. E.g. ram slots...
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