Summary: My friend from Sweden sent me an email saying his computer went down. He wrote this: "Its the mainboard i guess. Everything just turned black and i ca...
Summary: It can also be a failure in the power supply. A friend had it once and it was a broken wire (as he never opened the case I have no idea what caused it...
Summary: First off I would like to say hello because this not only my first post, but first visit to computing.net. Specs for my Computer: -Windows XP Media Ce...
Summary: I shut my computer down one day and turned it back on and it wouldn't boot everything kicks on hard drives cpu fand power supply but the hard drive do...
Summary: My computer recently became fubar when all of my componants fried (from what I think is the power supply overpowering everything) My Radeon 9700 pro s...
Summary: I built my computer about two years ago. At that point, its specs were: mobo: Asus A8N-SLI cpu: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP...
Summary: As to your comment about backups. If you had very pertinent information on your computer or data that took you years to acumalate or precious digital ...
Summary: In my Opinion within the next few years Dell will be at the bottom like HP, Compaq, Gateway, Emachines, etc... Big company's + cheap $ computers = fai...
Summary: If you leave your PC on permanently you will find that there is a dust build-up on the fans and inside the case. This build-up is usually the primary...
Summary: First of all you should ALWAYS maintain at least two copies of any data you wish to retain. A mirrored External drive set would marginally meet that ...
Summary: The person who donated her computer to our church had purchased, at the college bookstore she attended, the Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business and h...
Summary: My computer has shut off twice today so far from fan failure. Is this something that can be easily fixed? and wondering what has caused this to happ...
Summary: I had my computer built for a while running without a problem, then my HD broke,(had case open and something hit it, made it skip etc..) Since then I ...
Summary: hi, here is the problem i am facing...whenever i boot the computer it indicated that my floppy disk failure (40). can anyone help me to solve this pro...
Summary: The PS that was defective on my brother's computer was an Antec, a brand considered to be very reliable, less than a year old, and over 400 watts, on ...
Summary: hello all im having A BIT OF TROUBLE I WAS HOPING SOMEONE COUD HELP ME WITH THIS IS MY SYSTEM SPEC OS:WINDOWS XP PROFESIONAEL & SP1 CPU:ATHLON XP 2000...
Summary: Hi everybody. Damn I'm 17 and i building my 1st computer has been hell. My system is this. AMD athlon XP 2800 3 x 256MB RAM PC2100 Maxtor 40 GB hardr...
Summary: Yesterday i was checkin out my computer making sure everything was fine - i bought another stick of 512 RAM and installed it properly. it was running ...
Summary: I am trying to help a friend fix his "computer". It is a Dell WebPC X500c with a 500 MHz celeron processor and 64 megs or RAM <cough>. The thing wo...
Summary: When I turn on my old 486, the computer begins starting up but makes a beeping sound every three seconds or so. After some time, while still in DOS, i...
Summary: To have XP display the error message instead of rebooting: 1. Click Start, and then right-click My Computer. 2. Click Properties. 3. Click the Advance...
Summary: when i turn on my computer i get the following message, "boot failure, insert boot diskette in a:" can somone please tell, me what i could do. i tr...
Summary: I recently found some random HD in my house, so i decided to connect it to my computer to see whats on it.. I got a message during startup that said s...
Summary: Name: bernie Date: February 05, 2006 at 15:56:12 Pacific Subject: start failure OS: xp CPU/Ram: 256MB ram, 60gb P4 1.6ghz System Manufacturer: sony va...
Summary: I turned on my computer the other day and I got a boot disk failure message...The bios is not detecting my primary hard drive with the OS on it so win...
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