Rebooting in circles – Laptop overheats

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Name: Christopher Smith
Hi,
My computer a Toshiba Satellite A35-S159 very often over heats and
shuts off. horrible design by Toshiba engineers. fans on the bottom
to get air by the heat sink?
anyhow i usually just restart my computer.
this time however when i restarted, it went to a safety mode restart.
i choose to restart normally, which it started [...]

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Windows Install Crashes After Linux Install

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Name: McCarthy
I had windows installed, then i installed Linux, and when i try to go back to Windows, i put the CD in and it said “setup is inspecting your hardware configuration” then the screen will go blank. How can i remove Linux and get windows back on?

If the Windows installer is crashing, then [...]

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Blue screen – Monitor displays everything in a blueish hue

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Name: Colin Sandberg
I turned on my computer after opening it up and poking around a bit. I did remove the power supply and replaced it. When I turned my computer back on, the screen was blue, however, besides this, it functions normally. I hope you can help me.

Is your monitor connected via a d-sub [...]

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Laptop question – Computer shuts down due to overheating

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Name: Kelly Susalla
My laptop continues to overheat ( I think) It will not even completly load up before shutting off and the fan runs very hard and the bottom feels very hot once it shut off. It is less than two years old. Is this a prpblem I can fix at home [...]

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Is my motherboard causing my BSOD crashes?

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Hello,
I have been going through this problem off and on for quite some time now, at least two years with an ASUS A7V333 motherboard with onboard RAID. Just as you describe, I can be working along when, all of a sudden, the blue screen of death in Windows XP.
My question is, should reducing the [...]

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CPU Overheating

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Lately, anytime I am playing a graphics intensive game, or running a long
program like Norton Anti-virus, my computer shuts down after about 10
minutes. When it has cooled off and is restarted, I get a message saying I
have a “thermal” problem” and need to have it looked at immediately. I am
sure I need to [...]

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Electrical storm has taken out roommate’s DSL modem.

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Name: Chani Slaughter
Hi, and hoping you can help.
We had a bad thunderstorm two nights ago, with a lightning strike that seemed to be right above the house. There are two computers in the house, both plugged into surge protectors. My cable connection is okay but a room mate has DSL and now cannot connect to [...]

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Sony Vaio Broken Keyboard Question

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Name: Vanessa
I was recently given a great Sony Vaio laptop from my professor who says she
had it examined by some tech guy who broke it. The mouse works but the
keyboard won’t connect to the screen. I use a wireless keyboard instead,
which is a pain, but workable.
My question is this; is it worth putting [...]

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