Laptop Battery

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Name: Betsy
We have an HP Pavilion laptop, about 2 yrs old. We just replaced the battery, charged it up and it worked fine. Then we left it on the counter, unplugged, and when we tried to power it up today it was dead. Plugged it in and it is fine and the battery is charging. [...]

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Forgotten Password

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Name: lynnora
i have forgotten my windows password and didn’t create a back-up cd, just wanted to know what my options are, please help ;) thanks
Best Wishes, Lynnora Lourenco

The first, and easiest way to make the correction is to boot to safe mode, and log in as the administrator. The vast majority of machines don’t [...]

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Key problem

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

I am having a problem with one of my letter key one won’t type or not working. I have a Dell Latitude

99% of the time it’s a problem with the keyboard itself. Try hooking up a different keyboard to the machine and see what happens. If it’s still an issue then it could be a [...]

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BSOD

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

I get three different BSODs
BAD_POOL_HEADER least common one
IRQL_whateveritis most common one
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
at first I thought it was an overheating problem then I thought it was a RAM error and I uninstalled AVG virus software and my comp was fine for a week and now the BSODs are back. They are like a cancer…

If it’s Blue [...]

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Electrical Surge - Computer won’t power up

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

After an electrical surge my computer is dead, nothing powers up. A friend thought it mught be a fuse. Is there such a thing and where would it be in the computer?

There usually is a fuse in the power supply of the computer, but because of the capacitors and such inside of the power supply [...]

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Disk Drive Problems

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

A little while ago I took my computer to a guy who was going to remove a computer virus, ever since I haven’t been able to use my D drive, I have installed a E drive but when I go to play some of my games it tells me that my computer cannot locate my [...]

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Gaming Rig Help - Windows won’t install

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

I have a great gaming rig with an AMD Athlon 64 3400, 512 Mb Corsair DDR ram (x2), Ati Radeon Pro 9800 video with 128 Mb video ram, Zenith Chaintech znf150 ez motherboard, 80 Gig SATA HDD (x2), 40 Gig IDE HDD, Vantec Vortex HDD coolers(x2), 6 80mm blue LED case fans, Aopen H700 full [...]

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Upgrade RAM - What is the procedure?

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Name: bong
what are the procedure to upgrade the RAM?
pls help me.i want to do the job personally

RAM is probably the easiest thing to upgrade hardware-wise in a computer.
What you need to do is take the case side off, and look at the RAM chips. If they’ve got 2 notches in the bottom, then go buy [...]

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