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This is my sons' computer. No new software or hardware issues. Turn on computer and following happens: Press power button on - power button turns orange. Light below CD drive starts flashing. Computer starts whirring. Powers off or clicks off within 5-10 seconds. Monitor gets no input from computer...
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I have had my Dell computer for almost 1.5 years. Yesterday while working on my laptop, I got a message saying the battery was critically low and that the PC was going to shut off. After making sure it was plugged into an outlet, I tried to restart the PC. Upon doing so, I received a message saying the...
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I purchased my Dimension 9100 PC back in July-2005 (which is now out of warranty). I have never had a problem with my PC until last weekend; I always power off my PC after every use and have never left it powered on for more than two hours at a time, until last weekend; I forgot to power it down and...
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Hi together, I bought new Studio 15 laptop which was delivered these days. I wanted to make the start up / first installtiopn yesterday but without any success. The laptop started to work (power supply well, I could hear processing) but the disply / monitor left black. It did not switched on. Several...
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Have you tried booting from the Vista re-install DVD and using the repair options there? I directed a user using an Insp XPS M1330 to open Command Prompt and run 'chkdsk c: /r'. The result was three files, one was 'explorer.exe', had allocation errors. Unfortunately for my user, the Startup...
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PCgeek1, I have this irritating problem, too. Can't count the hours that I've spent looking for a solution. I'm a pretty savvy computer user, but this one's got me stumped. I paid good money for my XPS m1530, which I received last February. It has had this issue since day one -- when...
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Help Please. I am a newbie when it comes to servers. I have a PE 1600, got it dirt cheap. The hard drives have been wiped clean, I obtained a copy of Windows 2000 Server and when I try to install it, the boot screen tells me that the primary drive cannot be found, nor the other 2 that are in there. They...
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I also just purchased the Studio 17 from Best Buy and had the same problem. Got the computer home, started it up, let Windows download updates, re-started and got the BSOD. The only way I could get the computer to start up was to remove the battery while the computer was on, wait a few moments, put it...
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I now understand more what the problem I am having is, but I have not found a satisifactory answer. To recount, I have a DELL Inspiron 1521, running Windows Vista Home Edition, which had been working perfectly until last November--possibly because of a Windows Update. Since then, I have had the following...
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Hello. I've finally made it back here. I don't suppose anyone has come up with a fix for this unpleasant little issue yet...? T.I.A.