Forum: General Discussion
08-18-2011, 09:14 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-18-2011, 08:50 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-18-2011, 08:49 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-18-2011, 08:48 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-18-2011, 08:11 PM
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Re: Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
Hard drive questions:
What's the difference between this hard drive -
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Western-Digital-WD5000AAKX-7200rpm-16MB-Cache-500GB-Bare-Hard-Drive/15907604
and this one-...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-18-2011, 12:57 AM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-18-2011, 12:50 AM
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Re: Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
Starting to get p!ssed off with this, so I'm gonna quit on it tonight.
Ron, I didn't see any boot or boot sequence on the screen. I couldn't look through the menu screen/directory b/c now my...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-18-2011, 12:33 AM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 10:45 PM
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Re: Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
BTW, the OS disk is out of the drive. Not gonna put it back in unless one of you two give me the ok.:)
Thanks for all the help. I seriously need to make it up to both of you, Ron and Adam, even...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 10:33 PM
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Re: Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
Ok, thanks for being patient with me. I let it sit for an hour or so. I managed to get the computer to come back on. Screen says:
Alert! PCI Express card is operating in x1 mode.
Stike the F1...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 07:55 PM
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Re: Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
It doesn't even have time to startup the screen, so I can't see anything other than the blinking lights on the CPU.
Sorry if I'm being a pain in the @$$ here.;s
BTW,the computer is a Dell...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 07:53 PM
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Re: Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
One more question:
If I use the OS disk, will it erase all the files/documents/pictures on my hard drive? I've got too many family pics to just dump all of them.
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 07:33 PM
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Re: Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
Update:
I've found the OS disk and put it in the drive. Blue screen popped up again so I shut the system down. Now when I attempt to restart it, it seems to be stuck in some sort of loop. It...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 06:36 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 06:34 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 06:31 PM
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Re: Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
It's unplugged right now, but it won't let me start up in safe mode. I can choose the option, but it still goes to the blue screen. Can I use install disk if Windows won't actually start up?
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 06:22 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2011, 06:10 PM
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Blue Screen Trouble/Tech Support?
Anybody good with computers that might be willing to help before I have to take my PC to the shop?
I try to start my PC and this is what pops up:
A problem has been detected and...
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