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 | You have a failed hard drive and that's your bios telling you so! You need to replace the faulty hard drive with a new one!  |
| | Does your computer have Norton on it? Or have you used Norton in the past? |
| | Have you thought about an xbox? It's a little more versatile than the ps3. |
 | The bad sectors is most likely to be the cause. You need to replace that hard drive. |
| | Boot the dell into safemode with networking and see if it is able to connect. If you don't know how to boot to safemode then ask google and you will find plenty of instructions.  |
| | Remove the hard drive and boot to bios to see if it will run for any longer.  |
| | Run a full scan with Mbam and post it's resulting log here. Google will easily find Mbam. |
| | The cooling system is most likely full of dust. Yoou need to open it up and remove it all.  |
| | Boot into safe mode and use hdtune to test the condition of your hard drive. If hdtune finds any bad sectors then you will need to replace your hard drive. Google will easily find hdtune. |
 | You have most likely overheated it and damaged the graphics chip. You will need a professional to repair it for you. |
 | Any make of PC3 10600 ram will work perfectly in your laptop. My HP that I am using right now has hynix ram in it as an example.  |
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| | Where about on the laptop is the power button located? The reason I ask this is because some sony's have the button located on the end of the right hand hinge. If this is the case then it could well be the button itself as they are prone to failure. …  |
| | No such thing. All the boosters available don't actually do much if anything at all to improve wifi speed. Keeping your computer in tip top condition is the best way to maintain speed.  |
 | Open up a dos box by typing **cmd** in your start menu search box and press enter. In the dos box, type **ping www.**(the site you cannot access) and press enter. Let me know the result. As an example, **ping www.google.com**, the space between ping and www must be there. |
| | Can't be done. Microsoft removed aeroglass (the transparrency feature) from windows 8 to try to make 8 "look" faster than 7. Someone may come up with a fix for this at some point but so far I haven't seen anything that will do the job.  |
 | It's not the buttons, it will be a fault on the digital control board within the monitor. Unless you are an electronics expert you will have to get it professionally repaired. |
 | Re: Liquid Cooling A liquid cooling system should have distilled or purified water in it or algae and lime scale can build up in it and cause blockages in it so using your aquarium would be a very bad idea indeed. As for overclocking, my advice is "if you can't afford to replace … |
 | Is it a laptop or a PC? The reason I ask is because I have a Dell 1050 laptop at work that does a very similar thing except for the fact it will often suddenly power off. It even messes up the on screen keyboard too. With it's internal keyboard … |
| | Try a different browser like chrome or firefox to see if the same happens with them.  |
| | Sounds like you have killed the touchpad and need a new one fitted. |
| | Check the dates, this is a 9 year old thread!!! |
 | Before you do anything else, you need to put your hand in your pocket and buy a legal version of windows like the rest of us have. |
 | I have ubuntu and win7 on 2 different hard drives. I installed both with just the 1 hdd attached at a time. All I have to do is choose which hdd to boot from in bios. The advantage of doing it this way is that if I wish to re-install … |
| | HP's suffer from GPU failure more than any other make. This means that the graphics chip on the motherboard has a problem. A vast majority of the time it is caused by a broken solder joint under the GPU itself. Most HP's will work again after being reflowed. This kind … |
| | Is it a PC or a laptop? Does it seem like it is running too hot? |
| | How exactly are you trying to connect it? |
| | You need to open it up again and make sure the ribbon connector to the back of the screen is in correctly. A white screen is caused by a bad connection, not by ram or bios! |
 | Your computer is undoubtedly infected. Run a full Mbam scan on it and post it's resulting log in this thread as there may be leftover nasties that require other fixes. Mbam can very easily be found with google. |
| | If you bother to read the first post you will see that fixit has already been tried and failed!!! Your computer is still infected, the nasty is hiding in your restore points. Run disk cleanup, click on **More Options** then **System Restore and Shadow Copie**s and hit the **Clean Up** … |
 | How about saying to her "LAN stands for Local Area Network" and place an emphasis on the "Local". |
| | If it was an overheat there would be no cursor visible. It looks more like an OS or hard drive failure. You need to remove the hard drive and test it with another computer using a usb adapter and hdtune. |
| | Re: No display Have you got that Norton crap on your computer? If so, it is the reason your cd drive wont show up. You need to get rid of Norton using the Norton removal tool then replace it with a decent protective program then use regedit to find the registry keys for … |
 | With absolutely no information on how your network is set up, I doubt anyone will be able to answer your question! |
 | Are you just informing us of this problem or do you want help with it? If you want help then you are going to have to give us some information with which to work with like, what computer it is, if it has built in graphics or a graphics card. … |
| | Put your original CPUback in, boot into safe mode and check the condition of your hard drive with hdtune. Testing the harddrive should have been the first thing you tried!! |
| | Scan it with Mbam as suggested before then post the resulting log in this thread. |
| | The driver issue is a symptom. You need to find what caused it or it will keep happening. Scan your hard drive for errors with HDTune then scan it for malware with Mbam. Google will easily find both programs for you. Once you have found the cause, you can deal … |
| | Your hard drive could be failing. Download hdtune with another computer and test that drive out. |
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 | > Do you know of any website where I can download a repair or recovery or formatting disk from another computer? If you want something like that then perhaps you should tell us which of the many versions of windows you have! |
| | If it is a sata hard drive then yes!  |
| | Re: HardDisk problem SMART stands for Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology. If SMART says your drive has had it then the only fix there is is to get a new one. |
 | Did you get original HP charger and battery or cheap after market ones? |
 | Make sure DHCP is enabled on your router and all your computers and all should be fine. |
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 | Have you checked it for malware? If so, with what software? |
 | Are you installing from a cd or a recovery partition? |
| | When you say reboot do you actually mean re-install? If so, have you checked the condition of your hard drive? A failing hard drive can cause data loss and cause things to disapear"! |
| | Does disk management show the 360 gig as unused? If so this is normal behaviour when you shrink a partition. You need to format the newly created space if it is shown. |
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