computer repair

Good morning! My name is Tamara. I just joined this Forum because I figured it would be a lot of help to me since I am in the process of taking my A+ certification. So I won't bore you with the boring details! But hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Now, I don't know...

Ever since my laptop updated to Windows 10, it's had lots of network problems. A couple of weeks ago it just stopped connecting to the internet completely. It appears the network drivers no longer work. Apparently my brother had tried to "fix the internet by messing with the command thing", and...

On one of my (older) computers there is a defect sector on the hard disk. Checking the surface of the hard disk shows a red square for it. It seems to me that all the "usual" reserve sectors are already in use. Every thing else works on this computer. No unusual noise comes from the hard disk...

Hi, Recently when shutting down Windows 7 professional and error is flashed in a window for a very short time. I have been able to see, I believe, and error "Exception 0x80000003" by shutting down repeatedly. I also saw OXEA47337 today and a partial OEXC38... the other day. Additionally, in...

My PC was extremely sluggish and it was so slow it was a long struggle to open one file or run a program. I ran anti virus tests etc and eventually reinstalled Windows. It is better but still freezes on opening a folder and whereas as before this happened boot time was 30 seconds or less now...

Hi - I am very proud that I was able to remove failed drive and replace it with a new one. I am not a tekkie person. This is for Dell 2305 all in one system. Anyway, I ran the system recovery disks that I made when I purchased the system 5 years ago. Everything was getting installed - system was...

My Brother brought a computer home and said the hard drive went bad but I am not exactly sure which Windows is on it and how do move Windows from the bad hard drive to the new hard drive

I am attempting to run a reinstall of Windows 7 for a friend. The system boots and gets into the Windows install, though when it gets to Expanding Files ... 75%, the system acts like it is rebooting and then shuts off. I have thought about that it could be bad RAM or HDD. Though the times that...

Last night, the hinge on my roommate's computer broke. At the same time, his network card stopped working. The Internet connection works, the Network Connections window says the connection is enabled despite the red x on the connection itself, and diagnostics on the network say the card is...

Hello, Since a few days, my laptop computer Acer Aspire 8920G of 2008 restarts in a loop after a few seconds (1 minute at the most). On the other hand it manages to start in mode without failure and I can use it with all the limitations related to this mode. I cleaned the ventilator so that it...

Here is my dilemma: my computer intermittently will not start. I will push the power button, the lights come on on the base of the laptop, but the screen does not come on. I have attached an external LCD (via VGA cable) and it does not come on either (when it decides to malfunction). The fan...

Hi A little over a half hour ago I was playing Tomb Raider 2013 and my power went off. After only a few seconds it came back on, but when I tried to boot my computer it wouldn't boot. I got a message that my computer needed to be repaired. I put in the Windows DVD and tried to do a repair but...

This may not apply to everyone but I had the start up looping issue this morning and this is how I resolved it: First I have 2 laptops running 8.1 64x: a) Toshiba and b) HP. The Toshiba had no problem. The HP hung in the start up loop. I powered off the HP that was looping. I then disconnected...

I have a windows 8 system in which it started saying, "No bootable device found" but when I go into the boot it shows the HDD there. I have no idea what should I do. I already took it out and put it back millions times.

I had been having blue screen problems with my old Dell XP. The programs WhoCrashed and BlueScreenView implicated a few drivers of non-essential software as the culprits. I examined the drivers module in AutoRuns (by Sysinternals) and carefully selected non-essential software drivers for...

I have an HP Compaq dc7200 slim tower desktop running Windows 7. The computer was made with Windows XP. When I bought the computer it had already been upgraded to W7. As I am trying to learn computer repair, I bought the computer from TigerDirect several years ago for $100. I use it in my...

Here's the situation: • I have Windows 7 SP1 running on an MSI Z97-G55 mobo with latest BIOS (updated today). • My router, a Linksys E3000, is running DD-WRT (updated today) Here are the steps I have taken to try to get it to work: 1. Static IP is set and works just fine. 2. I've added the...

When I turn on my hp all in one, it comes to a black screen, and I don't know why, the fan runs good Things I tried: Taking the case off and getting rid of dust

I've been having trouble with bluescreening recently. I can't isolate it to any cause, and have very little knowledge of how to fix computers without just resetting them. I have uploaded 4 .dmp files associated with the bluescreens. I don't know how to open or read them, much less how to...

Hello all Firstly sorry if this is posted in the wrong place, I am not exactly sure what my problem is. After downloading Malwarebytes and doing a scan, my computer came up with Bad Image errors, and wouldn't let me connect to the internet even though it said I was connected. However I...