laptop repair

I've got a situation that has completely puzzled me, wondering if anyone can help. My friend asked me to fix her laptop, which has been failing to boot, getting as far as the blue Windows 7 login screen then hanging. The login UI doesn't load, it's just the blue background. I tried to...

Ok, so I am new around these parts but I have a reason for singing up here. I have a Dell Laptop with a bit of problems and I think I know how to proceed but would like to get some feedback from forum members before I go spend a lot of time repairing the laptop. First a statement of the...

My 13 year-old has a fairly new laptop, (3 gigs ram, dual core) running Windows 7. I don't know if it's 32 or 64 bit. She is living with me after a divorce, so we both have little info. What happens is, it begins to boot into win7. After it reaches the animated Microsoft logo, it simply...

A friend of mine asked me to see if I could fix his laptop for him so I picked it up from him to check it out. It has Windows 7 SP1 installed on it, when I try to start it up regular it haults right after the windows load screen and bsods, if I try to start it up in recovery, or any safe mode...

So today my laptop could not start up for some reason. I had to make a restore CD from my desktop (also a windows 7) and use it to repair my laptop. After it repaired my laptop, when I log in i get this ODBC32.dll error. This also occurs when i try to run certain programs, how do i repair this...

Hey guys I'm a new person around these forums. Just since yesterday my laptop was attacked by some kind of malware that tries to scare me into buying their products and hiding all my files. I managed to unhide all my files but somehow the virus still remains. I tried every solution on the web to...

Hey, I bought a broken second hand laptop for parts to fix my computer, and once I had finished switching the parts, I thought I would try and boot the broken computer. To my surprise it booted flawlessly into my older windows 64bit hard drive. However, despite brilliant performance, when it...

Okay I've had my Acer Aspire 5517 for 3 years and it just now failed me. Yesterday I was on YouTube listening to music from there and I left it up for about 15 minutes and when I came back it had stopped responding( the browser) and it had restarted itself. Then as it started to restart it had...

I have two laptops that are identical...HP Compaq nw9440. I have a 100gig drive in LAPTOP#1, and a 750gig drive in LAPTOP#2. Both drives are running an identical Windows 7 Enterprise typical install. Can I put the 750gig drive in to LAPTOP#1? Can I create and save an NTBTLOG.txt file from...

hi guys!.i recently got my video card fixed and updated my computer and turend it off for the night. when i woke up and turned on my computer it didnt work. when i turned it on it booted to the point where the startup sound came and then restarted. it then told me to go to startup repair so i...

ok so first of all i have no idea if this is in the right forum so please don't rip me apart if it is. anyway, my friend gave me his old sony vaio laptop for parts coz it wasn't working and i'm trying to turn the cd drive into an external cd drive. anyone know how to do this? i took it into the...

I am using a Dell Inspiron 5150 and it had XP on it but I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate and since I have done that my laptop will not charge. However it does charge when it is completely off and I plug it into the AC but as soon as I turn it on it changes back to not charging. I have tried all...

Hi All Hope someone can help figure out what going on with my system I restared my Laptop because I was having issues printing, would not even print to PDF or physical printer. Once restarted back at the login screen, put password in and BSOD. My laptop boots up, and stays stable at the...

Hello there. I have an HP dv9700 notebook, which about an year ago began having serious screen problems. It went black and nothing made it come back, even though Windows still booted (sounds came up and everything). After almost an year repairing, and 3 Intel motherboards later, the...

Ummm, I think this is just some crap wiring or something but all of a sudden my CD drive just disappeared. Its come back twice over the past week but whenever i move it (its a laptop) it seems to go away again. It doesnt show up in boot menu, device manager, or My Computer. I tried opening up...