My dog knocked my laptop off the table and it stopped working

My dog knocked my laptop off the table when it was on now the laptop starts but no image appears on the screen. The light comes on when I press on the power button and the fan starts working, but the screen remains dark. I tested laptop with an external monitor and couldn’t get it [...]

Laptop freezes after showing Windows XP screen

My laptop will not boot normally. Comes on for a few seconds showing the Windows XP screen then freezes. It will boot in safe mode (most of the time).
I ran virus scans, no problems there. I tried restoring to a time before the problem (which did not help). I did get a “conflict error” once [...]

Laptop restarts right before the logo is suppose to appear

My laptop will not start up completely. I can push the power on button, and right before the logo is supposed to appear it will restart itself, and will continue on this loop. I have held down the power button in the middle to shut it off completely and let it sit for awhile and [...]

My laptop does not start or turns on and freezes

My Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop will not start for few days and then after few days later when I tried give another shot to restart. It does boot up then after few click it freezes and can turn off and boot up again.
So far I managed to boot up but in middle of boot up [...]

My laptop will not boot with two 1GB Crucial modules installed

I am trying to upgrade the memory to 2GB. The computer will not boot with both new modules inserted (2 Crucial 1GB modules PC2-4200). It will boot with 1GB installed in either slot as long as the original 256MB module is inserted in the opposite slot, but will not work when both 1GB modules are [...]

Laptop turns on but nothing appears on the screen

I have the following symptoms with my laptop. When I press the power button it lights up and I hear the fan and a single click sound, but nothing appears on the screen and it does nothing else. To power it off, I have to hold down the power button for about 10 seconds. Things [...]

My computer broke again and I think it’s RAM problem

I have a HP pavilion ze4900 & it has broke again (and I think it’s my ram).
This has happened to me before, where I would just have my computer on & running with programs and a blue screen with white text appears.
and it looks like:
http://www.nilpo.com/pub/images/Windows_XP_BSOD.png
Last time, someone repaired my computer by replacing a ram stick [...]

Laptop freezes when I install second memory module

I have a problem with my Laptop. I have got a Compaq Evo N1020v and recently bought a new PC2100 512MB Memory Module. I replaced my current 256MB one with the new one and it works perfectly. When I insert the 256MB in the second slot the memory increases to 768MB but while working after [...]

Windows cannot start because file missing or corrupt

I have a toshiba m35-s456 which i bought 9/04. Was working fine till one day “windows cannot start because file missing or corrupt.” figured hard drive failing, took it out, set it up as usb drive to transfer what data i could before it died (which is readable but slowly)… bought replacement hard drive and [...]

My laptop has two memory modules installed but only one of them is recognized

I have a Sony PCG-FX101 Laptop – standard memory was 64mb. I upgraded this sometime back by installing an additional 256mb module. This worked fine for a long time, but recently combined with some OS issues on my laptop, only the 64mb module is recognized.
I have swapped the modules around and both work in the [...]