Thanks for the suggestions. Tried it with different memory sticks. No change. Tried it with a different video card. No change. My motherboard...
I removed the memory so it was a bare motherboard with just the Intel microprocessor and the heat sink and fan above it. The two power supply...
I'm not sure if it has beeped on boot in the past. Never noticed. Taking your suggestion, I replaced the lithium battery. That didn't help. But I...
My four-computer family has been trouble free for a year or so now, so I've not spent much time on this board. I hate to only visit when I have a...
David, Thanks for letting us know the outcome. Don't worry that you are junking a battery that is really good. There's a small chance...
Accidentally voted for Windows 95, but now recall that my first was Windows 98. Before that I used Apple computers only.
Sounds a lot like a near dead battery. But if it is plugged in and won't start, that of course is not it.
Jenny, the new memory you have is registered, ECC memory. It's a special kind of memory that is more reliable, so it is used on servers rather...
Can you post what is written on the old RAM? You seem to have done it right and bought the right memory for your computer. But if the...
According to everything I looked at, an HP Pavilion a1160a can take up to 4 GB of RAM, with 1 GB per slot. So it should not be an overcapacity...
Do you have a model number for your HP Pavilion? A lot of the memory configurators will tell you what RAM your computer will take.
What Steve Jones is suggesting is that you have some kind of interesting background on the wall behind you. Something better than just a white...
It is a good idea to look into this further. But to throw in my two cenrts, I suspect that the battery is shot. Lithium batteries in laptops...
I tried for a long time (years) to find a way to get an IBM Thinkpad running Windows 98 to accept a USB memory stick. It never would. I could...
Thanks for the information. I didn't realize that I was the one who was supposed to mark the problem "resolved." I'll know next time....
Sony's replacement optical drive arrived, I installed it, and the CD drive now works. You can officially call this one resolved. Sony was...
Thanks for the information and suggestions. I called Sony and they agreed that it is a hardware problem. Luckily there is still a month left on...
Thanks for the link, Evan. I just downloaded and tried that program. It says that the disc in the disc drive is not readable. But it is...
I'm running Vista on a Sony Vaio laptop. Just recently it will not recognize CDs. It makes an odd noise, then ejects the disc. It reads DVDs...
Not having a can of compressed air, I decided to take the laptop apart and clean the fan and heat sink. Turned out to be much harder to do...
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