Beg, borrow or steal a keyboard from a friend/neighbour for 10 minutes just to check out that those keys on your keyboard are indeed faulty.
First step is to determine if a BIOS upgrade is available. Second step is to see what the upgrade does in terms of added facilities and whether...
Re. Post #35 ..... Seems like the USB side of things is overloaded - is there a need to keep 4/5 USB drives plugged in and powered up?? Have...
F4 would (should) restore the laptop to the condition in which it left the factory - all data will be lost including any programs you may have...
You are right re. the USB image using the Windows7 USB/DVD Download Tool - I tried it with the same result/ Maybe it is only applicable to Windows...
In an earlier post you said that the WD was not showing in Disk Management, so I am confused.
Strange - sounds like a Dell oddity to me :)
That should not be a problem - no drivers are required for monitors On the off chance that the monitor does not show pressing the power button...
To open .rar files download a 40 day trial of WinRAR, but I still think the software on the CD is backup up software - as I posted above from the...
True, but the second option I posted was to install the HD in an external case and connect via USB. I am assuming that you have desktop &...
Probably not - if you are currently running XP run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor - it will tell you .... a) if the computer is capable of...
Speccy does NOT check the Registry - it simply gives you info re. your system hardware (screenshot) so I've no idea what you downloaded or ran.
As Arie has suggested test your hard drive - i.e. the drive in the computer with the OS installed - using the disk manufacturer's disk diagnostic...
I omitted to put the Argos link to what I thought was the drive in my last post - no matter, the drive I found there was self powered through USB...
This is the link .... SeaTools for DOS Seems unlikely that you will be able to use SeaTools for Windows if the computer will not stay up....
Is this the drive in question? I see it is powered through the USB - when you plug it in does the power light illuminate?
No - in dual boot you will run only the OS you choose to boot. Bear in mind that Win 7 Pro and upwards can run XP mode - a download from MS...
Are we talking of your external hard drives? With the new WD plugged in go to Disk Management (type Disk Management in the Search box under All...
End of discussion and end of thread - thread closed
Replacing the CMOS battery on the motherboard should cure the BIOS Checksum Error. With a computer of that age I would suspect the hard drive -...
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