my computer is dead!help!?
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First of all get Norton Anti-virus, it's the best out there and uninstall the others . Second, to recover your system, try this:\n\n1. Boot up with the WinXP CD and at the Setup Screen press the Enter Key.\n  \n2. You will be taken to the Windows XP Licensing Agreement. Press F8 to proceed.\n\n3. The next screen gives you the option to do a fresh (clean) install or to repair\n     the selected Windows XP installation. To run a Repair Install press "R".\n\n***CAUTION*** if you do not see the option to repair the selected Windows XP\ninstallation DO NOT choose the option to continue installing a fresh copy without\nrepairing as that will overwrite your data and cause unrecoverable data loss.\n\n4. If you originally installed XP with Service Pack 1 and later installed Service Pack     2,  you will need to re-install Service Pack 2.\n\n5. If you have any Microsoft Office products installed,  you will need to re-activate\n    with the Product Key code. Contacting Microsoft may be required.
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This sounds as if your power supply on the PC itself went bad.  Especially if you have checked all your power connections, and you are still on getting power to your system.  \n\nyou may need to contact E machines and see if your system is stll under any warranty.  If you have any Geek friends, have them check it out to make sure its the power supply, and not the motherboard, memory, and/or processor.
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Try rebacking everything up again. This time DO NOT touch the power buttons or anything else just let it finish the job at hand...Thanks
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Unplug everything, replug it all back in.   Did you install the drivers properly?\n\nHP is the way to go next time.
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My opinion too. Hard drive is fried and your computer is trying to access the A: drive to find a boot program. Check you connections inside your computer and I mean all of them including reseating the power supply cable, hard drive cable, molex connector on all your hard drives and floppy drives. Try and reboot.\nIf all that fails, try and boot from your A: drive with a boot disc for your operating system or just reformat your hard drive and reinstall your operating system.\nSometimes it the simplest of things that cause problems. Start with the simpleist first and work your way to the harder ones.
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If nothing starts up then its a simple power problem and you should be able to start your system after installing a new Power Unit. However if you are able to start the system then try to getinto the BIOS and use the CD drive as a boot option. Try reinstalling Windows and this should work. \nIf you have important data, try taking your Harddrive to your friends or your other PC and then install this drive as a secondary drive on your friends PC. This will then allow you to recover your data and then you can even check if your drive is corrupted or only the Windows install.
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I will give you some basic steps to get it working again.\n\n1- Look over the machine amd replug all devies like monitor, key board and mouse, ECT. There may be a loose power card or cable. Also check to see if there are any bent or damaged pins in the connectors of the devices. \n\n1b Check to see if the computer is set up for 115 volts in the back of the unit where the power supply is. There is a little  red volt switch around the area as to where you plug the machine cord in. If it is set to 220 then set it to 115.(assuming your are in the USA)\n\n2 IF your computer is not in warranty then open the case up, Follow your manual to do this correctly.\n(Before removing any thing make sure you touch a metal part of the case first to discarge any static electricy)\n\n2a Use some canned air to clean out the components first and then try to start the computer.\n\n2b.You will have to un seat all devices one by one and then reseat them. For example take out the sound/video by un screwing them from thier fastens and carefully take them out and then put them back in. \n\nDo the same for hdd cables and power cables. These cable must go back excactly as they were put in.\n\nLocate your ram on the main board and reseat this as well.This may be the most important step because a computer will act as though it is compltly dead if the ram is not properly seated. Ram (or memory is easy to find) It has two small white or blue plastic finger clips that fasten them in. Also ram has one or two notches(Depending on type) that make almost inpossible to put them back in wrong.\n\nAfter reseating everything try starting the comuter.\n\n3 if the computer still does not start then youl will may have to replace the power supply.\n\n4 Contact support for additional information.
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Hmm, i think it's a dead end. Buy a new hard drive and do not buy Dell PCs next time, they are ready to blow up. Or try booting up in a few days, there may still be miracles. If so, quickly backup all data .
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tryto reboot the system, if that dont work go to start then programs and select system restore and set it to an earlier date, that may fix the problem just go back to a point where u know it was working ok, DO NOT USE THE SYSTEM RECOVERY these are two diferent things, if you use the recovery u will have to relaod everything u had manually
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Try booting into safemode, log in under the administrator account and see what happens. if the same thing then maybe you can do a system restore from the command prompt: \nhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304449\nTry restoring the computer to a time when it last worked. If that doesnt work and you have your windows xp disk, boot from it load the recovery console and try a chkdsk /r. More info on the recovery console here: \nhttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_chkdsk.mspx?mfr=true\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/recovery_run_console.mspx?mfr=true\nAll else fails, reinstall the OS.
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The Blue Screen of Death..... try to start in safe mode. if that will not work,  your HD might be Dead....
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Here you go. Free, simple and works great. PC Inspector Smart Recovery.\n\nhttp://www.download.com/PC-Inspector-Smart-Recovery/3000-2242_4-10261986.html?tag=lst-0-1
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Boot into safe mode and see if the mouse is working. Look in device manager for a yellow exclamation mark next to your mouse. Select the mouse and click uninstall in the toolbar.( If you have more than one listing for mouse then uninstall all).\nRestart your system.\n\nTry setting your bios to "Fail Safe Defaults". Save and restart.\n\nIf this doesn't work, then your mouse is most probably dead.
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Absolutely dead?  No sounds, no lights, nothing?  Check that the power cord is not damaged and is firmly inserted into the power supply and the outlet.  Plug in a lamp or whatever to confirm that the outlet is good.  Check fuses, if any, in power supply.  Test your power supply (see sources).
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http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000801.htm\n\nGood luck
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Unfortunately it means that your hard disk is dead. Better take the laptop back to the shop. Data is hardly ever recoverable.
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you need a windows disc. something has happened to you system files on the HD, it might jsut be a cable came out though, have a check when the computer is turned off.