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  1. dhar25

    SHHOULD I SUSPECT A DEAD CPU?

    Yes I have tried without Hard Drive and Optical Drives according to earlier post. There was no difference in the results. The labtops are usually left on a table.
  2. dhar25

    SHHOULD I SUSPECT A DEAD CPU?

    Bases on my experience with Desktops, any time the power supply dies, no fans will run. I will try to measure the voltage across the power supply or buy a new one. The worse case senerio may be the mother board died. Thank you.
  3. dhar25

    SHHOULD I SUSPECT A DEAD CPU?

    GOAZ, I was suspecting that too . Both labtops are from diferent manufacturers, one is a Emachine and the other is a Gateway with two didderent types of pins on the DC side of the adaptor. I think I can test them with volt meter. Thank you.
  4. dhar25

    SHHOULD I SUSPECT A DEAD CPU?

    Now my second labtop also dead now with same symptoms. Only the power light is on,no fan is running , it does not turn on. I replaced the CPU and still noting happeens. I at loss. please advise if you experienced this problem. The only thing I can think of is, my son leaves the labtop on...
  5. dhar25

    SHHOULD I SUSPECT A DEAD CPU?

    Thank you for all your valuable response. I removed the battery and also optical drive last night, but the labtop remained the same, power light only and no fan running. I may try to remove the hard drive and also the RAM both insede the case. If these fails, may be I might consider replacing...
  6. dhar25

    SHHOULD I SUSPECT A DEAD CPU?

    My son's labtop quit all of a sudden. Nothing comes up except for the power-light indicator. And no fan is running. Should I suspect the CPU is dead? It a AMD Athlon 64 3400 MHz and I think it has 1024 MB RAM. Need your experince and help to trouble shoot this and fix this one. Thank you in...
  7. dhar25

    MS 2007 WORD CRASHES ASUS NET BOOK WITH XP

    My daughter in graduate school bought her a new Anus Net-book that came with XP and temporary MS word 2007 only. This net book does not have DVD-ROM either. She thinks the 2007 Word is not compatible with XP and seems be crashing during her exams and very upset with the netbook. Is it ok for...
  8. dhar25

    WIRELESS ADAPTER IS NOT CONNECTING

    Thank you, Make sense, but how do you change it? I cannot find directions on this once the adaptor set up is finished.
  9. dhar25

    WIRELESS ADAPTER IS NOT CONNECTING

    I have recently installed wireless network adapter [Netgear WG111v2, the USB type in my desk top. It seems to be working but not connecting to the internet. I have provided the right ISP key and password form the manufacturer [Verizon FIOS] but it is working very slowly and not connecting to...
  10. dhar25

    My Desktop does not log-off

    It does not shut-off.
  11. dhar25

    My Desktop does not log-off

    My Desktop does not log-off, it keep turning on untill I switch it off the main Power button. I have old AMD CPU on a ASUS motherboard. I have at least formatted my hard drive three times and started all over but this problem never stop coming back. Any advise to fix this one will be greatly...
  12. dhar25

    ADVISE ON GOOD ANTI VIROUS/ANTI SPAM PROGRAM

    The assistance I have getting on my issue has been just wonderful. Thanks so much for every one. I have question for kjv1611, I have wireless router with Verizon FIOS, is it still a problem?
  13. dhar25

    ADVISE ON GOOD ANTI VIROUS/ANTI SPAM PROGRAM

    My PC was invaded by Virus and Spam twice in two days. The second time around I formated the Hard-divide and started all over again and still caught virus within hours. This never happened to me before. I have been browsing the same site like before which I think are harm less. I had AVG free...
  14. dhar25

    THE OPERATING SYSTEM STOPS INSTALLING

    Finally I solved the problem! I read in another forum called Tom's Hard news, indicating that E Machines have a problem with AC Adapters. So this time I ran the installation on battery alone and also with another Window's XP OEM disk. The installation went smoothly. I don't know now whether it...
  15. dhar25

    THE OPERATING SYSTEM STOPS INSTALLING

    it seem to complete the Recovery CD installation process, then it re-starts with Windows XP screen on. Then starts to detect the components and half way through this process it either quits or shuts off the lap-top. When I restart it , it wants go through the recovery process again from the...
  16. dhar25

    THE OPERATING SYSTEM STOPS INSTALLING

    I first changed the hard drive because it worked 2 years ago, this time it did not work, so someone in this forum mentioned it could be a bad RAM so I changed the RAM and I still have the problem. This happened after al 3 CDs finished installing, it tells you to remove the CD. Then the...
  17. dhar25

    THE OPERATING SYSTEM STOPS INSTALLING

    I have now installed a new hard drive and a new RAM 512 MB[ [original was 256 MB ]. Now the recovery CD goes through the copying the Windows XP file to the hard drive, then the XP main screen comes on and it starts copy the equipments like key-board etc . Half the way through this process, it...
  18. dhar25

    THE OPERATING SYSTEM STOPS INSTALLING

    I have a E' Machine note book computer which crashed suddenly. The last time it happened I could not bring it back so tried to use the rescue disk and reformat the hard drive but the system no longer was able to see the hard drive. So I bought a new hard drive and the problem was solved with...
  19. dhar25

    MOTHERBOARD OR CPU IS BAD ?

    I suspected the case switch too. So I checked this by switching with the reset switches and try to start it with a reset switch. Still nothing was moving. This is the 2nd ASUS MOBO in 3 weeks.
  20. dhar25

    MOTHERBOARD OR CPU IS BAD ?

    My desk-top just quit yesterday. Suddenly no fan was running.I suspected that the power supply died. So I checked it. Only -5v seemed to be bad, I did not think it good enough to stop the power supply an running. In spite of this I switch it with another working power supply. But my PC was...

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