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Can't Boot to Safe mode or regular mode..BSOD

thea1mweb
Well last night I left my computer on. I came on it in the morning, shut it down and went to school. When I booted it back up and when the logo started to show, a BSOD popped up. It said: C000021A Fatal System Error Session Manager etc.
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STOP: c000021a HUGE PROBLEM !!!!!!!

bnflds5_man
so I have quite a problem on my hands. My computer recently caught the Brav sentry trojan. i downloaded the program to find, uninstall, and delete the program, but at reboot, the computer blue screened me with STOP: c000021a (fatal system error) the system has been shut down.
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ATI sapphire radeon 9550se temp sensor issue

bs01bs
Hi All, I've been having some issues with my system seemingly randomly crashing/re-starting. Intitally I thought my CPU might be overheating, but both the BIOS and seem to show it's not. SpeedFan however, does show an anonymous 'temp 3' hitting 70 deg C.
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Tablet PC Upgrade question

mjwebb007
Just wanted to get some opinions. . . I have a Fujitsu Stylistic 5020D Tablet PC. Processor Upgrade Question: Currently it is equipped with a Pentium M 733 (1. 1 GHz 2MB L2). I am pretty sure I can upgrade to any of the socket compatible Pentium M processors but I think I will leave that alone since I kind of like ...
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Ati AIW 128 on Win XP

mike.rocks
Hi! I just found my old Ati AIW 128 Pci (All-in-wonder Rage 128?) card in a box. Installed it as a secondary device where my first device is a nVidia 7600GS on a Windows XP Pro system. Drivers for AIW installed ok.
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Help! Logitech head set

...Julia...
Umm Hey, ive just joined this forum and am having trouble with a Logitech head set. . . havent got much of a clue about what to do though:S ive plugged it in, yet the computer doesnt. . recognize or accept it.
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motherboard probs

madvic
i have an asrock p4i45gv motherboard and just got an ATI Radeon 9800 graphics card with 256Mb of RAM and agp8x but i am having trouble installing and using properly. can anyone help???.
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Radeon X850 Cannot start device (Code 10)

sepher
I get the above error message in device manager when trying to install the driver for my radeon x850. I uninstall the driver in device manager and restart. After restarting i check device manager and it shows the same message.
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Mysterious extra cd drive

belveder
I have just finished a clean reinstall of XP Pro, it is running wonderfully but I have a mysterious extra cdrom in My Computer which also show us in Total Commander. but it doesn't show up in Computer Management or System Properties.
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Sapphire Radeon 9200 Atlantis Crashes on XP

The Mann
Intel Pentium 4 3. 00 GHZ 1048 MB Of RAM Windows XP The card itself is a Sapphire Radeon 9200 Atlantis and is 256MB. Everytime i run any game windows crashes at random times or sometimes the application closes.
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Samsung SATA DVD burner not reading, Help

LouDogLB
I just purchased a Samsung SH-S183L SATA DVD-RW drive and I cannot get it to work. When I boot with the drive connected it seems slower, the drive is recognized by the computer, and says it is working properly.
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Unkown error codes.

emperor_567
On windows media player 11 for windows xp, I cannot rip or sync music. I tried to rip music off a cd and an error code called C00D275 appeared. It said something about not having a copyright license.
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Same old Question- Usb Malfunction

freezing_ice_kirby
Okay, I read that other board that talks about how it malfunctioned, and now I have a similar problem, so here it is. I have a USB Mass Storage Device, and it won't work. It reads that it is malfunctioned, and it reads it as an unknown device.
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nvidia and SLI

bardoksan
I am in the process of building a new system an I plan to have my video cards in SLI mode. My question is this: Do both card have to be exactly identical? I know that the have to be the same manufacturer and the same chipset.
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Reformatting to factory settings

welshjohn369
Hi guys hope you may be able to help. I have a HP Compaq nx6120 laptop. I believe this machine has a hard drive compartment as I do not have a Windows XP disc withit. Could someone please give me an idiots guide on how I would reformat this laptop back to factory setings.
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Crashing

Char27
i have a problem that my computer crashes all the time under crash i mean that everything stops. . mouse doesn't move and no button functions. . only one is RESET okay. . the crash happens mostly if i download smthing it includes going to some webpage.
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Random freezing with new mobo.. Plz Help !?!?!?!

awhatley
I just installed a new motherboard into my girlfriends computer, She had an ECS K7S0M+ 1000Mhz with 480Mb DDR Ram PC-266. I bought a PCChips M8636G (mobo and AMD 2. 15Ghz Processor Combo) becuase it works with the exsisting ram.
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new comp wont POST

watthepuc
If someone can help me solve this problem it would be great. I'm building a new comp. with a ECS K8M890M-M (V1. 0) mobo. I've connected all the wires and tried powering it up. The psu fan cpu fan and all other fans are working.
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Cannot boot into OS.

pearye
Hey guys, its me again, from this thread: Anyway, that thread looks like its been pruned, but I had solved the problem of no booting by RMA'ing the mobo. However, since I've installed the new mobo, I've had problems nonetheless.
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CD-RW not recognized

Chrashtopher
I recently purchased a ASUS P4V800D-X motherboard and installed it in a P4, 2. 4, 1g memory. Installed new copy XP Pro, applied service packs, etc. I have a Lite-On LTR 52327 S CDR-RW and the BIOS recognizes the CD but after POST it doesn’t seem to exist.
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