What if my new computer doesn't work?

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Sounds like an overheating problem. Check your fans, and perhaps replace the power supply.

I got a gateway laptop with DVD-RW drive. Small, good battery life, I took it with me on a long trip. After I got home and installed a few programs, I was recording audio CDs when the player stopped. Now it won't read audio or data CDs, but it will read a DVD and play a movie, even burn a data DVD. On explorer, itunes, windowsmedia, any one, the audio CDs and data CDs are not recognized, it keeps spinning but nothing opens, and no error message. Put any DVD it will play right away. Its seemed to me the player might be bad, but can it keep playing DVDs normally? I didn't have much to backup, the computer is ready to be reinitialised. Am I missing something?

I got the same problem as Harrison Posted in May

I have a newly built computer and everything turns on correctly, i just get a black screen on the monitor. Its like this with 3 motherboards 1 is new 2 are old but I know all work and ive tested all my parts in a different working computer and they all work

This is Harrison's post

-------Hey Leo, right now im building a aspire x-q pack (case) computer costum.
well i havea inte socket 478 p4 3.0 ghz cpu, cpu fan, case fan , 1 gig of ram hynix 512x 2 , creative aduigy 2 sound card , and nvidia 6800 graphic card.
i plug in everything and when i plug in my blue monitor plug in the back of my compuiter nothing shows on the monitor but a black screen but, my computer starts up such as my hardrive, cd/ dvd drive, case fun, cpu fan, power supply.
do you know how to fix it? ---------

Hi! Im having the same problem as some people here. I turn on the PC and as soon as I do that the LED of the monitor turns yellow (as it is on stand-by) But I think that there is something else, because the PC turns on but not normaly because when I used to turn it on I could turn it off by a single click on the power button before it gets to windows. But now I have to hold it for 4 seconds like it was on windows but I do this as soon as I turn it on. Any ideas? I suspect is the video card, I unplugged the monitor to it and it appears a "no signal" message so I think it works fine.

i am trying to install the internet on my computer,but when i put a disk in my dvd/cd drawer it does not go round/drive this can be any cds i have windows xp couid you please help me[advice]how to get them to go round

when i turn on my computer a black screen comes up and says operating system not found i dont know what the problem is

THE most common cause is leaving a floppy disk in the drive. The computer tries to boot from that first, but doesn't find the OS.

Ig that's not it, then there's most likely a problem with your installation of Windows on the hard disk.

Hi. I just put together my own gaming computer. It has a lot of really great, high quality components in it, and cost me about $800. Problem is, I installed all the components, powered it up, and all that happens is I get a green light on the mobo lighting up (beside the 10x2 power supply cable), and the blue alien LED on the front lights up. None of the fans start, and nothing even makes noise at all. It just won't start. I think it could either be not wired right with the power supply, the power button isn;t wired right, or I bent something on the LGA775 slot so that the processor won't start. What do you think it could be? I really wouldn't want to goout and buy a new motherboard and spend even more money. Thanks

SPECS:

Intel D195PBL Mobo
450 Watt MGE PSU
1GB DDR2 533mhz PC2-4200 RAM w/ SPD
Intel Pentium 4 Processor 551(3.4Ghz w/ Hyper-threading & 64-bit processing & 1mb L2 cache)
ATI 256mb VX600PRO video card
200GB SATA HDD

I hope that will help with your answer. Thanks

Hello, my computer doesn't work. I waked up this morning and it doesn't work. But it's ok, it's happened many times. I just have to plud out the battery and put it back. But this morning this doesn't wokr. When I put back the baterry at the first momen the light was red, after that it was green for around 20 seconds, and no light and computer can not start, because it doesn't have electricy. I took the battery out, I pluged out the electric cabel. Pluged in the electric cable, again red light, and after that no light. My laptop is Dell inspiron 1000 and battery type P5413. Is the problem in battery? But the computer have to work without battery?!?

It certainly sounds like the battery, but normally you should be able to work with the battery removed, and the machine plugged in. In any case, it's a power related problem of some sort. My guess is you'll need to have a technician look at the machine. You could try replacing the battery, but there's no guarantee that'll help.

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