Questions & Answers for: NEC hard to start

start the machine the green power light comes on and the orange (to tell you the hard-disc is doing something) light flashes as does the cd drive light but the computer won't start. Any suggestions? I

...hard drive and put Windows Xp home edition on it.I went to the PB website for all the drivers, but can't find the right driver for the sound.Any help would be appreciated. regards, David Robinson I ...

start up Hi rmirish, The hard drive has built in SMART diagnostics to check itself to make sure all is well. If the SMART is showing status BAD then the hard drive is either either starting to go out.

...start. Intermittently the hard disc starts to boot, the screen has vertical lines on it but does not continue to boot up. There is no problem with the power supply as I have tried it with another ...

...hard drive save the setting that you have made and restart your pc, before you restart insert the installation disc, then reboot, from there it will automatically boot in the xp pro set up disc Hi ...

...start up. It usually has the LED go green on power up and the hard drive kicks in and starts but now it flickers green but then goes amber and does nothing ? Does anyone know what is wrong and what i ...

start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows root>/system32/hal.dll. Causes of the missing or corrupt hal.dll error include, naturally, a damaged hal.dll DLL file or a

...in place, sometimes it will restart, if it does not! try formatting the hard drive again with the XP disc and a re-install, make sure disc is spotless before you start, just might make the

...hard drive for secure dust free connections click start control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should ...

the system cannot boot from the hard disk A blank page appears when the computer is switched on and stars for long since it cannot boot from the hard disk THE PROBLEM MAINLY STARTED COMPUTER SHUT DOWN