20 Most Recent HP Pavilion a1310n PC Desktop Questions & Answers

a very old 12 year old PC desktop and the DOG : Athlon 64 (S) 3700+ 2.2 GHz who's disk? name it please.

• HP matching CD set of disk for A1310n
• MS disks from MS./ (microsoft) if yes what does the label say.? XP upgrade, or OEM? what? or RETAIL.
• hackers disks from web sites sell them ? illegally.
• home made disks made when, (recovery) did you make them with the PC was new, day 1 disks?

most home made disks, made later will be infected. due to XP being a virus magnet. It DID come with XP , I LOOKED. so XP is a dead OS now, zero support, XP has over 700 exploits, for virus. XP support servers are down now at HP (cept SP3 service pack) XP will not find many key drivers now,to make the PC work Id not put a penny in any old XP box., but would buy a PC that has w7 on it, say 2010 or newer, so it has LIVE LEFT IN IT. see? what OS is it? unstated by you. and matters. big time that. other causes. sure. 1: A bad CD or the CD drive is bad, as most are this OLD. 2: A bad PC, bad memory or bad PSU, (power supply unit) 3: PSU fan or CPU fan dead and oveheating , yah big time this old. In most cases , like this the CD is bad, or the drive CD is bad. after 12 years of service.

On some systems, the light blink pattern helps diagnose the issue. See if this HP info helps at all: http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-a1000-Desktop-PC-series/3339280/model/3339281/document/bph06788

If you cannot hear the disk spinning when you put the cd or DVD in you may have a broken CD/DVD drive, easily and cheaply replaceable for under $20 at any store (Recommended: Best Buy). Try putting your Windows Disc into the drive to see if it is only a problem with playing Media, or if it is a problem with the drive itself and go from there. Good luck!

If you wish to get some details; check the site linked here. Viewing it in "Mosaic" or "Magazine" will make surf easy. Pull up older posts. Surf the site with patience. Do a search by type in the brand name of your device at its search box and press "Enter". http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ Bios beep codes to many popular brands are given.

check the power cord and connections first

You need to change boot options in BIOS. Press required F key during boot. Look on the screen since Function keys vary with systems. In boot options make optical drive (CD\DVD) 1st. Save and reboot. You should get "Press any key to boot from CD". Note: Some systems have an ad-hoc boot option during startup. Thus eliminating the need for BIOS change.

go to your bios and make sure your dvd drive is first in boot order.

What is the operating system? Please visit this link: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=1815823

Boot disc error indicates that your computer is unable find any Operating system to boot up. Go to BIOS settings and figure out if your BIOS detects your hard drive. If so, format your hard drive and install an operating system. I would love to hear from you in regards to this concern.

check to see if your vga cable is properly connected at both ends i.e. at the monitors end as well as the computers end. In case it doesn't solve the issue then your vga port is damaged.

Have you tried uninstalling the drivers for the reader itself? if not, Uninstall them and reboot, xp should reinstall the drivers automagically and see if that solves the problem.

Go here:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?product=1815823&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us

Input your operating system and download the driver you need.

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Cleaing out your recycle bin and deleting your browser history and cookies might speed it up a bit, but the other stuff you mentioned won't do much.

A good program for doing this is CCLEANER available free from CNET.COM at the following link:

http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/?tag=main;productListing

Just use your mouse to click on the link, which is the underlined and highlighted text just above. This will open a new web browser page automatically for you and allow you to view the information at the website indicated and download the software if you want.

Another good way to speed up your computer a bit for free is to DEFRAGMENT your hard drive.
Click on START.
MY COMPUTER.
RIGHT Click LOCAL DISK (C:).
Select PROPERTIES.
Select TOOLS tab.
Click on DEFRAGMENT NOW.
This process will take a while, maybe even an hour or two, but after it's done you should notice a difference depending on the condition of the drive at the start.

The best way to speed up your machine though, is to add RAM memory.

One easy way to find out for sure how much RAM your computer can hold is to go to WWW.CRUCIAL.COM and run their SCAN MY COMPUTER feature.

This handy utility will scan your hardware configuration and tell you exactly how much RAM memory you currently have installed and what type it is.

It will also tell you how many RAM slots are fitted on your motherboard and what the maximum memory capacity for each individual slot is, as well as the maximum total RAM that the motherboard can handle.

If your computer does have room to add more RAM, it will provide you with specific recommendations as to exactly what type and size of RAM stick to buy in order to maximize the memory capacity and performance of your computer.

Good luck.

You need to do a number of things:

1) You need to carefully remove the door and the whole front face of the desktop (the front face opens like a door it swings open from left to right)

2) Once you have the front pannel open take a philips screwdriver and unscrew the memory card readers that is show in front of the deskop (there is one screw holding this card reader in place probably on the upper right hand corner.

3) Carefully remove the card reader by jiggiling it lightly till the unit comes off.

4) After you remove the card reader, you will immediatly see the hard drive directly behind the reader that you just removed.

5) Now look inside the desktop (because you removed the right hand side door: the big one that alows you to see inside the pc) and remove all cables from this hard drive before you read #6 below

6) Inside the desktop, Locate the hard drive, put your hand on the back of it and lift on the green plastic part along side the hard drive where you can see the harddrive screw which is on a metal track stopped by a green plastic stopper.

7) Lift the green plastic stopper and push the back of the hard drive to the front of the desktop.

8) Unscrew all screws from old hard drive and rescrew them on the new one in the exact same spots at the old hard drive.

9)Once you finish screwing on the screws, slide the new hard drive back from where the old one was

10) reconnect all data cables and power supply cable.

11) follow steps 7 thru 1 to put unit back together again. Go thru steps 7 thru one backwards

I hope this helps

It may be one of the fans the is dirty or going bad. Buy a can air, take the cover off and clean both of the fans.

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Click here to view the specifications of the AMD phenom 8750. Your Athlon 64 CPU is for socket AM2, The Socket supported by the 8750 is socket AM2+ or AM3. Now this all depends on your mainboard. Find the specifications on either your manual for your mainboard or it is written on the socket itself, by removing the CPU cooler. You may also search for it on the net. If your mainboard is socket AM2/AM2+ then it will support it. However if is is just AM2 then it may fit but it might not work as it might not able to recognize the CPU.

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If you are facing the same problem on different monitors then its a 100% guarantee that its a video card fault. Is your PC still under warranty? If yes then HP should take care of the replacement for you.

Try to 'restore' to an earlier point or 'recover' to factory specifications to get your computer running as speedily as before.

It's hard to say why, but you can reload the audio driver.

Go to HP a1310n Support

Click on the Software & Drivers Download link.

Select your operating system from the drop-down menu on the next page. (Hopefully XP.)

Click on Original Drivers. Then select the Audio Driver listed and select Download.

Another window will appear and there is an option to INSTALL the driver if you are not comfortable downloading and installing from your own computer.

That should get you going again.

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This problem is the symptom of a bad or incomplete uninstallation.
Download or run 'Windows Install Clean Up' utility and check whether any of the programs u recently uninstalled are still there.