No, my machine did not die so far:
HP Pavilion m7370.se Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 sp2
AMD Athlon X2 4200+ CPU, 2.19 GHz
with a fantastic cooler when it works.
During...

If he knows of the Tecra 8100 memory problem, which is really common, and knows how to fix it that's about it. Any authorized Toshiba workshop, of course. I know about one in Sweden and one in...

It's really not about putting paper behind the memory module, you have to have a specialist resolder the socket to have it work for more than a short while!

Of course I tried all sorts of means, including increasing the contact pressure the way you did it - but no matter how I tried I was unsuccessful. Thus I went to the workshop to have the sockets...

Could you give a reference, link or the like

I. e. fuel cell, or what?

reapir should be repair of course. I cannot find an easy fix. It would be interesting to hear about your results from my suggestion though..

ctrl+alt+del to activate task manager, then Program, New activity, explorer...

If the start menu comes up you know that the command to start the program shell is missing in registry. I will try...

Even if you don´t have an external monitor, try to push fn+f8 once or twice to see if that activates your internal monitor...

What do you mean by generator, really?

a bell rings when you say 20 minutes - that is the lease time of an IP that I receive from my ADSL ISP. there might be a setting in the router that says something like "get IP dynamically from ISP" -...

Would you be able to use the diskmanager to solve this???

Could you connect the drives to the original server?

Assuming you could handle the content somehow, what happens if you format the...

On ebay as everywhere else 98 % honesty is much less 100 %. I bought an defect Ipaq with warranty on a similar site for cheap and had it repaired/replaced by the manufacturer, HP. Try the same with...

You have the pc-card-connector/pc-card slot on the left side of your laptop to slide pcmcia cards into like network cards etc. You mean you don´t have that?

I do not know exactly what the aol browser is - is it not a personalized IE browser?

You always obtain that message if you address a web page that is nonexistent or is not available on the...

You might find printer servers from Netgear or DLink for round $100. There are also a couple of routers including USB printer outputs from the same and other mfrs at about the same cost.

You have a DSL connection with a modem and you have a computer with a network adapter. What sort of router do you have between the modem and computer to be able to share your internet connection?

Can you access the said files from your computer as opposed to your sister's?

What browser did you use to post this question??

Suddenly it happened a couple of years ago. My Tecra 8100 did not boot up. Black screens, beeps and all that. for some reason I tried to unmount one of the two memory modules. And the machine booted...

The memory socket is probably the problem. You might have to resolder it. Happened to me once (t8100), for my son once (t8200)

My personal experience with these machines is that the memory socket "degrades"... Suddenly just one of the memory positions works. If you remove one of the memory modules or the other the machine...