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I have compaq Evo N160.Laptop is just 1 year old & still in excellent condition.I got the vertical lines problem(pic attached).My screen is full of colour lining from top to bottom as I start the laptop & it remains permanent.This lines changes colour at some stage when screen pic changes …

Hi eveyone! I have a mother board issue with a HP Pavillion XT936, or something like that?! The BIOS checks fine but the board will not recognize the CDROM Drives at all. Called HP for the reset sequence and location ofthe CMOS on the board but they were no help. …

I've got an IBM Thinkpad T22 but impossible to close it because the closing accessories are broken. Any suggestions where to get these parts? Any comment will be greatly apppreciated

Hi im new here and im sure everyone is sick of seeing these problems with compaq 2100 notebook. I have a problem with the power and battery. Sometimes the computer wont charge the battery and wont run on A/C alone. When it does charge the battery it makes this awful …

I'm scared to turn my computer off. The last time I did, it didn't want to start when I pressed the start button. Nothing happened. Finally, after pressing, and pressing, and punching with the tip of a pen, and pressing some more (and praying a whole lot), it 'clicked' and …

Hi, I have a problem with my computer, it keep over heating and cutting out. I would normally get a bigger and better fan and heatsink, however since I have a laptop that does not seem like a posibility. The laptop is Toshiba which is about a year old with …

Im having some problems with my Dell Latitude LS400, its seems as though i am getting a white screen, and LCD shows nothing, however if i plug a external monitor it works, what seems to be the culprit? I have been told by someone it can be either the LCD, …

My friend sent me his Hp pavilion ZT1000 for me to fix. Normally, i am very good at computers, but this laptop has gotten me stumped. Sometimes it boots up 100% perfectly, runs a few hours, and then the screen is still, but the mouse/keyboard doesn't work, nor does anything …

Greetings, I have a problem finding an appropriate LCD for my Sony VAIO FX140. While doing some research, mainly on eBay, I found LCD SCREEN FOR SONY VAIO PCG-GR250P, PCG-883L, HP OmniBook 4150 Laptop 14.1" LCD Screen and 14.1" LCD Laptop Screen LG model LP141X1. Now, can anyone tell me, …

The LCD has black vertical lines, that correspond to icons or mouse movements. When connected to external monotor it works fine. Need advice, thanks cz52415

I have a compaq presario 700 and the screen won't stay open. It has lost all the tension it had. Any suggestions on how I can fix it or recommend any devices I can buy to attach to laptop to keep the screen in an up right position. thanks stone

I have just bought a new laptop and I was woundering what the easiest (and preferably cheapest) way to transfer files to it from my PC is. Thanks, Wil

When I flashed the bios using Compaq's SP file in XP, I received an error message "Unable to write block 4". The computer then shut down and will not post. I can get a new bios chip and have it written, but I need the binary file with 512K. Compaq …

I am looking at this one for a friend. It is a Dell Inspiron 2500 running WinXP Pro. POST is OK, but it gives an "Operating System not found" error after POST on some occasions, boots normally on others. The OS also gets unstable at times. I was told that …

[FONT=Tahoma]undefined[/FONT][SIZE=5]undefined[/SIZE] Hi, Last nite I was using my friend laptop when it decided to turn its self off... When I powered the lappy back on it said the usually that XP wasn't shut down correctly. I choose 'Last know Good config' it then showed the compaq screen and then XP …

Well, I bought a used presario 700 laptop about 2 months ago. The owner is a friend who told me that it was not the best computer but I wasn't really thinking of using it for much more than taking notes. Anyway- i realized that the battery didn't hold much …

Hi all, One of the problems we face when trying to assist people with their hardware problems is the matter of identifying what hardware they actually have in their systems. I've just come across yet another reporting tool, and it seems to me to be rather a good one. I've …

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when I boot up the bottom of the screen says: Press F1 to setup, F2 to resume. When I hit F1, it takes me into the setup screen (bios, I think?). It allows me to navigate for about 3 second then locks. If I hit F2 instead, it goes to …

I have been looking for a new LCD monitor for my sony. I can seem to find lots of other sony LCD monitors but not for the grs-700. Please help me find a replacement for my notebook. Thank you.

There is this HDD that was working fine and one time it frooze and shut itself off and upon restarting it showed that there is no fixed disk present. I did start the computer with a start up disk and then the startup disk showed that there is no fixed …

Ok, heres my story, my current 420watt powersupply is shot, it powers my pc, but sometimes it starts making static sounds and my pc restarts, so I was wondering I found a ultra 400wat-power supply 3 questions 1) is Ultra a good brand for powersupplies 2) is 400 watts enough …

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1410 which I booted up this morning and to my dismay the screen was blank. Upon further investigations (ripping it to pieces) it seems that the backlight has gone :(, I can still see images etc if I hold the laptop up to a light, …

My 390e won't boot. Only DOS 6.2 installed. No display visible during "boot" (no P.O.S.T, or anything) and floppy light stays on. When attempting to boot from floppy, floppy spins continuously, and still no display visible.

Dear All, Can you help this very inexperienced computer user! Now this may be a very regular problem for you solvers out there but here goes:- My LCD screen has split vertically with true colours on the left and red on the right. This shows itself as bright red on …

as the description says im having problems installing windows 95, im trying to install the OS on a compaq LTE 5100 with a swapable floppy and cd-rom drive, heres where it gets sticky the hard drive is already formatted so i dont have the cd rom drivers any more and …

I recently was givin a Compaq presario 720 laptop. Sometimes it will not come on, but you can hear the hard drive. thanks for any help

Hi, Sincerely sorry to raise a Techie type question in the lounge, but I need a quick answer to a question please. If there are any Sony Vaio notebook owners reading this could you let me know please if the 'Bundled' software shows up in Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs, …

Hi. I'm a new notebook user. I'd like to know that, if I leave my notebook on for more than 8 hours, without going into Standby mode or so, will it cause my display screen to get burnt or something? If I go to Standby or Hibernating mode, I would …