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If any of you are getting lines on your LCD display (like a horizontal or a vertical), it's usually a bad LCD display (the panel itself has a very "partial", or "localized" failure). Someone here mentioned twisting the display - which you can do on laptops - that might make …

If the speakers are disconnected, and there's no disks in his floppy/cd-rom drives, then the only thing that can click when powering down would be the hard drive, in which case, it can't be cured by reformatting and reinstalling anything... Is it a very polite, mild-manner clicking sound (like whispering …

How much memory and how much disk space is in the system? C'mon, guys... 98SE is not that buggy :rolleyes:

If the system sees the drive, then it's not the device driver. I'm sure you've tried different CDs and gotten the same results, right? Could be just a simple, straightforward case of a bad drive. What kind of a system and what kinda drive? I'm always collecting stuff on what …

Here's the lowdown on LCD bulbs: LCD displays are not sealed, not insofar as the backlight tubes go. My experience has been that most of 'em aren't "enclosed" to the point where replacing the backlight tube becomes ... impossible to those who specialize in LCD repairs. To see if tubes …

Doesn't look like anyone can overcome what is basically a design flaw on these Presarios (and the problem is by no means unique to Compaq) - the plastics ain't strong enough to support the amount of torquing in the opening/closing of its lid, or maintaining the screen in an open, …

Does it see the cd-rom/dvd and boot from it?

Maybe someone has an idea on this one: I own several Toshiba 2805 laptops - ranging from the S201 model (Celeron 650) to the faster S302 (PIII 750) models. They're working perfectly and I'm happy with them, and I wanted to install larger hard drives in them and give them …

The Gateway P3C is an old one - so I'm speaking from memory since I have not come into contact with one of these in years. As I remembered it, this system does not have a built-in modem, so when you say it has a modem card installed, I'm assuming …

Is your CD-ROM even being recognized by the system at all? Check your CMOS setup (which can usually be entered into "before" Windows starts booting) - in most cases, the IDE device 0 in your system should be your hard drive (which of course is working), and the IDE device …

Never even heard of a Satellite 8250. Is this the newest, greatest, blah blah...? But I've got the same problem as you. In many of the newer Toshiba's, there's no fiddling with the LCD's brightness - you can tone it down to semi-bright in the BIOS setup and that's about …

Floppy drives are, by and large, compatible. However, in your case, since yours in internal - meaning that dimensions, mounting, connector positioning, color of the drive bezel, etc., are absolutely not flexible nor negotiable - [i]you'll need an exact match[/i]. Sounds like you've got a bad drive (heads bent - …

System ain't seeing your hard drive. Since it is a removable module (on the left side of your system, usually held in by one, or two screws at the bottom of your machine), why not remove it, reinsert it, and see what happens?

LCD backlight is merely a cold cathode florescent tube (CCFT), or cold florescent light (CFL) tube - it either works or it doesn't. I'm inclined to think that your inverter is failing (it hasn't gone completely since it worked for a second...) How many backlight tubes are in your LCD …

Is it the same make and model monitor? You'd better give us the brand and model so we can avoid it... :)

I'm probably too late on this one, but it sounded like the wrong BIOS was flashed into this LM-P system. As I recall, the LM-Ps were sold with both active (TFT) and passive (DSTN) displays. Now, in the early days, before auto-detect and auto-sensing features were available, notebooks weren't quite …