Posts by caperjack

What information stored in the BIOS is retained after the battery is removed?

the default info ,the info that the bios chip maker put in and the added info from the board maker,if the bios password was added by the end user, it will be gone after the battery was removed for awhile

Hello,

I have a TravelMate 2410, and the power on password got messed up. Someone tried accessing the unit and screwed it up. It boots up fine, but can't pass "go". Figuring if I access CMOS and drain the battery, that would lose the information and I would be OK to power on and reset again. Question is how do I find the CMOS battery in this unit. I figured I should stop prior to taking the unit apart. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Lance,

download manual ans it will show you how to take apart the laptop and remove baterry .
http://printer1.blogspot.com/2008/04/acer-travelmate-2410-notebook-service.html

first thing try going into bios/setup,make sure that booting from network device is not in the boot order

wanna scatter you brain a bit ,it did mine .
advanced dcp's.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb963898.aspx

on a clone drive does fixmbr work or would it be rendered useless as it warns????

that warning is standard on any install of windows when attempting a fixmbr

The battery works fine. charges completely.

if it works perfectly this wouldn't happen .

We take out the battery,plug in the power cord to the laptop then the wall. In that order and it starts but if we unplug the cord from the laptop it instantly crashes

do you put the battery back in after plugging it to the wall outlet

Just take a can of air to everything and re-seat all cables/connections?

thats a start ,if you have 2 ram chips ,remove one and try computer ,if problem persist ,remove that one and try the other ,,see what happens .aldo you could download and create a bootable disk of memtest86 and boot computer to the cdrom and run the test ,best left overnight to check ram correctly .
http://www.memtest86.com/
check free download ,and get windows version ,iso for creating boot cd

Go check the DISA website.

DIS A web site or DAT A web site .

Can't access folders (D: or DVD) after sleep/hibernate. The error is:
D:\<Folder Name> is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable.

All normal after restart.

try logging off and back on , instead of restart ,not a fix but quicker if it works

Sorry, let me see if I got this correctly. You want me to do your homework assignment for you?

UMM..... NO!!

i think this is the beginning of a signature spam thread another poster should come along soon with the link in there signature !

having not done it ,im not sure how , but some people have done it .
http://www.google.ca/search?q=dual+boot+Windows+7+and+Mac+Os&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

So far I have no complaints about Win 7 other than I'm having problems getting my wireless adapter to connect to the interweb! It shows my SSID but is limited or unable to connect. Had no problems with it with XP. Any suggestions?

make sure you are using the win7 driver or at best the vista driver for the device ,go to the device manufacturer site and search for best driver

the holes dont line up quite right requiring you to snip some of the mesh off the back for the plug and switch (but they do work fine)

yeah i done that, also drilled holes in the tower for the screws .

Hi everyone,
Sorry to disappoint you but I am back.

nice to see you back ,and that you got it sorted out ,I/we sometimes forget its us/me the helpers that has no life and the person looking for help,lol
good luck

i have old dell laptop ,in the shead sitting doing nothing but works great when needed ,some for my dell 450 ,and in the house i have a toshiba laptop, new ,and 4 yr old Compaq laptop, only problem with it was power jack broke ,and my main computer is 5 yrs old and a generic p4 with a biostar motherboard and it has never given me a hardware issue .also sold dozens of used Dell over the past 6 yrs ,with little or no problems ,nothing wrong with dell's except what jbennet says about the mother boards and also the psu ,on some of them

I getting very close to formatting but some of the program I dont have serial or codes for.
Turbo CAD etc.

this [safe i use it all the time ]program will show all used key# of all programs on the computer.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

I/we can shrink went cant extend ,and i will assume i will beable to extent the one drive i have partitioned when i format one of the partitions

my second drive is a 160 gig ,it was partitioned in 2 equal parts ,i only got the extend option in the first partition after i formatted the 2nd partition,it had available about 40 gigs to extend the first partition but would not do that ,i had to move data and format it first .

Hi caperjack,
Maybe I am getting too lazy.

to many hrs on daniweb can do that to you .lol

Caperjack - I think it doesn't really matter if they don't respond. We might get some new solutions about this type of problem. Maybe someone looking for a solution might come across this thread.

cant say i don't dissagree ,so many post on daniweb about winxp install problems ,also i lot ,and i mean a lot ,of post here that the original OP never returns ,just a number of us bantering back and forth

any thots?

Lots ,welcome to daniweb ,please read the members rules at the top of the page yellow toolbar ,and then create you own thread explaining your problem thanks

I don't email, so no worries...

me neither!no worries

Hi,
This site is the only forum, no one will try to help you via email, please start your own thread and supply a lot more information about your problem and your PC.

me think they are just trying to get our email address when we email them

similar .
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329284
alo this .0x0000009C: MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION
(Click to consult the online MSDN article.)
This is a hardware issue: an unrecoverable hardware error has occurred. The parameters have different meanings depending on what type of CPU you have but, while diagnostic, rarely lead to a clear solution. Most commonly it results from overheating, from failed hardware (RAM, CPU, hardware bus, power supply, etc.), or from pushing hardware beyond its capabilities (e.g., overclocking a CPU).
the 09c lower left colum .
http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

OP, hasn't been back in 3 days ,the odds are high that they will never return!!lol

I too have been having a problem with this. I've tried several hard drive but non have worked. I've tried them on a working system and run a chkdsk on 2 of them and they all work fine. Is there anyway around it?

hi, you tagged an old post .please start your own thread and give a bit more info ,to what the problem is you are having

roll back your drivers recently installed in your pc

the computer will not boot ,please explaint to poster how to roll back drivers if they cant boot computer

You should edit one registry key as mentioned in this site, http://www.sysprobs.com/temporary-profile-in-vista

pretty sure thats the exact same instruction in the link in my post ,thank you

your welcome ,anytime

It is available for both Windows and Linux. I would like to hear from both, So I will duplicate it there

ok

No one explains it but I see lots of references to the 's' and when I google w/o the 's' I get a different set of results.

I can't see what the difference is, sorry.

thank you ,i searched and searched and find nothing .

the model is Lavie C LC70H64DR.
did search in www.nec.com but i think the driver only available in japan webpage. but i don't understand japanese.
is that any others wedsite to get the drivers or technical spec?

sorry i don't know of one ,but you could contact NEC via there web page or use google.com to look for on in english

With vista and Win7 do actually have to upgrade with the upgrade version unless you use the trick to upgrade the trial (which is frowned upon)

i own 2 vista ultimate upgrade disk ,legit ,bought from the microsoft ,i install both on a new hdd,no previsions OS installed .used the process i described above ! they work fine, one is on my daughters laptop and one on my wifes pc

Hello,

I have some trouble when playing sound files with Windows Media Player or Media Monkey. When I play music there are very short interruptions. What could be causing this?

My system has 4GB RAM, an Athlon X2 and Soundblaster Audigy soundcard. It runs Windows XP

Thank you.

where are the sound files located !

when we block a website through our browser Tools->Internet
option->privacy->sites than what process happens which prevent the site being not opened next time.

assuming than= then , you type in[or copy paste ] the address of site ,what happens then is when that site tries to open , it will be blocked by IE ,quite simple

Need help!!!
can somebody tell me where to get nec Lavie C Laptop driver for windows xp.
thx in advance

hi ,its quite possiable there are none' what model is yours,and did you check www.nec.com

hi, this should help .
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947242

along with this .
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/135858-user-profile-error-logged-temporary-profile.html

My understanding of the "Upgrade" licensing was that one didn't have to actually take the upgrade install option (ie, installing Win7 over the previous Windows installation), but simply that one has a legal key/serial for said Windows installation. It appears that is not the case.
.

you could do a full install with a vista upgrade disk,you simply ran the install and when asked to put in the key you could chose to install with out using the key, and after the install was complete ,you would put the dvd in the drive and it would auto boot an ask if you wanted to upgrade and you say yes and walla! it would run the upgrade !

i think they fixted that with win7 as it never game me the option to install with out the key !

and you can't upgrade from winxp to win7 ,so thats not an option anyway

most people will buy an upgrade license .

not if they wanted to do a dual boot with winxp

If you're just curious as to whether it's possible, you've got your answer. However, it's not worth the time or money to do it.

what time what money ,time is free and so is the download !

im creating a image now to a internal drive i have in my computer and will play with installing from image to another partition on that drive later today

didn't know ,as some of you more seasone pros could have tolde me so if you read my last post . anyway it found the recovery i created on partition 2 but then could not find a drive to copy it to,so in short it only seen the drive as one partition and not two partitions

anyone know what the s stands for in pc2-6400s, i have a laptop with 2x1gig marked s ,and i wanted to upgrade so i got the shop to order me a 2gig stick ,but it doesn't have the S , i installed it ,seems to be working ok,but didn't make any difference between the 2gig and running at 3 gig .is the S a important factor ,thinking maybe it just for sodim, the s chip is samsung ,the 2 gig i bought is kingston.will eventually get another kingston to make it an exact match

and yes Bob i did google it 10 different ways , ,one forum poster actually said it was singular and plural !

If you have done a full back-up through 7s "Back-up and Restore" under "Maintenance", is that an image of your hard drive and by using the boot disk it will give you access to that image and thereby allow the image to be copied back to the drive to the state it was when the image was taken? Or is it just a backup program like "Shadow copy"?

im creating a image now to a internal drive i have in my computer and will play with installing from image to another partition on that drive later today

hi, i think your in the wrong forum, im sure some here use linux,linux software but most of us don't .
post it here maybe if you haven't already .
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum12.html

a system repair disk only hold tools/commands to use in a windows repair, recover a crashed OS. .its not a full backup of system,

EDIT=it is also used to restore the computer from a image sorry about that .

I do have a philips monitor.
It is not showing much brightness as i want.
Any solution.

hi,rules here at daniweb are for you to create your own thread,do not hijack someone else's thread , and supply as much info as possible [model # might help]as to get best help results ,thank you ,

your welcome, now mark the thread as solved ,just click on the mark as solved,below last post

so it might work for now ,and it might not !

hapizi84 , yor post doesn't fully make sence[ this part ,please explain if you wish ,==== for my laptop,must install new driver or using XP driver for another application] but ,if you laptop is so old its running winxp ,then it likely will not be able to take advantage of the best things about win7 anyway ,also winxp device drivers will not work for win7,if the devices have win vista drivers availablethey should would work in win 7

win7 all the way, no if's and's or but's

i inserted cd into drive n den restarted
but at restarting d same old error message comes

did you make this change first
'1. Configure the computer to start from the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. For information about how to do this, see your computer documentation, or contact your computer manufacturer. "

its usually done by going into the bios/setup, and change in boot order
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