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Hi all, I am hoping someone maybe able to help me. I have a Acer Aspire 9301AWSMi laptop,and has been running very slow recently. It is second hand, but was running fine up until about 2 months ago. This is the Hijackthis log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan …

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Alright. I've already searched through Google and through these forums with no actual help found for my issue. I've followed troubleshooting that others have suggested and nothing seems to be fixing the issue, so now I'm back here. I have two laptops in front of me; one netbook and the …

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Hey guys! I dont know whats wrong with my laptop. Everything was fine and dandy when suddenly one day i switched on my laptop and the colour has inverted. everything was in opposite colours! From the moment i switch on until i get to my desktop, everything is in inverted …

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Hi all, For starters,i have looked at other forum posts on this site and used the recommendations there for this problem I have and no solution had seemed to help. I have a dell xps m1530 laptop, about 2.5 years old. It has handled very rigorous situations, like intense gaming, …

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i recently purchased a new asus laptop. about once in every 5 times i turn it on, a blue screen would appear and i have to force shut down and boot it up again. where should i begin to check for the source of this problem??

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Hi all, For starters,i have looked at other forum posts on this site and used the recommendations there for this problem I have and no solution had seemed to help. I have a dell xps m1530 laptop, about 3 years old. It has handled very rigorous situations, like intense gaming, …

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Hello, i am a pretty heavy gamer (20 hours a week) and have an i7 asus laptop. It has been functioning fine today, until it shut itself down while i was in a game. now it shuts it self down every 10 min or so, but so far its only …

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I have a Gateway MX7340 laptop that is two years old. Windows XP SP2. When I power it up all I get is a black screen and I do not hear any processes running, only the fan. Nothing happens at all. The computer did not come with a start up …

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Hi I have a little difrent problem. My laptop(toshiba 7 year´s old) blacks out 1 sec after I lift up the screen, and then if goes black. If I close it and open it again it works for 1 sec again, and then goes black again. After a restart I …

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Hello I have a problem with my laptop display and really need an advice. I put my laptop next to another one that has the same display adapter(intel gma 4500m) and I noticed that the blue color on my laptop is darker. I put the same settings on both computers(default) …

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Hello Mac users, I'm trying to hook up my husbands dell printer with my mac. We have two printers in our office and it's crowded. I wanted to get rid of my hp printer, the two printers are about the same. I can't figure out this printer driver thing. I …

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Recently my girlfriend's laptop "died", that is, it may be only the monitor but in any case, it is no longer functional. [U] My question is this[/U]: We would like to recover all data from the laptop hard drive without having to take the laptop to a shop to have …

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i had repaired my laptop a month ago before it was showing white vertical lines.Now.My laptop colors are flickering.

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Hey! I have a problem with my Amilo Sa 3650 keyboard. A little tea (no sugar!) was spilt on it and I quickly mopped it up as it wasn't that much liquid. Shortly after, the keyboard keys went crazy (some keys acted like they were being pressed constantly), I waited …

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I am about to place my order for the Dell Inspiron 14-R.[CODE] Processor 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i5-2450M processor 2.50 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.10 GHz Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Basic SP1 64bit (English) Display 14.0" HD WLED True-Life Display (1366x768) with LCD Bezel Memory3 4GB4 …

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Hi. I have a dell dimension 8200. I bought a Linksys wireless PC adapter, which is installed in my computer and working fine. I am trying to access my roommate's wiresless network. She has a G4 Mac laptop and her wireless network allows more than one user. When I go …

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Hello to all of u, thabks for reading this. I have a VGN-FJ270 Sony Vaio Laptop. The problem is that suddenly while i'm using the laptop, the screen appears all in read or blue or green, it happened to me in three times in different days. I do not know …

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I am planning to purchase a laptop.I am basically want to use it for programming so I don't want a fancy graphic card or any other such extra feature. I live in India where a laptop that sells for 700 $ in US is sold for 1000 $.I want to …

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Is this Toshiba Qosmio T851/D8CR laptop good? I am planning to purchase a laptop.I am basically want to use it for programming so I don't want a fancy graphic card or any other such extra feature. I live in India where a laptop that sells for 700 $ in US …

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Hi folks, Why most of all laptop's touch-pad is not at the center? I've seen so many laptops whose touch-pad is at left side from center. It is convenient to use when touch-pad @ center. Can anyone give me the answer? Waiting for your reply.

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Hi All, has anyone had a similar problem with a HP Pavilion dv4000 lappy. Totally dead - using battery or mains power. Thanks in advance

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Hi, Yesterday I had the worst possible nightmare; my 2 year old Sony Vaio laptop running on WinXP Home gave me an error dialogue box on start up, it reads: [B]Explorer.EXE - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000006)[/B] When I hit “OK” Windows starts up, however I …

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Hello everybody, I need your help choosing between these 2 PCs : --------HP G6-1250/1/2/3 Intel Core i5-2430M 6GB Ram 640GB HDD DVDRW 15.6" LED LAN, WIFI VGA:HD6470M 1GB Bluetooth/Cam/Windows 7 Premium 64-bit --------HP G7-1350 Intel Core i5-2450M 6GB Ram 750GB HDD DVDRW 17.3" LED LAN, WIFI VGA:HD7450M 1GB Bluetooth/Cam/ Windows …

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Hi, my laptop suddendly crashed on me it would boot up but half way through a blue screen would appear for about 1 second then go and windows would boot up again. This cycle constantly continued without actually loading windows at all. So with this happening i thought i'd try …

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I have been using a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop for almost 4 years now. I purchased it to use in college and now that I am almost done my four year degree, I am wondering if it is time to move on and buy a new one. I know the …

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Hi, I'm having a problem with my Dell Vostro 17000 laptop (Vista). Basically it starts and sounds as though it is starting normally (the little webcam light flickers etc exactly as it does normally) but instead of taking me to the login screen I just have a black screen and …

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Is there a way to keep the computer from going to sleep mode so I can technically use it as a desktop? I mean, having the laptop hooked to an external keyboard and monitor but with out the computer going to sleep mode when I bring the laptop's screen down. …

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So my laptop is about 3 years old and getting due for replacement, its recenetly gone wonky too but i want to see if its worth taking in. So after starting up it seemed like a had a stuck key as my password field was just filled up. I shut …

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This may sound like a dumb question but I was wondering if my mouse and keyboard functions (and other built in functions like wireless) will be functional after I upgrade the hard drive without any data transfer from the old hard drive and then installing a new OS. Or would …

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Hello, I can tether from my smartphone to my laptop via both hot spot and usb cable which is helpful when there is no other option, thought it is not not so fast. The thing is that I fix relatives' and friends' computers now and then, usually desktops with out …

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I'm using Acer 4637Z, running Windows 7. When I turn on my laptop, it will unexpectedly turn-off at start-up. The hard disk light blinks normally prior to start-up. Virus scan is clean too. Please advice

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I have a friend's Toshiba Tecra M2. When it tries to boot it shows the errors: IDE #0 Error PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. Insert system disk in drive. Press any key when ready.... The hard drive wasn't recognized in the BIOS, so I …

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I have a Toshiba Satelite Laptop. I recently Replaced the DC JACK SOCKET and when I tried to boot up I received the following error message. Media Test failure insert boot dick and press any key. I've removed the disk drive before but I've never had a problem with it …

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Hello all! Don't be fooled by the cheer... I have a major problem that I hoped would resolve itself and it isn't. The colors on my laptop (all colors, whether online, offline, watching videos, playing games- everything) are severely screwed up, to put it mildly. The most marked of these …

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Ok, for once I have a question rather than a possible answer... My client's laptop is an old HP Pavilion ze4600. When he brought it in, the LCD light was on, but the screen was black. I assumed it had crapped out trying to resume from hibernation. I hard-powered down …

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Hi guys, I have an Asus F5GL (X59GL) and my fan is pretty loud. It sounds like when it powers on its clipping something. Now I dont mind taking it out, giving it the once over and even replacing it if required. My issue is this: How the hell does …

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Heres the story: Last night my Compaq laptop was working perfectly fine. At that time it was not plugged in and the power cord was disconnected from it. A couple hours later, I go to the laptop, push the power button, and find that nothing at all happens. Nothing turns …

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I removed all devices from the motherboard but the cooling fan runs for approximately 3 second then stops turning. "6 volts" is printed (on motherboard) near the fan assembly, but it measured 5 volts instead when I checked it. Is this typical for this model? I was unable to find …

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Hello, I have Dell vostro laptop which has 2 GB RAM. It has one more slot where I can add 2 GB more so it will become 4 GB. I want to use my laptop at maximum possible speed. I am planning to take my laptop to computer shop to …

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Hello. I am having problems connecting a laptop to my router wirelessly. The various details are below. [u]Laptop[/u] Acer Aspire 5315 Windows Vista Home Basic Atheros AR5007EG wireless network adapter IP is set to obtain automatically [u]Router[/u] Netgear Wireless N 300 Router (WNR2000v2) SSID is set WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK …

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Earlier today, I unplugged the power cord from my machine to move it to a different room (the machine was running at the time). When I plugged the machine back in it did not respond and would not charge the battery. Slowly, the battery began to lose its charge, and …

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alright i've been googling this and trying things for hours and i'm stuck. here is my problem: I just received a new laptop for Christmas to replace my older Toshiba Satellite L300D-06T and I intended to give the Toshiba to my brother to replace his desktop. Thinking I am oh …

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A friend asked me to look at their Dell Inspiron 1525 (Vista OS) because it's not starting up. Here's what happens. When you press the power button, a black screen flashes with the Dell Logo. Then immediately the laptop powers back off. The 'on' button remains lit but the fans …

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Hi Guys, I have a 9301 Laptop which whilst using it (just on internet) the screen went multi coloured almost as if it had crashed or there was an issue with graphics card - not sure. I then obviously had to power cycle it, but was the screen remained black …

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HI, I was working on my laptop for few hours (just surfing/chatting)..and suddenly now screen went blank... and wont comeback... i tried rebooting it but still no avail.... it wont show even the initial bios setting.. i tried to connect it to desktop monitor still blank.. but hard drive light …

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Help? Someone? This is driving me NUTS. If it's a virus, then it's bad. I can't even hit the power button on the machine! It just stays white and glowing! Help? ANYONE? Will I have too get a new laptop? Because I spent all my money (I'm 9.) on a …

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I am having some difficulty finding good, current information about how to correctly install FFMPEG-PHP in XAMPP on a Windows 7 machine. If anybody knows where to find such information, please post the URL here and I would be very grateful. Thank you very much. Happy Holidays!

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Hi, I'm trying to play Skyrim on my laptop but I don't think my video card is good enough as my FPS averages out at 10. Just wondering if it is possible to upgrade the video card easily or am I looking at an impossible task? I'm running: [INDENT] ------------------ …

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I just got a laptop from Gateway with Windows XP Pro installed. I have wireless router and the new laptop will not find my conncton so i downloaded new INtel Pro/Wireless 2200bg driver software. After it's installed, it has a window coming up but everything is disabled and its X'ed …

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USING THE ACER ASPIRE 1410 LAPTOP AS AN HD MEDIA CENTER PC: A STEP-BY-STEP ILLUSTRATED TUTORIAL [I]This tutorial is not intended to be a full review of the Acer Aspire 1410 ultraportable laptop PC. It assumes that you already familiar with the machine and are looking to learn how to …

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