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| | Please help!!! My hp laptop turns black, the computer itself is running, but the screen is black! What could it be? How can i fix the problem? I recently took it to a tech place where they clean and restart computers but the problem still exists. What should i do?  |
| | I've been having a ton of problems with my Laptop/Xbox 360. About 80% of the time I can't use both of them at the same time. Sometimes, just my Xbox alone seems unable to function through my wireless network. I'm not sure what the problem is though. I have a …  |
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| | HI!! I have Dell latitude Csx- 800Mhz , 256MB ram , win 2000 pro. Recently i installed Norton internet Security 2005 on my laptop. It is a good program , but i find it highly system heavy. Can you suggest me alternative , lighter antivirus and firewall programs which can …  |
| | hi all, I was cleaning my sons laptop - Compaq Presario v6000(it was shutting down after 10 mins from overheating) I had it working well but opened it back up to put all screws back in place & when i switched on to make sure everything was ok the screen … |
| | Laptop crashed and after OS reboot MS office would not work. A prompt for original product code would pop up. Is the any way to retrieve office or is it lost for good. Thanks Lo812 |
| | Hi, I dropped my laptop, breaking the screen. I have been using it with a monitor for a couple of months, no problem up to now. I must have changed some settings while messing with the resolution and now my monitor acts like its a second screen to the right … |
| | I have a Dell Inspiron 4100, sorta old, and suddenly the 'a,s,d,f,j,k,l' keys don't work. The 'g and h' work fine. Upper case on these doesn't work either. This is stopping me from typing my password to connect to the internet so I can work on this. This message is … |
| | I put my (2 year old P34xx?) laptop into sleep mode as I normally do. The next day I powered it up, it started to boot and then froze before getting to windows. I shut it off and it hasn't booted up since. The blue power light on the button … |
| | Hello everyone, My son was playing Maplestory on my laptop and the screen suddenly started displaying jarbled colors, verticle and horizontal color stripes and blocks, sometimes flashing blocks mixed in. It had done this a couple times prior, but a simple restart would fix it. Now, it won't display correctly … |
| | My boyfriend's laptop keeps freezing up after only a few minutes use. He's tried defragmenting, scanned for viruses, taken the battery out and disk cleanup. Everything short of throwing it against the wall. It's and Acer Aspire 5610. Any help out there??? :o)  |
| | Hi everyone, I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite A65-S1062 System Unit Model #PSA60U-01W015. It came pre-loaded with Windows XP Home Edition. The other evening I shut it off. The next day I tried to boot up and the first window says Windows XP with that bar that indicates it is … |
| | Hi I've had my laptop for about a year now. A while ago I left it in a car and it got really hot. Ever since then I've had sparatic fits of it not working. It always seemed to fix itself. Now it starts up and works fine for about … |
| | I'm at my wit's end! Reset and restart but can't get past "SYstem BIOS Shadowed, Video BIOS shadowed." "ESC" does not redirect; "F2 - Set Up" stops there; and "F12 - LAN ..." stops there. Also, I hear a clicking noise under the keyboard. I've removed and replaced the battery> … |
| | I am having a major problem with my vista laptop. It's refusing partly to connect to my router. There's no problem with the router, because my desktop is linked and everything is as good as usuall. However when I try to set up a connection with my laptop it throws … |
| | Last night I turned my laptop back on after it was off for approximately 2 hours. It started, loaded up to the desktop screen and then stopped. It showed the desktop design but none of the icons, start menu, toolbars...nothing. It worked fine the 2 hours before. I contacted Dell … |
| | Hey guys, I have had a problem with my laptop where when started up the screen remained blank however i fixed this problem via a post on the forum so thanx for that.... ....but now when the laptop is booted up it goes to the Toshiba screen where you can … |
| | No matter how I turn the system off OS wise the laptop restarts in 5 secounds every time even from safe mode shutdown.Now if I wait till the leds all go out and the screen goes blank and use the Power Button on the laptop and hold it down till … |
| | gateway laptop will not boot up in windows or the bios. the monitor is just black. i hear a fan on. gateway laptop model 450SX4. i tried changing the memory and reset the hard drive. |
| | I have a dell 9300 laptop that required a power jack replacemernt. after replacind the jack, the laptop turns on {power light only) , for about 3 seconds, then shuts off. any suggestions?? |
| | Where is the power on button for the Gateway Laptop. |
| | My daughter and I have the same laptop computers - toshiba satellite. Her laptop suddenly stopped picking up the wireless internet. The computer is unable to locate any wireless signal in the house. We have a linksys adapter. Her computer is approx 9 mos old, running the windows vista system. … |
| | Hi Ladies and Gents. Ive got an Advent 7106 laptop, after installing a firewall program my computer just shuts off with a blue screen and this error message - stop: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0x80614bcd,0xAA473B64,0x00000000) This happens roughly thirty seconds into turning the laptop on and then shuts down and restarts for the … |
| | i have a ergo laptop with a 40 gb fuji hard drive in it when i tern it on it asks for a hard drive password it is in a school one of the puiples has locked thhe hard drive is there anyway i can get on to the hard …  |
| | i will begin this by saying that i am not a sys ad, and what i have learned so far was all from tinkering here and there. i really am just a beginner. i work in a small lab, where our internet connection comes from a LAN cable connected to … |
| | hello guys i have this computer that i bought 1 week ago, used it was working fine until one day i put it to hibernate and closed it. when i opened it, showed nothing so i rebooted and still no image! i tryd everything fom taking the battery off to … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S59222 when i try and get into bios by clicking the F2 button it freezes and wont go into it, and when i don't try to get into bios it tries to boot from a network, I can't change the boot because i can't get … |
| | earlier today i was using my gateway (read, ultimate crap) laptop on plug power, as always (i like to save battery for car and plane) and it worked fine, as always. i packed it up to bring it to new york, try to turn it on here - and it … |
| | Hi all, i have a very upset daughter who has just given me her laptop saying it's not working, it's turning on but not loading up, tried running it in safe mode but it just won't load up, not too great with computers so any suggestions would be gratefully received. |
| | Hi my dell laptop will not start at all-with or without the power lead. Laptop wont even charge when lead is connected. Is this a blown fuse in the laptop?? Im not really a pc tech so I kinda lost here. Any help would be appreciated. |
| | I got a laptop today, but it came with the hard drive partitioned in two. Is there a way to "de-partition" them without running Setup? I'm using Win XP Pro SP1, by the way. |
| | Hi, I'm running an old (about six years old) Compaq Preario 2200 laptop with Windows XP intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1400MHz 1.40 GHz 480 MB of RAM. Latley my computer has started running slowly. Iv tried in vain to fix the problem but it still persists. I was hoping some … |
| | I have a dell laptop inspiron 1501 laptop with registry probems and its slow. I had stop sign firewall and i guess it got corrupted and stop working properly. I got another program that removed two trojans. I have a registry cleaner and everday it cleans up anywhere from 4-20 … |
| | I've had the wireless router for a year now and it has only worked 5 minutes and that's after 4 hrs on the phone w/ Netgear. I even returned it once but with same results. When I run the installation CD, it states"Network adapter in this computer is not responding" … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario V6000 Laptop which is a little over a year old so that makes the warranty no good anymore. Here's the situation.... With the AC power adapter plugged in only the blue ring where the adapter plugs into the computer comes on nothing else. When the … |
| | Hi everyone. Thanks for all your help on a previous issue I had. Unfortunately, when it rains, it pours... My laptop fans no longer work, I have dropped my CPU to "degrade" to increase lifetime before the heat causes damage to the computer, but obviously this is only a short-term … |
| | Hello everyone :) (new Daniweb user here) I'm currently experiencing some wlan issues. My computer is using an 3com usb adapter (3CRUSB10075) adapter with newest drivers installed. I've also tried with an SMC wireless PCI adapter, and that was even MORE unstable than the 3com adapter. I got a Linksys …  |
| | My brother's laptop is a Elite brand. I don't know what is the problem with it. When I turned on the laptop, it took a long time to boot or even go to its bios. The battery doesn't charge too. My brother said the hard disk is new and it … |
| | I HAVE AN IBM LAPTOP 390x THAT THE LCD IS DARK. I CAN SEE IMAGES WHEN THE ROOM IS DARK BUT THAT IS IT. OTHER THAN REPLACING THE WHOLE LCD ARE THERE ANY OTHER OPTIONS? |
| | i have compaq cq61 300sv laptop i buyed it one month before. but i faced problem of charging. when i connect the charger with my laptop it charging for some time but after soon it does not charging while charger is still connected with laptop and showing its connection with … |
| | ei guys I'm new here can you please help about my laptop its Hp Pavilion DV6000, I was Installing my new Os when suddenly when it asked to format it... it stopped and message said: cannot detect hd etc... can anyone knows how to resolve my problem... thank you in … |
| | I have a compaq presario m2031ap that used to be able to connect wireless at home but now, since i've reformatted it, it won't connect. I'm totally new to this stuff so i apologise for any words that aren't exactly correct. The presario (laptop) usually connects to the net via … |
| | Moving on. Attempted system repair after getting the dreaded 'disk read error' on start-up. Chkdsk /r (NTFS) tells me I have one or more unrecoverable problems. Do I though? Have you any experience of this and can I still recover with the right programme? I can still enter setup screen …  |
| | It was my daughters laptop and it suddenly stopped working and wouldn't power up. I have purchased and tried a new power adaptor and a new battery, but to no avail. Originally when the power adaptor was plugged in, the green light on the power adaptor went out and when … |
| | Please advise if I am in wrong forum for this post. Re: Gateway NV52 laptop, AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2.1 G, 4 G ram This came with vista on it and a mail in for windows 7 update which I did get and installed. Worked great for 3 months then … |
| | Hi, I have a HP laptop with intel dual core 32bit processor with 512MB RAM & 80 GB HDD. 2 years back I have installed windows XP on it on my own, it was quite easy. But now I need to install FreeBSD for the C++ development on the same … |
| | Hey Folk Can You Help Me? I have a very curious problem-my Dell Latitude D610 XP sp3 Swedish won´t start from the power button on the keyboard. The problem started after a faulty release from a D-serie docking station (didn´t use the secure release commando under “Start” in Windows or … |
| | Hi, I have a BT voyager 1060 network card. It was all working well, but I then removed the card when the laptop was off to install a memory card. I then turned on to see if all was OK with the new memory but forgot to put the network … |
| | Hi, I have a hp pavilion dv9823cl ... recently the laptop suddenly showed me the error message Operating System not found.. And i noticed in the bios that the harddrive wasnt detected either. I changed the harddrive from the primary slot to the secondary one the laptop had ... and … |
| | I get the same problem as in this thread: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread18870.html[/url] I've tried disabling the network boot in my bios settings, which still does not work. I guess the only difference is that this is happening to me after a radiator "blew" and spewed a little water on my laptop. It … |
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