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| | hi pips! just found this forum and im hoping that this will help me solve my laptop problem..so here it goes.. i've had this toshiba Satellite A20 laptop for almost 2 years now..it was working just fine eventhough i noticed that it was running relatively slow than usual..i'm just a …  |
| | I am trying to get in to fixing laptop hardware in Israel, the problem is I don`t know where to buy hardware. Mobo`s are a big problem, the rest is pretty simple. Any website or company shipping them overseas quickly ? |
| | Hi Guys, Could anyone please let me know what should i do for this problem? In Jan 2007 i installed demon tools and alchol120% softwares. after that when i restared my laptop i'm getting 5 beeps. Soon i uninstalled those softwares, but still i'm getting those 5 beep sounds(very loud) … |
| | hi guys, plz see attachment. i was wiping my screen off with mild soap water, and this was there when i turned it back on. anybody know if its permanent, or if there is a fix?  |
| | I am helping a friend set up a wireless network with a pc and a laptop. He currently has dial-up access through MSN. How would I do this? Would he need an external modem connected to a router? or would going with a DSL or Cable be the easiest way. |
| | Hello, I am having problems with a Dell Inspiron 2650. I've owned it since 2003 and have used it every day and worked on it for extremely long hours (all day and night often enough). The battery died long ago. I now rely on the adapter, which is fine since …  |
| | Well, first off it's nearly 2 years old. About 2 months ago the laptop would not charge but I could wiggle the cord to make it charge, soon I'd have to get it into tilted positions or I'd have to hold it in. Seeing it now I'm sure it was … |
| | I bought an HP pavillion dv6000 about a year and a half ago. The other day It was on internet was up and i wasn't actively using it when it just shut off. I was like ok? So I pressed the power button to turn it back on and it … |
| | So I have a Gateway laptop with windows XP that was givin to me. I've had it for atleast 2 years but recently as of last night, I go to login to my laptop and it says "loading your personal settings" but then all I see is the background and …  |
| | I have a Gateway M320 laptop which I recently replaced the motherboard on due to bad USB ports. The laptop is reassembled, but now all I get is a flashing power light. There seems to be no control of the power button. The power comes on as soon as it … |
| | I have a problem with my Dell Latitude CPX. It happened that my P3 latitude died last time. Motherboard burned was the cause. I used an aftermarket power supply and it burned the motherboard. So I went online and bought a new motherboard for it. Now after installing everything the … |
| | i received a compaq presario 1920 laptop for free today. i have no idea if it works, and i have no charger. it has a strange 4-pin charger port, and i would rather see if it works before i spend cash on a charger, so does anybody know what voltage(s) … |
| | Hi everyone im not sure if this is the right area to post this in so forgive me if it is not. Im looking for laptop but bit confused on what to get. I will be mainly using the laptop for software development and I will be running a VM …  |
| | I've read this is due to some inverter connected to the screen cable. Has anyone replaced one? Can anyone confirm that is the reason a laptop screen would go black? When it goes black, I can put it to sleep and wake it again, and the normal screen comes back … |
| | This morning I got up to use my laptop and it suddenly went out and has been out all day. I've tried all kinds of methods including holding down the power button to "drain" the power. This is the first time this has happened so are there any ideas you … |
| | I have a fingerprint reader on my hp pavilion laptop. I want to use it to identify users for a security application. Can anyone suggest me a framework or a SDK to do that?  |
| | Hi, I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100 with WIN2K OS. It originally had 128MB ram on slot B and slot A was empty. I wanted to upgrade the memory hence I bought a 256MB ram (Kingston PC 100 144 pin 100 MHz - Toshiba recommended memory). When I installed the … |
| | Hi all, I have a laptop and can anyone help me to find out that how much energy(in volts/watts) a laptop consumes. Any help in this regard will be appreciated. With regards, |
| | My dell laptop(Vostro) screen goes black. After starting the laptop I am able to see all the indicator(batter/disk etc). Even I hear the windows Vista sound when its starts. The screen goes always black with little light on the on the whole screen. Can some one help me to solve … |
| | Ok so the other day my laptop just cut off all by itself and now it wont turn back on. Every time i press the power button it goes on and cuts off and it wont stop doing that. any idea what the problem is ?  |
| | I wrote to Sony to complain about the fact that there are no Drivers nor Utilities for my Laptop on their website and that I had to download them from third party websites because I decided to install XP Pro Answer : From: "CanadaSOS" [snipped] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 … |
| | Hey, I'm having a problem with my Toshiba Equium a200-1v0 laptop. I've had problems with it ever since I bought it new, but didn't take it back to the shop, about 2 months ago it started having problems booting, I've worked out when I have the battery in and nothing … |
| | alright, i know it wasn't the smartest thing to do, but i popped my old dell inspiron 1150 open to clean the dust out of the fan, and i didn't know that when i started that i should have gone in from the top through the keyboard and not from … |
| | Hi, i got o problem with starting my freinds hi-grade notebook Laptop. i recently reprogrammed xp home back on there for her and everything worked fine. except it kept saying virtual memory too low so it would adjust settings and when it did so it froze the internet. so in … |
| | Hello All, My first time posting a question; thanks in advance for your responses to help me with my situation. I had a problem with my DC Jack, opened the laptop, fixed the jack, reassembled the laptop. Now starts the problem: I turn the power on on the laptop, it … |
| | Hi! I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-S3072. The CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive was replaced with the exact same model # SD2412. Toshiba's "useless" website suggests unplugging all devices (CD, battery, memory), which I did and this did NOT resolve the IDE #1 error. I'm reading in other forums about flash, BIOS, IDE … |
| | I have a Lenovo 3000 G510. Recently I spilt water on it & since then the display has become blurred, display seems to be happening in slow motion. Like mouse will move very slowly, if I type something it will appear slowly. Basically refresh rate has gone slow. But when … |
| | I have a Dell inspiron 5160 laptop computer that won't boot properly. Upon power up, eveything thing seems to be working properly. The computer startup up on the POST. (BIOS SCREEN) and the status bar starts to fill. when it is approx. 75% full it stops to the fill and …  |
| | Hello I have laptop hp Pavilion dv4t-1400 and it has intel graphic media accelerator 4500mhd and i wish if i could replace it with any graphic plzzzz help me on this.  |
| | I had to replace hard drive in Presario 2100 (2003) and now built-in wireless shows connected but browser can't find server. Using netgear n3000 |
| | My gateway mx7120 won"t boot up. Blue screen with error message that reads "STOP: ox0000007E (ox80000003,ox8053331E,oxF7A6550C,oxF7A65208)" The computer has a system recovery on hard drive that you can access with f11 key. While doing this, a box appears that says "System Restore environment is incomplete! System Restore reinstalls the environment." … |
| | Are the [COLOR=red][/COLOR]Netgear routers set to a default WPA key or do they all have a different one? Sorry but i dont [COLOR=green][/COLOR]know the model of the Netgear[COLOR=red][U][B][/B][/U][/COLOR] router because its not my router but i can pick it up on my laptop [COLOR=green][/COLOR]Im in Dublin Ireland Regards, Gavin |
 | [LEFT]Hi, Im a newbie in tis networking stuff. Recently I juz bought a netgear G wireless router model wgp614 v.6. I followed thru the steps in the cd connecting my ethernet modem to router & router to pc but Im not able to connect to Internet. Ive done it a … |
| | Ok, So I bought this gateway laptop a year ago, and the warranty ended a few days ago. It is a MD2614u. This does not happen all the time, but most of the time. When I hit the power button, all lights come up and the screen turns on, but … |
| | Hi my laptop turns on! But, sometimes it shows me the Toshiba logo and then goes black screen but I can still see and move the curser icon and sometimes it shows me the screen where it say that windows didnt shut down right, would you like to start up … |
| | Hello to all I have an Acer laptop and for about 4 years i never had a problem until yesterday. When i'm trying to open my laptop is shows nothing. Just black screen. The power works fine. The power button lights up and when i press the eject button on … |
| | Hi. I hibernated my laptop last night, and it won't startup in the morning. When I try to startup, some LEDs light up (WiFi flickers for a moment, then the Caps Lock, Num Lock, followed by Hard Disk LED which flickers for a moment, then the DVD check). The screen … |
| | Hi Everyone.... I am new here...and i have a problem with my laptop computer. Its a compaq presario 1247....I recently had Win 98 on it, but i thought if i upgraded to WIn2000 it would improve its performance. After Installing WIn 2000, everytime I boot up, I either get to … |
| | Hi there, I currently have to reinstall my old Toshiba Laptop (WinME) and like to put XP on. It turned out that the DVD-ROM drive has problems reading CDs, so the installation left me with a blank C: drive and is unable to read beyond a certain point on the … |
| | Hi all, My laptop will simply not turn on. I took it to a friend and he had the same battery that I use and his battery worked on my laptop but would not charge. Thus, it can't be battery problems so I think it has to do with the … |
| | I recently acquired a Toshiba Tecra 8200 laptop with no operating system. I have tried several times to install Windows XP Pro from a CD but it will not boot up from the CD. The screen says PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable, but the only cable attached is the … |
| | I have Windows XP instaled on my laptop. Recently, the moment I log on, I get the blue screen and my computer restarts. The only way I can start my computer is if I start windows in safe mode- even safe mode with networking does not work. I have also … |
| | Hi can anyone tell me before i order online if my acer aspire laptop charger is faulty or if my acer aspire laptop itself is faulty, What happened is i went to turn my laptop on and it powered up then turned off, Then i tried again and it did … |
| | I have a Sony VAIO PCG-8P1L laptop that only says "OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND" on boot. BIOS still tells the correct time so I don't think its the CMOS battery. I tried to boot to CD (Windows, Ubuntu and diagnostics cd), but I don't get an option for boot order … |
| | Hi Whenever I use my laptop to connect to the internet via Wifi, the internet connection becomes intermittent. Although the Wifi signal is excellent, but all webpage I go to states "webpage cannot be found". All downloads halt and I cannot connect to Yahoo Messenger. We already ruled out the … |
| | Got a Dell Inspiron 2650 used for real cheap running XP. Not a bad machine, but only 256MB RAM (2x128). Crucial says the max upgrade is 2x256...but they are sold out of that part for weeks now. Grrr. AND, the second module is inaccessible. More accurately, you have to disassemble … |
| | Hi there, hope you guys can help. im at the end of my rope with this! I'm having some issues with my toshiba satellite laptop. Everytime I turn it on i get the normal windows screen with the progress bar at the bottom as if its booting fine, then the … |
| | i have a hp pavilion dv5218nr and when i turn it on the fan runs and the lead lights come on but I have a blank screen. Can anyone help me???  |
| | 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 … |
| | I have an older laptop that i got from a friend. I am trying to connect to the internet and even though I have the ethernet cable connected directly to the computer I can not get connection. I was told to do an ipconfig and the number came up as … |
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