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My brother cracked his display in his laptop and ordered a new one for it, it was the same model except something about the finish was satin, how ever, it was the only difference. He pulled the front monitor cover off and changed the LCD was very simple task on …

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Hello everyone! I was hoping someone could offer a bit of insight into the problem I'm having.. My laptop monitor is doing the following (Youtube video): [URL="http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=525X832&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dix1BrzvPY9o"]http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=525X832&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dix1BrzvPY9o[/URL] When I hook up an external monitor it works fine. However, the symptoms don't seem to match anything I've read on LCD, backlight, …

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Hello, I'm new to this forum and am looking for any suggestions troubleshooting my dead Sony Vaio laptop model #: VGN-FS742/W. It was left turned on the other night on my couch and when I woke up the next morning it was dead (no lights/power indicator/screen/nothing). The fact it was …

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Dear friends, I have got one Sony PCG-8G1P laptop for service.Power comes on both sides of its fuse but from there it don't go to any part such as FETs,inductutors or filtering capacitors of the motherboard. Could anyone please help to fix the problem? [email]basheernaderi@yahoo.co.in[/email]

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I have a six year old Compaq laptop with Windows XP and suddenly the screen blacks out and I have to reboot. It is clear the rest of the computer continues to work normally. I've reloaded everything but the problem continues. It happens if I move the computer or perhaps …

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I've had a toshiba laptop with XP for about 4 years now. I got a D-Link router, set it up with help of a tech (hooked to my desktop) and then got the laptop going. I sure don't remember assigning a password, but it is a secured network. And I'm …

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First, before i start posting this thread, i just want to say I'm sorry if there is already a similar thread or exactly the same topic with same contents with mine. OK, let's start. [B]SPEED UP YOUR XP NEVER THAN BEFORE[/B] [B][U]NOTICE[/U][/B] In this XP SpeedUp, it includes XP Tweaks, …

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when switched on the display TOSHIBA appears, after 20 or 30 seconds it displays PASSWORD. Both the battery 3.6v and 7.2v has been removed from the mother board.How can I delete password from the mother board in order to make the machine operative.

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It was a cold November morning, leaves covered the now yellowed grass, the dog's water stood frozen, two little winter birds fluffed their feathers while sitting on a low tree branch outside my kitchen window and the smell of coffee began to fill my nostrils telling me that it's time …

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Is the battery bad on my laptop or is there another problem? My Toshiba Satellite will not power up? V

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Hi everyone! I have a huge problem with my laptop. Well for one I haven't had ANY problems whatsoever since I bought it a yr ago. I was using it yesterday morning, turned it off, and then last night it just wasn't working anymore. The last thing I downloaded was …

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I have a Gateway MX6426 Laptop. When you push the power button, the power light comes on, you can hear what sound like the hd heads moving, but the only thing that happens is the left hand light on the mouse pad comes on solid and the 4th light form …

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My Toshiba Satellite laptop when I turn on the power button starts up but freezes up after running for a few minutes. After freezing up I have to turn it off with the power button. When I try to turn it on again it will not start, the power light …

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Hi, My service provider is AOL. The main computer is a desktop, and the 2nd (mine) is a laptop. The router is safecom. it is a wired connection. The problem that we have is that the internet is working on the laptop but msn messenger is not working at all..which …

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ik heb een hele oude toshiba 210 cs laptop en ik heb hem geformateerd met ms-dos maar nu start hij geen boot menu meer op, en hij geeft alleen aan ongeldige systeem schijf gelieve geldige systeem schijf te plaatsen. heb van alles geprobeert maar niks doet het. kom wel in …

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My name is Keith, I'm not very computer wise. But I can follow instructions. Ive tried many registry cleaners and now i can uninstall them because i can not get into my add/remove programs. It all started with my Microsoft security essentials upgrade. after i tried to reboot my laptop, …

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Hey, Right now I'm using XP, and I was thinking of getting a laptop. Now, I've heard a lot of bad stuff about Vista, but most of the things I heard are "It sucks." Or "don't get it" or "it's extremely slow". Now, except for the last one those are …

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So I just bought a laptop a few days ago and it says it comes with a 802.11b/g Wireless LAN. There's a switch in the front to turn it on and either way if it is on or off my laptop does not detect it. If I go to Device …

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When i had installed Windows-7 in one of mine's frinds laptop then i had not abbled to start the webcamp which was integratted on it. I had also installed all the drivers of the laptop. so pleazzz help me and tell me that what to do??? and sorry for the …

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Quite simply, the CD/DVD Drive on my laptop won't open, and there's a CD stuck inside. Help... Please!

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dears, i am a laptop technician now. i came to this field just one month ago. i have got a fujitsu siemens amilo pro 2020 laptop.it shows only a white screen when it switches on. some times the screen also blinks. where would be the trouble?

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I have a Toshiba Satellite Laptop that i have had for about 8 months... Very embarassed to admit this I punched it last night joking around right where the (jkliop) keys are and after that I played on for a while longer and went to bed and when I woke …

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Hey everyone Im new to these forums and was hoping if someone could please tell me what is wrong with my laptop and how I could possibly fix it. The problem im having with it is it wont boot. Ive been getting the following error everytime I turn my laptop …

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My laptop does not turn on plugged in or not . press the on button and it light up but shut right off.

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CMOS starts loading screen goes black; pulled disk checked out ok & scanned for virus all OK; replace pwr supply; swaped memory, sd prayers over all to no avail. Once in a while it seems to boot windows; screen flashes and goes black again. Tried reload of xp os will …

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Hey there guys, I would really appreciate your help in solving this problem... I was listening to itunes when suddenly the music became weird and the screen went white, I shut the laptop by holding down the power button, when I tried to restart the laptop all I got was …

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I am working so many things at the same time right now I am just hoping that someone has actually done... what I am about to ask. My old [B]PIII IBM r30 thinkpad[/B] is a --good ---solid 'little' machine. comes with cd drive (swap w/floppy) 256 meg of ram, and …

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Hi Everyone. I have a laptop R61 Thinkpad IBM, when i start Windows its freezes and give me blue screen with a msg and even before i finished reading the msg it reboot the system constant. I even try to run full diagostic tool the is nothing wrong with it …

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Background: My sony vaio laptop VGN-B100B fell down with a big impact and the LCD cracked - the screen was filled with dark black and solid white areas of various shapes. The Sony phone rep said the B series shipped in 2 configurations - XGA and SXGA+. Originally it had …

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Hi, I have an old hp laptop, it's an HP Pavilion ZD7010US Notebook PC, when I plug in the power cord, i have to fiddle around to get a (for lack of a better word) connection between the laptop and power supply I was wondering if anybody could point me …

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Where can I get one and how much cost in the UK WHY did it fail after 1 year and 2 months since new. The reasonable expectation (basis of UK law) of lifetime even of plain sleeve bearings is 35,000 hours Many thanks Any suggestions or ideas John

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My Gateway Laptop is acting very funny. About 2 months ago I reformatted it, and itwas running perfectly. Then just the other day, I turned on the machine, watched the "gateway" screen, then watched the "Windows XP" screen (where there is a blue status bar or whatever) then....the screen went …

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the screen on my laptop flickers colors and there are lines running through middle red blue green ect.. and sometimes it will just show a blue screen fades to white ect,, it does work on an external monitor tho what would be the cause to this and what would or …

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I've had a web site for six or seven years now and everything was fine until this morning when I tried to access the site and got an "Unable to connect" error message. I tried accessing my site's files with my ws_ftp program, but I receive two error messages: "Can't …

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Hi there, I'm new to the site and have been having a problem with my Presario 2500 laptop (Compaq). When I turn it on it starts up normal and all, I get the windows logo with the loading bar beneath it. As soon as it goes to switch screens to …

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I try to connect my NEC(Window XP) laptop to LCD TV(LG) with VGA cable but there are no signal at LCD TV. Help me to solve this matter.

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Hi All, I had not used my webcam since long and yesterday when I plugged it in, I found it is not working. The screen remains blank. When I tried using the 'camera & scanner wizard' of windows it showed the picture for a moment then vanished. :sad: The cam …

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Why turbo C++ compiler is not supporting in laptop(compaq CQ40,lanova 450) ????...........Is there any other compiler that support for laptops??????????

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Ok so heres the problem, my girlfriends laptop (toshiba satellite L100-170) will not start, it's very tempermental sometimes it will and sometimes it won't. If it was a PC I would go straight for a short on the motherboard but I'm not sure will be that :/ If you take …

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Hey all! So my buddy just gave me his "dead" laptop. He pretty much gave up on it because it won't boot up. He says it was dead, but I disagree with him. I am guessing it's a power issue at some point. I know that it is getting some …

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mb is getting power...hdd , battery, and power connectewd lights are on and hard drive spins up but no beep code and screen is black.... i've tried new ram but still no boot... removed hdd and used usb cable and accessed hdd on another computer, and it works good....what to …

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Help me plz. My laptop's(HP pavilion dv5115nr notebook pc) f8 key is not working. For this im facing difficulty to setup win xp to my laptop. i tried everything possible that i can. searching net via google, asking HP to provide solution, asking people to tell me the solution and …

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Hello I spilt some water on my Acer laptop and it all seems to be working fine, apart from the screen is really dark, you can still make out the stuff on desktop - just about. From what I've found out i'm assuming that it's the backlight thats not working …

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I am trying to upgrade my 80GB hard drive in my Dell Inspiron 710M to a 320Gb drive. I used Acronis to clone my old drive to my new drive, but when i install the new drive, it cannot find the drive. I tried different setting when I do the …

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When I start my hp compaq nc 6302 it starts and trips as soon as the cooling fan starts. this then happens repeatedly. when it happens thepower LED and the battery charging LED are illuminated and then go off when it trips.

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Was told to use a mac os disk start up disk or maybe disk warrior? Is that right? If so, where do I buy them from?

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I recently acquired several used gateway laptops 600YGR- crashed & full of viruses, I ended up reinstalling windows XP pro on them, my question is: I have driver/applications disks (gateway) for my desktops, but none for the laptops - Can I install these desktop drivers on them, or are there …

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when I turn on my Dell laptop, it says that it has no bootable device. I pressed F2 and in the device it said primary device-none.What shall I do? Which CD shall I put in the computer. I have the CD for booting and I have the CD for the …

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