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| | I have Gateway 600ygr and a week ago when I tried to turn the power button on, nothing happened. But, when I unplugged the power cord and then pluged it back in, the lights and fan sarted blinking. Unfortunately only for 2 seconds and then the laptop died. Eventually I … |
| | Yesterday morning I booted my laptop and it stopped with the following message "lsass.exe object not found" When I click OK the laptop reboots and stops at the same place. Safe mode stops at the same point. Am not interested in reformatting. Any suggestions?  |
| | My Dell Inspron 1501 wont start. It was working fine until one morning I tried to insert my wifi divice(USB) the wrong way. No it did not go in all the way but did insert particially; enough to kill the power and it has NOT powered up since. I thought … |
| | This laptop (purchased 9/2006 - Windows XP OS)worked fine last night, went to shut it down for the night, had Windows updates to download - closed it up... This morning I'm getting odd error messages and the system won't boot. It is under warranty so I will call DELL support … |
| | I have a feeling this is probably a simple issue. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 laptop. I recently had to replace the hard drive (If you don't backup, take my advice - start doing it TODAY!) Now when I boot up one of the first things I see … |
| | Basically I am wondering if there is a hardware adapter available that will allow me to install a SATA drive into a laptop that. is set up for IDE. I have a Dell 1150, that has an adapater (feed thru) that is required to install standard IDE drives. So the …  |
| | I have a Compaq Presario v2000, sn CNF55116NW , Model EP378UA#ABA. My AC adapter connector end, the end that connects to the PC, melted the yellow insert in the connector. I noticed that I can run the laptop with the battery out and the AC plugged in and there is … |
| | i have a wireless router(zyxel prestige 660HW-61 ADSL 2+) right now i have connected the router directly to switch to share the internet connection,so that both wireless laptop guys and desktop guys could access the net as well as access each other. Now I need to share the internet connection … |
| | Hi, my Toshiba Satellite L300 won't boot up after I installed Skype. It runs on Windows Vista. The LED for the power and is on but the screen stays blank. Is there anything I can do? Thanks.  |
| | I am having HP Compaq 6720s, while cleaning some liquid went inside the screen which resulted in few black spot at the bottom of screen can any one guide how to clear this black spot ? |
| | I have an old Toshiba Laptop, build in 1995, which is still fully operational and used by a family member. The machine runs on Windows 95. It's got two ancient PC card slots, One of them is filled by a Xircom Ethernet adapter which was fairly expensive at the time. … |
 | Hi, I am running an Acer Aspire 5720 with Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) and I'm having trouble with the backlight killing button. fn + F6 is supposed to turn off the backlight until you show some activity but this function only seems to work only once per startup. … |
| | Hi, i got o problem with starting my HP Laptop. A month ago I installed windows 7 and work fine till yesterday, when, after an update on sept 28, the laptop does not start. I mean, it start , nothing came on, and shutdown in 30 sec, start again, shotdown … |
| | Okay I have a fairly new acer latop series 6930 and it has had no problems until recently..I was using my laptop one day and a cat jumped from a height and landed on the laptop to the left of the mousepad it immediatly shut off. I tried to turn … |
 | I've done some research on this and I haven't found any really good suggestions. Here's the summary: [LIST]HP dv9000 laptop with Vista (updated regularly). [/LIST] [LIST]No recent changes - was working fine[/LIST] [LIST]Put it into hibernate mode[/LIST] [LIST]Tried to restart it the next morning and it woudn't start. All the … |
| | MAC Address 00:24:B2:40:95:53 IP Address 84.9.112.144 Network Type PPPoA IP Subnet Mask 255.255.255.255 Gateway IP Address 83.146.18.100 Domain Name Server 83.146.21.6 212.158.249.5 LAN Port MAC Address 00:24:B2:40:95:52 IP Address 192.168.0.1 DHCP On IP Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Modem ADSL Firmware Version A2pB023b.d20e Modem Status Connected DownStream Connection Speed 7808 …  |
| | I have read a few related threads and nothing hits my problem right on the head. My wife spilled a few drops of soda on her Dell laptop LED screen. Soon after, the screen went black, but you can faintly see images. When I plug into external monitor, it works …  |
| | I have just got my first cell phone with bluetooth capability. My laptop is Toshiba Satellite A105 with Windows XP Service Pack 2. It's 1 year & 2 months old. I've been trying to set up bluetooth on it so I can view the cell phone cam pics, 1.3 Megapixel … |
| | I purchased a new laptop, that came pre loaded with Vista, I need to revert back to xp professional. I have the full versioin of xp professional service pack to ... and when booting from cd to install I get "cannot find hard drive" Hard Drive Momentus 5400.3 160 gb … |
| | My laptop comuter (Toshiba Tecra-A4) just freezes at the "Welcome" Screen. My computer runs on Win-XP service Pack 2. Please advice what I should do. Thanks. Sam |
| | I turn on my laptop and it goes through all the steps of loading but when the Windows screen pops up I get an error message telling me my computer is going to restart itself. The error message says "This application has failed to start because urlmon.dll was not found. … |
| | (Originally posted in XP forum, advised to try this forums) I have a ACER laptop and it has vista on it and from day one (2 years ago) it has been giving me problems. The most recent is that all of a sudden I can not access my documents. I … |
| | I have a IBM A22m laptop that won't boot up. When I hit the power button I see about a 1 second flash in the screen. I tried a different power supply, and took the battery out and put it back in etc. , and the battery light blinks. Not … |
| | Hello, I'm Kyle i have a HP Pavilion DV6500 Notebook PC, and i have had it for about 2 years. My problem is that it has slowed extremely down, and often it does not turn on or shut down. Lately programs don't load i cant go on the internet and … |
 | [QUOTE]If you are having an older version of laptop that doesn’t equip with the capability to switch off the LCD monitor but would like to have one enabled for power saving whenever they are not in use, then this tiny utility may able to assist you. Named as Dekisoft Monitor … |
| | I am using a hp nx9105 laptop but when i try to use this key @ i just get this appear " I have to use shift plus the number 2 key to get @. Anyone know why this is happening. The keyboard is set to English. It was English/USA … |
| | Hello all, My HP nx6125 laptop has an intermittent problem at startup which seems to be getting worse. I turn it on, the DVD drive spins up, then the HDD, then it powers off and restarts. This cycle takes about 2 secs, and it goes through it about 10 times … |
 | This week I went to an annual press launch in London. Called [URL="http://www.myplaybite.com"]PlayBite[/URL], it's not half as salacious as it sounds, just a group of companies that share the same PR company (also called Bite, you can see where they're going with this) exhibiting stuff. There were a few gadgets … |
 | i have a php web on my IIS , address is ' [B][url]http://localhost/myapp/index.php[/url][/B] ' . My question is, [B]can i access the site on my Laptop using LAN or wifi[/B] if yes , plz tell me how . Please help me |
| | Bottom 1/3 screen is blank, is this a hardware or software issue? How do I find out/ Thanks |
| | Downloaded over 250 music excerpts from Web all had been changed to MIDI files (.mid) for downloading. Burned CD/R from hard drive. This CD/R now plays only on PC and laptop. How do I go about changing file extension to format that will allow me to burn a CD that … |
| | when we are install vista in laptop it has succesfuly install when we install window xp we have received error |
| | Some of my WinXP laptops, after they have been undocked and booted into cached credentials far from home, take forever to log in when they get home - as ANY user. The slowness happens just after the user enters their credentials, but before the user log in process dialog pops … |
| | I've completed nearly 95% of summer homework. the battery was removed and i was using the charger instead. but my sister tripped over the charger and disconnected it from the computer. it shut off on me. when i turned it back on...nothing shows up except this black screen asking me … |
| | Hey i have been having problem with my dell inspiron 1150 for about a week now. Out of nowhere i started getting blue screen of death messages first i got was "a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevernt damage to ur computer IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL if … |
| | Hey, I've got this laptop I'm working on, and I'm really confused about what is going on with it. If you try to start it up in normal mode, it hangs forever loading windows at the logo screen (1 hour+ wait test, no results). I checked the devices because when … |
| | I have a latitude d600 laptop that periodically won't turn on when the adaptor is plugged in and when the battery is charged. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Last night it was working fine, but when I woke up this am it was off. Tried turning it on, … |
| | hi everyone my gateway laptop crashes whenever i copy a file. it has issues and only opens in safe mode - it stops in the middle of booting in normal mode. i have about 20gb worth of unbacked files there, most of that pictures, and want to get them off … |
 | Hello. My sister is having a problem with her laptop. When she turns her computer on, there's a noise at the left side of the laptop. She thinks its the fan. It makes a noise for like 10 seconds and stops then makes noise again. Even if she hibernates her … |
| | Hi, I am looking for a laptop or netbook for under £250. I want it to have: at least: 1GB RAM 8GB SSD/120GB HDD webcam not necessary preferably a DVD+RW but if not then the laptop/netbook will need to be under £230. Any help will be hugely appreciated. Thanks in … |
 | It is usually the Apple adverts which get the positive column inches both online and off, even when they go [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21257/53/"]straight for the Vista jugular[/URL] perhaps because they do so with no small dose of humour. Microsoft has done less well in garnering media support for its campaigns. Who can … |
 | Few things are more cringe-inducing than admitting to your boss that you lost your company-issued laptop. No matter how careful you are about securing your computer, sometimes all it takes is a second for it to vanish in a crowded airport or bus. To increase the chances of getting your … |
| | If your company CEO is walking around with bags under eyes, clutching a balance sheet in one hand and a bottle of Chivas in the other, it could be because she can’t get financing to keep the company going. Business Week has a great article on this topic, pointing out … |
| | Now that, if you are a hardcore PC gamer, is cool. ASUS has announced the availability of what it claims is the world's first quad core gaming notebook. The G71 series is powered by the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor, and has had 'overspeed protection' removed to push it … |
| | Hey, now that is pretty cool! Hot on the heels of a [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21585/53/"]report[/URL] suggesting that some 280 million people around the world have suffered some kind of data loss (through theft or incompetence mainly) during the last three years, Dell just might have the answer. It would appear to be … |
| | Apple is making an announcement tomorrow. It's known to be about notebooks and wiser heads than mine are speculating about what it's going to be - so in the meantime I'll present my own wish list for the company. It's not based on any evidence and I haven't based it … |
| | Intel Thursday unveiled something [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla]Nikola Tesla[/URL] could only dream of. The company this week was demonstrating the ability to transmit 60 watts of electrical power across three feet of thin air with 75 percent efficiency. I had a toothbrush once that recharged without wires. Every time the handheld part was … |
| | Forget the One Laptop Per Child project hyperbole, there seems to be another contender emerging which is deserving of the title 'cheapest Linux laptop on the planet' despite having very little in the way of publicity when compared to the OLPC machine. The Linux lappy in question is the [URL="http://www.elonexone.co.uk"]Elonex … |
| | Here’s a new twist on the open source craze. Fabless chip and system designer Via Technologies has released to the community OpenBook, a reference design for a low cost ultra portable laptop that runs Windows or Linux at up to 1.2 GHz and includes WiFi, BlueTooth and high-res 3D graphics … |
| | You have to admire a guy who would walk away from a successful project of global proportions purely on principle. Walter Bender, co-founder of One Laptop Per Child, has reemerged and launched [URL= http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page]SugarLabs[/URL], a not-for-profit foundation that will continue the work of developing the Sugar open-source UI that runs … |
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