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| | [URL="http://usa.asus.com"]Asustek Computer[/URL] on Saturday unveiled the Eee PC 900, a beefier version of the ultra-mobile PC it introduced late last year. The new unit is available with Xandros Linux or Windows XP, and is scheduled to begin shipping on May 12 with a sticker price of US$549. Last year’s model … |
| | You've heard of Wi-Fi . . . but how about Wi-Fly? That's the moniker tech analysts are using to label new inflight internet access applications. That's right. Starting this month on select airlines, you can start checking email, watching the latest batch of YouTube videos, or catch the score of … |
| | I've been the first one to say in recent months that I've fallen hard for my new Blackberry . . . or "Crackberry" as I've taken to calling it. What's not to love? You can do just about anything on a smart phone that you can on a laptop, save …  |
| | The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has finally moved from being vapourware and over-hyped smoke and mirrors hardware prototyping to being on the verge of a proper production line at long last. It has only taken five years for the Negreponte/MIT low-cost laptop to move from global computing for … |
| | Since recent years, we've come to appreciate the speed and usability of Flash drives. The fact that sudden motion makes no difference to its accessibility makes Flash drives an intriguing prospect for laptop manufacturers. Especially Dell, which is going to offer a configuration option with its Latitude D420 that will …  |
| | Who needs the Wiimote? ...when there's laptops. But, you say, you can't wave laptops around to control your videogame! Actually you can. Many laptops manufactured now come with motion sensors to suddenly freeze the hard disk when it gets bumped around. These sensors can be read by software, which you … |
 | Well, yes, if you believe the Sony hype then the [URL="http://www.dynamism.com/g1/main.shtml#"]Vaio VGN-G1LAP[/URL] at just 1.98 pounds is indeed the world’s lightest lappy. The carbon fiber body helps considerably, meaning that despite the low weight you still get the benefit of a 12.1” 1024 x 768 screen rather than the only … |
| | [I]I’m the trouble starter, notebook instigator. I’m the Dell addicted, Sony illustrated. I’m a fire-starter, notebook fire-starter. You’re the fire-starter, notebook fire-starter.[/I] With apologies to The Prodigy for ruining a perfectly good lyric, but it does serve to highlight the problem de jour: that of flaming laptops. If you thought … |
| | When you are the world's biggest PC maker, your problems tend to be on the large scale when they hit. Such is the case of what the US Consumer Products Safety Commission is calling the biggest recall in the history of the consumer electronics industry. The problem is that a … |
| | I'm going to proceed from the assumption that those of you who are reading this article are at least somewhat technically savvy. I was going to further assume that none of you (or at least very few) have ever been victimized by spyware or a virus, but that stretches reality … |
 | Mid last week, Intel and Matsushita announced that they are working on an 8 hour notebook battery solution featuring Intel's low-power consumption technology powered by Matsushita's lithium-ion battery solutions. Currently, (pardon the pun) laptops range anywhere from 3 - 6 hours, depending on what the users's power settings are. Users … |
| | My laptop (Dell Inspiron 600 m / Windows XP) gets very hot (except the battery portion). Till a few months back, the fan would start running within an hour of switching on. However, I haven't heard the fan sound (or noise) for months. Is there a way (software trigger etc … |
| | Alright I just ran a clean install on this laptop and I've installed most of the drivers except the video controller driver. I can't seem to find the file to install it or what I am doing wrong. I followed these instructions exactly. [URL="http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&docid=1A0C0937D62A8739E0401E0A55174744&doclang=en&l=en&s=gen"]http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&docid=1A0C0937D62A8739E0401E0A55174744&doclang=en&l=en&s=gen[/URL] I did use the service number … |
| | My laptop was stolen out of my apartment a few weeks ago. It had Logmein, which is remote access software, installed. I've been monitoring my Logmein account regularly, and see the laptop comes online periodically. I want to track down where it is and who has it. If I switched … |
| | Hi everyone! This is my first post so I'm sorry if I have placed it in the wrong place. I hope I will get a better response than I have recieved from HP customer support. Well heres the problem: I have a Hp Laptop DV9000 that I purchased abut 2 …  |
| | I have a older Dell Latitude that won't recognize the hard drive. When I run diagnostics, I get the following: Start DST Short Test Test Results: Fail Error Code: 1000-0141 Message: No Drive Detected |
| | Hi, helpers: I have a Sony Vaio laptop running XP Pro and the Fn key has stopped running functions with the F-keys. It must be still working since it will toggle the scroll lock but it will not bring up the other functions like sound on/off, sound level, brightness, and … |
| | Hello. I'm joining the forum to seek help for my Gateway laptop. My problem is all I'm getting is a black screen -after bootup and logging on. Safe mode works fine and I've tried a system restore with no luck. Anyway, I hope this forum will help me with a … |
| | Hi all, I clicked on start then click shutdown and didn't happen anything. I pressed restart and then log off but it remained the same. Please tell me how to shut down my laptop properly Any suggestions will be appreciated! With Regards, WS |
| | Hey folks, I have a fujitsu/siemens laptop with an SVideo out socket on the back of it, i plugged an svideo cable into it then the other end into my TV (the white, red and yellow end). i then started browsing my AV channels but no picture. I went into … |
| | to whom it may concern, Hi all! Recently, my sis told me to download various different anti-virus programs, which i did. It found lots of viruses & spyware. Now, my laptop seems to be freezing every so often during the day. i can't shut it off the usual way...i end …  |
| | Hi I wonder if anyone can help. I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with an Intel Pentium 3 processor, 601 MHZ. 128mb of RAM and Windows XP Professional. I bought this cheaply recently on EBAY just as a project to play around with. I have never worked on a laptop …  |
| | Hello Guys, I badly need assistance with a problem am facing with my HP laptop. I jst acquired a new laptop but the problem is that its Vista is in polish which requires me to re-install the OS. I want to downgrade to XP but it crashes whenever i try …  |
| | This is my first laptop, came with Vista preinstalled. There is no recovery disc. I tried shutting down normally earlier, and it got stuck. I was in a hurry to leave the house, so I took the battery out, so that it would shut off. I replaced the battery (same …  |
| | i have a gateway laptop that was installed windows vista business 64bit though its has no partition i have tried several partitioning tools like paragon ,partition magic etc at no luck please assist me what to do |
| | hi everyone! my gateway laptop got the blue screen of death a couple of times. i pulled the battery and plug and recharged it. the most recent time i did that was last night. today i open it and it wouldn't start it, it was waiting by the blank screen … |
| | I wonder if anybody can tell me what my problem is. I have a dell Inspiron 9300 and it was working fine until a couple of days ago when I was working and without any warning about 5cm of the screen suddenly turned white in vertical strip from top to … |
| | Hello. I have an HP Pavilion 4500 laptop and it won't turn on. I've tried everything to get it to turn back on. There are no flashes or beeps or anything when I hit the power button. Also, before all this came up, my charger wasn't charging correctly. It would … |
| | Hi All I have a friends laptop, that will not run with out the power supply connected. I have tried a new battery with the same result. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to cure this problem? My thoughts are that there is maybe a problem with the … |
| | I have a toshiba Tecra S1 laptop running windows XP. I am unable to boot it up. I get 2 short beeps, 1 long beep, a pause and 3 short beeps. Then the beeps start all over. This does not happen each time I try to boot, sometimes it just … |
 | cant boot in to my compact laptop even cant detect xp cd but others cds can detect them i want to back my information before worst happens please hellp |
| | HP PAVILION G60-230US Laptop. Had cracked screen with image still working. Have tried two new screens that both light up ( gray at first then gray with a broad black stripe on the right side after it has finished booting) but no image. if I plug a monitor in I … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop which is actually running fine. However, when it's shut completely down it makes a tiny squeaking sound every couple of minutes and the fan twitches. When the laptop is running it does not make the sound and the fan operates as it should. If … |
| | Hi everyone, i have an everex laptop that is windows xp based and sometimes when i boot it up i hear a beeping sound that beeps 3-4 times and then stops. however, it does not give me the startup screen. and sometimes if it actually gets thru to the bootup … |
| | hi, i have a dell laptop model #PP22L. i know i have a virus because i keep getting popups that tell me im infected and they want me to purchase their software. i ran a hijackthis report and the following info came up. before the scan ran these 2 boxes … |
| | Hi, I connect external monitor to laptop and set it to Extend my Desk Top mode. To bad, my laptop LCD screen is Dead. Only the External monitor show the extended desk top. How can I reset this external monitor to Mirror so it shows the main desk top. Now … |
| | Hi, I have an MSI router connected to a desktop pc. As an OS i am using Windows Vista on both my desktop pc and laptop. My problem is that when I am trying to ping my router from my laptop ( ping 192.168.1.1 ) and I am having a … |
| | I need to replace the keyboard on my Sony Vaio model VGN-FS715/W, but do not know how to get the keyboard off to begin with. I understand all about the cable, but that does me no good if I can't get the keyboard off to begin with. The more help … |
| | Loi's laptop completely died about a week ago. No noise, lights, fans, beeps, blinks. She took it to Staples who said, yep...you need a new mother board, about $450. Radio Shack said the same thing. They were sure. Might as well buy a new one. So she did. She was … |
| | Hi. I am having problems with the screen of my Dell D400 laptop. Part of it was grayed out (about 1/3 part of the screen horizontally, upper portion). It happened last Monday night. I just finished watching a movie on my laptop then I turned it off, put it on … |
| | I connect my laptop with a LCD display Samsung T240. My laptop HP 8510p has ATI mobility 2600HD graphic card. Connection between both is established with HDMI. OS is WinVista 32, SP2. The problem is my monitor often blinks (picture becomes black for a second, also sound is interupted). Before … |
| | I have an HP Compaq nx9030 that wont power up at all. At first i thought it was a battery issue, so i charged it the entire night. The light in the front went from yellow to green so i thought i had finally solved it. However, when i pressed … |
| | ok, so i started up mah acer aspire 5100 laptop one morning and low and behold: all the colors on the screen are inverted. like open up mspaint and invert the colors and it looks like that. its not acessability options high contrast, i changed my inverter, and my ati … |
| | I have connected my hp latop to my sony 32" HDTV via VGA cable, and sound cable. I tried using my TV as montor. Everything works fine when i use it for browsing and watching movies in normal mode. But when i try playing vedios in full screen mode, I … |
| | Hi I have been helping a friend out with his HP laptop. The laptop was used at a house party and the day after wouldn't start it requested the system recovery disks and he lost everything through recovering the system. It's worked ok since for about 2 weeks but he … |
| | I hope this is not a duplicate post. I just posted but when I hit enter, it said I wasn't signed on...I thought I was. I am working on my Grandaughter's Sony Vaio running some version of Windows XP...it is about 3 years old and she has auto updates on … |
| | I have a Gateway Laptop MT3423 (I have had nothing but trouble since I bought it 2+ years ago). It shut down on me and then I was not able to turn it back on. I have tried the trick where you remove the battery and unplug, hold the power …  |
| | I just started to have a problem with my IBM laptop. Following are the configuration of my laptop: 1) WinXP with SP2 2) RAM 512MB 3) CPU around 1 Ghz, Yesterday ,I started to have a new problem with my laptop,when I powered on my laptop, IBM welcome screen appears … |
| | I have an Averatec 3200 series. I had just started to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows when the drive stopped reading the disc. I have an external dvd drive but I don't know how to get it to work as I have no OS. I've read other threads that … |
| | I just bought an Acer Aspire 6920 running Windows Vista premium. I have a wireless network at home that my son has used to play XBox with no probs thru a Netgear WGT624v3 router. The laptop says I'm connected to the network but I can't get ANY internet. Could someone … |
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