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| | I am hoping someone can give me some insight on making a SATA raid with a PCMCIA card. I have a new Alienware laptop that kicks butt and I want to make it rock hard with a raid. I want to stick 2 250gig hard drives on a two channel … |
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| | Hello everyone, I would appreciate every help from anyone. Please help me. Here is my prob: I don't know much about this routers or wireless networking. I have a PC with broadband connectivity. Its smoothly running. it has a speed of max 2mbps. iam using an external adsl modem provided … |
 | hi there, ive got a bit of a problem. my laptop runs XP Media Center and whenever i try to install it it asks for the sata drivers for my hdd. ive tried to install them rom a usb storage device but it wont take them. im assuming therefor that …  |
| | Goal: share internet connection between two laptops running Vista. Ok, I've got the nuts and bolts. Lots of ports, crossover cable, verizon wireless modem installed on both. (one modem, software on both) Working on setting up the network but there doesn't seem to be much precise info on this configuration. … |
| | I am trying to connect to a wireless router and i dont understand what I need to do to allow the router to recognize my laptop (Mac Powerbook G4, version 10.3.9) .. any hints?! A friend asked me to check if I have an Airport card, and I guess I … |
| | My friend gave me a GW 19" FPD1960 monitor. The power light stays on but the screen is blank. Can press "input" button and screen and will come on for 1 second with great screen, then goes blank. I have a biostar GeForce6100-M9 MOBO, 1.8ghz Sempron, 1gb ram, and Nvidia … |
 | I've got a crazy networking situation that I need help with. I have networked the main computer with a laptop. User number 1 files can be seen, opened and worked with on the laptop and the laptop on the main. Quickbooks has been mapped so that it can be seen, … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite M35x-S161 laptop that I bought in 2005. In mid 2006 I left it on all night and woke up in the morning to a dead computer. When I push the power button the button will turn blue, and all the fans and such will start … |
| | Hello, My name is Pam, I have a Dell inspiron E1705--my problem is when I boot up it stays on for about 2 minutes then the screen goes black and its dead. What is the problem?? It is NOT the battery. This laptop is only 2 years old. any and … |
| | When I boot up my lap top it stays on about 2 minutes then everything goes black. What is my problem--CAN ANYONE HELP ME?? please please please |
| | Hello, I,m pretty much a dunce. I have this emachine n10 series laptop, have not used it for a while, turned it on and was greeted with a pitch black screen. not even a blinking cursor. the fan spins, I have 512 memory amd sempron processor. What to do? |
 | Hey, Any ideas?... My Compaq Armada 1500c is only showing a little box in the middle of the screen....I went into display and it will not let me change the screen size....It has Win 98, but im going to try and up it to XP... let me know of any … |
| | I need to buy a laptop within the next week or so and I have a budget of around $1000. My budget pretty much puts macs out of the question so a pc laptop with have to do. Can anyone recommend a nice laptop with good battery life and a …  |
| | Greetings, I have a problem finding an appropriate LCD for my Sony VAIO FX140. While doing some research, mainly on eBay, I found LCD SCREEN FOR SONY VAIO PCG-GR250P, PCG-883L, HP OmniBook 4150 Laptop 14.1" LCD Screen and 14.1" LCD Laptop Screen LG model LP141X1. Now, can anyone tell me, … |
| | I am using a brand new toshiba a135 laptop with Vista Basic installed. Ok, I have been having the same problem with Vista wireless as many other people. I have been looking throughout the forums for and answer all to no avail. Please help. I was able to connect on … |
| | Hi all i have a GATEWAY MT 6825T LAPTOP and tonight it froze and went all blocky but not all over the screen so i turned off the laptop and rebooted it but to no avail. WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THE LAPTOP POWER LIGHT COMES ON AND THE HARD DRIVE … |
| | I picked up my laptop quickly and by accident "cracked" the lcd screen (looked like a big old thumbprint and lots of lines). I have been told from the people I bought it from that it will cost $450 to replace the screen. That is half the cost of the … |
| | Hello, Firstly, Merry Christmas to everyone! :cheesy: I'm thinking of installing PHP on WinXP Pro, using IIS 5.1 as my web server. I have browsed around and there's 2 versions of PHP( i.e. PHP4 and PHP5). I have no prior knowledge or experience in PHP whatsoever. I only did some …  |
| | Thanks for the welcome and I will read and learn. Currently my IT department has made changes to my display settings. I am running WXP Pro and when i right click on the desktop, go to properties, screen saver tab my password protect is selected with a 3 minute timeout … |
| | Hi ladies and gents, yep, I'm an old lady accountant who's got the blue screen of death. Can anybody help me get past this? I have been laid off, got no dough and need my laptop. I'm using a friends computer to plead for help. I need my laptop. Please … |
| | A friend of mine just brought me his old laptop, and I have no idea how to find out if it has a built in wi fi card.... can anyone help me? |
| | I have a netgear wireless router and is/was working fine with a win xp pro desktop and a laptop. For some reason, I had to re-install win xp on my desktop. After that I am not able to get a internet connection on my desktop. However my (wireless) laptop is … |
| | Hi i have a toshiba satelite L20 laptop recently it refused to start up so i had the tech guys look at it. they replaced pretty much everything bar the hdd and ram by looks of it. the past week it has been freezing, nothing worked, alt+ctrl+del, escape etc etc...........only … |
| | I have a two part problem and I hoping that it will be something that is easy to fix. I have a Gateway Laptop (not sure of model) and my Wireless Network keeps dropping even though the signal is strong on the wireless list. Also I am unable to use … |
| | I have been having some strange problems trying to connect my laptop to the internet. I have had the same wireless setup for about a year, usually with no problems. I have Roadrunner cable internet with a Netgear WGR614v6 router. Recently, I began losing the connection very occasionally, sometimes it … |
| | Hi there, first timer here. My one year old Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop has caught some nasty off the web in the last week. I know this a) because internet explorer's performance was massively hampered, and b) the laptop's getting a lot hotter than normal. I had this problem a … |
| | Does anyone know how to do this on a Siemens laptop? Samsung uses Fn F9, for instance |
| | Hi. I have a Toshiba laptop that has been running Windows XP for several months now. Several days ago I got a large amount of spyware, etc from a website I visited. So I used system restore to set my computer back a day and then I used Ad-aware to … |
| | So I've got this laptop that was stuck in an infinite boot loop (I feel that I should mention that it would reboot after showing the windows loading screen), chances are OS is corrupt, right? So we decide to reinstall, but first I've got to get the data off. The … |
| | I own a Packard Bell EasyNote with Intel Celeron, 512mb Ram, 40Gb HDD. I've been using it for about 2years. Last week, I forgot to turn off the laptop at night, and the next morning I was shocked to see that the laptop is not turning ON. Actually, it turns … |
| | I have an NX570X laptop that is 1 month out of warranty (isn't it ironic) it is running XP SP2 with two 512mb ram cards installed Without warning I turned it on and here is what happens. 1. Gateway screen comes up 2. press 11 to start recovery times out … |
| | Hi there, i got this laptop compaq Presario v3000, i had it for almost 2 yrs. Not a long time ago, my laptop wouldnt switch on. I have to restart it twice to switch it on. Yesterday, my computer wont switch on completely, i still could see the light when … |
| | Hello folks. A Mac household has asked me to advise them on how to get their Windows laptop to see their new Apple wireless router. They have some software which is supposed to work the magic, but it hasn't. I do not know too much about Macs and wonder if … |
| | *This is a repost from another forum title. I didn't know if it belonged here or there ;-)* I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FS690P and recently there has been some grinding from just below the F12 button. I unscrewed all the screws (except for the 1 special one that Sony …  |
| | Hi. I've had my Inspiron E1505 for about 2 years, and for a few months now this problem has been occurring. I'm not completely certain it's the keyboard's problem, though. When first experienced, it would seem that the letter d is stuck, but it stops of its own accord. Stuck, … |
| | I've read a good number of threads on here and never found one that mimic'd whats happening to me. I have a HP Pavilion dv8000 , One day when I powered it up the screen had vertical lines in it, when I apply pressure it clears up. I just dealt … |
| | I have a Dell Latitude (thanks for the sympathy), which is wirelessly networked via Netgear card to my DSL router. This router is hardwired to another computer which gives me no trouble. My daughter has a Toshiba laptop with its own internal wireless equipment. If I am on my laptop, … |
| | I just recieved a brand new XP SP1 laptop. Its a Dell Latitude D800.. and its really sexy ;-) I'm connected to a WiFi network, and I'm having the weirdest problem. It seems that all the images that I see are severly pixelated. Like, the quality is very low, that … |
| | Hi, I'm a very, very newbie to this forum. I have a Gateway desktop running Windows ME that has started to die and I want to remove the hard drive, put it in an enclosure, and use it as an external drive for my Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop which is … |
| | Hey, Am a total newbie to java. What am trying to do is to control a robot through network. I need to send commands between a laptop(client) and a PDA (server), it is describe in the pic [URL=http://www.freewebtown.com/perpetual_dream/Picture2.png]HERE[/URL] .I have a few questions... 1- The java used to program the …  |
| | Hello: I have a laptop with Windows 2000 and get the following error message when I bootup: "Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" I wish to recover the data (files) from the hard drive. When I try reinstalling windows, i get the … |
| | Hi, First off, I should say that the computer that's having problems is not mine, but my mother's. Okay, the computer is a Compaq Presario R3000 Laptop. Uh . . . I don't know much about it. I know that it has an AMD Athlon XP-M Mobile processor, but I …  |
| | Using hp omnibook 6000 to web surf and occasionally, it locks. No curser, no response. The only way to escape is to remove the battery and unplug the dc power. Then the only way to restart is by pressing the "sleep" key. On/Off does nothing. Using latest bios and really … |
| | Hi, got a laptop that will not run just on the charger, i.e. charger plugged in, no battery inserted. It is about 6 months old. From what i can remember ALL laptops have this feature. Am i wrong? p.s. it also will not charge when the it is turned off. …  |
| | Hey all, There i was, sat watching the telly, my laptop sat there, lid open, looking inconspicuious, at the windows xp home login screen. when my little brother ran in, pressed loads of the keys at the top of the keyboard and turned it off with the power button. he … |
| | Hi guys, I wonder whether there is anything that can be effectively done so that my system may get a boost and speeds up.... there's this agonising slow pace. I've already tried some things like, disabling the "Search Desktop" feature, defragging, getting rid of eventual nasties, but it's just a … |
| | Hey all, I dont know weather to post this here or on the dead machiens thingy, if its still around, havnt been on here for ages. ANYWAY, there i was, sat watching the telly, my laptop sat there, lid open, looking inconspicuious, at the windows xp home login screen. when …  |
| | Hey my uncle called me looking to upgrade his IBM Thinkpad Type 26472TU with more than the current 128MB of RAM. The thing is old but he uses it so why not. He said all it says on the module made by "Nanya" or something is PC133S-333-542 SO-DPMM-Revision12 128MB SDR-133mhz … |
| | my laptop fails to initialise and also to boot apparently due to error 0xc0000006. can anyone help me to get it up and running and deal with 0xc0000006. I am unable to boot in safemode also. I'm running XP with SP2. allan.g |
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