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| | Hi I have an Omnibook vt6200. The other day I was using it and the screen suddenly went black. At first I thought it was just the power, but then I realised that the power was still on and the screen was still on but EXTREMELY feint. It is so … |
| | Hi! Today morning my friend tried to start her laptop(Acer Aspire 5100) and it did not bootup it just showed black screen with power light on...the keyboard also was not active. She did not know how to switch it off so she disconnected the power and then removed the battery … |
| | I've always had a problem with my laptop freezing. Sometimes I can be on it a while with no problem other times it constantly freezes. I have resetored it and reinstalled windows xp but the problem still exists. I have downloaded and installed all the updated drivers from dell.com but … |
 | Ok this is a first, i have Mcafee Enterprise edition with the firewall and Antispyware installed on the PC = XP Corp SP2, 250 Sata=(Bootable drive) HDD, 320G IDE, 2G RAM. my sun had a freind laptop connected to my Router (wired) i decide to share some files with him … |
| | i have a te2100 toshiba model laptop,,the screen flickers every now and then and goes blank,,i took the lcd assembly off and put my friends assembly on and it did the same thing if i put the original assembly onto my friends it works fine,,,,does any1 know what can cause …  |
| | Greetings, I have a t22 laptop with a compatable docking station. Up until this morning everything was working fine. Then the plug got disconnected from the wall outlet. Everything works that is hooked up to the station and I even switched out another laptop to the station and it works … |
| | Please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong location I am new to the site and new to working on computers. I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a 1GHZ Pentium 3 processor and I'm running Windows XP Professional with a 20GB hard drive. It has an ethernt … |
| | Hi all. Here's my problem. I have a Gateway MX6625 laptop. When it boots up I get this message. ERROR RESOURCE CONFLICT PCI TO MOTHERBOARD BUS:06 DEVICE:09 FUCTION:06 BUS:06 DEVICE:09 FUNCTION 07 F1 setup F2 continue Any ideas? |
| | Hello everyone I need to pick some brains, I have a Toshiba Satellite 2400-103 laptop which I purchased approx 3 years ago. Everything with the laptop has been fine until last week. I was using my laptop in my office, packed it away and took it home. When I started … |
| | Do you have a SATA disk drive in your computer ? If so, you can squeeze a little more performance out of your hard disk. This speeds up the performance of your hard disk by enhancing write caching. However, if your computer is not connected to a battery backup and …  |
| | I am having troubles with my presarion 700 laptop. With the battery removed and AC plugged in I hit the power button and can hear everything turn on and lights light up and fans are on, but nothing is on my screen!!!! The cd-rom lights are working and I can … |
| | I was hoping someone could give me some insight ot at least steer me in the right direction.I have a Dell Latitude D610 that when powered on displays the Dell splash screen then goes to a blank screen with a cursor that momentarily appears in the upper left.I Can access …  |
| | Ok this is my problem: When I start up my computer, everything goes well until i get to the Welcome menu, it takes longer time that usual, and when it gets to the desktop, only the background picture is shown. Not the start menu or shortcuts. Few processes are running, … |
| | Here I am again looking for help on fixing my laptop once more. Somehow I have this Mirar program installed on my laptop. Going to control panel to remove it doesn't work. It just basically freezes the screen up. My Avg system scanner hasn't found it as a threat. But … |
| | I have a inspiron 1200, and whenever I try to watch a movie online with netflicks, I can hear the sound but all I see is a green screen. I watch video fine on modzila firefox, so its just explorer that has the problem. I have the latest version of … |
| | My sons laptop computer is doing the following. When he click on a shortcut on my desktop it will make a new shortcut icon. Also when he is in explorer sometimes it will work other times is just does nothing but only shows the hourglass. Please Help |
| | hi, the display of my laptop started behaving strangely. the content is shown three times on the screen with the little offset. in other words, what is shown in the top third part of the screen is also shown in the middle of the screen. all those parts are interferring … |
| | Hey everyone, thanks for reading the thread. I've got a compaq presario 723RS laptop running Windows XP that has a weird problem that causes it to *completely* randomly black screen/die. Once it has done this, I have to remove power (unplug the power supply and battery), wait a few seconds, …  |
| | Inspiron 8200 operated well all day. Tried to turn it on this afternoon; push power button and within 5 seconds a "click" is heard and machine turns off. Nothing else happens. Any ideas? Thanks, Luckyforward |
| | Hello. I have a dial up account for my home use and ADSL at work. My laptop connects to the web fine from work using ADSL and equally my PC at connects fine with dial-up at home but when I try to connect at home with my laptop, which has … |
| | hi guys, i've got a one year old vaio vgn-tx17gp series, the one with the 11.1'' screen. the machine works great, i'm very happy with it.... last time when i was playing in AV MODE one of my DVD's (i was flying), the movie just stopped....freezed...there was nothing i could … |
| | hie my laptop keeps saying windows resuming..for the past 2 days cannot get any keys to work...can anyone help..thanx |
| | Hi, i have a acer aspire laptop that seems to have a slight problem with it's screen. It constantly flickers then goes completely white. But if i add pressure to the screen the white goes and the screen works. Help would be VERY appreciated, thanks. |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite 17" Laptop. A 32 mm strip of white running from the top of the screen to the bottom has established on the left hand side of the screen. Another 32 mm band is forming (flickering ) 32 mm away from the first i.e I have …  |
 | Okay, so here's the challenge. I want a continously running program that will automatically close all running programs, log off the user account and shut down the computer when the batterly life of my laptop reaches a certain amount. First of all, can that be done with visual basic and …  |
| | Hi all, Been googling for hours but can't find any answers!! What's the best way specifically for vista, to configure laptop IP address for 2 different networks? I want to easily switch IP address detail when at home or in work. I previously used netsh and scripts to do this … |
| | Hello everybody, I really really need help with my laptop....:( O.k this is what happened.... My laptop is about 3 months old (so pretty much new), I have Windows Xp on it and I was installing The Sims 2 yesterday. It worked well and today I wanted to try and … |
| | I have got a HP Pavillion laptop and yesterday it has developed an annoying problem. I was justing exiting an application and just nipped to the toilet, when I came back to it the windows loading screen was frozen on the machine. I reset the machine and it started to … |
| | Hey, Im a multimedia student and looking for my first laptop, Its going to need to be pretty high spec something roughly around: • Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo processor or AMD Turion 64 X2 • Windows Vista Home Premium • 1/2Gb memory • hard drive capacity of between 100 …  |
| | last night i put my usb flash memory into my laptop(it was brand new)and my nod 32 warned me that he put some file in quarantine and to close the antivirus programe...but it could not be closed,every time i've closed it,it apeared again...than when i turned off my com.,the next … |
| | Hi I have a Toshiba Portege M405 Laptop that is just over a year old and just out of warranty. The problem is that about 90% of the time when I hit the button to turn it on all that happens is the power light comes and nothing happens. Other … |
| | I have an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop that I have had for a few years now. Just recently the CD/DVD drive has disappeared from my My Computer path, and the computer won't register that I inserted a CD or DVD. I've checked the drivers already through the Device Manager, and … |
| | Hello all :) I've had a fair few errors with my PC and fixed problems here and there but still think theres more i havn't covered because of poor performance running. You're help will be much appreciated Here are both ComboFix and HiJackThis logs ComboFix 08-03-01.3 - Ilkkan 2008-03-02 15:48:32.1 … |
| | As part of the original setup on my daughter's laptop, it asked if I wanted to set up a partition on the HD dedicated to recovery. I accepted and the 60 Gig HD set up a 12 Gig FAT32 partition. I guess that it immediately filled and it's apparently 100 … |
| | My laptop overheated, shut down and won't power up, it has a burnt smell. This happened 4 years ago so the burnt smell is gone but it still won't power up and i'm trying to resurrect it if it is worth it, own my own. I already begun the teardown … |
| | Howdy, I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 with an IBM Travelstar ATA/IDE, 4.86GB model# DBCA-204860. I run Windows XP on it and it's so full it wants to shut down on me. I need a bigger harddrive but not sure what is compatible, and I don't know if I need … |
| | hi guys, im new to this site, im a final year management student in the university of the south pacific in Fiji islands. i installed windows sp2 on my compaq presario laptop, after installation n activities it gave an option to restart now or later. i clicked on restart now …  |
| | The above mentioned laptop boots and runs fine on battery power but will not boot with the AC adapter. The adapter appears to be charging the battery fine. When I use the adapter I get a blue screen and immediate shutdown. Also, the machine runs MUCH hotter with the adapter … |
| | Well first off ima newb... =) i came across your forums while surfing for a solution for my dead laptop issue and your site seemed promising. the laptop is a 4 year old compaq presario 2100 and from what i understand just stopped working one day about a year ago. … |
| | Hi - I'm new to this site, and I DID search prior threads for this exact problem, with no luck. I just bought a used laptop from a software developer; it was his wife's and she used it very little. I've talked to him and tried everything he suggested in …  |
| | Hi there folks. I had a look around the forums, but couldn't find the answer to this one, so thought I'd put up a message to see if any one's got any bright ideas. My girlfriend's got an 18-month old Dell Inspiron 1000 with standard specs, though the RAM reported … |
| | I get an error message that stops boot when starting my GW MX6448 laptop to check cpu fan. I opened the access for the fan/heatsink. The fan spins by hand and the area is clean and free of debris, plug is also in. I looked around the web for a … |
| | Hi Everyone, I Have A Toshiba A45 Laptop. The Springs (i Guess) In The Lid Are Shot And Now The Screen Will Not Stand On It's Own. Anybody Have Any Ideas On How To Fix This On My Own. I Heard To Get Another Case Is More Expensive Than Buying …  |
| | So as I will soon be going to college, I am searching for a suitable laptop. I am going into Computer Info Systems, so I need it to be something I can program on, etc... Also, being a high school kid, I'm poor, so I'm trying to spend 500-700 bucks …  |
| | I'm not sure if this is possible but I want to hook up a wireless router to my Dell Inspiron 1721 laptop. I have a built in Verizon Broadband PC card, or something like that, to access the Internet. I have a router set up to my desktop but I … |
| | I was hoping someone could help try and solve this problem. I travel and like to bring my PS3 with me but I cannot play online when I travel. Maybe someone can give me some sort of guide to connect my PS3 to my laptop. The laptop is a Dell … |
| | I consider myself pretty computer savvy in some areas, EXCEPT this... I just obtained a Gateway Solo 9300 series laptop with a Linksys Wireless -G 2.4 GHz card. I have NO idea how to configure this to my verizon wireless router! I paid 80.00 for this used laptop, only wanting … |
| | Starting yesterday my laptop's internet browsers decided to stop working. Aim works, WoW works, everything that doesnt connect to a website works. If i type in an address it changes it to [url]HTTP:///[/url] or something like [url]http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.myspace.com&ei=UTF-8&fr=hp-psnb[/url] I tried downloading firefox to see if it was a problem with IE, … |
| | I have a user's laptop which is currently running XP Media Center. In order to connect his notebook to the domain, I have to reformat and reinstall as XP Pro. One problem... it appears that his hard drive is SATA and I can't get the XP install disk to see … |
| | I've been doing a lot of web surfing to try to find a solution to my problem. I thought I might try this discussion forum. Here goes... I've got AT&T yahoo DSL in my home. The modem is a speedstream 4100. I've got windows xp in the desktop pc. I … |
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