[laptop] Forum Topics

I am very new to all this but have a problem connecting to the work intranet on my laptop when i get home. I work in Norway and live in Spain any suggestions

Hello, Acer laptop 8200 travelmate will not start after being off for a long period of time. I press the power button and the CPU fan starts going the screen remains black, the CPU activity light starts to blink, and then you can hear the fan just stop turning while …

Hello, System is a three year old HP Pavilion zv5120us with XP Home SP2. The problem initially started as a recurring BSOD with stop error 0x000000f4. KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR was displayed one time with this stop error. After the initial BSOD, restarting Windows normally took from five to ten minutes. Subsequent BSODs …

I don't have much experience with laptops and am helping someone with their laptop on Tuesday and figure I'd go in with some advice. I've searched the web, talked to people, but would like some final clarification. The individual spilled a drink onto the keyboard of a laptop. Now when …

Sorry for the long post, but I'm trying to be as complete as possible. I'm working on a friend's 8200 which suffered a drop. It was in a padded briefcase on an airline seat and got bumped to the deck by a guy passing by. It was powered off at …

I have acer aspire 3020 laptop problem started 3 months ago screen display started to fade in bottom left of screen then ok for a week or two then returned each time lasted a little longer. now all of left side of screen fades from left to right. Got No …

I've just acquired a laptop for free. The thing just won't light up when plugging it in. I've checked the AC adapter and it's fine. Before I assume it's the motherboard does anyone have any suggestions? Thank You, this is my first posting.

Hey so I'm pretty computer unsavvy, I'm in my house in the middle of nowhere accessing my router via satellite internet connection, and now I find that my router is nowhere and I'm using an unidentified network. I do have access to the satellite connection across the street? So maybe …

Hi I have a dell d505 wich is dead no power when i switch on with battery when i plug in the power adapter the green light is on but when i plug it into the laptop the green light goes OFF it sounds like i am getting a short …

Hi Everyone, Recently I pressed the power button on my Dell CPx and the lights came on, flashed a time or two and then it shut off. Now, this is with it plugged in. I tried it with a full battery and it did the same thing with the exception …

I have a ACER TravelMate 4011WLCi. The screen doesn't work at all. I hooked up a video projector to the Blue Port in the back and the video projector couldn't find a source at all. Is this a problem with the video card? If so, how do I check or …

i got the laptop Medion MD 95334. Intel (R) Pentium (R) Mo processor 1.60 GHz 798 MHz, 480 MB of RAM. Does anyone know how to upgrade this laptop's RAM? I see a rectangular PC card slot PCMCIA on this laptop? Is that where I put the RAM? Thank you.

Hey fellas I need help, I have a Toshiba Laptop running a pentium 4 3.0 chip, 60 hard drive, and 512 of ram, running Windows XP home sp2. It won't boot up to windowns. It will only boot up to the dark screen that reads safe mode, safe mode with …

Hello, I just wondered if there is a quick and simple way of disabling the touchpad on my cheap Advent 7109A laptop.(Usually I prefer to use my USB mouse) Reason : While I am typing long speels of text, such as Word documents, e-mails etc., I tend to look at …

the battery is new on the laptop and the led button comes on but when i hit the power button it wont turn on. Any ideas?

I have a laptop with an Intel T7200 Core 2 Duo @ 2.00 and i was wondering if that meant that it had two 1.0 Ghz. cores or two 2.0 Ghz. cores. I feel like my computer is always going slower then it should and I didn't want to break …

Ok so I dont know much about computers so this is tough for me. I'm hoping everyone here can help me fix my computer without having to reboot it or something I'm not sure If I even have a boot disc for it anyways. So you know when the computer …

i have a toshiba satellite 1105 notebook that my friend would like to use with a projector. after everything gets hooked up and running, the mouse freezes. all that he wants to do is play his screeensaver from a disk in the notebook onto the projector so that everyone can …

Well i bought an hp dv2000 notebook in july for school, it came with vista, and i hated it. So i inevitably downgraded my OS to windows XP, and my notebook was running 10 times better. After a few weeks of running Xp however, my laptop has begun randomly shutting …

my Compaq 2700us has been giving me fits... i decided to use the quickrestore cd to wipe and reinstall XP (just to 'clean house'). I had no Stop errors prior to this. The QuickRestore CDs copy all the image file to the HDD, then when rebooting i recieve the following …

Hi expert please help! I have a MAC OS 10.4.8 software. Every time I insert it into my Intel laptop PC dvd drive. How come it doesn't work ? It seems like didn't recognized it why ? Is that the Operating different ? Can any Mac expert here please help …

i have this really old laptop, a toshiba satellite M20, which has become obsolete over the years... it's got 223 ram, 30gig HDD, centrino... so i was thinking in upgrading the pc's motherboard, processor and ram... is that possible? and if it is, is it adviceable?

Hello...first post here. I should preface this by admitting I am just a regular layperson who really knows very little about computers. Also I did post this in the "Trouble Shooting Dead Machines" but haven't had a response yet. Last night I was using my laptop and it suddenly went …

I have a compaq presario 2100 laptop in front of me. It starts up and everything sounds on and then it just stops at the start up screen. It says f2 to enter set up and f12 to boot from LAN. I have tried to press both of these buttons …

Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 600m. It has started to slow down on me, which I can deal with. I have done all the usual recommedations: check starting programs, defrag, etc. Sometimes my CPU spikes to 100%, slowing things down as well. Annoying, but not the end of the …

Hi, this is my first post on this board! I have a Compaq Presario M2305NR laptop. I bought it to write papers and research for school. I have had it for about 2 years. The computer works fine unless I turn it off. If I leave it on and just …

Hi, I have got a problem on preloaded Windows vista home edition on my laptop. Actually whenever i try to burn dvd it complets the burn process sucessfully but unable to play that dvd on computer neither on dvd players. When i noitced the space of DVD actually windows vista …

I am supposed to upgrade my boss's computer from the worthless Vista Home Premium to Vista Business. He purchased the upgrade disk. Is it necessary to do a clean install? I ask because of some time constraints. (Bosses think everything can be completed over a lunch hour, and he will …

Hi, Hope someone can help me, I have a HP zd8000 laptop which has started to run very slow when connected to the internet. I have AVG 7.5 full edition on laptop which often finds cookies etc and removes them but nothing ever serious. I also have AdAware loaded on, …

I have a laptop thats about 4 years old it has window xp on it. every time I start up its like a slug. How can i make it start up faster, is it windows or is it my laptop. Thanks!

Hello and thanks to everyone who has kindly responded to my questions and even more thank you to those responsible for creating and maintaining this website. My daughter has a Gateway Laptop about 2 years old running Windows XP for home. Recently the screen dimmed to the point that only …

Hi all! Having a bit of trouble with a Compaq Presario 700 Laptop. It's been working fine the whole time I've had it until tonight - I installed Flight Simulator 2004, launched it, found it ran badly, updated the graphics drivers, found flight sim played a lot better, played it …

I'm buying a used laptop/notebook for vacation use. (Mainly checking email, 'storage' for digital photos, maybe some web surfing... ) There are 2 possibilities, Toshiba Tecra 8100 and IBM Thinkpad T21. Either will probably suffice for my needs. Do either of them have any significant advantages over the other? Thanks, …

Buying a new pc can be a tedious and confusing task, especially for beginners. I've got a quick checklist that beginners (and medium level users) can use to overcome this problem. First of all, there are a plethora of brands out there. You need something that will last for a …

Hello my father has a laptop that is connected to a cable modem, web pages opened almost instantly, now they are opening like he is using dialup. Here is his Hijackthis Log Thanks for any help. I have ran adaware and AVG anti spyware with no improvement Thanks Ryun Logfile …

I'm in the market for a new laptop... this hp pavilion seems to be on it's last leg... any advice on something portable (yes, it has to be a laptop), dependable and durable... I travel all over the world, and alot of the places aren't the most accomodating, so I …

I have a Dell latitude cpx laptop. This just started. I push the on button it lights up like it is going to boot but then shuts down. Sometimes when I leave it for two or three days and try it it will boot up, and not give me problems …

Thanks to all the gentle people who kindly offer advice to those who are ignorant as I am. I am interested in hearing from anyone who has any other ideas besides the "take out the battery and completely discharge the CMOS by holding the power switch for 50 seconds, then …

My laptop (vaio) doesn't let me use Fn Mute or lower/up volume. It does let me use Fn lower/up screen light... Do you know what is happening?

[B][I][COLOR="Red"]When installing ubuntu from the cd I downloaded, I got ubuntu to begin to load, and when I click the first option of install/ run cd or something i get the following error "Cant access tty;job control turned off." I have read everywhere about this error, but I have no …

Configured partitions, reloaded windows xp, downloaded all drivers, but laptop is still saying no internet connection due to cannot renew ip address. Have tried ipconfig in command prompt, got media not connected, tried hooking up ethernet from modem, no joy, got "limited or no connection" laptop is not recognising network …

Hey guys, I am having a problem with my Dell inspiron 9200 . A few weeks ago my laptop started to flicker from ac to batt. and right back again once in a while. then recently I started to notice that when I plugged it in there would be a …

As the title says really, I have an advent laptop with the 50 pin connector. My original internal (a Philips SDVD8820) became very slow at writing, taking 40 mins to burn audio when it used to be 4! so I thought i'd replace it. I have taken the brackets off …

I need to solder the power supply jack. I have removed all the screws and the laptopl is loose all around the edges but something is holding it near the middle, around the space bar or letters m,n. There are no more screws visible to remove. What do I do …

Hi i have an old Compaq Armada 1120 running win 95. I know its old but its used just for word processing. > >I tried to install a larger hard drive but i got theis error: 304 Keyboard or system unit error. I put the old hdd in but it …

Hi, I have read several posts on this issue but none exactly fit. I have recently installed win2k over win98 on an old Compaq n600c laptop. The laptop has one of those stickers saying it's win2k compatible. I used an upgrade disk, and opted for a 'clean' install. I thought …

hello. i´m having interrupts and laptop is very slow, this is the hijackthis log thank you very much!! Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 08:28:50 p.m., on 25/01/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16574) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE …

hi!im having a problem about dark screen of my vaio vgn-fs810.i already restore my laptop to the manufacture seeting.still i have the issue.first the screen is dark then flickers when it reads.i already contacted the sony for my problem but the solutions they gave me did not work.what else can …

hi friends,i'm new to this community.i'm facing a serious problem with my laptop.multiple registry files are being corrupted by an unknown virus(which doesnt seem to get deleted even after performing several formatting).visibly i can see the windows update and system restore files not functioning properly.and in the registry there are …

Hey folks, I'm running XP right now on a laptop HP. My C: drive is 80gb, which should be represented as "Total Size: 74.5gb" in My Computer. But right now for "Total Size" it says it only has 61.5gb. I feel like I'm being robbed out of 15 gigs. I …