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Hi, i just install PMC in my laptop, and its just working fine, till my computer start to download and install the latest windows update, after that PMC cant start again with error say this : Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process id=0xec4(3780), Thread id=0x8f4(2292). …

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Hi all, I have (actually my wifes has) a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. 800mhz proc., 512 mem, 20 gig HD. About 2 months ago, it kinda just stopped working. All 3 lights would come on HD, power, and battery, but it would not go past this. I went on the …

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toshiba qosmio f30 Anytime i tried to boot the laptop, i get this massage: Bad Checksum ROM Data block press any key to continue after pressing any key i get this massage: bad checksum (ROM) check...

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I have a windows vista laptop and a windows xp desktop that sits doing nothing, though the hardware is fairly good. Can I link the 2 so that while I play games on my laptop, it also utilises the hardware in the desktop? That way I'd have an extra 2 …

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Hello everyone, I am writing to plead for help to fix the screen on my laptop, which for seemingly no reason, has decided to forget about the couple of inches of screen on the right and a line the exact size of the normal "start" button status bar... I realise …

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Hi anyone who's interested in helping me :) Here's the deal, down and dirty: Changed around the sizes of some partitions, then rebooted and installed a linux distro on a seperate partition. Went to go into XP Home (SP2, or course), and it first told me autocheck could not be …

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My son tried to access our laptop & this is what it said :( This is the message blue screen Stop C0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry can't load the hive (file) \systemroot\system32\config\software or it's log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent or not writeable,. Beginning dump of physical memory. …

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Every time I reboot my laptop it gets new static ip address, I login to unix servers using ssh, every time I have to manually export DISPLAY to actual ip address, is there any way I can automatically get the ip address of machine from where I am logining in?

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I am starting this thread in the hope that I might get some help to restore my laptop. On New Years Eve as I booted up I got the "Windows cannot start system32/config/.... file is missing or corrupted. Spoke with Toshiba and since I could not locate my recovery cd …

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Hi, I'm DaMoogle and I'm here with an odd problem. Today, Windows Update got some updates for Excel 2003, IE7, and Outlook. I've tried to download them multiple times, but they will not install properly. In fact, when I clicked install, the yellow icon disappeared from the taskbar (i.e it …

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Hi all, just found this forum and I could do with some help! :-) My wife has an old Time laptop, bought on Ebay second hand,about a year ago. Recently, over the last week or three it's started randomly shutting down - instantly, like the power went off suddenly. Tonight …

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I have a Compaq Presario XP SP2 that I can't get out of safe mode. I can't find my original CD and I am begging for help, from my neighors laptop. Thank you, Dianro

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:confused: I OWN A CTX EZBOOK 800 SERIES LAPTOP WITH AN AMD-K6 333MHZ PROCESSER, 160MB RAM, 4 GB FUJITSU MHC2040AT HARD DRIVE, EXTERNAL PCMCIA 8GB IBM TRAVELSTAR E HARD DRIVE, 1.44 FLOPPY DISK DRIVE, 56K MODEM, AND A Q-LITY 4X4X6 CDRW (MODEL: ECW-043). PROBLEM: A FEW DAYS AGO, I DELETED …

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Hi all I was looking for a port scanner to see what was open on my laptop and I thought as I was learning C++ why not search for a C++ port scanner. I came across this code I can make sense of most of it but it wont compile. …

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I use a laptop( HP pavilion dv 5000 ) and want to start photo editing using adobe photoshop cs2. I have been offered an eizo flexiscan L658 monitor at a stupid price, which would give me superior colour controls and better image resolutions. Can I connect this monitor to my …

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Hoping you could help? Picked up a used HP Pavilion N5425. Works perfectly except for the monitor. The angle of the monitor affects the visual. At an angle of between zero degrees (closed) to approx. 65 degrees the monitor works fine, however at this angle, you must place your chin …

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I'm new to this forum thing, so please forgive me if I'm in the wrong place! I have an Acer TravelMate 4050LCi Laptop, just over a year old, running XP home. Although, when I plug my optical mouse into the USB ports its light comes on, it won't work. Nothing …

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Okay, this seasoned computer wrangler is about to give up... I was looking for a blown fuse but no-joy. Pammie undocked the CD-ROM while running W2K. It froze up. Unplugged and replugged power and batts to do a restart but now the laptop is totally dead- no lights, spin-up, sounds, …

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Hey all, I just found you, signed up and this is my first post, so please be gentle. I'm working on a friends Laptop, as follows: HP Pavilion DV6105US Entertainment Notebook PC AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK36 Windows XP Media Center Edition 512MB system Memory 80GB (5400rpm) harddrive Super …

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When I start up my laptop, the screen immediatly says Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM. Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair. The deal …

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Hey guys, I have a bit of a head-scratcher here. On my 1 1/2 year old laptop ( HP Pavillion DV8000, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, NVidia GeForce GO 7600 , 2 GB DDR2 memory, 2.0 GHz Intel Centrino Duo, 2x 80 GB Hard drives) I am unable to …

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I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop, 1.5 years old (unfortunately out of warranty). One day a few weeks ago, when I turned it on, the screen lit up but nothing showed up on the screen. Fans were running and Windows XP seemed to start properly (I could log in …

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I recently lost the CD drive on my laptop (running Windows XP Home) Replacing the drive is not an option at the moment due to cost. I have connected an internal drive to a USB external drive box. The drive works fine but is there a way to configure it, …

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I have had this Dell 8600 for several years. It has withstood being dropped numerous times and I even accidentally poured two cups of boiling water on top of the keyboard over a year ago. What did it in was my 2008 Streets and Trips Pharos USB GPS unit. I …

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My 1yr old computer had just gotten bogged down. It was randomly closing my browsers on Internet Explorer. It would freeze alot, and sometimes it wouldent let me close a program. My fix for it was to just wipe it. I felt it needed it anyway. So, I got the …

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Well i bought a Hel-80 from Ibuypower last year and amazingly enough the warranty went up 3 days before my laptop just magically stopped working. It was running fine, never ran extremely hot, never random strange locks ups etc. But the other day i went to get online and it …

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Alright, about 3 months ago I bough an HP Pavilion laptop that has Vista on it as well as the HP docking station. For almost 3 months, everything worked fine, then about a week and a half ago, everything hit the fan. My first problem is the network center. It …

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Hi, My friend had to clean-reinstalled XP pro on his laptop because the cpu was running at very high percentage. Now after reinstall, the cpu is running at 50% constantly. Does anyone know what is wrong? thanks in advance

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I have a friend's laptop with Vista. When you boot up, and try to log in it takes a few minutes then stalls before the desktop icons and taskbar show up. All I get is the wallpaper and mouse pointer. I can't right click and the windows key on the …

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Hi all, So this is a prblem I've had for a while now. I've since given up trying to get my pc to start up right, having moved to a crappy laptop for my computing needs for the time being. It all happened about 2 or 3 months ago, after …

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Hey guys, I have a question. A few months ago, I was having a problem with my laptop and I ended up starting the process of reinstalling Windows XP over the version that is already on the laptop. I didn't finish the installation, though, and my laptop is fixed and …

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Hi all, We recently purchased a new Toshiba Satellite X205-S7483 with Windows Vista Home Premium already installed. The *only* problem to date is the fact that it refuses to read my older Sony memory sticks, the bluish ones about 1-1/2" long, not the tiny xD or Duo sticks. I have …

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I have got a Toshiba M40. PSM40A-08L009. Its about 2 nd half year old. few days ago i updated the bios. i got the bios from toshiba's website. it worked fine until yesterday. i turned the computer off the day before, it didn'b turn on the firt time then it …

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I have Gateway Solo 1450 laptop with XP operating system. I was on battery, the battery gave out and computer went into hibernation. I plugged in the AC power adapter cable into the power connector. The battery charge indicator light came on. I pressed the power button above the keyboard …

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Hi -- Brand-new member, so please excuse anything newbie-ish...! I'm trying to milk the last bit out of a Dell Latitude PPX laptop. Recently, the "joystick" (mouse substitute, in the middle of the keyboard -- a little nub, meant to be moved with the index finger) has been stuck. The …

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I need some help. Today I attempted to upgrade the memory in my daughter's Toshiba Satellite M35X laptop (256 to 1 Gig). Upon changing the memory I noticed the laptop was only registering one of the two new memory chips. I went through the process of trying to determine whether …

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Right now iam in offshore industry. Upto yesterday my HP laptop working fine and in the morning i swithched on the screen showing nothing its a blue screen nothing else. While switching on i can see F9 and F10 after that screen going blank. So i tried to load XP …

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Hi, I have an old Compaq Evo laptop that has been used sparingly for a few years as a company computer at home. But i decided to make it into a home computer, so i installed a new XP operating system, uploaded office, then plugged it into my broadband modem …

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Hello all!!! have a question about Sony VGN-AR150G laptop that keeps rebooting after 5 seconds as soon as i turn on the power. after few tries it turns on and is steady. I am able to work on. I imaged did Recovery and was able to go online, watch movies …

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hey guys, ummm im not that gewd with computers, but ummm ive been trying to copy movie files (mostly .avi) onto a thumb drive then copy them from the thumb drive onto other compters. everytime i do it the movie wont play on the computer. ive tried using a few …

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i had 2 repair the power jack inside the laptop and the keyboard came lose is there anyway 2 fix it. please help

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We have an Inspiron 4150 that we use mostly for the kids homework, and emails. We recently purchased a kodak easyshare m833 digital camera we went to insert the disk that came with the camera and the disk made some noise when we inserted it and then nothing, no set …

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Hi: I have a weird problem with my laptop. It's a 3-4 year old Dell Inspiron 8500. Basically, when I turn it on, it boots fine, loads up XP pro, I can login and work on it for 1-2 minutes. After 1-2 minutes, the display slowly starts to decay (these …

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This is my first post to this forum. I have recently purchased the compaq presario V6409TU laptop. When I wnat to reinstall windows xp professional (service pack -2)in it.I am not able to do so some one told me to first disable SATA drive, then reinstall windows xp professional and …

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Hello, A couple of months ago I was charging my iPod shuffle on my 3-years old Vaio VGN-T1XP/L using the USB pod. I clicked on remove hardware to unplug my MP3, got the message "it is now safe to remove your harware" clicked OK, removed my iPod from the base …

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Hi, first poster so bear with me, i'm not toooo good with technical things lol But anyway, nearly every time i start up my laptop now, it says i haven't shut it down properly, it comes up with the Last known good configuration/safe mode/start windows normally screen, even though i …

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I recently removed, cleaned, and reinstalled the heatsink on a Toshiba 2435-S255 laptop. I was very careful, made sure I was properly gounded, never removed the uP, all this good stuff. After putting it together it powers up but never boots. It doesn't even go into BIOS. Not sure what …

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Can anyone help me, when I tried to recover my sony VGN-Fj1W/Z Laptop with recovery CD it display message stating that Sony.img file cannot be read. Can anyone advise me how can I recover my laptop. Hope to hear soon. Thanks

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hi everybody, im new to the forum and i was wondering if anyone can help me with the file called "sony.img" for my sony vaio laptop, my recovery cd doesnt read it for some reason. thanks

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Hello everybody, I had a problem with my vaio VGN-A130 laptop booting up (blue sreens).... took it to geek squad technicians and they told me my harddrive was going bad so it needs to be replaced and gave me a killer price. Then I thought I should do it myself …

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