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| | Hi, I have an Hp Compaq nx8220 business notebook. My problem is that the bit at the back where the power adapter goes in is broken, The pin in the middle of the socket has come detached from the Laptop. I called the local repair place, and they quoted me …  |
| | When I turn on my dell inspiron laptop, it goes all the way to the "windows" screen and seems to stop loading and just stays on that screen. The only way I am able to use my laptop is on "safe mode"...Please help me!!! Aija |
| | I have an HP notebook that I believe is busy eating the hard drive or the processor. I would assume that the noise the computer makes when you start is the hard drive? My laptop froze up and is now making clinking and clanking sounds while it is running. I … |
| | Hi I have got something really bad on my works laptop. Keep getting pop-ups about viruses, black door trojans, malware, etc. and its running really slowly. I am going to get in so much trouble if i dont get it sorted out fast. Please can someone help. I have posted … |
 | Hi, can anybody tell how come a standalone laptop is giving this error. [B]PXE-561[/B] I tried Googling just to end up without finding even a single result. PXE alone yields many results but nowhere 561 is mentioned. what i it some kind of error number I suppose. For more information …  |
| | Well, I have absolutely no clue how this happened, because one minute, my keyboard was working perfectly fine, now, it's severley messed up. I use a Toshiba A105 laptop (w/ XP), and now, certain keys are going nuts. When I hit the shift key, a window asks me if I'd …  |
| | Hey, my friend bought this LG R4000 Laptop last x-mas, however he did not get a recovery CD with it, since they have stop making them for all laptop and desktops to save money. Well my friend was wondering how he could make a recovery CD/s because he wants to … |
| | My little niece dropped my sister's laptop which just our luck is out of warranty. Now I am getting the dreaded PXE errors and the Bios said none for HDD. This is a Toshiba A215 model. I opened the HDD slot and removed and re-inserted the drive firmly. I then …  |
| | I have a big problem. I've got a work laptop which is not booting up telling me it needs the file c:\windows\system32\bcmlogon.dll. I can't boot into safe mode as it needs the networking element to log in, and starting in safe mode with networking throws up the error. does anyone … |
| | Hi, I have the HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s ExpressCard and Vodafone Mobile Connect install software as supplied by vodafone (Elisa). Unfortunately, I am unable to use the software. When I put installation CD into my laptop I get a error message. Director Player Error, Script Error. Continue Yes/No??? This CD wont … |
| | Hi. I have a strange problem, which I never saw before and wasn't able to find anywhere alike one. What happened at first is I got some bad spyware and lot of it... My PC got completely messed up and after installing antivirus software and removing it - through my … |
| | I just bought a Dell Inspiron 6000 with a Dell 1370 wireless card. I can connect to my wireless for about a minute and then it disconnects for about a minute and then re-connects. This goes on in a loop continuously. The key is working and the router is letting … |
| | Greetings, My laptop no longer turns on. At first, it started turning off by itself. Then it would turn on, but turn off before booting up. Now it will not turn on at all. I want to revive it because it has a nice big screen (almost 16" diag). I … |
| | I have a few locked laptop Harddrives all of them are good but they just have a password . Ive tried using ATAPWD wich is the only program i found that deals with HDD password but it dosent unlock them with out having the password it self. It has nothing … |
| | hey fellas, new to the forum!! glad to be here! gonna start my first thread with a problem with my home pc. i have a feeling its my motherboard, and something to do with my RAM, maybe a virus ate my cpu up. but anyway......about 2 months ago my pc … |
| | I have noticed for a few months now that I keep getting asked to come install some type of peripheral onto an laptop. This includes USB driven: keyboards, mouse, drives (flash and external), etc. I have tried using installing them under: the user (run as), and logged in as admin. … |
| | Hi, i went out and bought CoD4 and Diablo2 for PC. I put my Diablo2 CD in and installed it and tryed the game out worked fine. A few hours later i went to insert my CoD4 CD into my computer and it doesn't read that any disk is in … |
| | Hi I'm new to forums but have a major problem with my Sony Vaio. It is just out of it's 3 year extended warranty and it crashed one day. I tried to close down the program and even pressed Alt+Del+F4 but it would not respond so I pressed and held … |
 | Hello! i'm running a celeron 2.00GHz laptop on windows XP home edition. it runs at 240MB RAM. it is a new system but when i click on a link in internet explorer 6.0 the window completely freezes. the mouse icon stays as the little hand thing and i have to … |
| | Hello, First off i would like to say that this is a awesome site and i'm so glad i found it because i'm in over my head with my laptop.I have a Toshiba satellite model P205-S6287.The other day it started acting funny for instance every time i would click on … |
| | I usually keep my webcam plugged into a usb port on my laptop. Sometimes I will get an icon error stating unrecognized device. If I plug it into another port it will work. Sometimes the original port will work again. I was told it might need to clear the cache … |
| | Hi Everyone I joined this forum to find a solution to my problem. I have my IBM Thinkpad T22. I had no issue with it for almost 2 years since I bought it from Ebay. Suddenly it stop powering on. The problem started with couple of weeks back when it … |
| | Hey thanks for readin. I have an hp lap and a hp desktop monitor. I have all necessary plugins such as cord that runs from desktop to laptop for the purpose of display. Now here's when I get lost. What's the next step? I dunno how to get my laptop … |
 | I have a HP Omni xe3 notebook. Laptop will not turn on at all, purchased new ac adapter and still nothing. Can some one help or refer me in the right direction? Before this happened, I used the laptop about 2 or 3 nights before hand and it was working …  |
| | A friend had a Compaq laptop, running Windows 98se, given to her. When it is booted up it has an error screen. Cannot find a device file that may be neede to run windows or a windows application. The windows registry or System. INI file refers to this dvice file, … |
| | I have a Dell laptop, that someone removed the HDD and dropped it. The laptop doesn't boot. So I rigged it up to my PC and unsuprisingly found that it had passed on. I replaced and upgraded the new HDD installed Windows on it with my regular PC, but although … |
| | Moshi, Moshi, everyone! O genki desu ka? My name is Nick and I'm from Nigeria. I just bought a Fujitsu-siemens laptop so i decided to join a tech/social network. I'm so glad that y'all could have me in your network. [Thank you Dani!] . I hope to have lots of … |
 | Good day. I am constantly getting a pop-up on startup of my laptop telling me that Windows Security Center is turned off and to click on that pop-up to turn it on. It brings up a window with a button that says "Turn On." When I click it, a dialogue … |
| | EEK! I was the last one to use my cousins computer and its now messed up and I don't want to be blamed :( Please help! The laptop boots up and then says "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a …  |
| | Hi I am a newbie to this kind of thing as well as to this site and I need some help!!! I have come very close to making the new PS Eye (SLEH-00201) camera work on my laptop, but I really have no idea what I'm doing. I tried installing … |
| | My freinds have one Sony Laptop with 256mb RAM and 10gb harddisk,when he tried to install and use ARCHI cad graphics software the labtop becomes dead.when the power is ON and the OS treid to start it shows error like " window is unable to start becouse of some hardware … |
| | I have a 3 year old Inspiron 8600 notebook computer. It was working wonderfully when I turned it off using the power button yesterday. My husband attempted to restart the computer several hours later and the screen is black. No logo, no backlight, just black. The green power light is … |
 | So my wfie's boss hears I am good at computers and sends his laptop home with her for me to fix. So I do not get her in bad light, I need a little help fixing his computer. I know how to re install windows which is what I think … |
| | IRQ 0 System timer OK IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK IRQ 9 SCSI/RAID Host Controller OK IRQ 10 MPU-401 …  |
| | I have a TravelMate 5520 Acer laptop. I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate and I've tried several times installing a civil engineer program called statics 2007, which use a HASP key. When I write the code of the HASP the program shows this message: I/O Error 5 P=2 C=72 Access … |
| | This is a problem im finally fed up with. My laptop (Compaq Armada m700) is having a problem where the screen has become loose. The hinge that that is swings on no longer sticks in to place. When I use the laptop I either have to prop something behind the … |
| | I have a 10 month old laptop with WinXP Home Edition and SP2 along with 3 spyware and 1 anti-virus program installed. All the software is current and a recent sweep of the computer for viruses and spyware since my problem developed showed no virus and only the usual minor … |
| | i recently bought a new motherboard to replace one that had died for my friends uncle. he bought a new computer and decided to give me his old one. this was a good deal for it has 1 gig of ram, nice all in wonder video card and a Athlon …  |
| | Hi. My laptop has a 160GB hard drive with three partitions and Windows Vista installed on the first one. What I wanted to do is to resize the third partition from 100 to 80GB, create a new partition from the unallocated space and than install Kubuntu 7.10 on it. However, … |
| | I am not a techie but a newbie looking for Techie's Guidance! I want to Transfer small files - mainly for backup- between my MS DOS PC (P4 Processor 256 MB RAM and 40 GB HDD - 8 GB alone accessible through DOS) whose OS is MS DOS 6.22 _(I … |
| | Hi Peeps, could sus out where this post could go, so thought i wouls start here :-) I have a Samsung P29 Laptop, only 2 years old............I have just gone to boot up, it freezes on boot up the starts to beep at me constanly, then I ge a black … |
| | After I click my Windows XP accoutn to log in, the screen goes black and it doesn't load. In safe mode, I did a system restore. I restarted, no go. I went to safe-mode, clicked AVG 7.5, it loads for 2 seconds, then black screen again. CPU and Hard drive … |
| | I have been trying to reformat a hardrive with windows xp. My buddy's Dell laptop wasn't working too good and it was from his old job which had restrictions by an administrative account we didnt have the password to, so i said i would reformat it for him. I have … |
| | Hi Can somebody help me please?! I am trying to download MSN messenger to my laptop (I have winows Vista). Ikeep getting a message saying that I do not have eough permissions to do this. My boyfriend and I are the only people who use this laptop nd we are …  |
| | Ok Im going to get right to it. When I Type in a website on my Windows explorer or firefox and hit go this message keeps popping up "res://c:\windows\system32\shdoclc.dll/navcancl.htm". It does not happen all the time, its only for some sites. (example: [url]http://www.Deathgod.org/[/url]) Um here is my Hijackthis info... C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe … |
| | not sure what is wrong laptop acting up can someone look this over and tell me if they see anything Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:05:54 PM, on 10/27/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) 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 …  |
| | I really didnt know where to post this so please forgive me for it not being in the right place but I'm a P.S.P. freak and love to create art with photoshop and Paintshop I use many plug-ins that need special dll files. I've recently had to do a full … |
| | I have the Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop for Bluetooth. I have both a Bluetooth radio in my laptop itself, and the receiver supplied with the keyboard and mouse. In the past everything has worked fine on my computer. Recently i had to reimaged my laptop and got SP2 when i … |
| | Recently my laptop suffered a major meltdown, the hard drive was completely wiped (apparently it required a new mother board as well, thankfully was still under warrenty) when it returns I need to know if there may be any problems reinstalling Windows XP using the key attached to the laptop, … |
| | Hi, I shutdown my laptop successfully last night, and today when I started, it display a message about the heat and asked me whether I want to continue. I immediately turned if off and opend it up to see if perhaps dust had acumiliated in the fan area. I didn't … |
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