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My Toshiba TE2100 finally bid farewell to normal life last night. Orange light flashing, boots for 2 mins sometimes and then dies.... so I'm assuming it is the power board connection. I'm ok with saying 'au revoir' to the laptop - it has given a lot of service - but …

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My CD-ROM will not burn CD's anymore and I don't know why. When I first sign on to my PC, it does give me a popup saying that it most likely will not work. Problem is, it read's but it cannot burn. What is wrong with my P.C. Also, my …

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I have a compaq presario 700 and the screen won't stay open. It has lost all the tension it had. Any suggestions on how I can fix it or recommend any devices I can buy to attach to laptop to keep the screen in an up right position. thanks stone

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Hi, my laptop is not getting booted. whenever i try to charge it, the light on the charger gets off. with that charger i can charge my other laptop. so it seems that there is some problem with laptop & not the charger. what can be the problem that charger …

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Hi, I never ran in to this kind of problem in my life so far. Recently I bought a Lenovo 3000 Y410 laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I tried to dual boot Ubuntu 7.04 with it. This actually replaced my boot loader with GRUB. I formatted the Ubuntu …

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Hi, I have just been given two of these machines, both of which have probs. I will talk about this one first and come to the second one in a later thread. I put a 30Gig Drive in it and set the BIOS to boot from CD to install anew …

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When I try installing win 2000 or even booting to access windows, I receive a stop error: 0x0000007A (0xe193934C, 0xc000000E, 0xa00c3d35, 0x02432860), Kernel Data Inpage Error; Address: a00c3d35 base at a0000000, Date Stamp 38438ff7-win 32 k sys, Beg dump of physical memory. The laptop is a Portege 7000Ct. I get …

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Hi, I was asked to rebuild a compaq nc6000, (reformat disks, reinstall XP Pro and software) Since the rebuild I haven't been able to connect the laptop to the domain. I get the following error: <quote> A domain controller for the domain (DOMAINNAME HERE) could not be contacted. Ensure that …

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Hi I bought a new laptop back in febuary with the vista ultimate installed, i needed a good laptop to run programs such as cad as well as a few games when im home :), was asured this laptop was the best at the time would run everything i needed …

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Hey all, I'm having problems with my laptop. Usually around 3ish where i work my laptop CPU usage shoots up to 90% even when i'm not working on anything. here is a copy of my log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:55:31 PM, on 10/4/2007 Platform: …

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How can I boost the strenght of the wireless card in my laptop? I stumbled onto a place to do it quite a while back, but haven't been able to find it since then. I know it will make the battery drain faster, but don't care at the moment. Thanks!

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This may be a really simple question, but I am not as savvy as you guys are, so here goes: For the past few months I have had my Toshiba computer upstairs connected to my cable modem via my wireless router while my wireless router provides the internet to my …

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Hi All, My computer is IBM Thinkpad T41 laptop.The problem is that the CPU fan is always on and this is very irritating as i hate the sound it makes.When i check on the Tasmgr it does not show that much CPU Load to make the fan work.I dont know …

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My laptop screen will not display an image. I have tried plugging in an external lcd and hitting Fn F8 and get no display either. The laptop is old but it did work a few days ago. I dont think the LCD is cracked or broken. Could it be the …

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I am working with a delphi form that appears to have a rather interesting problem. I am developing on a laptop sitting at 1920X1200 resolution. On my form, I have a trio of components. One is permanently invisible, and clicked to align/left. The next is permanently visible, and clicked to …

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Hi All, Hoping you guys can solve my problem. My laptop is new (2 months old) and has a peculiar problem - the monitor runs perfectly when it is running on power, but as soon as i switch to battery and try to move the laptop...it flickers and goes blank. …

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Hope someone here can help me with this... My troubles started this morning when programs on my laptop had frozen. I rebooted, and after that I can't access my files, iexplorer and some other apps won't start. I see them among the running processes but something is blocking them from …

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I transferred files & settings from 1 laptop to another. I then exported Outlook Person File Folder through an external hardrive and imported into the new laptop. Appeared to be OK, but when I tried Send/Receive, the Send/Receive status is stuck at 65%. Need help! This is Outlook 2003 with …

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Hi All, I am facing problem with my laptop Dell inspiron 6000, Operating system XP Home edition. When I press the start button, indicators on the key board blinks for a few seconds and the laptop stops booting up. I have seen that thumping on the laptop once or twice …

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I have a HP Pavillion ze200 laptop, the motherboard has been burnt out and I need to replace it. I don't know being that I have never done that before if it is easy enough to do or too complicated, or of course is it worth it. Where could I …

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My sister has come to me with a laptop problem. Apparently, the external power on her laptop has been cutting out quite often, to which she thought it was her external cord. However, after looking at the cord, the end that inserts into the laptop is burnt. It also appears …

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Hi, I'm new to Linux. I just installed it on my desktop computer and I want to put it on the same network as my laptop but I'm having some trouble. Any help? I know it might be hard to convert most files that I might want to share (probably …

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Hi :icon_wink: I was working with my laptop (power cord connected and battery fully charged) when the screen just got dark, I thought it was the autoshutdown of the screen, but it did not respond even when moving the touchpad or pressing the keyboard I force shutd:icon_cool: own it by …

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Hi, I have just bought a new laptop with Vista Business installed. I want to Downgrade to Windows XP Professional as some of my programs will not run under Vista. Do I have to buy a Windows XP OEM or can I use the CD I bought with another computer …

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hey guys, ummm im not that good with computers so i needa bitta help here... i think i have a virus or spyware or sommat. i have an annoying Security toolbar on Internet explorer. when i click on it it takes me to a few different antivirus webpages, antivirgear.com, antispywear …

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Press my little start up button, which lights up for 3 secs then goes out, no other noises coming from laptop, dead as a dodo, doing exactly the same with power lead in. HELP !!! PLEASE SOMEONE !!! PC World £80 just to look at it, Toshiba knowledge base no …

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Hi ;) I was working with my laptop (power cord connected and battery fully charged) when the screen just got dark, I thought it was the autoshutdown of the screen, but it did not respond even when moving the touchpad or pressing the keyboard I force shutdown it by pressing …

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My laptop was fine yesterday then today it just froze on me and restarted. After that, it never fully loaded XP so I manualy restarted it and nothing happened. I tried to start it in safe mode, nothing happened. After a few more times, it finaly started in safe mode. …

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Does any one know a way to install IIS on windows xp sp2 when the option isn't there to install in add and remove components. Someone given me this laptop so i don't know the history of it. I don't really want to reload it does anyone have any ideas

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I'm working on an annoying Averatec 3200 series notebook. The screen is all white when it starts, however when connected to an external monitor the video is fine. I've already replaced the video cable in the laptop with no improvement. Is there any way I can tell if the problem …

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hello to those who read this... i have a laptop that has a cd and dvd writer drive on it... up until recently, i have never had any problems with it buttttt lately it has been acting really funny. if i am writing a cd, whether it be audio or …

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Hey, I live in Canada and I have a subscription to Bell Sympatico Internet. I am planing to take a trip to Florida soon and I was planning on bringing my laptop. I was wondering if there was any way to get internet in Florida, by maybe using my own …

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Hi, My HP laptop is dead, I don't know where to begin finding out what could be wrong. I know it could be a million (maybe not that much) things wrong with it. I just don't know where to start looking.

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Hi All :S I have four desk tops, a tablet, a pda and a laptop in the household. All running XP Pro. One of the desktops is being used for parts and another just went south reason unknown wont boot with anything, don't even get the startup screens. That I …

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Dudes! Is there any way on how to reset the power-on password? (By means no need to reset the jumper or removing batteries.) Is there any manufacturer code for a Compaq Presario 1500 laptop? Thanks a lot.:icon_idea:

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For some reason when I start up my laptop the following two messages come up untill I close them. "Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\Imflmikc.dll. The specified module could not be found." "Error loading C:WINDOWS\system32\uwmoufvy.dll. The specidied module could not be found." I think they are virsus that I have removed lately, as …

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I recently received an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop with a Hard Drive Failure post (fixed disk 0 failure). I immediately assumed the hard drive wasn't plugged in securely or it had failed. I proceeded to swap the drive out and test the old hard drive in another computer. It turns …

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-I have a Toshiba Laptop running Windows XP SP2- Problem: My problem is not actually only in IE, but all browsers. Some Ads which appear on a webpage are not displaying correctly. Instead of the Ad being displayed, it says "The Page Cannot Be Displayed" where the Ad is supposed …

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Hi! I have a dell ispiron 1300 laptop, with Win XP & SP2. Thanks to my college, I also have access to the MSDNAA software site, so I decided to download XP Pro (with service pack 2) for my laptop (free through the program, after all). So after doing the …

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I have a Dell E770s CRT monitor purchased in 2000 with my Dell Dimension XPS T500 system, all of which have run well until recently. A few weeks ago one of my kids said the display went unstable, and after she shut everything down and restarted the computer system, the …

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Hi i have a computer and a laptop. I have wireless internet using a router. I cant get into the router because the password doesn't work and anyone can use my router if their within distance of it. I tried the reset button but the router automatically sets itself back …

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Hi all I just installed win XP on an IBM T-20 thinkpad my wife wants to use as a portable DVD player. If I try to play a movie I get a messge that I may need to decrease the resolution. I set it as low as possible but it …

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dear sir, compaq presario 1200 xl 222 laptop ,when i pressed power switch power on laptop but no display on lcd & external monitor,no beep ,even cpu is heating & fan is mooving but not booting from hdd or cdrom or fdd, so i want to test the fash bios …

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Hi everytime I try to access a certain site ([url]www.facebook.com)[/url], I get redirected to a porn site. I ran hjt, and this is my log Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:00:01 AM, on 9/25/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16512) Boot …

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Hi, I'm new to your site, so I hope this is the proper place for this question. I'm subletting an apt w/ wireless. I have the network name and password, "bulldog." The problem is when I enter the password I get an error message that reads, "this network requires a …

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Hi all, this is my first post on these forums, so appologies if I do not supply all the information about the problem in hand. Basically I've had my Dell Inspiron 9400 for a couple of months now, and have had this reoccuring problem where only when viewing certain web …

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Well, My friend have a laptop which monitor goes blank random times. I hooked it up to my monitor and it happened the same thing. However; when I take the memory out of the laptop and plug back in. It lasts long without screen going blank. I also set to …

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Hi there, I have an Acer Aspire 5610 laptop. Windows died recently and if I use the Acer recovery program I will lose the contents of my hard drives - something I am very keen to avoid. So I got my hands on a Windows XP Pro CD and have …

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All of a sudden when the laptop was "awaken" from the screensaver the display switched to lower image analysis with lots of flickering going on. After rebooting/hibernating everything went back to normal. I updated my nvidia driver, thinking that could cause the problem. It looked that it worked fine but …

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Hello I`m turning to you in despair, please kindly help me as I am technologically impared . Briefly, I have a [B]Dell 800 laptop with Windows XP[/B], which now gives me the same dead-end message on a black screen: error loading OS. Indices: This has happened after [B]I have tried …

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