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I have a small network with two pc's, a switch and a dsl-router-modem that provides an ethernet output. I take the e-net output from the dsl-router-modem and, going thru the switch, I supply the two pc's and that part works fine. An "ipconfig" call shows that the dsl-router-modem is the …

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Lost 500 photos on iPhoto of MacOSX10.3.9. Can't import/export. Album names still there. I do have best in PhotoFolder, Laptop, CD, but not all. Questions: #1, are they there somewhere? ... if so, where? Can't search on Panther. # 2, if not, can I import iPhoto from laptop (Tiger 10.4.10) …

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For Christmas I recieved a Toshiba M115 notebook. I never thought I'd be on the go so much with it, so I thought it's casing would be fine. However, the bottom of the notebook scratches my arm when I'm wearing a t-shirt when I move around. If anyone here has …

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Hello, i recently formatted my HDD and then reinstalled [URL="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=297264&forumid=18#"]Xp[/URL]. Theres been no serious problems, except i cant seem to run a [URL="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=297264&forumid=18#"]internet[/URL] connection on it. I have a belkin 54g, and thats all plugged in via ethernet, and that allows the two other pcs in the house to connect …

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hey everybody,!, i recently downloaded firefox as am a loyal firefox user, and after about 10 minutes of using it a message came up saying how firefox is not compatible with windows ultimate, and the laptop goes into vista basic mode which ofcourse is not as good! and it only …

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Hi, I recently purchased a laptop (2 core duo, 1 GB ram) with Vista. Over the last week or so I have noticed suspicious behaviour with the CPU, Memory and Disk activity spiking and maxing out. It even affects mouse behaviour causing jumpy mouse (optical) movement. In the Resource manager …

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Hello Everyone- I am having a bit of an issue and I'm hoping you guys can help me out. While I've seen bits and pieces of my issue in previous threads, I haven't come across one with myy full issue so I wanted to sort of bring this up. I …

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Hello everyone. I'm a newbie here (obviously I guess) and I am attempting to rebuild (or build) my wireless network. A few months back, I purchased a Linksys router because I wanted to be able to play my PS2 online and have someone surf the net @ the same time. …

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The power connector is is loose on my Gateway M305CRV laptop - I've been searching/reading, etc the net all morning and it appears as if the connector is soldered onto to the motherboard. At some point, it's not going to connect at all and I've have no way to power …

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Hi, I searched around for a while and all of the issues involving this statement are not my problem. Basically I have a working, though recently run, cat 5e cable outlet to my room. It works perfectly with the laptop I am typing on at the moment, so the wall …

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A friend gave me a Dell Inspiron 5000 that won't start. Press the start button and the fan starts, there is a short burst of hard drive activity, then about two seconds later, it just stops. The power on light is still green but otherwise no activity. I have to …

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I was using my computer at the airport the other day and it suddenly powered off as though the plug had been pulled. I unplugged its AC plug, plugged it into a different outlet and the computer functioned fine. A couple days later, it did it again, I did the …

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Hi guys, Please, I need your help. I made a web site with a login page. In my laptop it works perfectly, bu when I move the site to other computer, and I put the user name, the password and submit it doesn´t move to the next page. I´m using …

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Hai, need help, My laptop after full format and reinstall xp not successfully. the blue screen error message and reboot again thank you

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I don't know what happened, but the laptop's screen suddenly went completely black. It is a Toshiba laptop (that's all I know about it). The strange thing about this state it is in is that the power button is glowing and wont turn off, no matter how many times or …

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Good afternoon: I have a Dell 5000e laptop that I purchased used off eBay. It was pretty much a stripped down laptop. I bought a new Dell power supply (correct PA-6 model) for the laptop and 128 MByte RAM to see if it would work or not. When I turn …

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I was just using iPhoto when my iBook froze. It would not allow me to force quit. I turned off the laptop. When I went to restart, a folder with a question mark blinks on the screen. Does anyone know what this is and how to fix it? Thanks, Dave

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Okay I have a Zx5000 laptop with a pentium 4 and 1.2 gb of ram and have been having problems with it lately a little while ago the laptop kept on giving me a blank screen on boot, it would just sit there forever and nothing, but everything powered on, …

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I have an old Toshiba Satellite 1750. I am in the Miami area and hurricane season is starting. I put together an external battery pack of two 12 volt sealed lead cell batteries in series putting out 24.4 volts. I pluggedi it into to the external power port of the …

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brand new power cord but still no power, laptop will not turn on no lites ..nothing...won't charge battery dead machine does anyone have any ides?/ if the battery is shorted will it still work off ac? is there a master reset switch???help please..

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I googled her issue and saw a post with crunchie replying and got her to do the things in the list and I have her Hijackthis log, I don't see anything out of sorts myself but don't know much either. She runs Vista, cannot access webpages a lot of the …

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my friends laptop which recently had a hard drive installed, has Auditor as the default OS. I have to select Windows during the boot process. When I first turn it on, it shows everything OK, except the last line: 02B2:Incorrect Drive A type - run SETUP has a box with …

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hello to anyone that can help me out... i am a musician that uses a laptop for live music performance... i have a bunch of standalone programs that i control via midi controller... i currently have one profile on my computer in which i use for everything - school (microsoft …

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Hi, I hope you can help as i am extremely frustrated and dont know what else to try. I have searched all the posts and nothing seems to work. A few days ago i updated Emule which didn't go too well. I completely uninstalled that and reverted my pc to …

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I have encounter this problem and it managed to annoy a guy whit extreme patient like me in 2 weeks. I solwed the problem few ours ago so here is a step by step guide to solve this problem. Please read the ATTENTION part before you start these steps. Step …

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hello everyone, I just got this Dell Inspiron 3500 Laptop yesterday from someone and it wont boot up...the fan runs for 2-3 seconds the lights come on and then it just sits there...the lights stay on but the fan turns off and nothing. any help would be great...I have taken …

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hello to anyone that can help me out... i am a musician that uses a laptop for live music performance... i have a bunch of standalone programs that i control via midi controller... i currently have one profile on my computer in which i use for everything - school (microsoft …

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Howdy from Texas, New to forum, have a HP V2000 laptop, when atempting to boot up get beeps. long beep pause long beep then 2 short beeps. Computer does not boot but does try to access DVD drive and fan comes on. Can anyone tell me where I can go …

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I'm trying to access my roommate's wireless connection (she uses a Dell laptop and a Netgear? router) but her password is not allowing my Mac laptop to access the network. I've tried entering the regular password in the WEP Password field, and also the converted password into the long 128-bit …

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have run full system restor on laptop, now function keys won't work and i can't adjust the screen contrast or brightness. laptop is a compaq armada v300 running windows xp home. any ideas? help always appreciated

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hello everyone my name is Callea' i'm having a bit of a problem with a laptop that I just got and started reading this forum and seen alot of the same thing here so maybe will be able to get this thing fixed with a bit of help from you …

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First windows defender stopped working and refuses to start on start up or manually Second I can't d/l any updates from Microsoft on to the laptop. I have tried AVG, Spybot and Ad ware with finding only minor items. I also tried AVG ant-spyware and anti-root kit with no resolution. …

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ok i have a toshiba satellite laptop... its just over a year old... now all i have ever plug into the the usb slots are my wireless mouse and at times my camera to download the pics from it... as of a few days ago i plugged the wireless mouse …

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Hi all, thanks for reading this thread. Recently my Acer Aspire 5552WXMi stated to act weird. Here are the problems: - After watching avi movie files on Windows Media Player 11 (version 11.0.5721.5230), I try to close the application (pressing the "X" button, or right click & "close" command or …

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Well this computer has been infected with spyware or adware. Getting random pop-ups and the system has been acting really sluggish. Any help is greatly appreciated. Here's the log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:26:45 PM, on 8/16/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 …

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Hello, I have a HP pavillion laptop and also a HP desktop. They are both using a wireless connection. I've had this set up for 3 yrs and never had any problems. Last night I was on my computer. I wasn't on the internet but then all of a sudden …

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I have a Gateway MX6124... Recently, I've had some issues with the laptop resetting itself at random times. It got to the point where the laptop wouldn't stay on for more than 15 minutes without resetting. I checked the battery, AC Adapter, cooling fans, etc. I couldn't find any issues. …

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[b]Problem:[/B] I am a gamer who like any gamer likes to ensure that he has the right tech peripherals to maximize gameplay. Sadly, I have come across a game that requires a rather interesting feature: merely the ability to register all four arrow keys when pressed down. I'm in need …

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Friend has a laptop that has Windows XP, but someone put in a new hardrive and every since she can't get the computer to come up. I'm not a tech kinda guy, but she wanted me to mess with it. When it comes up, I have to hit enter when …

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A friend has asked me to look at his toshiba satalite pro laptop. All I can tell you about it is that it has xp installed and a celeron processor. When i switch it on it shows a Toshiba bootup pic then has a black screen with the following... Windows …

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I just got a new laptop, which I bought because the price was great and it had descrete VRAM -256, which is almost impossible to get unless you want to spend $2000 or more for a laptop. I thought to then downgrade to xp, but quickly found out about the …

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Greetings from Central Texas. Don here, living just south of Austin. Retired Navy, did C4ISR stuff as well as working ships, hunting submarines, and amphibious work. I run a home network with four computers on it: 3 XP Pro desktops and 1 Vista Ultimate laptop. Need help here!! Hope to …

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Hi, I have an acer laptop, with Windows xp 2003, pro reinstalled a few days ago. I tried to connect my camera and palm with it, just yesterday, but it is not recognizing any of the ports. I went to the BIOS utility, but simply couldn't find the status of …

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I have a Gateway Laptop Model 3040. Its working fine when running on its power but it immediately logs off when i put the power code on. so i am charging the batery and use the laptop for 10 minutes then the powers goes off. So when i put direct …

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New laptop Hit ctrl alt del to lock the system and the Windows security box doesn't have focus. Have to use the stupid mouse to click lock computer. I've always just hit space bar to lock it. Yes I know I could use windows key and L, but the ctrl …

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I'm a newbie/novice here who recently purchased a Linksys WRT54G Wireless Broadband router (though I'm currently using the non-wireless access via cable ports). My intention is to browse the web on my PC while viewing baseball on MLB.TV on my non-wireless laptop. I can do both individually with the cable …

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I looked around and didn't see this posted. I have a Toshiba Satellite m-35 laptop. Recently, my display has messed up. Sometimes if I close a window, it'll still display a mixture of that window and my desktop. Then if I try to open a new window, it'll be messed …

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Heyo My laptop has a webcam and a mic built-in on top. The laptop is XPS M1210 The distro is Kubuntu 2.6.20-16-generic The problem I've had, ever since I bought the laptop and installed beloved Ubuntu, is that while the webcam is not supported, it overheats rapidly while the laptop …

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Would really appreciate any help.PLEASE PLEASE I have Windows Xp professional My Laptop was fine then I downloaded a program which was a bit dodgy. My computer started freezing so I restarted it and the following came up: Smart error predicted backup files (etc).......... Press f1 When I press F1 …

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I'm at a complete loss at what to try next. My computer was working fine last week. It's a Asus K8N Motherboard with an AMD64FX. I've been connecting to the internet fine with no trouble, even with TrendMicro Firewall running (I use PCCillian Internet Security 2007). I shutdown my computer …

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