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 | I am going to switch to linux soon. I have a laptop, the system information says:- System type: X86-based PC Processor: x86 family 15 Model 22 stepping 9 intel 2500 Mhz Which one should i choose, the x86_64(I think this one is for 64 bit) or i386 (this one has … |
| | I just got my entire laptop rebooted so I lost every files and all. I had it for two days and I'm already experiencing some type of problems. The first problem is that it just randomly shuts down. It just happens at random times. Before it just shuts down, the … |
| | Hi All, new to this forum, so hi.. I've got a problem installing a lexmark X4270, as it's not recognising the USB connection to the printer. The printer does work on another machine, but I don't get a USB port selection when trying to manually add the printer - I've … |
| | I always seem to get 0 kbps upload/download on my Bittorrent. It also seems to be unusually slow and gradually slows down over time. It also hangs around for ages finding a port? Any ideas why it isnt working as I really need it to download a new OS for … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario 2500 laptop, model 2548AI, made 2002. This laptop was supplied with a Hynix 256MB PC2700 DDR333 SODIMM. The CPU is Intel Celeron 2.6 GHz, 400MHz fsb I have tried to upgrade with 2 x brand new Legend 512MB PC2700 DDR333 SODIMMs, but the computer will … |
| | hey guys a mate has a laptop with a 25pin to 9pin converter plugged in to it which he plugs a ecu managment for a drag car into the problem is the ecu software doesnt even reconise it being plugged in is their anything i can do make it scan … |
 | Hello all, I am having a problem finding a KB patch for Outlook 2003. The file I am looking for is: Office2003-kb834716-enu.exe . --Or, I'm looking for a solution to my problem that doesn't involve that file-- Problem: Outlook 2003 is started for the first time, witch to the calendar, … |
| | After reboot internet connection falls to nothing, with any browser, after browsing 4 or 5 pages. I know im not working offline, Im using xp home, dsl, speedstream modem. Nothing I have tried has worked for this computer. I changed computers and started using my laptop, and everything works perfectly. …  |
| | My sister recently came back from college with her laptop & we wanted to set up her wireless router for it & for our new wii which has an internet browser. Its a D-Link Router & I installed it using directions from the manufactorers web site. Its connected to our … |
| | I am a single mom in search of a new computer for myself. We currently have a Dell that was given to us by a very nice organization. The problem is I have 4 teens and a pre-teen, so computer time is way limited. I was browsing on ShopNBC and … |
| | hi everyone! this is my first post on this forum, and here it goes... i have a D-Link DSL modem which is connected to a Netgear wireless router which is connected : 1) physically to my desktop (without a WLAN card) through ethernet, and 2) wirelessly to my laptop. i … |
| | I use a Sony VAIO laptop. For the past two days, it has been 90+ degrees in the Boston area. Today, my VAIO would not start-up. The disk drive area felt very hot. I was able to start after an hour shut-down. Is excess heat a problem with VAIO laptops?  |
| | which one guys? I prefer laptop..portability really does matter in college  |
| | Im so new join about 30 seconds ago and dont know if this is the right place to be posting this. Im up creek without paddle! im a tacher have school laptop - i dropped it in a puddle on friday! I am ok with comps - dont get all … |
| | My laptop (XP home/SP2) started running slow and I started getting IE popups about a week ago (even though I use Firefox). I ran McAfee virus scan and it found vundo/viruses and deleted them. But the popups persisted. I then ran vundofix and it found about 6 files and deleted … |
 | hello everyone. im darshanaa ive just started my linux classes.the problem is ive got no idea abt unix and what all its abt. While i got familiar with the installation ,and required configurations.i clicked a query . why does linux - red hat enterprise linux 4.0 work properly on intel … |
| | Hi all. I just got this refurbished laptop in addition to my pc. I have no problem with my verizon dsl connection until I network this laptop last night. For my router, I got myself the DLink WBR-2310 and my laptop right away pick-up the signal. However, I noticed that … |
| | Im so new join about 30 seconds ago and dont know if this is the right place to be posting this. Im up creek without paddle! im a tacher have school laptop - i dropped it in a puddle on friday! I am ok with comps - dont get all … |
| | Hi, I seem to have many different kinds of trojans on my laptop. My computer keeps switching itself off, then I see a blue screen describing a serious error, then it restarts. I can't access my internet at all - I have to go through Windows live messenger in order … |
 | Hi, I have a home desktop running XP home SP2 connected to my router wirelessly. I bought a new laptop, but it had Vista... after days I gave up and returned the laptop to the shop. I now have a XP sp2 Pro XP laptop, but cant even see the …  |
| | I am trying to update the sound drivers on my laptop. A few months back, my laptop's audio began coming through quite scratchy, to the point that I usually completely mute the audio. It is so bad at times that it lags the performance of the rest of the machine, … |
| | I have a VM of Ubuntu running on VMWare. Everything works, wireless, and all, except for the sound. I have a Realtek High Definition Audio card, which came onboard this laptop. Any ideas for drivers or solutions? |
| | PC runs XP MCE. 2 scenarios 1) PC is on and running. I walk away for a while or whatever and when I come back the screen won't wake back up. 2) PC is running with power cord plugged in. I unplug and screen goes black and won't respond/wake up. … |
| | Hi, hope you can help me, I have a Toshibe Satellite laptop running XP sp2 registered with ms with a 40 gig hdd but I bought it online and have no backup disks, the laptop has the xp oem code label under it. My problem is the m/c recently started …  |
| | Hello there I have a problem. I have an IBM thinkpad laptop and one day I did a microsoft update and everything was working fine. The next day when i switched on the laptop, I got the dreaded BLUE screen with UNMOUNTABLE-BOOT_VOLUME and error code ***Stop: 0X000000ED (0x82F64900,0xc0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) … |
| | My Compaq Armada m700 laptop is running Window XP. Undocked it boots up fine. When I dock it in the Compaq docking station the Compaq name comes up on the screen, screen goes blank and the boot up process stops right there. I have another M700 that is running Win … |
| | What is the best laptop you can buy for high school and college that is under $1000? |
| | Hi.... I'm new here... I have Toshiba Qosmio F10. I have just dissambly my laptop then assembly it again... now I have a problem .... my laptop just shutdown automatically after certain time (araound 2 minutes)..., and before, I got an error #IDE 1 . I dont know what's actually … |
| | I am connecting to the internet through a linksys wireless router. My laptop connects fine. My desktop pulls an IP address but will not display a webpage. The laptop is using a D-link usb connected wireless adapter. I my have deleted some things that I should not have. Any ideas? |
| | I get a messege saying I may not have access to files, to check with administrator for permission. I set up both desktop and laptop, both set to same workgroup. Each comp is recognized by the other, bt I cannot logg onto the Desktop from laptop.. please help. I checked … |
| | Hi there, I am having a problem with reinstalling windows xp. I am trying to reinstall xp because I was having a problem. alls was going well it got to the step where it started installing devices. A window popped up saying that "the software you are installing for this … |
| | Im assuming the root of this problem is vista but i could be wrong. I have a linksys wrv2oo router hooked up to the pc thats running vista. Then I have my laptop that runs xp. The connection to the pc will drop about one to two times an hour. …  |
| | I have a compaq Armada 4131T laptop from 1996 or 1997 (I got it from my uncle for free, so I'm not complaining), and it doesn't have an usb ports or network ports. I'm pretty sure it's only compatible with the 16bit PCMCIA cards (PC Cards i think) not the … |
| | Afternoon people, I have a laptop at home which connects to my wireless network via a usb dongle. I am sorting out a friends machine which is a tower and I want to run automatic updates, virus definitions etc. i have connected a network cable from my laptop to the … |
 | I am having a problem accessing a windows xp shared folder on my network from my laptop (running windows media center). I cannot access the computer by \\computer-name or by \\ip-address. In fact, I cannot and never have been able to access any shared computer with this laptop (as far … |
| | I have an older Sony Vaio laptop (PCG-FX215) that I have watched many movies on, it will no longer playback DVDs. The Interactual player does not find a DVD player - DVD Decoder missing. I do not know what has happened. I do not remember downloading or deleting anything that … |
| | Question #1 : My ibm X24 screen went black and has not worked since. I have not tinkered with anything to cause it to go black. The laptop powers on and stays on but has no picture. What can I do to fix it? (if fixable) I have win xp … |
| | Hi All My first post. I have a Acer 660 laptop which has a duff CD / DVD rom combi drive. I need to replace it but Acer Support is charing 200 pounds for a replacement. The thing is I've seen similar drives on ebay for 20 pounds but what's … |
| | The system: Alienware Area-51 M5790 Laptop - Vista Ultimate Intel Core Duo T7400 @ 2.16GHz 2046 MB RAM Office 2007 Professional The scenario: On boot up the system is using about 45% of the RAM. Open Excel, open a spreadsheet (72 KB file size) that was created in Excel 2007 … |
| | My laptop has an intergrated network card IN?TNI'C 420-0810. Will this work with an ethernet cable which a college requires?  |
| | In the past few weeks I've essentially bricked my laptop. XP won't boot any more and in an attempt to sort it i've stuffed the hard drive. I won't go into detail mainly cos i can't be bothered. Anyways, I'm away to go reformat the hard drive but I can't … |
| | I have a HP Compaq Presario 2100 series laptop that will not recognize the IDE hard drive that is brand new. It has been installed correctly and it is not being reconized. I am reinstalling Windows XP Professional on it. So far I have had no luck at all on … |
| | Hello, my name is Gregg. I enjoy troubleshooting computers cause it's like a treasure hunt. But sometimes I can use a map -- hopefully someone can be my map. I fix computers here and there for friends, though I'm no expert. It's amazing how many more laptops I get to … |
| | [B][COLOR=red]I have a HP Laptop with Vista installed. The C drive is 170 GB and D is 5 GB where the HP recovery is. I want to partition my Hard disk (C:) into 2 or more pieces. Please tell me how can i do that without purchasing a Partition Manager …  |
 | Ok, I need to get a laptop & now I've got each person telling me theirs is the better laptop & I'm getting confused. Pls. let me know your thoughts, but only if you know specifically that one unit is better than the other. Thanks :) Michelle First one is: … |
| | I have a WGT624g3 wireless router which is giving me a hard time in configuring WEP/WPA. I can access it if it is left OPEN, with both my laptop and other desktops in the house, so I am convinced it is not a client end problem (possibly erroneously). However, I … |
| | Hi there. I've been all over different forums trying to get some help with this, but have been unsuccessful so far. The situation is: I want to hook my girlfriends laptop up to my Samsung HDTV (model TX-P3064W, link here: [url]http://reviews.cnet.com/Samsung_TX_P3064W_CRT_TV_30/4507-6481_7-31205688.html?tag=sub[/url]) For the time being, we've just been using an … |
| | Hey, I know there are a couple threads out there with a similar question; however, this thread isn't quite the same, nor will it last long. Okay, I'm buying a laptop for college this summer.. The one I had wanted to buy went up too high in price. I'm trying … |
| | Internet Explorer 6 - opens automatically. but why? I'm running Windows XP Home Edition on my laptop. When I boot up, Internet Explorer opens once with my home page. I've checked out the start up file, but it isn't requested to open at start up. When the computer is left … |
 | Hey i just transfered a new motherboard into my`computer and since then i have been having numerous problems\ 1.i cant boot with my windows xp disc 2.the windows xp thats currently installed that was installed when i had the old mobo is playing up reall bad unusable. 3. i can … |
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