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| | I have a tecra 8100 that has had a post problem. originally i did not get any disk drive spin, fan spin, dvd power, or screen activity. it turned out that the cpu was not fully locked in the socket. after locking the cpu i now get the hd to …  |
| | This post may be a little long but bear with me as it is a very strange problem. OK. I actually think I had the exact same problem... [b][Moderator's edit- Just for reference, this was split from the following thread: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/post81871.html#post81871][/url][/b] my system stats: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Gigabyte GA7VAXP … |
| | My 1150 Dell laptop will not start up. The DC powerjack on the motherboard broke off on it. It was a clean break and the laptop still worked perfectly but I could obviously not charge it. I used it for a few hours until the battery got weak. I very …  |
| | :(i have a netgear dg834g wireless router i have an acer aspire 5050 notebook running windows vista home premium (connected wirelessly) and a fujitsu siemens scaleo Pi running windows xp sp2 i noticed yesterday that the wireless internet connection on my laptop kept going on and going off etc. i … |
| | hey guys my laptop is freezing.. a LOT.. but my concern is that as the laptop freezes, the light from the NIC lights off!!!!!! :| i mean the card were we connect the patch cable...if its activated, then the lights are on... but when it freezesm the light goes off … |
| | Hi all, new member here. I am looking for some advice on a Toshiba Tecra 9100 that a friend is troubleshooting. Initially there was no power to the laptop, so he did a complete disassembly, checking all connections. On this laptop the mainboard is basically in 2 parts as I … |
| | looking for some help... Please ok heres the deal. i recently had to replace the mother board on my laptop and the lcd inverter (guess its common for these to die) well anyways now when i try to start the laptop up i get a screen that just displays this … |
| | A laptop in my house is not able to browse the web, but is able to connect to my network. I am running Windows XP Home Edition SP2 on that laptop. Other computers on my home network are able to connect wirelessly without problems. I am sure DNS is not … |
| | My niece's Dell Inspiron 5100 has got a Hitachi 40 gig hd and it over heats. Got a laptop cooler and it still runs hot 125deg's and up. If i take a regular house fan and turn it pointing up and sit the laptop on top of the fan it … |
| | Hello all, I am having problems with printer/file sharing in Vista. I have a desktop with XP installed and connected to two shared printers. I upgraded my laptop to Vista and now I can't get it to recognze anything else on the network. A couple of basic guidelines: 1) Yes, … |
| | I have a pc upgraded to windows xp pro from millinium and a laptop with windows 2000 pro. I want to transfer pictures from the pc to the laptop. Can I connect them using a usb cable or must I use a serial connection? How is this done? :rolleyes:  |
| | Hello Community well this is my first post xD I got a problem with my logitech microphone I plug it in into the pink jack in my backpanel and it doesnt work, just like nothing is plugged. Im pretty sure that the problem is not the microphone, because it works … |
| | My laptop's PCMCIA socket connection is loose and requires you to press hard underneath the laptop to get a connection. I *think* the problem may be a strip of metallic tape on the motherboard having lost its stickiness (due to age and/or dust). Can I do anything about this? ---------------------------------------------------- … |
| | Help. I bought a HP scanjet 3970 and hooked it up to my G4 Mac, The scanner goes on when I start the computer but when I go to scan it does not seem to recognize the software. I cannot scan by using the buttons on the scanner either. It … |
| | Hello i am new to this site and a newbie in the whole computer science field. I have a toshiba Satellite laptop...and at times it gives me the error IDE #1 ERROR. This occurs some of the time. Meaning sometimes it gives me this message and at other times, it … |
| | Is it possible to repair a PCMCIA slot whose connection to the motherboard is loose? I assume that's the problem: my wireless card won't go on unless you press hard on the case from underneath in just the right spot. Then if you move the computer, the card shuts off … |
| | Hello I'm new here to this forum and like to post a question on a laptop. I got a laptop from a friend which does not work. I don't know the history of it either. It' a Toshiba Tecra A3 and the symtoms are as follows: Power's on but no …  |
| | Short Version: from the list below, please pick the top 2-3 pieces of software I should learn (in order), and 1-2 programming languages (at most 1 major/hard one) I should learn (in order) to be more marketable in the IT field. Long Version: Hello all. I am new to the … |
 | I have a Dell Latitude CPx (J series) laptop and a section of my keyboard decides not to work at various times. (The Y, U, H, J, N, and M section.) Most of the time I can restart it and it will work properly after that. Other times, it doesn't … |
| | My aunt has a laptop, and she cant remember the pass, she cant log in, and gets an error about the password is wrong, please make sure the password and domain are correct. We have no floppy disk drive or cd rom drive on the laptop.. Can anyone help ? |
 | i want to install ubuntu on my laptop how am i supposed to install a wireless usb so i can use the internet is there any suggestion because i dont think they are any drivers for a belkin stick in ubuntu please let me know if you know a place … |
| | I work for an IT Support company and one of our clients has brought in their laptop as it was full of spyware and other nasties. After cleaning out the laptop completly and testing it was clean I then gave her it back. As soon as she connected to the … |
| | Hiya I have got a brand new pavilon dv6000 with vist already instaled but it is all problems when you want to go on the internet. so here i go if anyone can help. I already have 2 pc's both on internet which 1 is wireless which i didnt have … |
| | I am currently trying to fix a friend's laptop that is being plagued by LOTS of malware ! I ran all the standard anti-virus/ anti-spyware softwares (Spybot, AVG Anti Virus, Norton, etc) but there's still plenty of buggers left! Here's the most current Hijack log! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis … |
| | So I came down with a sudden problem today on my laptop. Whenever I tried to open My Computer, My Documents, Search for Files and Folders, Control Panel, or anything requiring Windows File Explorer, the screen would flash to the wallpaper, then all the icons would come back. That was … |
| | Okay I found this laptop at my job,and so i decided to bring it and see if it still works and running there is a problem thou.I turned it on first there was a problem with the bios time and set i set that all up,and then they said operating … |
| | I have recently been given this laptop with no OS installed, it has an external Teac CD drive that connects to a PCMCIA card, how do I get the CD Drive recognized so I put an OS on this laptop. Thx Rev.J |
| | Hallo, 1 week ago I got an external USB Harddisk (MaxtorOne Touch III: 7200RPM 500GB) and I pluged it into USB port. Windows gave automatically drive letter G: . All was fine, and I could save my data on it. And today I restarted my PC and found that I … |
| | Yeah, i know, there seem to be a lot of laptop LCD not working threads, not one of them could shine any light on my particular problem.. I own a Dell Inspiron 2600 Laptop. And up until the other day, it was working fine, then i notcied after i restarted … |
| | Hi, I know this has been addressed but I am unable to fix the prob. with the soln's I have read (I hope I read them all...) I have an Acer Aspire 3002wlmi laptop.. kept locking up the other day... couldn't shut it down or do anything, thought it must … |
| | on my laptop theres this problem..all starts normally ..on the bar appear the usual trace icons of my start up list...then after around 1-2 min the pc starts automatically to use up more and more cpu without any appearing application running..in the task manager no application running ..when i check … |
| | Hi All I have a laptop that the screen is blank with no image at all. I plug in a monitor and I get the picture as normal so what could the problem be? Is it the inverter as I have read this just seems to fade in time. There … |
| | Just rebuilt my Dell Laptop Its an OLD Latitude C400 As it was given to me, i never had the recovery disk, so just rebuilt it with a normal XP disc. All of a sudden, the graphics were Naff and the Wireless PCMCIA Card was not recognised. Got the graphics … |
| | Flash drive - some generic 512mb thing. Puter: Dell Lattitude d510 XPsp2pro On any other computer the drive once plugged in detects and apperas in "my computer". on this laptop what happens is: the flashdrive's led lights up for a couple of seconds and turns off in device manager a … |
| | I have a dell c400 laptop running windows XP. When ever it performs a windows update it freezes. THe problem seems to be wmiprvse.exe which uses 100 percent of my CPU. Just wondered if anyone else has this problem or can give me some help. Recently i told it by …  |
| | My mom picked up a Toshiba Tecra 8100 at a garage sale (bad idea!) and asked me to fix it up, stating it worked (didn't). I switched the 64MB of RAM from slot A to slot B and now it boots up just fine. Everything works except the LCD. I … |
| | Hello I have a Samsung VM8000 with windows 98 as an operating system. When I put any audio or installation disc's in the cd rom drive its reads it and an orange light flashing up on the cd drive which obviously means that it is reading the disc, when suddenly … |
| | my comptuer was working fine the night before. i shut it down properly. the next day i try and turn it on and it just keeps restarting. it dosent even get to the desktop. i tryed using F8 and starting with last known good configuration but nothing works. HELP PLEASE??? |
| | i would like to put my laptop to original programme when i bought it. idid try to press f8 but still this not help me |
| | I have a Sony Vaio PCG-V505CP and i would like to know if i can watch the movies i have downloaded on my laptop on my tv, they both have the same output and i tried to use the lead that went from my PC to the moniter but all … |
| | Just this morning I woke up to find that my Dell Inspiron B130 isn't turning on. At first the battery light was on whenever it was connected to the AC adapter, but after 1 hr of charging it just turned off.I've tried removing the battery while the laptop connected to … |
| | Hey guys, I looked everywhere for a solution but found none. Here is my problem and the solution I have tried. I am using an HP laptop, AMD Turion 64, 2 Gig of Ram, and dial up connection. Problem: When I first connected to the internet, I was able to … |
| | I have a desktop computer and a laptop both running Windows XP. recently i was running a program called hamachi on my desktop when it asked me if i would like to update the program. i said yes and as soon as it finished my internet stopped working. I have … |
| | hi I have Fedora core 4 cds, and want to install it in my laptop. How would i install FluxBox in it(i mean instead of kde or gnome)? ps im newbie thanks  |
| | hi i was wondering how can we make a peer to peer network i have a laptop and a PC and i wanna share some files and play games how can i set up the peer to peer network! |
| | Hello All, I have a Sony Vaio Laptop Pentium 4 M - 2.2Ghz w/ 512MB RAM Windows XP Pro I have tried to install a TV Tuner Card (bought on eBay... cheap generic no name brand- though it states Philips chipset :$ ) on my laptop and it wouldnt let … |
| | I recently bought a used T21 ThinkPad laptop form a local shop specialising in second hand PC’s. It’s a 700mhz Pentium 3 with CD-R and DVD-R (not writers) and a single USB 1, so I guess it’s about 4 or 5 years old. The CD-DVD drive is a ‘cassette’ type … |
| | Last time my window was not genuine, so i used a program to make it genuine....Then when i restart my laptop, problems occur. Everytime when i move down a very long page, it not normal as there is something like waves shape. It make me really really headache...I dont know … |
| | [font=Comic Sans MS]:confused: Ive got an Dvd-burner/Cd drive and it cant read any of my disk and i cant burn either....plz help coz the warranty just run out a week ago!!!! i happened rite after i woz watchin a dvd help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant afford $500 for a new one (btw … |
| | Im an administrator for a company and our vp's decided that they want laptop's!!! We have setup offline files for their profile folder because we have roaming profiles in an AD environment and to make an ease of life this is stored on a server [URL="file://\\server\profiles\joe.joe"]\\server\profiles\joe.joe[/URL]. now when they login … |
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