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Hey guys, I am having this really annoying problem with my main desktop pc. The internet just wont work...It works fine on my laptop(wireless) but not on the PC plugged into d router. What I have tried already was deleting all the spyware and other nasties (was a lot), reinstalling …

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Hi, After letting it go a few months ago, I'm back to learning PHP. At the moment I use it on WindowsXP with Apache and MySql. I dont want to reinstall my computer but want to go the whole LAMP way by using Linux. So got myself a cheapish laptop …

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I have a MAC G4 dual processor mirror front (downstairs in my home) and a G3 IBOOK white case that I would like to use wireless. I just purchased an Apple Original airport card on ebay for the laptop (not installed yet). I would like to network my computers and …

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Sorry for not introducing myself first but here goes: Hello there my name is Stacey I'm 27, married with a 2 year old son. I google'd this forum when I was desperately searching for an answer to my laptop fiasco. I'm in nursing school, but I love tinkering around my …

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I have an HP laptop (ze2113us) that I am selling on eBay and I want to a complete restore but I don't have a HP restore disk. I guess I don't want to send more money to HP. I know the disk is partitioned (a hidden partition according to HP) …

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My computer is an acer 4504LMi. It has Intel Pentium M745 1.8GHz 400MHz 2MB L2 cache. 1G of memory installed. A couple of weeks ago I got my laptop out and tried to start it. The heat sink fan runs for about 3 seconds, as well as the dvd/cd rom. …

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Please help, I've tried everything I can think of and I'm gettting nowhere. A magnet was placed on a laptop, the laptop presented the blue screen of death, or so I am told by the owner of teh laptop. On restarting I get a message "Corrupt.Missing hal.dll file". The Laptop …

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I just got a mepis live cd... I am running it live on my laptop. I was able to get sound installed, but i am having trouble installing a program. The program is called "Wireless Assistant" ([URL]http://sourceforge.net/projects/wlassistant/[/URL]) Mepis detects my wireless, and it will allow me to detect my two …

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Ok here goes, I am a mac guy, OSX is perfect for me, simple, does its job quietly and never gives me problems. Thats the only way I can handle any computer, trouble free. I now have a laptop (windows XP) that I bought for my ex-wife that she just …

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Hello, I have what is probably a very simple to fix problem. I have a desktop running on windows xp home. I have a new laptop running on windows vista. They are connected with a netgear router. My connection is fine, I can see my desktop on my laptop and …

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I have an IBM T30 laptop running win 2000 pro SP3. Every time I open IE the windows installer program pops up for just a split second about 3 or 4 times. It also does it when I open some programs but not all programs. How do I get rid …

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[COLOR=yellowgreen][B]Hello. I am sure there are other posts regarding this same problem, but I could not find one on this site.. So I am posting a new one. [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=yellowgreen][/COLOR] [COLOR=yellowgreen][B]Yesterday my laptop was infected with some sort of virus called [COLOR=red]Security Alert Popup.[/COLOR] I have tried deleting it from …

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Hey Everyone, My sister has a Dell Inspiron 5150...The other night she spilled Coke onto the keyboard, and as you can imagine, the laptop didn't appreciate it!...Anyways, after everything stopped working, she brought it to me the next day and I opened everything up and cleaned/took out cables/replaced them, etc. …

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Hi there I have this strange problem with my Compaq Presario 2500 Laptop. - computer starts up (and stays on) when plugged into the AC adaptor, and the connection is anything but loose. - the battery charging symbol shows that it's charging, and occasionally that it is directly on AC …

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hey everyone my gf's laptop's screen keeps shutting off after about 25 minutes of use here is her HiJack This Log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 3:36:31 AM, on 3/6/2007 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 …

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I have an [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread71641.html#"]HP[/URL] ZE4400 laptop that has a burned chip -at PO15 I can't ID the chip - Can someone please read the numbers of that chip off your motherboard. I will be greatly appreciative. Our can someone tell me from experience what a replacement chip would be. The …

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My laptop seemed to be working fine last night. I was using it as it was plugged in the wall. I left it for some time, then when I came back it had powered off (what I assumed was putting itself in standby). When I hit the power button, there …

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(this isnt the problem, i just wanted to write a nice story. The problem will come later:)) Being a college student i dont often come home, i came home this weekend to find the aformentioned Laptop lying around. From what my old man said the owner of it said she …

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Hello Everyone. My hard drive went out a couple of days ago and has just been reformatted. I have 4 computers in my house. Before I had to reformat I would be able to print from my laptop to the desktop computer upstairs. Now I cannot seem to get it …

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Hey all, I'm pretty new here obviously, but I got some really... inconvienent virus on this laptop. I really am not sure what it is, but I know it has something called PROTECTOR.exe in the system32 folder (so not the real one) and I know it runs off the process …

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I am using Visual C++ 2005 in my laptop. When I run the program, the answer shows up on the output window (similar to the > command window) and within a second or two the window disappears. How can I fix this problem? The same happens when there is data …

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[COLOR=black]I've had my HP computer for quite some time now, and been running Windows XP home on it since i've first gotten it, and its worked very well for the last 3 years. That was, untill recently :rolleyes: [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Whenever i turn on the computer, i'm getting this nasty little …

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ogfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:16:51 PM, on 3/1/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16414) 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 C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxpers.exe C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\SoundMAX\SMax4PNP.exe C:\WINDOWS\AGRSMMSG.exe C:\Program Files\Apoint2K\Apoint.exe C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\ALUSchedulerSvc.exe C:\Program Files\hpq\HP Wireless Assistant\HP …

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My Internet connection is fine, but i cant use any ports that involve http access. every thing else works for the internet.. just when i use INternet Explorer, i get the "The Page cannot be displayed" error. I am useing my desktop to find out what the problem of my …

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We installed a microsoft intellitype wireless keyboard , 1.0A and wireless mouse 6000 on a Compaq laptop. They both work fine, but when they're unplugged for travel, the laptop keyboard no longer functions properly. The cursor will jump to odd places on the screen. We tried uninstalling them both, but …

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Hello, everyone. Right now, I'm having a problem with my desktop's internet connection. Whenever I turn it on, I get a message saying "Limited or no connectivity." This has been going on since I tried to fix my System Restore. Here is everything that I did that led up to …

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Hi, I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with a blown inverter board. I decided to run an external CRT monitor until I got the new part. It worked just fine until I decided to take the blown inverter board off the laptop and it wouldn't go external anymore. The CRT …

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I get a red clenched fist when I click on any link in a web page that brings up a popup window; but, only when using Internet Explorer 7.0 & my desk top computer. Don't get it when using Netscape & don't get it using Explorer on my laptop. Therefore, …

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So the title pretty much says what I'm trying to do. Not sure how to accomplish. I know there are programs out there (norton ghost, etc) but what I can't figure out is if they are made for doing what I am trying to do. Do I need something like, …

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hello I have a problem with a laptop running xp. Its my nephews so i cant give a detailed version of what happened. when the laptop started i think there may have been a scandisk going on, but my nephew panicked and switched off the laptop from the power button. …

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I am trying to format and reload windows on a dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. When it is reformatting it shuts off at 16%. I have tried different power sources with the same result 3 times. I just added 256 MB of ram from crucial. The machine was not shutting off …

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I have an Averatec 3200 series laptop. I went to boot it up a few days ago and it keeps going back to the black screen that says Windows did not start properly. I have tried booting it with every option in there (safe mode, normally, last good configuration, safe …

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Soo my computer totally shut off on me.. like I unpluged it or just shut off the main switch.. only I didn't lol.. Anyway... when I boot it up I get a message saying.... something about missing or corrupt file \windows\system32\config\system so I add my XP disk in and reboot... …

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Is it just me or do these suckers cause more trouble ... ? I have a PCG-FXA53, four years old ... older, I know, for a laptop, but my grandmother has a Compaq from 95 that is at least operable. Anyway, I was using the computer the other day when …

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Situation is: Desktop PC has 2 ethernet card, one is auto IP. another is 192.168.1.1 Laptop has 1 card, IP is 192.168.1.2 From Desktop ping 192.168.1.2 ,everything is OK. From Laptop ping 192.168.1.1, "Request time out" Please help me.. I am looking for your kind reply, THANKS!!!

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I searched the forum a bit yet couldn't anything really close to my problem, so here it is. I have a Gateway laptop (less than a year old with 1 gig ram and an ati 9600 price:about 1600 a year ago - it's the G550 or something). The monitor on …

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[COLOR=#000000]My girlfriend's Panasonic Toughbook's (laptop) internal hard drive up and failed out of nowhere today. She doesn't back up, so all her music, documents, etc.. is on that drive. Is there a way to hook up her HD to my PowerBook (just as an external HD) in an attempt to …

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Hi all! I have been picking up side work lately and have started making additions to an existing network at a business. They have a router/switch Linksys supplying all of the desktop pcs with internet connectivity. The router has the internal addresses being leased from 192.168.100.150 and up. I added …

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My new Acer laptop just got infected by spyware, and the only way to repair it is to delete the hardrive and completely reinstall windows XP, the problem is the installation disk that comes with the computer got misplaced, and CompUSA says they cannot even restore it without the disk …

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Let me start off by saying I have no experience with this side of the computer, This is the first time I have ever had anything go wrong with a computer of mine. For four years I had a crummy desktop computer, and NOTHING ever went wrong on it. I …

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Hi, Glad I found this place hopefully it will give me the answer I need. I have the laptop shown in the subject line. Its been working perfectly till last night. I closed the top and came back later and all of a sudden I get this yellow blinking light …

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I use a laptop and it doesn't have any PS/2 ports only USB. My wife just bought a keyboard for her computer and it came with a PS/2 to USB adapter. Well my USB keyboard is crappin out so I tryed hooking a older PS/2 keyboard up with the adapter …

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Hello im trying to network a desktop with Windows xp Home and a laptop with Windows xp Pro. i cant seem to get the laptop to network with the desktop. i had no problem networking my old computer, my moms computer and the desktop together but i cant get access …

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Hello everyone, I can't seem to connect to the internet at the library. At first the connection worked, then the connection stopped. I have been able to find the following while trouble-shooting: a daigram shows me my laptop connection has an exclamation point while the labrary connection is fine, showing …

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I'm hoping that I might gain some assistance in reconnecting my laptop to our home network. I originally had the Wireless G network adapter set up so that it would automatically connect to my home network. I began bringing my laptop to a friend's house. He had a wireless network, …

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hya, hope every1 is orite.i bought a wireless laptop and i need help on what things i can do after connecting to a wireless network.i have already connected to the wireless router at work, it says connected but i cant access even the internet. please helppppp chess

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i almost do have the same problem than puddster,i ve got a adsl connection,using a wireless router with 4 ports.when i am using a network cable connection with my laptop or desktop it fine i can surf,but when i want to use a wireless connection from my desktop;i can see …

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Background: I usually check my 13 y/o son's laptop once per month and run AdAware on it to clean out any unwanted stuff. Usually things aren't that bad with only 3-4 tracking cookies found. Yesterday, it found 25! I then looked at his Startup items (via msconfig) and saw a …

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I am probably out of synch with your methodology as I ran AVG 7.5 before I found your forum. However, what else is new, so I will post the log with an initial introduction and possibly you can figure out what is going on. Dell Inspirton 3500 laptop, running Win2000 …

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This is my first post so here goes. I have a emachine M6811 laptop that got the blue screen of death. Running the restore CD worked until it felt like turning itself off and just shut off. I have replaced the hard drive and the restore CD has the same …

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