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Here is how my network is set up: I have a home network involving two routers, one wireless, one wired. My cable internet connection comes in on the second floor of my house, into the WAN port of a Linksys WRT54GS Wireless Router. A laptop on that floor makes use …

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So I've been having a problem with Gaim, the chat client, on both of my systems. Actually, I've reinstalled linux on them both atleast once, and each additional time I install Gaim, I get the same problem. It random crashes shortly after MSN login... Mostly when my mouse moves over …

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Hey peeps! Just joined up because I did a search on why my gf fing laptop is broke and here I am...not new to forum communities or pc's but I certainly did not study computer engineering or software hooey (just Behavioral psychology and chemistry:eek: ). I usually manage well enough …

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Was using laptop when suddendly it just switched off! Unable to restart! When I plug the power line into laptop red light comes on, it makes a noise and then goes out in a matter of seconds. Then if I press the on switch - nothing!! What could it be?!

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I have a four-year-old Toshiba 1605CDS that I rarely use, but it is pretty fun to mess around with. I want to replace the hard drive on it from a 20GB to a 40GB which I have. Now for my question: Where is the hard drive located on the laptop? …

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hi all i just lost my laptop's power-on password and i could not remember it, can any one help me recover it ? my laptop is toshiba satellite M100 model

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[B][COLOR=#000000]Amilo Freezes When Playing games[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000]Hi Guys,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I have just bought a second hand Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1667G. less than 2 months old.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]It has the following basic specs:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]AMD 64 4000+ processor 2.2 GHz[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128 dedicated graphics.[/COLOR] …

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Hello, I'm new to the forum. I'm having trouble with this project I'm trying to get working. Here's the break down. Server: NOS: Windows 2000 Server 2 NICs DHCP DNS AD installed The problem i'm having is this. When I hook the 8 port hub up to the server, and …

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I realise that there are other threads on a theme but none have answered my problem, so.........PLEASE HELP;) I have a Toshiba A60 not yet 2 years old. It was working fine yeasterday, it was shut down properly and has had no software updates, new programmes or hardware added. Today …

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I just got a new Dell laptop today. I am having difficulty getting the wireless connection to work. I have another Dell laptop connected using the LinksysWRT45G. I set the new laptop up using the settings from the old laptop. I followed the directions on the Dell Website. The new …

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Please techie geniuses can ou you help me? My dell laptop is registering my belkin router as connected but when I try to open explorer, I get a message saying that no connection to the internet is currently available. Please any suggestions would be appreciated. By the way I registered …

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Well I have recently had a lot of pop-ups of legal/illegal medications, phone sex hot lines, and various other things having to do with porn. My son uses this computer the most (I use my laptop) so I'm assuming he's getting to that age where starts to masterbate, but I …

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Greetings! I've recently poured a glass of water into the keyboard of my Alum. 15" Powerbook G4. I responded quickly and shut it down & poured off as much as possible. Next, I removed the uppercase and left the laptop open for 3 days to air/fan dry. After reassembly, it …

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[I]Good Morning everyone, I am hoping to learn new things regards to p.c's ,laptop's and Broadband etc. It is my pleasure to meet you all. Gambino :lol:[/I]

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Hello, I've had a problem with my laptop for a few months now and have been unable to find any clues as to what is wrong with it. It is a Compaq Evo N800c and one night, while watching a dvd, the white areas of the screen began to flicker …

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In the last week I have had troubles with my Laptop. When ever I enter My Documents my computer will start to run at rediculously slow speed. It wont fully freeze but it is still unberable. I looked at my task manager and it said my prossecor was running at …

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Hi everyone. Here's what I need help with - First off, I've started using Flash, and, having made a few shorts, I became extremely frustrated with its seemingly unusable drawing tools (how am I supposed to draw a curved line?) and having to use a clumsy mouse. So first off, …

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I had some work done on my old computer and now it will only boot up part way and stop. Since it has a lot of info on it that I want to access and is the only machine I can print from, I would like to have it available …

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Got a friends Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. p3 700mhz 256mb ram Win XP Before windows can even load, it displays the following: The amount of system memory has changed. F1 to continue or F2 for setup Windows loads just fine passed that point. (as well as can be expected on …

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Hello Everyone here, I am new here. I have got some problem with my laptops wirelss network. I have Acer Travelmate 250 series, it has IEEE 802.11 b wireless network card. It was absolutely fine until i reinstalled my windows xp on that laptop. It was working fine with my …

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Now I know, look in the specs, ask the manufacturer. I already have. the specs don't mention bluetooth, and the manufacturer, on the 2 times i called them, can't keep their story straight. at first they said yes, referred me to different places, but no luck, then the second time, …

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Hi I'm new here to the forms and I really need some help. I have a Sony pcg fx140 (pcg-954a) I purchased. I knew it didn't work, but I have work on and fixed several different Sony laptops so i thought i could fix this one, boy was i wrong. …

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To someone that can help! I connected my Compaq Presario V2205US to my car cigarette lighter power inverter and it somehow short circuited causing the fuse to blow. I managed to change the fuse in the car so that the cigarette lighter and car stereo started to work. Unfortunately the …

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First time user... please be patient. My laptop is killing me. It takes 6 minutes to turn on, and on shut down after 16 minutes, I just force it off. I didn't download anything recently. Upgraded my Steganos 2006, but had the problem before. I have tried Registry Mechanic and …

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In the last week I have had troubles with my Laptop. When ever I enter My Documents my computer will start to run at rediculously slow speed. It wont fully freeze but it is still unberable. I looked at my task manager and it said my prossecor was running at …

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Okay so I, recently had my modem die on me... I also got a laptop with wi-fi so I figured I would replace my modem with one that had a wireless 'router' feature already on it (figured it would save me space instead of having a router and a modem, …

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My HP ze5500 laptop is about 4 years old. Was really sweet when new (2.8g pentium). Such fond memories...anyway. Have begun getting BSOD and now am getting an "imminent hard drive failure" error on boot. I would like to add an external hard drive to my wireless network. Neither my …

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I am having huge problems with my laptop The laptop only runs on battery power and not charge the battery i changed the charger and opened laptop and tested power jack found out it good some body said to me this is IC or resistance in mother board please help …

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Hi all, I may seem very stupid to all you clever people out there but I have just bought a dell laptop and a Dynamode wireless broadband router. The laptop immediately found and connected to my wireless network which allows me internet access - which is great. However, I am …

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Please help me! The keyboard for my laptop has gone haywire! Eg. the key 'K' also has a little '3' in the top corner, which was fine, something to do with the function key I imagined, but now something has happened and whenever I press K (or any key with …

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Myself and 3 housemates recently had broadband installed and are using a netgear wireless router to connect 2 laptops and 2 desktops to the router. So far we have successfully managed to connect the two desktops and one laptop but are having problems with the other. We have managed to …

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Been reading this forum for ages but now I have a real live issue of my own! I've seen this posted a few times, but I haven't yet found a definitive answer. After initial boot up, I get the Generic Host Process Failure message with these details: szAppName : svchost.exe …

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Hello there, I am trying to write a script for an old 133mhz laptop I have, that will bind every key to different functions, and on a key press a different image, or video will be displayed, and/or a sound file. I have figured out how to bind keys with …

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heres my issue. I have recently gotten cable connection in the house. For a few days, life was great with downloads. 1 mbps and above. Now, its downloading at less than 100 kb/s. Im completely lost, does this have to do with my coputer?? Also, my laptop, which is 3 …

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I have a Vantec NexStar 3 300gb HDD, i just spent 3 days backing up files on it, but for some reason even though usb 2 drivers are installed it runs at 1.1, but the problem is before it was plugged in it worked on my current laptop and main …

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i hav problem woth my inspiron 1150 Laptop make dell. it is not detecting the Hard disk. showing primary Hard disk 0 not found. how ever hard is working fine and i dont see any thing wrong with the PC.pl solve my problem

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When trying to compose a message in my Hotmail account (web version), I am having a problem with the address book. After selecting the "TO" portion to access my address book pop-up window, it is not allowing me to enter/transfer any of the addresses into the "TO" row. The main …

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Hi everybody! I have a laptop and it has a HDD Password, but i forgot the password. I was wondering what can i do to take the password off or to format it. :sad:

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I was given an Ibook G3-300mhz with OS 9.0 from my brother while I visited him. I don't have a notebook so this was a good deal until I put enough away to purchase a laptop. Liking to mess around and have used Mac 6-7 years ago, I already have …

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My son has an Acer 3002Lci laptop that just started having problems after we bought a new battery. All was fine before the new battery was installed. (Also bought a new A/C cord )It now freezes after start up screen goes black (he gets the run Windows safe mode screen). …

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i would like to know if anyone can help me at all? i have just joined my computer to my laptop through a belkin wireless router.. wat i would like to know is how to enable the sercuty on it.. i'm guessing it is easy to do but i'm only …

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Hi all, I have a maddening problem (actually two!), just can't work it out. I have an Advent 3215 pc, with an ECS L4S5MG3 motherboard, award bios, P4 2.8ghz cpu, Geforce 4 440SE MX video card, 1GB RAM...anything else you need to know please ask me. I was using the …

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Ever since installing internet security 2006 my computer has revolted against me. More recently I brought my comouter to my country house and attempted to Dial up via Earthlink. Internet was fine but I could not send /recive messages via Outlook. Brought my Laptop home and tested my dial up …

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Hi, im trying my luck here as my notebook no longer boots. Well its a bit old (5 years) and actually died about 2 years ago. I set it aside and lately was trying to revive it. here are the symtoms; - Plug it in; i get the DC light …

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hi everbody, I got a huge problem with my friend's pc. He has a Laptop of Acer a Travelmate 4150. I did a bios update because he had problems that the hardware was not working stable, no soundcard, very slowly running. So I downloaded the last update for his Laptop …

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I am in desparate need of some help. My wife and I serve in ministry and use a Sharp MM20 laptop. The inverter and backlight just went out and Sharp Systems will not tell us where we can get the parts or even the part numbers for that matter. They …

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Yesterday I was using my Compaq v2030 laptop and I suddanly got the bluescreen error message "KERNAL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR" it said some other stuff that I didn't quite catch...maybe something about deleting physical memory...and "STOP: 0x00000077" and then it froze up. When I tried restarting it this morning the computer began starting …

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Hello, In Despirate Need Of Help I Have A Laptop (acer) When I Turn My Computer On It Goes Through The Processes(you See The Windoes Logo And The Bar) Then A Very Quick Flash Frame Of A Blue Screen Pops Up And Then The Computer Restarts Itself, It Brings Me …

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I will be working on my PC, XP Home Edition, and will randomly lose connection to the Internet. I can still work offline. In order to re-establish connection to the Internet I must turn the computer off and restart it. This disconnect happens whether I use a Belkin router or …

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Hi Guys i need help bad situation: I have recently bought a Fujitsu Siemens amilo. Worked fine for a week. I installed a music making programme off the internet (Magix music and video) - it worked then my computer switched its self off and rebooted - strange. Laptop turns back …

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