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| | Hi, i have a laptop without the wi-fi capabilities and am going away on holiday soon and would like to know what i need to purchase to make this laptop able to be used in wi-fi areas.eg. starbucks coffee shops etc. My hotel i will be staying in has internet …  |
 | :rolleyes: this conn.4 pops up in my system tray & is very annoying. it says its diconnected & then goes away.& back again & again. this only does this when i take my laptop to work & connect the lan. awhile back i had created an extra conn. in the … |
 | Hi there y'all. I recently purchased a beautiful little laptop, and of course, Linux was the first thing that had to be installed. However, I'm having trouble getting everything to work properly. Among the trouble is that of installing support for my wireless WiFi card (internal "Dell Wireless 1500 Draft … |
| | Hi, I have a problem connecting to the internet through my T-Mobile Sinus DSL Basic SE wireless router/modem: I have 2 laptops, one is a Dell and the other is a Hi-Grade. The Dell uses Windows XP Professional SP2 whilst the Hi-Grade laptop uses Windows XP Home SP2. When I … |
| | Ok, i have a friend that has come to me for help with her comp and i have no idea how to solve this one. When she starts her computer (laptop w/ Windows XP) a dos-looking screen comes up after a short wait and says that the file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system" is …  |
| | I no the problem is not with the program its with my pc. I am able to compile this program fine on my school's pc but i can't on my laptop. The program is public class SwingIO { public static void main(String[] args) { /* (To contrast this sample with …  |
| | hey guys, my dell laptop has been acting wierd lately. all the dark colors turn red on the screen. it looks bad and is sometimes annoying and impossible to work with. plz help me with this. your help is greatly appreciated. it is a dell inspiron 600M |
| | Gidday All. Leadup story first. Laptop uses win98SE, upgraded it to winxp, didn't play the game too good. Uninstalled xp back to 98, all ok. Next morning, no power up. When I hit power button, it just looks at the CD-rom and then blank. No video, no beeps. Put in … |
| | Hi there everyone, I need help as my I.E. is running out of control. I have a Compaq Presario 2100 running XP home edition. When I start the laptop up after a few minutes I.E. starts to open up my home page and continues , sometimes up to 25 times …  |
| | I have a Gateway M460 Laptop w/ 40GB - bought a Seagate 5400, ata-6, 8mb cache - simply because it was on sale (kind of like shoes). Anyway, I've had it for 6 mos or so and haven't installed it bcs I have 3 boys. Got rid of one (college) … |
| | Ok so let me tell a little bit of the problems I have laptop that is giving issues with task manger being locked out so I have found a way to edit the registry to fix that. I had my desktop locked out solid blue screen and I found how …  |
| | I currently have a Windows 98se operating system on a 6 gig hard [c] driven in my laptop. I am thinking of installing Windows XP Professional on an external [E] drive and using that to operate my computer. Can I do that and are there any problems associated with having … |
| | Hi to all, I´ve got xp home edtion with serverce pack 2 and I´m having a problem trying to run defender from microsoft on my laptop, does any one know how I can run it? any help on this will be appreciated.  |
| | I'm not sure if I should post this in Windows Software or here, please move this if I did it in the wrong one, which I've done with like 1/2 my posts...anyways, my dad just got a laptop, and he has a lot of music, and 8 files on my … |
| | When I try to upgrade to OS X on my computer, which is a IBook G3, blue and white laptop, I get this message: "An error has occurred. Startup disk was unable to select the install cd as startup disk. (-2)" |
| | Hi Iv bought a Dell Insiron 6400 about 6 weeks back and all of a sudden yesterday it decided to start playing up. Basically the screen just went black, I was watching a DVD and the screen went black but everything else I think stayed functioning because I could still … |
| | Ive rebooted my laptop three times in the last 10 mintues, only to find that each time, svchost.exe is using every bit of cpu it can. it stays like this for at least 10 minutes then finally decides to have a break. is this normal? |
| | Greetings, I have a dell latitude D610 laptop running XP Prof Service pack 2 with an Intel Pent M Proc 1.86 GHz with 2 GB of Ram. For what follows I note that my wife has precisely the same type of laptop. My wife and I work at a university … |
| | my laptop crashed today and the only way of turning it off to restart it was by pressing the power button and when i restarted it this screen showed up [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v370/minnimelisa/laptop.jpg[/img] ive tried starting it up normally and in all the safe modes but it just keeps leading me back … |
| | Hiii I'm going to document a [I]very[/I] frustrating issue I've been experiencing here, and I encourage you all to read it and give any advice you can. I would really appreciate that, a lot. You'll understand after reading... I recently bought a new laptop, for $3000 -- the XPS M1210. … |
| | Hello... I haven't had any problems with my computer until today. I do not have any IT skills...I only know how to use certain applications. Today, I turned my laptop on and it did not boot up. Three lights came on (Numlock, Caplock, and Scrolllock). The amber LED light came … |
| | i am using a sony vaio laptop.. which supports wireless... my problem is, i just moved into my new place a day ago.. i am able to access the internet wirelessly.. and i can access some sites.. [like [URL="http://www.google.ca/"]http://www.google.ca[/URL]] but i realized that a lot of the normal sites i … |
| | Hi, When i turn on my laptop, i hear a weird noise (assumption-fan) and the screen is blank and am unable to log on to XP. If i press the power key and shut the comp down and repeat this process some 3-4 times, the weird sound is gone and … |
| | Hi everyone!! Went to start up my gateway laptop a few days ago and it would boot up as far as the windows screen with the timer on the bottom and then a blue screen would pop up saying unmountable_boot_volume and then it would try and reboot itself. I found … |
| | I have seen a large amount of post with some similar situations as mine but still no luck. i turn on my laptop and it does a POST then i get window with safe mode options and start from last known spot. But this is not the F8 screen i … |
| | Hi I have a Dell Pentuim 4 with 512mb Ram which i use every day , i have had the laptop for around 2/3 years now but in the last 3 months when ever i am doing certain tasks it just shuts off , it doesnt crash it simply shuts … |
| | I tried everything. I go to Microsoft Internet explorer while on the page I want to keep as my start page, I click "current," apply and "OK' and restart my computer, but I keep geting Toshiba as my start page. I just bought this Toshiba laptop and it seems that … |
| | my sony vaio laptop has suddenly started to run like an asthmatic ant, i have Norton Anti virus which from reading posts could be the problem but it has always worked OK. i have run AdAware, Spy-bot etc and found nothing... start-up takes 10 times longer than normal but eventualy … |
 | The network setup I'm trying to accomplish is simple enough, there's just something blocking the whole going from Phase 1: Setup to Phase 3: Use Internet. I've been tinkering with the network for a while now. The network consists of a Dell Inspiron Laptop and Alienware Aurora 5500. The connection … |
| | I have just spent the past hour placing half the keys back on my laptop. I have three keys left and have no idea where they go. I have a Aspire 1710 and the keys left are as follow: Prt Sc Sys Rq, Pause Break, and the Scroll Lock If … |
| | Hiii I'm going to document a [I]very[/I] frustrating issue I've been experiencing here, and I encourage you all to read it and give any advice you can. I would really appreciate that, a lot. You'll understand after reading... I recently bought a new laptop, for $3000 -- the XPS M1210. … |
| | I recently purchased an HP Deskjet 5440 and am trying to find a way to access it wirelessly from my laptop (running Win XP Pro). FYI.....this laptop connects wirelessly through a Linksys router flawlessly. The attempts I have made to print from my laptop to the afroementioned printer include: (1) …  |
| | Hi everyone!! Went to start up my gateway laptop a few days ago and it would boot up as far as the windows screen with the timer on the bottom and then a blue screen would pop up saying unmountable_boot_volume and then it would try and reboot itself. I found … |
| | I'm using Win XP Media Center Edition on a Toshiba laptop, and there are some weird things going on here. It all started, when I installed a performance booster, after saying a thousand times to mysef, that i'll never use such programs... Anyways, I installed it, i made it boost … |
| | Hello my name is Patrick and I have searched the web for two weeks on how to fix my laptop before college i have a gateway laptop and I am using netgear WPN111. originally i started the computer one day and it would connect to AIM and other chat programs … |
| | Hi, I've got a Dell Inspiron 9200 running XP Home SP2, 2GB RAM. I think I am being hijacked.... SVCHOST keeps connecting to a ip address and I dont know why... svchost.exe:1992 TCP 192.168.2.100:1151 207.46.253.157:443 ESTABLISHED svchost.exe:1992 TCP 192.168.2.100:1153 64.86.136.32:80 ESTABLISHED Enclosed is the Hijackthis and Silent Runners Log... Thanks … |
| | About a month ago, I left my laptop for 5 minutes to get a drink. When I returned, the headphone jack somehow lodged itself deep inside the machine. I tried getting it out, but that just turned the machine off. The repair guys said the jack broke some main wire. … |
| | I used to have a 65 Gb Music folder. The truth is, that I still have it, only that now it has 0b and no files or folders inside it. It hasn't been deleted, cause I still have the same amount of free space as before (that would be round … |
| | [quote=TallCool1;17931]Have you tried an external monitor? Does the unit boot normally otherwise?[/quote] I have the same problem. I have a Acer Travelmate 230. It works fine with an external monitor. PS: does anybody know if travelmate 230 has wireless lan? thanks! |
 | So, I got a GPRS/UMTS modem for my laptop 2 days ago. It's extremely cool, maybe I'm only posting this message to show off that I have one. But I'm honestly intriuged by an aspect of it. It renders pages (layout, style etc) exactly how a wireless modem would, and … |
| | My Acer Travelmate laptop will partially power-up (power light illuminates but no monitor or external monitor display) but will not boot. I am within the warranty period so I plan on mailing my laptop back to Acer to repair. BUT, before I do so I would like to remove all … |
| | on the top of my laptop are 3 programmable buttons, so it says, that i can program. But i cannot find the appropriate software downlaod for this featuer. I'm not sure what the name is. thanks in advance |
| | One of my friends told me about a program that will link two computers over Network in such a way that, if you were running a VoIP program on one PC, you could its its hotkey from another computer. For instance, if VoIP (specifically Ventrilo [ [url]http://ventrilo.com[/url] ]) were running … |
| | My laptop processor is an Intel, and ive heard that they are not damaged by excessive heat. Is this true? ---------------------------------------- Second, my desktop CMOS was messed up by a friend who *thought* he knew what he was doing. He clocked the processor to 199 and set the multiplier to … |
| | I have a gateway model m275 laptop that won't save usernames and passwords in anything. I've tried various tech supports but no one has an answer. This computer is about 18 months old. Can anyone help me??  |
| | Just moved into my apartment for college, signed up for the 256k cable package through kms internet. Hooked up a WBR-2310 D-link router (wireless) to provide internet to my desktop and a laptop. Both computers download files at about 600-900 bytes (yes bytes, not kbytes) per second. sometimes it will … |
| | [quote=fry;231535]it looks like that you have a SATA drive, and window doesn't recognize some of sata controllers, you need to install sata drivers befor installing windows. while the drivers initialization, you are offered to press F6 and install SCSI of SATA drivers. you just press F6 insert floppy disk(it must … |
| | Hi I am a complete newbie to all this and this is probs going to sound v stupid...but here goes.. i have bought some ram to boost my laptops mempory a bit as it getting a bit pathetic... the laptop's meant to have 2 slots for ram but i can … |
| | I have HP Compaq nx9500 about two years old. Few days back, the lcd went blank and when restarted, started with horizontal stiprs moving up and down. At moments, it clears out and the screen is visible. Also at times, when laptop is powered on its perfectly fine and then … |
| | I have a gateway model m275 laptop that won't save usernames and passwords in anything. I've tried various tech supports but no one has an answer. This computer is about 18 months old. Can anyone help me?? |
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