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| | I have a customer laptop that someone locked with a HDD password. Does anyone know where this password is stored? I can think of three places but dont know which if any is correct. CMOS. If its the cmos then removing the mobo battery should clear it. HDD Firmware. If …  |
| | My laptop only works if it is put in certain angles. The angles change from leaning it to its side or to the front and back. The laptop also freezes when I apply pressure to the side where the cd-rom is located.I doubt that programs are causing the freeze,as I … |
| | I have an occasional problem with my Toshiba Satellite laptop. When I picked up my laptop this morning while it was running, the system crashed (blue screen) and attempted, but failed, to reboot my Windows XP. I got the recurring message "PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable" etc. This same …  |
| | I recently copied my 30GB HDD from my laptop to an Western Digital external 120GB HDD using copywipe 1.14. Everything went fine except now on the external HDD I can only see the 30GB copy. How do I get the other 90GB back? Do I have to repartion the Ex … |
| | I have come across an unusual problem, one I have never seen in all 6 or 7 years of using PC's, and ONLY on my laptop! Every time I try to access a webpage that uses Java, for example chat applets among a few others, the browser closes without warning. …  |
| | BSD broke my thinkpad. I have searched and apparently when the machine starts up the bios looks for a hibernate partition (which happens to be similar to the bsd filesystem) so it hangs. I cant tell it to boot from the cd instead and then use a livecd to kill … |
 | this morning i was playing battlefield 2 on my pc, it has a linksys router connected to it with a motorola sb5100 cable modem (discontinued item) and i wanted to change servers in the game and it quit and a pop up came up and said limited or no connectivity … |
| | Hello everyone, Help needed! I have one user in the company having this networking issue. ---- It's a WinXP laptop, some files and folders on its mapped network drive are just disappeared since the user carried the laptop back from Europe. For example, other workstatin in the domain can see …  |
| | Hello, I have installed a netgear dg834g router and a netgear wg111v2 usb2 adapter. I had broadband through Wanadoos own modem and the internet connection always worked perfectly. Since I installed the above mentioned router and usb2 adapter the internet crashes on certain sites, but as far as I can … |
| | Hello everyone, Help needed! I have one user in the company having this networking issue. ---- It's a WinXP laptop, some files and folders on its mapped network drive are just disappeared since the user carried the laptop back from Europe. For example, other workstatin in the domain can see … |
| | I had a power surge yesterday which evidently fried my power strip, so my Dell Inspiron 9000 laptop slowly lost power and turned off. I charged it all night before trying to restart it. Now it boots to the big character-mode menu with like 12 options, including SafeMode, Start Windows …  |
 | This is a modification of the [URL="http://www.petri.co.il/add_command_prompt_here_shortcut_to_windows_explorer.htm"]Add Command Prompt Here[/URL] tweak that is fairly common in the internet. What the original tweak basically did was, create a shortcut in the Directory/Drive Context Menu of Windows Explorer when clicked executes a command prompt with the clicked directory as current directory. This … |
| | Hello All, I am getting alot of clicking noises and then my laptop (dell inspiron 1100) will not load into windows. It gives the Primary Disk Drive Not Found. After trying to turn it on and off with some breaks in between It finally loaded into windows. This is the … |
| | Ready to toss my laptop!! I have a Toshiba P4 laptop -- with a problem that I cannot diagnose. Here's the issue: When the internal wireless card connects to a wireless network, the system freezes instantly. I've tried connecting a Belkin USB - installed all the software, etc.. and get … |
| | I have windows XP on an Dell INspiron 1100. I have gotton a Primary Disk Drive not found error message for a few days and just now got into Windows. I believe something is wrong with my hard drive b/c it makes a lot of clicking noises before giving me …  |
| | Can anyone help discover what is wrong - what started out as an annoying bug is now beginning to impeed work and oddly is occuring on another brand new system. The CPU rails to 100% at random times. THe first system is a Dell M170 laptop. It picks a random … |
| | I have a laptop that has XP service Pack 1 and when i go to microsoft automatic updates it says that "Your Internet settings may be preventing ActiveX controls from running, therefore this page cannot be displayed". I have reset all ActiveX controls to default and made sure ActiveX controls … |
| | I have a laptop computer using a tower as a gateway to the internet. I cannot access some websites using any browser. I've tried using IE, Firefox and Netscape. All with the same results. Some examples of websites I can't access are: [URL="http://www.oceanfree.net"]http://www.oceanfree.net[/URL] [URL="http://www.hotmail.com"]http://www.hotmail.com[/URL] [URL="http://www.medoceanproperties.com"]http://www.medoceanproperties.com[/URL] [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]http://www.microsoft.com[/URL] I've attached a HijackThis …  |
| | Hi, I'm new here. I am having a MAJOR issue! I normally use SBC Yahoo DSL at my home, with a normal DSL modem connected to my Dell laptop. My laptop came with a wireless card already installed, however, so that I may use it away from home in hotels. … |
| | hi all, i was very stpid yesterday and acccidentally pushed my laptop off the table onto the floor. The result is that I have no 'bAcklight' on my screen. (i apologize if you cant read tis due to terrible spelling, but it's almost impossible to see what im writing!). I … |
| | hi im new here and heard that this site can help you on your computer/laptop problems!! at the moment i have a normal destop computer and a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7300 laptop/notebook. i am currently having problems with it!! argh! :sad: when i turn on the laptop it displays the …  |
| | First of all, I'm not a super computer techie, so if you can help me, please keep the acronyms and jargon to a minimum...treat me like your grandmother who is using emial for the first time! (I'm not that bad, but still!) I have a older Dell Latitude that won't … |
| | Hello all!!! First post. Well I work tech support at Midstate College and a student brought in a funky lapto. It boots ok, but after running for a bit, the screen begins to get discolored and the image on the screen seems to pull the bottom right hand corner. I … |
| | Hi, Today after instally SpySweeper in order to clean up to poker pop-ups, I went to start up internet explorer. It was working fine then 10 minutes later it just stopped working. I restarted and restarted the brower but nothing ever changed unless i restarted to the computer. The strange … |
| | I'm new to the site, so I haven't done too much searching yet, but I appear to have a similar yet different problem than other people here. I have an HP pavilion zd7000 laptop. About 3 months ago my laptop decides to randomly shut down. When I turn it back … |
| | Hi, My laptop takes about 2 mins to load the desktop after boot up and ages to load any programs. Have been reading the advice given to others on similar problems and have tried the spyware, virus check, scandisk, defrag options all with no reall results. Others have been advised … |
| | Hi: I'm working on a Dell Inspiron 500m Laptop running Windows XP. The machine suddenly crashed (I was programming but nothing related to the OS) and now it won't reboot. It runs through the Dell bios startup and then goes to a black screen. I've attempted to boot from the … |
| | Hi! I have a Toshiba Satellite M40-265 for one year, and these days started to cause me problems : while working it suddenly stopped. Once a day it happens. When I start it immediately, it does get to load the WIN completely and it shuts again. If I wait one … |
| | Has anyone had a bad experience with Dell? I always thought they were really awesome and wouldn't bye anything else untill now. We bought 2 laptops of the same kind (600m inspiron) about 1 year and 4 months ago. I loved my laptop and had no problems with it. Right … |
| | Hi I have tried many resolutions and nothing. It all worked before with 2 cheap routers off of my cable modem (High Speed Cogeco Cable) but I couldn't password protect the routers because my wireless for laptop wouldn't log on at all? 1) So now I have a new rca … |
| | Hi, this is my first time posting here and I heard you guys are very helpful. The problem I am having is when I go to plug in the power adapter to the back of the laptop the green light keeps flashing and the computer does not turn on or … |
 | Hi all, My laptop started shutting down without notice, it was overheating, so I had the sink fan replaced. That seemed to do the trick for a few weeks. Then the shutdowns again. No warning. On one minute, off the next. I noticed that the power supply didn't seem to … |
 | My Compaq Presario 700 laptop had a heat dispersal issue. It started to overheat and it shut itself down. I cracked it open and put a dab of heat sink compound right smack on the center piece of the Chip. I had done this on all my desktop units, I … |
| | Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop with Windows XT. I was attempting to bring up Task Manager to show my wife how to deal with non-responding programs; my finger slipped off one of the keys (control, alternate or delete) and hit some other key or combination of keys on the bottom row. … |
| | Im trying to fix my girlfriends zt1000 laptop. it started having issues with clicking coming from what i beleive is the hard drive. after a few weeks it just stopped working. when it trys to boot up it gives me this message "1500 mhz pentium 4 cpu external cache: 512k … |
| | Hello there, [URL="http://computing.net/networking/wwwboard/forum/29547.html#"][COLOR=green][COLOR=green][COLOR=green]im [/COLOR][COLOR=green]new[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/URL] here and have a quick question. I want to get my music, pictures etc from my pc onto my new [URL="http://computing.net/networking/wwwboard/forum/29547.html#"][COLOR=green][COLOR=green][COLOR=green]laptop[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/URL]. I have an ethernet crossover cable but NO INTERNET CONNECTION on either machine. How would I go about this? Both [URL="http://computing.net/networking/wwwboard/forum/29547.html#"][COLOR=green][COLOR=green][COLOR=green]windows [/COLOR][COLOR=green]XP[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/URL]. E-mail me back … |
| | Hi everybody, I'm not sure how I found your web, but I'm glad I did. I was googling "100% CPU usage" and found your site listed first, so here I am. Anyway, I'm running windows xp home and various Microsoft programs on a Gateway laptop and recently and suddenly it … |
 | I have a cable modem w/a Linksys wireless router and I'm not sure what the problem is. I have no problem connecting wirelessly through my laptop, but my PC won't connect at all. It started giving my problems connecting whenever it felt like and even when I was able to … |
 | Hey wassup I haven't been around in a while just thought i'd stop by and let you know what was up. I just graduated Air Force Basic Military Training, Friday July 21. :) Anyway I start my tech school next week if you would like to see what i'll be … |
 | Is it possible to make my computer both a server and a client in a LAN? Some of the projects I'm working on are internet based, and opening pages and scripts from disk doesn't have quite the same results as accessing it from a network; biggest difference is with Flash … |
| | From going back to this...I have new information I just noticed.. [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread50827.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread50827.html[/URL] (original post) well i just noticed that in the setup of my x-micro that there is options for Gateway, bridge and wireless ISP. So if I want to go from modem to a dlink di-524 to the x-micro … |
| | Hi, Can anyone help me? My Panasonic laptop starts to boot up, shows the Windows test card but then goes blank. I can hear it continuing to boot, and I can hear it reach the Windows jingle, but I can't see a thing. I can restart with Ctrl/Alt/Delete, but that … |
| | Firstly, I don't know any of the lingo, so bear with me. I have a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop that worked great for years--it is an older one. I came to the conclusion somehow that my hard drive needed to be partitioned(that may be misspelled), so I thought I knew … |
| | My goal was to move the software from a Win98 machine to an XP Machine. I attached the 98 hard drive to my laptop and copied several folders over but I was unable to get it to work. When I restarted the 98 machine the dos program gets an error … |
| | Hello, I am an advanced computer user, yet new with laptop hardware; I am wondering if a hard drive upgrade procedure would differ on a laptop than pc, as it seems straight forward-- or am I ignorant? I pulled my 5gb from my Toshiba Tecra 8100 and cloned it to … |
| | Hi I can connect to my network using my ethernet card or my wireless card, but when I open my browser (either internet explorer or mozilla) I am unable to browse the web - i just get the message saying that the page cannot be displayed. The same happens at … |
| | I have a desktop connected through a linksys WRT54G router and it is not conneted wirelessly. it is going through a sbc/at&t dsl modem. Preivously i was alowed to connect through my desktop and a wireless laptop but lately i can only do one at a time can someone help? |
| | I am having serious problems with my lcd and I am at a loss what to do with it. Below is a post I made a few weeks ago on a different site. I thought everything was fixed after I updated my video driver. Everything was normal for over a … |
| | I have a Sony VAIO laptop, about 2-3 yrs old, with Winddows 2000 Professional on it. Last night, i started it up and it booted fine. Now this afternoon, i go to turn it on, and it does absolutely nothing. When i start it and let it *try* to boot, … |
| | I have a Gateway laptop. Up until a few days ago I could listen to CD's, watch movies & burn info to CD's. Now it won't read anything. It says the disk is full when there isn't even a disk in it. It won't burn anything. I checked the devise … |
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