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| | Hi, I currently have a laptop with windows XP on there. It's been running fine all morning and I've just reset it because I'd plugged my network cable in and it wasn't finding it but now it keeps on saying its starting a physical memory dump. I haven't changed anything, … |
| | I have inspiron 8000 & the screen went blank. It works with a crt monitor but it wont work on the laptop monitor. I just noticed a activity on the laptop monitor but its really dark. Do I need the lcd screeen or the inverter?? Anybody know where I can … |
| | I have a toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop. When i turn it on it say's please insert system disk then press any key. What do i need to do. We got this from a friend with no software or instruction booklets.  |
| | I have a user who is receiving the following message on a laptop running windows XP, sp1, and IE 6.0. Unhandled exception in IEXPLORER.EXE (SHDOCVW.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation The message occurs every time the user attempts to close internet explorer. It doesn't seem to affect IE in any other way … |
| | Can anybody help me with this one. On numerous occasions when I start my laptop countless browser windows open for no apparent reason. I'm talking in excess of fifty browser windows at a time. I close the windows as new ones open. Eventually it stops and I can use the …  |
| | I just bought a used laptop and replaced the cpu that was in it making sure i got the right sSpec number. Well when i try and boot it up the power light comes on and the cpu fan turns on then dies after a second or 2. And there … |
| | Hi...well I just bought a Gateway laptop for school maybe a month ago. A couple weeks ago I turned it on but the backlight isnt working. I can barely see anything. I found out that if I press on the back of it, it'll work but if I'm not pressing … |
 | Hi, I have a badly virus infected laptop that needs Win XP to be reinstalled. I've run out of warranty but this should not be too tough. I have a Dell XPS M140 that has a feature called PC Restore that you can initiate by Ctrl + F11 during boot. … |
| | Hi all, I am having a wee bit trouble with with the SQL Command Builder. It does not build anything but frustration. From all the books I have read and everything this is how you go about updating changes from dataset or datatable without writing your own updating logic. Build …  |
| | Hi, I am new to the forum and hope that this will be a great place to give and take ideas, suggestions when it comes to tech stuff. :cheesy: I currently have a problem that I need help with. I am a Windows gal and am currently working on my …  |
| | Hello.. i have recently bought a widescreen laptop but i do not know any sites which offers good widescreen wallpapers..:confused: Does anyone know any site to get widescreen high quality game wallpapers?:rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
| | My computer is infected with some really nastyware. Noticeable symptoms are pop-ups. Looking around other sites, I think I have a look2me/VX2/ActiveX problem, but I don't really know what that means. I initially downloaded HJT, Adaware, Spybot, Microsoft Antispyware, and AVG. I then added the VX2 Add-on to adaware and … |
| | Hi I have posted a similar issue before but now i have figured out a few more things. I have IBM Thinkpad R52. It had a combo drive(CD-burner+DVD reader) which a got changed to a IBM DVD writer. The problem is , system crashes with a blue screen when I … |
| | My laptop has been running slowly for a few days now and i have a feeling its infected. I have looked through my files and there is a file called "Perflib_Perfdata_3a4.dat" which cannot be deleted - not sure if this could be some type of spyware? I also had a … |
| | I have an Acer TabletPC, and recently the hinge broke. I ordered a new hinge from Acer and replaced it. There were 5 wires running through the center of the swivel hinge. I have everything reconnected (I've gone in a couple of times to chek), but when I turn it … |
| | My laptop, which is a Toshiba Satellite, started acting a little weird. I had decided to run a simple virus scan with AVG, and upon completion, I restarted the laptop. I logged back in, and the screen sort of froze. Eventually (about a minute later) the background picture came up, … |
| | Ok in the EULA it says the licence is like permission to use the software, It does not mean that you own it. I have a copy of XP home upgrade and a laptop which once had windows 98 (now no cd) - but the certificate of authenticity and serial … |
| | Hi! This is my first posting here. Too bad it had to be a negative tone to it: I WANT TO KILL MY LAPTOP!!! Sorry... Now that I got it out... Here's the problem in detail. And this had to happen right before I was going to back everything up … |
| | I made the biggest mistake of my life when i purchased my Area-51 770. The overheating is outstanding- unfortunatly my video card was already shot by the time i knew there was any issue. I have a 3500$ Laptop sitting here rotting. I would love Love LOVE to know where … |
| | Hello everyone. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop that only has a floppy drive (no optical drive). To skip a really long story which isn't relevent, here's my problem now: I installed Windows NT 4.0 onto my laptop's hard disk using a desktop computer (with a laptop hdd to … |
| | i have recently upgraded all my machines to xp home (big problem) i have 3 pc's, one laptop, one hp lazerjet 4, and one hp 7410 copier scanner printer fax. i thought this would be easy considering all the advances microsoft claims to have made to xp. (microsoft is the … |
| | OK, I have a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop that had a loose power connector. I soldered in a new connector (I'm experienced at doing this). It now powers up and passes the Compaq diagnostics utility. But, it doesn't recognize the hard drive. It sees and reads from the CD-ROM so … |
| | Recently I've become concerned about the heating issues my laptop has been having so I did some research. Turns out Im using a disproportionately large amount of memory even when Im running nothing (Firefox with 2 tabs open and Google Desktop). It says 70% memory usage. If I turn everything … |
| | Hi, I have a hp laptop (about 14 months old) with CD/DVD drive. It doesn't read CDs. I can see the drive on my computer, but when I open it, it shows a blank CD. Rarely it opens and writes CDs . But most of the time when I try … |
| | I was using my laptop which is just over two years old, when a 'scraping' noise occured and it locked up. when i shut it down said something about emptying drives?? when i try to turn it on now nothing appears on screen except 'scraping' noise like it is searching … |
| | Hi, I am new to the forum and hope that this will be a great place to give and take ideas, suggestions when it comes to tech stuff. :cheesy: I currently have a problem that I need help with. I am a Windows gal and am currently working on my … |
| | I'm using a laptop with the below listed configuartion Processor - AMD Turion 64 RAM - 512 DDR Hdisk - 60GB OS - Microsoft Windows XP Home The problem i'm facing is when using Turbo C++ the processor utilization is 100% and the machine is very slow,only when loading this … |
| | I'm sure this is well above the thousandth thread on this topic, but in browsing for a few minutes a I couldn't find an answer for this specific problem... I'm trying to share files from a desktop to a laptop. I'm using a wireless network. here's what I can do: …  |
| | I have a laptop computer(Sharp Mebius PC-CB1-CB). Just got it back from the repair shop after some serious keyboard problems. Working fine except I noticed a couple of times after not using the computer for a while( roughly 7 to 12 hour period), after returning my windows xp system would … |
| | Hello. I'm pretty sure I have a bad fan/fans on my Gateway notebook computer. It makes a horrible whining sound and is extremely slow. I don't know which fan it might be though - when I take the bottom panel off there are 3 fans visible. I really don't want …  |
| | Greetings, I have what I believe to be the leftovers from an Alcan worm problem that I thought I solved a while back. The noticeable portion of this problem comes with my sound device. When I try to play something in Windows Media Player, I get this message: "Windows Media … |
| | Hi Friend of mine has been using this laptop (Toshiba Satellite A10) for sometimes and then it couldn't go into windows. We tried those icons on the screen (disrk,cd,floppy etc) but it gives us a blank screen with a cursor (dash) blinking on and off. This goes on forever. (what … |
| | i'm praying and hoping ya'll can help me out with this. My laptop seems to have caught some lovely form on computer cooties or something. I've been working on it for the past 2 days, and still can't seem to get it clean. I've hit it with HJT, ewido, spybot …  |
| | Hello, I have a laptop that I want to connect to my families network using a network cable. I plugged the network cable into my laptop and then the other end into the router but my computer can't even detect the cable being in my computers. Most computers just have … |
| | I have 3 computers connected via ethernet cable all running to a router in my garage which is hooked up to a cable modem. I also have a laptop which has a built in wireless connection and connects to the wireless signal created by an access point. The access point … |
| | I am trying to set-up a wireless network in my home and am lost. I am forced to use dial-up for the internet due to nothing else being available in the rural area I live. I have a desktop computer running Windows XP Home SP2. It has a network card … |
| | My laptop locked up and I tried to get out of it by holding the power button down until the machine turned off, which it did. Now it will now power back on. I have removed the power cord and the battery and tried to power back on, but I … |
| | I was playing a DVD on my Dell ze5400 Pavillion laptop computer the other day. It runs on Windows XP. The dvd froze. There was nothing I could do except cut the power. Now when I boot my laptop it gets to the blue Windows XP screen but doesn't go … |
| | Hi, I'm new to the forum, and I searched old threads for this problem but couldn't find it. I just bought an LCD that I hooked up to my laptop. It displays all output fine from the laptop, except when I play files like .avi and .wmv. The video file …  |
| | My laptop (Sony FS640/W) got dropped a while back and then a verticle, red line appeared on it, the length of the entire screen, but the width of a pixel. Another line then appeared next to it around the next week, making it look like one big one, then another … |
| | Hi, I have a really ancient Dell laptop (Inspiron 5000) and recently my BIOS got corrupted. I had it fixed and it seemed to be fine, but now when I turn my computer on, it always beeps and tells me I have a "RESOURCE CONFLICT: PCI Simple Communications Controller." I … |
| | I am upgrading the memory in my friends Dell laptop. It uses DDR 2100. It only has one slot for RAM so I took the old out put in the new and made sure it was seated properly. When I turned his laptop on the power light comae on, but … |
| | I connected a desktop and a laptop via ethernet card and lan cable. This was done primarily to transfer data. The problem is , the desktop can view files present in subfolders on the laptop but when i try to put them on the desktop , an error pops up … |
| | Hi ! I recently installed a ethernet card on my PC to transfer some data from a IBM Thinkpad laptop. I set all the sharing properties and began to transfer data. The problem is, the connection transfers some 100MB correctly and it hangs, saying that a particular file being downloaded … |
 | Hi My keyboard on my Compaq Presario laptop is driving me insane. I reformatted my machine recently and thought I installed all the correct drivers but when I type (in any input area eg emails, web, office programs) the cursor will jump out from where I am typing to a … |
| | I've got an Avaratec laptop. The "T" Key works, but you have to push it harder than the others. Is there a simple fix for this? Jeff |
| | I have a similar but unrelated problem. The "R-Driver" make USB 2.0 'USB-to-IDE' cable does not let my laptop (HP-Compaq nx9005, which has a USB 1.1 controller) recognize a 3.5" SAMSUNG 20 GB HDD. The HDD just keeps making ticking noise as if it is "hunting" for the boot sector. … |
| | Hi All, Can someone let me know how to enable listening for TCP packets on ports 25 & 110 under Windows XP? I'm having an issue with being able to send and recieve client-based e-mail (Outlook Express 6.0), and am receiving the following message: [quote]The connection to the server has … |
| | And things where going so well :-) I have a bug (hopefully just one) on my laptop... I keep getting a notification on my task bar that says Security Alert!.... Enclosed is my HJT and SmitFraudFix logs... Thanks in advance.... *** HJT LOG *** Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved …  |
| | Just put a new HDD in my Toshiba Satellite 2435-225 but instead of the standard single partition I created four. This I think is the limit for laptop. Anyway, I installed XP Pro in C. In the disk manager everything checks out OK. I formatted E (programs) and it is …  |
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