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Hello all. I'm new here and in desperate need of some help. , I have a toshiba satellite model number M65-S809. Last night I was watching a movie and then set it aside and went to bed. I left it on like I do every night. When I woke up …

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Hello, everyone. I am knew to this site and I have already learned some stuff :) but I have this sony vaio laptop... and I tried to reformat it but some stuff happened and it turns out that the CD can not put the BIOS on this computer.... aghh... But …

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hi guys,i need help. i just want to know how can i reformat a samsung laptop with windows 8 os. i want to change my os from windows 8 to windows 7 and i want to reformat it first..thanks

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Laptop will no longer go straight to pages/sites if I've let it sit for more than a few minutes without use. It can take as long as 10 minutes for me to get to any site. Instead all I keep getting is the Problem Loading Page at the top and …

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Hi all, i have a problem with my acer laptop acer Aspire 4720z Series model no : (201) It works well, but before the welcome message appears shows a black screen and written on it Operating System not Found! knowing that my brother was working on a good, but he …

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Hi, I created few guides about Toshiba notebook disassembly. If you want to disassemble, repair, upgrade or clean you laptop, my website might be useful for you. I already created teardown guides with pictures for the following models: [B]Toshiba Satellite 1415 Toshiba Satellite 1805 Toshiba Satellite 2435 Toshiba Satellite M35X …

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I have a gateway laptop and when i turned it on the screen goes black and wont turn on. Its charged so i tried one more time and it came on but then turned black again but when i hold the power button on it stays on but when i …

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:?: Could someone here please guide me. I just bought a brand new Toshiba Satellite P25 Series Laptop a couple of months ago. The past two days I have been seeing this one vertical line flickering and disappearing on the screen. Now it has become constant and is light blue …

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I recently got blue screened about four times. Some time later, i noticed that the nVidia GPU(630M), which is used with Optimus along with the onboard graphics, isn't being detected by the computer. I just want to know if there is some way to maybe make sure that the GPU …

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I have an HP Notebook 4610. (AMD Processor, WXP.) About twice a week the screen on the laptop goes completely black, yet the computer is still running. I use the touchpad and try to bring it back, however, it stays black. It is like the brightness was automatically shut off. …

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Hi everyone. Last week my laptop sata dvd burner decided it had had enough so I got a replacement for the princely sum of £14. I have decided to rip the old one apart and make a sata dvd to sata hard drive adapter out of it as a project …

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l have a crushed laptop drive that is partitioned into two. The C drive is completely unreadable while the secondary drive l can open and read the files but l cant move them from the drive even if l try open and save as for some of them. Any ideas?

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My usb key is not being recognized by my laptop. When I plug it in it says insert disk - also it is indicating that there are 0 bytes. Can anyone give me a solution for retreiving my data?

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**Virus in linux machine???? Yes! under the following circumstances:** Please, before anyone jumps in with "impossible, there's no viruses for linux, you are stupid" read the post. I got a friend's computer to fix, Gateway NV53. Fast forward, put a new HDD but it won't accept any windows installation disk. …

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Hi chaps, I have a problem with my dell xps 17 lappy, the connector for the main is really dodgy inside the laptop itself therefore charging it is a nightmare. I was wondering if there is such a thing as a USB main charger that can be plugged in to …

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Toshiba Windows 7 Laptop is not accepting 1 Critical Update after numerous attempts. It is update KB2667402 159KB. Any help would be appreciated. System is Windows 7 x64.

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i have a dell vostro 1540 laptop windows 7 home edition. for the first time it turned off after 2 3 hours of working..this happened 4 or 5 times again...i thought it was virus and wanted to re-install windows..but i couldn't because the time of turning off had been shorter …

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(Yes, I have already checked other forums for this ...) Hi, I just got a new laptop a few weeks ago, and everything was working fine until now. I was going to login to my laptop (windows 8 inspiron) but it said 'new users can't log in because of low …

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Very recently, I let my laptop (HP) battery get too low, and it died on me. Usually, upon plugging in the adaptor, everything starts right back up again. However, this time, the laptop runs, but all I can see is a black screen. I can even hear the little chime …

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Hi, I have a Samsung Series 7 Gamer 700-G7C laptop and it now has a black screen! I am so worried! Last night I was just playing Minecraft with my brother and I downloaded a few custom maps, after that it was already late and I just closed the lid. …

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I have an Acer Aspire 4750Z, i found this problem this morning only when i try to turn on my laptop but it doesnt turn on. then my first thought i think its battery is weak so i recharge it turn it on and it will, but for almost 2 …

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A few months ago I replaced my Toshiba Satellite A665 hard drive. A couple of weeks ago I upped my RAM from 4 to 8Gb. Is it a coincidence that shortly thereafter it started not to boot properly? When I wake it up from sleep the hard drive starts to …

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My 6 month old laptop has needed 4 reformats so far because of disk problems and now it wont boot past the windows loading screen. i played around and i found a diganositc test that could be run through the bios and it passed everything up till one called DST …

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I saw a few posts regarding how to hide real ip address and mac address. I use Linux Mint. In the settings per connection, there is a RANDOM button for the MAC address. I click it and it reports a random mac address for use on public wifi. You could …

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HI all, I wonder if you can help me at all. Today I changed the system battery to an Asus laptop, which had to be taken apart completely. I changed the battery and put it back together and everything was working ok. Now, when I switched it back on I …

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So, here's the problem. I got a new laptop, the Sager NP6165 during an xmas sale about a month ago. I usually just play Guild Wars 2 on it, other than that I'm just surfing youtube videos or listening to music. Sometimes my laptop just cuts off without any warning …

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Samsung Laptop (SF210) was put to sleep last night when it was on lower battery. Plugged it into the wall today to use the laptop it popped up saying screen wasn't shut down properly- I selected proceed with normal windows log in (something like that) then it loads the logo …

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I have a laptop that runs Windows Vista and when I turn it on Windows won't boot. Instead, I get this error message. Windows has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer. This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an …

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Ok, my wireless connection keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every few minutes. It's not a problem when I'm just surfing the web, but when I'm playing an MMO, whenever it disconnects I get kicked out. I've tried restarting, but that doesn't work... My toshiba laptop is only a few feet away …

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After changin my hard drive and usung it for like 1hr or so......i decided to restart the system......but since then the laptop have refused to enter start up page...... I dn't kw if there is sometin wrong with my system....pls kindly help......and if i have 2 get a new hard …

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I have gateway laptop nv54 turned computer on this morning screen black. i removed battery and held power button for 30 secs plugged back in still no screen. i took out ram and put it back in. didnt work. HELP!

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hi. i have a toshiba laptop(not sure what model number is) and for a while now(i would say prolly since last year) i have been having a hard time with the drive loading stuff. when i pop the drive out and put cd's, dvds, software discs, game discs what ever …

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Five years ago I wrote in with the same problem. Forget what I did, but I managed to fix the right click button on the touchpad without opening up the case and it has been fine for 5 years. Two days ago the problem returned. Would really like help fixing …

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Booting my toshiba laptop, lcd is completely black. No bios, no light, nothing. I can connect to an external monitor, and that works. It boots. The machine works, but the lcd is black. Any thoughts?

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Hai Guys.. I have a **Toshiba Satellite L500** model laptop. I had installed a new copy of Windows7 32bit OS and after that my button **(Fn + F8)** to turn on the **wifi** doesn't work. I had also changed the WLAN drivers properly but it still don't work. Please someone …

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Is there a simple way of running Apple Mountain lion on a PC laptop. I know this seems like a ridiculous question but I have a client who for some reason thinks it should be possible. I think the next thing he wants to do is switch to UNIX. I …

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i have been having dis problem with my Hp laptop, a DV6 pavellion, each time i put it on, i will experience an hard disk error, and pressin continue will lead me to d start up page, but now each time i switch it on it start and instatly changes …

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I was thinking of throwing out windows from a little laptop with an i386 processor and putting linux on, to make better use of the hardware. I'm not sure how the process works, seeing as there is no disk drive, and I'm not sure which distribution of linux would be …

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Hi :) when I first turn my laptop on, I can connect to the internet and browse as normal. However if I send the laptop to sleep by just shutting it, on reopening I cannot browse the internet. Whilst the wifi is described as 'connected' with an excellent signal strength, …

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Hey, I'm trying to get a VAIO with 1.83 GHz Intel Atom N470 and 1 GB RAM to run more smoothly. It's using Windows 7 Starter. It's using most of it's RAM just being idle. Right now, it's running taskmanager and msconfig.exe and according to taskmanager, it's using 70% of …

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Hey guys, I just got a HP Pavilion dv6000 a few weeks ago with Vista Home Premium already installed on it. Im having some trouble getting my wireless connection to work. It worked once for a few hours but then just decided to stop. When I plug in my ethernet …

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I have a hp 2000 and it turns on but and sends me to do some tests and all the test says it fails. and thats all it will let me do.

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hya, i have had a E-system laptop for over 2 years and suddenly it has a problem of shuting down without any notice. i started noticing it last month but the problem didnt seem much of an issue - it was last frequent but now it happens sometimes before it …

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**My Acer Laptop keeps on turning itself off improperly.. without an unknown reason** It is about 5 months At first we thought *it is caused by some virus*.. so we have it **reformatted**. New OS.. No files Still it SHUTS DOWN IMPROPERLY. So, we asked somebody to open it.. Then …

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