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| | [COLOR=blue]HI, SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME, I'M VERY NEW TO COMPUTERS, I HAVE AN OLD GATEWAY RUNNING WN NT 4.0 SERVER PACK 4, I HAVE PURCHASED A NEW XIRCOM I-MODEM AND A NEW MEMORY CARDBUS , MY PROBLEM IS THAT I HAVE DOWNLOADED SOME SOFTWARE TO INSTALL THE XIRCOM I-MODEM, BUT … |
| | Hi - Ive been having trouble for a week logging into hotmail - the sign up page loads but when I enter my details and hit send it comes up with the message 'server timed out while waiting for browser request'........ I can access other sites, although not the hotmail … |
| | easy all having a bit of trouble with my laptop - the power socket has failed so i'm unable to either charge the battery or run it from the mains. it's still under warranty so fixing it isn't a problem, but there's some data on the laptop's hard drive that … |
| | Hi! I have a problem configuring my wireless network. Please help me. But first of all let me explain my problem. So, I have a DSL connection. I have the SPEEDTOUCH modem router connected through LAN with my laptop. I bought a NETGEAR WG111T USB2.0 Wireless USBStick and I am …  |
| | Hi everyone, newbie here - hope I'm in the right place. My boss's Toshiba notebook (1955-S806) shut down while he was working and now it keeps rebooting. It gets as far as the Windows XP logo and then restarts. I tried rebooting in safe mode - same problem. Shutting down … |
| | Hey all. I stumbled across this site on google and I'm hoping I can find the answer I need here. I brought a compaq presario V2000 laptop with a broadcom wireless adapter. Well I tried connecting to my Westell Versalink wireless adapter and the computer sees the network, but every … |
| | Just found this site and thought everyone here might be able to help me! I am using a Toshiba Satellite L25 S1193 and just got a desktop monitor to hook up to the VGA output. I managed to get both screens up and running partly how I would like them … |
| | Can someone help me with this problem? I have a Gateway Solo 9150 that would not power on. After reading some posts I discovered that it was a bad dc jack that was keeping it from starting. I recently soldered on a new dc jack and the laptop does power … |
| | this computer is about 2 1/2 yrs old and i take very good care of it... last week when I brought it to work, i started noticing the color "black" on the screen was flickering to "lime green" and then if i moved the comp a bit, it went back … |
| | Ok,....so I thought I could do it on my own.... I setup a home network, but I can't see it on my laptop. I can see the laptop on the home system, but I can't access it. (And vise versus) It was working just before I installed Norton Personal Firewall, … |
| | Greetings Tech Gods. I am very happy that I have found this site. Here's my story. I just purchased a refurbished laptop. Great system. Windows XP Professional, 256 MB, 1 Gig Pentium III Processor, and a 20 Gig hardrive. Wireless. It's great. Until, I downloaded surf sidekick3, and sometype of …  |
| | So I run on an HP laptop, and I have, (don't ask how), broke my usb ports. I have two, and both of them arent set in place, they can move around inside of the laptop. I can't use my mic, mouse, or tablet, and desperately want to know if …  |
 | Hi .. just signed up because I have a computer problem and, after having a trawl through DaniWeb, this looks like [U]the[/U] place to get some help; I will find the correct forum to post my problem, but for now: - I am Dan I love diving, photography, cooking and …  |
| | I've got a Sony Vaio laptop (FS285B) with build-in WiFi (Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG). I seem to have good Wireless Network connection in my area (insecure and open access) and I when I press connect, I [B]can[/B] get a good connection. But when I open Explorer or Firefox, it says it … |
| | I have a thread running in the Viruses forum, but with help from a member we have come to the conclusion its something else causing my problems. My symptoms are as follows: I get "Cannot find server or DNS error" in IE and a similar message in FireFox. This happens … |
| | hello and thanks in advance for reading this. I have a laptop wirelessly networked to my desk top which is acting as the server. From the laptop I can click on network places and see all the desktop's network places, and transfer files TO the desktop just fine, but I … |
| | I have a Gateway solo 5150 laptop, the keyboard just stopped working today and I can't find a way to fix it. I tried plugging in a full sized keyboard from my desk top, and it worked fine. I was wondering if I have to replace the keyboard that is … |
| | Hi all, Unfortunately, recently my laptop had water spilled on it by some guests who were visiting my house, and now the motherboard is of course fried. In the between time of now and getting a new laptop I need access to all the old files on the laptop's hard … |
| | Computer: Dell Laptop 8500 Inspiron; OS Win XP Pro SP2; NIC Broadcom 440 10/100 integrated controller; Router: Lynk sys WRT54G. Don't know much about Win XP firewalls. Could that be the problem?? Was able to connect to the router and see the entire network; printers and shared files on other … |
| | OK, I'mi fairly new to this networking stuff, and I will greatly appreciate any help I can get with regard to my problems. I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 Laptop with a mini-wireless card. I take it with me to work, and attach it to the network at my office … |
| | Hi, just joined and hopefully someone here can help me out with something that is probably simple but i have not managed to solve it yet:sad: I have a Sony Vaio which has 20gb of hard drive. 10 gb on Vaio C and 10 on Vaio D Now C is … |
| | Can anyone tell me how to restore my laptop to the day I bought it. I can't find the destructive/ non destructive page. [EMAIL="nedtheall@boogiekings.com"]nedtheall@boogiekings.com[/EMAIL]  |
| | hey...just ran hjt and came up with a log. Not sure on some things to remove?? Also im getting popups in IE all the time and they're always the same ones. Ran Ad-aware and Spybot and im still gettin them in IE. Heres my logfile...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! … |
 | First off hello to everyone, im new here. I know quite abit about computers, ive taken all the computer classes possible at my highschool and learned more from other tech students. Ive tried everything that i could think of to try to avoid involving anyone else. Well today i went … |
| | Hi, I just re-installed windows and now I have no Local Area Connection in Network Connections. How do I get it back? I need it so I can install my router. I am using my laptop now thankyou |
| | I have a WRK54G v1.0 Wireless-G Broadband Router, I've setup WPA with a shared key. I turned off SSI broadcast, enabled MAC Address Filtering, and changed the admin password. DHCP is still enabled... however for some reason, my laptop loses connectivity to the internet after only 20 minutes or so. … |
| | Hi, I'm running Windows XP on a 2 year old Fujitsu laptop, Athlon processor, 512 MB RAM. When I have a Olitec USB Wireless Adapter connected the computer freezes randomly, sometimes a few minutes after startup, sometimes after hours of trouble-free run, frequently at night between 03:00 and 04:00. I … |
| | Hi all! I just got a Toshiba Tecra 8200, PIII 800Mhz, 256Mb ram, 10Gb HD, with a PCMCIA card that has network capabilities. 10/100mbit ethernet. It's got a CDROM drive, and it's really bad at reading, even new, cd's. That means that i cannot install Windows XP from that drive, … |
| | Hi all! I have a 15 inch PowerBook G4 1.67 Ghz laptop running OS X version 10.4.6. It has a Matshita DVD-R UJ-845E superdrive. Is this computer able to burn onto Dual Layer discs? And if it can't, am I able to download a firmware upgrade that would make this …  |
| | Hello all, Now i have seen a couple of posts regarding this issue but i was hoping somone would be able to help me on this ... what seems to be the problem on my case is that i have replaced the power plug on the motherboard. i removed the … |
| | Hi, I'm a student who likes to tinker with my computer. I'm at a different location that has DSL on a desktop computer. I'd like to use it on my laptop. Would an LAN card do this? How do I go about installing it or whatever I need to do? … |
| | Hi all, I'm a 17 yr old student who is having trouble with DSL (I'm unsure how to hook it up to my laptop computer from a desktop which is in another room). I've posted my problem in Hardware if you think you can help. Thanks for having this forum!! …  |
| | Hi all first time on here so please help. Iam running windows 2000 on my laptop and now when launching explorer the links bar and the standard button bars have vanished. I have tried all the normal things to try and get them back but cant. I have run anti … |
| | I'm not sure why my text is wrapping???Greetings all, I'm new to the forum and I'm hoping I can get a little (or a lot) of help. I'm working with a sony laptop and at this time I'm unable to get to the MSN update window. I'm not sure if … |
| | Hi, I have recently purchased a S-video cable so that i can watch videos from my laptop on my TV. My laptop (Samsung V25) has a S-Video socket on the side and my television also has a S-Video socket. What I have tried is to plug the cable into each … |
| | I am using Dell laptop running Windows XP home edition. It worked okay until one day it stopped functioning. After doing some checking, I found out that the partition was changed(corrupted?).It was set to 'unknown' instead of NTFS. I tried to use the 'convert' command, to no avail. Later on … |
| | I have a DELL Latitude C600 Laptop with Windows ME OS. It used to have a 64mb memory card which was the standard for this model and I've always had problems with it hanging and crashing whenever it felt like it - but I am a patient kind of guy … |
| | Hey fellow GURUs, I'm having an issue with a Dell laptop with Windows XP Professional SP2. It seems that I have some issues viewing some webpages correctly. Examples are seeing only partial color bands, or the page seems to be pressed so that it has a "wrapped" appearance, or lastly, … |
| | Thanks to csgal for the warm welcome. I stumbled across Daniweb purely by chance, researching a start-up problem on a friend's laptop. I've a nasty feeling it's terminal, but I'll continue trawling the fora. Perhaps it will look better tomorrow when the rain stops and the sun's shining. And I'll … |
| | Hello I have a problem with a laptop. it hangs on something and then when i try to reboot, it wont reboot except in safe mode. the first time that it happened was just after i had updated windows, and i thought that the update had caused it. this is … |
 | This, my sister's laptop, is infected with Winfixer and is generally running sluggish. I just ran Ad-Aware and installed Avast!. Here is the HJT logfile. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 5:33:40 PM, on 5/16/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: … |
| | i've had two laptops so far, one twinhead and one [URL="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic50366.html#"]toshiba portege[/URL]. i experienced keyboard problems with both. the keys would get stuck and i would end up not being able to type anything. i would try to restart the [URL="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic50366.html#"]computer[/URL] but it would make this awful beeping sound (kind … |
| | i've had two laptops so far, one twinhead and one [URL="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic50366.html#"]toshiba portege[/URL]. i experienced keyboard problems with both. the keys would get stuck and i would end up not being able to type anything. i would try to restart the [URL="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic50366.html#"]computer[/URL] but it would make this awful beeping sound (kind … |
| | I'd like to hear opinions on what the possible options are for diagnosing this problem please: I have a Gateway laptop that I recently purchased from eBay. The laptop was fine, but one hot day it locked up and I dropped the battery out of it to to turn it … |
| | I am in the market for a laptop that is LIGHT. The machine that my consultant is recommending is a "Sager" model 5580 - does anyone have any thoughts about this laptop?  |
| | Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to put my request. You see, my laptop needs formatting but it won't read CD's, so I wanted to know if any of you can give me step by step instructions on how to format my laptop with my desktop … |
 | Now this is really weird. I have an IBM R40 laptop, several years old. All of a sudden (today), the screen backlighting goes off after 18 seconds. I can get it back on by moving the screen on its hinges (fore and aft), it comes back on for 18 more … |
| | hello all. let me begin by stating i know nothing about computer hardware because i never experienced any problems till now. my toshiba satellite p35 laptop went dead on me last week. i wasnt doing anything or recently installed anything out of the ordinary. i received a blue screen error … |
| | I think I have some sort of virus on my laptop. A few nights ago, whenever I tried to type something in to a seach box in google, and anywhere else actually, the keyboard wouldn't work and instead would open up some really wierd windows. Also, if I tried to … |
| | hello. thanx for reading. im new at this....ok. i turn my laptop on to search for available wireless networks. one is found to be unsecure and can connect to network.connects. i lauch a browser (explorer and firefox) reads: the page cannot be displayed.....any ideas? ive gotten on the internet in … |
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