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| | i know very little about networking...i have had a desktop for a while. recently got a laptop, wireless card, and router...i am now able to access the net through the laptop. What i need to know is, can i fix it to where I can access files in the desktop …  |
| | I have a question and I hope someone has an answer for me. I have two Compaq Armada 1500c laptops. Having problems with a broken screen on one and a main board problem on the other. I'm trying to make one out of two but have troubles getting the screen … |
| | In the market to buy a thin light laptop. I don't need a desktop replacement. Just something where i can move my IM/Email and basic browsing on to. Also something to lug around airports and hotels rooms. Here is what i've found so far: [list] [*][URL=http://www.dynamism.com/q30/index.shtml]Samsung Q30[/URL] [*][URL=http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/latit_x1?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd]Dell Latitude x1[/URL] …  |
| | hi i bought aused laptop, and i am wondering how to get it started it appears to have nothing on it can any one help?  |
| | Hello, I'm new here. I have an HP Laptop running Windows ME. I've been having so many problems with it, the CD drive and the power source....but that's a whole other thing. Right now I'm trying to Restore to my factory settings so I inserted the Recovery disk and walked … |
| | I have a gateway solo 2500 laptop that I need to get into. The probem is opening the bottom of the case. Has anyone out there opened one so that they could let me in on the secret? Would appreciate any help. Thanx in advance!! Yes I have removed all … |
 | Hey everyone I'm not quite sure what computer I should buy. Should I go with Apple or should I go with PC? I'm planning on purchasing a laptop but the decision has been tough. I know how to operate an Apple computer so making a switch for me wont be … |
| | First off... overclocking. I have no idea how to do it or anything about it. Where would be a good place to find out about it. I wont even toy w/ the idea of doin it till I know much much more about it. Now to the real problem. I … |
| | hi there i recently bought an advent 7082 laptop, it said when i bought it that it comes with 512 meg of ddr 2 ram, but when i got it i went to start right clciked my computer properties and its telling me i have only 384 meg, i panicked … |
| | I am running Windows XP Home on my laptop and keep getting the same problem recurring,i.e., Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and has to shut down. The desktop icons then vanish and reappear but my Giant spyware app. has invariably shut down and if I want it live again, …  |
| | Ok. This is the second day straight that I've worked on this. I'm working on my gf's laptop. Context: WinXP sp1, IE 6. Zonealarm. Netgear wgr614 router, wg511 network card. Connection works. Ping to ip and name work. Ping to gateway works. Excellent/very good signal. DNS is set to auto … |
| | Hello, I've been having trouble with my laptop since Friday. All of a sudden, after downloading the latest Windows update my computer slowed down to a crawl. My CPU was running at 100% and explorer.exe was using 98-100% of it. I updated Norton and ran a full scan, did a …  |
| | Name: Jim Taylor Age: 76 Occupation: Retired for 14 years Married, wife, two children, 8 grandchildren, assorted ages and sizes. Early in my working career ('50s and '60s) I programmed IBM 1400 series and 360 series machines. I wrote Autocoder, Basic Assembler, PL1, Fortran, COBOL, etc. When I retired, I … |
| | Another one of Choppyness.... I have an HP Laptop. All of the sudden the DVD's are being played all choppy. It just happened suddently literaly from one day to the other, I do not remember to have done anything different, and I definitely did not install any software? Other than … |
| | Hi my labtop screen just currently broke :cry: and I would like to know if you can hook a laptop up to a normal monitor for my other desktop? if so how? please help me out on this thank you  |
| | [FONT=Century Gothic]I'm not very good with this type of problem, so I REALLY need your help. OK, so... Two days ago, I turned on the computer, and like always, Spy Bot popped up to see if I wanted to check for errors. So i decided to check for errors, and … |
| | I have installed a Logitech sphere/orbit. I used the updated drivers from Logitech's website for installation. Camera works fine. Microphone does not work. In device manager, shows as having no drivers associated. So I have tried to install, reinstall, etc drivers. After computer restart, the device (Logitech Microphone ptz) shows … |
| | Hi, I'm new to the forum. I hope that I am doing this poperly. I currently have a Dell Inspirion 1150. The laptop will not not accept power from the house-power charger (a new one was just purchased because the cable on the old one was intermittent). Here is the …  |
| | i need help bad! I have a dell inspiron 8000, and i have a generic desktop. i bought a dell wireless broadband router, can i also have a dell 80211b wireless card for the laptop. I have installed both. the router seems to be fine...i am still accessing the net … |
| | I recently bought a compaq laptop to use for school and work. Now, completely out of the blue, windows explorer and internet explorer will not open. Most other programs work, although they like to freeze alot. I have read through forums checking for an answer but with no luck. Now … |
| | Just a little over a month ago we networked 3 computers using an Intelinet Wireless Router, which is also an AP. At the time we had no intention of using a laptop. However, my husband just got a good deal on a Dell C600 wireless. It is on the way … |
 | I haven't bought computer hardware in a long time. There are so many different chips out now for CPUs and graphics cards. First off i'm looking to spend about $1500 US CPUS: Whats better for performance? Turion Athalon Pentium M Graphics Cards whats better for gaming? [url]http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityradeonx600/specs.html[/url] OR [url]http://www.ati.com/products/radeonxpress200m/specs.html[/url] I'd … |
 | I have a toshiba laptop s2800-200 (naturally the model doesn't exist on toshiba's website) Whenever I plug in the mains adaptor the screen backlight goes off. If it's running on battery it's fine. Is this a software setting or a failed item of hardware? |
| | I've had my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo EL6800 (celeron 2Ghz, 256mb ram) for just over two years now. At the end of last year the battery packed in (discharges very quickly - it takes under a minute to fully discharge), although the laptop powers up ok through the mains supply. I … |
| | here is a simple question. i have 2 procesors for my laptop. currently my dell inspiron is sporting a 1.8/512 p4 with a gig of ram. is switching to a newer but slightly slower 1.7 with a 2 gig l2 cache a smart thing to do if its free since … |
| | ok so im a 17year old kid who is the "computer expert" in the family. my moms laptop (DELL Latitude C840; Windows 2000) got some pop up trouble and i assume viruses anywhere from 3-2 years ago. my mom ended up just getting a new laptop, and this 1 was … |
| | I've created a web page in .php which receives it's content from a MySQL database, it is all working nicely and looking good except that a field which I have called Ed_Main is now about 65kb and now does not display all the text stored in it. I'm using PHPMyadmin … |
| | Hi all, I stumbled across your forum while searching for information regarding a friends laptop and really liked what I saw. I consider myself an 'amateur expert' in PC's and have helped many friends with various issues including Spyware, malware, and hardware. My proudest achievment is the Filemaker database development … |
| | About 3 months ago my saddle bags on my motorcycles broke off while I was on the freeway. Unfortunatly my G3 Titanium laptop was inside one of them. The laptop was a complete mess but I was able to save the hard drive that somehow survived the accident. I need … |
| | Hello All, I am new to the forum but I have a question...I just picked up a used gateway solo 3150 laptop and the cd rom module is bad, but I can't for the life of me find a way to eject the entire drive so that I can replace … |
| | hey everyone. :) it's been a long time since I've had to be here :evil: . and this time it isnt even for me. so please bare with me, and if i say something stupid, please excuse me. :o my friend's laptop has now been playing up for sometime, and …  |
| | Hi All, Ive been infected with Spy Sheriff (amoung others no doubt). I have trawled thru the various forums on how to clean this any everything seems to be different and all seem to start with a HJT log so I will start here too. Please help me. Many Thanks … |
| | Im not sure if this Q should be on this forum,but I didnt know where else to put it. OK so my HP Omnibook 6000, I just bought the Fujitsu MHT-AH MHT2040AH 40GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache Notebook Hard Drive - OEM. THis is a generic HD that i was … |
| | hi everyone, as im new to os i was wondering can i install mac on my laptop. My laptop is toshiba with xp home edition installed. If yes I have some questions: 1. Is the os free? if free which website can i download it from? if i have to … |
| | Hi, is there any trick available to connect/use my laptop display as a monitor for my desktop pc? Both are running Windows XP. Faktion |
| | Hi...new here just looking for some help. Im sure the answer is simple...but i cant figure it out. In a nutshell, when I go to open Internet Explorer on my main computer it shows this page: "Index of / and then Parent Directory 22-Sep-2004 " this page comes up when … |
| | I have a toshiba laptop. when turned on all the lights turn on and the fan is running but there is no activity. the screen is black and the os cant boot. a possible solution to this is that it is overheating, but not sure about it. Can some one … |
 | Day before yesterday I got my Laptop's RAM upgraded and hard-disk replaced which actually wiped out all IBM Preloaded software. I had to buy a new OEM Pack of Win XP Pro. However, after I installed this thing, something funny has started happening : When I move my cursor, it … |
| | hi ...hope you are all ok. since yesterday i ve noticed a quite weird problem on my laptop.. i connect usually via wireless dsl connection..i turn on my external router and set the Wlan button from my laptop to on ...then after a while the wlan icon appears as transmitting … |
| | I am not a techie but some people ask me to do things anyway, so please bear with me. As an example let's say that the main part of a website resides on a third-party server but there are links within some of the pages that refer to an hard-coded … |
| | HI, I tried setting up a local network between my desktop and laptop, the desktop asked me for a network password which I left blank, it then required a reboot, and now asks me for a password (I never had a password set before)... now it wont let me log … |
| | I hope someone can explain this to me because I don't understand it at all it, is an ADVENT 7001, turn the power on and the laptop will shut down almost straignt away. Boot to DOS and it sits there for hours but as soon as I go to run … |
| | I have an IBM R31 laptop with 128 mb RAM installed, but when i check the system configuration, it shows only 120 mb. what's the problem?  |
| | Okay, this will be a bit of a longer post about mostly network policies and such (hey, talk about a nice 1st post :mrgreen: ), but I do need help with the software configuration. I'll be the first to admit that I know almost nothing about Netware, but I do … |
| | I have installed a Belkin wireless network at home linking a desktop PC running Windows XP and 2 laptops, a new Sony laptop running Windows XP and my old Sony laptop running Windows 2000 Professional. The new laptop has a built-in wireless connection. My old one has an Ethernet connection, … |
| | I have a Laptop connected to the internet via a D-link 524g router and the problem i keep having is that I keep losing my connection around the house or it keeps dropping all the way down to 1 Mbps. What can I do to solve this? Somebody told me … |
| | i have a toshiba a serise laptop andneed to repalace the lcd on it icrack the one i have :mad: but wish to fix |
| | i have a toshiba a serise laptop and crack the screen [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=121#[/url] Sad i'm looking to replace it. any help in finding a vendor with good prices i will install just need part |
| | I just installed Windows XP in a Toshiba Satellite 4100XDVD laptop. The windows video output is not being displayed on the full size of the monitor. There is a 1" black band around the entire desktop area. Is there a way to expand the video out to get the full … |
| | I know that this type of post has occurred before - and I have tried (nearly) everything that previous people have suggested, but I can not get it to work. I am running XP SP2 on my hp laptop. In the background I have Spybot S&D, Norton Antivirus, and Norton … |
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