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| | Hello I'm in the UK, and I'd like to ask this question (or two :cheesy:) I got the TP560 a while ago, and it has Wind98SE 133Mhz, 40Ram, 2GB Hdd and it's quite a nice machine. It has two PCMCIA slots, no USB, and no CD Rom. Can or is …  |
| | My IBM Thinkpad laptop is on a docking station with a monitor hooked up to it. If I remove the laptop from the station and go to another room to compute and then shut off the laptop, and then go back to the room later where the docking station is … |
| | Don't know if this is the right place to post - please move if not. I just bought a laptop and wanted to transfer all my files from my old desktop (windows 95 version). The laptop does not have a floppy and to be honest I don't want to use … |
| | I am using a Toshiba Satellia M40-JM3. I've had this problem for a while, even took it into Future Shop and the gorons there claimed they fixed it after holding onto it for 10 days when they did nothing at all. The laptop is only a month old and the … |
| | Hi I have a Toshiba 1410 laptop and i bought a Toshiba SD-R2212 dvd-cd/rw drive for it. When i installed it i got the IDE#1 error, so i read some threads on here about changing the firmware and how its best to use another laptop etc. Problem is i dont … |
| | Hi, my name is Ivi and I'm new here and have a lot of questions... I have to tell you I know nothing about computers :cry: so please, be nice to me !!! My question is probably dumb and I'm not even sure if this is the right forum to … |
| | Hello!! I have a Dell Latitude notebook which i purchased 2 years ago. It is 256 MB ram. 800 Mhz , Win 2000 pro. I was wondering what can be done to make it work to its max potential speed ? obviously i can upgrade it but it will be … |
 | :?: i have a m.s. lan card for my gateway laptop & i have a microsoft ms 700 wireless modem connected into my cable modem. ? is, once i have my software loaded into my desktop, do i have to install the software for my m.s. wireless modem into my … |
| | i posted a thread about my dell laptop, p-3 . model 8000, with windows 2000 pro. decided to put xp for the looks in it. ral the program, half way it s,,,topped and said cannot go on sys/32 confg/ missing or corrupted. so i tried again, and again. no luck. … |
| | I have a fairly old HP Pavilion 5390 notebook running on windows ME. After using it as a back-up internet connection for a couple of years we decided to run a virus scan on it. We never had a virus protection program on it until a couple of weeks ago. … |
| | Hey, when we (my brother before I came) set up the wireless network here, he didn't put in any sort of function whereby a code would be needed to access our network. Now, we've got so many people sucking off of our "Netgear" network that I'll get booted off from … |
| | Please help me. I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FVR37 that is about a year and a half old. It has always worked great other than a less than impressive battery life that has gotten worse lately. Today it powered down without warning even though I was connected to the power … |
| | Hi, Just recently, I've had trouble with webpages not loading correctly. Some will not load at all, for example when I do a google search, a large percentage do not open. Others, like Yahoo.com, load with no background or pictures. The same problem occurs in both Firefox and IE. I …  |
| | I have a Dell laptop. Wirless connection through a router which is connected to cable. The connection worked fine until a few days ago and now when I click on IE it says cannot connect...webpage not aviable. My connection tab for my wireless connection is fine. But I CANNOT access … |
| | Hello. Looking for suggestions on the following problem: the sound on my laptop (Compaq Presario 700) works perfectly fine (operating system Windows XP) when the internet connection is unplugged OR when connected with USB. However no sound works once the ethernet connection is plugged in. This includes sound coming from … |
| | have a Dell laptop. Wirless connection through a router which is connected to cable. The connection worked fine until a few days ago and now when I click on IE it says cannot connect...webpage not aviable. My connection tab for my wireless connection is fine. But I CANNOT access the … |
| | Hi I'm kinda new here and love gettin' free advice on my computer endeavors. This is a great resource to have. This may be a stoopid [sic] question, but since my newest PC (4rth one)(yet to arrive, however) will be a Toshiba 2435 S255 laptop, I'm curious if I can … |
 | I have a folder stored on my main computer. The computer main computer is a Linux computer, but it's using Samba to connect to the network. I have a new laptop that I want to accessthis folder with write permission regularly to work on various projects on both computers at … |
| | After upgrading from 2000 Pro to XP Pro, it's random, but every 2nd or 3rd boot or so results in a black screen when starting Windows. The BIOS appears and everything, but once it starts Windows it's Black. I can hear the Windows StartUp Sounds, but no display at all. … |
| | I was cleaning up some softwares in my laptop, and i must have deleted something wrong, coz after restarting the laptop, the sound system went haywire, and my music/video files all sounded rather synthethized and the playback speed was faster than usual. Can anyone out here kindly advise me? Thanks! … |
| | My coming laptop is two years old, the 2435 series. It has modular drives and can even allow swaps while on which is neat. Anyway, Since mine sounds like it will need one (used for parts I'm told) it was initially a DVD CD burner, however, I like having the … |
| | Hi, I have a presario 2100 that I Have owned for about a year now... recently when I would power off, when i rebooted it took forever to post... if it even did, then very sluggish until the windows screen, then all was fine...Well recently it did its normal anticks … |
 | I wrote a simple program that displays a picture. On my computer it looks fine. On my neighbors it is bigger than his screen.. Both computers show the same resolution under properties His machine has onboard video... Oh, the program is fine on my laptop as well. Image is 500 … |
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| | How do I setup a connection to share my internet from Windows XP with my laptop that has Fedora 2 Core? XP box has a dsl connection via usb. Laptop is connected through ethernet hub, but wish to connect using a cisco wireless adapter at a later time. |
| | My laptop has been picking up my neighbour's Netgear connection. So far, I can go on the internet, receive emails, but I can't send any. I get an "Administrative prohibition 550". Is it something my neighbour could have configured specifically ? Does Netgear allows you to do that ? I … |
| | Hope someone can help: What do I need to set to be able to connect an HP4100n printer to an XP laptop using a crossover cable? Any advise would be most helpful!! |
| | I have am IBM thinkpad 365xd, It is basically my first project. the laptop came to me reformatted. BUT it did not come with a floppy drive but it did come with an internal cd-rom drive. I am tryng to install windows XP but I hve no Idea on how … |
| | Hello! I just bought a ThermoJet 3D printer that used to be connected to a network. It worked when it was removed from the network, but when I am trying to connect it directly to a laptop (WinXP) I can`t get a connection with the printer. When I "ping" the … |
| | i have spilt some coke on to the laptop keyboard i need the way to remove the keyboard from a packard bell easynote k5285 all apears to work fine apart from the keys some times when you press the c key you get a Cc at the same time and … |
| | This morning my computer just stopped working - I turned it on and the screen wouldn't light up - it just said "No signal"! It was working fine last night - I'm not sure what's wrong with it. The power button on my computer won't even light up anymore either. … |
| | I am working from my laptop. My desktop is infected and I can no longer get to the internet from it. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:58:27 AM, on 8/27/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe … |
| | Recently the LCD screen on my Gateway Solo 5150 Laptop went black. I took it to a repair shop where they replaced the inverter board that supplies power to the LCD lamp. The unit worked very well for a couple of days and the problem re-appeared. I took it back … |
| | Hi, I am having quite a bit of trouble with my laptop and being able to send e-mail (via G-mail) in (Outlook 2003 SP1) using (Windows XP Pro ).. I can receive okay, but cannot send. I know how to enable all of the settings with g-mail, and have gone … |
| | I have a LAN internet connnection and i have a friend with a laptop with a wireless network card. can we buy a wirless pci network card to add to the pc to share the internet connection eventhough its a seperate network. another words can u be part of two … |
| | [FONT=Book Antiqua]Reformate and cant restore "Invalid system disk Replace the disk and press any key... dosent read ANYthing [/FONT] This is a problem I never had before... restoring a friends Dell Laptop Latitude CPxJ650GT BIOS Revision A08... I can not get it to read any drive there wasn't an A … |
| | Hi all, I was thinking of going wireless with an old Sharp laptop. I can't give you a full system spec, because my uncle gave it to me as a backup when my desktop crashed! Here's what i can give you: Windows 98 Pentium 3 processor ............ and thats about … |
| | Okay, I'm a complete amateur at this. But I'll give it a shot because I'm desperate for help. We recently moved to a new place. The guy from Rogers (the internet company) came to our place today to set up the new internet. The modem is connected to the family … |
| | I have a problem that I have yet to resolve. I can not access some pages that requires signing in to view (hotmail account, other Microsoft.net pages, bank, etc., but it will allow me to sign in to this forum and other "low security?" pages) and it will not allow …  |
| | I ran into a very peculiar, very frustrating problem, maybe one of you guys can figure this one out. We're starting to dabble with wireless here in our office so the staff could easily gain access to the domain via their laptops. Our engineer, who is definitely not an IT … |
| | I've been trying to install the Belkin Wireless G Notebook Network Card (F5D7010) on an Acer Travelmate laptop running Windows ME, the installation looks to go fine, it asks for the card etc, then on reboot the Belkin icon appears in the system tray for a few seconds and then … |
| | Hi I have a Compaq Presario 1700 Pentium 3 the problem is when I start the laptop a White screen appears and after 10-15sec it shuts of. I can't do anything (I think) but I can hear the hard drive working for a few seconds. Any suggestions on what I …  |
| | Hi folks, My friend's got a Sony Vaio PCG-FR315S - 2.66 Ghz Pentium 4, 512Mb RAM, 60Gb HDD, running XP (not sure whether its Pro or Home edition). 4 weeks ago, he installed a wireless network card and it's been working OK since. It was working OK last week on … |
| | hi there, i am a complete noob in this forum, so please dont take it harsh if i do anything wrong. well my problem is, a few days ago my internet went all wacko so i didnt take action cuz i thought it was just temporary. The problem is that … |
| | I have broken my only usb port in my toshiba tecra 8100 laptop, so i brought a skd usb 2 cardbus 32 bit. Win2000 picks up the card only nothing will work from the usb ports. I also have a wireless pcmcia card also a 32 bit cardbus and that … |
| | I am trying to fix a laptop that is having a few problems. This is a Dell Inspiron 8500 from 2003. One 80 gig HD and a DVD/CD-rw drive. I have fixed some of the problems , but for some reason, whenever you click the "My Computer" icon, it sits …  |
| | I just moved and am sharing an internet connection with my new roommates, which has a wep key. I have entered the key and my internet connection works great and then after about 2 minutes it cuts out. I have to click connect again and then wait about 10 seconds … |
 | I am planning to host some ftp space on my laptop, however it is on a wireless network, gaining its network from a host computer. So I have no idea what ip and port to be using. Any ideas how to sort this out? |
| | Hi guys I'm trying to install windows xp on my toshiba tecra 8100. I have an external floppy drive which I've connected. I rebooted the laptop, and pressed 'a'. It read the floppy, and I created a brand new partiton using fdisk. That was fine. Then it asked me to … |
| | Hey! Recently my wireless router stopped working due to some electrical trouble with it.So for the time being I was trying out ad hoc networking(My knowledge about this is really meager).My desktop has Linksys wireless G PCI adapter and my laptop is centrino..both having win xp as operating systems. I … |
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