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Hi, I am looking to upgrade my RAM in my Compaq Presario M2217AP [url]http://h50025.www5.hp.com/hpcom/au_en/11_29_64_3693_EE504PA.html[/url] So far I have gathered that firstly: I don't want to fork out loads of cash for a HP-branded 1GB chip! Secondly, the chips specs that I will need are the following: 2 x 1GB chips …

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hi i need help my computer is telling me that it is dumping the physical memory and the error is stop:0x0000007e(0xc0000005,0x8059231e,0xf8a32a4c,0xf8a3274c) it is a sony vaio laptop please help thanks

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I have a toshiba tecra 8200 laptop. I started getting a warning during boot, a "cheksum error, cmos". it allowed me to boot into windows about 6 times and now it no longer boots. ive replaced the RTC battery with the correct replacement. the first time I put the battery …

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I've had my laptop for a while, over the course of the last month it would make beeping sounds and shut down automatically occassionally(maybe once every 4-5 days). Today i tried to turn on my laptop and the little led light shows that the screen is turned on and hd …

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Hello, Thank you for answering my message in advance. I am having a terrible time with a new laptop I have gotten. Even from the beginning (Opening it up from the box) it has had this problem where it will open up numerous explorer windows(or firefox ... or will actually …

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MOST crucial decision - please please help me...!!!!!!!!! please please read the whole post....please have patience.... WHAT I WANT: To be able to record lectures delivered by my professor so that I can later on listen it while commuting and also make notes. WHY I WANT: Because our professor delivers …

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I have a Dell Latitude D505 with an intel graphics card. It doesnt support Texture and Lighting and I would like to play a certain game that requires that to work. Can I possibly upgrade my existing card? I know that most laptops are not upgradeable when it comes to …

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hey, this is probable a very basic question I was just wondering if you thought this was a good deal. I wanted to buy a cheap laptop which I could take to back and fourth collage, it would mainly be used for writing small low levels programs, and word processing. …

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Ok I have a few issues. Windows messenger runs everytime i turn on my computer. Ive taken it out of the startup and ive deleted it out of the prefetch too. Ive even gone so far to get rid of the startup option and run in background option in the …

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hi i have a toshiba laptop satellite 1110 running xp and i live in uk. i have a pc which is connected to blueyonder. i was wondering if i want wireless network, will i be able to connect to internet wirless and what kind of routher or card do i …

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is there such a thing as a 2gb memory module for a laptop? i got a laptop off ebay the other day, in the item description it said it could take 2gb of memory, but there's only 1 slot i don't need 2gb of memory, but i don't like being …

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Can someone tell me first: what i need installed on my pc's to go wireless. My o/s is Windows xp on laptop and windows 98 on desktop.I have regular dial up services. I want to be able for both of my computers to be online at the same time or …

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i am having problems connecting to xbox live. i only have wi-fi internet where i live, on a college campus, and i have been connecting using liksys router model number WRT54G. my laptop is wi-fi compatable and i plug it into the router's internet source port, the one you usually …

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Hi, I have a Toshiba A10-S169 laptop. A week before it stopped working, with the Orange LED blinking in a specific pattern. I checked the service manual and could understand that the blinking pattern reads as HEX 'D2', which says that "1R25-B1V voltage is 1.063V or less when the computer …

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Hi, I just got a dlink DWL G630 c wireless card for a notebook running service pack 1 (i am updating that soon). The drivers installed fine. However the configuration software utility that came with the drivers does not work, the dlink software says that no card can be found, …

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I'm pretty Computer literate. But I have been stumped with this latest problem. My gf's Dads Laptop currently is getting errors. Everytime I click on My Computer it gives me the error, "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not …

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:evil: have a dell p3 256 ram laptop with 2000 pro, wanted to up grade to xp went to costco paid 200 dollars started the upgrade ,half way it stoped and said connot copy some folders must exit! so i tried again samething, took the disk out tried to restart …

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Hello there, I have a IBM Thinkpad 390E, when i bought it, it came with an AC Adapter and a battery that was completely dead... So i bought a battery and loved it... Well i bought a car adapter for my laptop, and when i was reading all the diffrent …

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My Laptop was working fine on Friday, when I get into the office today, and I try to browse the internet I would click a link on ANY page and end up with "Cannot Find Server" error's left and right. Having to click back and refresh a million times to …

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Ok guys I just got a new laptop and have norton and spysweeper installed on my computer because thats what it came with. Im wondering if im still clean. heres my hjt log. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 6:36:01 PM, on 8/13/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) …

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Hey, I have a speedtouch 330 with pipex 1.1Mbps. Yesterday I was cleaning out my registry with EASYCLEANER which found problems and I deleted them. Later on the internet just went dead. Now heres the problem. It says I am connected to pipex and all that, but when I open …

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Ok... So I got this community I hang out on from time to time. [url]www.gayhyllan.se[/url] But now I can't reach it from my home connection anymore. I could before and I also can in the connection that's elsewere. I use a laptop so it's the same computer no on both …

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hey i was wondering if anybody could help me out. i have sambar server which i guess is some file server thingy majig or whatever that lets you serve files off of your computer as a website using your IP address. anyway before i went wireless it worked fine with …

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I have a workstation running XP Pro, it is hooked to a linksys router via a cat 5 cable. The workstation also has a printer connected to it. The work station has a 4 user login. The Laptop running XP pro is connect to the router via a Dell wireless …

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Hi. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I just couldn't figure out where else to post it. Recently, my computer exploded. Well, not literally, but it was older than dirt and finally gave out. However, I have a pretty new DVD drive in it. I was …

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:eek: I have a toshiba tecra 8100 600meg, 128MB Ram Recently installed a QSI-SBW242 dvd-CDRW drive. After having a lot of troubles with an IDE#1 error (which i solved with the help of this forum) the drive finally seemed to work properly. I can burn everything i want, read every …

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Hi ya all. I've been asking around about this for months all sorts of different place and no one seems to have a good answer, I really hope you can help. Is there a way to connect a laptop hard drive while still in the laptop to be used by …

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My good friend has loaned me a laptop for an emergency - PowerBook G3, 333 MHz, 64 MB with OS 9.0.4. It's slow and not like my Panther, but I only need it for emails and simple stuff. However, I can't connect with AOL, which she said was working fine …

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I'm a semi-technical ditz. You should know that right away. I can, at the same time, do a lot. And not much. I use my computer mostly for emails, and writing projects that involve viewing .pdf files. I'm starting to learn PhotoShop, slowly. Want to learn how to retouch and …

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hi i have this toshiba laptop. the cd rom is faulty now(i cant find the D drive in my computer). i went to device manager and it says : Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41) Click Troubleshoot to start …

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Hello. I have a Toshiba Satellite 2450-S402 (Pentium 4 1.6GHz). Today, I accidently spilt a glass of coke all over it (bad idea...yep!) and managed to mop most of it up. I removed the keyboard and dried all underneath it, and took off every compartment I could, most were dry …

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Hi there Everyone! My name is Clive Bromfield, and i have a problem with a laptop within our company, norton c/e had picked up that there was a trojan.cachecachekit. now the popup window keeps coming up, i have tried the following things and none of them seems to work. Nortons …

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I Have a BT Voyager 1060 Wireless adaptor, and i cant get it to work. Im trying to link a laptop and a PC to the wireless network. Im using windows xp home edition on both computers. I will be using the laptop as the host computer, but the drivers …

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While attempting to uninstall Roxio I inadvisedly ran McAffee clean. Dialog box became unreadable as text was displayed in what looked like Wingding font. Please advise on how to recover normal fonts. The computer is a Dell Latitude laptop on which the connection to the internet is not functioning.

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Hi guys, everything was fine until the latest install of XP. Since that time my sound card cannot be found. I tried to install all sorts of drivers, some of them complain about some errors and do not go through. What do I do???? this is the sound card - …

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Hi eveyrone, I have a friends daughters laptop over here that was having tons of problems. I already installed/updated/ran AdAware and Spybot S&D as the other post recommends. I still get the bridge.dll error upon booting, though the other two programs did fix a lot of errors. I was hoping …

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Hi I spent 15 years as an electronics engineer, 18 yeare as a small business electronics retailer, there I started writing software for my business. In 1985 I formed Hands On software systems. We develope POS software for retailers. I have been using a Gateway 600 Ygr laptop for 3 …

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Requesting help from the smart folks: The question: Is there anyway to route my wireless laptop's internet requests out the dial-up modem? What I have: Desktop (HP Pavilion f1503 w/Win XP Home): Dial-up via Angeres PCISoft Modem. NIC Via Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter Laptop (Toshiba Satellite w/Win XP): NIC: …

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I have a laptop with a wireless network card in it and a router wich is wireless network compatible... it has worked for half a year but last week it couldnt connect to my network anymore.... :cry: and now it cant even find my network.... does anyone know what could …

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ei guys, really need help here. i have a dsl connection for my desktopat home, and i just bought a netgear wireless router to connect my laptop wireless. as i set it up with the setup wizard, all goes well until the wizard restarts my network. it will then say …

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Hello there people. I barely signed up today because I have encountered a problem with my new laptop. When I enable my Local Internet Connection, it always says it's acquiring an address or something like that. But, then it always says that it has a "limited or no connectivity." Now, …

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I accidentally spilled a drink onto the keyboard of my Toshiba Satellite 2455S305 laptop. Immediately after this occurred, the computer turned off. The only lights on it were an amber power plug. I removed the battery and then put it back in, and now no lights are on. I've been …

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Hubby was given this laptop by a friend at work knowing it wasn't working properly. We're just trying to figure out what might be wrong & if it's worth our effort to try fixing it up. Per the previous owner, the screen would randomly go black like the computer had …

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hi i want to install slackware onto my laptop i have a 10g hardrive and i dnt wnt a partition for windows as my desktop is my windows i want linux straight down on me laptop lol i have read guides but get stuck partitioning for linux dpartitions is it? …

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A- linux B-win2k3 D- win xp home X1/X2- win2k3 A is my gateway/194.186.0.1, secondary NIC x.x.x.9 connects to my ISP B uses x.x.x.2 D uses x.x.x.5 X uses x.x.x.3 and x.x.x.4 (2 NICS on-board) A,B,D,X are connected to a switch A can ping to A,B,D B can ping B,A,D D …

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Ok this is the second forum I am writing to (First one gave me no help what so ever). I was surfing the web looking for SNES Roms to download into my PSP. I visited [url]www.FreeRoms.com[/url] and was prompted to download an ActiveX tool. I know I shouldn't have but …

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[SIZE=3]Please help me remove aurora... Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:18:50 PM, on 7/19/2005 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 C:\WINDOWS\System32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SPBBC\SPBBCSvc.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe …

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I run an airport extreme WLAN. iMac desktop has Firewire HDD attached. PC Laptop can see iMac HDD, but not Firewire HDD. Any suggestions?

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Hi Great site, new member here and first post! Gericom Overd.2 PIII 800mhz laptop came to me with a loose power supply pin connector, so no power, battery dead too. De-soldiered connector then re-soldierd connector back onto mainboard. Laptop powers up fine now, only to develop what seems to be …

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ok im not very good with networking andi was wondering if some 1 out there could help me please. i have 1 computer & 2 lap tops that need to be connected. All have windows XP. the laptops are a Sony VAIO and a DELL inspiron1150. the router is a …

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