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| | hi everyone,i need help,since i bought my laptop(which has a built in dvd player)it always plays crap, voice is muffled and picture plays slow,i get no joy from makers i moved from uk to oz so cant send it back,it is an i-buddie a907 256mb 1 gig(533 mhz)40 gb i … |
| | I have an IBM Think Pad laptop which cant start. The power on light just blinks and so does the battry charging light. I do not think it has something to do with the power supply. In a month I have only managed to start it twice. Please help. I … |
| | I am having serious problems with the sound on my laptop. After listening to no more than 5 minutes of music or watching a video, my sound wil stop working. It simply cuts out and every once in a while I hear a fuzzy distorted sound. Once my sound goes …  |
| | All the other programs on my family's laptop work fine, except for the most crucial, Windows Explorer. Whenever I try to bring up a window (ex. My Computer), there is a 2 second pause where everything on the desktop disappears except for the screensaver. Then everything comes back but no …  |
| | Hi i have a HP nx9105 laptop with MS XP Pro installed and all works fine but for the Drive bay, i have noticed that when i try to eject the CD via pushing the button on the side of the drive or clicking in my computer the Drive just … |
| | Hello, I'm somewhat new with computers and im jsut wondering how i would go about reformating my hp pavillion zv5000 laptop, i have already backed up all my important files and im all ready to reformat i just need to know what to do first and what i need to … |
| | Hello, I'm somewhat new with computers and im jsut wondering how i would go about reformating my hp pavillion zv5000 laptop, i have already backed up all my important files and im all ready to reformat i just need to know what to do first and what i need to … |
| | My wireless connection was working fine. All the sudden it stopped working. I can connect directly to the cable modem, so I know my IE has not been hijacked. My Device Manager does not show any problems. My icon on the Task Bar shows I have a connection. Yet when … |
| | When starting my fujitsu amilo laptop ,windows xp will not run rather an error message pops up saying Isass.exe unable to initalise. The computer then shortly afterwards shuts down. I have tried re booting windows however during the re boot the computer shutsdown roughly at the same time. Please Help! |
| | Hi, I have probably spent 40 hours trying to hook up my wireless network. I use Win XP on both systems. I purchased the D-Link Router and hooked it to my Cable Modem. I set up my connections and voila!! I had internet access on both computers. The problem is …  |
| | ok im hoping maybe one of u clever ppl can give me some advice, ive got an old IBM T22 thinkpad laptop, the damn thing just wont behave rationally, sometimes it boots n sometimes it doesnt, sometimes it runs for 3 hours before crashing sometimes the moment it boots up … |
| | hi friends, please tell me the solution for my problem. i installed drivers for wireless adapter several times but it's not displaying in add/remove programs. i am using toshiba(A35-S159) laptop.(my warranty period completed) if builitin wirless card doesn't work, can we connect external wireless card to toshiba laptop?what kind of …  |
| | Hey Thanks for helping me out. Here's the scoop. New laptop, low level of technical expertise, running Symantec Antivirus version 9. So I recieved some sort of Trojan horse via email buddies I think, and I have tried various things to get rid of it, all to no avail. I …  |
| | I bought this laptop yesterday from Staples. It is a Compaq Presario with XP. It is fully ready for internet with all the built in wireless stuff. I was playing on it today and it said that there was a wireless network to connect to and asked if I would … |
| | Computer is 3-4yrs old PIII-500MHz, Win98SE OS. When I attempt to power up the computer, everything appears to load as it has in the past. However it never gets past the Windows logo display. I have attempted to boot in safe mode (same issue). I am able to access the … |
| | Hello all... I have a problem with my laptop battery not wanting to charge all the time. I have one or two ideas and what to run them by some other folks and get their opinion. Background info: Toshiba Satellite 3005-S304 - (1 GHz machine with XP home installed) I … |
| | I have a Gateway laptop 9300 solo series that has a very wierd temper. When i have the external power supply hooked up the computer it will lock up so I turned it off. On power up the Gateway logo will come up and then beep which is normal then … |
| | Hi - I am new to the site and am hoping one of you out there will know what I have forgotten to do here... I am the only Apple (PowerBook G4) on a windows network in our office. I had my laptop set up just fine to work on …  |
| | Hello! First things first, i am not knowledged with computers really, at all. But i need to try and resolve a little problem so here is goes. I want to link up a laptop to my PC so i can share the same internet. I was told to network them … |
| | So im trying to find some sort of a program that I can use on my laptop, I have outlook and love it but I have a problem syncing my laptop and desktop PST file. They keep on over writing each other. So I thought maybe I would find a …  |
| | Hi all! My first post. Glad to be here. Lots to read. About me: I am a 34 year old fulltime musician who performs regularly in a rock band and tours the Southeastern US. I teach drums at a local college and private lessons at my house here in Mobile, …  |
| | I have modem troubles on my Laptop. I have got on the internet about a month ago with no troubles but now I cant even dial out. My device Manager says the modem is working fine. I am afraid it is a virus and I have forgot to update my … |
| | I'm having a problem with the video adapter or the monitor. I have a senix laptop pantium 700. It seems to getting kind of fuzzy. It only happens in dark sections of the monitor like blue. It's kind of like someething you would see if you were to have some … |
| | I have just tried to connect my Laptop (Toshiba Satellite with a 32MEG Nvida GForce 420 GO Video Card) to my TV and I have an image, but it is black and white and I am unable to get it to color. I'm connecting through a SCART connection which has … |
| | I posted my issue stated below the dotted line in the Win XP forum and was told to post my Hijackthis log in this forum. I hereby do this. Any experts who can help? Many thanks in advance. Rgs. Lastmo. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 20:20:14, on 07-05-2005 … |
| | I removed the motherboard on my Gateway 450SX laptop to resolder the power input jack. Since then the monitor will "scramble" at random times for no apparent reason. I tried connecting a crt monitor and the same thing will happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks |
| | I have a friend that has an older hp n3350. It may be 3 years old or older, I am not sure. His hard drive is small and is totally full. He has put it over to xp which takes up a lot of the space but wants to keep …  |
 | I'm trying to connect my laptop (WinXP Home) to my PC(WinXP Pro) and then connect to the net through my PC. I have Belkin 54G Wireless Network Cards in both machines. Both machines are set up in the same room also. I've installed both cards but they can't see each …  |
| | My LCD screen on my hp zt1000 has just gone black. Im usually pretty good with computers and fixing things with them if something goes wrong but im just not to sure how to handle this one and any suggestions on how to fix it would be great! The only … |
| | Just in possession of a laptop which runs Mac. Any advice as to a good printer and dvd-rw drive that are mac compatable? |
| | I pasted all of the highjackthis report but Idont know if you can read it. I cant get my internet Explorer to download a single thing. I gat a message that IE cant find the file or the file doent exist. If someone could make heads or tails 0f this … |
| | HELP!! As usual i follow instructions and mess up !! 1) Have a Dell Laptop with WIN 2000 OS, loaded WIN XP pro (with NTFS) and now i have both OS. When i boot i get the option of choosing any one OS. 2) How do get rid of WIN … |
| | I have a Gateway 450SX laptop. I had to remove the motherboard to resolder the power supply input jack. Since then the screen will "scramble" at any given time for no apparent reason. I tried removing the lcd screen and plugging in a crt monitor and the same thing happens. … |
| | just got a laptop from work and the following has happened. it boots up ok until i get to username / password screen, i dont know either. i put win xp cd in to install over linux and it switches laptop off. i have no linux cds. any one any … |
| | OK heres my setup, im an amature astronomer and there is a wifi router near where i like to go that i have permission to use, its a friends router. the only problem is that when i set up my laptop is out of range. i would like to add … |
| | Hi, can opne of you nice people help me with my laptop, When I press the power button eveything powers up fine, The Hard Disk spins and the Cd drive's light flashes and the processor gets warm (if left long enough) after this I don't think it boots, and there … |
| | Hi everyone this is my first post for some much needed help. I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Laptop with a big problem, the laptop will not power up via the power supply it will only power up from the battery. I have also noticed the metal prong which inserts …  |
| | Goodday, I have Coreldraw 11 installed on my HP ZV6005 laptop running XP. I dont need to use coreldraw anymore, so I went to unistall it throught the proper procedures. settings\add remove\...etc. When I hit the uninstall button I recieved the following error message. Unhandled exception error error: 0x80040702 failed …  |
| | Hi everyone, I received a nonworking laptop from a friend. She told me it stopped working and gave it to me just in case i got it working, i could keep it. When you hit the power button the power light turns on and it tries to read from the … |
| | Hey, Ive got a salvaged laptop harddrive in a caddy connected via USB 2 to my new laptop. It worked once and I was able to access my files on the old drive. Now when I connect it to the new laptop it says the usb port has surged and … |
| | My WinXP system recently crashed and will not allow restart. Have talked at length with manufacturer support who are suggesting reinstall as only fix. Problem is there are important files I'd like to recover if possible and would prefer not to risk writing over them. (there was a password sign … |
| | i have a compaq presario 700 laptop ive run anti virus programs but dont understand why at times not all but parts of my screen go green a very light green only on certain areas ???? as far as i can tell i have no virus on my comp is … |
| | The idea is simple, I'm hoping the process is simple or do-able at least. In short, the full story is that my Dad is coming to town. The hotel he stays at has a wired Internet, but no wireless. I want to provide a wireless router for them (already have … |
| | Hi everyone, computers have slowly become my main hobby even overtaking my love for cars. I am eager to learn as much as i possibly can about I.T. and have 3 computers and a laptop. If i can help anyone i will do my best to and at times i … |
| | I have a laptop that has a cdrw/dvdrom drive that suddenly stopped working. i looked in the device manager and the drive is not even listed to be on the computer. I dont understand this considering it worked a couple days ago. Any ideas on what to do would be … |
| | [url]http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120054,tk,mcx,00.asp[/url] i just read this article and it says that you can log on to anothers computer with out knowing it thinking its a hotspot. My question is in wireless settings there are 2 types, access point and computer to computer. If i have only access point set would i … |
| | I have linux installed on my laptop. (Redhat 9). All works ok except sound and wireless lan. I'm not worried about the sound at all so that does not matter. But it is not recognizing the wireless card. Does anyone know of any linux drivers for the trendnet tew 226pc/tew-228pi … |
| | I have a DVD+RW/CD+RW drive in my laptop and just recently it has stopped reading blank dvds. It reads absolutly everything else; audio cds, blank cds, dvd movies, burned dvds, program cds, etc. I used the drive about a month ago and it worked great. I have not installed a … |
| | Hi, I'm running RH9 on a Dell Latitude LS400, trying to connect to my WinXP desktop. I've set up the eth0 connection on the laptop (no problems setting up, device recognised and activates without any errors.) I then set the IP addresses to 10.0.0.5 for the laptop, 10.0.0.13 for the … |
| | I have an Acer C100 tablet PC. Basically it's a small laptop that doesn't have an internal CD-Rom drive. I have an educational program called EyeQ that I would like to use in that laptop. Problem is : the program will not run unless the CD is in the Rom … |
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