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| | I have a Toshiba Satellite 1410 which I booted up this morning and to my dismay the screen was blank. Upon further investigations (ripping it to pieces) it seems that the backlight has gone :(, I can still see images etc if I hold the laptop up to a light, … |
| | hello, any help will be greatly welcome and needed. i'm afraid my laptop (a powerbook g4) had a slip today. the fall was not that high from the bed to the carpeted floor, and the music that i had been playing did not even skip. i rushed over to it …  |
| | I am working on a Vaio PII 450 192mb 40gb Laptop, I have tried installing winxp pro, win2000, win98, but the vidoe does not seem to display correctly, what i mean the graphics are not clean, or crisp it as if the drivers is not enough. The drivers are self … |
| | I have a IBM 390X which had a 15.0" screen but it had gotten damaged. I bought a IBM 390X 14.1" screen at E-bay thinking to replace it. I have connected the 14.1" screen but I have not been able to get it to work. The screen's power LED glows … |
| | Hi there, My computer has suddenly started not doing a number of odd things. I have not loaded new software or changed any settings recently that i can think of. I have Windows XP Home. IE6. The original Service Pack 1 that came with the laptop. I have run the … |
| | I have about 200 photos presently downloaded to a windows laptop. I want to transfer them to my Mac to edit them in Photoshop. Is there a way to directly connect the pc to the mac via usb or firewire that will allow me to drag the folder from one …  |
| | I have a desktop the connects to the internet via a dial up connection. I alsohave a laptop with a USB (airlink) 802.11g adaptor. I want to share files/internet connection between the desktop and laptop wirelessly. I have a Belkin 802.11g router on the desktop. Since I have no DSL … |
| | I was wondering if you guys can help me out. You see I want to buy a laptop but my CO Tech Teacher told us not to buy compaq laptops 'cause they're no good. Is that true? Which ones do you think are better IBM or Dell?:eek: and why? |
| | Hi. I have a Sony VAIO WinXP laptop that comes up with this msg everytime when I start the computer up: You (or a program) have requested information from sdcevents4.sel.sony.com. Which connection do you want to use? Does anyone know how I can stop this message? Note that I don't … |
| | Hi My set up is DSL netgear wired DG router 2 computers wired to router 1 of those computers connected with wifi to a laptop i am using automatic ip addressing with the router being 192.168.0.1, and the computers being 192.168.0.2,3 i want to share the internet connection to the … |
| | I have Windows XP SP2, Toshiba laptop. Well, after doing some scans with spybot, and ad-ware, and after restarting my computer. I noticed mostly everything is appearing italicized(all this stuff I am typing is also italicized (for me)). I really don't know what happened, all of a sudden everything is … |
| | I was having problems with my monitor so I ordered a new NEC hooked it up and restarted the computer. Than I found out that it wasn't the monitor at all had the same real grainy bad color in the screen. So I figured it was the Video adapter. So … |
| | I want to connect a laptop to a lan so that I can run antispyware program saved in another computer.How do I go through it.This machine is extremely slow and I did a disk clean up and closed most of the startup programs and is still slow,what could be the … |
| | Hi there, Looking for some recommendations/ advice and opininions that might assist me in buying a new laptop pc. There are so many variations particularly in processors that I am quickly becoming confused. Essentially, other sources have told me to forget about anything based on the celeron processor and to … |
| | Hi. I happened upon this site from a google search where people were having similar problems to me - but none exact. I hope you can help (and I hope I put this in the right forum). Here's the deal - I have SBCYahoo DSL and recently moved to a … |
| | I just bought a new Laptop after my old one crashed on me. I still have no idea what is wrong with it. My Old laptop was a Toshiba with a Pentium III 650Mhz running the Windows 98 operating system. Whenever I attempt to boot it up, it freezes on … |
 | Hey people! I've had my laptop for about a year now and feel it is about time i gave it a bit more umph, (or a bit less meh), by upgrading the ram from 256(working at 240) to 512 or more. After doing a couple of searches i've found it … |
| | Hi there i have a problem on my Laptop when i try and hybernate it it just hangs has anyone any ideas how i can find out what is causing it Shaun :o  |
 | Hi, My colleague's laptop was infected by spyware that will automatically launch the browser to go to some websites. I have installed Ad-aware and Spybot to reduce the spywares to a minimum, but I am still unable to prevent the auto-launching of the browser. I have attached the Hijack log …  |
| | I recently was givin a Compaq presario 720 laptop. Sometimes it will not come on, but you can hear the hard drive. thanks for any help |
| | Hello I have Windows 98 on my laptop computer, and still do, but it started to messing up, and I am in need of installing it again. What do you suggest? And what is the best way to go about doing it? I dont have a reconfiguation disk. Your help … |
| | Unwanted Search Toolbars -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Im running windows XP SP1. Dell Inspiron9100 Laptop. Problem persists after running updated adaware and spybot s&d. The problem is that whenever I open IE, a grey toolbar appears at the top, and a wide blue bar appears at the bottom of the page. I have …  |
| | Hi, I've been on Webtv for a few years and want to switch to an apple laptop. I don't really need a computer, just a way to access the internet and have e-mail. Webtv seems to be the only internet terminal around and it stinks. Can anyone tell me which …  |
| | I'm running IE6 in Windows XP Home Edition on my laptop. When I boot up, IE opens once with my home page. I've checked out the start up file, but it isn't requested to open at start up. When the computer is left untouched for 30 mins, IE opens again … |
| | Hi. I've had this problem in Win XP as well, and I'm posting this here cuz obviously, I'm running Win 2000 Pro SP4. As the title says, I am having a problem with my internet connection. I'm on cable, and I'm not on a router eithter. It's just the cable … |
| | I was thinking something wireless maybe. But what do you guys recommend? Thanks.  |
| | I'd really appreciate some help. I purchased a used sony vaio PCG-XG38 from my IT guy at work today. It included a 3COM 10Mbps LAN Card w/XJACK connector (Model3CXE589EC). My IT guy said I can hook up my laptop/notebook to my home PC via the LAN card and a router … |
| | Im running windows XP SP1. Dell Inspiron9100 Laptop. Problem persists after running updated adaware and spybot s&d. The problem is that whenever I open IE, a grey toolbar appears at the top, and a wide blue bar appears at the bottom of the page. I have not done anything different … |
| | I have an old 380ED IBM ThinkPad on which I am having Home Networking problems. Before installing XP I formatted the hard drive to give me a clean start so there are no "old" settings upsetting the system. I also have a desk PC and a recent Toshiba laptop both … |
| | I'm using a laptop and I keep getting the message below whenever I try to put it on standby. The device driver for the standard 101/102-key or microsoft natural ps/2 keyboard devise is prevening the machine from entering stanby. Please close all applicantions and try again. If the problem persists, … |
| | Hey, this question probably doesn't need much background... all i would like to know is how i would go about to find my ip address when i'm on a wireless laptop behind a router. ipconfig just gives me the "192.168.0.3"-thing, which, of course, doesn't work for computer outside my home … |
| | Maybe someone can help with this. I’m trying to fix my friend’s laptop. When she starts it up, there is an error message that says Error Code 02b2 the Floppy drive is not configured properly. Run Setup. When I go to Setup, the bios does not give a choice for … |
| | I'm using a laptop and I keep getting the message below whenever I try to put it on standby. The device driver for the standard 101/102-key or microsoft natural ps/2 keyboard devise is prevening the machine from entering stanby. Please close all applicantions and try again. If the problem persists, … |
| | I have recently noticed that my windows update icon is in the system tray and when i click it does nothing. It shows that it is 0% downloaded. It does not go away when i restart the computer either. I try to keep up with the security updates because the … |
| | Hello I have a D link wireless router connected to my laptop model dwl 915. I just changed over from cable to dsl. My problem is that the connection will all of a sudden come and go at times. I was wondering if this is normal if not what should … |
 | I've been trying to add a laptop to my home network in order to share file and especially a printer. The network currently consists of one XP Pro and one ME machine. Sharing is working fine on both. My network is wireless via a Linksys router. The laptop (XP Home) … |
| | Hi. My brother-in-law has a Sony laptop computer that he does not use to access the internet. He uses it mainly just to watch DVD's and for computer programs that he's bought. Lately, when he's either watching a DVD or has a CD in the drive, he gets a box … |
| | Currently doing application support/development. Within the application there is a set of primary links on a 'navigation' bar within a page. When one of these links is clicked, a set of sublinks is displayed which allows you to href to other pages within the application. Recently formatted my laptop. Since … |
| | Ok Ive done it this time, and my wife may well kill me... my wife took some photos of the daughters first day of kindergarten... you know riding the bus, pictures withe the new teacher all that.... and i loaded them in the laptop from the CF card... then after … |
| | Sorry to dredge up this common problem...but I'm about to take a sledge hammer to my laptop.... I am stuck in the startup loop. It's difficult to get to the screenwhere I select Safe Mode...so once I'm there I choose "Safe Mode" and it asks for my windows password. Then … |
| | I had my laptop recovered last week since my XP is not loading. That's done. So, when it was finally working I realized that I still had to re-install the video, graphics & modem drivers. When I tried installing the video driver, it didn't work, probably because the driver I … |
| | Plz help me... I am looking for a cable\dsl router that will support the following, Nortel Contivity VPN client on a win2k desktop\laptop thru cable\dsl router to Nortel Contivity VPN Server and will support approx. 15 simultaneous connections. I do not require the router to setup own vpn connections as … |
| | Hi, sorry to do this but I really need your help. I need to buy a laptop, cos I;m starting uni in a week, and I;ve been looking around for the best deals. I've found one I like the look of, Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO L 6825 Celeron 2.8GHz 512mb 30gb DVDRW, … |
| | my laptop takes a long time to start-up and applications run very slowly. Slometimes, switching between windows takes several seconds and the mouse may freeze for seconds too.Please help me!!!i need my laptop urgently! |
| | Before I tell you about this I should let you know that I know nothing what so ever about networking and this is my first time on the network forum. awhile back I setup a wireless network for my mothers laptop. It would run just fine until one day I …  |
| | I have wireless network connection on my gateway laptop - Windows XP - and had been able to access the web through the wireless network connection NETGEAR. I am not set up with any router, i was merely able to access the internet through this peer-to-peer network I had been … |
| | [font=Times New Roman][size=3]A slight problem…[/size][/font] [size=3][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I have two PCs at home, connected with a wireless network. The desktop has printers connected to it, the laptop does not. The printers have been set up for sharing. Both PCs also have folders (with documents in each) set up for … |
| | I'm looking to get a new laptop. Is the centrino chip the way to go even if I do not need extensive mobility? |
| | Hey experts. I hope you can help with this. I have a Dell CPX laptop which keeps locking up due to the CPU usage hitting 100%. It has a pentium 3 498 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Out of the 18.6GB of storage on my C drive I … |
| | Hey Guys I recently bought a new Dell XPS laptop and i was moving my files from the pc that i own to the laptop. When it came to a couple of games that i own, i was told that could just copy the game directory over and it would … |
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