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Hi, I checked several posts on this forum but none of them seem to apply to my problem. If there is something I missed, or if I'm posting this on the wrong forum, I apologise; I'm new here. Problem: my laptop has taken to shutting itself down at random moments. …

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Hi Bill, I have a similar problem with the black screen. I hear the fan, etc but my screen is black. One time it showed error code 501, but after that nothing. I have tried all that was suggested, remove, battery, unplug ac adapter, hold power button down for 15 …

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Looking for a Dell certified laptop technician in Washington D.C. area. Replaced the motherboard and have a power light. Cannot organize the connections so that the machine can be closed properly.

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Hi all, First of all, if you have the instructions to do it in any other OS that is not windows 8, just save your self the time. I used to share the internet from my windows 7 laptop via an ethernet cable. Now I got a windows 8 computer …

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Hi everyone. Last week my laptop sata dvd burner decided it had had enough so I got a replacement for the princely sum of £14. I have decided to rip the old one apart and make a sata dvd to sata hard drive adapter out of it as a project …

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I saw a few posts regarding how to hide real ip address and mac address. I use Linux Mint. In the settings per connection, there is a RANDOM button for the MAC address. I click it and it reports a random mac address for use on public wifi. You could …

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I'm trying to fix my granparents Gateway NV53 laptop. The only thing that is wrong with it is that the screen has horizontal lines on it. The lines change (they are usually white, grey, or black) positions and color on the screen while in use. When I connect it to …

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Once a question came up in chat "how do you learn lisp?" the answer given was build a printer! what about building a legacy laptops wireless in; now I'm not talking about c64, just the first of laptops; those that had acustic couplers buit-in Could a bluetooth device be connected …

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Is this Toshiba Qosmio T851/D8CR laptop good? I am planning to purchase a laptop.I am basically want to use it for programming so I don't want a fancy graphic card or any other such extra feature. I live in India where a laptop that sells for 700 $ in US …

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Hey guys, I am an owner of a Dell Studio XPS 1645 and I need some help trying to figure out what the problem is with my screen. I turned it on about a week ago and the laptop started but the screen stayed blank, nothing showing up at all. …

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i have a compaq presario cq-40 327 tu laptop of 2gb ram and 250 gb hd,windows7 32 bit.my laptop is 2 year and 3 month old.now a days ...my laptops lcd screen becomes sometimes blurry.various types of color started cominng into my display..sometimes this problem prevails for few minute and …

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Symptoms: Laptop boots up and dies in about a minute User had previous trouble with keyboard and had removed and reinserted it before. First 20 seconds of boot attempt is met with that loud "stuck key" repeating sound. Removed keyboard. System began booting without sound, ran for a minute, shut …

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Hi! I am looking for a laptop with DirectX 11. It needs to be nVidia graphics, and preferably light. Price is not really an issue as long as these 2 criteria is fulfilled. I have looked at the Vaio Z, but they only got dx10. Other than that, they are …

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hey thats great a laptop bag that is shockproof + waterproof and fireproof would it be great if combine this concepts to Carmazzi1Bag laptop bag.

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Hi My dell inspiron laptop has gone loopy,keeps restarting and no access to safe mode(f8) I wanted to test the hard drive of the dell laptop using an old tecra 8100 wont recongnise hard drive from dell laptop but does recongnise old wd external hard disk. The hard drive is …

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I got extremely confused. I asked in many places, I got extremely random and contradicting answers. I even tried HP customer service. I got two contradicting answers from two different agents. My questions are: 1) Do I need drive caddies for HP dv7tqe? 2) The most important: Do the caddies …

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Hey all, I recently received christmas money and have just gathered enough cash to buy a laptop. I managed to find a 2nd hand Asus x5se laptop, it has very good specs and has had its memory upgraded from the standard 2 gb to 4gb and includes a brand new …

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i know how old school my laptop is but it does the job so i decided to get a new screen rather than a new laptop i have removed the bezel and unscrewed the screen and disconnected it. The problem is the new screen does not have the inverter on …

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I have have got a problem with my laptop lcd inverter(acer aspire 5052nwxmi) my screen goes dim but i can still see the outline. so i took it to a shop and they replaced the inverter for me and it worked fine. but when i got home it doesnt work …

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Hello, In the past, I have seen a tool used to physically find a laptop connected to the wireless network that was not authorized to do so. Basically, some guy would wander around the office with this monitor, I'm guessing monitoring signal strength of some kind, until he walked up …

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Windows 7 Pro x64. Should I run sysprep first? What parameters (/switches) should I use?

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Hi, Some strange problem here. When I start it in the morning, it does not load windows and hangs on the first stage itself. Now interesting thing is that when I pick it up and keep it my lap, it starts loading windows. But If I put back on the …

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Hi I'm new here and would be grateful for some advice. I have an Advent 9617 laptop. The DC power cord shorted out and was replaced along with the charger. The new charger works fine but laptop would not run so figured out it was probably the power jack at …

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I have been trying to update an old Toshiba Satellite (2805-S202), from Windows ME to W2K pro. I have managed to find just about all of the W2K compatible drivers except for the ethernet and S3 video drivers. Since I do not have the ethernet driver, I cannot get it …

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When I change my share settings to allow my XBOX to run through my pc wireless, I can't get on the internet on my pc afterward. And the SHARE tab is gone after I set it up to allow this process... What am I missing...?

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I am seeking a All in one Laptop to cover the need of What I DO Portable Windows and Linux OS partioned 1gig Ram 4 NICs for 4 seperate networks with routable interface between them to be able to WEBEX either from wireless or any one of the 4 2 …

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I attend a University where the Dell Inspiron 1501 is common. The common problem is with the battery. I have that problem as well with mine. Does Dell know this(in which case this is stale news)and if so what are they doing to address this problem? I have heard people …

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My Sony Vaio laptop VGN-NW1257 (Windows 7 upgrade) has recently started causing me problems. I always close all programs and then close the lid to my laptop. About 30% of the time, when I lift the lid and "touch a key" to bring up the screen, I get a bing …

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hi i buy hp laptop 3 years ago. i have a problem in that is nvidia graphic problem. the display is lost some time i exchange the chipset but the problem remain same. what should i do with it??????? Now I am thinking buy new laptop for general paper use. …

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Hi, I have a Acer 5310 which has developed a problem where upon startup the splash logo appears but then the screen goes blank/grey. I can get into Bios using F2 where everyting seems as it should be, but even after choosing default settings I still get the same problem. …

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One of my users decided to take their laptop screen apart and now it will not work. I know that it can be the inverter, backlight or whole lcd screen that can be the problem as the laptop works perfectly when hooked to an external display. THe problem I have …

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i have been using an external usb keyboard on my laptop. i do this cause my laptop dose not have a keypad. i have a gateway running vista home. when i take off the keyboard it is as if my function button has been reversed. example if i push m …

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I have a dell inspiron 1500, the touchpad will work fine, although sometimes i will turn the laptop on and the touch pad just won't work, it's almost as though sometimes the touch pad is just to lazy to work!! i think it would be a physical problem though because …

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My daughter and I have the same laptop computers - toshiba satellite. Her laptop suddenly stopped picking up the wireless internet. The computer is unable to locate any wireless signal in the house. We have a linksys adapter. Her computer is approx 9 mos old, running the windows vista system. …

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Hi, I have a HP laptop with intel dual core 32bit processor with 512MB RAM & 80 GB HDD. 2 years back I have installed windows XP on it on my own, it was quite easy. But now I need to install FreeBSD for the C++ development on the same …

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Laptop, dell Inspiron MP061,1.73 gigahertz Intel Core Duo 64 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache, Board: Dell Inc. 0FF049 , Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Dell Inc. A02 06/09/2006, Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family [Display adapter] (2x) Seiko Epson [Monitor] WIN XP home, SP3 Recently (within …

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Bought a new same exact LCD monitor with same serial number from ebay, my old screen wokrs with he inverter board but its just cracked so i decided to buy a new one. the new screen does not work , the back-light of it. Like its really dark. I know …

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i need to replace my keyboard on this unit,l have got as far as the ribbon on the motherboard, i cannot see any catches on the connector which makes me wary of pulling at it.is there anyone on this forum who can assist me,,,,,looking forward to any help!

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I have an asus 17 ASUS W2Pc NOTEBOOK 17" WUXGA 2GB RAM 2.0 Ghz CORE 2 DOU Im having trouble with my laptop lcd im getting vertical lines which cover half of the screen but with an extended desktop it works good can you suggests anything to fix this problem …

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Hi all, I have a laptop and can anyone help me to find out that how much energy(in volts/watts) a laptop consumes. Any help in this regard will be appreciated. With regards,

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I have a Lenovo 3000 G510. Recently I spilt water on it & since then the display has become blurred, display seems to be happening in slow motion. Like mouse will move very slowly, if I type something it will appear slowly. Basically refresh rate has gone slow. But when …

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I had to replace hard drive in Presario 2100 (2003) and now built-in wireless shows connected but browser can't find server. Using netgear n3000

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earlier today i was using my gateway (read, ultimate crap) laptop on plug power, as always (i like to save battery for car and plane) and it worked fine, as always. i packed it up to bring it to new york, try to turn it on here - and it …

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HP 520 Dual Core 1.6GHz , 1GB DDRII Ram , 80GB Sata Hard disk , DVD Writer ,14.1" WXGA screen , Lan , Modem , Wireless ,battery , bag ,adapter 10 Minutes backup Price :- 15000/-Rs. Contact Details. Browse Infocare Dilip Patel Ph No.9824312137

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Hello everyone, I want (need) to use two external monitors with my HP laptop in a extended (a single desktop) display; not a duplicate on both. The laptop model is: HP Pavilion dv6-1105ee Entertainment Notebook PC. It has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 video card with 512 MB. I …

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I have installed TightVCN on an XP Professional desktop and a Vista Laptop,I want to be able to control the desktop from the laptop. I have set up both machines as servers and can view and control the Vista Laptop from The XP Desktop but not the other way around. …

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I have a dell ins 1501 recently upgraded to 320 gb hard drive. used the old hard drive to load windows xp on so I can use some older programs that I have. Problem is that my laptop won't boot the xp system. Tells me I have a fatal error. …

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I have a dell ins 1501 recently upgraded to 320 gb hard drive. used the old hard drive to load windows xp on so I can use some older programs that I have. Problem is that my laptop won't boot the xp system. Tells me I have a fatal error. …

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I have a wireless G router providing internet access to a laptop. My desktop is connected to the router using a cable. Both computers are using Windows 7 and connected to a homegroup. My laptop has no problems in assessing the desktop files but not the other way round. Windows …

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