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| | B"H My daughter's laptop, Toshiba Portege 4010 has a keyboard (internal) that only the left side works. The Fn button is not working to turn off the lit num lock light. I thought that maybe if I reset the BIOS it my work. However, I am not sure how to …  |
| | Hello DaniWeb, I have a desktop XP unit with McAfee Security software coming up for renewal at the end of the month. I started getting alerts that I was not fully protected a few weeks back...but when I hit click on "fix" I received another error message that I have … |
 | I turned my laptop on this morning and DEP blocked windows explorer from starting. A screen dump of the error report is attached. It seems to have stopped a few icons in the system tray from loading (battery icon being the most notable). Everything else is working.. The most recent … |
| | Does anyone know what the four DIP switches are and how to configure them on an Acer Travlemate 280 laptop. |
| | I have an Acer Travelmate 280 laptop. Ive been trying and trying to install windows XP home on it to no avail. I have updated the Bios to the most recent version and it still doesnt install. Setup will copy the necessary files then wants to reboot. It reboots and … |
| | I am going to be upgrading my motherboard soon. I have XP Home edition on my system. The original XP software I have is the upgrade version from Win98. This was installed about 2 years ago. I was told I'm going to have to rebuild my C drive after replacing … |
 | I am (attempting) to repair a computer for a friend and it is a typical teenagers computer ie. more things start up on boot than i have ever seen! Moving on... THe first problem i came accross was an application error on Logonui.exe which read [COLOR=Red]The Instruction at "0x005e03c6" referenced … |
| | hello guys well my cosin has this win95 laptop and its pretty messeed so he gave it to me so i can fix it, i have tried using a win95 boot disk but ists all messed THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS 1- i turn n the computer 2- its says theres …  |
| | Any ideas on why after a certain time the touchpad freezes on my Sony Vaio Laptop Thanks |
| | Hi, recently my Toshiba Satellite M105 LCD screen has decided to no longer display a picture. It started with the screen jumping for a few minutes, but I was able to solve that problem my pinching the upper left hand side or the top of the display in general. Now, … |
| | Hi, My friend recently purchased a NetGear WGR614 router and has Verizon DSL as his internet provider. I tried setting up the router, but was unsuccessful. 1) After making the connections, the Wireless LED remains unlit; 2) The "Setup Wizard" on the CD won't run. I had to bring up …  |
| | My laptop computer boots up really slow and shuts down really slowly. I have to hold down the power button just to turn it off. When I try to type I have to push each button a few times before it shows up. I just put new memory in because …  |
| | Hi All, I do not know what happened to the computer/Windows XP Home edition. I used the computer on the night of October 21, 2007, to see a video Diney sent to plan a vacation. Yesterday October 22, when I got home from work I turned on the computer and … |
| | l ve the procedure highlighted in the john barnett journal but l could not dual boot my laptop dv9428nr. pls help with like solution. |
| | Hi can anyone help, I have bought myself a lan hdd caddy. It is connected to my bthome hub and i can access it from my internal network but what do i need to do to access it from anywhere . Do i need to set up a vpn if … |
| | Hello everyone, I'm a Civil (construction) Engineer, currently assigned in south of Nigeria - involved in Power Plant construction. I don't know much about Computer Problems that i must have spent couple of thousand bucks already paying whoever IT is available in nearest town to tweak on my Laptop every …  |
| | Hi, my laptop keeps rebooting, and I can’t find any way to make it stop. When I turn on my laptop all I get is a "First picture screen" (I dont know what to call it) telling me what processor I have got. It says: H2 Insyde Intel Inside centrino … |
| | hi. i have got an E-System 3086 running on windows XP. i recently opened up my laptop to see if i could expand on it. To see how the things went together i took out the hard drive and the memory. I then obviously put every thing back together and … |
| | My laptop seems to work fine when I work from home on Wireless, however when I go to the office and try to connect to the network, it shows that the network status is connected and the lights flash where the network cable is inserted however i cannot get onto … |
| | TravelMate 3212NWXMi - Urgent RAM Upgradation...!!! Respected nerds, techs, geeks and dear fellow members, After months and years of waiting and speculation; I (poor soul who managed to purchase laptop first time in life) purchased one laptop few months back - TravelMate 3212NWXMi - Presently by default the laptop came … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario 2500 laptop and the hard drive has "died", taking with it all my data, photos etc. I have been to a computer repair shop who charged me an arm and a leg to tell me they could not extract the data from the hard drive. … |
| | I just got a laptop from eBay - with no operating system installed. No software included. I have an XP CD and have tried resetting the BIOS to read from the CDROM first, with no luck. I pulled the hard drive out and all of the pins were intact and …  |
| | I've bought a Acer laptop and am trying to open the casing to install an extra RAM module. I can't undo one screw (all the others are fine with the small jewellers screw drivers I've been using) The screw head isn't looking too flash after a couple of attempts. Acer … |
| | my system specs: MSI x1950pro rosewill 550W 2gb OCZ ram amd [URL="http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=221028#"][/URL]4200+ MSI k9a platinum mobo crossfire xpress 3200 chipset 20.1" viewsonic vx2035wm LCD windows XP pro SP2 i'm having monitor flicker issues with my LCD. it only happens at my monitor's native 1680x1050 @ 60Hz resolution (max supported). there … |
| | [B]My Dell Laptop Inspiron 8200 is too slow. I have done everything that is the usual methods to speed it up to no avail. It has a 1.8 Gig Processor, 1 Gig of Ram. 40 Gig Hard Drive and all the trimmings. If anyone has experienced this, and figured out … |
| | Hi Last month I have problem with LCD on HP compaq nx9000 laptop. It works if angle is less then 90 degrees and if I open it more it goes almost complitely black (I can see hardly some shapes on display). Hope that somebody knows what is cause of problem … |
| | I run a 2way communications shop and need to replace a few old laptops (win98). I'm going with either XP or Vista as obviously as newer products come out they will be based on that platform The problem is while newer software is all Windows based, I have several old … |
| | Hello. I have a desktop connected directly to my wireless DSL router/modem, while my laptop connects wirelessly. I am running XP home edition on both pcs. I have added a 2nd hard drive to my desktop that I want to share between the two. I have it drive all set … |
| | Hi, My first post here, and I feel bad its a request for help but you can be assured I'm going to contribute alot here. I really need help right now. Anyway, on to the problem; Why is it 'ultra' strange? I can not find any other instance of this … |
| | I have a problem, my DSL router shows the "wireless" light and sometimes it doesn't. I connect my desktop to the router via usb but a laptop downstairs connects to it wirelessly. My problem is that i recently purchased a new desktop for another room in my house, and it … |
 | I have a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6177 laptop that we bought late March/early April. Since getting it, I have used the drive MAYBE 5 times, the last time being 3 months ago easy. With that, I have no idea when it disappeared. I went to get some documents of a disc … |
| | I am trying to use GHOST on an old laptop. I have a 40 GB HD and a 6 GB HD in a USB enclosure. The problem is the USB is not recognized in DOS. The USB A:\ is just fine. Any ideas? |
| | This PC was in bad shape, it is 99.9% better, but I keep getting a small pop-up bar on IE7 that I can't seem to remove. It is a url to fix spy ware spam pointing to [url]http://protect.trustedantivirus[/url].... ect here is HJack log file... Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 … |
| | My laptop will turn on, I can see the light but it does not seem to boot up. My screen stays black. I can open the CD but the caps lock and keys don't seem to do anything. I hook a monitor up to it and I still can't see … |
| | My wife's laptop is taking 10+ minutes to load the starting webpage. We have Norton Internet Security and Antivirus running...scan finds nothing. I have downloaded and run Spybot...it found a couple of things, but did not fix the issue. I even reinstalled IE 7. Finally, I downloaded and ran HijackThis. … |
| | So, I'm running Windows XP on my Toshiba laptop P25-S5092. It's working fine. For some months, I had it ported to an old Sony monitor. I just got a new digital Samsung monitor to replace the old Sony. It worked fine when ported. After a few days, I disconnected the … |
| | Hi I have an Omnibook vt6200. The other day I was using it and the screen suddenly went black. At first I thought it was just the power, but then I realised that the power was still on and the screen was still on but EXTREMELY feint. It is so … |
| | I have a HP VT6200 that I shut down normally and all was fine. I came back about 4 hours later and pressed the power switch and all I got was a battery light, a power light and a very dim HDD light (dim HDD light is normal until after … |
| | We have two programs we use that require software keys to function. They are dongles that plug into the 25 pin female parallel port on the computer, and the printer cable itself plugs into them. Our laptop computers were just upgraded, but have only USB ports. I was hoping to … |
| | hey i need a new laptop, I am willing to spend between $600 - $800 USD. I really like the vaios but they're kinda out of my price range. I will be purchasing online and I am kinda leaning more along the lines of an Hp and not really dell. … |
 | Hi. I've got a Packard Bell laptop that is specified as having 1 GB of RAM. However, looking in the Windows system information and the BIOS both show it as having 896 MB. Does anyone know how I would go about determining whether the missing RAM is being used for … |
| | Well ya,here is the problem Windows could not start because the following files is missing or corrupt \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM my brand is samsung ok, so, this time, a screen with saying insert a xp cd and press "r" to repair it had appear after the boot. here's the problem. This laptop … |
| | My Laptop is working 100%. I can browse the internet over the LAN and directory trees of computers connected to the LAN. The moment I open files over the LAN, the Laptop freezes totally, forcing me to switch off with the On/Off button. Any ideas? |
| | Hi people, I am having major trouble with my computer. Yesterday windows had some sort of fatal error somehow code c000021a or something like that. My primary objective is to make sure all of my files on my harddrive are backed up before i can re-install XP. My dad is … |
| | Well hey everyone whattsss up?! This is my 2nd thread. Hopefully someone can ease my pain! I have this Dell Inspiron 9300 Laptop with the wireless intel pro chip internet built in. Its WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION with SP2. The wireless internet worked fine for awhile, but then it just … |
| | Hello Every time I startup, I get the blue screen. I tried booting safe mode, but it still shows up before I even see the login menu. Last known configuration does the same. It cant be a hardware error because its a laptop. Heres what the blue screen says: BAD_POOL_CALLER …  |
| | [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]:D Hello everyone, I am really exicted to be joining this web community. I have read several post and believe I can learn alot from this community.The diversity of expierence levels proves for an active database of members. I have a question for dial-up, If anyone knows what hardware you …  |
 | I've got a toshiba laptop that won't accept the passphrase to connect to my wireless network. It gives me a error about that the key has to be 24bit encryption or something else. I'm not sure what this is telling me. My other computers in my house connect to the … |
| | I thought I practiced safe computing. I don't use IE, have a Virus Scanner (AVG free) and don't open unknown attachments. However something went wrong. I tried to use Spybot to scan my system the other day and noticed it was gone. I had dome some uninstalling of apps so … |
| | Hello everyone. Well I may have figured out my previous problem, but could use some advice on part two. Laptop freezes up at any random time. I have to power off then on again and it starts back up but i never know when it will frezze again. If anyone … |
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