I get message saying to the effect that the com port driver wont let the system hibernate. I try to disable the com port first thru windows then via bios. Then I get teh same message this time...

My Presario725AU laptop has two partitions built in to it. The first one is the main one and is formatted to NTFS. The second seems to have a lot of crap on it from Compaq and is in FAT format. Can...

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message news:27uqfb.n0v.ln@news.it.uc3m.es... linux-laptops.net does not appear to be a web site related to laptops or linux. Did you misspell the...

On a Toshiba Tecra 8100 (PT810U), the thing gets damn hot. I have evidence that the fan does come on, but I feel it should come on a lot sooner and keep blowing for a lot longer. Or it could be that...

Hello, I inherited a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDS. All I received was a laptop with a battery, cdrom, NIC, and power cord. No floppy, no setup disks, no documentation. Charged it up, system booted...

I want to setup a direct connection via network card between my laptop and desktop to transfer large files. 1. I have "cross-over" cable as well as "twisted" cable. Which one should I use ? 2. I...

I bought a sony vaio grt100 and it cam with xp home. I'm looking for the drivers for win 2000 for the grt100k. I have the recovery disk for the grt100k but it will not install due to the bios telling...

Hi! The bottom case of my 120-170B4 VPR Matrix notebook is broken... any idea where I can get parts, or maybe someone is selling a broken-screen one for parts or something? Any help, or leads, would...

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Does anybody know for sure if the Thinkpad T21 series use shared-memory in their graphics or not? It uses the S3 Savage IX8 Graphics-Chip, some people said it's shared, some said it isn't. Anybody...

Hi I'm not sure if this is the right group for this, if not could someone please point me in the right direction? My question is, I have a toshiba notebook whose dvd drive has packed it in, the...

I am looking for a laptop with the following specs: - P4 (Mobile or non mobile) 2 Ghz or greater - 512 mb ram - 40Gb or greater hard drive (must be 5400 rpm) - infra red - 15" screen - International...

Seems You did not buy a notebook You purchased a pseudo "notebook" with a desktop CPU Try to exchange this fail construction against a real notebook with a cool Pentium-M Banias (centrino)...

A friend has one of these in his workshop and is having a problem with reinstalling an OS for his customer. Apparently the customer had a problem and created a new partition - moved the OS there and...

Brad H McCollum <bmccoll1@midsouth.rr.com> wrote: It probably won't boot off a firewire drive. Go to ebay. Purchase a pre-owned 5 or 10G drive, of the right dimensions. Install, and see if it...

On 25 Jul 2003 11:55:12 -0700, bmccoll1@midsouth.rr.com (Brad H McCollum) wrote: Sounds like the drive is dying. If the manufacturer of the hd makes a diagnostic it would be useful to download it...

i'm looking for a decent uk supplier of a laptop bag, one that looks like a back pack. regular bags have "steal me!" written all over it. I'm also looking for an optical mouse, they are slightly...

I just bought a Notebook(Taiwan made). Pentium 4 at 1.3G. Centrino. Wi Fi. 256M DDR Ram. But the intel video card shares the main memory( I gave it 32M). 30G Hitachi HD I am going to format it...

Hi! How is the cd-rw burner external included with hp omnibook 4100? which velocity it support? thank you

Hi to all members of the NG! I've a HP Omnibook 4100 with 96MB RAM and 266 MHZ CPU Intel pentium 2 and 6,4 GB of hard disk. Can i install win2000 or win xp (professional) on it? Or i can do an...