"Pop`" <nodoby@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message news:Liqwh.86100$Ss1.81445@trnddc07... I clearly know more about these things than you ever will. It is you that is showing ignorance. The...

I just took delivery of a 9th user laptop. It's a Compaq M300. Nothing special about it except that it is nice and light and above all else, it was cheap, lol. It came pre-installed with Win2K and...

On Jan 31, 6:01 am, "gram" <gramp...@hotmail.com> wrote: Try using a cooling pad and blowing off some dust of the fans and intakes. I have a cooling pad and it keeps my unit nice a cool. Good luck.

On Jan 31, 6:55 pm, "innatelyconfused" <evilstri...@fsmail.net> wrote: Try changing the MB. If the MB is bad you might still be able to use everything else. You may be able to go to a local PC...

Has any one had to need to tweak their BIOS? My laptop has Phoenix BIOS and I need to make several changes on it. Is there such thing as a BIOS editor available? Gentoo DP

Does boxed Core 2 Duo Notebook CPU upgrade include heatsink/fan or is it a bare bone CPU? Thanks in advance! Hendra

you may see some drivers a little later. Give them some time. If you don't see the drivers within the next 6 months, you may be out of luck. <don.kidick@gmail.com> wrote in...

Like any vendor, they will ship with whatever has the best profit margin. "V" <vacq06@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1170296873.495109.282920@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...

i have an older lifebook and just found out that it will cost between $200 to $500 to replace the $5 CMOS backup battery. fujitsu's documentation said that it may have to be replace after 3 to 5...

Hi, I have just installed Vista on my Vaio VGN-BX196SP laptop and nearly everything was detected and installed OK. The internal memory card readers and fingerprint scanner seem to be fine using the...

On Feb 1, 12:50 am, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOS...@neo.rr.com> wrote: to have shut up shop. Maybe they were too expensive to be worth selling? Here's his blog, updated until he disappered......

Larry mate i appreciate you trying to help but i have said on many occasions thsat I HAVE CHANGED THE PSU UNIT. i wa then told to short the power switch pins on the mother board. that didnt work...

"Igor" <novikov.igor@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1170291700.928330.165390@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com... Assuming Windows XP, just use the restore feature to restore it to a point before you...

all Got this 2nd hand panasonic toughbook which was built like a brick and working in win98se, touchscreen, touchpad and all; however after I installed some software and went through several...

My new Toshiba Satellite A105-S4324 came equipped with a Fujitsu MHV2160BT drive! I thought Toshibas shipped with Toshiba drives?

A while back I posted about a buggy presario I was using, a 1610 to be exact. Problem was system would freeze each time u moved touchpad and pressed key as same time, require hard reboot. Despite...

Greetings, I can't figure out what happened to my toolbar. I was moving and adding things to my toolbar on my laptop, and by mistake I moved the border of my toolbar down. When I restored it to the...

hey guys, my PC decided that it wouldnt switch on the other day. i have checked the fuse in plug, the socket that its plugged into, and have changed the psu and even checked the fuse in that. All...

If you are looking for a UXGA screen in a normal form factor, some thinpads came (probably still come) in that configuration, UXGA on a 15.1 inch screen. They tend to have a p suffix. I personally...

Does anyone know if there is a decent laptop being manufactured / sold today that is NOT a widescreen-formatted laptop that can run 1600x1200 resolution? Thanks.