Hello Group: The Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 is already famous for its design flaws. Mine is a wonderful machine -- as long as it works. What I don't like is its heavy "consumption" of hard disks....

I've got a Compaq Armada M700 with a very dim screen. You can make out the writing in the background and it seems almost as if the backlighting is out or something. Is this an inverter problem...

I've got a Toshiba a75-s209. It's a 3.06 mhz pentium but is saddled with the ATI "mobility radeon" integrated graphics board. The net result is 3d processing is pathetically slow. I wanted the a75...

okay, I recently acquired a toshiba a30 USED laptop as per link here: http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=223&product=2331&part=1791#spectop I would like to ask a few...

Hello, Is it needed to load the setup defauls after a bios update?? I was forgotten to do that, and the systeem seems to work good. My question is, is it nevertheless a good idea to load the setup...

Greetings all, I have a Toshiba model A75S206 17" laptop that will not turn on. It was one month out of warranty when it quit working. I can plug in the power supply and the indicator light on the...

My laptop (Gericom EVO) is almost one year old and the battery charging LED has changed in the way it works. If I partially charge the laptop the charging LED shows steady green as it...

Does anyone know of any laptops which support 4 gigs of ram (or something greater than 2)? Thanks. Daniel

Hi there, In a Toshiba Satellite A70 that I have here, it crashed all the time on bootup so I took the whole thing apart and cleaned it out. In doing so, I somehow screwed up the connector to the...

I have Ghost on my desktop and would like to backup (image) my laptop with incremental backups once a week or so. How is the best way to do this. Sharing my C: drive on my home network for this...

Hi I created few guides about Toshiba notebook disassembly. If you wan to disassemble, repair, upgrade or clean you laptop, my website migh be useful for you I already created teardown guides with...

I have an HP Compaq NX9010. When I look in the System properties it tells me I have 448 MB of RAM. I removed the AC, removed the Battery then opened the Ram compartment. I found 2 RAM chips. Both...

Hi group, My laptop (almost 4yrs old) keeps crashing, or rather the screen, keyboard (numlock) and mouse totally freeze up. I don't know what's wrong with it, so maybe you could help me out if I...

Equals a big fat zero. LOL (well, not really) I just swapped out a bad keyboard out of my Presario R32##CL laptop. I put it in, and presto! The laptop would not fire, either pressing the button...

I had a short on the lower left corner that any time you press down with your finger, the machine turns off. Decided to open it up, so I downloaded the service manual and went to it. Moved a few...

Recently my hp pavilion zd7000 series laptop started giving problems. Mostly over heating and shutting down which wasnt a big problem if i restart it after it cools down a little. But in addition to...

Hi, Can I access data from a Hard-Drive when the laptop can't seem to boot up? If I physically remove the Hard-Drive for example, can I connect it to something and access the data? Was told at the...

Hi I'd like to flash the BIOS of my IBM ThinkPad 600E. This is necessary to install Win2000 or XP. The flashing program asks for a charged battery, but mine is like dead and I don't really want to...

I own a Compaq Presario 1505US. The problem appears to be with the lcd display. It randomly displays several rows of either blue or pink horizontal lines each formed of this small lines; something...

I'm trying to get a couple of IBM 240X laptops working, with the idea of perhaps running Lindows on them. One seems to have a problem booting. When the power button is pressed, the box makes some...