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ThinkPad R51 modem with voice/speakerphone. Any idea??
Posted on December 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hello, I've spent days and hours over this topic but couldn't find anything usefull. I owe thinkpad R51 notebook with integrated conexant modem. For now - without any voice/speakerphone advantages....

Lenovo and IBM: how smart!
Posted on December 29th, 2004 | 6 Comments

Now, I get it. With a headquarters in New York, they will be doing what IBM feels it cannot do profitably (enough): outsourcing to China! The twist here is that they will hire IBMers to learn how to...

I was asked by my uncle to recommend a good laptop for his wife
Posted on December 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I was asked by my uncle to recommend a good laptop for his wife. She needed a good laptop for simple processing applications. and wanted to use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PageMaker. she has a digital...

I was asked by my uncle to recommend a good laptop for his wife
Posted on December 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I was asked by my uncle to recommend a good laptop for his wife. She needed a good laptop for simple processing applications. and wanted to use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PageMaker. she has a digital...

Re: Toshiba Sat-Pro 440CDT
Posted on December 29th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Charlie I too have one of the old Fithful Tosh SatPro 420 CDT. I think you may not be able to upgrade the old one with a lot of the new fancy stuff do to the processor speed itself. Example I tried...

IBM Rapid restore ...not enough disk space
Posted on December 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I installed this application which came preloaded on my G series laptop. Hd size is 60Gig. I used the default 33% partition for the backup and now it says that there is not enough disk space. Is...

Re: Toshiba Sat-Pro 440CDT
Posted on December 29th, 2004 | 3 Comments

C & C Antiques and Collectables <noreply@thisfalse.com> writes: I'd get something more modern. It will be hard to find the antiquated EDO RAM that you need. Disk upgrade might be feasible.

Re: Toshiba Sat-Pro 440CDT
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 0 Comments

There's not a lot that you can do. You can upgrade memory to the maximum (not sure what it is, but I think it's "enough"), you can upgrade the hard drive, and you can upgrade to Windows 98 2nd...

Battery Power Meter Discrepancy
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I have two battery power meters on my sony pcg-sr17k. The sony provided power utility appears to do a more thorough job of predicting remaining battery time. It says 2 hours right now whereas the...

Re-assemble Laptop
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I have a IBM Thinkpad T40 (type 2373-516) completely disassembled, but I have all the pieces. Is there any documentation out there that guides me through putting the system back together???

insane book titles
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 0 Comments

The following is a list of real books. Yeah, real BIZARRE. Enjoy! http://www.fallingskyhazard.com/catalog.htm THE BRIGHT SIDE OF PRISON LIFE by Captain S. A. Swiggett, 1897 WHO'S WHO IN BATON...

Battery Power Meter Discrepancy
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I have two battery power meters on my sony pcg-sr17k. The sony provided power utility appears to do a more thorough job of predicting remaining battery time. It says 2 hours right now whereas the...

Ghosts in Toshiba registry
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 1 Comments

While troubleshooting a video playback issue on my wife's A45-S120 I happened upon a video codec checker called "sherlock" http://www.updatexp.com/sherlock-codec-detective.html which told me that...

Tale of the 2 laptops
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi folks Need some advice about a laptop with a broken factory seal. We got a toshiba laptop from bestbuy a few days ago. However a few days later we found a better deal on the same laptop at...

Extended warranty on laptop--worth it?
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 40 Comments

I recently bought a Compaq R3000US laptop. The Best Buy salesman offered a 3-year warranty at $250. His most compelling argument was that a new battery would cost nearly that much ($189 on the web),...

AST Ascentia J Series (P100) laptop questions
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I am looking for some information on an old AST Ascentia J series laptop. It has a Pentium 100 processor. What type of memory does it use? Is it a some standard stuff or proprietary? It has two...

backup ideas for laptop data
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 9 Comments

I have several laptops in the house, ie - like a Dell C610 with a 30GB drive & maybe 20GB used. I'd like to back these up in case of accidental deleting, along with the potential disk...

Highest External Storage Capacity for ThinkPad R40?
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 5 Comments

This will be the final post on my problem of video editing with my laptop! Since it's running a Pentium M, what's the largest HD reasonable for this machine? Thanks.

Non-functional ThinkPad Ethernet Connector
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 3 Comments

My niece's ThinkPad A22m 2628-Q1U notebook was purchased in October of 2001. It has Windows 98 SE. The back of the machine includes a modem and an ethernet connector among the others. The ethernet...

Help - HP laptop N5495 display keeps resetting after rebooting
Posted on December 28th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I have an HP laptop model N5495 running winxp pro and each time i reboot the display reverts back to 800x600 any sugestions?