I believed that I have discovered something significant about small laptops. In small format laptops like the Toshiba 3500 TabletPC, Toshiba advertises it as a 1.3 GHz Pentium M. One knows/assumes...

I finally gave up on repairing the failed battery charging circuitry on my two year old HP Pavilion ZT1135 - way too expensive at $500 plus. So I purchased a new HP Pavilion ZV5220US, only to...

I have a gericom laptop (2,66GHz intel, ati 9600 mobile 128mb vga card, 512 ram) and it works fine. BUT the problem is that some games (counter strike, ...) runs as half as fast as it should. this is...

My wife has a Presario 2200 that over the past couple of days has just been randomly shutting off and then won't start back up. Another thing is that when you try and start the laptop it will bring...

My wife has a Presario 2200 that over the past couple of days has just been randomly shutting off and then won't start back up. Another thing is that when you try and start the laptop it will bring...

My wife has a Presario 2200 that over the past couple of days has just been randomly shutting off and then won't start back up. Another thing is that when you try and start the laptop it will bring...

My wife has a Presario 2200 that over the past couple of days has just been randomly shutting off and then won't start back up. Another thing is that when you try and start the laptop it will bring...

I have a funny problem here. When I use the phone to start the pairing, I manage to discover and enter the code. But it says "Pairing Failed" When I use the Thinkpad to start the pairing using the...

Hey, i'm going to buy a laptop. I want to get an HP with a 17inch brightview screen. Basically a desktop replacement. I'm trying to decide between a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading which is available...

Hi all, I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800-314 that I want to replace the original CD-ROM drive with a DVD drive. I have replaced with a DVD of an ACER ASPIRE of my friend. The result is that the...

I have a ThinkPad 770ED with a LCD that is basically dead. If you try real hard you can see things but not enough to use. The monitor port works perfectly. Does this mean the LCD is bad or do I...

Anybody ever hear of a PCMCIA card (or other laptop-friendly device) that can broadcast FM? I want to use my laptop to play music through any nearby FM receiver. thanks, Sean

Has anyone seen any sort of HDTV tuner or receiver adapter for laptop computers? With new notebook computers that have WUXGA monitors, it should be possible to diplay a complete 16x9 1080i...

i have a inspiron 8000 that was dropped and since then has started rebooting itself. it seems to start doing this after running for awhile so i suspect it might be heat related. i have taken it apart...

I just saw the sharp MM20 in the store and it looks like a well made ultralight (2.1 lbs). Does anyone have anything to say about it ? How is Sharp for after-sales support. I don't expect them to...

Hi I was wondering if any of you guys could help me with my wee problem. I can't get my laptop to play DVDs on a TV. System: Toshiba Satellite 1150 (Spanish version) TV and Svideo cables All wired...

Hi Guys I am UK but have a Thinkpad T23 with US keyboard. Any others got a UK keyboard but want the US key caps for the usual differences in exchange? Or have a broken unit and willing to sell the...

I have one of these machines and want to set it up as it was when it left the suppliers. I bought a set of restoration cd's but when I try to use them I just get a message saying that they are not...

Is there a way to test if a battery has 'died'? My acer will not run on battery for long, even with the 'power meter' showing 100%. I think that using it with AC and the batt connected may have...

Hi everyone. I have a compaq presario 1200 XL (12XL409) whose motherboard is dead. I have disassembled it and removed the motherboard. Howether, if I find one used at a decent price, I'm not sure...