I know this is long and I am asking a lot here, but any help would be appreciated. Response to any parts of this post will really help me out. Because I did a oops and damaged my Compaq laptop, I...

I installed linux Mandrake on my Dell Precision M50 Notebook a few months ago: dual boot with Windows 2000Pro Everything was going fine until I messed about with the LiLo settings. Thereafter the...

I am thinking of buying the emachines 5310. 1. Any negative/positive experiences? 2. How is emachines on customer support and honoring their warranty. Thanks.

The screen on my Portege 3110 is cracked and needs replacing. Can I use another brands screen, or even a generic brand, or does it have to be an official Toshiba replacement part??? Thanks in...

Hello, I have found a problem with laptops using the ATI Radeon Mobility chipset. In VESA modes (especially 800x600x256 colors), when pixels are drawn on the screen, there are occasions when this...

Daniel Bralle wrote: This sounds like the BIOS does not correctly recognize the CD-RW. The following link to the Technical Manual makes no mention of support for a CD-RW of any...

I am in the market for my first laptop. I want to know who is the least proprietary of the manufacturers. How easy are laptops to upgrade...HDD's Ram, video cards etc? I.E Can I just go to my local...

I've noticed that my R31 is dead unless it's plugged into my port replicator. I suspect a problem with the power plug in the back - when I use it, either the laptop is completely dead (won't turn on...

The x10 is a fine laptop I fix these as part of my job and in 3 months have only had 4 come my way 3 was user damage and 1 was a faulty cable Number 1 laptop where i work m8 also because ive been...

Hi. I need simple laptop for Word and mail, just to be in contact while i'm out of city. I don't want to spend much money, so what do you propose ? Compaq ? Dell ? Maybe something less known ? Thanks...

Both my wife and I have lost our stand-by option on our laptops. I have been to the Power Options dialogue in the Control Panel, but I find no setting there that will restore the feature. It was...

AJC Software has just released AJC Directory Synchronizer v1.12. This is a very powerful, yet easy to use directory compare and synchronize program. Perfect for synchronizing large numbers of files...

Hi, I am having trouble finding a laptop that fills these 3 criteria. - parallel port - CDRW - 12" screen (or less) It needs the parallel port to attatch a dongle and a USB->parallel converter...

Hi, does anyone else have this lap top and have the blue tooth working? i have the satellite 5200 xk00ep. everytime i start the bluetooth program it says one of the files cannot be loaded even tho...

Hi all, I'm currently considering buying my first laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 5200-00E (PS522C-XK00EP). I have a few questions, though these questions will probably apply to any laptop I may decide...

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Have a compaq presario 2175us, attached a wireless mouse through the ps/2 port using the touchpad driver instead of installing the microsoft driver for the mouse. Mouse seems to run perfectly with...

When ever I go onto Internet Explorer I get an "Illegal Action" with a Page fault at Kernal32 and it returns to desktop. I do not get this problem with Netscape. Does anybody know a solution to...

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