Recent content by chansenola

So, since everything I do is stored on an external drive, i just went and did a reformat, which, surprisingly, only took like 7 minutes. When I got it back up, it did not connect, so i went to office depot to get a new usb wifi (lost the old one and did not feel like waiting for one to be...

Aha.. did not even think of that. The last time I dug in the innards of a pc, wifi did not exist. I will check that first thing when I get home. I assumed it was some simple thing, since it is a brand new laptop, and stopped working randomly.

I am not in front of it right now, unfortunately. I will check when I get home. It just struck me as odd, since it worked fine, and was able to connect to my wifi, as well as two others in the vicinity. But now, it seems to not want to give me anything. Even somewhere like Borders or such with...

I have a Compaq cq61-420 and it was working fine until recently. Now, when i try to connect to any wifi, it will connect to the router, but gives me the "no access" yellow triangle, and this is connecting to unsecured routers. I have restarted, reinstalled the drivers for the wifi adapter, and...

I recently gave Ubuntu a try, mainlybecause my woman bought a new laptop with Vista and it's dog slow for something so expensive. I'm trying to talk her into Linux, or at least downgrading to XP. Anyway, I installed Ubuntu after resizing my NTFS partition, and it, and XP are working fine...