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Hello, I've had my Lenovo T61p for about 2 years now (almost to the day). All of a sudden today the video (as in, what I see on the LCD) showed horizontal noise, almost as if the image was being stretched back/forth. This lasted for about 1 minute at which point I immediately shut down my...

Ok, thank you for the info.

Thanks for the input Nothinman. So what you're saying is that there's no replacement for a fresh format of the entire HD? I guess maybe what would be ideal is to have all my non-program data (ie my code, documents, pics, vids, etc) on a separate drive and my windows/programs on c:. That way...

Thanks for your reply stash. I've tried using PE, but it isn't proving very useful. The problem is that running ANY program will yield a heavy spike in CPU usage. I can open an instance of explorer.exe and usage goes from 1-70% in an instant, and then back down to 2%. If I click a link in...

*sigh*, I knew someone would say that. :) My point was that it does for me, and I know it does for many others as well. Back on topic please...

Yes I am looking at all processes from all users. After using the Windows debugger, I saw that my external USB soundcard caused the last crash. I watched the CPU usage as I unplugged the USB cable and it went from 30 (no other progs were open) to 1. However, upon reboot, things aren't really...

Hello, We all know that XP turns to crap after a year due to new programs, orphaned dll's and registry entries (etc etc). I'm just now doing a fresh format and wondering what you all think is the best way to partition a drive to allow for the quickest restore. That is, I don't want to...

When I sort by CPU, here are the top 2: System Idle - 99 taskmgr - 2-4 everything else is 2, yet CPU usage hovers at 25-30%. Strange, no?

Hello, My computer has been acting quite erratically as of late. I'm hoping some of you kind souls would take a few minutes to read my tale and offer any suggestions on what I could try next. Background It all started the other day when my computer just went black and restarted. Being an...

I'm not sure if this is exclusive to this LCD (a brand new Sceptre x22wg-gamer 22"), but I own two others (Dell 21") and haven't heard of this kind of problem before. When the Sceptre is turned off but plugged in, it makes a soft pop sound every 2 seconds. It's not incredibly loud, but it's...

Strange, I guess it was Photoshop Elements (2.0) with the problem. Restarted that and it worked fine. Previously I had some PSD's open, but when I opened again with no PSD's, screenshot worked fine. Alt helps because you can just grab the active window, whereas on my dual 20" LCD setup, just...

Has anyone experienced an issue of not being able to capture a screenshot using Ctrl or Alt + PrtScn? It used to work just fine. Haven't installed any software between the time that it did / didn't work, so I have no idea what the heck is up. Tried rebooting, no difference. Any ideas?

I just purchase a new Compaq Turion 64 laptop last night. Out of the box everything ran fine. I did the Microsoft Update and then went to bed. In the morning, all of a sudden most exe files I attempted to run opened up the "Open With" box: Choose the program you want to use to open this file...

I just bought a new Seagate drive (200GB Seagate) with an external enclosure (NSP-ED352). I set the jumper to Master and all the connections are setup properly. I can hear the hard drive purr when I turn the case on. In XP, it's a different issue. The drive shows up in Device Manager (Oxford...

I appreciate the advice, but that's in the past. Now I'm dealing with a video card that garbles the screen. If any of you have experience or any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks