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    Hard drive failure?

    My Vista 64 bit Toshiba laptop is unable to boot. It goes to the screen that says Microsoft Corporation with the green bar that scrolls left to right and sits there for a few minutes, then goes to a black screen. When I try to run a Ghost boot disc, or a Vista repair disk from NeoSmart, the...
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    OK to hotswap external monitor on a laptop?

    I've always been under the impression that a laptop computer should be turned off before connecting or disconnecting an external monitor. But lately I've come across two people both of whom regularly connect/disconnect monitors with the laptop on. And I expect there are plenty of people who...
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    Connecting external monitor to Vista laptop

    When we connect an older ADI 19" monitor to a Vista laptop, it shows no image even though the monitor power light is green, indicating a video signal. I played with all the settings in display properties for the second monitor (refresh rate, resolution), the function-F5 key to select the...