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    Wireless card?

    Hey all, Im not very knowledgeable in the wireless area but I want to get a card that will let me pick up wireless internet signals. A recent aquaintance had a laptop was a`wireless internet ready` and she just told the computer to look for networks and luckily was able to connect to a nearby...
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    RAM/Mobo problems - Guru's please help

    Hi, I'll try to keep this thorough and to the point, I really need some help with this. It has been ongoing for a year, Alienware hadn't a clue as to how to fix it. System specs at the bottom of this post. The system I have is an Alienware laptop running with 1GB of RAM (DIMM PC2700) which is...
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    Fed up. Bluescreens.

    Ive been getting bluescreens since I got this Alienware laptop and have posted here quite a few times in the past about them. Whenever I post they seem to go away for a few days, then they come back. Last night I got bluescreened 3 times before ever reaching my desktop, all in a row. I...
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    Freeze at WinXP Home Welcome screen

    I just reformatted my laptop 2 days ago. Before the format it would occasionally freeze anytime while booting, it would even bluescreen at least once daily. Now the only problem that remains is the frozen welcome screen. I dont have to login to my computer, so it just shows "Welcome" then goes...
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    Windows 98 Boot CD?

    I need to format my computer and perhaps run fdisk but Im using Windows XP Home and cant reboot in DOS, of course, and I don't have a floppy so I cant make a floppy bootdisk. Is there a way to make a bootable CD that would work just like a normal floppy bootdisk? Thanks.
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    Laptop LCD problems?

    I don't know much about laptops since this is my first one. I was just trying out the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War demo and had to alt+tab for one reason or another. When alt+tabbed back to the game, before I saw anything my screen went black and began to fade to white. When it finally became...
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    Mobile VCards?

    Needless to say I am new to the laptop scene. I bought an Alienware laptop mainly because it allows you to upgrade the video card easily, RAM as well I think. I've got an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 in this and the performace I get out of it is pretty awful. So I want to upgrade to a 9800 when they...
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    Lycos Side Search

    I've been randomly getting Lycos Side Search results whenever using text input boxes on the internet for a few days now, but I have run 3 adware removal programs and checked my registry and add/remove programs and have found no sign of this thing being on my computer. Did Lycos somehow figure...
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    My email is fubar...

    I don't know whether to feel stupid, guilty or afraid. I use Lycos email and for the past month or so I have been getting bounced email from Japan... and I didn't email anyone in Japan! On top of that, today I got one that said it was rejected because it contained the Netsky virus... I have...
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    "Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver"

    I've got an exclamation mark next to this in the device manager. I searched the net and this forum and found a few people with the same issue but no solutions. This started after I uninstalled SP2 after a failed installation. Here is the error message from the Properties window: Windows...
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    Driver problems following SP2 UNinstallation

    *sigh* Yep, more problems from me. My computer is working again thanks to the helpful people here, but I am now having driver problems. Mainly two large problems and if I could solve them I think I will be out of the woods. First, here is the current problem that followed the uninstall. I was...
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    SP2 caused BSOD on startup

    Need some help. I installed SP2, or tried, installation froze and I had to cancel it. It rebooted then and now it blusescreens me saying that a certain file is missing and windows cannot continue. Has anyone else run into this problem, and can I fix this with a repair of windows? I have a lot of...
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    Fatal Errors and BSOD's with WinXP

    Hi, I'm new here so I hope I am going about asking for help the right way. I have, for awhile, been getting Fatal Errors and Bluescreens followed by a system restart when running any program. Only a few, IE and Trillian included, don't cause either of those. Programs that do cause it are more...