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    laptop dies after start

    I think u migth have nail that just rigth because there is a little plai on the ac adapter plug like is somewhat loose from the laptop, the ac charger itself is new. hanks for the repli
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    Has anyone purchased a generic laptop battery thru ebay?

    i need to purchase a batteri also for mi hP and was considering using eba\\i also, sorri some keis dont funtion on m keiboard, lol do u thing thats a wai to go
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    laptop dies after start

    I got an hp laptop , bateri is dead, but i ahve the power cord for it, when i tr started i need to leave it plug in a while i guess for the batter to charge a bit , but i think he baterr is bad all toguether, ,So do u think the reason wh I cant operate the lapp is becasue m bateri is dead or...
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    help with a dell xps400

    need help guys
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    help with a dell xps400

    I have a dell xps 400 desktop, today while onlin i got a blue screen with messages, i rebooted the computer and now all i get at boot up is this message on a black background screen: X300XT Bios P/N 113-A33437-102 the pc willnot go into windows or anthing, is anyone has a system like this...
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    why i cant get transmission from my router?

    ok, did that ipconfig/all here are the results: as far as gateway, dns both working pc's have the same , the other one, the one in question didnt have a dns or gateway, i went manually configured to the one that the others pc's use to go online and same thing i conect to the router but cant...
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    why i cant get transmission from my router?

    ok, i did the ping thing that akhiles susgested and i got no return, just simply said can find internet, also the lynsys program, says that it finds the router but not the internet, both my own pc and my wife's laptop find the internet fine, it just the kids computer the one that cant. But it...
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    why i cant get transmission from my router?

    I just installed a linksys pci 54mbs wireless network card on my old pc, and i can conect to my router and see my other pc's and even access shared folders, but i cant go online with the share internet. basically is conected but no receiving the dns and other things required for online surfing
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    how can i set up a mixed network(wired and wireless)

    Until now i had a desktop that conected to my internet via a dsl modem. I since bougth two laptops with wireless capabilities, i got me a wireless router and conected my dsl line form the pc to the router and the desktop to one of the open slots on the back of the router. I can go online fine...
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    wirelees network security configuration

    I had an internet sharing connection with my wireless router for a while now, and yesterday i decided to turned that into a wireless network , so that my wife could print from her laptop. Question, i was setting the security festures on the router, i used wep2, this made me created a tx key, now...
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    Can someone help with this?

    I have a good friend of mine that bought some hardware and have some trouble, i told him I would put his email to me here and see if you guys could lend a hand , so here goes: ya I'll give you a quick rundown of what I have and what problems the damn things givin me. I bought a motherboard...
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    computer restarts on it's own

    The problem only seems to be happening if I play my pc games, short into the game the pc reboots, sometimes is the screen that just go blank. I have a compaq presario 2.2 gig athlon xp processor, win xp, 768 megs of ram, ati radeon 9550 256 megs onboard. I thought maybe was heat realted issue ...
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    memory

    I found some memory and I would like to know the amount and the latency, how can I determine this just going by the markings??
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    compaq presario 5140s

    basically the pc is reboting when I play certain games, like world of warcraft can this this be atributed to cooling, this has always happened with the system, all game hardware is compatible with the games. this is my pc specs: amd xp 2800 nvidia geforce 440 mx 64 ddr 768 megs pc 2700 win...
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    need help setting up a wireless router

    I have a motorola wr850g wireless broadband router, my dsl modem as I was told also can be set as a router, so they told me to access the configuration page and switch the dsl modem to bridge, now I was to take the ethernet cable from the back of my pc, plug that into my motorola (wan) port...
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    cd tray wont stay shut

    my new pc started acting up today, the cd tray will not stay close, I was playing a game fine , then I decided to removed the cd from the cd rom and now the tray just opens back up when I try to close it, any ideas?
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    presario s5140wm

    as far as dust in the power supply that is all good to go, also this is a farly new pc, not even a year old, I already contact compaq and i'm droping this off for waranty work, but it would be nice to know in case I can get it going myself, as off right now the computer turns on all fans on go...
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    presario s5140wm

    yeah all fans are running good
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    presario s5140wm

    I got this compaq presario s 5140wm, the pc started to just reboot at first, then the display on the monitor used to go black, and the cp would stay idle, at this moment i tried to started up again and it did went into wondows I try to reboot and it stayed on idle with a black screen, is doing...
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    error on vdx

    thanks for the replies, i think I m gonna go try low lever formating, if that dont do the trick then, it could be the cd rom, but I doubt it.
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    error on vdx

    I been trying unsuscesfully to format and install windows on an old 40gig hd, I get the hd to reformat but during installation of the OS I never finishes and gives me an error on a file with this extension .vdx , I tried several OS, win 2000 win me, win xp win 98, they never finish a clean...
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    scsi question

    excellent, thank you very much.
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    scsi question

    excellent, thank you very much.
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    scsi question

    how I go about doing that? I do recall that a boot up screen did mention that no drives were initiallized, were I find disk management , under windows xp?
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    scsi question

    I was given a scsi drive and the card to go along with it. Im runing win xp pro, this is the dilema, I went home plug the card on the available pci slot and conected the ribbon cable to the card and the other end to the scsi drive. I started up my pc, it found the scsi card and installed drivers...
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    How do I install Windows 95 / 98 on a laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT)

    I feel your pain brother, good luck bringing that beast back to life.
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    one long beep at start up follow by many consecutive beeps, no display on monitor

    as the add title says, I came home this morning to find my kids computer doing this monkey dance, one long beep at power up then a series of consecutive beeps, that dont stop, there is no display of the bios or nothing on the screen. I havent mess with it yet, but I will like some ideas. thanks
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    *URGENT*Just got new mobo+cpu---problem initializing floppy drive and controller

    check your memory make sure is suported, also your cables make sure they are all seated firm on the board and the devices. I would try to just start with the video card and the hard drive, just to see if it boots fine, then I will plug the floppy.
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    I'm stump on this one????????????

    problem found, had pluged in the usb data cable that goes on those pins on the motherboard in the wrong place, we removed the extra pair of usb ports, and left the ones alrady onboard and the pc is running fine, so far it the monitor have not go off at all. I didn't think heat was too much of a...
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    I'm stump on this one????????????

    thanks for the replys guys, as for the heating problem, that 810lr motherboard has video onboard, and was working fine before the video started going off, he replace it by adding a tnt 2 to the available agp port, the tnt 2 does have a little fan ad it runs, so I dont know, I dont think those...
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    I'm stump on this one????????????

    a friends computer will start up go into windows xp and then a few minutes later the video goes off, computer stays runing and he has to shut the pc down in order to get video back on and it just keeps on doing the same thing. keep no in mind, I tested the memory, the video card the hard drive...
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    winxp only runing at 10mbps on my 10/100 setup

    yea, men I just figured out, the netgear hub I have is a 10baseT , shoot 10 is the highest Im gonna get ,...lol I guess I go buy me a switch. thanks guys.
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    winxp only runing at 10mbps on my 10/100 setup

    I have two pc's with win xp on a basic home lan, both pc's have a 10/100 pci card as far as I know both have the auto sensing for the speed, and I have a 10/100 four way hub, the network conection only runs at 10mbps and it doesn't change to the full 100, before when I had win 98se I had no...
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    Two-way ICS

    to change the ip on the other pc just go to metwork properties for that specific pc, under the control panel and go to conections, there u can go ahead and change the ip to 192.168.0.2 and up, just make sure that on this computer the gateway is set to the ip of the one that conects to the...
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    computer hangs at boot up

    i pulled the hd and encounter several bad sectors, scandisk sort of moved them to the back and the hd was working fine after a while on my second pc, but the hd will not change at all the dmi hang problem, the memory cheched out okay on the other pc, and the video card seems fine I get the bios...
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    computer hangs at boot up

    Im powering the computer and after the post it hangs and stays , on the black screen, the computer says "building dmi pool and that is all she does. I check the memory and all other stuff, cpu, hard drives and all seem fine, any susgestions?? . this is the setup the motherboard is generic this...
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    paypal question on refunds

    well the guy initiated the refund thru paypal, but the amount was placed on temporary hold.
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    paypal question on refunds

    Are refunds made to you by a seller supposed to be but on a temporary hold from paypal?? this is the first time I got money refunded bacjk to me and my account shows the money come in and then place on hold by paypal, says it should take 2-3 days, is this commonm practice , has anyone here...
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    "Check S Cable"

    the bend pin theory sounds very likely to me, and yes, she dont know enought about computers either so she could just have cram the cable in there, I will call in the morning and have her check the pins for bend once, thanks a lot guys
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    "Check S Cable"

    I may have been damage I think, the monitor was tested before I shipped it out on my pc, with the same OS she has. I think it could be a bad monitor, well see she went bought a new monitor and Im expecting to hear from her in the morning .