Recent content by cmelblan

Hi, I’m owner of a Compaq Presario C700, a quite old computer, but it has now several improvements I introduced on it recently and now it works quite smooth and fast. Among these improvements, like RAM extension to 3Gb and substitution of the processor to a much powerful one (the T8300) and...

Hi, I’m owner of a Dell laptop D630, a quite old computer, I know, but it has now several improvements I introduced on it less than one year ago and now it works smooth and fast like a monster. Among these improvements, like RAM extension to 4Gb, new batteries, etc, there is the change of the...

I have one laptop D630, it’s a very good laptop and with high performance. Recently the power button started to fail and now does not work at all, I guess it’s the rubber conductive switch that’s located below the power button. For the moment, since I don’t find the exact cause of the failure...

Uuuff, at last I could make it work. Thanks to the awesome TestDisk, all I had to do is to make the changes and write but several times it reported a write error and couldn't continue. I used a live cd linux, installed testdisk (new version) and finally I could write the changes, later with...

Laptop's hard disk with dual boot W7Pro & LinuxMint17 overwritten accidentally with a program called winimage.exe. It has been "inserted" an image of a floppy disk (1.44 mb). Now the laptop does not boot. I've been testing and trying so hard to recover it by using TestDisk. At last I can see the...

I have this old fashioned AGP graphics card NVidia with 256MB that has been working very fine for years on windows XP. The problem comes now with Windows 7 (64bits) , it's impossible to find the drivers for this operative system. NVidia does not provide anything beyond Windows vista. I have...

I have an old Dell Latitude D630 that originally had Windows XP running quite well for many years. The bluetooth module and its blue light indicator worked fine. But when I upgraded the laptop to Windows 7 (64 bits, and also added more memory and new larger HD, etc) all worked fine but the...