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tsnor, thank you for helping me out. At least I can try and get that pesky date/time fixed.

Hello again folks, I have this laptop I bought in 2007 I believe. It's a HP pavilion dv2810us. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=3686727 It has served me pretty well, especially during the first 2 years when I didn't have a desktop. Regardless it has seen...

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Well things seem pretty stable right now and I'm feeling relieved. I did actually apply new paste to the Heat sink and wonder if that made any difference. I really don't know what went wrong, but if I had to guess, it was probably some connection I didn't make correctly. Perhaps I should...

well it looks like i may be back in business after all, though i'll wait before awarding best answer. I took apart everything and reassembled to make sure all the connections were correct. There was no problem with the CPU speed until I had pulled plugs to blow dust away. Well after this...

I was able to have it running at 2.87 or so until it crashed about 15 minutes later. Currently I'm trying to see if a safe mode microsoft security essentials full scan will reveal anything. I suppose I should do a Malwarebytes safe mode scan as well to be safe. Perhaps a rogue virus was...

Would running two monitors drain the CPU life faster? I just added one a month ago.

Hello all, Was wondering if the community can help me get back to a decent CPU speed again. Just yesterday I noticed that my processor was running at 100% and there was no spiking at all. I've been experiencing some random resets and freezes as well in the past week or so. I unplugged power...

Perhaps you guys thought I might solve it myself. You were right! Case closed.

Y'all think this thing is busted? HP'd?

When I look at the startup message I don't see the cd drive listed. Is this a software issue, or driver issue, that the computer isn't recognizing the drive before it boots Windows?

I'm looking at uninstalling any CD burning software that I might have downloaded recently though I'm pretty sure there isn't any.

Dear Tom's Hardware, Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? I can't remember exactly when, but not too shortly ago the CD drive no longer functions. It doesn't show up in my device manager. Actually it did once when I chose to scan for new hardware and it showed up showing Code 10. Doing a...

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