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1. What is your budget? -$700 max. -If I justify any more money than this, I’ll end up buying a machine for games. Cheaper the better. 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? -17” would be too large for taking notes in lectures. -13” are too small for me to get work done...

my laptop is stuck on the same screen but i can open different tabs!?

Hi, I recently made my first build-up machine and I am having some issues regarding cooling. I have an ASrock 890GX Pro3 inside a NZXT M59 case. I am having temperature of about 76 C while on load and ~60 C on idle. I am looking currently at the Cooler Master V8 or similar cooling solutions...

I made a bootable USB pen drive using unetbootin-windows from Ubuntu cd image on my Compaq Presario notebook CQ61. After the process completed it asked for reboot, I pressed OK button, but to my surprise I found that USB was gone from the boot menu. I have booted from a live USB pen drive on...

Archived from groups: alt.games.warcraft (More info?) I have just noticed this issue with my fear ability. When I fear an animal now, turtle, rapter etc; quite often he will run off with half it's life gone but if it is gone long enough he resets itelf, heals all the damage instantly and...

Archived from groups: alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim (More info?) There's been a number of harsh OTs as-of-late. OTs such as: "what's a Fenway? -- oh, four or five stones!!" -- or -- How's your dog!! would be ok.. but politics and religion are dangerous subjects especially in todays'...

At home, I have a Compaq / HP Pressario V3000. The monitor works for a few minutes at times when on battery power (brightness at about 50%), sometimes less than a minute. When on wall power, the monitor works for 4 seconds (100% brightness). The LCD still has a working image, but the backlight...

Hello. I've been lurking this place for awhile now since it has such a wealthy collection of information and so I figured I'd post here and get some recommendations or comments. I've never build a machine before so I've been trying to do as much research as possible but I still don't know...

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Hello, I been using a Toshiba L4 Satellite since 2008 and my video card seems to have problems. I get lines on the screen , not always but it`s there. I once installed Ubuntu 10 on it,, it was HORRIBLE - all lines and so. would changing the video card sounds a good idea ? or old laptops should...

my daughter how will be going into her 3rd yr. of college for ind. enginenering wants a mac because she said it is fast. She has a 17' sony vaio that is 2yrs old this month. I don't have with me so don't have spec. but it was only like $800 back then so not close to top of the line and it has...

Hello all, I'm trying to figure out if I can replace my motherboard without borking my two RAID arrays. I've got an Abit IP35 (P35 chipset) motherboard with the Intel ICH9R southbridge. I've got a two-disk RAID 0 and a three-disk RAID 5 arrays set up on it. The board has a defect and I need...

HP laptop died - power problem - ordered IDE to USB2.0 cable - plugged in the harddrive to cable and usb to new WIN7 laptop to retrieve files. Drive and directories are seen, but when I drill down to the documents folder - receive a nasty permissions message. I have tried to take ownership of...

In the market for a netbook. Laptops are just too big to be portable for me. First portable pc was a 10.1" netbook, asus 1005ha and it was great. Sold it because I needed the cmas money and wasn't using it. Well now I want one again. It must be 10.1". A little bigger is ok but 10.1" seems to...

This is the stock laptop and one fine day it just shutdown on me while i was watching a movie. When I give it power supply it turn on for 2 secs I hear the fan rotate and it shuts down. and then the 2 lights for power supply and battery blink that is it No display nothing. I am not sure if it...

Looking for a nice gaming laptop that can play a lot of the big games I was thinking like the asus j73 but I'm not sure anyone that can help

Hello, my computer has a forced shut down at 7 pm every night. Someone please tell me how to remove that task

1. What is your budget? 700-800 preferably. 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 13" to 15" screen 3. What screen resolution do you want? doesnt matter 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Id say a little of both. 5. How much battery life...

Hello everyone, I'll be headed off to college shortly and I'm looking for the best possible laptop for under $600. Some of the key features I've been looking for would be.. -Sturdy, well built -4GB Ram -250GB+ HDD -Optical drive -Multi-touch capabilities -Strong wireless card for long...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?) I have a Dell Latitude CP laptop, PII 233, with docking station. For the last few months, the computer is able to work only when it has AC power supply connected. The battery LED indicates it is fully charged, but if the AC is removed the...

Hello, My Aspire 2000 is having a problem where it keeps switching from battery to outlet and back nonstop. When it doesn't switch it stays on battery and drains extremely fast. The system also seems to freak out when trying to boot with the battery taken out.

Hi All, Im looking to upgrade my Dell XPS graphics cards, currently I'm running the Nvidia 8800 GTX with SLI, duel 512. I have the physics card installed, 4 GB ram running on Window 7, 64 bit. Im looking to upgrade to, basically the best possible card, I was looking that the 9800 GTX duel...

1_What is your budget? 2000-2500$ or 1400-1800euros 2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? I'd prefer one with a 17" screen or bigger. The weight isn't such a big deal, as I won't be moving it around a lot (still enough that buying a desktop isn't an option) 3_What...

Can anyone help me to clear IBM T30 password ?

Trying to decided between the m11x and envy 14 (coming out June 27... 5650 and i series cpu starting at $1000). I would go for the m11x in a heartbeat, but the SU7300 @ 1.73GHz scares me. I don't do much gaming but I'd like to be able to play Bad Company 2 with ok details/frame rates. I...

my fan of the cup not work the laptop load El OS but the fan not work need help

Is it possible to make a laptop from scratch or do you have to use a bare bones kit. I have made several desktops and would like to make a laptop for myself but can not find any cases and several other parts.

I've got a sony vaio PCG-F809K laptop. I had to reinstall windows cos o viruses and now I cant get no drivers for it. I've lost the driver cd, da sony website doesnt give any. Wireless, webcam, sound, bluetooth, lan nothins workin. I'd appreciate if anyone can giv me the drivers or point to a...

A friend of mine just gave me an HP NX9010 notebook, the thing appears to be in perfect working order, it turns on fine, everything is detected fine, etc. However when it comes to booting it simply says 'Operating system not found' . I can boot the computer using a bootable CD and there are no...

Hey to all Tom's members I am hoping someone will give me a good suggestion for a laptop/notebook for architecture use. I am going to school for architecture and we use the program Rhino 4.0, autocad, illustrator, photoshop, and maxwell. Maybe Autodesk 3ds I am wondering if theres a good...

I have a P35C-DS3R MB with an E8200 CPU and a 512MB XFX 9600GT Alpha Dog XXX card. Nothing has been overclocked. It's running Vista and for day to day use it's solid as a rock. However, these days whenever I do something that involves 3D, then after not very long, the PC just crashes. I get a...

Can anyone please post personal experience with it? Also, I wonder if anyone run into troubles with dead pixels or "Dead Pixel Policy" ? Mini-Review would be really nice =) I hope it would be helpful to allot of people Thanks a lot.

I wan't a laptop emty case, w/nothing. Or a base platform that can take a lot of upgrades. Processor, and graphic card and so on. What should I look at before I start the building process. This will be mostly for gaming. I have no interest in buying new.

Is there a preferred boot order between the floppy, a CD drive, and a boot drive?

Sometime I use my LiteOn DVD burner to burn movies and play it on my DVD-player, My DVD-player can read some of the discs that I burn but not all. I am using the same brand DVD-R Discs and format when I burn the DVD. What could be the problem here? Thanks

Hey, I got one question. I currently have this setup now: Phenom II X4 955 BE overclocked to 3.8 Ghz at 1.3375 vcore paired with a Cooler master Hyper 212 plus cooler in push pull config Asus M4N75TD Motherboard (SLI) 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz Corsair XMS 3 RAM 500GB SATA 3.0 HDD 1 LG DVD Combo drive...

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.cingular (More info?) Whin Cingular took over At&t Towers they have had a lot of drop Calls it is not the phone its the cell site leting to many people on at onec Art Horsell ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----...

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs (More info?) It says on my voice mail expert mode turned off. Can anyone tell me what the expert mode is????

Hello, i want to build a system (only CPU) under rs. 15,000 with 1gb graphics card. is it possible ?? If yes.. then let me know the config ..!!

Hi everyone, I'm completely new to building, and I wanted to check compatibility issues with these parts. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have the Motherboard, Processor, Memory, and the Video Card installed. Now I am completely lost with wiring, etc... Intel BOXDZ68BC LGA 1155 Intel...