Laptops & Notebooks - May 2007

I bought the lap top 7 days ago. The line appeared this morning and it changes colour with the background, sometimes it is red and sometimes blue . It's windows vista basic.. i don't know how to get rid of it Help!

2007-05-11 05:18:23 · 3 answers · asked by natasha l 2

im having trouble with the wrong machine error and i was told to do this:

1. Insert your cd.
2. Boot system using cd (here is where you will get the W R O N G M A C H I N E error).
3. Change to the drive letter of the cd... mine was q: yours may be something else.
4. Go to the 'base' folder by typing "cd base" and press enter.
5. Type "os.bat" and this will start the ghosting process.

Your system should now be ghosting your computer to factory settings

i dont get how to change the drive letter. someone please explain to me how to do this because when i get the wrong machine error it stays on that screen unless i click exit, and when i click exit it shut's down the laptop. if anyone could post a video of someone showing me or to have someone just explain how to do this would be great. someone also told me to look for the drive letter when going throught the process but i dont see it. please help. thx to any feedback in advance

2007-05-11 05:03:45 · 2 answers · asked by jordan 1

My Compaq Persario 6120, keeps crashing! After about 10 minutes of use, it goes to a blue screen with "Hard drive error" on it. Anyway, My question is Where should I go for tech support? I have one friend who says to go to Circit city (where I bought it) and another friend says to talk to HP (who owns Compaq) Which should I contact?

2007-05-11 04:59:14 · 6 answers · asked by cal_katman 2

Laptop is just over a year old and has recently began shutting down at random. Running Windows XP Home. No restarts, no windows shut down process, just turning off. No hardware changes.

AVG Anti-Virus runs at start up and updates daily. Firewall in place and behind router. Windows Defender runs in background, I also run Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Spyware Blaster monthly. I booted with Ultimate Boot CD 4.10 and ran the included anti-virus apps and was clean.

I can run in safe mode all day long with no shut down, either in the Admin profile or the main profile. I created a limited profile to see if it could be a setting in the main profile, but same problem happened in new profile.

There are only 8 processes running on start up, per msconfig, and all are known.

I can't even decide if it is a hardware or software problem. I thought hardware, but then why no issue in safe mode? What other tools can I use to find the issue? Anyone had a similar problem? Help!!

2007-05-11 04:55:11 · 8 answers · asked by feeblegoat 2

Gawd! I LOVE my MacBook Pro - running OSX 10.4.9 - but I hate the startup BONG!!!!!!!!!! noise. How do I mute or change it?

Do not send me here.....

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/StartupSound/support.en.html

Been there, installed that, doesn't open when I go into System Prefs. Says the program won't open on this computer!

One for Mr. Jobbs, I think. Buggered if I can work this one out!

2007-05-11 03:52:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

or is there any other way round it.

2007-05-11 02:56:29 · 16 answers · asked by LittleJohn 2

Is there a particular button I can push without turning the computer off?

2007-05-11 02:48:25 · 1 answers · asked by Leepal 5

I know nothing about computers and I need some help on what I should be looking for in a laptop.

2007-05-11 01:22:11 · 9 answers · asked by arnie 1

2007-05-11 00:58:27 · 6 answers · asked by imskiace 2

Is there any games that i can play in my laptop = system (2.66Ghz,256 mb of ram, 32 mb of video memory) no games yet

2007-05-11 00:55:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi there,, whenever i m trying to adjust the volume of my HP laptop with the help of buttons given on key board my system freezes and i need to restart it to work again.. i installed the latest drivers from HP website but still the problem persist.. somebody help me??!!

2007-05-10 23:00:05 · 3 answers · asked by Rumsman 1

in my house there is one hp laptop with internet and four people who uses it minimum 3 hours a day and sometime 4 hours!
my turn to use it comes at night as tht time im finished with all my studying and works! tht time the laptop is so hot tht i feel if i break egg on it, i'l get omellette! its not possible for me always to switch it off till it cools down! i try to make other people understand but they say nothing will happen!

2007-05-10 22:51:35 · 7 answers · asked by angelic 2

I want to enter spanish letters that require the alt key held down plus 3 numbers, but that won't work without the numbers pad on my laptop.

2007-05-10 21:11:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need Graphics drivers,and Network drivers . I have already found Audio drivers. If you think I need some other drivers I do not mention, please let me know.

By the way, my laptop's Graphics is 128MB (Shared) NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150, and its Network Card is Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN; 802.11 b/g.

Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated

2007-05-10 16:55:44 · 8 answers · asked by gy.myworld 1

I have installed adobe premiere 2.0 in my toshiba A105-4834 intel core 2 duo notebook. I tried to open the program but i only get a blank screen. Can anyone help me with this? Appreciate your answers.. thanks.

2007-05-10 16:50:36 · 1 answers · asked by lokomoko22ba 1

2007-05-10 15:56:40 · 4 answers · asked by jfont 3

HP Pavillion dv6233se laptop - Special Edition for $700. The guy bought it for $730 from best buy 2 months ago and still has the receipt. I'm offering him $700 because he's including the receipt along with a laptop bag, SD card, optical mouse, USB memory stick and a 80 GB external hard drive. I thought it was a good deal but then again I don't know much about laptops and one guy on here said offer him $500, $600 tops. Can someone else put in their input??? Some of the specs are as follows:

Microprocessor 1.6 GHz AMD Turion ™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-50
Microprocessor Cache 2x 256KB L2 Cache
Memory 1024MB DDR2 (2 Dimm)
Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA)
Video Memory Up to 288MB (shared)
Hard Drive 120GB 5400RPM Hard Drive (SATA)
Windows Vista Premium

2007-05-10 14:57:46 · 18 answers · asked by sonyab523 2

I have just reformated my laptop. then i search for drivers in the Internet. Most of the software is doing fine except for the ethernet. I've tried to install the driver but still is doesn't working. The indicator LED is on but it is not blinking. My lptop is acer aspire 5610. (btw, i've lost the resource CD which locates all the drivers.)

2007-05-10 13:15:22 · 3 answers · asked by CuteGuy 2

I understand Core Duo and Core 2 Duo. However, was looking at Dell.com and they offer THREE options:

#1. Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7200 (2.00GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB) [add $250]
#2. Intel® Core™ DUO T2350 (1.86GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB) [add $40]
#3. Intel® Pentium® dual-core T2080(1MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB [Included in Price]


So what is this number #3?

I have a Core 2 Duo now. How much different is #3 from that? Big difference in performance? How hot it runs? Battery Life?

Regards for any help!!!

I

2007-05-10 13:14:04 · 5 answers · asked by adaminbremen 1

i have a 1990s labtop computer it has a real time error. i have set the time over and over but when i turn the computer off the time goes to being what it was. is there anything i need to get or do to the computer to get it to the real time??????

2007-05-10 12:54:20 · 3 answers · asked by saliza_19 1

someone suggested i try this to fix the wrong machine error on my toshiba laptop.

You can run the DMI update utility, or try this:
1. Pop in the CD.
2. Press F12 immediately upon seeing the Toshiba logo.
3. Select the CD to boot to CD.
4. It will prompt you to continue or quit, press F1 to continue.
5. It will give you the "Wrong Machine" error.
6. Type Q: at the DOS prompt to change to the Q: drive (a RAM drive setup by batch file).
7. Type cd\base to change to the base directory.
8. Type os (or os.bat) and press Enter. This will start ghosting the image to the computer.
9. When it is done with disc 1 it will prompt for disc 2 and then disc 3.
10. When it is done, eject the disk and press the key it says to continue.
11. It should reboot into the setup for XP.

but what i dont get is when do i press Q because no DOS prompt comes up.. it just has a button that says exit and if i click it, it turns off the laptop.

im not able to access anything on the computer, says i have to activate

2007-05-10 12:34:43 · 4 answers · asked by jordan 1

On window laptops there is a slot & i was wondering if its possible.

2007-05-10 12:18:07 · 1 answers · asked by Lily 1

I am trying to show a powerpoint from my Dell laptop on to a flat screen TV. A technician gave me a VGA cable... Is that ok? If not, what is the correct cable?

2007-05-10 10:07:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need to speed up my computr and increase its overall performance and even a bit of info would help ty.

some facts u should probably know....

i have an external hardrive

broadband internet

im on a laptop

2007-05-10 10:03:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am trying to sell my Dell laptop that isnt even a year old and I don't want to sell it on ebay. Is there any place in Orange County that will buy used laptops?

2007-05-10 09:32:11 · 4 answers · asked by derek_fett 1

2007-05-10 07:16:05 · 9 answers · asked by addu 1

Hi,

I have a TOSHIBA LAPTOP (Satellite L10). I was having some power problems with it, sent it back to the place frm where I bought it and they changed the system board.

Now everything is working Fine, except system time and date. System time is not correct. Whenever I set the system time, after half an hour / hour, it shows wrong time & it keeps on moving very slow & most of the times it show several hours late w.r.t original time.

I updated the BIOS, tryed new installation (Windows XP Professional), but nothing seems to be working. What should I do ???

2007-05-10 07:04:40 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

i dont know what kind i need waht is a good amount of memory? i dont have a lot to spent but i need a laptop

2007-05-10 06:25:13 · 9 answers · asked by kyle 2

2007-05-10 05:53:06 · 3 answers · asked by realz 1

how do i connect my laptop to a sky modem rotter

2007-05-10 05:13:21 · 2 answers · asked by marg b 1