One of my friends tripped and accidentally knocked my laptop off of the table. The laptop is fine...except it landed on the dc jack and broke it internally. I...
... Although their laptops appear to be sold free of restrictive proprietary code (nice touch), Winbook seems to maintain a tight reign on parts and service....
Hello, I need to fix notebook Dell Inspiron 4100 . Its battery is faulty and I try to power it with charge unit only . While be started the notebook lights all...
Hi New to the group and looking for a source for a restore CD or disc for a Toshiba 2775XDVD/12.0. OS is win 98. Anyone know where I could find something like...
Hi :O) I just joined in hopes someone with expertise can help me. I have a Fujitsu Lifebook i-4177 no longer under warranty that is in need of repair....
Hello, You need to remove all the screws from the bottom of the unit. Then remove the modem and the CD Rom drive, that will give you access to the LCD...
Hi Suzanne, The drives should be swappable.. but I'm wondering where you would "Store" the information once you ahave your old hard drive in the new machine? ...
Hello, Thank you for your interest to my problem . The main fault of my Dell Inspiron 4100 is that the unit doesn't start to work . After connecting of the...
I have a new Gateway 450 Laptop with a combo CD-R/RW/DVD drive in it. When this system was delivered, the above drive was DOA even though it had a nice big...
I just sold my vaio, which was working perfectly, but the buyer says when they received it that the LCD is only slightly visible if you look at it from an...
Hi, The 6 GB Hitachi hard drive in my Vivante SE is now making a very strange noise. The drive is no longer working properly, but I'm trying to see if I can...
In my dealings with gateway, we had a similar incident where they sent a replacement AC three times before "WE" said send a new notebook. I suggest you do the...
I do not know what causes the noise (Grinding plates I think or mechanical failure) but I can say that your drive is bad. My recommendation is to send it to...
Gateway has what IN the auto industry “A Lemon Policy” , they will continue to fix it regardless for three trips I have had customer that have taken the...
... Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. It's definitely not a grinding sound that I am hearing. That's why I called it a "weird" sound. It's not like anything...
Hello y'all, I'm a new member so bare with me =^.^= I will be receiveing a new cd/rw/dvd drive to be placed into my HP Pavilion N5135 Notebook. I've done my...
... Okay, the old CD-Rom is out and the CD/RW/DVD drive is in. Now the problem is that it will not read ANY disks, beit CDrom dvd or anything! The 'new'...
I have a F150 that needs a motherboard/main system board. I've been trying to find a good used one. But these don't seem to be very avilable. I have been told...
Greetings, My Sony VAIO PCG-812 has died quite thoroughly. After plugging it in one day (into what I later discovered to be an ungrounded outlet), it suddenly...
Hello, You can use ANY F Series motherboard AND CPU from: PCG-F150 through PCG-F360 The BIOS (RO-27) sub-connector chip HAS to be removed from your board and...
Hello, there really is NO additional configuration required to use that new drive. Where did you get that drive from? Is it possible that the new drive is...
This may be difficult for you to repair because you don't have another good working board. Also, you don't have expirience with this particular board, so the ...
Hello I see that Joe gets back to many of these so im hopeing he will help me out alittle here Ok what I have is a presario 1240 I upgraded the cpu but I dont...
Joe, first of all thanks for the response! I'm not on the technical level that most all of you guys are on the board. I'm an Auto Tech. that just likes to play...
Hello Matt, We have many great helpers on this forum that I'm very greatful to have. As for your situation, what kind of processor did you buy? The original...