I have purchased a replacement DVD/CD-RW drive for this laptop but am not sure how I go about replacing it. There is no easy way to remove the unit and I...
Hi, re: "frozen pointer" I'm using an oldie- hp ob6000. I'm not talented enough to use touch pad much, but use stick instead, & sometimes, when scrolling some...
The "eraser mouse" in the middle of the keyboard will wear out internally along with drifting, sticking, etc. You need to check sources including ebay for a...
-Ty for reply. this doesn't happen very often, but its likely its showing its age. The touch pad works fine; guess i'll have to learn to 'scratch'. lol ... ...
I asked because the eraser mouse and touchpad go through the same controller, generally if the touchpad is fine but the eraser mouse is weord or dead it's the...
Sometime ago my IBM T23 started to show some horizontal lines that ocasionally apeared on the screen inferering with the image and sometimes wrong colors...
My money is on a bad LCD panel. I will give you just about any odds you want. I have never seen this caused by anything else. The individual pixels are...
Yep he's right, the mylar strips bonded to the top and side become delaiminated and you get dead lines on the panel. It still wouldn't hurt to seat the...
Hi, I been trying to reboot a Gateway NX570X from the CD Rom. This Laptop is running on XP and has a partitioned Drive D: for recovery options. When ever I...
I have a friend, who's laptop has locked her out. How can I bypass the start-up password message and reset the password? I even don't min disabling it too? The...
Call HP support and they have to validate ownership to give you a reset password. They may charge for it since they are now charging ASPs for support on out of...
Hi Russ, I think I may have caused confusion here-sorry. I'm the 'putrdummy' w/old HP 6000 omnibook..my touch pad works great; i use it very little, but...
Thank you Ardell, thank you Russ, I'll try to reseat the remaining connector and if this doesn't work problably I'll try to get a LCD panel. Regards....
Hello! I recently got a used laptop -HP compaq nc8000.I read that it's a good laptop and it seems fine to me. The only problem is the battery.I tried to...
Hi there: For some reason messages from this group stopped coming to my mailbox back in March sometime. I am subscribed to the Daily Digest mode and would like...
dear all, i have satellite M35x detect hdd but no boot, i tried to recovery hdd but when restarted no boot to windows, only cursor..anyone can help me. many...
Hi Duane, I switched you to "Individual Email" as your notification setting. If that doesn't solve the issue, you may need to "leave" the group and "join"...
I had a few yahoo groups in digest mode and they did the same, going to indiv mails works fine - he just needs to create a subfolder under his inbox and use a...
Could be be the drive has locked or is electrically toast - try another 2.5" HDD and if it doesnt work thenit might be a system board fault but generally the...
Hello, my name is David, and i am having some trouble with my compaq v2000. All i can get it to do is make 2 long beeps. I get no display of any kind. I have...
You replaced the motherboard and you still get the same beep code? That is an incredible co-incidence. Are you sure you have the correct type of memory...
I dont have another cpu for it, its a laptop. Im going to go try that and see what happens. I tried different memory from another laptop, and that didnt fix...
Hi guys, I've had a Compaq 2701ea laptop that worked fine until it was accidentally dropped from a sofa. Various problems ensued with the CPU cooling, which if...
If I were you, I would re-evaluate the conclusion you have arrived at concerning the power jack. I see charred motherboards all the time in units with the...
Very occasionally I would get a frozen pointer too. The problem appeared to be a software related. I would fix it by using task manager to kill the current...
Hi Ardell, Thanks for the prompt reply. I have to admit that Russ and yourself provide some excellent advice on this group and I for one appreciate that. As...
Hi members how's everybody I am planning to buy a new Laptop what can advice because my budget is not that sufficient to buy the most expenssive I want to buy...
... I just purchased This one and absolutely love it!! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834280004 It has a dual core CPU, 1 gig RAM, 100...
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