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Original load is Vista; I ripped out and installed XP Pro SP2; ran Thinkvantage System Update but still unable to resolve unknown hardware within device manager.  2 devices showing: "biometric...
Ok guys, I need help.  I've hit this problem before and I've tried to find the right drivers and all I'm doing is pulling my hair out.  Here's the scoop.  The morons at HP will not help me in ...
Hello, I am working on my daughter in laws dell latitude D600 laptop. I just got a new hard drive and loaded a student version of XP for her. Now I am missing drivers and cannot even get onli...
Interesting story  customer comes to me with a laptop that looks like a piece of burnt toast.  His house got struck by lightning, started a fire, burnt up his study.  I took out the hard driv...
I cant find drivers for this notebook. There are drivers on hp site, but seems they are not correct for my notebook. I have successfully installed chipset, sata ahci, vga, wireless, bluetooth,...
I failed to make a backup of the Recovery Disk which came as a partition in the Notebook PC. However had plenty of crashes and system refused to recover from the recovery partition. My Noteb...
Long winded problem here, please bear with me....help would be gratefully appreciated... I have a HP PAVILION DV9000 laptop. I want to put a copy (Legit!!!!!) of XP PRO on it. When I boot u...
Is there a backdoor CMOS/BIOS password for HP laptops (specifically the TC4400)?  I have one that has an unknown bios password, and I really don't feel like taking this thing apart.
I have a Compaq 6715b laptop with Windows Vista Business that is joined to a Server 2003 domain.  Recently a user had trouble logging on, and when I attempted to login I got the messge, "The s...
Looking for XP drivers for Acer Extensa Laptop 5620z Laptop. Laptop came with Windows Vista. I am loading XP on this laptop and I am looking for XP Drivers.  Thank you.
I have all the drivers loaded for XP except for the finger print reader.  Laptop came as Vista Business and had sound when started up. Blasted back to Windows XP , total format, loaded drv...
These are work computers a latitude 510, and 520.  The 510 earlier today ran slowly for 7 hrs while on job.  I went to a CPU part store and bought 1 gig Ram and installed.  I started acting fu...
I purchased a Dell 1530 and needed to remove Vista and install XP Pro due to some legacy programs that would not run with Vista/IE7. XP is not directly supported for the 1530 thought all the d...
The laptop/notebook in question is a Dell Inspiron E1705 running Windows Vista.  This is the customer's laptop, I am their IT consultant. The user says last night he ran some Windows Updates, ...
How disable Dell XPS Vista laptop touchpad??   I have looked everywhere and am pretty good at finding answers. However with my new Dell XPS 1530 laptop there is no selection in the BIOS...
I recently installed windows xp on my Compaq Presario 700 f768wm and cant seem to find the audio driver anywhere. Any suggestions or ideas?
My friend's Dell Inspiron 640m crashed and wouldn't boot and I helped him format and reinstall. Now I have been able to install most of the drivers but device manager shows: 1. BCM2045 2. ...
Where is the location of the CMOS battery in the Inspiron 5150 laptop?
Hello, I am unable to find the driver for Intel 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 enhanced host controller.  It seems like Intel is not hosting the driver files anymore and I require them to resolve a ! ...
hi my dell latitude d520 keeps blue screening, mostly when i change the ip address and try to join to domain. the error mesasage is Error code 1000007f, parameter1 00000008, parameter2 8004...
Does anyone know how to reset the CMOS password of a HP 6910p? I have removed the cmos battery and the battery to the laptop for a few hrs with still no luck. Is there a jumper that needs t...
We have users with Dell Latitude D 520 laptops who would like to have the touch pad mouse on the laptop turned off as they use an external usb mouse and often accidently hit the touch pad whil...
A customer just brought me a Gateway MA3 notebook that wont power up or charge.  Seems like a problem with the AC power connection.  With the battery in when I plug in the AC adapter and push...
I went to upgrade this dell's bios and in order to do it you need the power cord and battery installed at 100% to upgrade the bios.  I can't upgrade because the laptop does not see the battery...
On my brother's laptop the HDD gave up the ghost. He does not have an image of the hidden partition that was lost. He had, however, made a recovery DVD. This recovery disc works satisfactorily...