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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...
It's one of the things that came with my new Acer laptop, along with Diner Dash, some encrypted virtual HD thingie, and a 60 day trial of McAfee. OK OK I know, I was bad. I was curious and ...
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...
I have recently purchased a Sony Vaio VGN-Z11WN laptop.  I downgraded it to XP.  The motion eye camera does not work.  In device manager it shows a yellow ! next to Sony Visual Communiction Ca...
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 ...
Salam I have aspire one aoa150 . I want to make t bootable usb that work as windows xp cd . so, when use it with F12 while start the netbook , run as making a set up xp from cd. Thanks
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.
Swapped MB on a HP Elitebook 6930P and need get the serial number into BIOS. At boot I get a message stating "Warning. Machine is not in committed state. Invalid serial number", but when en...
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...
I recently purchased a sony vaio pcg-5j2l laptop and it comes with windows vista which i can't stand I need to get this unit switched over to windows xp. if somebody could help in providing me...
On my Dell M1710 Laptop, it has a huge power supply brick with a little green light on it that turns on when it's plugged in.  Lately though when I plus it in the light doesn't turn on and it ...
I had a hundred viruses on a Dell XPS 1530 which came into the shop. I decided to format the drive and reinstall using the Vista Boot menu. I chose "return to factory settings" and the compute...
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...
I recently purchased a Dell Latitude E6500 with a fingerprint reader (which I wanted to try out). I've tried it. It works fine. But I've decided I don't need that level of security and I would...
How do you download drivers ofr the acer aspire 5633 wlmi notebook?
I recently wiped and rebuilt this laptop and after going through all the system installations, I still have a audio device that I cannot find a driver for.  It is labeled Audio Device on High ...
My customer lost his BIOS password AND also previously changed BIOS settings so the BIOS password is asked immediately at Power up (after Toshiba screen) in order to proceed with booting the l...
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. ...
I've installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista an reinstalled all the required drivers and softwares for a stable computer EXCEPT for the special buttons programme which will enable me to assign...
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...
customer brought in a dell d630 notebook with a video problem. the screen is distorted it does this from the boot not a windows issue(bios also)  hooked it up to external monitor same thing. i...
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...
Just got a new XPS M1530 laptop. Should I reformat my computer and reload everything? Will that speed things up or since I will be using the same disk the computer came with will that not h...
Thinking whether to get the x200 vs. x200s. I know the differences but want opinions. Between the two Processors the SL9400 has double the cache but has lower core speed then the P8600.  Whi...
Experts, I am planning to buy a Dell laptop over the next couple of days.. I have ended up with Dell Studio 15 and Dell XPS 1550 laptop models.. I have been doing lots of googling about bot...