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I switched my HD to another laptop as you mentioned, and I was able to get all my information. Thanks a tonne. I then switched the hard drive back to my computer, in preparation for loading windows 8 onto it and starting fresh. Oddly it loaded back up as per normal, and works fine. Im not...

Hey, I have a HP laptop and today I went to turn it on and it said it could not load the OS, and to insert the OS disc. This obviously isn't a good thing, but what I am mainly concerned about is the contents of my hard drive. It has been a while since I backed up my info and there is stuff on...

Hey guys I have a toshiba satellite L300 laptop and the touchpad has gone squirly and only works once in a while. Sure, I can put on a regular mouse on the side, but I would prefer not to. Anyways I go on ebay and type toshiba satellite touchpad and a few models come up. I can't find any...

hey that's not the end of the world. I have a laptop that is always on, and barely ever dies. especially now that a new battery is coming. as long as it's the same as when my CMOS battery was dead then it is tolderable. I just thought that it would be smart to change the cmos battery when...

right, but when it wasn't working in the first place was it keeping all the bios setting intact still? I'm saying if i put it back together with no CMOS battery will it still do the same thing as when the CMOS battery was dead?

thanks for the help. I have the cmos battery out and the clips king of broke off the sauder spots. It is a maxell ml1220. I've seen them on the net shipped for about $12. The thing is is this necessary to have one? i'm so nervous of having the computer apart that I'd love to get it back...

Hey guys, I am having a CMOS battery problem. I have a toshiba satellite laptop. I have had to reset my date/time every time my laptop died etc. The part that the power cable plugs into the laptop came undone and I was going to take the laptop apart to fix that so I decided to clean the...

The time is correct at this moment and I can go to the website. Sometimes my laptop gets unplugged (3 kids) and the battery dies. When I restart it is at January 1, 2008. I should keep my eye on this more often hahaha. Thanks for the help!

thanks for the help. I will try that and I hope it helps. What confuses me is my wife's works, but not mine. She has vista and a jammed computer. I set mine up all Sexy with the factory settings and the problem is still there. Will let you know how it goes thanks

My anti-virus I have is AVG, but even if i close AVG down the browser still does the same crap. Yes, when I had Vista on and I had the problem I did try Internet Explorer, but I haven't since I put in windows 7. I didnt try because i hate IE and just assume I would have the same problem

Hey guys, recently I was having problems with my computer and I blamed it all on Vista. One problem I had was it would not let me connect to certain websites. For example when I go to say my bank's website, Google Chrome went to a red screen and said SSL ERROR "The server's security...

thanks for the help guys. I did a clean install for ultimate 64 bit. The windows saved all my old stuff in a windows.old file, but i deleted them and re-installed the programs fresh. My onbly criticism is the driver on my dvd used to disappear and i had to delete/reinstall it with vista. I...

Hello, I am wanting to upgrade to windows 7, but I have no idea what version I need. I know there is the version of 7 that goes over the existing vista, and there is the version that completely formats your computer. I dont know which I need. Also, toshiba does not make drivers for my...

when reading up on NVIDIA I am told to mmtry to update my BIOS. wI tried and it is up to date. I have no idea where to start anymore.

Hello, I often put my display on my TV to watch movies, etc. It's really handy and I just plug in my RGC cable and go from there. A few days ago I was streaming the Olympics onto my TV and my computer stopped displaying onto my TV. For a while I thought it was my RGB cable, but I tested it on...

I notice alot of VGA to BNC cables. can anyone explain what that is? made for a computer VGA to a HDTV?

hello, a while ago I had a VGA cable which I ran from my computer to my HDTV. I never liked the fact that VGA only did the video and not the audio too. I moved recently and lost the cable. I bought a VGA to RCA cable in hopes that it would bring the video AND audio to my HDTV. Well, the...

hi i brought my laptop in not long ago because of a blue screen error. happens one of my memory slots is bad so i now have to run one 2 gig chip instead of two 1 gig chips. anyways thats not a problem..i installed the memoryu and turned it on and now the only thing that comes up is a memory...

nvm....clicking anything in the user account section does nothing anyways. Guess its format time. :( thanks for the help though

im in safe mode now (forgot about that) and control panel works now, but rstrui.exe still doesnt work. now that im in control panel/user account how do i go about making a new admin account?