Tech Support Forum - Laptop Support

Broken hinge on advent 5431!

Lydia07 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:43:34 GMT

I have an Advent 5431 laptop, and the right hand hinge is broken which prevents me from closing the lid, is there anyway i can repair this?

it is very similar to this; Attachment 75760

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Acer Aspire 5515 Wireless Help

Sweat2010 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:40:50 GMT

I have an Acer Aspire 5515 with a built in air card. In May, I went to Sacramento and had to 'plug in' to a broadband connection. Once I returned, not only does my laptop not recognize any wireless networks, it doesn't even recognize that I have a wireless card installed. Can someone please help?
I have my tail between my legs as I am a computer tech and CANNOT for the life of me figure it out!! UG!

HP Pavilion dv9000 screen not working

viderblool — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:06:21 GMT

I have an HP Pavilion dv9000, actually it's someone else's. When I power it up I get three beeps and then the screen won't turn on. Sometimes, however, it doesn't beep, and then the screen will turn on. At some point the screen was broken by the left hinge. On this version of the Pavilion they put the Kensington security slot on the left side of the screen. I'm wondering if that being broken is somehow connecting into the screen not working. Because, as I said, sometimes the screen works and sometimes it doesn't, so its almost like it could be that security slot and when its making connection its working and when it isn't it doesn't. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it possible that a K security slot would actually interfere with how the computer works? I've never heard of that before....

Thanks,
viderblool

No drivers for macbook pro 5.5 with xp

abdellaah — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:01:51 GMT

I didn't find any drivers for macbook pro 5.5 after installing XP on it
help please

HP dv1000 video issue

Southc — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:12:41 GMT

Hi

I have a HP dv1000, it has been a good computer for the last few years. A few months ago the screen would go dark after about 40 mins. Using a flashlight I could see the screen faintly. I hooked up an external monitor and it worked fine. I changed the inverter out and that did not resolve the problem. I have just replaced the screen and that hasn't resolved the problem either. I am competent with computers and repair, but this has me beaten. Any ideas? :4-dontkno

I don't know what happened to my Acer laptop diisplay

abdellaah — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:01:54 GMT

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this is how looks like my ACER laptop display, suddenly it happened ,it's still like that ,
i don't what to do ,
thanks for help

Pavilion Dv7 Black Screen with a twist

Themsah — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:24:28 GMT

OK guys so this is my first post and it might be a bit lengthy, sorry in advance.

I have a Hp Dv7-1245dx that yesterday got stuck in what I thought to be Hibernation. I turned the computer off and all I got was black screen with flashing leds and flashing caps lock. I went home and searched this site (great info BTW) and did all of the tests in Night_shifts black screen test. I got no where. Finally when I was going to throw in the towel, I got a screen that said:

Check Sum error

Press to load default
Press to continue

So I pressed F6 and it tried to load but I had the HDD out along with the CD drive. I turned off the machine and installed the HDD and it worked perfectly!!
But the second I installed the CD Drive it went back to the black screen.. I said ok just redo everything you did before just dont put back the cd drive. I did this with no results just black screen.

TOday I continued to tinker and try different things. After blowing out the computer for about the 5th time I got the error mess again, although this time I was not able to do anything after that, it did nothing when I pressed the F5-F6 keys. I shut it down and right back to the black screen..

I appreciate any help you guys can give. I seem to think it has a CPU or Motherboard issue, but I cant figure out how to get to the CPU to inspect it or even swap it..

Thanks :sigh:

Kohjinsha SA1

wilson2010 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:47:40 GMT

Hi, a mates asked me to have a look at his new purchase a Kohjinsha sa1 notebook/laptop thing.

Well, the tool has forgotten his password and has entered it wrong too many times and he got the message saying it was entering an halted state and now it can't be turned back on again... is this the halted state causing it not to turn on or could there be another problem with it?

If it is the halted state causing the problem could i just remove the bios battery and try powering it back on as it should reset the CMOS right??

Thanks in advance and any speedy replies will be greatly appreiciated as he needs it for work.

Trackpad problem

kerrboy1987 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:32:56 GMT

Hi there,

I have a MSI CX600. Recently the mouse trackpad has started causing problems. It will work fine but it will periodically start clicking rapidly and repeatedly. I can turn it off with keyboard shortcut and use the mouse fine. it is only periodic comes on and off. I ran an antimalware scan and avast boottime scan with both being negative. I also checked the mouse driver and windows said it was fine.

Hope you can help.

Callum

Blue Screen at OS instal

ukiarskicker — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:16:50 GMT

Hello.

I have a little issue with a laptop I am reinstalling. Every time I try to install Windows XP Pro, I get a BSOD. I get it after all the system drivers load and before it gets to the selection screen. I get an error with the BSOD that says:
STOP: 0xC0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
That's is. I do not know what can be the problem.
Its a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 300GB HDD 5400 RPM, Intel Core 2 Duo. That is all I can tell you about the laptop for now.
I formatted the HDD thinking it will fix the problem, but no luck.

Please Help.

fujitsu and cpu

ruhat — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:08:31 GMT

i am using a fujitsu for 5 years. it doesn't power on these two days. the fan starts to work and immediately stops. is it possible that the cpu is damaged. how can i understand that the problem is caused from cpu?
regards

Enpower ENP77004 need drivers

poetiest — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:55:43 GMT

I had to restall my windows xp and I do not have a clue where my driver disk are. And since the company (PC Club) is no longer in business my laptop thinks there is not modem attached. So now I cannot get on the internet. How can i get the driver disk for this laptop. I have looked everywhere. I have an external hard drive. I need to get it so i can download it on there and hopefully put it on my laptop.

why does my cpu temperature start climbing?

larryh2 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:10:48 GMT

I'm looking for some ideas on how to investigate why my PC starts heating up.

The CPU temperature of my HP laptop runs for days at about 31 Deg C. Then randomly the temperature will climb until the fan comes on and the clock speed will start being reduced. This happens even though the CPU usage is typically around 15% or less. When this has happened, I have shut down all of the applications with no effect. I have looked at the processes listed in task manager and none of them are using any CPU time.
Once the temperature climbs it does not recover. I just shut it down.
The laptop is setting on a base that allows lots free air flow on the bottom and all sides.

My PC is HP G50 Notebook
Intel Pentium Dual T3400 @ 2.16GHz 2.17 GHz
3 GB ram
Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2

Number of ventilation shafts?

schultetwin1 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:02:19 GMT

Hi,

I have an Acer Aspire 5100, which has been shutting down randomly lately. Also, the fan is loud and is making pulsing noises as the fan speeds up and slows down.

I opened up the laptop and saw that there were three ventilation shafts. One on the bottom on the computer, one on the side and one on the back. The shaft on the back had been blocked. Is this supposed to be like this?

Also, i took compressed air to the shafts to clean them out, and still get the sounds.

Thanks
-Matt

acer 5000 overheating

brianwal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:30:22 GMT

I have an acer aspire 5000 that overheats. It's always overheated, but now it's gotten bad, don't know if the weather outside or not has affected it, has just started since the weather got rediculously hot and humid. And I left it in the car, hope that didn't hurt it.

I took off the fan cover and got all the dust out, not much effect, if any any. I have read in some other thread that a new heating module could work as well as a cooling pad. Any other ideas, or should i just use it as fire wood? Its a older computer (5yrs or so), but if i can get it to stay on, I would rather do that then have to buy a new computer.

I don't have many computer skills and Im not sure how much a module costs and if that would help or not, any ideas would be great. thanks.

Bri