My aunt gave me her old laptop, and I want to reinstall Windows on it. For sarters, the DVD-ROM
drive is not first in the boot order. So I need to open the BIOS Setup program to change it. I tried
pressing about half a dozen key combos, and couldn't get it to run. I called Dell, and they gave
me some garbage, saying that I would have to pay to get help. So I come here, to ask you, how does
one open the BIOS Setup program on a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop?...

well in just a little over a year i'll be going to college and i was wondering what would be a
good laptop for a college student. My thought: since i have a realy bad hand writing( i sometimes
cannot understand my own writing) i was thinking about getting a tablet pc so i could write and it
would turne into typed text. but one thing i want to make sure is that if i do get one, would i
still be able to get all the different softwares i like and if i could play games on it? what do
you all think /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt=...

Now it's £699 ($1400) It's a dell QUOTE BASE Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7250
(2.00 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB) OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium -
English HARDWARE SUPPORT 1 Year Base Warranty - Collect & Return COLOUR CHOICE Jet Black Colour
with Matte Finish & 2.0mp camera LCD 17.0" Widescreen WXGA+ (1440x900) TFT Display with TrueLife™
MEMORY 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM HARD DRIVE 320GB (5.400rpm) SATA Hard Drive edit
GRAPHICS CARD nVidia® GeForce™ Go 8600M GT with 256MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory OPT...

I know laptops generally have pci slots and you generally can't change the graphics card however
do normal graphics pci express cards work in laptops. im actually talking about an GeForce 8600GT
512mb and this laptop Click Here I know it has a good Graphics card already but its not the one i
want so... will it work?...

Well, my mom is buying me a graduation laptop and my budget is about $2500. This is the laptop
I've found to be the biggest bang for the buck, but as I'm not great at this stuff I figured
I'd ask for help. The speed and memory of the laptop is pretty much set at the speed it's
at (2.5GB L2 6MB, 4 GB RAM, 640GB HDD). Also I don't want to lose bluetooth either. So, if you
have any comments or suggestions, please let me know, if you find better offers for the same machine
I'd be happy to know about them as well. Thank you for your time!...

I know that generally you cannot upgrade a laptops graphics card! I am thinking of getting THIS
laptop and it has a good graphics card which according to Nvidia's wesite will be direct x10
compsatible but in the future I may want a new graphics card without a new laptop, is it possible
with this laptop because it has dedicated memory in the graphics card so i am not entirely sure as
for ram and hard drive i believe it can have double the ram and double the hd space I am no expert
of laptops so thats why i am asking the specs aren't hugely instructive b...

I bought this MacBook Pro over 15 months ago and it came with a 160GB (149.1 GB in real terms)
Hitachi Hard drive that spins at 5400 RPM and is a bit noisy for whatever reason. Yesterday, UPS
delivered to me two WD 320 GB (298 GB in real terms) 5400 RPM drives. The second one is for a friend
who's going to pay me to install it in his Macbook Pro for him. I paid $190 each for the WD
Passports off of newegg.com which, oddly, is less than the hard drive without the Passport
enclosure. First challenge was getting the enclosures open without breaking them. There are...

Here I come again Another of my clients also have a problem with his Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. The
problem is with the VGA. When you turn on the laptop it display but immediately after the boot
screen (uses Win XP Pro w/SP2), the display goes off. This type of problem also occurs on my
desktop with my nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128MB) but I always resolve the isue by booting in save mode
and uninstalling the video driver. After that, I will reboot in normall mode and then reinstall the
video driver and everything will be alright. I have done that for this Dell laptop bu...

Hello I am about to buy a laptop. I need some expert's advice right now. Which company is good
and reliable? The main question is this- I want a laptop which had a lot of RAM, good speed, a lot
of hard disk space, good video and sound card, bluetooth and a biuld in webcam. The thing, I play
Microsoft flight simulator (One of the slowest games you will find). It needs a lot of space, fast
computer and a good video card. This is all that I know of it. Please advice me over this. Which is
the best laptop for me? And please dont advice anything too expensive. I cant ...

Hi, I am tring to install a 100GB External Hard Disk Drive onto my laptop. I plug the drive in
through USB and it makes the hardware connect noise then about 5 seconds later it makes the hardware
discconect noise. I dont know what to do the software it came with was ment for internal
installation. But, i used an External Conversion kit and made it an external drive. I have already
tried going into the bios and it listed nothing about the drive. My computer dosent even know that
it is there. I need some help on this because if this dosent work then i payed $160...

I know this is very much known to many people. I recently stumbled upon this on Vista documentation
and thought it will be of some use to others... QUOTE Get the most from a single charge If you
have time to do only one thing... Use the Power saver power plan to minimize power consumption.
You can always return to this article later to try more power-saving tips. To choose the Power saver
plan, open Power Options in Control Panel. Ever run out of battery power in the middle of a
meeting? Has the urgent beep of your mobile PC's battery alarm made you th...

i have quetsion i have to choose between 8800 GTX from nvidia company and Radeon™ 9800 PRO 256MB
from ati i heard that both are good for games (3d and high graphics support) but what is the best? ...

do you have a laptop a desktop or both...

Recently i purchased a cheap laptop and without a hard drive and i am buying that an then putting it
in i was wondering if it was a good idea to keep doing it fixing computers has always interested me
and what i am planning on doing is buying cheap laptops on eBay and then refurbishing them to make a
small or larger profit , tell me what you think do you think that i should give it a shot or is it
just a waste of time and money....

ok so i just bought a cheap latop and it has no hard drive i bought it sprt of to fix it up but i
was wondering if i had to get a specific hard drive or can it just be any kind of hard drive also i
don't know if i can put a new processor in it or if that would just ruin it can you give me some
help, thanks....

My Mom really wants an ergonomic keyboard. Back in the day - as in, when Win98 was the latest OS -
she had Microsoft's version. Piece of junk - we burned through two of those stupid things before
we figured out how cruddy they are. I like Belkin's input devices. In fact, I'm using one
of their ergonomic keyboards right now. It's a good model for the price (under 35 bucks online -
can't remember exactly where, though). But, I want to see if anybody has any better
recommendations before I make any suggestions to Mom. So...any ideas? /smile.gif" style...

Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 - 210$ - (Lifetime warrenty) G.Skill 1GB DDR2 800Mhz Dual channel (CL5) -
166$ - (Lifetime warrenty) Gygabyte GA-965P-S3 - 172$ GeCube X1950Pro 512MB - 280$
HEC 6A19B-NPS (the case) - 45$ (it's a good plain cheap case - i'll use it for modding
Very Happy) Enermax Liberty 400w - 95$ Arctic Cooling Pro Freezer 7 - CPU cooler - 38$
Total: 1006 $ Anyway, what do you think about this one? Should I buy it? /biggrin.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />...

Ok, well i am planning on buying an external DVD Drive, and i found this
http://www.amazon.com/Memorex-32023288-Dou...ectronics\ and i think this might be kool,
because i am seeing an S-Video cord on the back of that thing, and i am thinking that maybe that
will allow me to plug it into the back of my TV, or my DVD player and record what is on TV on to a
DVD? i am wondering if anyone here on trap17 have this, or have used it, or have seen it in use and
can vouch for what it can do... besides hook up to a computer by a USB or firewire and burn
DVD's/CD's ...

I have spent quite a while looking for a laptop on the net, i'm thinking of spending around
£1000. It's a difficult decision to make as i have had no opportunuty to test any of the ones
which interest me, i'm working only on manufacturers specifications. I need a laptop that is
fairly portable I.E 15.4" TFT not 17" and would like somthing that i could use for a few games
although i'm not a heavy gamer so an alienware laptop is not an option. QUOTE The laptops
which i am considering are:- Samsung R55 - Intel Core Duo 1.66 Ghz - 15,4" WXGA Glar...

I am a little hesitant... on one hand I am thinking of buying a new laptop, whereas another option
would be to just upgrade it using a little more memory. My laptop has a Mobile AMD Athlon™ XP
2600+ processor with 512 MB of RAM. On one hand the computer works fine, but I would like it to have
a little more power. Sometimes for example I would like to play a nice game on it and this can be
problematic. So... I could buy a new one, which will cost me a lot of money, but I can also buy
some extra RAM, which would be relatively cheap. On the other hand, I am probably ...

Ok so i use my laptop at school for all my notes in physics and biology but for my diagrams i am
currently using either paint or Microsoft onenote's built in drawing tool, what i want is a
digital pen for the diagrams, i have seen this one
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products...,categoryid=401 But it seems to me that you do your
writing/diagramms then download it, but what i need is as i write the diagram comes up on the screen
on Microsoft Onenote which is what i use for my notes. What can i use?...

Two days ago my laptop started getting slower and slower, and realized my my disc space are on a
critical low, so i started removeing old games i already completed and programs that i dont use.
well... for a vew min or so all seemed well, then... my laptop started freezing, so i restarted.
when i got to the log in screen it said windows could not log you, and it did this will all the
accounts. so, i tried to format my laptop and start over, onley problem, when i put my windows cd
into the cd drive, where it used to say boot from cd, it skipes it and goes to the login scr...

Hi, i am having a problem with my laptop. It is a On a Toshiba Satellite A65-s1067 and it is 2
years old. It was working last night but today when ever i have the laptop pluged in to its charger
the charger, battery is clicking. It even sounds like the clicking is coming from the BIOS when the
AC is plugged in and the Battery is taken out. When i am in windows my battery gets drained even
though the charger is plugged in, and my computer will not start without the battery for some
reason. I also always get messages from windows saying low battery even when it is cha...

hi, I have a client whose Sony® VAIO© VGN A240 TM laptop has a problem. Ok the problem is this way.
Whenever you boot the laptop and as soon as it boots up to the desktop, it automatically start
pasting program icons on the desktop. It pastes these icons at so much speed that it can paste up to
1000/min. It infuriates me whenever this laptop starts this thing. I have tried to boot it from
save mode (it uses Win XP Pro w/SP2) and tried to see if I can stop the problem from there but I was
not able to stop it. I was later to find out that it was the keyboard that is act...

I got a Dell D600 Centrino and I want to sell it. I would like to get a new laptop but now I see AMD
has a kick *arse* Turion CPU and I would like to know how does it compare with the Intel Centrino. I
like my current Centrino because it runs cooler compared to the P4 and does the job done. How does
the AMD compare with the Intel Centrino for the low power heat? Also for games, would the Intel
Centrino or AMD be my choice. kservice...

Well im going to start building my own computer and I'm just curious if you guys know any
specific places I should order the parts from and around how much it is going to cost? Thanks....

I have seen their specs, and they seem to be really good, but I was wondering, are they good for
working too??? I would like to buy one of those, but I would run also stuff like AutoCad, Adobe and
Macromedia stuff, and don't wanna find that there's a catch. /sad.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> Just by the specs, they seem
to be able to launch anything!!! of course, their cost is almos the double a regular lap
would be. What do you think???...

Now i have been looking, and was wondering if anyone recommends a certain make for the Christmas
gift off my family - a laptop. I want quality, and good for money. I am considering HP - and NO WAY
dell! /mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /> /smile.gif'
border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> Have any of you guys got any
recomendations? /tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> ...