Recent content by densolis

I agree. It is only a pentium 4 with 3 gb. My friend just uses if for Facebook and e-mail. So W7 was working fine for her needs. It was about $125 to replace the mobo. If we watch the sales, I can be a new / refurbished laptop with much more processing power for around 300. Granted, won't...

The linux boot disk failed. I am pretty sure it is a video issue on the mother board as as I have replaced the ram and have the disk diags and mem386 run just fine. I'll salvage parts and take to recycle place. Thank you all for your help. Dennis

I asked about the history and I found out the previous owner had taken it apart. My buddy does not use the speakers enough (normally uses headset) so it was not worth the effort to to take apart and possible break something else. I want to thank everyone for their help. Dennis

I am thinking it is a mother board issue. What specs do you need and what tool would you like me to use to obtain the specs.

I thought a first that maybe it was a heating problem. But I don't think so any more. 1. I vacuumed the dirt off the CPU fan. Also used compressed air to blow air through the vents. 2. The computer is on a laptop cooling pad and the head coming out is much cooler. Prior to that, I just...

After I changed the BIOS SATA setting from AHCI to Compatible, I installed Windows XP on the bad Toshiba laptop. The install worked fine (40 minutes) until the "Help Protect your PC" screen appeared. This window asks if you want to Help protect my PC by turning on automatic update now or Not...

The purposed of install windows on the hard drive was to prove to myself that the hard drive was working fine. This is was done after I tried to install XP on the bad machine and the install stated it could not find a hard drive and after the Windows 7 installed failed with a Stop code of 7b...

As far as I know, the drivers are up to date. As I said, the head set work just fine. Just not the speakers. I have already checked the task bar icon Volume mixer are not muted. That was one of the first things I checked, but I will check again. I kind of guessed the speakers were messed...

This belongs to a buddy of mine. And yes, he purchased it used and he has no idea if it has been disassembled and cleaned. Based up on the Service Tag (2YYH0MA), Dell says the computer was shipped on 6/5/1020. I looked in the Control Panel >> Device Manage >> Sound, Video, and Game...

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 (http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/inspiron-mini1012/pd) running Windows 7 Ultimate. Everything works fine except the speakers. When I run Windows Media player, I can hear the music if I plug in a headset, but I can not hear the music through the laptop...

HI, I have a Toshiba Satellite s533-7812 laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit. The POST completes successfully. When I boot it, it starts the to boot, but then shuts down and / or reboots about 30 seconds into the boot. It is hard to say if it is powering off and then re-booting or...