Recent content by Edir

Dammit... The motherboard will probably be expensive to replace because it has the GPU soldered to it...

OK so I tried it with both known working RAM and known working CMOS battery with everything non-essential disconnected to no avail. I also tried with a known working CPU, and tried my CPU in another known working laptop. Both CPUs work in the known working laptop and neither does in my laptop so...

The laptop is a HP Compaq nw8440 mobile workstation. It was working fine yesterday, but when I go to turn it on now, all I get is the fan spinning (no speed scaling, full power only), power LED is on, mute LED is on. DVD drive whirrs to check for disk twice (but only does it once when it it...

...Or at lest that's what happened in Ubuntu 12.04.03 - in OpenELEC, no matter what I do, all I see is a perpetually black screen - but the TV knows it's getting input, because the "no input" message doesn't appear. Maybe I'll just make it a server... Then I don't have to worry about X!

I just tried fondling the screen shut nob while the laptop is started and running X. Sometimes, pressing and releasing it causes it to work fine but at the wrong res, at other times it crashes again. Weird, huh?

I had a laptop (HP Compaq NX6125, with 1.5GB RAM) that ran Ubuntu fine. Then the screen died, so I took out the screen and held down the screen close nub with some sticky tape, and connected the VGA output to a TV, deciding I'd use it as a media centre. Using the VGA out worked fine before. I...

I understand where to get one from, I just need to pick a model. Had any good experiences 7 years ago?

First I will provide a short story: I had a HP Compaq nx6125 laptop, 1.8GHz(?) AMD Turion processor with an upgraded 1.25GB RAM. I ran Ubuntu on it and just used it for jotting down notes in class and for that function it was fine. It lasted out 9 years until it died, screen and battery...

I don't use any antivirus because I use Linux, and Linux is natively secure, and doesn't really need one. But before I chose to use Linux, I was on Win7, and I used AVG Free in conjunction with spybot search and destroy. However, I cannot vouch for them as they let in two viruses before. The...

Sounds like the best option here is to put some Linux distro that can run live (Like ubuntu, or puppy) on a USB stick, salvage any files you want from the internal storage and store them externally, then delete all partitions and start from scratch.