laptop

As the title says the CD/DVD drive on my laptop has "disappeared" when I open Windows Explorer. It only shows the hard drives. I am running Windows Vista and any help offered will have to be in simple language as I am a simple person. When I go to the Device Manager and select properties of...

We have just bought a new Samsung laptop. Marvellous thing it is too. Windows 8 is rather good actually. Anyway. i have read the manual but can find no mention as to how long you should leave the battery on charge for during it's first charge What's the general consensus on this...

Hi All A friend is producing a school play ( we will rock you) and needs to be able to send wireless stills and some footage from a laptop to a fixed position projector. Connecting to a vga input on the projector. The distance between the devices is approx 10 metres. I believe there is a...

Just sat here sipping a nice shiraz when i can smell burning, just made chilli so check the cooker and hob and its cold. Go in the hall as swmbo and daughter are in bed my laptop bag at the bottom of the stairs is smouldering nicely, open it up and cant touch the laptop had to get a teatowel to...

All advice welcome. My other half needs to find a small (circa 12 inch screen) laptop with a built in DVD player. She is a self employed trainer and needs to be able to show DVD's as part of her training. Larger laptops are just too bulky as she also has to carry training materials, speakers...

acer 5920 working fine,turned it off at night now will not turn on. power supply ok,nothing on the laptop,no lights at all. have we any members who fix laptops or can give advise. ive tried remove/replace the battery and cmos battery but nothing. any idea's anyone its only been used on a...

I'm after a laptop with : SSD, ideally 256GB. 15-16" screen 4-8GM RAM Windows 7 64bit I've checked the usual websites, but if anyone knows of a deal better than below I'd be interested to hear. Thanks. Latitude E6520 Intel Core i5-2540M 8GB 256GB SSD 512MB nVidia Graphics Win 7...

I am going back to Skiathos soon and we need a new laptop. We use it only for surfing the net and to store music for the bar so it needs to hold roughly 40,000 songs. It also needs to be able to run for up to 18 hours a day and must be strong and sturdy. My budget is a max of 300 quid and I...

3 sticks of 512mb laptop memory just pay £3 for jiffy bag and postage

HP/Compaq nc6320 Laptop with power supply Microsoft XP 1.66ghz 2Gb Ram CD/DVD drive Wireless Fingerprint login if wanted 4 x USB slots, External video output, RS232 port Works perfectly, could do with a refresh if you want all of the SD, MMC slot drivers working Ideal for email...

I'm not that PC savvy, so bear with me. I only use the laptop for my iTunes and browsing the web, yet every time I turn it on its always saying that I'm running VERY low on memory. I've done a couple of those system clean up thingies that it recommends, tried uninstalling certain large memory...

As the title says really, after a cheap old laptop running xp. Any condition, would just like it to have an RS232 port.:thumb:

Dell Vostro laptop won't boot. Switch on. Fan starts. Fan stops. Num lock key flashes on and off rapidly and repeatedly. Nothing else. Have: Cleaned keyboard. Removed/reinstalled RAM Removed/reinstalled HD No change. What next (get credit card out!!)

Guys n Gals, I know there is a huge amount of expertise on this subject on this forum... What I need is a laptop for my 11 year old son that mainly plays online games... so it has to be quick, decent amount of RAM... Now i have no idea as to what it means when they say dual core quad core...

Just sold the Ipad... Perfect as it is, the only times I really use it (on holiday) I feel I need to carry a laptop too. So looking around there dont seem to be as many as there once was? So far the ones that stand out are the Toshiba 520 and the Samsung ones.. Anyone any tips... Around...

Number 2 son has a new laptop for Christmas & I have inherited his old one for building site office use. This laptop got dropped a while back & became unstable. A new hard drive was inserted by a mate of his together with a dodgy copy of Vista (had Vista originally but this went with the old...

Brand new genuine Samsung SODIMM, taken out from a brand new laptop. 1 x Samsung 4GB DDR3 PC3-10600 SODIMM Manufactured October 2011 Model: M471B5273DH0-CH9 Module Size: 4GB ( 1 x 4GB ) Package: 204-pin SODIMM Feature: DDR3 PC3-10600 Specs: DDR3 PC3-10600 • CL=9 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC •...

Been given a netbook by the in-laws. It's an HP Mini 210-1000: 10.1" LED screen, 160 Gb drive, 1.66 GHz Intel Atom, 1 Gb RAM. It has Windows 7 Starter installed. The problem is ... it's all in German. Hardware-wise, the keyboard looks quite straightforward to change for a UK QWERTY one e.g...

Hello, My laptop HDD seems to be running all the time and rattling... Apparently not a great sign... Anyone would have a laptop HDD, IDE, 40gb minimum for sale? Cheers. Olivier

Hi all, I know this may sound like a "noob" question. That's probably because it is & I am. However, can anyone tell me if there is any way of me doing my own diagnostics on my C180 W202 using a laptop and any sort of diagnostic kit? It just seems a little cumbersome having to go back and...