I have a Toshiba Satellite M45-S169 laptop less than 3 years old. My issue is the on-off switch in the upper left hand corner will not turn on without some effort to push the switch sideways, up or anything but the normal procedure to turn it on. Once on, the computer has no issues, so [...]

My son left our HP laptop on overnight. In the morning it was seemingly not running but the power lights were on. We’ve done this many times before and when we hit the computer keyboard or mousepad it would reinitiate. Nothing this time. I shut the lid. I re-opened the lid and tried to turn it [...]

I am trying to upgrade the memory to 2GB. The computer will not boot with both new modules inserted (2 Crucial 1GB modules PC2-4200). It will boot with 1GB installed in either slot as long as the original 256MB module is inserted in the opposite slot, but will not work when both 1GB modules are [...]

I had a problem with my Dell Smart PC 250N of overheating and shutting off after half an hour or so. I searched over the net and as per instructions on a web site opened up the laptop, cleaned the heatsink and the CPU and applied arctic silver thermal grease to the CPU and reassembled [...]

I bought an old Toshiba Satelite which arrived with a smashed screen, when switched on showed a blank white screen, changed screen, still lights up white. Changed the screen lead, still lights to a blank white screen. External VGA works fine. Whats left motherboard perhaps?. Am I right in thinking that it cannot be the [...]

While showing a presentation a few days ago my laptop went into hibernating and shut down. AC plugged in. When attempted to power back on nothing happened. LED lights on front panel blink but power LED does not. My laptop is HP Pavillion dv5000. Probably the power (AC) adapter is dead. I think your power adapter [...]

I have a HP DV5000 laptop, and I decided to do a full PC recovery, so when it tells me to put in 2nd disk, once I put the disk and press OK after a couple seconds while its trying to load it, it powers off automatically, I turn it on and start it over [...]

I have the following symptoms with my laptop. When I press the power button it lights up and I hear the fan and a single click sound, but nothing appears on the screen and it does nothing else. To power it off, I have to hold down the power button for about 10 seconds. Things [...]

I have a Toshiba Satellite M35X-S149 that will not boot up or post.The led around the power button stays on.The only way to turn it off is to unplug the power adapter and take the battery out.It will power on for about 5 seconds and the fan will go right back off but it looks [...]

Can you please tell as how to connect my laptop to creative 5.1 speaker system so that I can hear surround sound from DVDs. If you want to watch DVD movies on your laptop and experience full surround sound on 5.1 or 7.1 speakers, you’ll have to use a special sound card for notebook computers. [...]