Posts by JoeNewberry

Did Warrantech at least confirm they were the ones who should be handling your extended warranty? According to their policies page, http://www.pctorque.com/policies_old.php, PCTorque also uses Philips Magnavox for extended warranty...

Do the USB root hubs and controllers show up in Device Manager? Are they listed as being in working order and its just telling you the devices aren't functioning or do they also show up with exclamation marks? You've probably already...

A few things come to mind that might cause that: 1. ACPI somehow got turned off in the BIOS, not very likely but something a quick check of your BIOS settings can lay to rest. 2. The temp sensors have failed, which also seems...

As already stated, most places will not do data recovery under warranty. They'll cross ship you a replacement hard drive or they'll issue an RMA for the whole laptop and just replace the hard drive at the factory, but they won't help...

If the backlight goes out then you should still be able to see something on the screen, though it may be extremely dim. If you put the laptop under a direct light source can you make out faint images? If you see nothing, this may be a...

From the specs for the 8890 I can verify that the four USB ports should all be USB 2.0. So it's most likely going to be a driver issue. Vista has built-in support for USB 2.0, so it should really be installing the right drivers for...

Wow, that little problem is definitely getting bigger. The LCD dimness problem does sound like either the inverter or the lamp in the backlight. Concerning the hard drive issue, I can tell you that if you have a RAID 0, a striped...

I agree that this sounds like a Windows issue, since the drive will boot the OS disc and allow you to work from it. Since the drive itself does not show up in Device Manager, you might try removing the IDE controllers and reboot to let...

Clearly if the drive is DVD-ROM only, it won't be able to boot the CD. A bootable DVD might work, though I'm having a hard time finding a walkthrough that everyone agrees will get that job done. Another option would be an external USB...